The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-04 00:00:00

11Elt MAJESTY'S COURTS.

The Court which was to have been held per-
sonally by her Majesty yesterday for the reception
of the Corps Diplomatique has been postponed
until Friday next. The approaching Drawing
Rooms on Thursday, Marc'a 12, \Vella Iday, April
1, and Tuesday, May 12, are looked to with great
interest by the aristocracy, inasmuch as it has been
announced that the Queen will be present at each
Drawing Room as long as her Majesty's strength
will permit, one of the Princesses representing the
Queen during the remainder of the time.

LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 29th
day of February, 1868. Present, the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty in Council. This day Worge Ward Hunt,
Esq., was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place
at the Board accordingly.
At the Court at Osborne House, isle of Wight, the 29th
day of February, 1868. Pre,ent, the Queen's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was
this day pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right
Honourable Hugh MacCalmont, Lord Cairns, whereupon
the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was, by her
Majesty's command, administered to him, and his lordship
took his, place at the Board accordingly.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 29th
day of February, 1868, present, the Queen's most excel-
lent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty having been pleased
to appoint the Right Hon. Georg 3 Ward Hunt, Chancellor
and Under Treasuter of her Majesty's Exchequer, the
usual oath was this day administered to him.
WHITEHALL, Fan. 29.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appoint-
ing the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, the Right
Honourable George Ward Hunt, the Honourable Gerard
James Noel, Sir Graham Graham Montgomery, Bart., and
Henry Whitmore, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing
the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain,
and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.
Ttie Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting to the Right
Hon. George Ward Hunt, the offices of Chancellor, and
Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer.
FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 29.

• The Queen has been graciously plea.sed to appoint the,
Hon. Edward Robert Lytton, now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Madrid.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 3.

The Queen has beem pleased to approve of Sanhor Fran-
cisco Van ZAler as Consul-General in London for his
Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAlica 3.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant F. Henry Huth, from
the 19th Hussars, to be Lieutenant, vice Nethercote,

who exchanges.
6th Dragoon Guards —Flomnce Thomas Stephen Rippin-
gall, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase.
Ist Dragoons—Surgeon William Henry Muschamp, from

the 16th Foot, to be Surgeon.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant Thomas Blackwood, from the
_ .

4th Foot, to be Lieutenant.
16th Lancers—Staff Surgeon Charles Alexander Lines,
M.D., to be Surgeon • Staff Assistant-Surgeon James
111 tCully, hf.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
19th Hussars—Lieutenant John Nethercote, from the 1-t
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant.
21st Hussars—Major R. Bannatyne M'Leod to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel ; Captain H. E. Forbes to be Major ;
Lieutenant C. E. Farquharson to be Captain ,• Curnet
C. 11. Chase to be Lieutenant ; Cornet E. S. Noave to

