The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-28 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 26.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Henry George
Ward, K.G.C., St. M. and St. G., now her Majesty's
Lord High Commissioner for the United States of the
lonian Islands, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and ovor the island of Ceylon and its dependencies.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 26.
The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint
Staff-Surgeon James B. Gibson, Esq., M.D., to be Sur-
geon to his Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge has also appointed the Reverend
Robert Halpin to be one of his Royal Highness's Chaplains.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 26.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIA-

KENT

Borough of Cardigan—John Lloyd Davies, of Blaendyf-
fryn, and Alltyrodin, in the county of Cardigan, Esq., in
the room of Pryse Loveden, Esq., deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 27.
STAF F.

Colonel William Frederick Forster, half-pay Unattached
Deputy Adjutant-General in Dublin, to be Deputy Adju-
tant-General to the Forces, vice Major-General Simpson,
Feb. 27.

Colonel Robert Blucher Wood, C.B. half-pay 97th
Foot, Assistant Adjutant-General to the Forces, to be
Deputy Adjutant-General in Dublin, vice Forster, Feb. 27.

CHAPLAIN.

The Reverend J. E. Sabin Officiating Chaplain at Scu-
tari, to be a Commissioned Chaplain to the Forces,
Feb. 13.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 22.

Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Ponsonby
May Carew Croker to be Adjutant, vice Morrison, pro-
moted ; First Lieutenant Edward Joseph Ridgway
Conolly to be Adjutant, vice Driver, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

County of Cardigan—Richard Owen Powell, Esq., to
be Deputy-Lieutenant.
County of ' Derby—To be Deputy-Lieutenants—The
Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Lord Cavendish ; the
Honourable Edward Keppel Went worth Coke; Sir Henry
Fitz-Herbert, Bart. ; Peter Arkwright, Esq. ; Thomas
Osborne Bateman, Esq. ; John Gilbert Crompton, Esq. ;
Edward Anthony Holden, Esq. ; John Goodwin Johnson,
Esq. ; Peter Bainbrigge Le Hunt, Esq. ; George Moore,
Esq. ; Alfred Miller Mundy, Esq. ; William Needham,
Esq. • Thomas Peach, Esq. ; Edward Sacheverell Chandos
Pole, John S. A. Shuttleworth, Esq.; J. Slack, Esq,;
George Henry Strutt, Esq. ; Gladwin Turbutt, Esq, ;
Edmund Wilmot, Esq. ; Francis Wright, Esq. ; John
Wright, Esq., Feb. 26.
2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Hugh Pearson,
Esq., Adjutant of tke 2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia,
to serve with the rank of Captain.
County of Lancaster—William Bolden Bolden, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant ; Henry Garnett, Esq., to be De-
puty Lieutenant, Feb. 22.
st Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Thomas Kinna, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 24.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Thomas
Edward Wilbraham, Esq., late Captain 39th Regiment,
to be Major; William Henry Gillman, Esq., late Lieute-
nant-Colonel, 68th Regiment, to be Captain, Feb. 16 ;
William Buchanan, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 17; Wil-
liam Marshall, jun., Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 19.
7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—The Hon;
Charles James Fox Stanley, late Lieutenant-Colonel Gre-
nadier-Guards, to be Honorary Colonel, Feb. 21.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of `fewer Ham-
lets Militia—Frederick Vavasour Sandford, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Falconer, promoted.
Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Lieuten-
ant William Thomak Keene Perry Keene to be Captain,
vice Vaughan, retired, retaining his rank ; Ensign Thos.
Merrett to be Lieutenant, vice Keene, promoted, Feb. 21.
Warwickshire Militia-2d Regiment—Captain John
Robert Graham Pattison, late 27th Regiment, to be Cap-
tain, vice J. H. Moore, resigned, Feb. 19.
Hampshire Militia Infantry —Ensign Henry Charles
Chawner to be Lieutenant, vice Fleming, deceased; Re-
ginald Charles Riddell, Gent., to be Ensign ; Henry Ed-
wards, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 16.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—Richard Dawson, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, Feb. 16.
Isle of Wight Militia Artillery—Sumner Mitchell Sum-
ner Brockhurst, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Feb. 20.

