The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

TU EtKE Y.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 21.
La Turquie of to-day says that Greece is making
preparation for war on a considerable scale.
It is announced that the departure of the Greeks
from Turkish territory has been postponed for 30
days or three weeks.

Hobart Pasha is blockading Syra with a force of
seven vessels.

LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

[The Gazette of this evening contains the official returns
of several of the new members of the Government re-
elected to serve in the present Parliament.]
INDIA OFFICE, DEC. 8.
The Queen has boon graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint the Right lion. Sir William Robert Seymour
Vesoy Fitzgerald, X.C.SI., Governor of the Presidency of
Bombay, to be as Extra Kai.lit Grand Commander of the
Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 22.
Bth Regiment of Hussars—Major-General John Charles
Hope Gibsone to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General John
Lawrenson, transferred to 13th Hussars.
13th Regiment of hussars—Lieut.-G en. John Lawrenson
to be Colonel.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Cecil William-
son to be Lieutenant, Henry Fane Grant, Gent., to be
Cornet.
4th Hussars—Major Alexander George Moore to ho
Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain William Chaine to be Major,
Lieutenant Robt. Soames to be Captain, Cornet and Ad-
jutant Jas. Lay to have the rank of Lieutenaut, Cornet
Frank Gooch to be Lieutenant, George Dawes, Gent., to
be Cornet.
21st Hussars —Cornet James Edward Kitson to be Lieu-
tenant.
Royal Artillery—Acting Veterinary Surgeon Middleton
F. M. Case to be Veterinary Surgeon.
Gth Foot—Lieutenant H. C. Montagu Turnbull to be
Lieutenant.
12th Foot—Lieutenant Manfred John Sawyer to be Lieu-
tenant.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Albert Merritt to be Lieutenant;
Lieutenant Henry Reginald Bate to be Instructor of
Musketry.
19th Foot—Edward Werge to be Ensign.
21st Foot—Ensign Howard Melliss to be Ensign.
24th Foot—Ensign Herbert Michael Williams to be Lieu-
tenant; Ensign John Hoskyns to be Ensign.
25th Foot—Ensign Henry Chichester to be Lieutenant ;
Henry Grey Dixon to be Ensign.
31st Foot—Lieut. Richard Leir to be Captain ; Lieut. W.
T. Deverell to be Lieutenant; Ensign Frederick Ward
to be Lieutenant ; Charles William Carfrae, Gent., to be
Ensign.
36th Foot—Ensign Henry Wynne Pride to be Lieutenant;
Ensign Robert Gordon Handeock to bo Ensign.
7th Foot—Lieutenant W. Saunders Ford Foneren to be
Captain, Ensign Augustus Carr Vilett Rolleston to be
Lieutenant, James William Alexander Boothby, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
71st Foot—Ensign William GHIA to be Ensign.
96th Foot—Ensign Kenneth Malcolm Eliot Kerr to be
Ensign.

BREVET.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Major-General Sir W. J. Ridley, , who died on
Nuv. 27, 1868:

Brevet-Colonel Thomas Brooke, from Lieutenant Coll
half-pay, late 12th Foot to be Major-General.
Captain and Brevet-Major Arthur Leahy, Royal Engi-
neers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.

Captain James Whittaker Barnes, 73d Foot, to be
Major.
The following promotions to take plac3 in succession
to Major-General Edward Basil Brooke, Colonel 36th
Foot, who died on the Ist December, 1868:
Brevet-Colonel Henry Dalrymple White, C. 8., serving
with the rank of Brigadier-General, from Lieut.-Colonel,
half-pay Unattached, to be Major-General.
Major Thomas Esmonde, half-pay Unattached, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.

Captain Morton Rubart Eden, 56th Foot, to b 3 Attjor.
The undermentioned officers having completed the
qualifying service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel to
be Colonels under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of
the 3d February, 1866 :—Lieut.-Col. Hugh R. HibbJrt, 7th
Foot; Lieut.-Col. William C. Trevor, 0.13., 14th Foot.
ADMIRALTY, DEo. 19.
Benjamin Smith Bradley, Esq., has this day been pro-
moted to the rank of Navigation Lieutenant in her Ma •
jesty's Fleet.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ~. 11 191 ... 11 191
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ... 12 4
Autwerp — ••• 25 37; ... 25 421
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 101 ... 13 10f
Paris
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 120;
Vienna — ... 12 20 ... 12 3u
Trieste — ... 12 20 ... 12 32k
Petersburg
Copenhagen... — ~ 9 18 ... 9 21
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan — ... 27 10 ... 27 20
Genoa — ... 27 10 ... 27 20
Naples
Palermo — ... 27 10 ... 27 20
Messina
Lisbon — ... 521 ... 521
Oporto — ... 52 ... 521
Rio Janeiro — ••• ••• --
New York

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Amstralla and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 2.
Ditto, via Y. useilles ......... Dec 25
Ditto, via Pia.ama D e 29.
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet .. . Deo. 22.
Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ...... _ Jan. 4:
Cape of Good Ll,,pe. Ascension, and St. Helena Dee. 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 2.
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India, via Southampton ...... ......... ..... Dec. 26
vitto, via Marseilles
Malta, Egypt, dzo. Dec. 26.
Ditto, Marseilles Dec.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Scuthatal ton
Ditto, Marseilles Dec. 13.
Newfoundland ...... ....... ....... Dec 30
Portugal ..
United States, Canada, California, Sze., by British
packet
Ditto, by Canadian packet Dec 25
Ditto, by L. lilted States packet
Ditto ditt c‘ ( Baltimore)
West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas) Dec 20
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. Jan. 4.
Fsikland Islands
Cuba and Mexico
Bahamas, via New York Deo. 93.
Bermuda, via Halifax ...... .. Jan. 4.