The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

READING RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
THE CALCOT PLATE.

Mattis

Zan&
Longford

Eleven ran.

READING OPEN ST4EPLECTIASE.
The Minor
Old Dog Tray
Black Ben

Ten ran.

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NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.)

The following appointments wera mad this afterno•n
•t the Admiralty :

Lieutenants—A. C. Curtis to the 'Vulcan ; George A.
Douglas and W. Heaton (for disposal) to the Royal
Albert.

Paymaster—W. G. Parmeter to the Ajax.

Surgeon—Nicholas Littleton to the Fisgarn.
Assistant-Surgeons—William Carmichael, Maxwell
Rogers, Joseph V. N. Blake, and Richard C. M'Clement,
to the Victory ; Thomas Roe, Andrew Mona°, and
Edward B. Broster to the Impregnable.

Mr. Samuel Irvine has been promoted to a Deputy
Medical Inspector on the retired list.

LONDON GAZETTE—{This Evening.)

WHITEHALL, DEC. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Nor-
man Macleod, Minister of the barony parish of Glasgow,
to be one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in
Scotland, in the room of Doctor Macfarlan, deceased.?
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 26.
The Queen has been pleasid to approve of Mr. William
George Lempriera as Consul at Hobart Town for the Free
Hanseatic City of Hamburgh.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEO. 29.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Buckingham—William George Cavendish, of
Latimer, in the county of Buckingham, Esq., in the room
of the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish, who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead,
in the county of York.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 29.
7th Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet A. 11. Vincent,
from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, without
purchase, vice Weaver, appointed to the lst Dragoons.
7th Light Dragoons—Charles Philip, Viscount Royston,
to be Cornet, by purchase.
9th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant F. Ellis to ho Captain,
without purchase, vice French, killed in action.
10th Light Dragoons- Sergeant E. Simpson to be Riding
Master.
16th Light Dragoons—Sergeant-Major Thomas Brown to be
Cornet, without purchase.
2d Regiment of Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class
D. J. Doherty to be Surgeon, vice Bain, who exchanges.
6th Foot--.To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
A. W. 0. Saunders ; Ensign T. Bowen. To ba Ensigns,
without purchase—C. W. 11. Wilson, Gent., vice Saun-
ders ; E. F. A. M`Carthy, Gent., vice Bowen.
9th Foot—Ensign Walter Morrison, from the 64th Foot, to
be Paymaster.
30th Foot—George Ralph Flassall, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice McNeill, appointed to the 78th Foot.
32d Foot—Lieut. Samuel Hill Lawrence to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Moore, killed in action ; Ensign
Wm. Humphrey Studdy to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Lawrence ; Philip Win. Justice, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Studdy.
53d Foot —Major Frederick English to ba]Lieut.-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Thor. Sidney Powell, C. 8., killed
in action; Brevet-Major W. Payn to be Major, without
purchase, vice English ; Capt. A. P. Gore to be Major,
without purchase, vice Payn, whose promotion on 17th
Nov. has been cancelled ; Lieut. J. Alexander Dalzell
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Gore ; Ensign R.
Prince to be Lieut. without! purchase, vice Dalzell ;
Gentleman Cadet Wm. Lowry Auchinleck, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Prince.
64th Foot—Lieut. Matthew Fanning to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Shute, killed in action ; Ensign John
Win. Taylor to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Fanning ; Ensign Arthur W. L. Mirehonse to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Turner, killed in action.
To be Ensigns, without purchase —Ensign David Gar-
diner, from the Ist West India Regiment, vice Taylor,
promoted ; Ensign Win. Henry Ashe, from the 2d West
India Regiment, in succession to Lieut. Bateman, killed
in action ; Ensign James Graham Hamilton, from the
31st Foot, vice Mirohouse, promoted.
88th Foot—Paymaster F. F. Fereday, from the Military
Train, to be Paymaster, vice Bernard, transferred to the
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment.
734 Foot—Arthur Hare Palmer, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Fraser, promoted.
78th Foot—Ensign Malcolm M'Neill, from the 30th Foot,
to be Ensign, in succession to Lieutenant Webster,
killed in action. For Thomas H. Thompson, Gent., to
ba Ensign, without purchase, in succession to Lieutenant
Swanson, killed in action, which appeared in the Gazette
of the 18th inst., read, &z., ac., in succession to Lieut.
Kirby, died of his wounds.
84th Foot—The promotion of the undermentioned officers
to be antedated to Nov. 27, 1857 : —Major W. J. Mac-
earthy and Captain W. 111.`G. Keats.
89th Foot— William Atthill, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Brovnirigg, promoted.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Percy Julius Devorill to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Perrin, died
of his wounds; Ensign Henry B. Savory to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Doverill.
• 96th Foot—Lieutenant Patrick Hunter to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Meade, who retires.
Ist West India Regiment—Richard Seymour Lemon
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice E. Smith, pro-
moted ; Joseph Richard Kenny, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Gardiner, appointed to the 64th
Foot.
21 West India Regiment--Geerge Massy Studdert,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ashe, ap-
pointed to the 64th.
HOSPITAL STAFF.

