The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-12 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN.

Instructions were received yesterday morning
by the Admiralty agent in Liverpool to have the
Great Eastern surveyed, and if found suitable to
engage her for the conveyance of troops to Canada.
This has been done and the " Great Ship" has been
taken up for the conveyance of 2,500 men, 100
officers, and 122 horses for Quebec. These will in-
clude the 4th Field Battery of the Royal Artillery,
consisting of 7 officers, 220 men, 20 women, 25
children, and 110 horses; the 30th Regiment of
Foot, consisting of 39 officers, 868 men, 80 women,
120 children, and 6 horses ; the 4th battalion of the
60th Rifles, consisting of 39 officers, 868 men, 80
women, 120 children, and 6 horses. In addition tp
whom there are to be also 4 officers, 102 men, 9
women, and 19 children belonging to the 16th, 17th,
and 100th Foot, and the Canadian Rifles. All of
these are to b e accommodated in standing berths,
which are being fitted up by Mr. John Laird, Bir-
kenhead, the Admiralty supplying the bedding.
The troops are to be victualled by the Great Ship
Company, and they are to be embarked in Liver-
pool, the ship, it is understood, being to return to
that port. It is expectd that she will be ready
for sea in about ten days. A considerable sensa-
tion was created in Liverpool yesterday morning
by a report to the effect that the Great Eastern had
taken the ground in swinging round with the tide.
This proved correct, but, there being no wind at
the time, she just " tailed" the bank, and, as the tide
was making, she almost immediately floated off
again without having sustained any damage.
Besides the Great Eastern the Golden Fleece has
also been taken up to convey the 47th Regiment ef
Foot to Quebec. The regiment consists of 39 offi-
cers, 868 men, and the usual number of women
k a m
children, and horses. They are to embark at
Dublin, for which city the Golden Fleece
from Liverpool to-morrow (Thursday). ill sail

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF A MILITARY
OFFICER IN LIMERICK.—LIMERICK, Monday Morning...—.
The sudden death, at the New Barracks, in this city, on
yesterday morning, of apoplexy, of Captain and Adjutant
was
from out and
bed
John Henry Grant, 17th Depot Battalion, has cast a sad
soldier belonging to the Depot
gloom in military circles, as he was an officer highly
onThsactduercdeaays,edanodfficaerrose
esteemed and deservedly respected, not only by his brothers
in rank, but by every
Batta-
lioninpiendwechtigochohde
yesterday morning as usual. While dressing h
artehd.
com-
plained of a pain in his head, immediately after Le
fell on the floor and died, as above stated, of Width he
doctors were called at once, but the vital apoplexy. The
The sudden death of Captain Grant is the spark had fled.
occurred in Limerick, in respectable tenth which has
late mayor, in seven months. The circles, including the
Grant will be interred, with full remains of Captain
Coutetery, liina, id,„,d, military hououre, at the

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 10.
The Queen has been pleased to present the
Charles Carwithen, 8.A., to the Vicarage of
with Shirford and Chulston, iu the county of Devon and
diocese of Exeter, void by the death of the Rev. Henry
Taylor. SI to kv ntahn
The Queen has' also been pleased to present the Rev.
William Theophilus Grear to the Vicarage of Heming-
brough, in the county and diocese of York, void by the
death of the Rev. John lon.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Alexander Ronald Grant, M.A., to the Rectory of Hitcham,
in the county of Suffolk and diocese of Ely, void by the
death of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 1:
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert
Stuart, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Vote, to be her
Majesty's ConV in Albania.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 11.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Ensign Edward Hoare
Reeves, from the 62d Foot, to be Cornet, vice Gifford,
promoted.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant William Joseph Power, from
the Louth Rifles Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Revell, promoted.
Bth Light Dragoons—Samuel Henry Pemberton Whittuck,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Rawlins, pro-
-18
trehno tLightedtb Dragoons_y purchase,
iocren Cornet
Phillips, Thomaspromoted. Ful le r to be Lieu-
Royal Artilly—Surgeon Thomas Llewellyn Nash, M.D.,
from the 21st Foot, to be Surgeon, I,;ce Surgeon-Major
William Henry Mackintosh, M.D., who exchanges.
Royal Engincers—Captain James Robert Mann, frem the
Seconded List, to be placed on the effective list of the
Corps as a supernumerary Captain - Lieutenant James
Octavius Playfair has been permitted to resign his Com-
mission.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Robert
Augustus Dalzell to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Henry David Erskine, who retires ; Ensign
William Robert Maurice Wynne, from the 41st Foot, to
be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purehase, vice Dalzell.
4th Regiment of Foot--Edward Ranulph De Barry Bar_
nett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brown, pro-
meted.
Bth Foot—Charles Tayleur, Gent., to be Ensign, by pm,.
chase, vice Cook, promoted.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Masterman Thompson to be
Captain, without purchase, vice William Burden, who
retires upon full pay; Ensign Hillier Givins to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Thompson; Seconl Lieutenant Edward
Burnett Robinson, from the Hants Artillery Militia, to,
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Givins.
11th Foot—Frederick Nathaniel Callwell, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Halliday, promoted.
12th Foot—William Browne Ferris, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Murphy, promoted.
13th Foot—Arthur Parry Rogers, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Clarke, promoted.
15th Foot—Ensign Charles Clifton Tabor, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Alfred Wintle, who retires.
16th Foot—Calvert Dunbar Steer, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice William Alexander Woodward, wko
retires.

