The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

BREVET.

Colonel Harry D. Jones, of the Royal Engineers, having
rendered distinguished servi..:e in command of the British
land force at the capture of Bomarsund, her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to order, in pursuance of the
Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, that he be promoted to be a
Major-General, and be placed on the permanent List of
General Officers, Commission dated Dec. 12.
WAR-DEPARTMENT, JAN. 1.
COMMISSARIAT.

Assistant Commissary-General John William Smith to
be Deputy Commissary-General, his commission to bear
dato the 30th Dec.

DEPUTY COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Thomas Wharton Ramsay
William Henry Robinson
to be Commissaries-General.
ASSISTANT COMMISSA.RIES-GENERAL.
Frederick Thomas Mylrea
James Wilson
Charles Swain
Ferguson Thomas Coxworthy
Thomas Graham
Wm. Henry Drake
to be Deputy Commissaries-General.
DEPUTY ASSISTANT COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Henry Wm. Woodfordo Plant
Thomas William Goldie
George Atkinson
Henry Lambert Brisbane Bayley
Frederick Henry Ibbotson
Edward Barrington de Fonblanque
James Douglas Willan
Robert Clement Major
Redmond Uniacke
James Knight Goold
Douglas Beni:et Clarke
Robert May Gardiner
Fitzjarnes Edward Watt
James Charles R. Wood
James Bell Lundy
Wm. James Tyrone Power
Robert Cumming
Villiers Wm. Ciesar Hawkins
Thomas Gem
Conrad Potgieter
to be Assistant Commissaries-General.
COMMISSARIAT CLERICS.
George Twining
Luke R. Castray
Augustus Foulkes Cookesloy
Francis Crossley Colquhouu
George Ramsay Primrose
to be Deputy-Assistant Commissaries-General.
Their Commissions to bear date Jan. 1.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, J. 1.
ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
Second Lieutenant Vivian Dering Majendie to be First
Lieutenant, vice Maclachlan, deceased, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant John Boulton to bo Second Captain.
vice Raynes, deceased, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant James Edward Blackwell to be First
Lieutenant, vice Boulton, Dec. 13.
The dates of Commissions of the under-mentioned Offi-
cers have been altered as follows, viz.:—
First Lieutenant E. J. Ward to Nov. 30.
Second Captain P. J. Campbell to Dec. 8.
First Lieutenant A. D. Burnaby to Dec. 8.
Brevet-Colonel Richard Goodwin Bowen Wilson to be
Colonel, vice Brereton, removed as a General Officer,
Dec. 16.

Brevet-Major Charles Bingham to be Lioutenant-Colonol,
vice Wilson, Dee. 16.

Second Captain John Davenport Shakespear to bo Cap-
tain, vice Bingham, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant John de Luttrell Saunderson to be
Second Captain, vice Shakespear, Dec. 16.
Second Lieutenant Sir John William Campbell, Bart.,
to be First Lieutenant, vice Saunderson, Dec. 16.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sebastian Rowan to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stace, retired upon full-pay,
Dec. 16.
Brevet Major Edward Bruce Hamley to be Captain, vice
Rowan, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant Moutray Auketell to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Hamley, Dec. 16.
Second Lieutenant fEnielius De Vic Tupper to be First
Lieutenant, vice kukotell, Dec. 16.
Second Captain George Thomas Field to be Captain,
vice Adair, retired upon half-pay, D,c. 20.
First Lieutenant Philip Dickson to be Captain, vise
Field, Dec. 20.
Second Lieutenant John Charles Francis Ramsden to
be First Lieutenant, vice Dickson. Dec. 20.
CORPS OP ROYAL MARINES.
Brevet-Colonel Patrick Yule to be Colonel, vice Slade,
retired on full-pay, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Colonel Dauiol Bolton, to be Colonel, vice Victor
retired on full-pay, Dec. 13.

