The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET- DEC. 23.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Belford Hinton Wilson, Esq., some-
time her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to
the republic of Venezuela, to be an ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders
of th 3 Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of Wil-
liam Fenwick Williams Esq., Captain in the Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, and Brevet Lieutenant. Colonel in the
Army, some time employed on a special service in Turkey,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the
Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable
Order.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain George
Edward. Wade to be Civil Commissioner and Collector of
Taxes for the Seychelles Islands, dependencies of the laland.
of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Thomas Kelly,
Esq., M.D., to be an Assistant Magistrate for the district
of Natal, in South Africa.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 24.
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sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain John Digby
Murray, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice
Brevet Major Abraham Bolton, who exchanges ' • Lieu-
tenant Adolphus William Desalt Burton to be Captain by
purchase, vice Murray, who retires ; Cornet Henry Hugh
McNeile to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burton ;
Cornet Richard G. Boraford Bolton, from the Ist Dragoon
Guards, to be Cornet, vice McNeile, Dec. 24.
2d Dragoons—Captain Wm. Boyd, from the 87th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Robertson, who exchanges, Dec. 24.
11th Light Dragoons—Brevet Major John Douglas, to
be Major, by purchase, vice Jones, promoted in 3d West
India Regiment; Lieutenant Arthur Brisco, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Douglas, Dec. 24.
7th Regiment of Foot—Captain Reginald Yonge Ship-
ley, from the 55th Foot, to be Captain, vice Verner, who
exchanges, Dec. 24.
10th Foot—Ensign Henry Henderson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Maher, who retires, Dec. 24.
12th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Edward Crofton, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Hearn, deceased ; Ensign
Thomas Edmund Miller, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Crofton, Oct. 13; Serjeant-Major George Gib-
son, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Miller, Dec. 24.
20th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon John Meane to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cole, promoted in the Ist West
India Regiment, Dec. 24.
55th Foot—Captain John Donovan Verner; from the
7th Foot, to be Captain, vice Shipley, who exchanges,
Dec. 24.
79th Foot—Brevet-Colonel Horatio Walpole, from half-
pay 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Honourable
Lauderdale Maule, who exchanges ; Major Edmund James
Elliot to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Wal-
pole, who retires ; Brevet-Major John Douglas to be Major,
by purchase, vice Elliot ; Lieutenant Keith Ramsay Mait-
land to be Captain, by purchase vice Douglas ; Ensign
Henry Holford Stevenson to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Maitland, Dec. 24.
87th Foot--Captain Andrew Robertson, from the 2d
Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Boyd, who exchanges, Dec.
90th Foot—Captain Tobias Purcell, from half-pay un-
attrached, to be Captain (repaying the difference), vice
Brevet Major John Blaquiere Mann, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant Thomas James Meredith to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Purcell, who retires ; Ensign Henry Hope
Crealock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Meredith,
Dec. 24.

95th Foot—Major James Webber Smith to be Lieut.-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Walter, who retires ; Captain
Henry Hume to be Major, by purchase, Nice Smith ; Lieu-
tenant James George Eddington to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Hume ; Ensign Frederick James Taylor to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eddington, Dec. 24.
Ist West India Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon Robert
John Cole, M.D., from the 20th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice
John Edmondstone Stewart, M.D., who retires upon half-
pay, Dec. 24.

