The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

GOD save the QUEER.

WHITEHALL, DEe. 12, 1850.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto the Right Honourable Sir Robert Monsey
Rolfe, Knight, ono of the Vice-Chancellors of the High
Court of Chancery, and to the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron
Cranworth, of Cranworth, in the county of Norfolk.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Smith,
of Leicester, in the county of Leicester, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas
Ritchie tirassie as Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for
his Majesty the King or Prussia.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Louis Von der I:Tordten as Consul at Malta for his Ma-
jesty the King of Bavaria.

- TREASURY CHAMBERS, DEe. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters paten'
to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and ap
puintipg Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Ba•
ronet, to the office of Master and Worker of her Ma.
jesty's Mint.

WAR-OFFICE, DEc. 13.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant James Mac-
naghten Hogg, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Winter-
bottom, who retires; Cornet and SubeLieutenunt Henry
Lygon, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hogg; Cor.
porul-Major William ilessey, to be Cornet and Mlle-
Lie owner) t, without put chase (Hiding Master), vice Earl
of Mount-Charles, promoted, Dee. 13.
3d. Dragoon Guards—Francis Copland Burley Furd,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hunt, promoted,
Dec. 13.
6th Dragoon Gtyards—Henry Roebuck Johnston,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Tichburne, pro-
moted, Dec. 13.
7th Dragoon Guards—Alexander George Montgo-
mery Moore, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
11 utchinson,uppointed to ihe2d Dragoon Guards, Dec.l3.
4th Light Dragoons—Charles Augustus Gunter
Browne, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice .Sparks,
promuted, Dec. 13.
10th Light Dragoons—Edward Martin Roper StapYl-
- Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Alexander,
promoted: Dec. 12; Arthur Harbert Case, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Thompson, who retires, Doe. 13.
16th Light Dragocns—Captain Thomas Tattle to be
Major, by purchase, vice Gavin, who retires; Lieu-
tenant James Gabbins Archer-Burton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Pattie; Cornet Julius Alexander Sartoris
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burton, Dec. 13.
Grenadier Rtgiment of Foot Guards—Alexander
Viscount Balgotue to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Wilson, promoted, Dec. 13.
le:cots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain and
Brevet Major Charles Asaheton Fitzhardinge Berkeley
to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Micklethwait, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant the
Hon. Augustus Henry Vernon to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Berkeley ; Robert James
Lindsay, Gent., to be Eesigu and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Vernon, Dee. 13.
31 Foot—Leonard Sidebottom, Gent, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lewes, fir emoted, Dec. 13.
loth Foot—llenry Henderson, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchaze, vice Deune,
who retires, Dec. 13.
vice Segrave, promoted, Dec. 13.
14th Foot— Edwin Grove llolyar, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purohase,
17th Foot—James Lawson, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase. vice Lames., promoted, Dec. 13.
131 h Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Willington, from
the 70th Foot, to be Lieutcretet, vice McGregor, who
exchangee, Oct. 14.
1,01 byot—Edvi and Wentworth Bennett, Gent,, to be
Etieign,. by purchase, vice Lidwill, promoted, Dec. 13.
`)3eti Fout-;-
Fair Lieutenant„ Edward
HopeGascoian
Henry Clarke Jervoise, Gent.,
Bulwer, to be t Lientenant, by porch,,,,, vice e
vice Bulwer,
tEodwbetacskL,ownhdoLrieetuirteesna;nt,
by
purchase,
Dec. 13.

26th Foot—Edward Ha'ford Pierce Elderton, Gent.
to he Ensign, by purchaLe,,vice Granville, promoted,
Dec. 43. .