' 19th Foot—George Oakes, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Affleck, promoted.
21st Foot—Surgeon-Major William Henry Mackintosh,
M.D., from the Royal Artillery, to be Surgeon-Major,
vice Surgeon Thomas Llewellyn Nash, M.D., who ex-
changes.
23d Foot—Ensign William Phineas Bury, from the 15th
Foot, to be Ensign in succession to Lieutenant Charles
James Wrench, deceased.
24th Foot--Captain Josiah Robert Rolls, from the 94th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Bulkeley
Thelwall, C. 8., who exchanges.
25th Foot—Lieutenant Charles H. Layard to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Charles D. Pogson, deceased ;
Ensign James Long Watson to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Layard.
29th Foot—Ensign Henry Wasey Kindersley to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Lancelot Amelius Shadwell,
who retires; William Sydney Hilton Jolliffe, tient., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Kindersley.
34th Foot--Lieutenant Julius Dyson Laurie to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice David Steuart, who retires ; En-
sign James L. N. Willis to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Laurie ; Louis Wyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Willis.
35th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Hill to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Edward Thiselton, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
39th Foot Drought Blakely Tarleton, Gent., to be En-
sign, by :purchase, vice Edward John Armytage, who
retires.
G9th Foot—The commission as Adjutant of Lieutenant
Romain Fleming Stirke has been antedated to the 24th
December, 1858 ; the commission as Lieutenant of the
late Lieutenant Henry Charles St. George has been ante-
dated to the 24th December, 1858.
78th Foot—William Thorp, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice John Ingle, who retires.
89th Foot—Ensign James Shaw Hay to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Stephen Wm. Sewell, deceased.
93d Foot--Ensign Dunlop Hay to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice George John Malcolm Taylor, deceased.
94th Foot—Captain and Brevet Major John Bulkeley
Thelwall, C. 8., from the 24th Foot, to be Captain, vice
Josiah Robert Rolls, whotxchanges.
STAFF.—Major Dominic Jacotin Gamble, Unattached, As-
sistant Quartermaster-General at Shorncliffe and Dover,
to be Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Troops serv-
ing in New Zealand, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Army, vice Lieutenati-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Charles Sillery, half pay, Depot Battalion, who resigns
that appointment.
The Honourable Artillery Company of London—The
Christian names of Ensign Fairlie are Robert Francis,
not Francis only, as stated in the Gazette of the 7th ult.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
TO BE STAFF ASSISTANT-SURGEONS.
Assistant-Surgeon 'William Stewart, M.D., from the 47th
Foot, vice James Speedy. der....a•
assistant-Surgeon Edward Thiselton, from the 35th
Foot, vice Hill, appointed to the 35th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Peter Frederick Newland, from the
sth Foot, vice John Wales, appointed to the 2dWest India
Regiment.
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Ramsay, from the 20th Foot,
vice William Langston, resigned.
Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Allan, M,D., from the
17th Foot, vice J. B. Hamilton, M. 8., appointed to the 3d
West India Regiment.