Brevet-Majoi. Sir William Thomas Denison to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major John Williams to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Aldrich, retired ou full-pay, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Maj )r Edward William Durnford to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Yule, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major Edward Thomas Lloyd to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Bolton, Dec. 13.
Second Captain Thomas Lionel John Gallwey to be Cap-
tain, vice Williams, Dec. 13.
Second Captain Anthony David Craigie to be Captain,
nice Durnford, Dee. 13.
Second Captain Richard Burnaby to be Captain, vice
Lloyd, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Charles Brisbane Ewart to be Second
Captain, vice Gallway, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Charles Butler Peter Nugent Hodges
Nugent to be Second Captain, vice Craigie, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Edward Belfield to be Second Captain,
vice Burnaby, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant William Butler Gosset to be First
Lieutenant, vice Ewart, Doc. 13.
Second Lieutenant Robert Grant to be First Lieutenant
vice Nugent, Dec. 13.

Seconcl Lieutenant Edward Harding Steward to be First
Lieutenant, vice Belfield, Dec. 13.
Brevet• Colonel Frederick William Whinyates to be
Colonel, vice Blanchard, removed as a General Officer, Dec.
16.

Brevet-Major Henry James to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Whinyates, Dec. 16.
Second Captain Albert O'Donnell Grattan to be Captain,
vice James, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant Hon. George Wrottesley to be Second
Captain, vice Grattan, Deo. 16.
Second Lieutenant Edward Donald Malcolm to be First
Lieutenant, vice Wrottesley, Dec. 16.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel William Robinson to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Du Plat, deceased, Dec. 22.
Second Captain James Swayn Baker to be Captain, vice
Robinson, Dec. 22.
First Lieutenant Edward Charles Acheson Gordon to be
Second Captain, vice Baker, Dec. 22.
Second Lieutenant Arthur Robert Mac Donnell to be
First Lieutenant, vice Gordon, Dec. 22.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20.
Corps of Royal Marines.—To be Second Lieutenant—
Gentlemen Cadets John Frederick Crease, Colpoys Par-
kyns Heaslop, Hugh Law Rose, Charles Hugh Standbridge,
Vernon William Sims, Rose Lambart Price, Horatio Guy
Campbell, Edward George Vere Holloway, Thomas Mey-
rick Hewett, George Johnston.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Charles John Belcher Hertelet, Esq., to be Pay-
master, Dec. 15.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED EY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

County of Kincardine—The Right Hon. the Earl of
Kintore to be Vice Lieutenant. To be Deputy
Lieutenants Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bart. ; James
Horn Burnett, Esq. ; Barron Grahame, Esq. ;
Robert William Rickert Hepburn, Esq., Alexander Inues,
Esq., James Dyce Nicol, Esq., Alexander Portent', Esq.,
Dec. 21.
County of Bute—To be Deputy Lieutenant—Herbert
Crichton Stuart, Esq. Edward Henry John Craufurd,
Esq., younger, M.P., ale Honourable George Frederick
Boyle, Peter Buchanan, Esq., the Provost of the Royal
Burgh of Rothsay, Dec. 26.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Ensign William Hicks to be Lieutenant, vice
Chandler, resigned; Charles Gurney, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Hickes' promoted, Dec. 28 ; Frederick Walter
Aston, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lea, resigned, Dec. 30.
Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—William Leith
Hay, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 19.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—To be
Captains—Thomas William Fountaine, Esq., Dec. 27 ;
Henry L'Estrango, Esq., Dec. 28. To be Lieutenants
Feaneis Nathaniel Astloy, Gent., Dec. 28; Raoul Stephen
Bzlingfmld, Gent, Dec. 29.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—John
Bloom, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Chamberlin, re-
signed.
let Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—John De Courcy,
Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 23 ; Francis Sacheverell Wilmot,
Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 2.
let Regiment of the Auk, 9i I=44*( 4.'4 Own Militia—

Arthur Wallace Munro, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Starkie, resigned, Dec. 26.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieutenant Edward Monk to be Captain, vice Pedder,
resigned, Dec. 30 ; Philip Houghton Whittaker, Gent., to
be Lieutenant ; Ensign John Motherwell to be Lieutenant,
vice Monk, promoted ; Frederick Beasley, Gent., to be
Ensign, Dec. 29 ; Peyton Shoals, Gent., to be Ensign,
Dec. 30.

