The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...—. 2,984,900
(fold coin stud bullion 14,372,290
Silver bullion.,

'X28;372,290
Liat, Chief Cashier.

55.
I,PAirnaNT.

Government securities
(Ineludg.Dead Weight
Annuity)- .......... 14,274,373
Other securities...:.. 13,032,442
Notes •• .. .......... 8,089,425
Gold and silver coin.. 683,210

£36.079,450
:. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar corn-
puted from the returns made in the week ending the 24th
April, 1855, is 21s 9,fd per hundredweight exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable therm], on the
im-
on thereof into Greatßritain.

BANKRUPTCY ANNIILLBD.
Isidore Bloomenthal, engraver, Rodney-buildings, New
Kent-road.

BANKRUPTS.

Abraham Pierpoint Shaw, printer, Devonshire•street,
Bishopsgate-street, to surrender, May 4at half-past twelve,
and June sat twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Lawrance,
Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry;chambers. '
Thomas Brown, brass founder, Great Guildford-street,
Southwark, May. 8, at half-past twelve, and June 5, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Nickoll, Essex-street, Strand.
William Perfect Lockwood, chemist, Wakefield, May 10
at twelve, and June 8 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Marsden,
Queen-street, Cheapside.
Stair Walker, builder, Boundary-foad, St. John's-wood,
May 8, at half-past one, and June 5, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole-
man-street-buildings.; Nettleship, Red Lion-square.
Henry Osborne Box, woollen draper and tailor, Dursley,
Gloucester, May 8, and June 5, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Be-
van and Girling, Bristol.
Josiah Allen, builder, Birmingham, May 9 and June 4,
at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram and
Knight, Birmingham.
Daniel Cutter and Thomas James Hunter, tailors, Re-
gent-street, May 4, at twelve, and June 1, at half-past
eleven, at the Court• of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official as-
signee, Aldermanbury; Ford and Lloyd, Bloomsbury-
square.
William Longman, grocer, Glamorgansbire, May 11 and
June 5, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
John Hawker, builder, Weston-super-Mare, May 11 and
June 12, at eleven, at tho Bristol District Court. Hut-
ton, official assignee. Bristol; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol.
James Gartrell Fitzo, bookseller and stationer, km.,
Exeter, May 10 and 31, at one, at the Exeter District
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Geare, Mount-
ford, and Geare, Exeter; Stogdon,-Exeter.
Levi Booth, stuff p....ufacturor, Latater Dyke, Bradford,
May zz, at half-past twelve, and June 25, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds;
flarneave9 Bradford ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. •
eargaree Bolton, power loom cloth manufacturer,
Reedyford Mill, Marsden, Lancaster, May 9, and June 6,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser. official
assignee, Manchester; Backhouse, Blackburn; Wheeler
and Cobbett, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIO7AS.
A. and J. M‘Lellan, wood merchants, Port of Rossdhu,
Dumbartonshire.

John Hart, grocer, Springburn, Lanarkshire.

THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC.

( From the Supplement to the London Gazette, of Friday,
April 27.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 27.
NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that her Majesty's Government
has received information from Captain Watson, R.N.,
commanding a squadron of her 'Majesty's ships in the
Baltic, dated "Her Majesty's ship Impdrieuse, off Libau,
April 18, 1855," to the effect that on and from the 17th
day of April, 1855, and in the name of her Majesty and
of her ally his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor of the
French, the Russian port of Libau, on the coast of
Courland, was placed in a state of strict blockade by
a competent force of her Majesty's ships and vessels ; and
that on and from the 19th of April, 1855, all Russian
ports, Toads, havens, and creeks, from lat. 55 deg. 54
min. north, long. 21 deg. 5 min. east, to the Filsand
Lighthouse, in lat. 58 deg. 25 min. north, long. 21 deg.
50 min. east (including especially the ports of Sacken-
baum, Windau, and the entrance to the Gulf of Riga),
were also placed in a state of strict blockade by a compe-
tent force ; and it is hereby notified that all measures
authorised by the laws of nations and the respective
treaties between her Majesty and her allies with the dif-
ferent neutral Powers will be adopted and executed with
respect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the
said blockade.

RAILWAY TRAFEIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.