The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to approve 'of M. August
Barsdorf as Consul at Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope,
for his Majesty the King of Prussia.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M.
Eduard Rosenbusch as Consul at Malta for the Free Han-
seatic City of Bremen.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain James
George Mackenie, R.N. (now Lieutenant-Governor of the
Island of Saint Christopher), to be Lieutenant-Governor
of the Island of Saint Christopher and of the Island of
Nevis.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Edward
Herbert, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of
Saint Christopher.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Dsc. 11.
20th Regiment of Hussars—Gentleman Cadet William
Chetwode Lloyd, from the Royal Military College, to
be Cornet, vice George Manners Onslow; promoted.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Godfrey
James Wigram to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Michael Walker Heneage, who retires;
Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable Heneage Legge
to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchace, Tice
Wigram; Amelius Richard Mark Wood, Gent., to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Honourable
Heneage Legge.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Leopold James Yorke Campbell
Searlett, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Neil Douglas Cecil Frederick Douglas, pro-
moted.
Ist Foot--Gentleman Cadet William Drury Shaw, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Augustus William Muncey, transferred to the
2d West India Regiment.
7th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Josiah Philip Crampton Ne-
ville from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Alfred James Medley Reads, who
resigns.
14th Foot—Captain Anthony Robert Keogh, front the 10th
Foot, to be Captain, vice John G. Muycock, promoted.
15th Foot—Captain Edward Berkeley Mansel, from the
52d Foot, to bo Captain, vice Francis Hopkins, pro-
moted.
24th Foot—Captain Arthur Lake, front the 62d Foot, to
be Captain; Ensign Russell Upeher to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice William Penn Symons, whose
promotion, without purchase, on the 29th October, 1866,
has been cancelled ; Ensign William Penn Symons to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Russell Upcher, whose
promotion by purchase, on the 30th October, 1866, has
been cancelled.
42d Foot—Norman Guthrie Chalmers, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Samuel George Hulse, who
retires.
52d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Berkeley Mansel to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Edward Cooper Wynne, who re-
tires ; Ensign Robert William Blackwood to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Mansel ; Ensign James John-
stone, from the 28th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Black-
wood.
60th Foot—Captain Sainsbury Sewell Davenport, from
half-pay late 2d West India Regiment, to be Captain,
vice Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel C. H.
Spencer Churchill, who retires upon temporary half-
pay ; Lieutenant William Lewis Kinlock Ogilvy to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires. ;
Lieutenant F. Augustus Campbell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice John D'Olier George, who retires Ensign
Francis 'Alexander Gordon to be Lieuteus.,..Dyn pur-
chase, vice Ogilvy ; Ensign William Tilden
be Lieutenant, by purchase vice F.
by purchase
John Henry Burstall, Gent., to be Ensign,c, Gent., to bO
vice F. A. Gordon ; Harry Paul B Coleman,
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TCalludiepbellto;
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Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward
who retires ; Claude Champion
Tilden. .
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BernardtirPi nY
be Ensign, by purchase, vit.
Knowles to be Captain,
63d Foot--Lieut. Wm. Lancelot
loxander Macleay Dumaresq,
without purchase, vice
Gentleman Cadet Charles
purchase, vicemb.
deceased; Ensign Jilofftype Burns n to be Lieutenant, witu-
outadet Robert Brooks Giles, front
64th Foot—Gentlemanr College, to be Ensign, without pur-
the Royal Mil Y
c 1 s Stevens Ward, deceased.
Ensign, withoutfprnorohncee,_ vice Burns.
chase,
65th
vice John Owen Jones Priestley, who retires ;
purchase,
Foot--viceLielirterneant Robert Murray to be Captain, by
by purchase, vice Murray; Hugh Fitzßoy. Marryatt,
Ensign Edmund Ironlßarnewell Bax to be Lieutenant,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mix,
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Sir Archdale Robert Palmer,
Bart., to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant L. V. Williams,
promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Augustus W. Munsey,
from the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice C. H. Tongue,
promoted.

Coylon Rifle Regiment —Gentleman Cadet AdolOus
James Price, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice C. W. J. Taylor, pro-
moted.

PURVEYORS' DEPARTMENT. —T he undermentioned Pur-
veyors' Clerks to be Assistant Purveyors:—John
Spencely, John Smith Young, Charles Frederick Flower
Woods, Marlow Sidney John Wollett, Michael Francis
Fitzgerald, Paul Dennis Costa, John Oakshott Spriggs,
and Charles Bruce.

BREVET.
Captain Walter Tuckfiold Goldsworthy, 91st Foot, to be
Major.

MEMORANDUM.
The undermentioned officers upon half-pay have been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of their
commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards'
Circular Memorandum of 15th February, 1861 :
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Van Straubenzeo, half-
pay, late 13th Foot.
Major James Stillman, half-pay, late 9th Foot.
Major Henry Ferdinand Turner, half-pay late 65th
Foot.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 7.
Mr. William Henry Gulliver has this day bean pro-
moted to the :rank of First Class Assistant Engineer ih
her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 27th November,
1866.

DEc. 10.
Commander Henry Baker has been this day placed on
the Retired List and allowed to assume the rank of Retired
Captain, under the previsions of the Orders in Council
of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1861, and 21th of March,
1866.

COURSE OF EXOHANGE,Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 17
Ditto 3 Months. 11 1!)1 11 19f
Antwe Rotterdam
25 40 i
2b
Brussels
25 40
25
13 4„
'7
Hamburg
Paris • Short 25 171 25 22/
25 40
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 45

Itarseilles

25 40

120

PranWort on the Maine
Vienna

13 40
13 SO 13 40
30

Trieste — 13 ,
I'etersburgti - 30} • 301
Berlin
Madrid — 47 471
Cadiz
27 43 27 85
Leghorn
27 25 27 85
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina...... -27 25 27 8)
Lisbon ............. . — 51* 61
51* 51

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