The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL -MALL, JUNE 19.
Royal Engineers—His Royal Hignuess Prince Arthur
William Patrick Albert, K.G., from the Royal Military
Academy, to ba Lieutenant.
4th Dragoon Guards-I%imam Joinson Howard Town-
send, Gant., to be Cornet.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Charles Frederick MAr-
riott to be Captain ; Cornet William Robert Phelps to
be Lieutenant ; William Horace Hall, (lint., to be
Cornet.
12th Lancers—Lc lie Martin, Gant., to be Cornet.
lith Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Charles Barrow, from
' Royal Artillery, to be Veterinary-Surgeon.
Royal Engineers—Captain Wm. Storting Oliphant,
Bengal, to bo Lieutenant-Colonel ; Second Captain W.
R. Tucker, late Bengal, to be Captain; Lieutenant H.
W. Garnanit, late Bengal, to be Second Captain.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Burton John Daveney has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Com-

mission.
13th Foot —Tankerville James Chamberlain, Gent., to be
Ensign.
14th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Metcalfe to be Captain ; En-
sign Herbert Lovell Woodland to be Lieut.; &rgeant-
Major James Reid to be Ensign; John Gaunt Berkeley
Lye, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Woodland.
15th Foot —Major Sylvester W. F. M. Wilson, from half-
pay, late 55th Foot, to be Major.
16th Foot—Lieut. Norman Cameron Griffith to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign William Llewelln to be Lieutenant ; Wm.
Henry Young, Gent., to be Ensign.
18th Foot—Lieut. Frederick T. Tegart, from the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant.
19th Foot—Ensign IVilliam Francis Hungerford Grey to
be Ensign.
25th Foot—Staff Surgeon Samuel Stacy Skipton to be
Surgeon.
35th Foot—James Douglas Lysaght, Gant., to be Ensign.
Nth Foot—Captain Arthur S. Gilbert has been permitted
to retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
71st Foot—Major W. H. Queade, from half-pay, late 12th
Foot, to be Major; Capt. C. J. Mounsoy to be Major;
Lieutenant Francis Fawkes to be Captain ; Ensign
Reginald Corbett Singleton to be Lieutenant ; F. A.
Graves-Sawle, Gent., to be Ensign; Staff-Surgeon .0.
Cullen, M.D., to be Surgeon.
86th reit—Captain P. It. C. Crofton, who exchanged
from 7th Dr igoon Guards on 6th May, 1868, has been
mmitted to receive a pJrtiou of the former difference
between the value of Cavalry and Infantry Commis-
sions.

90th Foot—Lieutenant David P. Murray to be Captain ;
Ensign James H. Jackson to b.) Lieutenant; lierbert
Flint, Gout., to b 3 Ensign.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas C. Burnell to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry.

103 d Foot—Ensign Henry Ileatheote to bo Lieutenant;
EnsignWilliarn C. Riddell to be Lieutenant.

2d West India R-ginnent--Lieutenant Lionel L. Brett to
be Captain ; Ensign C. F. Maffett to b.) Lieutenant.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant George Denis Samp-
son to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Tankerville James
Chamberlain to be Ensign.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Francis
Saudys Dugmore to be Captain by purchase ; Ensign
George Hamilton Low to be Lieutenant by purchase;
Malcolm Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase.
Medical Department—Surgeon Edward Touch, M.D., to
be Staff-Surgeon.
Veterinary Department—James henry Lemon, Geat., to
be Acting Veterinary Surgeon.
BREVET.

Colonel John Gordon Petrie, to have the rank of Briga-
dier-General while in command of the Royal Artillery in
Abyssinia.
Lieut.-Colonel Charles William Adair, Royal Marine
Light Infantry, to be Colonel.
Lieut.-Colonel 'l'. F. Wilson, C.B. Bengal Staff Corps,
to be Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, with the rank of
Colonel in the Army.
Deputy Inspactor-General of Hospitals Thomas Waller
Barrow, to have the honorary rank of Inspector-General
of Hospitals.
Surgeon-Major George Thomas Galbraith, M.D., to
have the honorary rank of Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 17.
Thomas Juhn Breen, Esq., has this day been promoted
to the rank of Staff Surgeon in her Majesty's fleet, with
seniority of 11th June, 1868.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam
Do
Rotterdam — ... 11 19k ... 12 0
Antwerp
Brussels .. . — ... 25 85 ... 25 42
liamburgh — ... 13 91 ... 13 10
Paris
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 120 k
Vienna — ... 11 75 ... 11 85
Trieste __
... ii 75 ... 11 85
Petersburg
Berlin
Madrid..
J}

Cadiz 49 49±
Leghorn
Milan 27 60 27 70
... 27 GO 27 70
Palermo
27 GO 27 70
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

FIRE ON TILE WOLDS.—It is believed that an act
of incondiarism was committed on the Yorkshire Wolds on
Tuesday evening. A lounger was noticed at Eastborne,
and shortly afterwards ono of three straw stacks was found
on fire in the yard of Mr. Jordan. The fire spread to and
destroyed all three, and had all but roasted a valuable bull
alive, the animal being saved by pulling his house down.
The damage is considerable, and no reason beyond the sus-
pected one can be given for the occurrence.
TILE WHITEBAIT AND TILE HERRING.—At the
last meeting of the Zoological Society, Dr. A. Gunther,
of the British Museum, gave a resume of his researches
into the distinctions between the different fish of the her-
ring family. The British species of this important group
are the herring, the sprat, the pilchard (which is identical
with the sardines of the French coast), and the two species
of shad. These species are readily distinguished from one
another by the numbers of their vertebrae and that of their
scales, the relative position of the fins and that of the teeth.
One of the most important results arrived at by this emi-
nent ichthyologist is the absolute identity of the white-
bait and herring. In the last volume of the "Catalogue
of Fishes in the British Museum," Dr. Gunther describes
the whitebait as a purely nominal species introduced
into science in deference to the opinion of fishermen and
gourmands, and states that every example of whitebait
examined by himself were young herrings. The late
Mr. Yarrell, who has been followed by most natura-
lists, regarded whitebait as a distinct fish, but the
circumstances that it has the same number of ver-
tebrae (56) as the mature herring, the same number
of lateral scales, and an identical arrangement of fins and
teeth, a combination of characters found in no other fish,
prove conclusively that it is the fry or young of the her-
ring; moreover, an adult whitebait in roe has never been
discovered. With regard to the effect on the supply of
herrings occasioned by the destruction of the young fry,
it is probable that the number of eggs deposited by the
mature herring is so large and disproportionate to the
number of fish that attain maturity that the capture of a
portion of the fry could have no appreciable result in di-
minishing the multitude of mature fish.