The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-24 00:00:00

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

County of Ross—Alexander George Mackenzie, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 19.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia— Thomas Cholmondeley,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Thud, resigned ; William Bean•
clerc Powell, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 20.
Warwickshire Militia—let Regiment—Ensign Riland
Wolseley Oldham to be Lieutenant ; Ensign John Peter
Wilson to be Lieutenant ; Henry Horace Eden, Gent., to
be Ensign, Feb. 9.
The Essen Rifles—Robert Wallace, Esq. (late Captain
in the Madras Army), to be Captain, vice Smith, resigned,
Feb. 16. '

Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Go.nsel
Jebb to be Captain, vice Speke, resigned, Feb. 16 ; En•
sign Richard Winsloe to be Lieutenant, vice Jebb, pro-

scoted, Fob. 17.
2d or North Durham Regiment of Militia—Frederick
Wallis, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice De Pledge, resigned,
Feb. 17.
Durham Militia Artillery—Adjutant Robert William
Ssott to serve with the rank of Captain, Fels. 19.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—Henry Grattan
Bushe, Esq., late 48th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Cap-
tain Charles Palmer, resigned ; Dunlop Cloag, Gent., to
be Ensign.
Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirkehire Militia—Joseph
Augustus Barrette, Esq., to be Lieutenant, Fob. 10.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Charles
Alfred Mount to be Captain, vice Munn, promoted,
Feb.

Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Joshua Oldham,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice M. Brown Westhead, who
retires ; John Grier, Gent., to be Ensign.
Stirlingshire, &c. or 90th Regiment of Militia—Jona-
than Booth, Gent. (late Quartermaster 60th Rifles), to be
Ensign ; James Frederick Bennett, Gent., to be Ensign.
Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian Regiment of Militia—Chas.
Stewart Murray, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Kennedy,
resigned ; Charles Russell Currie, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Lyon, resigned; James Sinclair, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Orr, resigned ; William Starke, Gent., to be Ensign
vice Bird, resigned, Feb. 12.
let Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Owu Militia—
Ensign Robert Knights to bo Lieutenant, Feb. 20.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own DEMI&
(Rifle Corps)—James Bilham, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 19.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Edward
Jackson, Esq., M. 8., to be Surgeon, vice Coultate, re-
, signed, Feb. 19.
Artillery Corps, Royal Lancashire Militia—Hill Charley
Morro, Gent , to be Second Lieutenant, Feb. 19.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Edward Wm. Cadwalla-
der Lloyd, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William !lowland
Mitchell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 12.
2d or Eastern ment of Norfolk Militia.—JohnTeafe,
Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 9.
4th er Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Thomas Fitz Gerald Wintour, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Smyth, promoted, Feb. 10.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
William Bridger, Gent., to be Ensign ; Percy Kirk, Gent.,
to be Ensign, Feb. 16.
West Suffolk Regiment of Militia.—George Rust D, Eye,
Gent., to be Ensign, Fels. 19.
[The following appointment is substituted ,for that
which appeared in the Gazette of the 26th Jan.]
East Suffolk Regiment of Militia Artillery Corps.—John
Cartes Paske, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Jan. 23.

