The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

042ritrt, VrZbttton

SUN OFFICE', Seven, o'Clock.

CHATHAM RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
WEST KENT STAKES.

Pauli Monti..

C 1 Ara

Five no.
MEMBERS' PLATE.

Madame Rachel
Min Harka way
Malakoff..

Five ran.
LADIES' PLATE.

Pauli Monti
Little Robin

1

Two ran.
NEW STAKES.

Sist©r to Elfrida .

. walked over.

THE CUP.

B Iliughatia
Malmsbury

Four ran.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—YESTERDAY.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
250 -t.) 50 agst Tasmania (taken)
ST. LEG ER.
IZS to 100 agst Blink Bonny (taken).
200 to 10 agst Commotion (taken)
CESAREWITC EL
40 to 1 agst Ackwortb (taken)
40 to 1 agst Cedric (taken)

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 14.
The Q aeon has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United Kingdom of Groat Britain and Ire
Lind unto the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, and to
the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, by the name,
style, and title of Baron Ebury, of Ebury Manor, in the
county of Middlesex.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 10. . . .

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United King locn of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto the Right Hon. Thomas Baington Macaulay,
and to the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, by
the name, style, and title of Baron Maucaulay, of Rothley,
in tho county of Leicester.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL SEPT. 10.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Pi ivy Council for Trade and Plantations have received
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Helsingfors, re-
porting that the Imperial Senate of Finland has notified
that rye, corn, oats, meal, and grits of those cereals, peas,
and potatoes, may be imported, duty free, into the Grand
Duchy of Finlan t, until the 31st December•noxt.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT 11.
Regulations to be observed at the magazines, Liverpool,
during the repair of one of the magazines, authorized by
Master-Ga,:eral of Ordnance, as per Gazette of 25th Feb-
ruary, 1812, and to confirm° in force until the magazine
is again moored 'for the reception of powder :-
1. All vessels having gunpowder on board are to hoist a
red flag, which is to be kept up until the ,whole of the
powder is discharged.
2. The import vessel is not to anchor within a quarter
of a mile of the magazine before anchoring all fires are
to be completely extinguished, and they are not on any
account to be relighted until the powder is discharged.
3. In any lighter used for the temporary accommodation
of powder during the repair of the magazine, all iron bolts,
nails, &c., in the hold or other part of the vessel, which
may be at all liable to be brought into contact with the
powder barrels, aro to be carefully covered with sheet lead
or pieces of leather, secured by copper nails; and the mas-
ter is enjoined to assure himself by frequent examination
that such is the case.

4. On receiving powder onboard the lighter, the master
is to sec that the platform in the vessel's hold and the
gangways and coverings of the hatchways are covered with
tanned bid 3s, the hold having pre►iously been carefully
swept and freed from grit or dust.
5. While any powder continues on board, the vessel is
on no account to be left without either the master or the
mate, and one other man.

G. The man employed in receiving or discharging the
powder are to be clothed in canvas frocks and trousers, and
to wear magazine slippers, such clothing to be worn at no
other time.

7. No lights are to be allowed, except the signal one ;
another for the watch, which is to have water under it ;
and a temporary light in an approved hand-lantern, which
is to be brought from the shore for the purpose of lighting
the signal and the light for the watch, and which is then
to be extinguished. Smoking is strictly prohibited, at 41
under uo pretence whatever is any Weiler match to be per-
mitted on board.

8. Import vessels with mixed cargoes are to observe the
same precautions in approaching the lighter and discharg-
ing their powder as as they would do under similar cir-
cumstances at the magazine.
9. Printed copies of these regulations are to be given to
the masters and placed in conspicuous parts of the vessels.
10. Any lighter used for the foregoing purposes is to be
under the direction of the authorised storekeeper of the
magazines.

By order of her Diajesty'e Principal Secretary of
State for War.

J. R. Gonranr.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 11.

Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Gen. G.Cobbe to be Colonel Com-
mandant, vico Lieut.-General Thomas Hutchinson, de-
ceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 11.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Henry Mapleton
Hockin, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Park, promoted.
2d Dragoons --Cornet Thomas Gonne to b 3 Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Mills, who retires ; Charles Hill, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Gonne ; Nicholas Mills,
Gent., to be Riding Master.
Military Train—Captain William Alfred Swift, from half
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Henry Alexander,
appointed to the lst Dragoon Guards.
Royal Artillery—Brevet Colonel John St. George, C. 8.,
to be Colonel, vice Ball, promoted; Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel John Miller Adye, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice St. George; Second Captain George Hat-
ton Colomb to be Captain, vice Adye ; Lieutenant John
Donald Geo. Higgon to be Second Captain, vice Colomb ;
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Park to be
Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Real, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bowen, resigned;
Assistant-Surgeon Robert Lower, from the Staff, to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Daniell, resigned.
The undermentioned Probationary Veterinary Surgeons to

