The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-16 00:00:00

TO BE CGLO,EL IN THE EAST INDIES,

Lioutenant•Colonel Robert Waters BAldoek, Bengal
Infantry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE EAST INDIES.

Major John Robson Woman], Bengal Infantry.
Major John Bartleman, Bangal Infantry.
Major John Ranken, Bengal Infantry.
Major Williams Brown, Bombay Infantry.
TO BE MAJORS IN TILE EAST INDIES.
Captain Archibald Chisholm, Madras Infantry.
Captain Thomas Reid James, Madras Infantry.
Captain John French, Bengal Infantry.
Captain Edward B. Stevenson, Madras Infantry.
Captain James R. Lumley, Bengal Infantry.
Captain Charles R. Mackenzie, Madras Infantry.
Captain Peter E. Warburton, Bombay Infantry.
The undermentioned Officers of the East India Com-
pany's Service, retired upon full-pay, to have rank in the
East Indies as follows; their Commissions bear date
March 16, 1855 :
TO BE COLONELS IN THE EAST INDIES.

Lieut.-Colonel Wm. F. Grant, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Win. Rawlins, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Geo. S. Wilkinson, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul W. Willis, Bengal Engineers.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE EAST INDIES.
Major Patrick T. French, Bombay Infantry.
Major Samuel R. Bagahawo, Bengal Infantry.
Major John S. G. Ryley, Bengal Light Cavalry.
Major William Edwards, Bengal Infantry.
Major Charles Wollaston, Bengal Light Infantry.
Major Archibald Park, Bengal Infantry.
Major Henry John M`George, Bengal Infantry.
Major Charles Gordon, Madras Infantry.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 13.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES.

First Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Percy Wood to be
Captain, vice Varlo to half-pay.
Second Lieutenant Robert Kirwan to be First Lieute-
nant, vice Wood, promoted.
BANKRUPTS.

James Mathews and James E. Phillips, warehousemen,
Wood-street, Cheapside, to surrender, March 23, at half-
past one, and April 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Sole, Turner, and Turner,-Aldermanbury.
James Alexander Hughes, builder, Victoria Park-road,
Hackney, March 27, at t.vo, and April 27, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; May and Sweetland, Queen-square,
Bloomsbury.
Alfred Tunstall, electro-plater, Tottenham, Middlesex,
March 27. at two, and April 24, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Cattlin, Ely-
place, Holborn.
Henry Fowler, corn and coal factor, Southampton,
March 30 at half-past eleven, and May 5 at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Fraser and May, Dean-street, Soho.
Thomas Charlosworth, plumber, Nottingham, March 27
and May 1, at ten, at the Nottingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Coope, Notting-
ham.

Stephen Knapp, printer, Coventry, March 30, and April
21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit-
more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Browett, Coventry ;
Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
William Ramsey, tailor, Coventry, March 31 and April
20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle-
ston, official assignee, Birmingham; Dawes, Coventry;
Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
James Norris, wholesale stationer, Peckham, late of
Upper Thames-street, March 30 at eleven, and April 26 at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assig-
nee, oleman-street-buildings ; Messrs. Linklater, Sise-
lane.

William Doffett Francis, plumber and glazier, Bridg-
water, March 27 and April 26, at one, at the Exeter Dis-
trict Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Ruddock
and Auber, Bridgwater; Stogdon, Exeter.
John Burro! Morgan and John Lewis, drapers, Ystaly-
fera Graig, Glamorgan, March 27, and April 24, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee,
Bristol ; Cornish and Parnell, Bristol.
Robert Nicholson, sail maker, Kingston-upon-Hull,
March 28 and April 18, at twelve, at the Leeds District
Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Wells and Smith,
Hull.
William Jennings, linen draper, Bradford, March 29,
and April 20, at eleven, at tho Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds ' • Terry and Watson, Brad-
ford ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
John Price Samuel, shuttle manufacturer, Blackburn.
March 28, and April 18, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Row-
ley and Son, Manchester.
William French, brewer, Bedlington, Durham, March
23, at eleven, and April 21, at twelve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. llikor, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Hodge and Harle, Newcastle.upon-
Ty no.