BANKRUPTS.
James Speller, sail-maker, Wapping, to surrender,
March 13, at half-past eleven, and April 4, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee ; Atkinson, Abchurch-lane.
George Cumming Stewart, draper, Hackney-road, to
surrendr, March '2 and April 3, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Lawrence, Plows,
and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Simon Oates, builder, Cambridge, March 3, at twelve,
and April 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit:,
more, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Paxon, New
Boswell-court, Lincoln's-inn.
James Howell, builder, Judd-street, Brunswick-square,
March 6, at half-past twelve, and April 12, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Watson and Sons, Fleet-street.
Thomas Salmon, Kettering, ironmonger, Northampton-
shire, March 7, at half-past one, and April 4, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ;
Hodgson, Birmingham ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Alder-
manbury.
James King, licensed victualler, Birmingham, March
9 and 31, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee ; Hawkes, Birmingham.
Jane Mary Bentley, grocer, Dadley, March 12 and 28, at
, half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit-
more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Bodington, Dudley.
William Bowler, timber merchant, Lambeth, March 3,
at two, and April 4, at ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Rixon and
Son, King William-street, City.
John Clench, timber dealer, Exeter, March 2 and 29, at
the Exeter District Court. Blaze], official assignee,
Exeter ' • Force, Exeter.
Luiz Cauzie, hotel keeper, Bute-road, Cardiff, March 8,
and April 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling,
Bristol.
John Moore, brewer, Skircoat, Halifax, March 9 and 30
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official
assignee, Leeds • G. and G. H. Edwards, Halifax; Bond
and Barwick, Leeds.
Hayden Sounds, wheelwright, Lincoln, March 6 and
April 3, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris,
official assignee, Nottingham ; Brown, Market Deeping ;
James, Birmingham.
John Henry Cheatham, lace manufacturer, Nottingham,
March 6 and April 3, at ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham Voopei
Nottingham.
Daniel Hearn, linen draper and laeeman Cheltenham,
March 8, and April 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Prue's, Chel•
tonham ; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol.
George Cooper Rouse, baker, Doverceurt, Essex, Feb.
23, at one, and April 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers;
Cree and Son, Yenlam-buildings, Gray's-inn ; Laurance,
Ipswich.
George Richard Blackwell, marble mason, Cheltenham,
March 8 and April $, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Pruen, Cheltew
ham ; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol.
James Twiner, draper, Hedge-row, Islington, March 5
and 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Sambrook-court ; Lawrence, Flews, and
Bowyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
William Randle, miller, Cheltenham, March 8, and
April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol ; Pruen, Cheltenham ; Abbot and
Lucas, Bristol.
William Westmore Cowherd Kirkham, m oney scrivener,
Manchester, March 5 and 27, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Boots,
Manchester.
Ralph Picketone and Ambrose Mayall, cotton-spinners,
Ashton-under-Lynn, Lancashire, March 6 and April 3, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official
assignee, Manchester; Messrs. M
essrs. Rowley and Son, an-
cheer.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Campbell and Sons, bleachers, Bowfield, Iten•
frewshire.
John Campbell, tailor, Glasgow.
Robert Cross, merchant, Glasgow.

SAM SLICK.—The new work by Sam Slick, bearing
the attractive title of " Nature and Human Nature," is
to appear in e. few days. In this production it is said
that Judge Haliburton has surpassed allhisf ormer efforts,
in wit., humour, character, and originality. There is
perhaps no living writer so well acquainted with" tiuman
Nature" as the inimitable Sam, and a better subject for
his pen could not have been found.

THZ WIATHKEt.-13ux Orna, Feb. 24,
TIIERONITZZ, Tll3 SHADE.
39—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day, at noon.
Benomms, 30•03.
WIND, S.S.W.—Light, with fine shining weather and
strong thaw.

or no confidence, could be satisfied by the substi-
tution of the younger for the elder DROMIO—
that so slight a shuffling of the cards
could content the People. No. Were it
really solely meant .as "no confidence" in the
Government, it could scarcely be supposed that
the shuffling of the pack and trifling change of
position of two Members would have reversed the
prevalent opinion.

The ex-First Lord of the Admiralty dis-
covered an additional and, if well founded, most
cogent reason against proceeding with the inves-
tigation. It might, forsooth, offend the Emperor
NAPOLEON, imperil our amicable relations with
our faithful and highly-prized Allies—the French
People. And who is it that has made this dis-
covery ? The Lord of NETHERBY, the Member
for Carlisle, who made on the hustings a
speech pregnant with the most scurrilous,
wanton, and uncalled-for vituperation against the
august personage about whom he is now so tender.
If Louis NAPOLEON had that littleness of mind,
that pettiness of purpose, which the Right Hon.
Baronet so unwarrantably assumes, his own ap-
pointment, and that of Sir CHARLES Woon, who,
on the hustings at Halifax, committed a similar
offence against good feeling, would have been
fatal to the Alliance. Sir JAMES GRAZAM is
certainly the last man who should put forward
such an argument.

