The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-18 00:00:00

THE PERSIAN WAR.

(From the Gazette of this Evening.)
INDIA BOARD, AUG. 17.

The following notifica,ion has bran received from the
Governor•Gaueral of Inhii in Council, in addition to
those published in the London Gazette cf the 11th inst.

NO II FICATION.

F,rt %Vl' lam, Foreign Department,
Ja;y 1, 1857.
Since the Notification No. 140, dated the 18th ult.
was published, the Right Honourable the Governor-
General in Council has received a dispatch dated the
27th of May, 1857, from Lieutenant-General Sir James
Outran, K C. 8., bringing to notice the services of cer-
tain officers attached to the Expeditionary Force whose
names were cot before the Government at the time the
Notification above referred to was issued.

Tna Othceri now rautieed by the Litutentant-General,
are—

Captain Pottinger, Brigade Major Artillery at Bushire.
Captain Graves, 3rd I,!ght Cavalry, who brought the
- regiment out of action at Bushire.
Captain Aitcheson, Brigade Maj,:r Infantry at Bushire.
Erevet-11:4jor Sibley, Brigade Maj.)r Infantry at Bushire.
Captain I). Hay, Acting Brigade Major Infantry at
Bushire.

Brevet-Major Baynes, commanding 20th Native Infan-
try at Bushira.
Sulgeon Stovell, Superintending Surgeon at Bushire.
Breve.-Major lleat!y, Aide-de Camp to Brigadter-
G,neral Havtlock at Mohumra.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutt, C. 8., commanding Artillery
at Mohumra.
Captain Worgan, commanding mrrtars on the raft at

Mohumra.
Captain Dougla., Brigade Major Artillery at Moliurnra.
Captain Bouvtrie, Brigade Maj )r Infantry at Mohurnra.
Captain M‘Ktchnie, Brigade Major Infantry at M.o-
butura.
Lient.-Colonel Le Grand Jacob, commanding Light
BAt'al;ren at Mohumra.
Majlr 13( ileau, commanding Madras Sapper and Miners.
Lieut. C. Cierk, Madras Cavalry, Aide de-Camp.
Captain Lucas, Assibtant-Commissary-General.
Lieut. Havelock, Assistant-Quartermaster-General.
Surgeon Mackenzie, Superintending Surgeon at Bushire
and Koosh-ab.

To all these officers, no less than those who were
honourably mentioned in the Notifica. ion of the 18th u t,,
Leut.-General Sir J. Ootrarn, K.C.8., has expressed his
obligations ; and the Right Hon. the Governor General
in Council has great pleasure in offering to them his cor-
dial thanks, and assuring them that it will be his care
to recommend their services to the most favourable con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government and the Hon.
the Court of Directors.

G. F. ED MONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)
DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 10.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend J.
Bowen, L.L.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of
Sierra Leone, in the room of the Right Reverend John W.
Weeks, deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 16.
The Queen has been pleasedto appoint J.. 1 ardine, Esq.;
C. St. George Cleverly, Esq., (Surveyor-General) ; H. T.
Davies, Esq., (Chief Magistrate) ; and George Lyall,
to be Members of the Legislative Council of the co-
lony of Hong Kong.
Her Majesty has also be pleased to appoint Michael
Henry Gillwey, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the
colony of Natal ; Augustus Frederick Gore, Esq., to be
Assistant Government Secretary for the colony of British
Guiana •, and Charles Waters to bo S,,licitor-General, and
James Brown, Esq., to be Surveyor-General, for the Pro-
vince of New Brunswick.
WHITEHALL, AUGUST 14.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Ding-
wall Fordyce, Et q., advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or
aheriffdom of Sutherland and Caithness.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 18.
Erratum in the Gazette on the 14th August, 1857.
BREVET.
For Captain Thomas Baker Pleydell, retired full-pay
to have the honorary rank of Major-Gene-
pil4raalys:itleoaylla:
da,as Captain Thomas Baker Pluydell, retired full-
-1 m.rines, to have the honorary rank of Major.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED B Y LORDS LIEUTENANT.
EAsrqth.,urresßigenided, M; Dri,:tusor
Castlemartin
lc,:ilf2Y.7egomanry Cavalry—Douglas
Surgeon, vice Joshua Paynter,
Troop, vice Deciraus
Royal eliam Militi re Herasrrpireosmtootbeed.Cornet of a
Byers,
J 1 u Delaware Lewis,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Henry Brown, steel roller and merchant, Shef-
field.

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