The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

MILITARY.

The annual change of quarters of the Household
Brigade of Cavalry will take plan on Wednesday, the 6th
instant. The 2nd Wgirnent of Life Guards, under the
command of Colonel Williams, will march from Windsor
to Regent's-park Barracke. The Royal Hone Guards
march from Regent's-park to linightsbridgr, and the Ist
Life Guards march from Knightsbridge to Windsor.

(TROY LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.)
WAROFFICE, Aram I._

Royal Regiment of Hone Ovaids.—Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class Cosmo Gordon Logic, 111. D., to be surgeon,
vice George Gulliver, who retires upon half-pay.
3rd Dragoon Guards.—Lieutenant Henry Heywood Lone-
dale to be captain, by purchase, vice Broughton, who
retires; Cornet John David Hay Rill to be lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lonsdale.
let Dragoons.—Lieutenant George Campbell to be captain,

by Mitcham, vice Morgan, who retire;; Cornet St 'Jobe
flliaw CluvertunChallton to be lieutenant, by pur-

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chase, vice Campbell.
Coldstream Guards.—Assistant-Surgeon John Wyatt, from
the sth Dragoon Guards, to be assistant-surgeon, vice
Skelton, promoted.
Ist Regiment of Foot.—Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Burton Dave-
. ney to be major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lient,
Colonel Deane, deceased; Lieut. Spencer Vetsittart
to be captain, without purchase, vice Daveney ; Eosign
Montague Adam 11. Legge to be lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Vansittart.
13th Foot.—Captain Wiliam Henry Underwood, from half-
pay 21st Light Dragoons, to be captain, vice Mein, who
exchanges; Lieutenant John Busby to be captain, by
purchase, vice underwood, who retires ; Ensign Edward
Boyd to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Busby.
26th Foot.—Ensign Edward Raiford Pierce Elderton to be
lieutenant, by purchase, vice Roberts, promoted; Lieu-
tenant William Edward Wallace to be adjutant, vice
Roberts, promoted.
27th Foot —Ensign Joseph P. O'Loghlin, from the 95th
Foot, to be ensign, vice J. W. B. O'Loghlin, promoted.
30th Foot.—Assistant-Surgeon William Johnstone Fyffe,
M. 8., from the staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vice John
Macnamars, M.D., who retires upon half-pay.
46th Foot.—Ensign Alfred Henry Waldy to be lieutenant,
by purchase. vice Eustace, who retires.
79th Foot.—James Nicholas Bell, gent., to be assistant-
surgeon, vice Scot, promoted in the 48th Foot.
98th Foot—Major Daniel Rainier to be lieutenant-colonel,
by purchase, vice brevet-colonel Sir Colin Campbell,
8., who retires upon half-pay, as a iieutenantcolonel,
unattached; Brevet-Major Edmund Haythorne to be
major, by purchase, vice Rainier; Lieutenant Octavius
Latouche to be captain, by purchase, vice Ilaythorne
Ensign Norris Goddard to be lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Latouche; Sergeant-Major John Gillespie to be
quarter-master, vice John Riordan, who retires upon
half-pay.
2nd \Vest India Regiment.—Major Herbert Mends to ha
lieutenant-colonel, without purchase, vice Jones deceased;
Captain Henry Waso Whitfield to be major, without pur-
chase, vice Mends ; Captain Herbert Watkin
Wynn, from the 7th toot, to be major, by purchase,
vice Whitfield, whose promotion, by purchase, on
the 15th February, 18.53, has been cancelled ;
Lieutenant William Elliott Mockler, to be captain, with-
to be ensign,
vice Whitfield ; Ensign Horatio James
lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mockler;
HOSPITAL S'rArv.—ltobert Ferguson, gent., to be .(6\i‘gia'
ttir rhs eoi Ps
oftonr c;
S eb be
purchase,
n Major o
Wise. Job a Kavanagh
assistant-
surgeon
to the Forces, vice Lapsley, appointed to the 74th
FOOL
MEMORANDI'SI.—Major-General Sir Henry Floyd, Batt,
(lieutenant-colonel on half-pay unattached) has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com-
mission. The promotion of Lieutenant James Owen
Bovill, of the 2nil West India Regiment, by purchase,
on the 15th of February, 1853, in succession to Captain
Whitfield, has been cancelled.
_ OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Arntt. 1. .

Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Lieutenant-Gencral Sk Ro-
bert William Gardiner, K C. 8., to be colonel command-
ant, vice Lieutenant-General James Webber Smith, C. 8.,
dcc,•asc d.

Corps of ltdysl Engiut ces.—Brevet-M Or It.,Sert I: e ars-
ley Dawson to be li,ntenant-colonel; Devect-Valor
;,11 Tucker to be lientemutt-colonel, Tice Folbes, de-
ceased; ; Second Captain Chaim; Daesbery lt, ba;-• )u to
be captain, vice Tucker.

lau3 Intelltunce.

cou oF li.II4IKRUPTCY.-YVITERDAS.
BIM. Curvivi ,NYLL GOCL:-. as.
IN ML WILLIAMS AND MILILCIIANT.

