The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

LIVING CELEBRITIES : a Series .of
PEIOTOGR A PII IC PORTRAITS, by NAM, and POLYBLANK.
The number for February contains
The Right Hon. LORD CAMPBELL,
with Memoir. Maull and Polyblank, 55, Gracechurch-street ; and
all book and printsellers.

Just published, in Bvo. with a Map and 8 Coloured Illustrations, ,
price its. 6d., cloth,
j 3 ERMUDA, a COLONY, a FORTRESS, and a
PRISON; or, Eighteen Months in the Somers Islands.

By a FIELD OFFICER.

" Bermuda, as a prison, is very important."—Daily News.
" We part from hi.ri with regret."—Literary Gazette.
" A man of observation, and of ability."—Globe.
" A highly interesting account of transoortation."—Record.
" It is full of information, and agreeably written."—Press.
"A field officer writes With all the frankness of a soldier."—Sun
" A pleasant account of this group, as colony, fortress, and prison.
—Spectator.
s suggestions particularly valuable and seasonable."—

" Conveys a large am•unt of information in a pleasing form."-
United Service Magazine.

London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

WHITEHALL, FRB. 4.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Charles Wm.
Fitzgerald, Esq. (commonly called Marquis of Kildare)
Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, K.C.B. ; Bonamy Price,;
Esq., M.A. ; and James Gibson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law,
4o be her ➢lajesty's Commissioners for the purpose of in-
quiri❑g into the progress and condition of the institutions
commo❑ly called the Queen's Colleges at Belfast, Cork,
and Galway, respectively._
WHITEHALL, FEB. 5.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Win. Francis Cowper to be Vice-President of the Com.
mittee of Council on Education.
•
TREASURY,
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
have appointed the under-mentioned Noblemen and Gen-
tlemen to be Trustees for the formation of a Gallery of the
most eminent persons in British History, viz. :
The Lord President of the Council for the time being.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, E.G.
The Earl Stanhope.
The Earl of Ellesmere, B.G.
The Lord Elcho, M.P.
The Lord Robert Cecil,'M.P.
The Right Flonourable Sidney Herbert, M.P.
The Right Honourable Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The Right Honourable B. Disraeli, M.P.
Sir Francis Palgrave.
Sir Charles Eastlake.
William Smith, Esq., and
W. H. Carpenter, Esq.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBER,

FEB. it.
Sir Henry Onslow, ef Genpr in the county of Corn-
wall, Bart., has been appointed 'Sheriff of the county of
Cornwall.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 6.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieute-
nant Henry Wm. Lee-Jortin has been permitted to retire
from the Service by the sale of his Commission.
let Dragoon Guards—Capt. Jas. Robert Steadman Sayer
to be Major, by purchase, vice'Briggs, who retiree; Lieut.
Thomas John Mitchell to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Sayer.
11th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry John Wilkin to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brooke, who retires ; Albert
Peel Garnett, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Wilkin.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Dearden to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Clayton, who retires • Captain
Fitzßoy Donald Maclean, from half-pay 13th Light Dra-
goons, to be Captain, vice Dearden, placed upon half-pay;
Surgeon Robert Carew Anderson, M.D., from the 90th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Home, who exchanges.
14th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Dudgeon has
been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of
his Commission. "
21 Regiment of Foot—Ensign Henry Grattan, from
the 80th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice lifer-
man, who retires.
3d Foot—Lieutenant Richard Evans Sleeman has been
permitted to resign his Commission.
17th Foot—The Christian names of Lieutenant Pres-
grave are " William Frederick Augustus Edward."
18th Foot —Lieutenant Richard Pretyman Bishopp to
be Instructor of Musketry.
21st Foot—Ensign Robert Cook to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Shaw, who retires.
22d Foot—Captain Walter Blakeney Persse, from the
90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hammond, who exchanges.
31th Foot—The Christian names of Lieutenant-Colonel
Kelly are "Richard Denis."
43d Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel G. Talbot to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
Brown, deoeased ; Brevet-Major D. C. Greene to be Major,
without purchase, vice Talbot ; Lieut. H. Robinson to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Greene ; Sergeant-Major
G. Garland, to be Ensign, without purchase ; Ensign G.
Garland to be Adjutant, vice Pakenham, promoted.
98th Foot—Paymaster A. W. M'Kenzie, from the An-
trim Rifles Militia, to be Paymaster, vice M'Mullin ap-
pointed to a Depot liattalion.
51st Foot—Lieutenant Edward O'Callaghan to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Captain Agg, posted as Instruc-
tor of Musketry to a Depot Battalion.
56th Foot—Lieutenant William Alexander Godley to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Austin, who retires.
72d Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Henry has been permitted
to resign his commission.

