The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

AUGUST 4.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ferdinand
Schott as Consul at Glareltar for the North German Con-
federation. The Queen has al:,; been pleased to approve
of Mr. William Wolfen as Consul in New South %Vales,
to reside at Sydney, for his Majesty the King of Sweden
and Norway.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 7.
s:h Dragoon Guards-Captain Francis George King to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Francis Gist to be Captain ; Cornet
Edward Alfred Jee to be Lieutenant; John Oswald
Trotter, Gent., to be Cornet.
7th Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant James Poynter to be
Lieutinant.
Ist Diagoous-John Archibald Middleton, Gent., to be
Cornet ; John Reeves, Gent., to be Cornet.
Gth Dragoons-Lieut. John Bland to be Adjutant.
Bth Hussars-Lieut Wm. St. Lo Malet to be Adjutant.
13th Hussars -Sergeant-3fajor Wm. Christie to be Quar-
termaster.
14th Hussars-Lieutenant Samuel Tudor Ashton to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Henry Bulkeley, from the 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant ; Cornet Edmund
Peel to be Lieutenant.
Royal Regiment of Artillery-Second Captain Joseph
George Marshall, to be Captain ' • Lieutenant Alexander
Charley David. on to be Second Captain.
sth Foot-Staff-Assistant Surgeon Charles Frederick Pol-
lock, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
7th Foot-Lieutenant George Brooke Meares to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Bth Foot-Captain Armar Graham Lowry from the Ist
West India Regiment to be Captain.
12th Foot-Captain H. W. Somerville Carew to be Cap-
tain ; Lieutenant Campbell Thomas Morris to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign John Campbell Robertson Glasgow to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Walter Raffles to be Ensign; Lieu-
tenant Henry Duppa Alfred Cutbill to be Adjutant.
13th Foot - Captain Frederick Trotter to be Captain
15th Foot-Sergeant J. R. M'Murray to be Ensign.
17th Foot-Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Gilbert to be
Quartermaster.
18th Foot-Ensign Ponsonby W. Watts to be Lieutenant.
21st Foot -Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin
A. T. Steward to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Captain and
Brevet-Major Samuel W. H. Hawker to be Major;
Lieutenant Thomas Banbury Eames to be Captain ;
Eueign William Lowther Ernle Money-Kyrle to be
Lieutenant; Lieutenant Edward Quin to be Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet James Henry Ewart to be Ensign.
24th Foot -Ensign George Stanhope Banister to be En-

sign.
39th Foot—Captain Alfred Gabriel Wynen to be Captain.
46th-Foot—Ensign Robert Low to be Lieutenant.
49th Foot—Ensign Gardiner Frederic Guyon to be Lieu-
tenant • Ensign William Courtney Harrison, t.) be
Ensign.
62d Foot.—Lieutenant Thomas Hamilton Forsyth to be
. Adjutant.
65th Foot.—Ensign Reginald William Dalgety to be Lieu-
tenant; Gentleman Cadet Clement Smith, to be
'Ensign.
66th Foot.—Captain James Howe Manion has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com-
mission.
73d Foot - Gentleman Cadet S winy, Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign.
74th Foot—Ensign Skene, 24th Foot, to be Ensign.
75th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Beare, Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign.
76th Foot—Lieut. Pearse to be Captain ; Ensign Anderson
to be Lieutenant ; Ensign 'Henry Locket Brett to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Arthur Ronald Logan to bnLieu-
tenant ; Ensign Jleveland Augustus Brett, from the
75th Foot, to be Ensign.
79th Foot—Ensign James Dalgleish Kellie M'Callum to
be Lieutenant.
84th Foot -Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke to be Surgeon-
Major.
86th Foot—Lieutenant Edward James Harris to be
Captain ; Ensign William Henry Seed to be Lieuten-

