The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Rutherford Alcock, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul-General
in Japan, to be ;her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Wm. Hardi-
ment, Gent., to be Quartermaster.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Argy.ll—To be Deputy Lieutenants—The Most
Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. ; the Right Hon. the
Earl of Morton; Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart. ; Sir
Angus Campbell, Bart. ; John Malcolm, Donald Maclaine,
Alexander Maclean, Richard Dennistoun Campbell, Chas.
Morrison, Archibald Douglas, Archibald Campbell, Alex-
ander Finlay, M.P., Colin George Campbell, Colonel Thos.
Hall, Captain S. M. Eddington, Robert M'Fie, Duncan
Campbell, Donald Patrick Campbell, Thomas Wm. Murray
Allen, John Campbell, James Forsyth, Farquhar Campbell,
and James Dalgleish, Esquires.
Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Henry Barham
Scoones, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Donne, pro-
moted.
Kent Volunteer Rifles, 2d Subdivision—The Right
Hon. Charles Stewart Viscount Hardinge to be Lieutenant;
Henry Dorien Streatfeild, Esq., to be Ensign.
Ist Subdivision of Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Captain
Pipon to be Lieutenant; Charles Scrase S. Dickins, Esq.,
to be Ensign.
Ist Sutherland Rifle Volunteers—Major Charles Samuel
Weston to be Captain.
2d Sutherland Rifle Volunteers—William Sutherland
Fraser, Esq., to be Captain.
3d Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—The Right
Hon. George John Warren, Lord Vernon, to be Captain;
the Hon. Augustus Henry Vernon to be Lieutenant; Chas.
Edward Boothby, Esq., to be Ensign ; David Forbes, Esq.,
M.D., to be llonorary Surgeon.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Matthew
John Alfred Gosset, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers, Ist Subdivision
(Tewkesbury)—Jamos Primatt Sargeant, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; George Howard Molester, Gent., to be En-

sign.
The Londou Scottish Rifle Volunteer Corps—The lion.
Francis Charteris, M.P., commonly called Lord Elcho, to

be Major.
4th Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant Ed-
ward Wilkes gaud to bo Captain, vice James Ormerod
Hepworth, who retires.
MEMORANDUIC-sth Regiment of West York Militia—
Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of
the Commission hold by Major Charles Cooley Craven.
3d Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers—James Erskine
Patterson, Esq., to be Captain; David Stewart Littlejohn,
Esq., to be First Lieutenant ; John Sanderson Norrie,
Esq., to be Second Lieutenant.
4th Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers—Alexander .Teffer-
son Buist, Esq., to be Captain ; John Leadbetter, Esq., to
bo First Lieutenant; William Craig Thomson, Esq., to be
Second Lieutenant.
Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Company—James
Atty, late Major 2d Warwick Militia, formerly 52d Regi-
ment of Foot, to be Captain; George Charles Benn, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; Theodore Mayo Wratislaw to be Ensign.
Bth Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—William Stevenson,
Esq., to be Captain; Alexander Skene, Esq., to be Lieute-
nant ; Charles Lyon Grant, Esq., to be Ensign.
City of Edinburgh Rifle Corps—Sir George Home, Bart.,
to be Captain ; William Alexander Laurie, Esq., to be
Captain ; John Hay Athol Macdonald, Esq., to be Captain ;
John Morrison, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Samuel Somer-
ville, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William Frederick Ken-
more, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Archibald Smith, Gent., to
be Ensign; Thomas Harigad Douglas, Gent., to be En-
sign ; Robert Michael Ballantyne, Gent., to be Ensign.