The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

GENERAL HA VELOCK'S PROMOTION.

(From a Supplement to the London Gazetti of Tuesday
Sept. 29 )
GENERAL ORDER.
HORSE GUARDS, SEPT. 29.
BREVET.

In consequence of the eminent service performed
by Colonel Henry Havelock, C. 8., in command of
a division of her Majesty's army engaged in active
operations in the field in India, the queen has been
graciously pleased to command that he be promoted
to the rank of Major General in the Army, in con-
formity with the 10th clause of the Royal Warrant
of tue Gth October, 1854, and that his commission
shall bear date the 30th July, 1857.

By command of his Royal ilighness the Genera
Commanding-in-Chief,
G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 28.

Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the
Princess Royal were present at divine service yesterday
iu the parish church of Crathie.
Lady Churchill, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Dul,e
of Argyll, and Coland the Hon. C. Phipps were in
atte❑dance.

Major-General Sir G. A. Wetherall, Adjutant-General,
resumed his duties at the Horse Guards on Monday,
after attending the French camp at Chalons.

THE MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCESS ROYAL —The. Net.
Prussian Gazette of the 23i says :—" His Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick William will, according to ar-
rangement, proceed" to England in November, and pay
a visit to the English Court on the 21st of that month,
which is the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal. The wedding day is filed for the 18th January,
and the 3.1 of February Is name.," as the day of their entry
into Berlin,"

Ilia Excellency the Count TelzArewictch has arrived
at the Brunswick Hottl, Jermyn-street, from the Con-
tinent.

M. Vrolik, Minister of Finance at the Hague, has
just presented tq the States General the Dutch Budget
for 1858. The expenses are set down at 73,325,537
florins, and the receipts at 74,144,125 florins.
The Verona Gaze‘to gives the intelligence that the per-
son to whom Mazzioi has, either really or fictitiously,
transferred his property, and who has been introduced to
public notice as Advocate B--, is no other than Advo-
cate Brofferio, the leader of the republican party at
Turin.

A letter from St. Petersburg says :—" The Military
Court has just condemned to dismissal and loss of the
privileges of their rank for peculation Baron Meat-
macher, chief of the customs district of Odessa, and
Colonel Potemkin, chief of the quarantine port of that
place."
A committee. consisting of twelve of the principal
merchants of Hamburg, ha., we learn with pleasure,
been formed to collect subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers from the Hindoo insurrection, and the Borsen•
hulls of that city has addressed an appeal to the public
for donations.

The fleet of Admiral Lard Lyon] arrived at Malta on
the 1903.

The Bishop of London, who has been paying a visit
to his brother, the Sheriff of Clackmannanshire, has just
gone on a tour t the North Highlands. The bish
hag, we (Alloy Advertiser) understand, declined various
requests male to him to preach.

THE SHERIFFS' CHAPLAINS.—AIderman Lawrence bas
appointed an Unitarian minister (Mr. Thos. Madge, of
Eisex•street Chapel, Strand), to be his chaplain during
the year of his shrievalty. Mr. Sheriff Allen has ap-
pointed as his chaplain the Rev. Thomas Grose, M.A.,
curate of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill.
PRESENTATION OF THE NEW SHERIFFS.—This after-
noon, the ancient custom of presenting the Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex, for the approbation of her
Maj"sty, was observed at the Court of Exchequer.
Westminster, before Mr. Baron Channell. Fur the first
time within the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" of
that ancient city, the civic procession proceeded the
whole distance from the City to Westminster, by land,
instead of part by land and part by water. So grand a
procession, with the Lord Mayor's gilded gingerbread
coacb, passing along the Strand, took the inhabitants by
surprise, f...r such a sight in that part of London has
not been witnessed probably for up ward 4 of a century.

CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION OF ART-TREASURES.--It is
now officially stated that her Majes'y will not be pre-
sent at the el isirg of the Exliibitien, on the 15th prox.
The executive have given notice that the charge for
admission on the 12th, 13i.h, and 14:h October, will be
half a crown ; so that the days for the admission of the
masses, at one shill ng each, are now very limited, being
restricted to six days, exclusively of to-day, Oct. 2.1, 3
4th, sth, 6th, and 10th.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The North Atlantio Com-
pany's screw steamship General Williams, Captain Flinn,
arrived in the Mersey at noon to-day, from Portland
and St. John's, Newfoundland, with dates from the let-
ter to the 19th in=t. inclusive, 30 pas en&ers and 2,00)
barrels of fl)ur, as cargo. Her dates from Portland and
Halifax aro anticipated. Much disappointment was felt
in Newfoundland at the failure of the attempt to lay
down the All sntic ca' le.
INDIAN TELEGRAPH VIA TURKEY.—Sir William
O'Shaughnessy ha., we understand, left England for
India. He goes by way of Constantinople, where he
W.ll rearain a few days in order to arrange with the
Turkish Government for the construction of a telegraph
from that city to Bagdad. This line will be c instructed
by the Turkish Government, be under its sole control,
and be connected with the East India Company's tele-
graph down the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee. Sir Win.
O'Shaughnessy had a long interview with Lord Palmer-
ston previous to his departure.
Parole OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per mile premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.20 per 1/ sterling. On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10i p.er
ounce for standard gold it appears that pH is nearly
4-10ths per cent, dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 A per
mark,_and the short exchange on London is 13 4 rr
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English ILA price
is therefore about 3 10ths per cent, dearer in Hamburg
than in London. Tne course of exchange at New York
on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 108 per
cent., which, when compared with the Mint per between
the two countries, shows that the exchange is ag,ainit
England ; but, after making allowance for charges of
transport and difference of interest, the present rate
leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either way
between the two countries.

REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF SIR JAMES BROOKE.—
The Bendigo Adverti er of Friday, July 17, contains the
following paragraph, under the head of Melbourne News:
—" We have been informed that some later intell,gerce
than has reached any of the Melbourne Journals, is in
the possession of a mercantile firm in this city, respect-
ing Thrnee. It is to the effect that there was a second
rising of the Chinese there, and that during the couflict
sir James Brooke was killed. If true, this will etill
further intensify the strong feeling that prevails against
the Chinese. Something must be done, and that
quickly." Our readers are aware that there are at tlie
time some 45,000 Chinese at the diggings, and that toi-
iisions between them and the Europeans, provoked by
the latter, have occurred, and many lives have been lost.
There is a feeling in the colony that steps should be
taken to expel the Chinese.

A letter from Madrid of the 231 says :—" The Qa, en
has pardoned a municipal guard who was to have been
shot for insubordination, The circumstances under
which this act of clemency was decided on are curiJul,
['he sister of the condemned had caused a petition to be
presented to the Qieen while on her way to the theatre.
A.t the same time, when the curtain rose, Madam,:
Ristori, in the character of Medea, interceded f the
culprit in a few verses which she declaimed with her
accustomed energy. Immediately the Queen declared
o two of her Ministers, who were with her, that she
was inclined to pardon the man, but nevertheless asked
heir advice. They represented that this was the thir I
ease of insubordination inthatcorpe, and that an exunplt.,
lad become necessary ; she pleaded warmly the cause
f humanity, and at length they consented. Tne Q:reen
instantly wrote the pardon in her box." The ambassador
)f France had given a grand banquet to Mme. Ristori.

THE FORTIFICATION OF KERTCH CONTRADICTED.
The Austrian Gazette stated a day or two back that the
ttesshns are constructing a fortress on Mount Mithri-
.ates, at Kertch, to defend the entrance of the Sea of
kzoff. The Austrian journal confounds Kertch with
Jeni Kale. The first of these two towns is situated atthe
xtremity of a bay upwards of three miles long, and is
tot a strategical point ; it has consequently never been,
11(1 is not to be, deteaded. But the Russians b'Ave
estored and armed anew, as they bad a right to the
ortress of Jeui Kale, which is situated in the 1-.41.„w„t
cart; of the straits, and commands theca 0-id.ou
heir length. Placed in a dominatim, thuation, this
i..n-tresa ie :I.o.ci(n`, to defend the Vibrance to
all
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