Fife Militia—Lieutenant-Colonel John Balfour to be
Honorary Colonel, vice Lindsay, retired ; Major Charles
Robert Wynne, late Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Balfour; Captain Frederick James Taggart
Hutchinson to be Second Major ; George Sutherland Sim-
eon, Esq., sth Regiment Madras Light Cavalry, to be
' Captain • William Lindsay Paterson, Esq., to be Captain ;
Andrew Aytoun, Esq., Bengal Artillery, to be Captain ;
'William Forrest, Esq., late 79th Highlanders, to be Cap-
tain ; Thomas Maitland Makgill Crichton, ent., to be
First Lieutenant, Feb. 23.

Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Ensign Robert Phipps
Dod to be Lieutenant, vice Bennet, appointed to an En-
signcy in the Line, Feb. 24.

Regiment of Royal Perthshire Rifle Militia—Serjeant-
Major Alexander Geddes to be Ensign, Feb. 23.
Royal Wiltshire Militia—Captain Wm. Arthur Heath-
cote to be Major, vice Goddard, resigned • Charles Lever,
Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 19; Robert resigned;
Gent.,
to be Ensign, Feb. 20.
The following appointments are substituted for those
which appeared in the Gazette of Jan. 30 :
Royal Cardigan Militia—Thomas John Hughes, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Hughes, resigned; Atheletano Owen
Powell, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Davies, resigned ; Syl-
vanus Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, vacancy, Feb. 24.
The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Feb. 6 :
It ,yal Berks Militia—William Stares, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Houghton, resigned, Jan. 16.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
John Bradbury, dealer in copper ores, Worcester.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Byshe, otherwise Bish, builder, Brighton, Sussex,
to surrender, March 13, at eleven, and April 17, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee;
Freeman and Both amley, Coleman-street, City.
Jolla Sykes, clothier, Little Tower-hill, March 9, at tNiro,
and April 17,, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Aldridge and Brom-
ley, South-square, Gray's-inn ; S. A. Notcutt, Ipswich.
Simon King, shoemaker, Northampton, March 10, at
eleven, and April 13, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Mackeson, Lincoln's.inn-fields ; Duignan and
Hemmant, Walsall, Staffordshire.
William Palmer, draper, Aldgate, City, March 7, at
one, and April 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Sole, Tur-
ner, and Tamer, Aldermanbury.
Thomas Henry Rees, printer and publisher, Paternoster-
row, City, March 16, at twelve' and April 17, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ;
Upward, Copthall-court, City.
James Turner, draper, Islington, March 5, and 30, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as-
signee; Basinghall-street; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer,
Old Jewry-chambers.
William Keates, ironmonger, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire,
March 12 and April 2, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Reece, Birmingham.
Thomas Frock, grocer, Nottingham, March 13 and April
3, at ten, at Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Not-
tingham. ; Coops, Nottingham.
George Selby, iron enameller, Upper Thames-street,
City, March 9, at half-past one, and April 21, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Ba-
singhall•street ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

George Simpson, merchant, Church Fenton, March 20,
at one o'clock, and April 16, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Walker,
York ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Joshua Fisher, draper, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, March 9
at one, and April 12, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Bristow and Tarrant, Walbrook.
James Speller, sail maker, Wapping High-street, March
13, at half-past eleven, and April 4, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ;
A ppleton, Abchurch-lane.
George Cunningham Stewart (not George Cumming
Stewart, as advertised in last Friday's Gazette), draper and
trimming manufacturer, Hackney-road, March 2, at one,
and April 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gra-
ham, official assignee; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old
Je wry-chambers.
John Whittaker, publican, Oldham, Lancashire, March
16, and April 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Ascroft,
Oldham.
Thomas Bothell Lawford and Edwin Maitland, wine
merchants, Lombard-street, City, March 9, at half-past
two, and April 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Wright and Bonner,
London-street, Fenchurch-street.
Haydon Lounds, coachbuilder and wheelwright, Bourn,
Lincolnshire, March 6, and April 3, at ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Not-
tingiAtve ; ket Dcopktlg. ; J am€, .
Hew y .T (11, Ektpul,tl2l:, rhajr v;
turer, New Oxford-street, March 9 at half-past twelve, and
April 12 at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell