The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00

FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 18.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, the
British Member of the late Eoropeau Commission in Syria,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Swan
Field, Esq., Collector of Customs, Principal Comptroller of
her Majesty's Customs and Navigation Laws, and Regis-
trar of Shipping for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Francis
Bertrand Pinney to be sub-Collector and Comptroller of her
Majesty's Customs and Navigation Laws, and Registrar of
Shipping at Port Elizabeth, in the Colony of the Cape of
Good Hope.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 29.*

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The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas
C. Taylor, Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Abbeo-
kuta.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 17:
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward
Leawnworth as Consul at Sydney, New South Wales, for
the United States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of the Com-
mander Juan Clement do Las Cases as Consul at Liver-
pool for the Republic of Venezuela.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 18.
6th Regiment of Dragoons—James Sanderson Davis, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice King, promoted.
Bth Light Dragoons—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles
George Lumsden to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ralph
Robert Scott, appointed to the Staff.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Fitzhardinge Jones to be
Captain, by purchase, vice George Horne, who retires ;
. Comet William Blacker to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Jones.
14th Light Dragoons—Major and Breve;t
Captain
nnanantd-
Colonel Arthur Scudamore, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles
BrevetSteuart, Lieutenant-ColonelC .B " whoretires
u pon
Pearson
half-pay
Scott Thompson to
be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Scudamore ; Lieutenant Robert Chadwick to be Captain
by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson;
Cornet William Atcherley Atcherley to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Chadwick.
et-Colonelvvice
G eorg e GeorgeArcki
Royal
Bent,
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Engineers—Captain
Lieutenant
Archi-
bald Leach, retired on half-pay ; Supernumerary Captain
apt
ainail•Ca olßonreelv,
Ben Hay Martindale to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel
Bent, C.B.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Charles Edmund Phipps, Esq.,
Page of Honour to the Queen, to be Ensign and Lieu-
tenant, without purchase.
3d Reg'ment of Foot—Ensign Henry Kinahan to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Dudley George Cary Elwes,
who retires ; Edward Openshaw, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Kinahan.
4th Foot—Ensign George William Hughes to be Lie' de-
/lent, by purchase, vice Edward Crossweller George, who
retires; Henry Buckton Lawrence, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Hughes.
9th Foot—Richard Mounteney Jephson, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Robinson, appointed,to the
40th Foot.
10th Foot—Ensign George Henry Wynn Tremenheere Lo
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice James Craig, de-
ceased ; Ensign William Malcolm to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Tremenheere, whose promotion
on the 30th April, 1861, has been cancelled; Parnell
Thomas Maillard, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Robertson, promoted • Lieutenant William John Byda
Martin to be Adjutant, vice James Craig, deceased.
16th Foot—Ensign Sydney Herbert Davies to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Robert Jones Birch, super-
seded for being absent without leave.
33d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Quinlan, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice George Frederick
Spry, appointed to the Staff.
40th Foot—Ensign Edward Burnett Robinson, from the
9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morphy, promoted.
42d Foot—Robert Legh Cross, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Walter, promoted.
45th Foot—Captain Robert Beckferd Johnstone to be Major
by purchase, vice Stephen Bilton Gordon, who retires;
Lieutenant George Champagne Close to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Johnstone; Ensign Charles Harrison
Hignett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Close.
52d Foot—Lieutenant Stephen niurphy to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Alexander William Adair, who retires ;
Ensign Willoughby Burdett Peter Burrell to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Min phy ; Thomas Pain Waters,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burrell.
62d Foot—Lieutenant -Wm. Bromley Davenport to be
Captain, by purchase, v!ce Herrick Augustus Palmer,
whe retires ; Ensign Charles W. Brown to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Davenport; Edward Podmore Clark,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Hoare
Reeves, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards.
66th Foot—Ambrose Benjamin Humfrey, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Gambell, promoted.
74th Foot—Lieut. Abel Straehan to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Colonel John Impett, who retires ;
Ensign Peter McLaren to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Strag.han ; Conyngham Martyn McAlpine, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice McLaren.
77th Foot—Vivian Page Byrne, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice John Potts, who retires.
78th Foot—Ensign John Robert Meiklam, from the 98th_
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Alexander Herman Adam Gor-
don, who exchanges.
89th Foot—Captain and Brevet. Major John Macdonald
Cuppage to be Major, without purchase, vice John At-
kinson, deceased ; Lieutenant Moantifort Heyliger Trent
Lloyd, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Cuppage ;
Ensign Richard Nathan Hubbersty, be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Lloyd.
90th Foot—Despreaux John Boileau, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Knight, pro-
moted.
98th Foot- Ensign Alexander 'Herman Adam Gordon,
from the 78th Foot, to Ensign, vice John Robert
Mciklam, who exchanges
2d West India Reghnent•—Staff-Surgeon Patrick Andrew
M'Dermott, to be S'argeon, vice Richard Edward Fitz-
Gibbon, appointed 'to the Staff.
MEDICAL DEPAnT'AENT.—To be Staff Assistant-Surgeons
—Assistant-SP.lrgeon Ralph Robert Scott, from the Bth
Light Drage ons, vice Charles George Lumsden, appoin-
ted to the, Bth Light Dragoons; Assistant-Surgeon
Thoxias James Biddle, from the Bth Foot, vice Thomas
Quinlan, appointed to the 33d Foot; Assistant-Surgeon
George Frederick Spry, from the 33d Foot, vice James
Land, M.D., placed upon half-pay.
BREVET.
Second Captain Henry Murray, half-pay Royal Artillery
to be Major in the Army.
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Murray, half-
pay Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
The undermention-A promotions to take place consequent
on the death of Major-General George Congreve, C. 8., on
he 29th April, 1861:
TO HAVE THE RANK OF MAJOR-GENERAL.

