The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAT 2T.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard
James Code Hitchins 'as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for
his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway.

MEMORANDUM.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 28.
In the " Tariff of Exports," inserted in Article VII of
the Convention of Commerce and Navigation condluded
on the 9th of December, 1856, between her Majesty and
the Sultan of Morocco, and presented to both Houses of
Parliament, by her Majesty's command, on the 21st of
March last, the rate of duty on " all other grain" was
stated at half a dollar per canto. (a weight). It should
have been per full fanega (a measure). The one, however,
is nearly equivalent to the other.

CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 29:
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Penryn—Thomas George Baring, Esq., one
of the Lords Commissioners for esienting the office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom. -
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 29.
Military Train—Paymaster Obe Williams, from the late
Transport Corps, to be Paymaster.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Food Guards—Ensign and
Lieutenant John Archibald Stewart Nicolson has been
permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his
Commission.

7th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel Reginald Yonge Shipley, from
half-pay 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
12th Foot—Lieut. Edward Herrick to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Segrave, whoretires ; Ensign Horatio oyd
Williams to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Herrick;
Edward James Dudgeon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Williams.

17th Foot—Ensign Henry Alexander Little to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Fowler, promoted to an Unat-
tached Company ; Charles Smith Perry, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Little.
38th Foot—Lieutenant William Kidston Elles to be In-
structor of Musketry.
41st Foot—Ensign Montague Stephen Williams has been
permitted to resign his Commission.
46th Foot—Lieut. George Henry Knapp to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Fane, who retires; Ensign George
Philips to be Lieutenant, purchase, vice Knapp.
56th Foot—Lieut. Robert Thomas Thompson to be In-
structor of Musketry.
57th Foot—Lieut. Henry Bird to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Hugessen, who retires ; Ensign Walter Hedger
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bird.
60th Foot—Captain John Henry Chads, from half-pay
23rd Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Cozen, deceased.
62nd Foot—Lieutenant Herrick Augustus Palmer to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel C.
F. N eynoe, who retires.
68th Foot—Paymaster Luke Fitzgerald Bernard, from
the 82114 Font, to be Paymaster, vice Hughes, appointed
to the 82nd Foot.

82nd Foot—Paymaster 'William Hughes, from the 68th
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Bernard, appointed to the
68th Foot.

86th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon E. C. Ryall, from the
18th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Assistant-Surgeon
W. A. Mackinnon, whose removal from the 42d Foot, as
stated in the Gazette of the 12th instant, has been can.
celled.

9241 Foot—Lieutenant M. Mecham, has been permitted
to retire frourthe Service by the sale of his Commission.
95th Fcot—Major the Honourable H. Littleton Powys,
from half-pay 38th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet-Lieute-
nant-Colonel H. B. Harvey, who exchanges ; Brevet-
Major George Courtenay Vialls to be Major, by purchase,
vice the Honourable H. L. 'Powys, who retires; Lieute-
nant John W. J. Stockwell to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Vialls.

Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Captain Charles Angustns
Daniell, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice
Duke, deceased ; Lieutenant James Taylor to be Adjutant,
vice Andrew, who resigns the Adjutancy only.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
The Commission of Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Frederick
Oakes to bear date 27th February, 1856, instead of sth
December, 1856, as previously stated.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon William Henderson has ceased
to do duty, there being no longer occasion for his services.

BREVET.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com-
pany's service, retired upon full pay, to have a step of
honorary rank, as follows:

Colonel John Theophilus Boileau, Bengal Engineers, to
be Major• General.

TO BE CQLONELS.

Lieut.-Colonel William Abercrombie, Bengal Engineers.
Lieut.-Colonel E. Du Pre Townshend, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Colonel J. S. Du Vernet, Madras Infantry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL.
Major Jas. Gordon, Bengal Light Cavalry.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS,

County Palatine of Durham—Marmaduke Chas. Salvin,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
Royal Lancashire Artillery Regiment of Militia.—Ma-
jor Thomas Atchison, of the Royal Lancashire Militia Ar-
tillery, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Sir Duncan MacDougall,
resigned.

Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—
Alex. Wright, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Grant,
promoted.

WHITEHALL, MAY 22.
The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Edmund Cockburn,
Mat., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of
Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Alfred
Henderson, of the city of Bristol, Gentleman, to be
one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married
women, under the act passed for the abolition of fines and
recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the city of Bristol, and county of
the same city, also in and for the county of Somerset.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, May 28, 1857.
Notice is hereby given, to all parties interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended dis-
tribution of proceeds arising from coals seized on the coast
of Circassia by her Majesty's ship Sampson, in the months
of May, June, and July, 1854.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
aui paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said
Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor-
ney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by
virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the
share belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little
delay ay possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by
the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Depart-
ment of tho " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi-
ralty, Somerset-house."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the commence-
ment of distribution; and at the same time, the amount