The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 16.

Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet Alan P. Lord
Genies to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Billingtoo,
promoted ; the third Christian name of Cornet Belton,
appointed on the 22nd of May, 1857, is Bomford, and
not Beresford, as previously stated.
2d Dragoon Guards—Major Hylton Briscoe to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase. To be Majors without
purchase—Major Henry Aims Ouvry, from the 9th
Light Dragoons; Captain Edmund Ruck Keene, vice
Briseoo. To be Captains, without purchase—Captain
Coote Synge Hutchinson, from half-pay 2nd Dragoon
Guards ; Captain Henry Miles Stapylton, from half-pay
2nd Dragoon Guards. To be Captain, by purchase
--Lieutenant M. J. B. Dyne, vice O'Hara, who reties.
To bo Captains, without purchase—Captain Arthur
John Loftus, from half-pay 10th Light Dragoons ; Cap-
tain Taylor Lambard Mayne, from half-pay 3d Light
Dragoons, vice Keene. To have tho rank of Lieute-
nant—Cornet and Adjutant S. Calvert. To be Lieute.
nant, by purcha4e—Cornet George Eden Jarvis, vice
Dyne. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieut.
John George Willis, from the 9th Light Dragoons ;
Lieut. Charles David Rich, from 9th Light Dragoons;
Lieut. Robert Mills, from 9th Light Dragoons; Lieut.
Roger D. Upton, from 9th Light Dragoons.
3d Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Colonel Michael William
Smith, from half-pay, 15th Light Dragoon>, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purchase; Captain Fen wick
Boyce Barron to ba Major, without purchase. To be
Captains, without purchase.—Captain John Miller, from
half-pay, 3d Dragoon Guards; Captain James Swin-
burne, from half-pay, 3d Dragoon Guards ; Capt. Char- ,
din Philip Johnson, from 9th Light Dragoons; Captain
Francis J. M`Farlane,from half-pay, let Dragoon Guards;
Captain Thomas John Francis, from half-pay,, 16.11
Light Dragoons. vice Barron.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieutenant Thomas
Edward Gordon, from the 14th Light Dragoons; Lieu-
teuant C. Weinyss Thesiger, from the 14th Light Dra-
goons ; Lieutenant Lawrence St. Patrick Gowan, from
the 14th Light Dragoons ; Lieutenant Edward Orlando
V. Haldane, from the 14th Light Dragoons ; Lieute-
nant Lawrence Mackenzie, from the 14th Light Dra-
goons.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Arthur Robert G. Cos-
tello to be Captain, by purchase, vice Balfour, who re.
tires ; Edmund Molyneux, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Welatead, promoted.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain Frederic John San lys
Lindesay, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice W.
A. King, who exchanges.
Military Train—Captain William Robert Goodall. from
the 25th Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas Rowl.nd,
who exchanges; Lieutenant \Ventworth Dawes, from
the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Eugene Sherwood,
who exchanges.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain and.
Brevet-Major J. D. Astley to be Captain and Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Lord J.
C. Plantagenet Murray, who retires; Ensign and Lieu-
tenant H. Jelf Sharp to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice Astley.
2d Regiment of Foot —Ensign Daniel L. Hewson, from
89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Hobson, removed from the service, having left his Regi-
ment at the Cape of Good Hope, without leave.
13th root—Surgeon Philip Henry Eustace Cross, from the
97th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Barry, appointed to the
97th Foot.
17th Foot—Capt. Wm. Affieck King, from the 4th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain, vice F. J. S. Lindesay, who
exchanges.
2 ith Foot—Capt. Thomas Rowland. from the Military
Train, to be Captain, vice Wm. Robert Goodall, who
exchanges.
35th Foot--Lieut. Wm. Henry Ballingall to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Bickerstaff, deceased.
60th Foot—Brevet-Major C. H. Spencer Churchill, from
the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain. vice Henry James
Robertson, who exchanges.
68th Foot—Lieutenant John Nolan, from the 75th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Brocas, who exchanges.
75th Foot— Lieutenant Reginald Brocas, from the 68th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Nolan, who exchanges.
79th Foot—Lieut. George Thomas Scovell to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Cuninghame, who retires ; Ensign
Arthur Walker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Scovell.
83d Foot—Ensign George William Henry Wardell, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mainwaring, de-
ceased.
88th Foot —Lieut.-Colonel Edward Herbert Maxwell, from
half-pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase;
Major Edmund Gilling Maynard, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Major, vice .Brevet-Lieutenant.Colonel E.
H. Maxwell, whose Brevet Rank has been converted
iato Substantive Rank under the Royal Warrant of 6th
October, 1854 ; Captain William Cole Hamilton, from

STUAIN AT A GNAT AND SWALLOW A CAMEL." —A
writer to a contemporary save :—" We read in the
B telt of England returns of 'Friday, that the Govern-
ment deposit, in the hands of that cirporation amounts
to upwards of seven millions of money ; which, at
present interest, produces, or would produce, if pro-
pi•rly ived, nearly halt a million per a.,!nuna • and yet
the very men who sanction this waste of public money
begrudge our Queen's daughter a paltry dower of
8,0001, per annum."
THE NEW ZEALAND GOLDFIELDS.—Tsars. Nichol-
son and Ridings, of Nelson, New Zealand, in their gold
circular, dated the 14th of March, say :—" From the
date of our last circular (26% ult.) to the 10th inst. the
produce of the Ace ere goldfield is stated to be, at a
moderate estimate, 150 ounces, of which over 50 ounces
have reached Ni ton. The number of diggers at that
date was about 150, one-third of whom had very re-
cently arrived. The average yield per man, therefore,
gives good wages, and we have not heard of a gold-
field where success is more evenly distributed. From
a gu ly on this side the great dividing range, and
within a short distance of Motueka (a small settle-
ment within 18 miles by water from the town) 18
pennyweights
of gold have this week been received.
This sample is rounder than any other we have yet
seen. It was in the neighbourhood l
of the place
where this sample was found that, during last win-
ter, the first indications of the existence of gold in
the province were met with. From the Takaka
Valley, which is also on the east side of the range,
a few grains of gold have been brought into town, and a
party has gone out to prospect that country more fully.
We have in these facts an evidence that the washings
from both sides of the range, on the west at the Aorere,
and on the east at the Takaka and Motueka, contain
gold ; and this, taken in connexion with the highly
auriferous appearance of the mountains, leads
.to the rea-
sonable presumption that the whole range will be found
gold-producing. It may be taken as a very favourable
indication that, the nearer to the high mountains the
diggers proceed, the larger become the particles of gold.
Some men have sold to our correspondent at the Aorere
an ounce taken from a gully about two miles nearer to
the range, about which he writes that it is quite a dif-
ferent character of gold ; it is a much larger grain, and
darker in colour.' " On the 20th of the same month they
supplement the following :—" The advices to-day from
our goldfields we may briefly state to be that success
had been during the past week very general among the
300 men engaged in digging, though some had been alto-
gether unsuccessful, and that the yield for the week was
over 200 ounces. Of this we have ourselves obtained
more than one-half, but for the remainder were over-
' bidden, Our own purohases to date amount to 2GO oz."