Brevet-Colonel William James King, Major on half-pay,
Royal Staff Corps.
Brevet-Colonel William Abraham Le Mesurier, Captain
on half-pay 95th Foot, Town-Major, Alderney.
Brevet-Colonel John Swinburn, Major on half-pay, Un-
attached.
Brevet-Colonel Thomas Kelly, Captain, half-pay of the
Cheshire Fencible Regiment, Fort-Major of Tilbury Fort.
Brevet-Colonel James Kerr Ross, Major on half-pay,
Unattached.
Brevet-Colonel Eardley Wilmot, Major on half-pay,
Unattached.
Brevet-Colonel Edward Basil Brooke, from half-pay, late
Inspecting Field Officer of a recruiting district, serving
with the temporary rank of Major-General in command of
the troops in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to be
Major-General.
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.0 o Charleslo n e IT. T. Franklin,
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Lieutenant-Colonel Bowland Moffat, half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Colonel.
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RoyaltoßbereLveietu-
Major Artillery,hal f-
CTahpetauinndFermorbeenstiMonaeTporaonni,
09t2idonFootoott,ar
eb;laAcieacjoonr.sequent
on the death of Major-General Richard Wilford Brett on
the 6th of May, 1861 :
r-Acilaejnoerraoln. half-pay
Unattached,U nßEarrt
Brevet-Colonel vva cee htt 1861:—
Brevet-Colonel
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Frederickthe
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Paris W. Augustus Brad-
shawe, Major on hall-pay Unattached, to be Colonel.
Brevet Major Philip Gosset Pipon, Royal Artillery, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain C. Ogilvy Hamley, Royal Marines to be Major.
MEMORANDUM.—The undermentioned officers upon half-
pay have been peimittsd to retire from the service by the
sale of their commissions under the conditions of the Horse
Guards Circular Memorandum of 15th February, 1861:—
Lieutenant-Colonel George Archibald Leach, half-pay
Royal Engineers ; Second Captain Henry Murray, half-
pay Royal Artillery.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 18.
BREVET.
The following officers, at present holding local rank " for
service with the East India Company's Depot at Warley, "_
to have local rank " whilst employed at Warley Depot: "
Colonel John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., retired Indian Ser-
vice.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Falconer Hay, retired In•
dian Service.
Major Lieutenant
-Colonel
S. J. Stevens,Tower, tiredlnc.BSer: tireircee, Addj
I, ol übitandi2
Service, Paymaster.
Assistant-Surgeon George Nayler, Bombay Medical tie'
partment.

BANKRUPTS
market, to surrender,
Thomas Bacon, hotel keeper/
oJfußnean2kBm, apttocnye., and July 25, at higalf"-pas
- Worcester July
James Tree, scrivener, . t court,
i. ~ .
art
eleven, at the Birminghalp Man
, r Wolverhampton, July 1 and 22,
29TjaohnimodnajaprsioyPue2grIkas, east,Teer,e;:hani
Manemail 11:3rhtli ean Bedscr
I spifis tiestitidcricitt e
Court.2B
at eleven, at the ;Boon District Court.
,Manalvderns
nufacturer, Stockport, July 9 and
the ester District Court.
and July
25, at eleven,
John Bromfield Brown, ribbon manufacturer,
,Coventry,
~i 1 and 22, at cloven, at
3:4ati Peteri
t Henryal li Alder,e
iKvi
d'
Thompson Kidd, y
builder,
Birmingham
Sm.i tght
the Birmingham District Court.
'amjuuenl Cannon, late
eenlge
vineene:
a,
iallailAbruogo.k ,g a, eaatr Se
loeuvter
aptt
tohney
merchants m Australia, now residing in Liverpool.
3July
hh ao2rm, l
aeast s
half
r ampoaanns
st, ,
Court of Bankruptcy. -
leather seller, St. John-street, Clerkend
well, June 27, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 2, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Howls, licensed victualler, Little Strettr,
Shropshire, June 28 and July 18 at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. '
James Turner, cotton'manufacturer, Bury, Lancashire,July 3 and 26, at twelve;at the Manchester District Court.
Edward Parkin, sen., file manufacturer, Sheffield, June
29, and July 27, at ten at the Leeds District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Mg-lardy, ironmonger, Aberdeen.
TGheoormgaes Bain, grocer,
Ruth Rutherford,
near Edinburgh.
, wine merchant, Glasgow.
Thomas Turnbull, grocer, Morebattle, Roxburghshire.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp or Gavin, clothier, Glasgow.

ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.--A meeting of this
society will be held at 4, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar.
square, this evening, at 8 o'clock, when the folio wing paPerg
will be read :—" On some Domestic and So cial Chario"
teristics of the African Tribes." By T. J. ollus
lutch°ll:
late her Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po. I • ".Pinving
Inhabitauts of the Batoka Country," 2Y elm4X;c
fitOtleft