The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE--{This Evening.)

NOTE.—For " Harhood," in page 4434, No. 5, of the
supplement to the Gazette of the 15th instant, read " Har-
good "

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 16, 1857.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan
Pico y Villanueva as Consul at Cardiff for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alfred
Winter Evans as Consul at Port Natal for his Majesty the
King of the Netherlauds.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Antonio Pisani as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the
King of Hanover.
The Queen bas also been pleased to approve of Mr. An-
tonio Pisani as Consul at Malta for the Fro. Hanesatic
City of Bremen.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEo. 16.
MEMBERS RETURNAD TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne— The Right Hon. Thos.
Milner Gibson, in the room of Charles Hindley, Esq.,
deceased.

DECEMBER 18.
Borough of Whitehaven—George Lyall, of No. 17, Park-
crescent, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of
Robert Chas. Hildyard, Esq., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 18.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen,
reporting that the Danish import duties on bran, oatmeal,
oilcake, and husks and brand of rice, are provisionally

suspended.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Drco. 18.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have re-
ceived, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at the
Cape Verd Islands, reporting that in consequence of the
recent inundations, no salt can be shipped from the Island
of Sal, until the month of March next.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 18.
3d Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Henry Have-
lock, Bart., and K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-
General Nicholas Wodehouse, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 18,
Royal B,egiment of Horse Guards—Lieutenant R. M. L.
IVilliams-Bulkeley to be Captain, by purchase, vice F.
W. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, who retires. Cornet Walter
Palk Carew to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wil-
liams-Bulkeley. John Albert Craven, Gent, to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Carew.
sth Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Charles Walter
Lee, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet,
without purchase, vice Daveney, appointed to the 3d
Dragoon Guards.
7th Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet John William
Zorapore Wright, from the Royal Military College, to
be Cornet, without purchase, vice Echalaz, deceased.
4th Light Dragoons—The future designation of Captain
Keith to be " The Hon. Charles James Keith-Falconer,"
and not Keith only, as hitherto stated.
7th Light Dragoons—The Hon. Walter Harbord to be
Cornet, without purchase.
Military Train—Captain John W. McFarlan, from the
9th Foot, to be Captain, vice Rogers, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant Noel Alleyne Harris, from 34th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Rutledge, who exchanges.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-
Major Edwyn S. Burnaby to be Captain and Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Roes, who retires ; Ensign
and Lieutenant William Henry arnell to be Lieutenant
and Captain, by purchase, vice Burnaby ; Charles
George Henry Viscount Hinchinbrook, to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parnell.
6th Regiment of Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase
Oliver Robinson, Gent. ; George William Morland,
Gent. • William Lowe Butler, Gent. ; Charles Edward
Whitaker Roworth, Gent.; John Giffard, Gent. ; David
Barry Moriarty, Gent. ; William Seymour Selby
Lowndes, Gent.
The second Christian name of Lieut. Hunt is George and
not John, as stated in the Gazette of the 15th inst.
9th Foot—Captain George Alleyne Rogers, from the Mili-
tary Train, to be Captain, vice 121`Farlan, who ex-
changes.
20th Foot—Paymaster John Matthew Gibbs, from the 2d
West India Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Mosley,
appointed Paymaster of the 7th Foot; Lieut. John James
S. O'Neill, to ho Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain
Lutyens, who resigns that appointment.
26th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Lancelot A.lgood Gregeon,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Barton, promoted.
29th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Boycott, from the
Royal Military College, to bo Ensign, without purchase,
vice Hart, promoted; Gentleman adet Howell Davis,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Winn, promoted; Assist -Surgeon William
Alex. Mackinnon, from the Staff, to be A ssist. -Surgeon,
vice Chartres, appointed to the Staff.
30th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Malcolm M`Neill, from the
Royal Military College, to bo Ensign, without purchss),
vice Wray, promoted.
31st Foot—James G. Hamilton, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Inge, appointed to the Bth Light
Dragoons.
34th oot—Lieutenant John Bruen Rutledge, from the
Military Train, to bs Lieutenant, vice Harris, who ex-
changes.
36th Foot—Ensign C. S. T. Sale to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hugo, who retires.
37th Foot—Geutlenian Cadet Henry A. Ingles, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Jarvis, who resigns.
44th Foot—Ensign Henry Leake to be Instructor of lins-
ketry, vice Captain Staveley, who resigns that appoint-
ment. '
45th Foot—Robert .1. Callers'', Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Webber, promoted.
52d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Middleton Prender-
gast, from the Royal Military College, to bo Enai,gn,
without purchase, vice Beattie, promoted ; Gentleman
Cadet Thomas Brett Cowburn, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, in succession
to Lieutenant Hallam, deceased.
58th Foot—Lieutenant G. J. R. Wynyard to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Isaac Rhodes Cooper, who retires.
60th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John East Hunter Peyton,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Hatchell, promoted.
61st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Maitland Moore to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Dely, deceased; Ensign
Edward W. Rumsey, from the 91st Foot, to be Ensign, in
succession to Lieutenant Moore ; Gentleman Cadet
Frederick John Fane, from the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Casement.,
promoted.
62d Foot—Jules Victor La Blond, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Clay, appointed to the 78th Foot.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas George Strange to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Bazalgette, deceased.
67th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Baker, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Kingsley, promoted.
70th Foot—William Henry Ralston, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Backhouse, promoted.
78th Foot, Thomas Hinde Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Swanson,
killed in action.
79th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Walker to be Instructor
of Musketry.
91st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Horace Ralph Spearman,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Rumsey, appointed to the 61st Foot.
97th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Crespin
is Champante, and not Chawpante, as stated in the
Gazette of the 11th inst.
98th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Moffett, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without:purchase,
vice Gregory, promoted.
91th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Albert Lancelot Walker,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Jacob, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Paymaster William Neilson,
from the sth Lancashire Militia, to be Paymaster, vice
Gibbs, appointed to the 20th Foot.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. John O'Flanagan to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Hingston, deceased ;
Ensign George Stow Beet to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice O'Flanagan ; William Gair, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Beet.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Paymaster Luke Fitz-
gerald Bernard, from the 68th Foot, to be Paymaster,
vice Wardell, who retires upon half-pay.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, James Henderson,
M.D., to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice
Barry, promoted.
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, Richard Dane, M.D.,
from half-pay, to he Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, vice
Henderson.
Assistant-Surgeon John Smith Chartres, from the 29th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mackinnon, appointed
to the 29th Foot.

