The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

NAV AL IN TELLIGENCE.

Tho following appointments were made at the Admi
rally this evening :

LONDON GAZETTE,—(This Evening.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, DEC. 31.
Orders for the Court's change of mourning on Monday,
the 27th of January next, for his late Ro) al Highness the
Prince Consort, viz .
The ladies to wear black silk dresses trimmed with crape,
and black shoes and gloves, black fans, feathers, and orna-
ments.

The gentlemen to wear black Court dress with black
swords and buckles, and plain linen.
The Court further to chauge the mourning on Monday,
the 17th of Feb. next, viz.:—
The ladies to wear black dresses with white gloves, black
or white shoes, fans, and feathers, and pearls, diamonds, or
plain gold or silver ornaments.
The gentlemen to wear black Court dress, with black
swords and buckles.

And on Monday, the 10th of March next, the Court to
go out of mourning

DOWRING•STItEET, DEC. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Price.
Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the island of
Dominica.

CROWN- OFFICE, DEC. 30.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Town of Nottingham—Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, of
Clifton Hall, in the county of Nottingham, Bart., in the
room of John Mellor, Esq., who has accepted the office of
one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas before the Queen
herself.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 31.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—Captain Charles Jefferys Wat-
son Allen from half-pay, 12th Lancers, to be Captain,
vice Brevet Major James Leith, who retires upon hall.
pay.

6th Dragoons—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colcnel John
De Montmorency Murray Prior to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Edmund D'Arcy Hunt, who retires;
Captain John Edward Swindley to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Prior ; Lieutenant John Baskerville to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Swindley; Cornet James
Stocker Grant Smith to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Baskerville; Charles Douglas Beresford Creagh, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bennitt, promoted.
12th Lancers—Edward Albert Polo, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Blacker, prGent., tomoted.
14th Hussars—John Bradney, o be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice the Hon. F. Amherst, promoted; George
Staunton Lynch •Staunton, Gent., late Lieutenant Hants
Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Browne,
promoted.
15th Hussars—Robert Marcus Briscoe, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Walker, promoted.
Royal Artillery--Captain Andrew Orr, from the Supernu-
merary List, to be Captain, vice Henry Heyman, re-
moved to the Supernumerary List; Second Captain and
Brevst-Major Frederick Miller to be Captain, vice Bre-
vet-Major Charles Ingilby, removed to the Supernume-
rary List ; Second Captain Robert Wolseley Haig, on
the Supernumerary List, to be Captain ; Second Captain
and Brevet-Major Charles Henry Owen, on the Super-
numerary List, to be Captain; Second Captain and
Brevet-Major Alderson Milman to be Captain, vice
Brevet-Major Miller, removed to the Supernumerary
List ; Lieutenant Frederick Coulthurst Elton to be
Second Captain, vice Vivian Dering Majendie, removed
to the Supernumerary List ; Lieutenant Charles R.
Frankton to be Second Captain, vice Eden, appointed
Adjutant. ; Lieut. Clennell Collingwood to be Second
Captain, vice Brevet Major Miller; Lieutenant Frede-
rick Augustus Anley to be Second Captain, vice Brevet
Major Millman; Second Captain Morton Parker Eden to
be Adjutant; Sergeant-Major John Pitt to be Quarter-
master; Surgeon Ethelbert Henry Blake, M.D., having
completed a period of 20 years full-pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major under the Royal Warrant of Ist October,
1858.
Coldstream Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Hugh Gran-
ville Fortescue to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Philip Le Belward Egerton, who retires;
Ensign John Barton Sterling, from the Bth Foot, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fortescue.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Assistant. Surgeon Wm. Chalmers,
from the 17th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wm.
White, appointed to the Staff.
Bth Foot—John Mount Batten, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice John Barton Sterling, appointed to the
Coldstream Guards.
16th Foot—Lieut,. Charles Pressly Pender, from the 37th
to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Henry Woodmass, who
exchanges; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Edward O'Connell
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
18th Foot—Ensign Ferdinand Ogilvy Fitz Gerald to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sydney Darvell, who re-
tires ; William Edward Chapman, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald ; Quartermaster John
Staniforth, from half-pay, late 67th Foot, to be Quarter-
master, vice C. Godfrey, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
21st Foct—Ensign Edward Walker to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieut. John Blaksley, exchanged into
the Ist West India Regiment.
34th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Sly, from the 16th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice G. Smith, deceased.
37th Foot—Lieut. Charles Henry Woodmass, from the 16th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Pressly Fender, who
exchanges.
38th Foot—Charles Alexander Stuart Monteath, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brady, who retires.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Ashton Henry Warner to be Adju-
tant, vice Isaac King, who resigns that appoinment.
Gist Foot—Staff-Surgeon Thomas Li -twood, M. 8., to be
7'

