The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE--(This Evening.)

At the Court at Buck palace,
the IGth day of
Buckingham
appoi9ted to be taken
July, 1-.57, present, the Queen'sMostExcellent Majesty in
Council - Her Majesty hayio,,,, been pleased
.to appoint
John Henry Philips, Esq., M.-P., to be her Majesty's Lieu-
tweensatn, thoef
thisthe tcoiwyntaonodk etohuentouhfsthe town of Haverford-
thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supre-
macy.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JULY 15.

This cltyh;cl;;Clie;Ceof the Q 1.1•311 :
Her Majesty the Queen of the Nether'ands. Mer Ma-
jesty was attended by Baron Bentinck, Envoy Extra-r-
-dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the
Netherlands :
To which audience her Majesty was introduced by the
Earl of Clarendon, IC.G., her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign AfairA, and conduced by Majo-
General the Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K.G.Ht, her Majestyr's
Master of the Ceremonies.
WAR OFFICE, JULY 17.
' The Queen has bucn graciously-pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Colonel George de Rottenburgh, Adjn-
ilvoinsi of the Third Class, or Com-
panions of Victoria, to be ordinary
taut General of the Militia of Canada, and of Colonel Ed-
ward Macarthur, serving with the local rank of Major-
General in Australia, and for some time administering the
mC%vmebrnerrns of
entthoef
Civiltlie DC
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 1.
The
Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir
Robert Scbomburgk, Knight, now her Majesty's Consul in
the Dominican Republic, in St. Domingo, to be her Ma-
jesty's Consul at Bangkok, in Siam.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 10.
The Queen ha .s been graciously pleased to appoint Keith
Edward Abbott, Esq., late her Majesty's Consul at Ta-
breez, to be her Majesty's Consul-General at Tabreez.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Reircahn.
ard Stevens, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul at Te
h

DOWNING-STREET, JULY 9.
Mr. Secretary La+iouc.Wa has appoioted Mr. William
Strachey to ba ex-officio Director of the Ceylon Railway
Company, on behalf of the Government of Ceplon.
hb weehlosetbr retires.oJaum n surname
, 1857,
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 17.
89th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Charles George
James A buthnot to be Colonel, vice General Sir Charles
Bulkeley Egerton, G.C.M.G., deceased.
WA & FFICE, .ItiLY 17.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
HEnry John Lloyd WYou° to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase,of tho Lieutenant-
is Brisco, and
eth Dregoon Guards—Lieut. Henry John Wilkin, from
2 '1
CoDlr! Dragoon
oipromotedcvice
Townsend,Cllad
o—nT
the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Shells,
who exchanges.
not Briscoe, as previously stated.
2d Dragoons—Lieut. Duncan McNeill to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Sir G. F. HamPson, Bart., who retires ;
Ensign William G. Blake, from 89th Foot, to be Cor-
net, paying the difference, vice Armstrong, who ex-
changes; Francis Lamb Philp, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, in succession to Lieut. McNeill.
4th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon William Carte,
from the Staff, to be A.sistant-Surgeon, vice Cullen,
appointed to the Rifle Brigade.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Charles Francis Gregg,
from half-pay as Paymaster of a Depot Battalion, to be
Paymaster, vice Barton, who retires upon half-pay as

C.tiatain. -
11th Light Dragoons-- Lieutenant Frederick Shells, from
the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkin,

who exchanges.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry V. Wright. to be
teele. promoted to an Lieutenant, by purchase, ,vice S