The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

BREVET.

To be Generals—Lieutenant-Generals George Jones and
George Beatty.
To be Lieutenant-Generals—Major-Generals Thomas
Adams Parke, C. 8., Sir John Owen, K.C.8., K.H.,
and Charles Menzies, R.H. _

To be Major-Generals—Colonels John Rawlings Cory-
ton, Samuel Burdon Ellis, C. 8., Thomas Wearing, James
Irwin Willes, and Charles Compton Pratt.
The undermentioned officers who retired upon full•paY?f
the Royal Marines previously to her Majesty's Order in
Council, 13th September, 1854, to be promoted to a step
of brevet rank, in order to place them in as favourable a
position as those of their rank who may hereafter obtain
retirement under the provisions of the said Order in
Council ; the rank in both cases being only honorary, viz.
To be Generals.—Lieutenant-Generals Elias Lawrence,
C. 8., and William Hallett Connolly.
To be Lieutenant-General—Major-General John Wright,
K.H.

To be Major-Generals—Colonels Walter Powell, Abra-
ham Henry Gordon, John Montresor Filcher, Thomas
Stevens, David Anderson Gibsone,, Robert Mercer, John
Robyns, Joseph Walker, James Whylock, George Butt
Bury, David McAdam.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 22.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINR4i.
Colonel Second Commandant Henry Ivatt Delacombo to
be Colonel-Commandant, vice Coryton, promoted.
Colonel Second Commandant John Ashmore to be Co-
lonel-Commandant, vice Ellis, promoted.
Colonel Second Commandant John Alexander Philips to
be Colonel Commandant, vice Wearing, promoted.
Brevet-Colonel Fortescne Graham to be Colonel-Com-
mandant, vice Willes, promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Childs to be Colonel Second
Commandant, vice Pratt, prdmoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Evans to be Colonel Second
Commandant, vice Delacombe, promoted.
Brevet-Colonel Samuel Robert Wesley to be Colonel
Second Commandant and Deputy Adjutant-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Tatton Brown to be Colonel
Second Commandant, vice Ashmore, promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Augustus' Patker to be
Colonel Second Commandant, vice Philips, promoted.
Captain John Mitchell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Oratual Moulded,

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Richards, dealer in wood, Lime-street, City.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Lockey Edridge, builder, Bayswater, to surrender,
July 6, at eleven, and Aug. 10, at half-past one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

Wm. Bridgewater, coal merchant, Cheltenham, July 9,
and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Pruen, Cheltenham ;
Abbot and Lucas, Bristol. •
John Bentley Carr, brewer, Bardsley, Ashton-under-
Lvne, July 12 and August 2, at twelve. at the Manchester
District Court. He rnarnau, official assignee, Manchester;
Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester.
John Warburton, edge-tool manufacturer, Sheffield,
July 7 and :)8, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Browin,
official assignee, Sheffield ; T. Smith, jun., Sheffield.
Samuel Thraves and Wm. Harrison, upholsterers, Not-
tingham, July 17 and August 7, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ;
Coop), Nottingham ; Harrison and Wood, Birmingham.
George Butler Pouting, innkeeper, Devizes, July 9 and
and August 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Wittey, Devizes; Abbot
and Lucas, Bristol.
Francis Ed ward Tucker, commission agent, Hornchurch,
Essex, July 6, at two, and August 9, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. Basing-
hall-street ; Spyer and Son, Broad-street-buildings.
Richard Kirkman Lane, bill broker and gas manufac-
turer, Argyle-street, Regent-street, July 7 and August 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee,Basinghall-street ; Mason, Moria-chambers, 17,
Ironmonger-lane.

Willi:l7n Jones, builder, Brecon. July 10, and August 7,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official
assignee, Bristol ; Evans and Sons, Liverpool ; Bovan and
Girling, Bristol. _ _

Tho Was Roberts, builder, Llanstophan, Carmarthen,
July 9, and August 6. at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Crutwill,
Bath ; Bevan and Girlieg, Bristol.
Frederick Divers, licensed victualler, Great Bell-alley,
Moorgatc-street, July 6, at half-past twelve, and August
10, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Warrand, Bas-
inghal:-street.

