The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-04 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE-(THISEVENING,

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir John Young,
Bart., K.G.C., M.G., some time her Majesty's Lord High
Commissioner in and for the United States of the lonian
Islands, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of
the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Spencer
Cecil Brzbazon Ponsonby, now Extra Gentleman Usher to
Her Majesty, to be Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Her
Majesty, in the room d Sir Henry William des Voaux,
Baronet, resigned.
DOWNING-STREET, Fan. 2.
Tho Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir
Henry Knight Storks, K.C.8., to be her Majesty's Lord
High Commissioner, in and for the United States of the
lonian Islands.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEE. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
D. Merrill as Consul at Sydney for the United States of
America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Jorge
Zammit y Romero, as Vice Consul at Malta; of Don
Enrique do Azurmundi, as Vice Consul at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne ; and of Don Candid° de Pedrorena, as Vice Consul
at Southampton, for Her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Sir
Robert Tolver Gerard, of Garswood, Bart., to be Sheriff of
the County Palatine of Lancaster, for the year ensuing.

HE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMIfER,

FEB. 3.

John Tremayne, of Hciiittll,in the county of Cornwall
Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall

It appears that although there was credible
authority for stating that Mr. E. T. Smith would open her
Majesty's Theatre during the summer months, unforseen
obstacles have arisen which will probably cause the antici-
pated arrangement to fall to the ground.
SIR W. CODRINGTON, M.P., AND HIS CONSTI-
TuEsTs.--Last - evening Sir W. Codrington addressed a
public meeting of his constituents at the Literary Institu-
tion, Nelson-street, Woolwich. On the hon. and gallant
gentleman declaring himself opposed to the ballot, a scene
of great uproar ensued The meeting, however, passed a
vote of confidence in the hon. and gallant member.
THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN MALTA
AND CAGLIARL—Accounts from Malta up to the evening
of the 24th of January announce that up to that time the
damage to the cable had not been discovered.

The Atlantic Company, in case all methods to
resuscitate the cable fail, have applied to Government for a
guarantee of 41 per cent. on a fresh capital of £.590,000. It
is stated that during even the brief time that the Atlantic
telegraph remained in use one message alone, countermand-
ing the embarkation of the 39th and 62d Regiments for
India, probably saved this country some £50,000 sterling.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A RATE COLLECTOR.—
An inquest was held yesterday at the Duke of Sussex
Tavern, Haggerstone, on the body of Mr. Wm. Meggs,
a,ged 46, a poor rate collector in the parish of St Leonard's,
Shoreditch, who was found dead in the Regent's canal.
The deceased had been for some time in a very low and
desponding state. A verdict of "Found drowned" was
returned.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE EDITOR OF TILE to DERBY
REPORTER."—On Wednesday evening a testimonial, con-
sisting of a purse of £500., a silver salver, and an address,
was presented to Mr. Henry Adams, who, for mothan
twenty years, has had flit, editorial management re
of the
Derby Reporter.
ADULTERATING THE ATMOSPHERE.--A lady says
she is delighted to hear that at Milan there is an association
against the smoking of cigars in the streets. She only re-
grets that there is not a similar association in London, for
really it is dreadful to walk out and see the little bits of
boys puffing away at cigars nearly as big as themselves, and
blowing their filthy smoke under ladies bonnets and in all
directions, precisely as though they. were men. The atmo-
sphere of London is already impure enough, HeaVen knows,
without being further adulterated by the exhalations of
hobbcdehoysl—Punch.