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Tr.c h inn? aph VltChs railway contractor*, of
°reef Genrgi.street, Westminster, Liverpool, and other
places. This was the athourned meetiog for the lest cum-
ulation. The case had been adjourned frosts time to time,
in conseque nee of • qui stith pending between the baek•
1:1;41.S and the Oxford, Woret.ter. and Wiiiverhimiloon
Heilwiiy Company, whien had been referred to the minue-
t:on Of Sir W. Cabitt. The aw.'srl of Sit W. Cubitt having
been made in !av .ur of the bankrupt', the rush is to phea
tit' in in a p baton to pay the whole of the it debts in lull,
• and to leave them a eunsideralde surp:u. The accounts
have &heftily twin published. The proofs against the estate
amount to 9,2531.
Mr. Lowrengo, representing the a...ig100,. siiil that he
undetstutel Mr. Williams was &shoos nf hieing the bank-
ruptcy annulled, sad therefore he dal not propose to puss
tb tt day. Mr. Merchant protest', to ran.. if
the court thought proper, and to apply on the earliest,
peosible day for Id. certifica, Ile (Mr. Leweaues) bad tried
to iniptees iipun Mr. Willi nos that it vrooll be much better /
far him to pass his list 'gemination, and ti receive a ere.
%Agate probably of SS; ; but he Wit desirous of
being relieved from the unpin of bankruptcy even in
say form.
The Consinissioner—liow cin that bi dime in • joint
bankruptcy ?
Mr. Liwranur—liagr blown has p mar to pass the one
without the other ; there are •ep irate b donee cheats filed.
The C num' viioner 4: if Mr. Williams also paws his last
to mil:taboo to-day, that wid not prevent him afterwards
tekinf, steps to supersede. They bed better both paw,
ae separate baleneeeshests have Leen ...id then
they ems take ssch further proceed:Jigs as trey may be elle
v.sed.
Mr. Lawrance—That is certainly the course which I
should r.comme ad.
Tee Commissioner—Your advice has been so good to the
bankrupts thr ingboat this cot, and they must fee' so mach
indebted to you for it. that I think they Oa better follow
it in this instance. They had hirer pies their elimination
and have& certificate of the first class, as it would be; be.
Cause the re may be other claims set up, and the certificate
would Ire • complete her to them. And the fact of its being
of the first close would r thirsty relieve them team any ine•
putation that the bankruptcy might be supposed to carry
with it.
Mr. Lawease.—The payment of 20s. in the Pound, with
interest, on the whole of the debts, will surely satisfy
all the claimants. Probably the best course will be tar them
both to p.ss to-day ; and Me. Williams CMS take his own
course afterwards.
The Commissioner—Very well. Then let them pas..
Mr. Lawrance—l am bound to *tote that huh these gen-
tlemen have conducted themselves throughout with the
greate.t possible propriety, and to the entire satisfaction of
the assignee.. They would have passed long ego, but your
Honour tnought it was better they should not do so until
the question* in dispute with the railway company were de-
cided. There will now be 2.10. in the pound for all the cre-
ditors, and a considerable surplus over.
The Commissioner—Then they will bath price. I cannot
al ow this ease to clam, so far as the present sitting is con-
cerned, without observing on the conduct of these bank•
ropes, though it may seem rather premature to do so in this
stage of the ease. But I must my, having watched this
case from its commencement till it has at length arrived in
this stage, where it ought, in pistile to the bankrupts, to
have been long ago, that their conduct has been very re
markable indeed, and that it strikes me thst they have
been more unjustly assailed than any trader who has come
to this court in the course of my long experience. They
have not been at all fairly treated ; they have been kept in
this state of embarrassment and annoyance by • proceeding
against them, which proceeding has turned out to be quite
unfounded on the part of those who undiluted it. Their
property was taken tram them, in the first instance, most
violently, without say regard to the interests of justice and
truth. The matter has been discussed in every possible
way, and the result is, that a sum of money has bits
awarded them . by a gentleman to whose decision
on such a matter everybody must he most willing to bow—
Sir William Cubitt—a sum sufficient not only to enable
them to strike off the proof of thus. persons who to assailed
them in the first in.tauce, hut also to enable them to pay
everybody 200. in the pound, and to leave a large surplus.
It seems to me that they come out of this inquiry with the
greatest possible credit; and I have the utmost pleasure in
giving to them the full benefit which the law intended for
perons like themselves who are brought here entirely by
misfortune.

Mr. Pennell, the official assign e, in answer to a question
from the court. said there was no doubt of the assets being
sufficient to pay the debts in f.ti. Nit more than 10,0001.
ha I beta proved, and he understood that 19,0001. would be
received under the award.

Some sumo ell ended by Mr. Mirehant in conducting the
arbitration were allowed out of the estate, his Honour re-
marking that the bAnkrapts themselves were the only par-
ties directly interest, I in these paymcnts,which would go in
diainution of their surplus.