Robert Martin and David Wardlaw Scott, mercbants,
Great St. Helen's, City, July 6 and August 10, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,
Aldermanbury ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

William Epworth Take, wine and spirit merchant, Mark-
lane, June 6, at half-past one, and Aug. 10, at ono, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Marten, Thomas, and Hollams, Mincing-lane.
Daniel Golding, butcher, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, July
6, at twelve, and Aug. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Haw-
kins, Lincoln's-inn; Hustwick, Soham, Cambridgeshire.
George Norman Bult, druggist, Tiverton, July 5 and
Aug. 2, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee; Stogdon, Exeter.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Jackson, bookseller, Glasgow ; creditors meet
July 5, at one, in the London Temperance Hotel, Glasgow.
Wm. M'lcay, merchant, Muie, Sutherlandshire ; July
11, at ono, in Hill's Inn, Golspie.
John Forbes, druggist, Old Meldrum ; July 5, at one,
in the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen.
Duncan M`Rao, surgeon-dentist and druggist, Perth ;
July 9, at ton, in the Salutation Hotel, Perth.

THE HEAVY TRIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL
GOV.ERNMENT.

(From the Examiner.)
We saw with the more concern and regret the expres-
sions attributed to Prince Albert at the Trinity House,
because we knew the exaggerated sense in which they
would be construed abroad, and that they would be
triumphantly cited in corroboration of opinions that the
constitutional government of this country incapacitates
it for war. Since the disastrous mismanagement of the
Crimean expedition, it has been the fashion on the
Continent to moralise on the superiority of despotism,
and to point to England as the example of a people
who have so devoted themselves to the arcs of peace
as to be fit for nothing else. Taking Sydney Smith's
jest in earnest, they say that our mission is to make
calico for all the world, and that with that consummation
our successes end. Trade thrives in peace, SO they say,
all our institutions are adjusted and fitted to a state of
peace, and are utterly unsuited to war. And so they
will glibly run on as if this great country were a new
creation, a thing of yesterday, which had set up success-
fully in trade, but not had experience of any other cir-
cumstances and fortunes. And most unluckily calcu-
lated to countenance this strange mistake was Prince
Albert's remark, "our constitutional Government is
undergoing a heavy trial."
But has the old ship never been out in a storm before?
Have her qualities not been tested when:she had to buffet
with all the powers of Europe combined against her? Why
this Russian war is to her what the ripple at Spithead is to
some old vessel which has made good weather of many a
fierce gale. In how many wars has our constitutional
Government been tried, and not found wanting? We need
not travel far back, we need not even go up to the time of
Anne; it is enough to refer to the mighty struggle with revo-
lutionary France and the power of Napoleon. Then
our Government was indeed on its trial. Our enemy
a great nation, full of enthusiasm, and directed by a
consummate master of the art of war, who seemed to
hold Fortune herself in his absolute bondage in vain
were combinations cemented with our gold against him,
he swept them away with his cannon, and turned coun-
ter-combinations against us. And England, sometimes
standing alone, never stood undivided in this stupendous
conflict. There was an opposition far from scrupulous,
and there was much disaffection in the country, border.
ing closely on sedition, if not treason itself. There was,
too, not wanting a peace party, encouraging the enemy,
who had its sympathies and good wishes, which magni-
fied his triumphs and deplored his reverses. Therewas
a press not less bold than the press of the present
day, but inferior in character as respects knowledge,
ability, and probity, and not having its defer-
ences to an improved public opinion. To con-
. summate all then evils, there Were bad laws for

The third group composed the gallant and tough-
looking blue jackets, John Stirling, boatswain of the
Sampson; Charles Brooks, coxswain; and Edward
Pengelly, A.B.

All these men were dressed in their respective uni-
forms, and were picked and Soe-looking fellows. They
had all been in the Crimea, and had medals for their ser-
vices there, as well as for services in China, Cape of
Good Hope, and other parts of the globe. The Marines
and Marine Artillerymen were grouped together by the
side of a gun, and the blue jackets, dressed in white
trousers, blue jackets, and black glazed caps, were sta-
tioned against a capstan with a white ensign flying from
a flag-staff, whilst an anchor, coil of rope, lead lines,
and other nauticalimplements, werejudiciously included
in the sketch. We believe it is her Majesty's intention
to hare paintings made from these sketches, as also from
those of other corps in the navy and army.