-Henry Holland, merchant, Liverpool, March 27, and
April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court,
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Dodge, Liverpool.
Mary Jackson and Thomas Heywood, otherwise Thomas
Jackson, skein printers, Droylsden, Lancashire, March 30
and April 27, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernarnau, official assignee, Manchester; Daruton, Ash-
ton-under-Lyne.
Charles Pennington, builder, Manchester, April 5 and
25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna
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man, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington,
and Shipman, Manchester.
William Grenwell, shOemaker, South Shieldr, March 23,
at half-past eleven, and April 24, at one, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Shield
and Harwood, London.

Duncan Mc Gregor, paper manufacturer, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, March 27 and April 27, at twelve, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee
Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby, Old Jewry.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Peter M'Lellan, grocer, Gorbals, Glasgow.
John Martin, clothier, Miller-street, Glasgow.
Henry Galbraith, ironmonger, &c., Haddington.
Alexander Waddell Shanks, late manufacturer and
commission agent, Glasgow.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturdi

?,NGLAND.
'th and Bth Victoria, cap 112, for
' the 10th day of March, 1855.
ATMENT.

ISSUE DEP.
.£
Notes limed .. • • .... 26,911,880

X
Government debt.... 11,015,10 t
Other securities...... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 12,911,880
Silver bu11i0n........ -

426,911,830

£26,911,880
M. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier.
1855.

Dated the 15th day of March, 1

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest 3,09,849
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

TAILTMENT.

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) 11,542,335
Other securities 14,880,844
Notes • . ........ 7,944,050
Gold and silver coin .. 709,640

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 4,829,237
Other deposits ...... 11,149,103
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ . 906,730

X 35,076,919

£35.06,919
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1855.

Dated the 15th day of March,

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending the 13th
March, 1855, is 20s lid per hundredweight exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable therein on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tnis DAY.

Am5terdam............ 11. 17
Ditto, three months .. 11 19
Rotterdam 11

Gibraltar .
Leghorn
Genoa ..... •• 95 55
Milan ...... • • ...... • •

Antwerp .... .. 2i 40
Brussels .. 25 40
llambargh ••.•• • • • • • 13 7 !..4
Altona • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •

Venice ........•• ......
Naples
Palermo ..... ..... .• • 130%
Messina ... •
Lisbon ... .
Oporto ...............• 53'A
Rio Janeiro...... •• .. • •
Buenos Ayres.... • •
New York, GU days' sight
Philadelphia •• .

Pari5........ ...•••••••• 25 20

.
Dato, three months .. 25 50
Marseilles ............. 25 50
Bourdeaux ...• ........
Frankfort-on Maine •• .. 118%
Berlin •••••••••••••• ••
Vienna.........••• .... 12 38
Trieste. ••••• .. •••• —•• 12 40
Petersburg ............ 35%
Madrid ............... 49%
Cadiz •• ••.•••••
Barcelona •• •• •• • • • • • •
Seville.-- ......... _

PRICES OF RULIICN, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
1-'.lw Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars . . 0 0 •

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, March 16.—Wind and weather this day at
noon, fresh breeze from the westward, and fine weather.
PORTSMOUTH, March 15.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—
Swarthmore, from Melbourne and Tahiti, with 60,000 oz.
of gold ; Walter Monica, London, for Bermuda, with
damage from collision with a large barque, ou the 11th of
March, off Dover.

FALMOUTH, March 15.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—
Rapid, how Bahia.

COWES, March 15.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Maria,
from Bahia; Hanover, Santos.
PLYMOUIH, March 15.—Wind, S. Arrived—Antago-
nist, from Manilla.—The Victoria Emmanuel, from Lon-
don, has rut in with bows stove, and five feet of water in
her hold, having been on shore.
OFF DOVER, March 15.—Jane E. Williams, from New
York, for Rotterdam.
SWANSEA, March 15.—Arrived--Catherine Jenkins,
from Coquimbo ; Spiena, do.
MILFORD, March 15.—Arrived—Wesley, from St. Do-
mingo, and proceeded for Liverpool.
BELFAST, March 14.—Arrived— Jacob, from New. Or.
leans ; Katharine, St. John's.
GRANVILLE, March 13 —The Burmah (tpt. No. 85), of
Sunderland, sfrom Constantinople to Deptford, went on
shore near Blainville, about 18 miles north of this port,
and, if the wind continues .s N.N.E., may possibly be
got off without material damage. She will partly dis-
charge, when two Government steamers will endeavour
to tow her off.