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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1855.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROif FIELD-
MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN.

(Front last Night's Gazette.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, MAY 5.

Lord Panmure has this day received two despatches and
their enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad•
dressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan,
G.C.B.

Before Sebastopol, May 22.
My Lord,—Adverting to my despatch No. 251, of the
14th April, I do myself the honour to lay before your
Lordship the copy of a letter which I have received from
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons; with its enclosures from
Commander Priest, of the Himalaya, bearing testimony to
the exertions and valuable services of Captain Gell, of the
East India Company's Service, Acting Quartermaster-
General in conducting the 10th Hussars and 12th Lancers
through Egypt, and in superintending the embarkation of
those regiments at Alexandria.
I have, Ice.,
RAGLAN.
The Lord Panmure, &c. &c.

Enclosure 1.

Royal Albert, off Sebastopol, May 10.
My Lord,—l have the honour to click's° for year Excel-
lency's information copy of a letter from Commander
Priest of the Himalaya, calling my attention to the praise-
worthy exertions of Captain Gell, of the Honourable East
India Company's service, and as her Majesty's Consul at
Alexandria, and Colonel Pole, of the 12th Lancers, both
bear testimony to this officer's valuable services, I shall
feel greatly obliged if yatir •Excellency will have the good-
ness to bring his conduct under favourable consideration
in the proper quarter.
I have, &0.,
- (Signed) E. LYONS,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
His Excellency Field-Marshal Lord
Raglan, G.C.8., &c., &c.

Enclosure 2.
Her Majesty's Steam vessel Himalaya,
Karatch, May 7, 1855.

.
Sir,—l trust that you will not think me presuming if I
endeavour to place before you some of the merits of Cap-
tain Gell, Honourable East India Company, the Deputy
Assistant Quartermaster-General, conducting the transit
of the 10th and 12th Regiments of Cavalry through Egypt,
and superintending their embarkation.
Colonels Pole and Parlby are more capable than I can
be of bearing testimony to his services, but I beg to add
my witness to the zeal, great energy, and consuni mate tact,
by which he obtained a maximum of work from a people
uotoriously inert, and thus made my portion of the em-
barkation very simple : that no casualty of any kind has
occurred in getting them from the shore into pontoons and
alongside the neveral ships more than 1,000 horses, is at-
tributable to his foresight and prudence. I respectfully
submit that it may prove advantageous to his service if
his exertions be brought to the notice of Lord Raglan.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) BEN. P. PRIEST,
Commander.
Bear-Admiral Sir Edward Lyons, Bart., G.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief.

Before Sebastopol, May 22, 1855.

My Lord,—I have the honour to lay before your Lord-
ship the copy of a letter, which I received a short time
ago from the Hon. Algernon Egerton and Mr. Thomas
Tower, who succeeded Mr. Jervoise Smith and Mr. Glyn
in the duty of distributing all that was sent out by the
Crimean Fund for the use of the British Army.
I cannot speak too highly of the exertions of all these
gentlemen. Their courtesy, their kindness of heart, and
their unceasing desire to gratify the wishes of all, are
above all I can say in their favour ; and they carry with
them the grateful acknowledgments of every officer and
man, who are equally anxious with myself to bear the
amplest tettimoay to the manner in which they have ful-
filled their onerous task, despite of fatigue, weather, and
every possible inconvenience.
I have, &c.,
RAGLAN.
The Lord Panmure, &c., &c.

Enclosure.
Kadikoi, May 8, 1855.
Crimean Army Fund Agency.
My Lord,—We have the hoiour to report to your lord-
ship the operations of the " Crimean Army Fund," of
which we are honorary representatives in the Crimea,
have now closed.
In announcing this officially to your lordship we beg to
express the hope that our endeavours to carry out the
thoughtful and generous intentions of that association to-
wards our noble and gallant countrymen in the Crimea
have in some slight' degree promoted the public service,
and have not interfered in any respect prejudicially to the
organisation of an army which we so love and admire.
We cannot conclude our mission without thanking your
lordship, the Quartermaster-General, and the authorities,
for the kind countenance and support which we have re-
ceived from the very commencement to the termination of
our difficult but most grateful task.
Your lordship will allow us to speak most highly of the
Quartermasters of regiments with whom we have been
thrown in such frequent contact.— We have, &c.
(Signed) ALGERNON EGERTON.
THOMAS TOWER.
To Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G. 0.8.,
Commanding-in-Chief.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 1.