BREVET.
The undermentioned promotions to take place cense-
quen: on the death of Lieutenant-General Wodehouse, on
11th December, 1857 :
Major-General Sir Duncan McGregor, K.C.B„ to bo
Lieutenant-General.
Brevet-Colonel Frederick Charles Griffiths, 12th Light
Dragoons, and Commandant of the Cavalry Depot, at
Maidstone, to be Major-General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Barry, half-pay as
Captain, Unattached, to be ColonelsBth Foot, to be Lieu-
Major Charles Lavallin Nugent,
tenant-Colonel.
Montagu Smyth, half-pay, 44th Foot,
Captain Henry
and Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 14.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Duncan
Gordon Campbell to be Second Lieutenant.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia of the County of Den-
bigh—Lieutenant George Tyrwhitt Drake to be Captain,
vice John Jocelyn Ffoulkes, promoted.
East Sent Regiment of Militia—Robert Owen Hordern,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brodrick, appointed to the Rifle
Brigade.
Inverness, Banff, Elgin, and Nairn Regiment of Militia
_Captain the Hon. James Grant, to be Major, vice Sir
Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming, Bart., resigned.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Willoughby Burrell, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Scriven,
promoted.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
Lieut. Edmund Molyneux Seel to be Captain, vice Llm-
bert Disney, ..esigned.
Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery—Daniel George At-
chison, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Ford, re-
signed.
2nd Devon Re'giment of Militia—Henry Smith to be
Ensign ; Henry,Downe C. Barton to be Ensign ; Henry
Barber to be Ensign ; Christopher Wolston to be
4 Lieutenant, vice Godfrey, resigned; John P. Burnett to