The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. 'William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, now Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at Rio Janeiro, to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at Athens.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, 0 CT. 24.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Comniittee of Pri

Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Christiania,
reporting that the Royal Norwegian Marine Department
has issued a notice, declaring the ports on the coasts of
Tripoli and Syria to be considered infected with the Orien-
tal Plague.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Our. 25.

MEMORANDUM.
The next Competitive Examination of Candidates for ad-
mission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will be
held at tho Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Wednesday, the
14th December next, and following days.
The next Competitive Examination of Candidates for ad-
mission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, will be
held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Wednesday, the
4th of January next, 1860, and following days.

COMMISKO NS BY LORDS- LIEUTENANT,
County of Cardigan—Ryse Lowden, Esq., Herbert
Vaughan, Esq., Edmund Lloyd, Esq., and Thos. Bowan,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants.

Ist Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—John.
Tredwen, Esq., to be First Lieutenant; Hender Pearse,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. 2d Company—William
Thomas Sobey, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Richard
Hicks, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
2d Company of Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—John Solomon
Bickford, Esq., to be Captain ; Thomas Hutchinson to be
Lieutenant ; Walter Pike to be Ensign.
Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers-Ist Company—Chris-
topher Rice Mansel Talbot, Esq., M.P., to be Captain;
Theodore Mansel Talbot, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; William
Llewellyn, Esq., to be Ensign. 2d Company—Geo. Thos.
Clark, Esq., to be Captain ; William Menelaus, Gent., to
be Lieutenant; George Martin, Gent., to be Ensign. 3d
Company—Lewis Llewellyn. Dillwyn, Esq., M.P., to be
Captain; John Crow Richardson, Esq., to be Lieutenant ;
Evan Matthew Richards, Esq., to be Ensign. 4th Company
—Henry Hussey Vivian, Esq., M.P., to be Captain ; Lloyd
Thomas, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Edward Strick, Esq., to
be Ensign. sth Company—John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Esq.,
to be Captain; John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn to be Lieu-
tenant; Wm. Edmonds, Esq., to be Ensign.
Gloucester Rifle Volunteers-2d Compally—Wm. Vernon
Guise, Esq., to be Captain ' • John Jones, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; Thomas Aylmer Pearson, Esq., late Captain 43d
Foot, to be Ensign. 3d Company—Captain Thomas De
Winton, late Royal Artillery, to be Captain ; James Henry
Dowling, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Richard Tew Smith,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Kent Artillery Volunteers-Ist Company—Wm. Glad-
dish, Esq., to be Captain George Edward Sharland, Esq.,
to be First Lieutenant ; Edward Augustus Hilder, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant.
Norfolk Rifle Volunteers-sth Subdivision—Sir Wil-
loughby Jones, Bart., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Nicholas
Hamond, Esq., to be Ensign. 6th Subdivision— James
Hollway, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Charles Horatio Day
Blyth, Esq., to be Ensign.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—George Staunton Lynch,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Beeching, promoted ;
James Winslowe Tighe, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
vice Mansel, promoted.
County of Warwick—The Hon. Chas. Graritham Scott,
late Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel Commanding the different Rifle Volunteer Corps
of Warwickshire.

Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Wallace Boyce, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant.

10th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Joseph
Leigh, Gent., to be Ensign.

Wiltshire Volunteer ltifles—Beverley Robinson, Esq.,
to be Lieutenant of the Ist Company.
2d Company of Northamptonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps
—The Right Hon. George William Fermor, Earl of Pora-
fret,to be Captain.

4th Company of Essex Rifle-Volunteers—William Gonne,
Esq., to be Lieutenant; John Bulwer, Esq., to be Ensign.
Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Themas Open-
shaw Loma; Gent., to be Cornet, vice Adams, promoted.