The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

GENERAL HA VELOCK'S PROMOTION.

(Prom a Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday
Sept. 29.)
GENERAL ORDER.

HORSE GUARDS, SEPT. 29.

BREVET.

In consequence of the eminent service perf;rmod
by C. Emel Henry Havelock, C. 8., in command of
a division of her Majesty's army engaged in active
orerations in the field in India, the Queen has been
graciously pleased to command that he be promoted
to the rank of Major General in the Army,
_in con-
formity with the 10th clause of the Royal Warr:►r
of tue 6th Octobtir, 1854, and that his commission
shall bear date the 30th July, 1857.
By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief,
G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT.2B.

Her Majesty the Q seen, the Prince Consort, and the
Princess Royal were present at divine service yesterday
iu the parish church of Crathie.
Lady Churchill, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Duke
of Argyll, and Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps were in
attendance.

Major-General Sir G. A. Wetherall, Adjutant-General,
resumed his duties at the Horse Guards on Monday,
after attending the French camp at Chalons.

THE MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCESS ROYAL —The New
Prussian Gazette of the 231 says :—" His Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick William will, according to ar-
rangement, proceed to England in November, and pay
a vivit to the English Court on the 21st of that month,
which is the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess
Rqyal. The wedding day is fixed for the 18th January,
and the 31 of February is name! as the day of their entry
into Berlin."

His Excellency the Count TelzArewietch has airivcd
at the Brunswick 'Ltd., Jen:tun-street, from the Con-

tillent.

M. Vrolik, Minister of Finance at the Hague, has
just presented to the States General the Dutch Bird4At
tor 1858. The expenses are net do Nu at 73,325,537
florins, and the receipts at 74,141,125 florins.
The Verona Gazette gives the intelligence that the per-
son to whom Mezzini has, either really or fictitiously,
transferred his property, and who has been introduced to
public notice as Advocate B--, is no other than Advo-
cate Broffrrio, the leader of the republican party at
Turin. _ _ _

A letter from St. Petersburg says :—" The Military
Court has just c,indemned to dismissal and loss of the
privileges of their rank for peculation Baron Mest-
macher, chief of the customs district of Odessa, and
Colonel Potemkin, chief of the quarantine port of that
place."
A committee, con,isting of twelve of the principal
merchants of Hamburg, ha*, we learn with pleasure,
been formed to collect subscriptions f)r the relief (,f the
sufferers from the Hindoo insurrection, and the Doren
ludic of that city bas addressed au appeal to the pubic
for donation?.

The fleet of ikchairal L)rd Lyons arrivA at Maita on
the 19; h.

The Bi:diop of London, who has been paying a visit
to his brother, the Sheriff of C'ackmannanshire, hai jut
gone on a tour t the North Highlands. The bish
has, we (Allots Advertiar) understan.l, declined various
requests nia-le to him to preach.
THE SHERIFFS' CHAPLAINS.—AIIertnan Lawrence has
appointed an.Uriiiarian ininiVer (slr. Thos. Madge, of
Essex-street Chapel, Strand), to be his chaplain during
the year of Ilia shrievalty. Mr. Sheriff Allen ha; ap
pointed as his chaplain the Rev. Tnornas Grose, M. A ,
curate of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill.
PRESENTATION OF THE NEW SHERIFF3.-H-This after-
noon, the ancient custom of presenting the -Sheriffs of
London and Middles«x, for the approbation of her
111,jesty, was observed at the Court of Excheqa,r.
Westminster, before Mr. Baron Channell. For the fi et
time within the memory of the "ol.lest inhabitant " cf
that ancient city, the civic procesion proceeded the
whole distance from the to Westminster, by land,
instead of part by land and part by water. So grand a
procession, with the Lord Mayor's gilded giri4erbr“.ad
coach, passing along the Strand, took the inhabitants by
surprise, for such a sight in that part of London has
not been witnessed probably for upwards of a cent are.
CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION OF ART-TREASURES.- —lt is
now officially stated that her Majesty wid not be pre-
sent at the closing of the Exhibition, on the 15th prox
The executive have given notice that the charge for
admission on the 12th, 13th, and 14,h October, v.ill he
half a crown ; so that the days for the admission of the
masses, at one ehiil ug each, are now very limited, being
restricted to six days, exclusively of to-day, Oct. 21, 3i,
4th, sth, 6th, and 10th.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—rhe North Atlantic) Com-
pany's screw steamship General Williams, Captaio Flinn,
arrived in the Mersey at noon to-lay, from Portland
and St. John's, Newfoundland, with dates from the lat-
ter to the 19th in-t. inclusive, 30 pas,engers and 2,003
barrels of fl mr, as cargo. Her dates from Portland and
Halifax are anticipated. Much disappointment was felt
in Newfoundland at the failure of the attempt to lay
down the Atlantic cals.