4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Ensign Acquilla Kent to be Lieut.,
vice Whitehead, resigned ; Philip Morton Pitt, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Kent, promoted, Dec. 29.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Geo. Parker,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Dec. 29.

Lancashire Hussars—Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, Bart.,
to be Major-Commandant, vice Sir John Gerard, Bad.,
deceased, Dec. 29.

BANKRUPTS.

Henry Newby, builder Kingsland-road, to surrender,
Jan. 8, at twelve, and Feb. 12, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street.
buildings ; Budger and Collins, King William-street.
David Leudesdorf, commission agent, Saint Martin's-
le-Grand, Jan. 17. and Feb. 23, at elven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Reed, Ironmonger-lane.
Sidney Sprod, cabinet-maker, Bristol, Jan. 12, and Feb.
13, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol ; Salmon, Bristol.
Naphtali Hart, butcher, Liverpool, Jau. 15, and Feb. 5,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool.
Richard Frank Kennedy, chemist and druggist, Cowes,
Isle of Wight, Jan. 10, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 24,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Whitaker, Lincoln's-inn-fields;
Stokes, Cowes, Isle of Wight.
John Overbury, woollen warehouseman, Frederick's-
place, Old Jewry, Jan. 10, at two, and Feb. 23, at half-
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, 3, Guildhall chambers ; J. and J. H. Linklaters,
Sise-lane; Winterbotham, Stroud.

Thomas Richards, wood dealer, Lime-street, City, Jan.
13, at one, and Feb. 16, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Wells, Founders' Hall, Swithin's-lane.
Jonathan Porritt, worsted spinner, Union Mill, Gilder-
some, Yorkshire, Jan. 26, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ;
Wave'', Philbrick, and Foster, Halifax.
Thomas Wadsworth, silk dealer, Macclesfield, Jan. 17,
and Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Norris, Macclesfield.
Thomas Thompson, licensed victualler, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Jan. 9, and Feb. 22, at the Newcastle-upon-Tynis
District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne ; Ludlow and Co., Bedford-row; Hodge and Harle,
Newcastle.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Headman, merchant and commission agent,
Glasgow.
Hugh Frazer, merchant and manufacturers' ageit,
Girvan.

Alexander MTarlane and Company, hearth-mg and car.
pet manufacturers and dyers, Glasgow.

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

John Jacob Hill, of 13, High Holborn, ironmonger,
first dividend of Is. 11d. in the pound, payable at 1, Sam-
brook-court, Ba,singhall-street, on Jan. 3, and three fol-
lowing Wednesdays.
David Allan, of 46, Coleman-street, and 4, Lothbury,
merchant, third dividend of 41. in the pound, payable
at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on January 3,
and three following Wednesdays.
George Wren Lo Grand, of Lambeth-walk, Surrey,
grocer, first dividend of is. 10d. in the pound, payable at
1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on Jan. 3, and three
following Wednesdays.
Isaac Dods, of 11, Arthur-street West, London-bridge,
hemp merchant, first dividend of 4s. in the pound, pay-
able at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on Jan. 3,
and three following Wednesdays.
Henry Anstey and William Walton, of Birmingham,
drapers, first dividend of 2s. 7d. in the pound, payable at
7, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on any Thursday.
Thomas Parker, of Southport, Lancashire, hotel keeper,
first dividend of 4s. BJ. in the pound, payable at 12, Cook-
street, Liverpool, en any Wednesday.
Samuel Bell, of Liverpool, confectioner, first dividend
of Ind in the pound, payable at 12, Cook-street, Liverpool,
on any Wednesday.
Joseph Parrock, of Dudley, -Worcestershire, licensed
victualler, a dividend of ls. 9d. in the pound, payable at
the County Court-office, Dudley.
John Trott, of Sainton Dale, Yorkshire, farmer, a divi-
dend of 3s. 6d. in the pound, payable at Mr. A. Stephen-
son's, solicitor, Whitby, on and after Jan. 15.