BRET
Captain and Brevet-Major WVE
i illam Wilberforce Harris
Greathed, C. 8., Bengal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Army.
Second Captain Benjamin Bathurst, half-pay, Royal
Artillery, to be Major in the Army.
Captain Robert William Brooke, 60th Foot, to be Major
in the Army.
Captain the Hon. Robert Baillie-Hamilton, 44th Foot,
to be Major in the Army.
Captain Richard Llewellyn Williams, Ist Foot, be Major
in the Army.
Captain Francis Richard Charles Grant, sth Light
Dragoons, to be Major in the Army.
Captain William Burden, retired full pay, 9th Foot, to
have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster Frederick T. Patterson, GOth Foot, to have
the honorary rank of Captain under the Royal Warrant of
the 27th January, 1860.
Paymaster Frederick Francis Fereday, 68th Foot, to have
the honorary rank of Captain under the Royal Warrant of
27th January, 1860.
The undermentioned officers having completed the quali-
fying service for the rank of Colonel under the Bth and 10th
clauses of the Royal Warrant of the 14th October, 1858, to
be Colonels in the Army :—Lieutenant-Colonel William
MacMahon, C. 8., 44th Foot ; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick
Francis Maude, C.B.' 3d Foot.
The promotions of Brevet-Major Charles William
nister, of the Bombay Cavalry, and Captain AlexanderEttn-
_
George Tod, of the Madras Cavalry, to the rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel and Major respectively, as announced in the
Gazette of the 17th May, 1861, have
been cancelled, those
officers having retired from the service on half-pay.

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MEMORANDUM.
The undermentioned officers upon half-pay have been
permitted to retire from the service, by the sale of their
commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards'
Circular Memorandum of the 15th February, 1861 :
BeMaujort aor end Brevet-Liautenant-Colonel Henry, Duke of
, half-pay Unattached.
Sccond Captain Benjamin Bathurst, half-pay Royal Ar-
tillery.
_

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 10.
The following promotions, dated the 4th instant, conse-
quent upon the death of Vice-Admiral of the White the
Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.C.8., on the 3d
instant, have taken place :-..
Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford,
K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admirals Octavius Vernon Harcourt, and
The Right Hon. Henry John Chetwyndf
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, C. 8.,
on the Reserved List,
to be Vice-Admirals on the same List.
Rear-Admiral of the Red James Scott, C. 8., to be Vice.
Admiral of the Blue.
Real-Admiral of the White Right Honourable the Lord
Edward Russell, C.8.,t0 be Rear-Admiral of the
Rear-Admiral of the ue Horatio Thomas Austin, 4.;•P
to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captains Patrick John Blake, and
William Warren, C. 8.,
to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List. of the
Captain James John Stopford to be Rear-Admit
Blue.

BANKRUPTS.
at the Court of
June 20, at eleven, and July 18, at
Peter Powell, ironmonger,
one,Tonbrids'ef
Bankruptcy.
frame maker,
London-wall,
Joseph Plataner, picture
July 24, at half-past one, at
ent, to surrender,
the Court of Bankruptcy__
Birmingham, June 14, and July
James Wood, builder, .
City, June 26, at three,
at the Birminghamand District Court.
cabinet maker,. Swindon, Wilts, June 26
11, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court.
at eleven,
licensed victualler, Waterbeer-street,
Edwin Groot,
a 21 and July 17, at twelve, at the Exeter
Exeter, Jun
t.
District Cour th builder, Chesterfield,
George Ilea '
Wrexham, Denbighshire, June 24
atattheeleLvi
and
joCharleshJohn
uljy o nCollier
e23,s
dr
draper,
per,
Aug. 3, at t® at the Leeds District Court.
Janen d J2ul7y,
alnod, a ;tile l eyv
6,
Allen Wood, clothe'
manufacturer Lindley Huddersfield,
evne,rpaotoltDheistrict Court.
' Leeds District
Court.
Joseph Gomersall and Joseph carpet manufac-
Berry,
turers, Hecktaondwike, Yorkshire, July, 1 and July 29, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
William James Hearn, draper, Dover, Jute 21, at eleven,
and July 22, at half- at the Court of Bank-
past eleven,
ruptcy.
ro ad
Martin St. Leger, licensed victualler, Bagnigge Wells•
, June 21, at twelve, and July 22, at half-past one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
William Fleming, pawnbroker, Glasgow:
Dunfermline.
Alexander 111'Laren, grocer,
James Fairweather, merchant! Dundee.
Thomas Watwork Smith, chemist, Kirkcaldy.
Thomas Rutherford, carrier, Paisley.
. James Cruielasink, wine merchant, Fortes, , Elgin.
George Key, merchant, Edinburgh.

THE ROBBERY FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY.--'
Leopold Baldocci, the Italian modeller, was yesterday re:
examined at the Bow-street Police-office on a charge of
stealing pictures, cameos, and other works of art from the
Royal Academy, Trafalgar-square. The pliseaer Piel4
gsilth and was committed tor Wal•