The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

LIJNDON GAZETTE—TaIS EVENING.

At the Court, at Windsor, the 7th day of Noremb
1.868 ; present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Ccuncil. This day, Colonel Thomas Edward Taylor, M.P.,
was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's
Mo,t, Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 7.
Her Majesty hiving been graciously pleased to deliver
the custoly of 1114 Seats of the Duchy and County Palatine
of Lancaster to the Right llon. Thomas Edward Taylor,
the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was,
this day, by hor MaPsty's command, administered to him
accordingly.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
laud unto Charles Mills, of Hillingdon Court, and Camel-
ford House, Park-lane, both in the county of Middlesex,
Esq., late a member of the Council of India, and the heirs
male of his body lawfully begotten.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of
a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Itritain and Ire-
land unto RobJrt Bat-ism' Harvey, of Langley Park, in.
the county of Buckingham, Esq., and the heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten.

FO—REIGN OFFICE, Nev. 6.
The Queen has been phased to approve of Don
Patricio Gibson as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of
Peru.

Nov. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph
Woolley as Consul for Jamaica, to reside at Kingston, for
the Republic of Haiti.

The Queen ..ias also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Williams Hope as Consul 'for Scotland, to reside at Leith,
for the Republic of Bolivia.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 7.
The undermentioned officers have this day been pro-
moted to the rank of Navigating Lieutenant iu her Ma-
jesty's Fleet: —John George Boulton, Esq.; Edwin Hugh
Searle Bray, Esq.; William King, Esq.; Edwin Owen
Hallett, Esq.; and Selby Lilburn, Esq.
Nov. 9.

Lieutenant Thomas Montagu Mosley Wynyard has
been this day pr)moted to be a Retired Commander,
under the provisions of her Majesty's Orders in Council
of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1664, and 24th March, 1866.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-2 his Eventnj.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 18 ... 11 18i
....

Do
Rotterdam

~ 3 Ms. 12 0 12
12
_O. 12

Antwerp
Brussels

... 25 321 ;.. 25 40'
... 25 32i 25 40

Ham burgh

... 13 10 13 10.1

Buie

~ Shore ... 25 15 ... 25 25

Ditto .... .... 3 Ms. ... 25 321 ... 25 371
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Maiu ... 120 ... 120 i
Vienna — ... 11 80 ... 11 87}
Trieste ' ... 11 80 ... ll__B7l

Petersburg
Copenhagen .........
Berlin

48f 48f
48f
.- 27 5 -. 27 15
-. 27 5 ... 27 15
_. 27 5 ... 27 15
_. 27 5 _. 27 15
.- 27 5 .- 27 15
-. 27. 5 -. 27 15
-. 521 53
-. 52f -. 53

32f -. 32/
9 2u 9 23
6 261 _. 6
._27

Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon ,
Oporto
Rio Janeiro..
New York

SHIPPING IiV2WLLIgENCE.

GitiVESEND, Taesday Morniag.

Arrived, Nov. 10—Josephine, from Archangel; Somer-
set, steamer, from Antwerp; Fourth, steamer, from Ham-
burg; Thomas Gillusy, Steamer, from Crtaistadt.
Sailed—Zebra, for Hong Kong.

Foreign Baclet List.

MAILS DUE.

6.ustralia sad New Zealand, via ti.rathatnptoh. D.:e 5
Ditto, via Yruseilles . Nov 30
Ditto, via Pi....aula NJv 23
Inuit. Buenos Ayres, and .llonte Video 4.
Ditto, by French packet Nev. 2.
gape Verds, by Brazil paozot . Dec. 4
Cape of Good tiipe. Aseenalon, and 3t. Helena—. N ,v. 1 '.
:ulna, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 21.
,ibraitar, via Southampton Nov 14

lucha., via Soatoatnoton . ----Nov. 11.
unto, via liaraetLes
Ilalta, Egypt, &o. Deo. 4

Ditto, Marseilles . Nov. 1!
Mauritius, Cape of Good lope, and Natal, via
Scuthani3tou
Marseilles Nov.l3
Sewfoundlanc
.13
eortugal .

