The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-18 00:00:00

RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY.

The CHANCELLOR or the EXCHEQUER said—l
think it is only respectful' to 'the' house that I should
formally announce, what they already know, namely, that
in consequence of the late vote the house was pleased to
arrive at, •Lord Derby and his colleagues felt it their duty
to tender their resignation. i Her:Majesty had been graci-
ously pleased to accept
,that• resignation of their offices.
We, therefore, hold office only until our successors are
appointed, and I am enabled to state that the noble lord the
member for Tiverton received orders to form a Ministry,
which I am also enabled to state he has succeeded in doing.
I think it would be most.convenient to the noble lord that
the house should adjourn till Tuesday next, when the new
writs can be issued, and if any further adjournment be
necessary it can be used by our successors in office. He
concluded by moving that the house at its rising do
adjourn till Tuesday next.
The motion was agreed to..
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
Colonel FORESTER appeared at the bar and read the
reply of her Majesty to the Address of the house.
On the motion of Sir S. NORTHCOTE the Queen's
Speech was ordered to be considered on Tuesday next.
OPPOSED ELECTIONS.
Petitions were presented against the returns at the fol-
lowing places :—Weymouth, Aylesbury, Norwich, Bury,
the northern division of the county of Leicester, Preston,
County Clare, and Limerick.
NEWSPAPERS, &c., BILL.

After some discussion, the debate on the motion for the
second reading of this bill was postponed for a fortnight.
TOLLS ON STEAM CARRIAGES.

Mr. GARNETT obtained leave to bring in a bill for
regulating the tolls on steam carriages in use on common
roads. -

Some other bills were postponed.
The house adjourned at five o'clock.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 15.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to make and ordain
a Special Statute of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, for appointing the Right Honourable the Earl of
Malmesbury, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, having the Department of Foreign Affairs, and
the Right Honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington,
Bart., one of her Majesty's Commissioners for executing
the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, to be Extra Members of the
Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross,

of the said Most Honourable. Order. -
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 17.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Sanford
Freeling, R.A., to be Colonial Secretary for the City and
Garrison of Gibraltar.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 17.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hercules George
Robert Robinson Esq., to be Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the Colony of Hong Kong, and
Colonel George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy to be Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Settle-
ment in the River, Gambia.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 16.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Bain to the church of Cross, in the parish of Barvas, in the
presbytery and island of Lewis, vacant by the tmnsporta-
tion of the Rev. Roderick Fraser to the parish of Uig, in
the presbytery of Lewis.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 17.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Henry
Lynch Blosse, 8.A., to the Archdeaconry of Llandaff,
with the Canonry thereto annexed, void by the promotion
of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor James Col-
quhoun Campbell, to the See of Bangor.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend
John Griffith, M.A., to the Rectory of Merthyr Tydvil, in
the county of Glamorgan, and diocese of Llandaff, void by
the promotion of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor
James Colquhoun Campbell, to the See of Bangor.
WHITEHALL, Juxa 17.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
William Logie to the church and parish of Scoonie, in the
presbytery of Kirkcaldy, and county of Fife, vacant by the
transportation of the Reverend David Brown, to St. Enoch's
Church, Glasgow.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend
William Burnie to the church and parish of Oxnam, in the
presbytery of Jedburgh, and county of Roxburgh, vacant by
the death of the Reverend James Wight.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 15.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Pedro
Blanco as Vice-Consul at Singapore for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 10.
Notice is hereby given, that the Earl of Mulmesbury has
appointed Lucius H. Deering, Esq., of No. 52, Dame-
street, to be agent at Dublin, in the room of Mr. John
Elliott Hyndman, deceased, for the issue of Foreign-office
Passports.
His Lordship has also appointed Oliver J. Williams,
Esq., to be agent at Harwich for the same purpose.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 17.
6th Regiment of Dragoons—Captain Robert Scott Hunter,
from the 2d Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Uniacke, who
exchanges.
7th Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Edward James Franklyn,
M.D., from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice
Arden, who exchanges.
2d Dragoons—Captain Charles Hill Uniacke, from the 6th
Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hunter, who exchanges.
10th Light Dragoons—Cornet Arthur Barthorp to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Bowyer, promoted.
14th Light Dragoons—Surgeon William Arden, from the
7th Dragoon Guards, to be Surgeon,,vice Dr. Franklyn,
who exchanges.
16th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Francis Paynton Pigott
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Irvine, who retires ;
Lieutenant Thomas Boyce to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Hart, who retires ; Cornet Morton Eagle Harmer
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pigott ; Cornet
Thomas Francis Agg to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Boyce.
Royal Artillery—Augustus Staveley Murray, Esq.,' late
Paymaster British German Legion, to be Paymaster.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Assistant-Sureon
Andrew Spittall, M.D., has been permitted to resign his
commission.
10th Foot—Ensign John Dickson Power to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Sandwith, promoted.
11th Foot—Ensign James Farquharson Oliver to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Burrowes,who retires.
16th _
16th Foot—Lieutenant A. Dingwall
thin, by purchase, vice Mainwring, who Thomson
retires to ;
Richard Henry Freeman to be Lieutenant, by purenab
vice Thomson.
17th Foot—William Villett Rolle ston
, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Braddell, promoted ; God.freY
Wills
Burleigh, ent., to be Ensign,
promoted. by purchase, vice Irvine,
18th Foot—Staff-Assistant Sur John Henry Halked
Tothill to be Assistant-Surgeon,eon vice Dr. Porteou_ ,s de-
ceased ; Lieut. John to be Instructor of Musketry,
to bear date
vice Bishopp,promoted. Wily to
commission of Lieutenant
Richard Wm. rskine Dawson, as Adjutant,
Ist May, 1858, instead of 7th Sept., 1858, as previously
stated.
Itenouard Henry James to be Lien-
20th Foot—Ensign
teluutt withnt purchase, vice roster-Melliar, deceased ;