This day had audienco of her Majesty ;
His Excellency the Count de Persigny, Ambassador
from the Emperor of the French, to deliver his creden-
tials ;
To which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon,
K.G., herMajeety's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and conducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir
Edward Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Cere-
monies.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JuNE 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Lima,
enclosing copies of a Decree issued by the Provisional Go-
vernment of Peru, abolishing the tax of four reale, and of
one real, called "Mining Tax," on the exportation of
every mark of bar silver.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State fo iForeign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General in Chili,
transmitting a copy of the new Chilian law now in force
reducing the duty on the importation of all silk manufac-
tures and raw silk for home consumption to fifteen per
cent. ad valorem.

Provisional Depot Battalion—Captain G. S. Peard, 20th
Foot, to be Assistant-Adjutant.
UNATTACHED.

Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Thomas Heyland, Ma,
jor of the 95th Foot, to have his Brevet rank converted
into substantive rank, under the warrant of the 6th Octo-
ber, 1854.
MEad[ORANDIIM.—The commission of Major William Mao.
Mahon, of the 44th Foot, to be antedated to 12th Decem
ber, 1834, but not to carry back pay.
BREVET.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel David Forbes

retired fu

pay, of the 91st Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank
being honorary only; Major Henry Edward MiGee, of the
19th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army ; Captain
John William Reynolds, mi half-pay Unattached, Deputy
Assistant-Adjutant-General at Head-Quarters, to be Major
in the Army ; Captain Scrope Barnard, of the Tipperary
Militia, attached to the Turkish Contingent, to have the
local rank of Major while so employed.

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HOSPITAL STAFF.
Inipector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, Walter
Henry, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals ; In-
spector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, William
Munro to be Inspector-General of Hospitals ; Deputy
Inspector-General of Hospitals Andrew Ferguson, M.D.,
to be Inspeotor-General of Hospitals, with local rank, vice
Munro, who retires upon half-pay ; Deputy Inspector-
Geaeral: of Hospitals A. Melvin to be In Spector-General of
Hospitals, with local rank, vice Henry, who retires upon
half-pay ; Acting Assistant-Surgeon Henry Horlock has
been permitted to resign his appointment.
BRITISH FOREIGN LEGION.
Colonel John Kinloch to be Inspector.
To be Assistant-Inspectors with the rank of Captain
while so employed—Edmund St. John Mildmay, Esq.,
formerly of the Austrian Imperial Hussars ; Michael Fos-
ter Ward, Esq., late 90th Foot.

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Depot at Sborncliffe—John Francis Power, Esq., late
Major 35th Foot, to be Major-Commandant with the
Brevet rank of Lieuteuant-Colonel wheo so ,employed ;
Richard Allister Bowyer, Esq., to bo Staff Paymaster ;
Charles Knight, .Esq., to. Staf-Quartermaster • Fabian
Samoje, Esq. to be Surgeon; the Rev. Heinrich Offer-
mann to be Field Chaplain.
Depot at Heligolan4 —Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Stein-
bach to be Commandant ; Charles Addison, Esq., to be
Staff-Paymaster; Edward Miles, Eiq., to be Staff-Quar-
termaster; Patrick Gammie, Esq., to be Staff-Surgeon Ist
Class.

First Jager or Rifle Battalion—Major Christian Sieg-
fried von Bassewitz to be Major Commandant.
First Line Battalion—Edward Kent Murray, Esq., for-
mally of the British Auxiliary Legion, to be Major Com-
mandant, with the Brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel in
the Army while so employed ; Augustus Ferdinand Shroer
to he Major. _

Second Line Battalion—Hans Hornemann von Aller to
be Major Commandant.
TURKISH CONTINGENT.
George John Whyte Melville, Esq., late Lieutenant and
Captain, Coldstream Guards. being attached to the Turk-
ish Contingent, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey
while so employed.
The undermentioned gentlemen, having been appointed
to the Medical Staff of the Turkish Contingent, to have
local rank as fellowseviz. :—To be Staff-Surgeon of the
First Class—J. Forbes Watson, Esq. To be Staff-Sur-
geons of the Second Class—Frederick Lewins, James A.
Cooper,, Alexander A. McDowell, Arthur F. Macaulay,
George A. Alloway, Archibald Irvine, M.D. To be As-
sistant-Surgeons Henry Cumming, William W. Coleman,
Charles Ferguson, Arthur F. Ferguson, James W. Ca-
vanagh. James Williamson, George M`Gregor, Charles S.
Richardson, Charles it. Williams, Ferdinand Oderaine,
John B. Posnett. To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons—
Francis L. Gunn, Richard G. White.
MEMORANDIIM.—The appointment of Acting Assistant-
Surgeon Thomas Chaytor Beale, to bear date 3d May,
1855, and not 23d of that month, as previously stated.

BREVET. -
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the death of the following officers, viz. :
Lieutenant-General Sir G. C. D'Aguilar, G.C.8., died
21st May, 1855 ;
General Sir W. Macbean, K.C.8., died 24th May, 1855;
General Lord C. S. Manners, K.C.8., died 25th May,
1855 :

Major-General Honourable J. Yorke Scarlett, being the
senior supernumerary Major-General, to succeed to the
vacancy on the fixed establishment.

Lieu-tenant-Colonel J. E. W. Inglis, 32d Foot, to be
Colonel in the Army.
Major G. A. Durnford, 27th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel
in the Army.

Captain Augustus F. Jenner, 11th Foot, to be Major in
the Army.

The undermentioned promotion to take place consequent
upon the death of the following officers, viz :
General P. Bonham, died 19th April, 1855 ;
General Sir W. Macbean, died 24th May, 1855 ;
General Lord C. S. Manners, died 25th May, 1855
Lieut.-General Sir Archibald Maclaine, K.C.8., to be
General.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
let Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Capt. J. E. Leve-
e= Gower to be Paymaster.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

County of Forfar—Wm. Kennedy Erskine to be Deputy-
Lieutenant ; the Hon. Claude Bowes Lyon to be Deputy-
Lieutenant.

County cf Middlesex—George Woodroffe Franli lyn,
Esq., M.P., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Alfred Plantagenet
Somerset, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
Dorset Regiment of Militia—Robert Clarke, Gent;., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Penton, resigned ; Major G ec.rge
Colby Loftus to be Lieutenant-Co'onel, vice Jacob., de-
ceased ; Captain William Lewis Henning to be Major,
vice Loftus, promoted ; Lieutenant John Gollop to be
Captain, vice Henning, promoted ; Lieutenant Robert
Francis Molesworth, late of the Indian Army, to be Kiieu-
tenant, vice Gollop, promoted; Ensign Reginald Hassey
to be Lieutenant, vice Ewens, appointed to the 30th Foot ;
Arthur Bond, Gent.; to be Ensign, vice Wright, appoiinted
to the 9th Foot ; Freeman Augustus Padmore, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Itussey, promoted.
The Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry—The Hon. Algernon Egerton to be Lieutet ;
Tho Hon. Walter Harbord to be Cornet. _ _

2d Regiment of Royal Lancashire the Du'ke of
Lancaster's Own Rifles--Ensign Edward Averill Luc as to
be Lieutenant ; Frederick Cross, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Limas, promoted.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militna—
Adjutant John Rooper to serve with the rank of Capt sin ;
James Clarke Hicks, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fel iton,
promoted.
4th or Dnke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Lieutenant Lawrence Heyworth 'to. be
Captain, vice Myers, resigned ; Ensign John Ca lcott
Beatty to be Lieutenant, vice Hayworth, promoted.
Renfrewshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant D: ►uiel
Shaw Stewart to be Captain, vice Reid, resigned ; El isign
Robert Walkinshaw Young to be Lieutenant, vice Ste• wart;
William Ferrier, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Young; R ebert
Anderson, Gent., to be Ensign.
76th or Inverness, Banff, Elgin, and Nairn Regiment of
Militia— William Alfred Bruce Mackintosh, Esq., you uger,
to be Lieutenant.

3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey
Hedger, Gent., to be Ensign.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Adjutant Du-
geld Stewart Miller to be Captain.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Reginald Pidlard,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Grayson, promoted.
Hertfordshire Militia—Henry Francis Coley, Gent., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Francis Robinson, Gent., re-
signed.
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—John Barrett
Lennard Nevinson, Gent., to be Ensign.
West Suffolk Regimet of Militia—George Alenander
Patten, Gent., to be Ensign.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Mil itia—
Ensign Thomas Faulconer Wisdon to be Lieutenant, vice
Biddulph, resigned.
Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peeblefishires
Regiment of Militia Artillery—Richard Coventry Arm-
strong Hamilton, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
lst Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Edward Jeff-
cock, Gent. (late Lieutenant in the Ist West York Yeo•
manry), to be Lieutenant ; John Calborne, Gent. (late
Bombay 13th Native Infantry), to be Lieutenant.
Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners' Regiment of Militia
—Henry Clark, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia--John
Bryce Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Ensign George William Henry Holyoake to be Lieutenant,
vice Allen, appointed to 60th Foot ; Ensign Herveß. Tal-
bot to be Lieutenant, vice A'Court, resigned ; Edward
Allan, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Wm.
Wogan the younger, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Geo. Anthony
Harrison, Esq., late Captain in the East India Company's
Service, to be Captain.
Westmoreland and Cumberland Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry—Frederick Ulric Graham, Esq., to be Captain,
vice Arthur Lowther, deceased ; John Wm. Marshall,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hamilton, promoted ; Wm. Fin-
lay Hamilton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Graham, pro-
moted ; Sir lenry talph Vane, Bart., to be Lieuteant,
vice Studholme, resigned ; Robert George Brisco, Gent• •
to be Cornet, vice Vane, promoted.
Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Cornet T. R. B. Cartwright to be Lieutenant,
vice Stratton, promoted.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment
of Militia—Alfred Coope, Esq., to be Captain, vice Drury,
resigned ; William Grant, Gent., to bo Lieutenant, vice
Rolleston, resigned.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
Cavalry • -Cornet S. W. Clowes to be Lieutenant, vice
Sutton, resigned.
Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Li aut.
John George Chancellor to be Captain, vice Lockhart, re-
signed ; Cornet Hugh Moseman to be Lieutenant, vice
Chancellor promoted.
[The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of April 27.1
let Durham Regiment of Militia—Robert Warner Stone,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Atcheson, promoted.