Surgeon, vice Herbert Taylor Reade, who exchanges.
'oth Foot—Lieutenant Eustace Cay to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Oswald Pilling, who retires; Ensign Henry
Bally to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cay; Charles
Townley Martin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Bally.
87th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Herbert Hugh Smith to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Ensign Vowell, deceased.
98th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Jackson, from half-pay
27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Gardiner, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an unattached Company ;
Ensign William O'Toole to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Jackson, who retires ; Henry William Roberts,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Toole.
Rifle Brigade—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Kennedy
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Arthur George St.
George to be Lieutenant, by purchase, \ ice Panter, pro-
moted ; Harry Golding, Gent., to be Ensign; by purchase,
vice Mansergh, promoted ; Joseph Guy Knight, Gent.,
late Lieutenant Leicester Militia, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice St. George, promoted.
DEPOT BATTALIONS.—Captain George Hewish Adams,
of the 86th Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry, ♦ice Captain
Macdonald, under orders to join the Service Companies of
Ist Battalion, 16th Foot; Quartermaster Cornelius God-
frey, from the 11th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice John
Desmond, who retires on half-pay.
COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Commissary-
General William James Tyrone Power, C. 8., to have the
local rank of Commissary-General in British North Ame-
rica.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.— Surgeon Herbert Taylor
Reade, from the 61st Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, Vice
Thomas Ligertwood, M.B , who exchanges; Assistant-
Surgeon William White, from the let Foot, to be Staff
Assistant Surgesn, vice Joseph Salkeld Johnston, M.D.,
appointed to the 72dd Foot; Assistant-Surgeon St. John
Killery, from the 36th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Robert William Jackson placed upon half-pay.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.—The promotion of the
under-mentioned Veterinary-Surgeons, as First Class
Vetinary-Surgeons, to bear date of Nov. 26, 1861, instead,
of July 1, 1859 : —F. F. Collins, 16th Lancers ; A. J.
Owles, 6th Dragoon Guards; J. S. Stockley, Royal Artil-
lery; S. P. Constant, sth:Dragoon Guards; H.Withers,
3d Hussars.
BREVET.
Captain Charles Terrington Aitchison, Bombay Infantry,
to be Al ajor in the Army.
Captain James Alphonse Collier, Bombay Infantry, to
be Major in the Army.
Quartermaster John Desmond, retired on half-pay, De-
pot Batalion, to have the honorary rank of Captain.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the decease of Lieutenant-General the Hon. John
Finch, C. 8., Colonel of the 24th Foot, on Nov. 25, 1861 :
Major-General William Beckwith, Colonel of the 14th
Hussars, to be Lieutenant-General.
Major- General Charles Ash Windham. C. 8., Colonel of
the 46th Regiment, p omoted for distinguished service on
Sept. 8, 1855, to be placed on the fixed establishment of
Major-Generals.

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Bruce, 2d Foot, to be Colonel.
Major John Hvckett, 44th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
Captain William Ranby Goate, 35th Foot, to be Major.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 24.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES.
First Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Boyd, to be
Captain, vice Huskisson, to half-pay,
Second Lieutenant Charles Rowley Brand to be First
Lieutenant, vice Boyd, promoted.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tais DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 19 11 191
Antwerp — 25 521 25 57f
Brussels — 25 521 25 60
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 8
Paris
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Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —118 k
Vienna
Triesto
Petersburgh
Berlin -
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn —
Milan —
Genoa —
Naples —
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Messina
Lisbon —
Oporto —
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Mexican Dollars
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Commanders—G. H. Wale, to the Cornwallis, additional,
for service in the Coastguard; Marcus Lowther, to the St.
Vincent.
Naval Cadet—Charles R. Congress, to the Defence.
Assistant-Surgeon—William F. Ryall, to the Orlando.