INDIAN ITELEGRAPH VIA TURKEY.—Sir William
O'Shaughnessy has, we understand, lett England for
India. He goes by way of Canetn.ntinople, w`lere he
will remain a few days in order to arrange with the
Turkish Government for the construction of a telegraph
from that city to-Bagdad. This line will be c instructed
by the Turkish Government, he under its sole control,
and be connected with the East India Company's tele-
graph down the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee. Sir Win.
O'Shaoghnessy had a long interview With Lord. Palmer-
eton previous to his departure.
PaecK or GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per mile premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.20 per 1/ sterling. On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 173. 10i pet
ounce for standard gold it appears that g.d I is nearly
4-10ths per cent, dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424:1 per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13 4 p r
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mist price
is theref:tre about 3 lthhs per cent, dearer in Hamburg
than ''.a London. Tue course of exchange at New York
or. London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 108 per
cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between
the two countries, shows that the exchange is against
England ; but, after making allowance for charges of
transport and difference of interest, the present rate
leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either way
between the two countries.
REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF SIR JAMES BROOKS.—
The Bendigo Adverti er of Friday, July 17, contains the
following paragraph, under the head of Melbourne News:
—" We have been informed that some later intelligeece
than has reached any of the Melbourne Journals, is in
the possession of a mercantile firm in this city, respect-
ing B irnere It is to the effect that there was a second
rising of the Chinese there, and that during the conflict
eir James Brooke was killed. If true, this will i till
further intensify the strong feeling that prevails against
the Chinese. Something must be done, and that
quickly." Our readers are aware that there are at t ,is
time some 45,000 Cbinese at the diggings, and that col-
lisions between them and the Europeans, provoked by
the latter, have occurred, and many lives have been hst.
There is a feeling in the colony that steps should be
taken to expel the Chinese.
A letter from Madrid of the 231 says :—" The Queen
has pardoned a municipal guard who was to hiVe beet'
shot for insubordination. The eircumstancee under
which this act of clemency was decided on aro mini ms.
The isistr of the condemned hid caused a petition to be
presented to the Queen while on her way to the theatre.
AA the same time, when the curtain rose, Madams
fli-ttori, in the- character of Medea, interceded f r to
culprit in a fccv verses which she declaimed with her
accustomed energy. Imniediately the Queen &eared
o two of her Ministers, who were with her. that she
was inclined to pardon the man, but nevertheless asked
'.heir advice. They represented that this was the third
case of insubordination inthat corps, and that an exempt,
had become necessary ; she pleaded warmly the cause
if humanity, and at length they consented. Tae Q leen
instantly wrote the pardon in her box." The ambassador
,f France had given a grand banquet to Mona. RiAtori.
THE FORTIFICATION OF KERTCH CONTRADICPED.
The Austria's Gazette stated a day or two hack that tile
Russians are constructing a fortress on Mount Miii:ri-
ates, at Kertch, to defend the entrance of the Sea of
Scoff. The Austrian journal confounds Kertch with
.f eui Kale. The first of these two tovens is situated at the
xtreinity of a bay upwards of three miles long, and is
tot a strategical point ; it has consequently never been,
end is not to be, defended. But the Russians have
eetored and armed anew, as they bad a right to do, the
etrtrese of Jeni Kale, which is situated in the narrowest
bests of the straits, and commands them throughout all
heir length. Plated in a thanicating situation, this
f iteese is sualcitut, to defend the entrance to the Sea
of Azar.