'The following is substituted for that which appeared in
I.- the Gazette of May 22.]
let i,:rham Regiment of Militia—Compton Legge,
Gent., to be ...Ensivice Sow erby, promoted. The ap.
i .D. E
pointment of H. , ;,),rrison, Gent., is cancelled.

PRIZE ?HONEY.

Department of thecAccoun:Ant-General of the Nary,
Admiralty, Somerset House, June 4, '

Notice is hereby given to the officers; seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein that the, dis-
tribaion of proceeds arising from the salvage of Outh-
bert Young, recaptured from the Riff pirates on the 26th
June, 1854, by her Majesty's ship Prometheus, will com-
mence on Monday, the 18th June, 1855, in the Prize
Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General
of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
f which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ship, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman' marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Custms

or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the samoby letter to be addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon-
don,"—in which letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector
of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be
convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :--

£ e. d.
Commander l9 19 10
Third class
Fourth class 3 10 10
Fifth class
Sixth class

2 s. d.
Seventh class 1 3 A
Eighth class 0 11 10
Ninth class
Tenth class

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Erasmus Bond, soda water manufacturer, Wharf-road
City-road.

BANKRUPTS.

William Peron, auctioneer, High-street, Hampstead,
to surrender, June 15, at twelve, and July 21, at half-
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Stopher, Cheapaide.
Edmund Butler. baker, York-street, Middlesex Hospi-
tal, June 15, at two, and July 25, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basiughall-
street ; Atkinson, Quality-court, Chancery-lane.
. Frederick Dawson Morns, ironmonger, Coventry, June
16, and July 7, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; East,
Birmingham.
George Stanton, retail brewer, Birmingham, June 20,
and July 9, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham. District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hawkes,
Birmingham.
Abraham Henry James, stone and marble mason, New-
port, Monmouthshire, Jane 18 and July 17, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee,
Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
William Williams, tailer and dl'aper, Liverpool, June 13
and July 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Baiiner, Liverpool.
Wm. Hancock, builder, Talk o' th' Hill, Staffordshire,
June 22 and July 13, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Christie, official, assignee, Birmingham ;
Sherratt, Talk o' th' Hill; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Francis Parry McCarthy, metal dealer, Beach-street,
Barbican, June 19, at two, and July 17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman-
bury; Rennolls, Lincoln's-inn-fields; Gem, Docker, and
Sutton, Birmingham.
Henry Lanmann, boarding and lodging-house keeper,
Burlington-hou-e. June 14, at too, and July 19, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Smith, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Buchanan Balfour, underwriter, Pinner's-hall-court,
Broad-street, City, June 15, at one, and July 19, at half-
past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Surr and Gribble, Abchurch-
_

David Rollason and Benjamin Rollason, ironmasters,
Bilston, Staffordshire, June 18 and July 9, at half-past
ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, offi-
cial assignee, Birmingham; Whitehouse, Wolverhampton;
James. Birmingham.
William Bonch, licensed victualler, Queen-street,
Pimlico, June 15, at twelve, and July 10, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Dim-
mock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street, City.
Benjamin Bonch, licensed victualler, Clarence-road,
Kentish-town, June 15, at one, and July 20, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane,
Cannon-street, City.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
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Alexander Allan, carpenter, Edinburgh, creditors meet
June 14, in Dowell's and Lynn's Sale-rooms, Edinburgh.
John Stevenson, flesher, Glasgow, June 14, in the Lon-
don Hotel, Glasgow.
James Peterson, merchant, deceased, Burravoe, Shet-
land, June 18, in Gilbertson's Temperance Hotel, Lerwick.