Burgeon David Stuart Erakine Bain, M.D., from the 2d
Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the SL:cond Class, viceDoherty,
who exchanges.

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Thornton Grant, C. 8., 49th
Foot, having completed three yeyrs' actual service on the
12th December, 1857, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel,
to be promoted to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal
Warrant of the 6th October, 1854.
Captain Thomas Esmonde, half-pay Unattached, to be
Major in the Army.
Paymaster W. H. Wardell, on half-pay of the Royal
Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Major in the Army, the
rank being honorary only, under the Royal Warrant, dated
2(1 Dec., 1857.

The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Engineers,
having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieut.-
Col., to be Colonels in the Army, under the Royal War
rant of the 3d Nov., 1851 :—Brevet Lieut-Col. J. L. A
Simmons, C. 8.; Lieut.-Col. E. W. Duroford ; Lieut. Col,
E. T. Lloyd ; Lieut.. Col. Henry James ; Wm.
Robinson.

The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Company's
Service to have the Local and Temporary Rank of Ensign,
during the period of their being placed under command of
Col. 11. Sa,ndhatn, of tho Royal Engineers, at Chatham,
for Field Instruction in the Art of Sapping and Mining:—
Lewis Conway Gordon, Gent. ; Joseph Lyalt Brandreth,
Gent. ; James Browne, Gent.; Charles Mant, Gent. ;
Ihn.y Herbert Leo, Gent. ; Alexander Reginald Seton,
Gent. ; Thomas Tupper Carter, Gent. ; Henry Meredith
Vibart, Gent. ; Lewis Gower Stewart, Gent. ; Walter
Malcolm Roberta, Gent.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MILL, De:C. 29.
BREVET.
MEMORINDUM.—In pursuance of a memorandum dated
October, 185 s, the Queen has been pleased to confer upon
George Augustus Morgan, Esq., late Lieutenant-Colonel
attached to the Truki.sh Army, tbo equivalent honorary
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, such honorary rank however
to confer no ptivileges as a British Lieutenant-Colonel on
that officer.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
East Sent Regiment of Militia —William Thompson
Pater, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgcou, vice Curtis, pro-
moted.

Shiopshire Regiment of :Militia—James Walter C.iva,
nagb, Gant., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Oakley, re.
signed.

Ist Regiment R0y9.1 Surrey Militia—Ensigns Edward
Sharpe and James kiicky, rocired.

BANKRUPTS.
John Barber and Frederick itosanatter, general mer-
chants, Mincing-lane, to surrender Jan. 14, at one, and
Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Jonathan Hills and Robert Hills, bankers, Gravesend,
Jan. 19, at half-past one, and Feb. 9, at half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Wm. H. Watkins, inn-keeper, Portsea, Jan. 12, at three,
and Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Wates, hotel keeper, Gravesend, Jan. 12, at half-
past two, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
aptcy.
William Cullemoro, draper, Upper Seymour-street,
lEnaton-square, Jan. 11, at twelve, and Feb. 17, at eleven,
it thei. Gaud. of Bankruptcy.
__Peter McLachlan, baker, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, Jan.
11, at one, and Feb. 15, at twelvo, at the Court of Bank-
ftetay.
attwrtir Jackson, corn merchant, Peterborough, Jan. 7,
rop.tcy:'64l(l, Feb. 12, at one, at the Court of Bank-
Jan.h
9 „dir6l, cattle dealer Palterton, Derbyshire,
Silas Tetlciii,,,ittyt,n, in the 'Council-hall, Sheffield.
Feb. 3, at twelve,,lVeazte dealer, Oldham, Jan. 13 and
Batiarain
anclicster, District Court.
Feb. 9, at twelve, at thea Chester, Jan. 12 and
t4,ter District Court:
John Green and Winiam
stay manufact
Newgate-street, Jar. 13, and . arar.l,
17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Wtllateit wld Henry Wenated.
no-sq uare upholsterers
Molineux-street, Bryans_o , • an. 1, at
,two,
Robert Feb. 16, at twelve, at tha Court of Bankruptcy.. •
Robert Blow and John Blow, coal merchants Great
Grimsby, Jan. 20, and Feb. 17, at twelve, in the
Hall, Kingaton-upon.Hull.
George L. Shurland, ironmonger, Hulme, Manelmater,
Jan. 12, at on; and Feb. 9, at twelve, at Oa Manchester
District Court.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Morton, grocer, Hamilton, iLanarkshtre.
Patrick Alexander James Giant, tacksman, Kenowat d,
lawmen:l-shire.
James Newland*, draper, Alexandria, Dumbartonshire.
John Brackenridge, boot and shoemaker, Glasgow and
Daimon.
Ramsay and Stuart, manufacturers, Arbroatb.
James Goodall, confectiotor, Kirkaldy.

James Al`Lintock, merchant, Blackburn.
James Liddell, commission agent, Glasgow.
Connell and Taylor, sewed muslin manufacturers,
Glasgow.
James Fraser, shipowner, 3lcirficld, Inverness-shire.
Daniel Stewart, grocer, Glasgow.
James Strapp, contractor, Pollockshields, Renfrewshire.
T, Renwick, tea merchant, Glasgow.