be Lieutenant.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
John Summorfield Hawkins to be Colonel ; Lieutenant-
Colonel and Brevet-Colonel James Holt Freeth to be
Oolonel ; Captain Charles Cornwallis Chesney, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel i • Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel Charles Brisbane Ewart to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Second Captain William !lichens (late Bengal)
to be Captain ; Second Captain Edward Coysgarno She
to bo Captain ; Lieutenant Charles John O'Neill Fer-
guson to be Second Captain ; Lieutenant John Ee,kford
(late Bengal) to be Second Captain.
4th Foot -Lieutenant Burton John D.tveney, to be Lieu-
tenant; Staff-Surgeon Charles Dodgson Madden to be
Surgeon.
10th Foot—Staff-Surgeon George MeGusty Carolau to be
Surgeon; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Robert Hyde to be
Assistant-Surgeon.
12th Foot—Captain Arthur Walker, to be Captain; Lieu-
tenant Robert Edward Dawson, to be Captain ; Ensign
Arthur French to be Lieutenant; Ensign Geffery Law-
rence Eliot, to be Ensign.
19th Foot—Ensign Crosbie Barton to bo Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Granville Sharpe, to be Ensign.
31th Foot—Lieutenant Lutley Jordan to be Captain ; En-
sign Henry Walter Phillips to be Lieutenant.
62d Foot—Lieut. Killigrow Wodehouse to be Instructor
of Musketry.
69th Foot—Major George Messiter to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Captain and Brevet-Major Francis Blood to be
Major; Lieut. Edward Marwood Vincent to be Captain;
Ensign William Andrew Aitchison to be Lieutenant.
81st Foot—Lieut. Harry Man has been permitted to retire
from the service by the sale of his commission.
87th Foot—Ensign Arthur Terry to be Ensign.
2nd \Vest India Regiment -Ensign Charles John Sidney
Hawkins to be Lieutenant.
3d %Vest India Regiment—Lieutenant Villiers Layard to
be Captain ; Ensign Walter Forster Camplin Gray to be
Lieutenant; James Ritchie, Gent., to be Ensign ; Jas.
Kirkwood, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Alfred Randall to be
Captain ; Ensign John Quarry to be Lieutenant.
Cavalry Depot -Lieutenaut-CGlonol Edward Burgoyne
Careton to be Commandant; Brevet-Colonel James
Robert Steadman Sayer, C. 8., to be Assistant Com-
mandant.
Molical Department—Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals Richard Dane, M.D. to be Inspector-General of
Hospitals; Staff-Surgeon Major E lward Menzies to be
Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals.
BREVET.
Captain and Lieutenant Colonel Augustus William 11.
Meyeick, Fcets Fusilier Guards, to be Colonel ; Colonel
Charles Francis Skyring and Colonel Conolly M'Caus-
land, to have the honorary rank of Major-General ; Capt.
Douglas W. Labalrnondiero to be Major; Capt. and Brevet
Major D. W. Labalmondiere to be Lieutenant-Colonel ;
Major James Harwood Rocke, 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant
Colonel ; Major George Edward Watson having retired
on full pay to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Quarteimaster Henry Benson, retired half-pay,
Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of captain ;
Surgeon-Major Joseph Jee C. 8., to have the honorary
rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Lieut.-General William Longworth Dames, Colonel of
sth Foot, who dial on the 20th February, 1868;—Major-
General Samuel Bray broke, Colonel of 99th Foot, to be
Lieutenant-General ; Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
David Elliot Mackirdy, from 69th Foot, to be Major-
General.

MEMORANDA.—The retirement from the service, under
the Circular Memorandum of 15th February, 1861, by the
sale of the Commission of Major Henry M'Manus Sall,
half-pay, late 22d Foot, which appeared in the Gazette
of 12th July, 1867, has been cancelled.
The undermentioned officers have been permitted to
retire from the service by the sale of their Commissions,
under the Circular Memorandum of 15th February, 1861:
—Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Biggs, half-pay, late 60th
Foot; Capt. Douglas W. P. Labobnondiere, half-pay,
45th Foot.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 29.
John Harold Heffernan, Esq., has this day boon pro-
moted to the rank of Chief Engineer iu her Majesty's
Fleet.

COURSE 40F EXOIfit..NG.E.—L as t Evening.

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Amsterdam Short. 11 18
Ditto 3 louths.ll 191
Rotterdam
Antwerp —2 Z
Brussels — 25 321
Hamburg — 13 9i
Paris Short 25 10
Ditto 3 Months.2s 27}
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 120}
Vienna — 1 t 90
Trieste — 11. 90
Petersburgn - 321;
Berlin

11 18}
12 Of
12 Of
25 37
25 87f
13 10
25 20
25 32i
25 25
120}
11 U7f
11 97f
32j
6 27

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Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples 1

29 34
29 374.
29 37.
29 37f

25 52i
29 321
29 82*
29 3i

Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

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29 32f
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511
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ACCIDENT TO TILE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.—The
other evening, just as the Duke of Brunswick entered a
box at the theatre of the Bouffes-Parisiens, the flooring
gave way under his weight and ho fell through. Forth-
nately ho escaped without injury, and no person happened
to be at the time in the baignoire underneath.
A LONG Jump.—A feat in long jumping came
off on Friday, in the meadow in Dixon-road, Monmouth.
Mr. Joseph Lane, farmer, offering to bet two soya that ho
would clear 18 feet. The challenge was acJepted, and Mr.
Lane accomplished his task, with three inched to spare.—
JionmoueN/iiro 13eacon. •