be Veterinary Surgeons : -George Longitan, Charles
Steel, John Tatam, and John Bsldock.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
and Captain lion. A. F. Egerton to be Captain and
Lieutenaut-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colouel
Hervey Hopwood, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant
P. K. Murray to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Hon. A. F. Egerton; Hugh Henry Chol-
meley, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,

vice -Murray.'
21 Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Money Bright,
horn tho 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ewens, ap-
pointed to the 60th Foot.
3d Foot—Lieutenant Wm. James Newton to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Zloyd, who retires; Ensign Alfred
George Huyshe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Newton ; Felix Thomas Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Huyshe.
sth Foot—James Vaughan Coach, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purcinse, vice Fitz Roy, promotd.
14',11 Foot—Lieutenant Charles Costii to be Adjutant, vice
Alexander Gordon, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
15th Foot—Lieut. Frederick Edward Lock to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Wahnsley, who retires; Ensign Henry
' Jardine Hullowes to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Lock.
221 Foot—Francis Edward Holyoake, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase' vice Cobham, who retires.
31st Foot—Francis \Vm. Henry Davies Butler, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Phillipson, appointed

to 7th Eight Dino Ons.
44th Foot—Lieut. Arthur William Staveley to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Micklethwait, who retires ; En-
sign Henry Norman Salle to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Staveley.
57th Foot—Lieut. Wm. A. James Shortt to be Instructor

of Musketry.
60th Foot—Major R. B. Hawley, from aDepot Battalion,
to be Major, without purchase ; Ensign C. H. Cox, from
the 57th Foot. to be Ensign, without purchase.
65th Foot—A. W. Crozier, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Bates, promoted.
71st Foot--Ensign Edwin Sergeant Swainson to be Lien-
tonan, by purchase, vice Mirehouse, who retires; R.
Kane, Gent., to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Swainson.
75th Foot— Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Chas. Herbert to be Lieut.-
Col , without purchase, vice Brevet• Col. Hallifax, de-
ceased ' • Brevet-Major Edward Knollys to be Major,
without purchase, vice Herbert ; Lieut. George William
Muriel to bo Captain, without purchase, vice Knotlys ;
Lieut. Browning Drew to be Captain, without purchase,
vice E. W. J. Knox, killed in action • Ensign William
Crozier to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Muriel;
Ensign Charles Melville Pym to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Drew.
77th=-The undermentioned officers have beeonsigsnupiterisechdaerda,
having been absent without leave ; —B
Butler Clarke, and Ensign James Peacock.
Grath
rom
91th Foot—Assistant-surgeon Edmund McGr f
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
on the Staff. vice Martin, promoted
ha lafr-
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97th Foot—Captain Rog
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root, to be Captain, viceer
Brevet fr-Marlor
Lumley, whose Brevet rankhanysobaeeinvirarconraaeurt ted
Substantive Rank, under theof
October, 1354 ; John Rudge,
.Gent., to be Ensign, by
purebase in succession to Lieutenant Alderson, who
retires.
Riffle Brigade—Brevet-Colonel Henry Penleaze, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant Colonel ; Brevet-
Liient.-Col. Frederick Robert Elrington to be Lieutc-
nant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Penleaze, who retires ' •
The surname of the Captain restored to full-pay on the
lst instant, is Norris, and not Morris, as stated in the
Gazette of the 4th instant.
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Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Lieut. Charles Henri Theo-
dore Bruce de Ruvignes, from the 3d West India Begi-
naent, to be Captain, without purchase.
BATTALION.
For Major D. G. A.DEPOT Darrooli, from half-pay unattached,
vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Pretyman,
appointed to
GOth Foot, which appeared in Gazette of 4th instant.
Read, Major D. G. A. Darroch,.frora half-pay unat-
tached, to be Major, &c.
STAFF.
Brevet-Colonel the Honourahie W.
L. Packenham,
Deputy C. 8.,
Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay Unached, to be .

Adkitan'Aleneral to the. Forces serving in the East
Indies.

Brevet-Colonel Edward Robert Wetherell, C. 8., ➢fajor
half-pay Unattached, to ho Deputy-Quartermaster-Gene-
ral to the Forces serving in the East Indies.

HOSPITAL STAPP.

Assistant-Surgeon Henry Clinton Martin, from the 04th
Foot, to bo Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Park,
appointed to the loyal Artillery.
The Commission of Assistant-Surgeon William Henry
Leslie, M.D., to bear date 7th May, 1855, instead of IA
A.ugut, 16,57, as stated in the Ga:ette of the 2Sth ultituo.