ant; Gentlemasa Cadot Robert John Knox to kw .En-

sign.
104th Foot—Lieutenant Ti. P. Evans to be Captain ;
Ensign W. G. Craigie Halkett to be Lieutenant ; En-
stn. F. J. W. Davies to be Lieutenant; Ensign W.
Lock to be Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet Arthur T.
Banon to be Ensign.
109th Foot—Lieutenant St. John E. Daubeny to be Cap-
tain ; Lieutenant a IL P. Ducat to be Captain ' • Ensign
C. A. Cathcart to be Lieutenant ; Ensign A. W. Gaird-
ner t..) be Lieutenant.
Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon Chas. Stratherne
Close to be Staff Assistant Surgeon.
Ist West India Regiment—Capt. Richard Thos. B. Browne
to be Captain.
4th West India Regiment—Lieut. Claude 0. Bulger to be
Adjutant.
R,,yal Military Academy—Lieutenant Carlile Greer, Royal
Artillery, to be Lieutenant of a Company of Gentlemen
Cadets, vice Lavie, who resigns that appointment only.
Hal-pay—Lieutenant Patrick O'Callaghan, front the 13th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
MEMORANDUM.—Captain Daniel Moodie, half-pay, late
60th Fuot, has been permitted to retire from the service
by the sale of his commission, under the Horst Guards'
Circular Memorandum of 15th Feb., 1861.
ADMIRALT Y, AUG. 4.
The following promotions have this day been fhade :
Lieutenants Henry Euseby Stephens, William Edgar de
Crackenthorpe Cooksen, Thomas Harvey Royse, the Hon.
Richard Hare, Duncan Stewart, Edward William Here-
ford, and Charles James Carey, to be Commanders in her
Majesty's Fleet; and Sub-Lieutenants Thomas De
lloglaton and Alfred Churchill Loveridgo to be Lieuten-
ants in her Majesty's Fleet.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Shurt ... 11 18 ... 11 18f
Du
Rut',ordain — ... 11 Di ... 12 f
Aut warp — ... 25 35 ... 25 40
Brussels — ... 25 35 ... 2. 40
llamburgn — ... 13 91 ... 13 10}
Paris Short ... 25 10 ... 25 20
Ditto
Mrasoilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 ... ItOf
Vienna — ... 11 57} ... 11 6o
Trieste — ... 11 60 ... 11 65

Petersburg
Copenhagen ...
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

31f... 32
9 17 9 20
6 26; ... 6 261
481 ~. 48
... 49 ~. 49f
• 27 75 ~. 27 85
▪ 27 75 27 8a
27 75 27 85
27 75 27 85
▪ 27 75 27 85
51} 511
... 51f ~. 51

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Mistrals. and New Zealand, via Sonthamptoi.....Aug. 15.
Ditto, via Marseilles lO.
Ditto, via Panama ........ ............Aug. 28.
Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3.
Ditto, by rrenoll packet
Cape Verde, by Brazil paotet ...... , Sept. 3.
Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, anti St. Helena Aug. 12
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Aug. 15
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India, via Southampton • •• • •• • ea. . ..... •• • • Aug. 8 •
vitt°, via IL:tractile,
Malta, Egypt, &o. Aug.&
Ditto, Marseilles... Aug. 27
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southampton
Ditto, Marseilles Ang. if.
Newfonndla nd ...... ..... 12.
Portugal ..........5ept. 3.
United States, C anada, CaWornia, &0., by British
packet
Ditto, by Canadian paoket ..... ..... —Aug. 7.
Ditto, by 1. i.ited states packet
Ditto ditto (Baltimore) .•
West Indies and PaMtio (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and TenerUfs Avg. 17.
Falkland Islands
Culls and Mexico
Bahamas, via New r
Bermuda, via Halifax ...

WEYMOUTH AND DORSET COUNTY MEETING.—Th
Melcombe Handicap closed with 10 subs., the Manor Cup
with 11, the Two Year Old Stakes with 7, the Wey-
mouth Trial Handicap with 6, the Portland Plate with 9,
the Bourry Handicap with 10, and the Nursery Plate with
16 subs.

TUNBRIDGE SUMMER MEETING.—The Tunbridge Han.
dicap closed with 10 subs, the Two Year Old Stakes with
7, the Ladies' Plate with 9, the Welter Handicap with 8,
the Nursery Plate with 10, and the Mid Kent Stakes with
13 subs.

Lady Alleash, winner of the City Selling Stakes at
Ripon, entered for 30 soy; was sold to Mr. Smithson for
37 gs. ; Special Commissioner, fourth in the same race,
also finding a new owner for 19gs.

WINDSOR RACES (THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NEXT).—The
rains which have fallen in the past two days and night
have much benefited this race course, and it will be found
excellent going.
READING.—The stewards of the Jockey Club having
considered the case of misconduct at the start for the
Thames Handicap Plate, reported to them by the stewards
of Reading Races, have suspended S. Adams from riding
for 14 days from July 31.
Mr T. Cliff has purchased Master Tom, by Carnival,
2 yrs, the winner of two stakes at Ripon this week. The
price is said to be 300 sovs.
Cannon Ball, who figured so prominently in connection
with the Goodwood Stakes, was sold to T. Barton, the
teeplechase jockey, for 40 says, after his defeat in the
Weltor Cup at Lewes.
Cecil was scratched for the Lewes Handicap on Thurs-

day naernoon.
YORK APOUST Chesterfield Plate closed
with 22 subs., and the Nursery Han Heap with 42.
HAMPTON AUTUMN' MEETING.-T he stewards aro Prince
Soltykoff, Lord Poulott, Sir F. Johnstone, and A. Heath-
cote.

WESTERN MEETING (Avn).—To the Welter Cup at this
meeting 5) sovs will be added, nut 100 sous, as announced
last week.

Sister to Veda, 2 yrs, was claimed by Mr. IL Wright at
Lewes, and afterwards returuei to Mr Chaplin for a " cen-
tury" profit.

Mr Green purchased Parmesina, 2 yrs, fur 220 guineas,
and Gulnare fur 180 guineas ; and Sir Wood Verity for
145 guineas, at Lewes, on Friday.