The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

LuNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to aifprove of Don Fermin
Ortega. y Molina as Consul at Glraltar for her Maj2sty
the (411431. n of Spain.
The Queen has also been please 1 to approve of Mr.
Michele Suarez Guanes as Consul at Sierra Leone, with
jurisdiction over Senegambia, fur his Majesty the King of
Italy.
DOWNING-STREET, AuG. 19.
Tho Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel Mit
ch3ll and Danik.l Webster Esqrs., to be Members of the
Council of the Island of Grenada.
WAR. OFFICE, I ALL-MALL, AUG. 21.
Rifle Brigade - General his Royal Highness Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwal, K.G., K.T.,
G.C.B. K.P., G.C.5.1., to be Colonel-in-Chief, vice
Field-Marshal the Right Honourable Sir Edward

Blakoney, G.C.8., G.C.11-., deceased.
2d Dragoons—Colin John Campbell to be Cornet.
3d Hussars—Cornet Walter John Turner to be Lieuten-
ant; Cornet Jacob P. D. Vanronen to be Cornet.
14th Hussars—Ensign Henry L'Estrango Malone to be

Cornet.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Chris-
topher Pemberton to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel;
Ensign and Lieutenant Henry John Elwes to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain ; Frederick Lorn Campbell, Gent.,
to be Ensign and Lieutenant.
Royal Artillery—Major-General Robert Burn to be Col.-
Commandant. To be Colonels—Lieut.-Col. and Brevet-
Colonels Arnold Thompson, Henry Clerk, Matthew C.
Dixon, John Jurnor, C. 13 , and Edward Henry Fisher.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Captain and Brevet Lieu-
tenant Colonels John Singleton, and Wiliam Edmund
Moyses Reilly, C.B. ; Captain and Brevet-Major Win.
Boyd Saunders ; Captain and Brevet-Colonel Charles.
Hodgkinson Smith. To bo Captains —Captain Thomas
Picton Turbervill ; Second Captain and Brevet-Major
Henry Clement S winnertou Dyer; Second Captain and
Adjutant Thomas Lloyd Still; Second Captain Joseph
Hanwell ; Second Captain Joshua Frederick Betty.
To be Second Captains —Lieutenants John Henry Black-
ley, Robert Carstairs Drysdale, and Henry John Pal-
liser. To be Adjutant—Second Captain George Budd.
Royal Engineers—Captain Southey (late Bombay), to be
Lieutenant-Colonel ; Second Captain John le Mesurier
(late Bombay), to be Captain; Lieut. Morowether (late
Bombay) to be Second Captain.
Ist Foot—Ensign Howlett, 56th Foot, to be Ensign
bth Foot—Ensign Wilfred Fitz&llan Way to be Lieu-
tenant; Gentleman Cadet Samuel Boxwell, to be

Ensign.
11th Foot—Ensign James Herbert Yule to be Lieute-
nant; Hamilton William Wetherall Spooner, Gent., to
bo Ensign.
18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Samuel Phillips to be En-

sign.
23d Foot—Major Andrew Cathcart Bogle, from half-pay,
to be Major ; Captain George Phipps Prevost to be
Major; Lieut. Henry Francis Hutton to bo Captain;
Ensign W. Phibbs to be Lieutenant ; Henry L'Estrange
Malone, Gent., to bo Ensign.
31st Foot—Lieutenant It. R. C. Hill to bo Adjutant.
41st Foot—Ensign H. E. James to be Lieutenant; Ensign
C. S. C. Crespigny to be Lieutenant; Ensign C. J.
Jamieson to be Ensign.
43d Foot--Ensign Robert Colvill Jones Lyons to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Francis Hole Bourne to be Ensign.
53d Foot—Ensign Benjamin 31‘01intock to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Frederick Coare Mein to be Ensign.

56th Foot —Ensign William R. Knox to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Arthur llowlett, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign.
75th Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon Robert Lindsay, MB.,

to be Assistant Surgeon. -
98th Foot—Quartermaster A. Macqueen should have boen
described as Quartermaster-Sergeant, 61st Foot, in

" Gazett.3," 31st July, 1868.
103 d Foot—The promotion of the undermentioned officers
to be antedated to the 25th March, 1858 :—Liout. IL F.

Heatheote and Lieut. W. C. Riddell. Lieut. Francis M.
Leslie to be Lieutenant; Ensign Donald A. Campbell
to be Ensign.
105th Foot - Ensign Lorain) Geddes Hay to be L'eu-
tenant ; Ensign Henry Opie Woodhouse to ba Lieu-

tenant.
107th Foot—Lieutenant George William Beresford to be
Lieutenant; Lieutenant George Ilay Dale, from the
105th Foot, to be Lieutenant.
_ . . . .

4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Ponsonby Shep-
pard to be Captain; Ensign George Frown to be Lieu-
tenant; John Lennox Power, Gent., to be Ensign.
Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph William
Carter Neynoe Murphy, from 75th Foot, to be Staff
Assistant-Surgeon, vivo Robert Lindsay, M. 8., ap-
pointed to 75th Foot.
Half-pay—Major and Brevet Colonel William Humphreys
Kirby, from half-pay, late 94th Foot, to bo

Colonel. _ _
Royal Hospital, Chelsoa—Field-Marshal Sir Alexander
We dford, Field-Marshal Sir How Dalrymplo .I.OSS.
BREVET.

Th.. 3 following promotions to take place, consequently
on the death, on the Ist just., of General Henry Alexander
Scott, Culonel-Commandnut of the Royal Artillery :
lieutenant-General Sir William Fenwick Willi-ons to bo
General ; Major-G.•noral Robert Burn to bi Lieutenant-
General ; Colonel Frederick Marow Eardley-Wiltow to
be Major-Gener4l; Brevet-Major William Lacy to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel ; Captain Thomas I'ieton Turbervill to ba
. .

