The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-07 00:00:00

CASFLE PLATE.

Tho Castle Plate of 50 SOV ; two year olds G,t 71b, three
Bst 91b, four 9st 1015, five and upwards 9st 121 b; mares
and geldings allowed 31b. One mile.
Gulnaro
Yellow Rose
King Richard 3

Five rau.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 18G8.
AUGUST.

Wolverhampton ll I Dover - 20
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3 Groat Yarmouth
Egharn l7 Derby Summar
Ilastin,-s
York August
Oxford
Bridgewater and West 1 Tunbridge
Somerset .. 2O [ Margate Bl

iNDON GAZE2TE-Tlll3 EVENING.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 27.

The Queen has been graciouiiy pleased 4-, appoint
James Reginald Graham, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
iu the Cape Verd Islands. -

JULY 30.

The Queen has boon graciously pleased to appaiut
Haman Stylenian to Strange, Esq., now Attachd to her
.11ajoofy's Embassy at•l'ari,, to be a Third Secretary in
her Majesty's Diplomatic Service.

AUGUST 4.
The Queen has been pleased to itpp:•ovo of Mr. Ferdinand
Schott as Consul at Gi;Jraltar fur tile North German Con-
federation. Thu Queen has also been pleased to approve
of Mr. Willizan Wolfer as Conaul in New South Wales,
to reside at Sydney, for his Majesty the King of S wudun
au4 Norway.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 7.
5;11 Dragoon au:nth—Captain Francis Gwrge King to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Francis Gist to be Captain ; Cornet
Edward Alfred Joe to be Lieutenant; John Oswald
Trotter, Gent., to be Cornet.
7th Dragoon Guards Lieutenant James Poynter to be
Lieutenant.
Ist Dragoons—John Archibald Middleton, Gent., to be
Cornet; John Reeves, Gent., to be Cornet.
Gth Dragoons - Lieut. John Bland to be Adjutant.
Bth hussars—Lieut Win. St. Lo Malet to be Adjutant.
13th Hussars - Sergemt-Kijor Win. Christie to be Quar-

termaster.
14th hussars—Lieutenant Samuel Tudor Ashton to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Henry Bulkeley, from the 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant; Cornet Edmund
Peel to be Lieutenant.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Joseph
George Alarshall, to b 3 Captain ' • Lieutenant Alexander
Chorley David on to be Second Captain.
sth boot—Staff-Assn Cant Surgeon Charles Frederick Pol-
lock, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
7th Foot—Lieutenant George Brooke Meares to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Bth Foot—Captain Armar Graham Lowry from the let
West India Regiment to be Captain.
12th Foot—Captain 11. W. Somerville Carew to be Cap-
tain; Lieutenant Campbell Thomas Morris to be Cap-
tain • Ensign John Campbell Robertson Glasgow to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Walter Bailee to be Eusign ; Lieu-
tenant Henry Duppa Alfred Cutbill to be Adjutant.
13th Foot - Captain Frederick Trotter to be Captain
15th Foot—Sergeant J. R. M'Murray to be Ensign.
17th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Gilbert to be

Quartermaster.
18th Foot—Ensign Ponsonby W. Watts to be Lieutenant.
21st Foot —Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin
A. T. Steward to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain and
Brevet-Major Samuel W. H. Hawker to be Major;
Lieutenant Thomas Bunbury Eames to be Captain ;
Ensign William Lowther Ernie Money-Kyrie to be
Lieutenant; Lieutenant Edward Quin to be Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet James Henry Ewart to be Ensign.
24th Foot —Ensign George Stanhope Banister to be En-

sign.
39th Foot—Captain Alfred Gabriel Wynen to be Captain.
46th Foot—Ensign Hubert Low to be Lieutenant.
49th Foot—Ensign Gardiner Frederic Guyon to be Lieu-
tenant ; Ensign WiUiam Courtney Harrison, t 9 be
Ensign.
624 Foot.—Lieutenant Thomas Hamilton Forsyth to bo
Adjutant.
65th Voot.—Ensign Reginald William Daigety to be Lieu-
tenant; Gentleman Cadet Clement Smith, to be
Ensign.
66. h Foot.—Captain James Howe Manion has boen per-

!flitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Com-

m ission.
73d Foot - Gentleman Cadet S winy, Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign.
74th Foot—Ensign Skene, 24th Foot, to be Ensign.
75th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Beare, Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign.
76th Foot—Lieut. Pearso to be Captain ; Ensign Anderson
to be Lieutenant; Ensign Henry Locket Brett to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Arthur Ronald Logan to be Lieu-
tenant; Ensign Cleveland Augustus Brett, from the
75th Foot., to be Ensign.
79th Foot—Ensign James Dalgleish Nellie M'Callum to
be Lieutenant.
84th Foot—Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke to be Surgeon-
Major.
86th Foot—Lieutenant Edward James Harris to be
Captain ; Ensign William Henry Seed to be Lieuten-
ant ; Gentleman Cadet Robert John Knox to be En-
sign. •
104th Foot—Lieutenant 11. P. Evans to be Captain ;
Ensign W. G. Craigie Halkett to be Lieutenant ; En-
sign F. J. W. Davies to be Lieutenant; Ensign W.
Lock to be Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Arthur T.
Elation to be Ensign.
109th Foot- Lieutenant St. John E. Daubeny to be Cap-
tain ; Lieutenant C. 11. P. Ducat to be Captain ; Ensign
C. A. Cathcart to be Lieutenant; Ensign A. W. Gaird-
ner to be Lieutenant.
Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon Chas. Stratherne
Close to be Staff Assistant Surgeon.
Ist West India Regiment—Capt. Richard Thos. B. Browne
to be Captain.
4th West India Regiment —Lieut. Claude O. Bulger to be
Adjutant.
Royal Military Academy—Lieutenant.Carlile Greer Royal
Artillery,. to be Lieutenant of a Company of Gentlemen
Cadets, vice Lavie, who resigns that appointment only.
Half-pay—Lieutenant Patrick UV ditighttu, front the 13th
Foot, to be Captain, without purceas,..
MEmottANDirm.—Captain Daniel Moodie, half-pay, late
GOth Foot, has been permitted to retire !rum the service
by the sale of his commission, under the llo.se Guards'
Circular Memoran lam of 15th 861.
ADMIRALTY, Feb.,Aci. 4.
The following promotions have this day been made:
Lieutenants Healy Euseby Stephens, William Elgar de
Cracktinthorpe Cookson, Thomas Harvey Royse, the lion.
Richard Hare, Duncan Stewart, Edward William Here-
ford, and Charles James Carey, to be Commanders in her
Majesty's Fleet ; and Sub-Lieutenants Thomas Do
Hoghton and Alfred Churchill Loveridge to be Lieuten-
ants in her Majesty's Fleet.

We regret to state that the Bishop of Peter-
borough is seriously ullyrJll, and in a very precarious state