We hare heard the ostensible reasons for the
abandonment of office. We fear, however, that
there was something left unsaid that might
truly have been put forward ; that it might
have been stated that the Peelite Members of the
late Cabinet were not willing to serve under any
but a Peelite Premier, and that the earliest op-
portunity was taken of aiming a decisive, or what
was intended to be a decisive, blow at the PAL-
MERSTON Government, with the view to the speedy
return of the dissentients, with GLADSTONE in the
much-coveted position of First Lord of the Trea-
sury,
and the undisputed ascendancy of "Peelism.'

Although we heard the explanations of the
retiring Members of the Government last night,
we know nothing of the intentions of the remain-
ing 'Members of the Cabinet. It is true that
Lord PALMERSTON declared that " until they
find that they have lost the confidence of Par-
liament and the country, and that tie nation is
disappointed with and condemns them instead of
being disposed to support them, they will exert
themselves to the utmost, and would not fly from
the posts where the confidence of the Crown had
placed them." This is all very well—but it
is unquestionably rather vague, and the nation
wants something more than a piece of declamation,
however smoothly worded. Some degree of in-
formation ought to be afforded as to the progress
made in filling up the gaps occasioned by the se-
cession of so many influential members of the
Government. A new edition of " Who's Who,"
in February, 1855, would be peculiarly valuable
at the present crisis.
It is said that negotiations are going forward to
secure the assistance of Mr. CARDWELL, who
seems to have been promoted to the situation of
" indispensable," vies GLADSTONn, superseded; that
the cashiered ABERDEEN is conducting the negotia-
tions to induce the Right Hon. Gentleman to
withdraw his refusal to the proposition already
made by the Premier. It is also doubtful whether
Lord CANNING can be induced to remain as the
only Peelite in the Cabinet—" left blooming
alone." The ex-Premier is said to be exceedingly
desirous that the leaven of Peelism should remain
in order to afford a loop-hole for the return of
those who have " taken the bit between
their mouths and bolted." And Lord PA.I.-
'resseirenefis nibbling '"at the insidious bait,
If he desire, indeed, to retain—we should rather
say, regain—the confidence of the nation, which
has already been seriously, if not irretrievably,
compromised, he will break up the connection and
shake off the entire lot I

It would be well to be assured that he is not
negotiating with Mr. BRlGHT—that we are not to
have the accession of that Honourable Gentleman
to a seat in the Cabinet, as a demonstration that
Lord PALMERSTON is not more disposed to seek
for " peace at any price" or on any conditions
even than his good and excellent predecessor
himself. The Member for Manchester certainly
assumed airs of extraordinary self-importance.
He sprung forward to catch the Speaker's
eye the moment that Sir JAMES GRAHA➢i
'sat down, as if he too had !‘ explanations" to
offer, a defence to put forward, or at least sup-
port to tender to the unexpected convert to Peace
principles. Lord PA.LMERSTON appeared to regard
the matter in this point of view. He went out
of his way to allay the apprehensions of the Hon-
ourable Member—to assure him that there was
no change in the conditions laid down by the
late Government, indicating. pretty clearly the
nature of the instructions given to Lord JOHN
RUSSELL in his mission to Vienna.

It was not .for this that the Noble TiSCOUIIi
was selected from his late colleagues ; nor is this
the course that will induce the House or the
country to yield unhesitating confidence to any
Administration he may please to nominate. If
he wish to obtain such support he Must display
greater energy and determination than he has as
yet evinced—must prove that' he is, possessed of
the qualities for which the country gave him
credit.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS.
Second Masters—E. Swain (1847) and R. C. Dyer
(1848) promoted to the rank of masters.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—A. C. Gordon (1853) to the Belldog,
6, paddle-wheel steam-ship, .f 500-horse power, for par-
ticular service ; H. C. Glyn to the Hecate, 6, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop, of 240-horse power, at Weslwich ;
and T. D. A. Fortescue (1854) to the Barracouta,
t 3, paddlewheel steam sloop, of 300-hares power, East
India station.

Master's Attendant—W. H. Parker to the Recruit.

CAPTAIN_CRAIGIEIS SUCCESSOR.

Captain Sydney Dacres, R.N., is appointed Admiralty
Superintendent of the Southampton packet station, in
the room of Captain Craigie, appointed President of the
Transport Board.