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

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PROCLAMATION FOR SCOTLAND.
SIDOoLTELMANND.FAST,
A PRHOuCLmAiLMIAATIIIOuNiv,
VICTORIA R.—We, taking into our most serious
consideration the just and necessary war in which
we are engaged, and putting our trust in Almighty
God that He will graciously bless our arms, both by sea
and land, have resolved, and do, by and with the advice
of our Privy Council, hereby command, that a public day
of solemn fast, humiliation, and prayer be observed
throughout that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called Scotland, on Wednesday, the twenty-first day of
March next, that so both we and our people may humble
ourselves before Almighty God, in order to obtain
pardon of our stns, and in the most devout and
solemn manner send up our prayers and supplications to
the Divine Majesty for imploring His blessing and as-
sistance on our arms for the restoration of peace to us
and our dominions : and we do strictly charge and com-
mand, that the said day be reverently and devoutly ob-
served by all our loving subjects in Scotland, as they
tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid His
wrath and indignation : our will is, therefore, and we
charge, that, this our proclamation seen, ye forthwith
proceed to the Market Cross of Edinburgh, and all other
places needful, and there, in our name and authority,
make publication hereof, that none pretend ignorance :
And our will and pleasure is, that our solicitor do cause
printed copies hereof to be sent to the sheriffs of the se-
veral shires, stewarts of stewartries, and bailiffs of rega-
lities, and their clerks, whom we ordain to see the same
published ; and we do appoint them to send copies hereof
to the several parish churches within their bounds, that,
upon the Lord's day immediately preceding the day above
mentioned, the same may be published and read from
the pulpits immediately after Divine service.
Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this
twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
and in the eighteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day cf
February, 1855, present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council.
This day the Right Honourable Sir George Come-
wall Lewis, Baronet, was by her Majesty's command
sworn of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council,
and took his place at the Board accordingly.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
the Right Honourable George William Frederick, Earl
of Carlisle, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Gar-
ter, Lieutenant-General and General Governor of that
part of the United Kingdom, called Ireland,
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Montagu, Earl of Abingdon, to be Lord
Lieutenant and Custus Rotulorum of the county of
Berks, his lordship this day took the oaths appointed to
be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance
and supremacy.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of
February, 1855, present—the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council.

Her Majesty In Council was this day pleased to appoint
tbie Right Hon. the Lord President of the ecouncil for
the time being; the Most Noble the Duke of Argyll, Lord
Keeper of the Privy Seal ; the Most Bon. the Marquis of
Lansdowne ; the Right Honourable John Russell (com-
monly called Lord John Russell), one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State ; the Right Honourable
Viscount Palmerston, First Lord Commissioner of her
Majesty's Treasury ; the Right Honourable Viscount
Canning, her Majesty's Postmaster-General ; the Right
Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; and the Right
Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Baronet, Chancellor
and Under Treasurer of leer Majesty's Exchequer; to be
a Committee of Council to superintend the application of
any sums of money voted by Parliament for the purpose
of promoting public education.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of
February, 1855, present—the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council.

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to
make the following amendment on the Roll of Sheriffs :
—Merionethshire--Charles Ponsonby Tottenham, of
Carrogissa, Esquire, made Charles John Tottenham, of
Berwyn House, mar Llangollen, in the County of Den-
bigh, Esq.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The screw line-of-battle ship Cressy, 80, Captain R.L.
Warren, is detained in the Downs in consequence of a
dense fog, which prevailed, without intermission, for
upwards of 24 hours. She left Sheerness on the after.
noon of the 23d inst., en route for Spithead, in charge
of Mr. Brockman, R.N., Master of the Wildfire, brought
up at the Great Nore for the night, weighed at 2 p.m.
on the 24th, atchored at 6 p.m. off the North Foreland,
proceeded at daylight on the 25th for the Downs,
where she arrived about noon, and discharged pilot;
attempted to round the South Foreland, but, owing to
the hazy state of the atmosphere, was compelled to
anchor off Deal. A vast number of merchant vessels
bound to the eastward are prevented by the fog from
passing up the Dover Channel. The Cressy will
proceed to the westward as soon as the weather becomes
more favourable. She is ordered to Spithead to await
the assembling at that anchorage of the other ships
intended for the Baltic, and all of which are to be ready
for sea by the 13th of March.
The Royal George, 102, and Majestic, 80, are under
orders to be at Spithead by the 4th proximo.