The undermentionel Offi,.:Jrs having completed the
qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel to
be Colonels, under the Royal Warrant of 3d February,
1866 :—Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Gossett, Royal
Engineers ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Fairfax C. Ilassard,
Royal Engineers.

ADMIRALTY, AuG. 18.
Mr. John Kelly has this day been promoted to th 3 rank
of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet, With seniority of 11th
August, 1868.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—this Evening.

Amsterdam Short 11 19 ... 11 19}
Do

Rotterdam.— l2 A- ". 12 1

Antwerp

... 25 35 25 44

Brussels

.. . 23 35 . '25 42

Hamburgh — ... 13 10f 13 11
Paris
Ditto
3frasoilles

Frankfort-on-the-Main 120} :.. 120}
Vienna ... 11 77f 11 821
Trieste ... 11 77* ... 11 85

Petersburg
Copenhagen 9 19 ... 9 21
Berlin
._271

Madrid..

Cadiz 49 ... 49 i
•.•
Leghorn
Milan — ... 27 90 ... 28 0
Genoa — ... 27 90 ... 28 0
Palermo — ... 27 90 ... 28 0
Messina
Lisbon — ~. 511 ... 511
Oporto

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
YORK RACES—Tars DAY.
SAPLING STAKES.

The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 sovs each, 30 ft, for two
year olds; Bst 101 b each ; the second to save his stake ;
T.Y.C.; 12 subs.

Standard Bearer
Wellington 2
Miss Whip c
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.

The Great Yorkshire stakes of 10 sovs each, with 200
added, for throe year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b ;
the winner of the Derby at Epsom 71b, of the Oaks 41b
extra, of both the highest penalty of such two ; the
second to receive 100 says out of the stik3s, and the
third 25; one mile and three quarters. 71 subs.
Viscount
1

C:ip-a-I'io

.

The Spy

Seven ran.
Von by two lengths ; a head between second an I third.
N URSERY HANDICAP.

The Nttrsery Handicap Plate of 2io sera, for two yoar
o1d3; a waiver attor the weights aro out (A. t,;. 11, at 1.0
a.m.) to curry 715 extra. T.Y.O.,abJut live furlonv,
Light C:ou.l
Amity c
Imporatriee e 3
Fourteen r.tn.
CONSOLATION SCRAMBLE.

The Consolation Scramble of 50 soys,addetito a Handicap

of 5 sovs each; the second to save his stake; T.Y.C.
La Mousse
Samson
Re6ula
BADMINTON STAKES.
The Badminton Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added, for
two year olds; colts 9st, fillies and geldings Sit 101 b;
the winner to be sold for 100 sous ; if entered for Si)
sovs allowed 41b, 50 91b, 141 b.

Lady Audroy f .. 1
St. Agnes c 2
Little Lord .. 3
YORK CUP.

The York Cup, value 200 sovs, by subscription of 10 sovs
each, with 100 added ; throe year olds ist 51b, fort. Bst
7st, five Bst 121 b, six and aged 9st ; mares and geldings
allowed 31b ; the wino 3r in 1866, 1867, or 1868 of the
Derby, St. Leger, Ascot, Goodwood, or Doncaster Cups
71b, of any two of the above 121 b extra; the winner of
the York Cup, Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, Oaks,
Alexandra Plate, or the Prince of Wados' Stakes at
Ascot during the sam3 years 31b extra; maiden three
year olds never having received 50 soya for running
second allowed 61b, four year olds 141 b, five year olds
181 b; the second to eceivo 20 soya out of the stakes.
Two miles, over ho old course. 18 subs.

Mercury
Strathcouan
Dalby
MEMBERS' PLATE.

The Members' Plate of 50 sous; three year olds 7st, four
Bst, tiv6 Pad upwards, Bst ; mares and geldings al-
lowed 31b ; maiden horses at the time of starting allowed
in the following proportions, viz., three year olds 41b,
four aad upwards 101 b; the winner to be sold for 50
sovs. Three-quarters of a mite.

Lady Allcash
Peg Woffington 2
Lionel

Five ran.
GIMCRACK STAKES.

The Gimcrack Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added
for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b; the
winner of the Convivial, the Prince of Wales's, or the
North of England Biennial Stakes 51b, of two of those
stakes or of any stake value 500 sovs 71b extra ; the
second to receive 23 sovs out of the stakes, and the
third to save his stake; one mile ; 38 subs.

Lady Dewhitrst 1
Matilda

Melody
Eight rau.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Her Majesty's Plato of 100 guineas, for mares; three year
olds Bst 21b, four 9st 71b, five lOst, six o.ni aged 10st
11b. Three miles.

Happy Thought...
Booty
Fair Star

Four ran.
PRODUCE STAKES.

The Asko Produce Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for two
year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst ilb; uutriods allowed
31b; T.Y.C.; 5 subs.

Vladimir

W.O.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

ST. LEGEIt.
sto 4 agst The Earl (taken)
4to 1 agst King Alfred (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Formos t (taken)
7 to 1 agst Viscount (taken)
25 to 1 cast Typhoeus (taken)

TUNBRIDGE RACES—Tms DAY.

LADIES' PLATE.

Lionel
Red Ritaud

Lupus

Five ran.
TWO-YR-OLD STAKES.

Juanita •• • 1
tricksy Winksy . 2
Simla 3

Five ran.
TUNBRIDGE HANDICAP.

Broach of Promise 1
Fitz-(van
Trialia 3

Five ran.
SEVENOAKS STAKES.

Norrington
.• 1
Peninsula
Redbreast