Agnes Zimmermann is about to leave England on
a tour in Germany, having accepted engagamenti to play
at some of the principal Orchestral Concerts.
THE PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES. —la answer to an
appeal made by Mr. Pope, collector of funds for the
Printers' Almshouses, Mr. Charles Dickens has sent the
following letter :—" Ba !ford liotel, Bright ,n, Nov. 7,
1868. Sir, —R.derring to the appeal in aid of the
Printers' Ahuhouses, I beg to say I shall be happy to
devote the gross amount of my next reading in Loudon
to the fund. What should I have been without prin-
ters? I am grateful, and wish to show it.—Yours
faithfully, CaARLES DICKENS. Mr. C. Pope." The ob-
j•'ct now sought is the eroction of a new wing to the in-
stitution.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO it. CRAUFURD, M.P.—
On Friday last, as Mr. Craufurd, M.P., was returning
from Campbeltown, in the steamer Gael, he slipped in
descending the high stoop stair from the hurricane deck,
and fell from the top to the bottom with his right leg
under him. He was taken up immediately, and it was
found that the muscles of his leg were severely sprained.
He is now confined to his bed, and his medical attendant,
Dr. Campball, of Large, insists that ho must rest com-
pletely. There is, we b3lieve, a slight hope that Mr.
Craufurd will ne able to make his appearance ou the hust-
ings at the electioe for the Ayr burghs.—Scotsman.
THE MAYOR OF BIRSIINGIIAM'S BANQUET.—Mr.
John Bright, M.P., attended the Mayor's banquet at Bir-
mingham last evening. He did not allude to politics
fur-
ther than to say he hoped that, at the expiration of the
contest, both parties will peacefully trust to the wisdom of
the country, with its wide constituencies represented in
Parliament, for beneficial measures and policy. Messrs.
Bromley-Davenport, M.P. for North Warwickshire, and
Dixon, M.P., also responded to the toast of the county and
borough members.

SIIUGGLING.—A holy of officers of her Majesty's
Customs, headed by two examining officers, yesterday
paid a visit to her klajesty's screw Indian Relief troopship
Serapis, Capt. John C. Soady, now lying in dock at Ports-
mouth, aud, proceeding direct to the foretank room, pulled
out, apparently to the great astonishment of those of the
officers and crew standing by, 38 bags filled with leaf to-
bacco, which had been stowed away between the tops of
the tanks and the deck beams. The whole was, of course,
seized and conveyed to the Custom-house, where it was
found to weigh within a few pounds of 18 cwt. No ow er
was forthcoming.

PAROCHIAL RATES.—In consecinenco of the
complaints made in the parish of St. Pancras of the
great increase of parochial taxation, the vestry has in-
sorted a printed notification on the application papers for
the current half-year's rates, that they have no control
whatever over the expenditure of the following rates,
which they are required to collect and pay over:—£11,000
for the guardians, £13,806 for police, £9,239 county rate
£1,157 Metropolitan Fire Brigade, £5OO Burial Board, £684
public baths and wash-houses, £BOO collectors' poundage
and other expanses chargeable on the poor-rate and £3,720
towards providing for £9,433 deficiency on the List rate
—total on poor rate acicoant, £73,916, being equal to a rata
of ls. 6d. in the pound ; main drainage rate required by
Metropolitan Board of Works, £11,573. The rates over
which the vestry have control being the general rate of
6d. in the pound, and lighting rate I.d. in the pound.
LEICESTER AND WALTHAM AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.—The annual ploughing match of this society
took place on Tuesday last at Mowsley, on the farm of T.
Wilson, Esq., of Knaptoft. The competition at this moot-
ing has for two or three years past been confined to bona
frie farmers and farm servants, and on this occasion 27
mon and boys competed for the prizes. The champion
prize (a silver cup or money), value five guineas ; a silver
cup in the farmers' sons' class ; and the first prize in the
boys' class, were won by competitors using Messrs. Ran-
somes' ploughs.—On the same day, at Newmarket, five out
of the six first prizes (including the champion prize) were
awarded to the work produced by the same implements ;
whilst at Wells, by the same implements, on Tuesday, and
Tenbury Wells on Thursday, the All England Prizes were
both won by Messrs. BaLsomes' man, Barker.
CIiAMPIONSIIIP OF TiIE THAMES.—There are two
scullers' matches now pending, each for £2OO aside
and the honour of the championship of the Thames. In
the first, which is fixed for the 17th inst., Kelley, the vete-
ran, is pitted against a young and fresh aspirant, who has
done wonderful performances on his native river, the
Tyne. The second match is to take place on the Ist of
December, between Kellay and Joseph Sadler—a sculler
of much note, who has generally been unfortunate in his
races after the first mile. Bath events aro to be rowed
over the usual course of four miles and a quarter, from
anindebnotil,,i are liomorktesd
oufpothnewiethougnrterayt.
Putney to Moir.otlwateg.,
interest by
Kelley, after his ra any and severe contests, looks just
DOW as well as ever, but it is said that he rows rather
stiflly and short. Betting on the first race was in favour
of the Newcastle man until last week, when what spe-
culation there is on the matter was brought round to
evens.

BRIDGEWATER COLLIEIIIF.S.—The sinking and
fixing of the last lift, or set of pumps, at the Mosley Com-
mon collieries, belonging to the Bridgewater Trust, has
been completed. The depth is 1,020 feet, and the working
of the collieries will give employment to a large number
of persons, as there are four or five seams of coal, which
will last for many years.