77thFoot—Lieutenant H. M. Lamont Golquhoun to be
Instructor of Musketry.
Bld Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Blagden Hale,
from half-pay 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with-
out purchase; Assistant-Surgeon Rowland Winburn Car-,
ter, from the 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
89th Foot—Ensign Henry Burton Dunn has been per-
mitted to resign his Commission.
90th Foot Lieutenaut-Colonel William P. Purnell,
from half-pay of the 9.)th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase; Major Robert Baruston, from half-pay
Unattached to be Major, vice Grove, whose Brevet Rank
has been converted into Substantive Rank under the
Royal Warrant of the 6th October 1854 ; Captain Paul
Andrew Lewis Phipps, from half-pay of the Mk Foot,
to be Captain, vice Barnston, whose Brevet Rank has
been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal
Warrant of the 6th October, 1854; Captain Lawrence N.
D. Hanmidnd, from the 22d Foot, to be Captain, vice
Persae, who exchanges; Surgeon Anthony Dickson Home,
from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice An-
derson, who exchanges ; Assistant-Surgeon Charles Robt.
Nelson, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
95th Foot—Ensign John Nicholas to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice the Honourable C. M. Hay Forbes, who
retires.

Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Newport Tinley, from half-pay of the 39th Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles Henry
Somerset, who exchanges; Ensign Robert Rorke to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mackenzie, who
resigns. _

Si. Helena Regiment—Lieutenant John M`Namee,
from the 72d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Scott
Helps, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court
Martial.

DEPOT BATTALIONS.
To be Paymasters—Paymaster Edward /119,Irillin, from
48th Foot ; Paymaster Julius Brockman Travers, from
31st Foot.

UNATTACHED.
Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Grove,
90th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Sub-
stantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October,
1851; Captain and Brevet-Major Roger Barnston, 90th
Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1851.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
The second Christian name of Mr. Hellish, appointed
Purveyor to the Forces ou the Ist November, 1856, is
Whittaker, and not William, as previously stated.

BREVET.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent upon the decease of the following general officers :
Lieutenant-General F. Amman, died 9th Dec. 1856 ;
Major-General William Cox, died 23d Jan. 1856 ; Lieu-
tenant-General N. Thorn, C. 13 , died 28th Jan. 1857 :
Brevet-Colonel W. 11,
be Major-General. Elliott,half-pay 69th Foot, to

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Biddulph, Unattached, to
be Colonel.

Brevet-Major Robert A. Yule, 9th Light Dragoons, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain John F. Ilaliburton, 78th Foot, to be Major.
The undermentioned officer having completed three
Sears' actual service on the 19th January, 1857, in the
r Ink of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel
in the army, under the Royal Warrant of the 6th October,
1854 :
Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Rainier, 98th Foot.
John Roberts, Gent., Acting Staff Officer of Pensioners
in Canada, to have the local rank of Ensign, in North
America, while so employed.
TO BB LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Major George King, 13th Foot.
Brevet-Major Charles Lawrence D'Aguilar, C. 8., Royal
Artillery.
Brevet-Major John Edward Lewis, 68th Foot.
Brevet-Major Richard Francis Waldo Sibtborp, 97th
Foot.