Prendergast, promoted.
56th Foot—Lieut. George F. Parke to be Captain, by pur-
, chase, vice Roxby, who retires ; Ensign Philip William
Justice to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parke ;
William King, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Justice.
58th Foot—William Henry Key, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Wynyard, promoted; Conray Richard
Dobbs Reeves, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Pringle, promoted.
624 Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Petrie Street, M.D,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dr. Young,
' who exchanges.
79th Foot—Ensign and Adjutant Robert Stewart to have
the rank of Lieutenant ; Ensign R. P. Q. P. Lord Louth

to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gown.), who retires ;
Ensign William Seaman Thomson, from the 12th Foot,
to be Ensign vice Lord Louth.•
86th Foot—Edward Berkeley Philipps, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Leadbitter, promoted.
92d Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Forbes Mackay to be
Instructor of Musketry.
94th Foot—Ensign Charles Butler to be Lieutenant, by
purChase' vice Murray, promoted ; Ensign Henry Samuel
Halt to be 'Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ridley, pro-
moted.
97th Foot—Ensign A. P. Martin, from the 71st Bengal
Native Infantry, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Lowe, promoted.
Rifle,Brigade—Robert Charles de Grey Vyner, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Markham, promoted. The
surname of the Ensign promoted in the Gazette of the
31,st ultimo, is " Edwardes," and not "Edwards," as
therein stated.
illiprrAL STAFF —Assistant-Surgeon David Ogilvy Hone,-
' M:1)., from half-pay, 60th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces, vice Nash, promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon
John Eldon Young, M.D., from the 62d Foot, to be As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Street, who ex-
changes. • •

BREVET.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Pitcairn, retired full
pay, late Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
Brevet-Major Robert Stuart Baynes, Bth Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Captain the Hon. Augustus H. A. Anson, 7th Light
Dragoons, to be Major in the Army.
Captain Archibald A. Douglas, of the Royal Marines, to
be Major in the Army.
COMMISSION BY THE QUEEN.
Royal Sussex Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—
George Andrew Coventry, Esq., to be Paymaster, from 12th
May, 1859.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Northumberland—John Straker, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Warwick—Henry Thomas Chemberlayne,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Southampton—John Thomas Waddington,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
_ Hampshire Militia Artillery—Edward Gordon tilling-
sten, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
County of Gloucester—Frannis William Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, Esq., James Peach Peach, Esq., and Robert
Pavin Davies, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants.
' Regiment of Royal Perthshire Rifle Militia—Robert
Henry Wilton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Durdin, re-
signed.
Royal Berks Militia—John Janson Iloward,'Esq., to be
Ensign.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—William Bedingfield, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant.
Royal Wiltshire Militia—Henry Marcy Clarkson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Hayward, promoted.
Ist Company of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—Nathaniel
George Philips Bousfield, Esq., to be Captain
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—Captain Edmund
Holden Steward, late Captain 60th Regiment, to be Cap-
tain; Lieut. Edward Baldock to be Captain.
The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette on the 7th June, 1859 :-
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
John Leyland Feilden, Gent., to be Ensign.
The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette on the 10th June, 1859 :H
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Ensign
William Edmonstone Lendrick to be Lieutenant, vice
Robert Hall:, gazetted to the Royal Lancashire. Militia
Artillery.
County of Dorset—Queen's Own Regiment of Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Cornet. Richard George Glyn to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Morton Grove Manse', deceased; Montage
John Guest, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Glyn, promoted.
The following article is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the " Gazetta" of Tuesday last :—Royal
Merionethshire Militia—Edward:Gilliat Jones, Gent., to
be Ensign.