The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

LuNDON GAZET2E-TIES EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, OCT. 27.
The Oueen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Maxwell Savage as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic
of Haiti.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. T.
W. Thorns as Vice-Consul at Dundee for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
WAR-OFFICE. PALL-MALL, OCT. 30.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant his Royal High-
ness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, K.G., from

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the Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain James Pal-
ladio Basevi to be Captain; Second Captain Thomas

Beckley to be Captain; Second Captain and Brevet-
Major lEueas Perkins to be Captain; Lieutenant
Ralph Graham Smnyth to be Second Captain ;
Lieut. John Philip Steel to b 3 Second Captain ; Lieut.
Parry Lembert t 3 be Second Captain ; Lieut. John
Magee M'Meile to be Second Captain ; Lieut. Colin
Campbell Scott Moncrieff to be Second Captain ; Lieut.
David Henry Traill to be Second Captain ; Lieut.
'William Coninghatu to b 3 Second Captain ; Lieuten-
ant Alexander Jerome Filgate to be second Captain ;
Lieut. Henry Meredith Vibart to be Second Captain ;
Lieutenant Thomas Freeman Dowden to be Second

Caytain ; Lieut. Augustus Le Ilessurier to b 3 Second
Captain ; Lieut. William Shepherd to be Lieutenant ;
Lieutenant Elware Andrew Trevor to ba sec-oudd on
appoiLtin,,,ut to tin Accounts Bianc, from the Public
Works Doi) trtm int proper,in India.
BREvET.--Liaut.-Colonel Augustus Frederick Franc7s
Lennox, Royal Artillery, having complete.' tut) qualify-
ing service in his preseat rank, lo be Colonel, under the
provisions of the Rayal Warrant of 3d February, 186 S.
ADMIRALTY, OCT. 27.

The ltiv. John Frederic Uridials has this day beeu
ap-
pointed a Uaaplath in her Majesty's Flee!.

COURSE OF EXCHINGE-7his Eventnj.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 18} ... 11 18}
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Rotterdam — ... 12 0 ... 12 I
Antwerp — ... 25 34 ... '23 37t
Brussels
llarnburgn
Paris
Ditto ..
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1191 ... 120/
Vienna

Trieste
Petersburg •
Copenhagen
Berlin
Madria..
Cadi7
folgliorn
Milan
Genoa,
Naples
Palerrno
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

11 80 ... 11 83
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~• 9 2u ... 9 23
▪ 6 26} ... 6 26}
... ... 48
... 48 48}
... 27 30 ... 27 40
... 27 30 27 40
... 27 3) ... 27 40
... 27 30 27 40
• 27 30 ... 27 40
• 27 30 ... 27 40
• 521 ... 52t
• 52i ... 52t

Rio Janeiro —
New York —

THE YORKSHIRE TVOLD TUMULI.

The investigations carrie lon by the Rev. Canon
Greenwell, of Durham, and with him many lead-
ing archaa)logists of this country, during the last
three years, have been brought to a close on the
North \Vold range, between Malton and Scarbo-
rough, this week, by the opening of the last two
barrows that had been previously tampered with by
curiosity hunters, who bad mostly dug a funnel-
shaped hole in the centre. Of these many thus im-
perfectly opened remain, but they are gradually
disappearing before the modern implements of the
farmer, where in fact they are not led wholly
away to spread on the fields as " marl." In a
few years hence the mounds which for so many
centuries have marked the graves of the Britons
will have totally disappeared before the plough and
the drag harrow. In order tc rescue from de-
struction the valuable remains contained in the wold
tumuli, Mr. Greenwell intends commencing similar
researches on South Vold range, and it is intended
part of this work shall be done during the present
year, in the vicinity of Bridlington. Singularly the
last two openings near Scarborough were of very
great interest, the barrows yielding fine samples of
pottery, flint, and stone implements, and numerous
burials, all in the contracted way, and interred
in all directions. A third barrow, which years ago
was opened in the centre by the late Lord Londes-
borough, yielded a brachycephalic skull of the most
perfect type. The last but one of the undisturbed
barrows was of 72ft. diameter and 3ft. high, com-
posed entirely of earth. At the centre was a
grave in the rock, one foot deep, which contained
the body of a man, laid on the left side, con-
tracted, the head being•towards S. by E. Before the
face of the skeleton was a drinking cup. After the
graev had been filled in a layer of very large flint
stones had been laid, and over them a large quantity
of charcoal just at the level of the natural surface.
Over this was a bed of clay, and upon that a bed of
small flints, then the earth of the barrow. This was
itnh,e\Ovnelrye burial. In
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a most beautiful gouge of indurated clay shale,
Tin. long. This instrument had its cutting edge
perfeet 'lnd had a polish flue as glass over the whole
,
surface. The last barrow proved one of the most
interesting of the whole series, having both in-
humed, cremated, and disturbc i interments. The
tumulus was 3ft. high and Gift, in diameter, and
formed of earth. At the centre was a large oval
grave, Bft. by 7f t., and 5f t. deep, dug into the chalk,
which had been filled in with chalk and earth in
separate masses. The grave was E. and W. At
the bottom, nearly at the north side, was the con-
tracted skeleton of a woman; on the left side, with
the head to E.S.E., and both hands up to the face.
This was the only body in the grave which had not
been disturbed.