The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 4.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to ,make and
ordain a special Statute of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, for the appointment of the undermentioned
officer in the East India Company's Service to be an extra
Member of the Military Division of the Second Class, or
Knights Commanders, of the said Most Honourable Order,
viz. :—Msjor-General John Bennett EL:qtrsey, C. 8., Colonel
of the 6th Regiment of Bengal Li4ht Cavalry.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 7.
The Right Honourable the Loris of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing a copy of a French Imperial Decree, admitting
mules and horned cattle, sheep and gcats, into Algeria,
free of Import Duty.
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REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT:
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the national debt, that there was no surplus of actual re-
venue over the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the 31st
day of March, 187,7.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by
them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provisions
of the act 10 Geo. IV., cap. 20, between the let day of
July, 1857, and the 30th day of Sept., 1857.
A. Y. SPEA.RMAN, Comptroller-General.
National Debt Office, Ist July, 1857.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JULY 7.
3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards—The removal of Cornet
W. R. Corballis from the 16th Light Dragoons, as stated
in the Gazette of the 19th June, 1857, has been can-
celled ; Cornet 13. J. Daveney, from the sth Dragoon
Guards, to be Cornet.
7th Dragoon Guards—Robert S. Cleland, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Costello,
promoted.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain L. H. Denne to bo Ad-
jutant, vice 'Farmer, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
The undermentioned Assistant-Surgeons, from the Hos-
pital Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeons :---James H. Fie.
nimore, Jeffrey A. Marston, M.D., Stephen H. Dicker-
son, Alfred J. L. Hepworth, William Fletcher, Francis
H. Forshall.
28th Regiment of Foot—Ensign E. Brett to be. Instructor
of Musketry ; Lieut. H. Thackwray has been permitted
to resign his Commission.
32nd Foot—Ensign John Garforth, from the 46th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase, in succession to Lieut.
Rudman, promoted to an Unattached Company.
38th Foot---Ensign John Mayo to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Robert C. Franks, who resigns.
47th Foot—Ensign George Pigott has been permitted to
resign his Commission.
48th Foot—Captain F. C. Trent, from half-pay 48th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Cam Sykes, whose
Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank
under the Royal Warrant of 6th October; 1654.
60th Foot—Captain the Honourable John Colborne, from
half-pay 77th Foot, to be Captain, vice St. John, who
exchanges.
85th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Frede-
rick A'Court, appointed from Gentleman Cadet, Royal
Military College, on the 19th June, 1851, is Holmes.
91st Foot—Charles Holloway, Gant., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Blacken, who retires.
95th Foot—rinsign Alexander Fawcett to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice James G. Johnson, who resigns.
96th Foot—Ensign John Alexander Browning to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Day, who retires.
99th Foot-- Henry R. Sayce, Gent., to he Ensign, by pur-
chase,.vice Grenville, promoted.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Major Cam Sykes. of 48th Foot,
to have hie Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank
under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854.
BREVET.

Lieut.-Col. Robert N. Phillips, of the Provisional Da-
pot Battalion at Chatham, having completed three years'
actual service •in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on lst
June, 1857, to be Colonel in tho Army, under the Royal
Warrant of. 6th Oct., -1854; Lieutenant-Colonel John
Henry Francklyn, 0.13., of the Royal Artillery, having
completed three years' actual ecrvice in the rank of Lieu-

tenant-Colonel, on 28th June, 1857, to bo Colonel in the
Army, under, the Royal Warrant of 3d Nov., 1854.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 24.

Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadets William
Davis Welch to be Second Lieutenant; William Stewart
to ba Second Lieutenant; Georgo Bentham Morris to be
Second Lieutenant ' • Culet Robert Patrick to be Second
Lieutenant ; Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver to be Sceond—
Lieutenant.