- 2d West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major Milner Bur-
leigh, from the Ist Went India Regiment, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Thompson, deceased, Dec. 24.
3d West India Regiment—Major Inigo William Jones,
from the 11th light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchasea vice Findlay, who retires, Dec. 24.
BREVET .—Captain John Digby Murray, of the sth Dra-
goon GuArds, to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837 ;
Brevet Major John Digby Murray, of the sth Dragoon
Gue.rds, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 11,
18x1; Captain Tobias Purcell, of the 90th Foot, to be Ma-
jor in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841 ; Brevet-Major Tobias Pur-
cell, of the 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, Nov. 11, 1851.
The under-mentioned Cadets of the East India Com-
prAny's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of
Ensign, during the period of their being placed under the
command of Colonel Harry D. Jones, of the Royal Engi-
neers, at Chatham, for field instruction in the art of Sap-
ping and Mining :—Salusbury Thomas Trevor, sent. ;
George Newmarch, Gent. ; Thomas Beckley, Gent. • Cuth-
bert Walter Finch, Gent. ; John Lidstone Watts, 'Gent. ;
Irwin Montgomery Greig, Gent. ; John Norris Huntl)r,
Gent. ; Joseph Bealty, Gent., Dec. 24.
MEMORANDUM. The Christian names of Captain
Meehan, of the Ist West India Regiment, are " George
Walter," and not " Walker," as previously stated.
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ADMIRALTY—DEo. 17:
The following promotions have this day taken place con-
sequent on the death, on the 16th instant, of Admiral of
the Blue Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G.:—
Vice-Admiral John Wight, on the Reserved Half-pay
List, to be Admiral on the same list ; Vice-Admiral Wil-
liam Henry B. Tromlett, on the Reserved Half-pay List,
to be Admiral on the same list ; Vice-Admiral of the Red
Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue ;
Vice-Admiral of the White Thomas Brown to be Vice-
Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon.
Josceline Percy, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White ;
Rear-Admiral-of the Red James Whitley Deans Dundas,
C.B. to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral of
the White Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral
of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue Francis Erskine
Loch to be Rear-Admiral of the White ; Captain Sir
George Richard Brooke Pechell, Bart., to be Rear-Admiral
on Reserved Half-pay ; Captain Herbert Brace Powell
to be Rear-Admiral on Reserved Half-Pay ; Cap-
tain the Hon. Henry John Rous to be Rear-Ad-
miral of the Blue • and the following Captains on the
Retired List to 'be Retired Rear-Admirals on the
t.e„Fllls, proposed in the London Gazette of Ist September,
-s96l:_without increase of Pay :—Captain Henry Theodo-
-ITownsius 11.rsovrne Collier, Captain John Brenton, Captain Wil-
. OMn, Captain EdwarSd
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Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; Captain George Floyd Duckett to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; Major William Elsey to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Henry Morris Kemshed, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Charles Mills' Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant • Sir John
Musgrove, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Lodge Murray
Prior, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant • James Roe, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Joseph T;irnley, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; Robert Crook Watford, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Westmore-
landshire.
James Gandy, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 4.
Commissions signed by the Lorcl-Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Royal Wiltshire Militia—John Elton Prower, Esq., to be
Captain, Dec. 8 ; George Hodgson Wayte, Gent., to be
Ensign, Dec. 7.
Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset-
shire.

Ist Somersetshireßegiment ohfilitin—Ensign Alexander
William Adair to be Captain, vice Jones, resigned, Dec. 18;
the Honourable Amias Poulett to be Ensign, vice Adair,
promoted ; Lieutenant. Herbert Butler Batten to be Cap-
tain, vice Ford, resigned ; Ensign Edward Clarke to be
Lieutenant, vice Batten, promoted, Dec. 20.
BANKRUPT.
William John Berridge, cheesemonger, Deptford, Kent,
to surrender, Jan. 4, at twelve, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
church-lane ; Pocock and Poole, Bartholomew-close.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

R. Warren, Nelson-place Remmington-street, City-road,
coach-maker, Jan. 14, at half-past twelve-W. Lock-yer,
Old-street, St. Luke's, and King-street, St. Giles's-in-the-
Fields, baker, Jan. 14, at twelve-J. Westley, Playhouse-
yard, City, bookbinder, Jan. 18, at eleven-G. Bolton,
Albany-street, Regent's-park, coachbuilder, Jan. 18, at
eleven-T. Linsell and W. Linsell, Piccadilly, tailors, Jan.
21, at eleven-J. B. Drew, Wittam's-buildings Old-street-
road, carpenter and builder, Jan. 21, at eleven-J. Thomp-
son, Piccadilly, linen-draper, Jan. 18, at one-E. Steward,
Broughton, Norfolk, corn-merchant, Jan. 14, at twelve-
T. Roe, Suffolk-place, Lower-road, Islington, uphols-
terer, Jan. 14, at half-past eleven-A. Sands, Coal
Exchange, City, and Chatham, coal-merchant, Jan.
15, at two-R. Green, jun., Brighton, ironmonger,
Jan. 15, at half-past one-A. Dean, Brighton, clothier,
Jan. 15, at one-T. Harris and J. Burls, Hampstead-
road, brewers, Jan. 15, at eleven-S. W. Gillam, Tarling-
ton-place, Edgware-road, wine merchant, Jan. 15, at half-
past one -J. P. Sandie, North Ockendon, Essex, market
gardener, Jan. 15, at half-past twelve-J. Heathwaite,
New-street, Covent-garden, cheesemonger, Jan. 15, at one
-H. N. Brewer, Counter-hill, St. Paul's, Deptford, and
Bermondsey-wall, Bermondsey, mast and blockmaker, Jan.
15, at half-past one-W. B. Adams, and G. Ralstoli, Fair-
field Works, Bow, engineers, Jan. 15, at two-W. B.
Adams, Fair-field Works, engineer, Jan. at two-J. B.
Dauptain, Wharf-road, City-road, colour-merchant, Jan.
15, at twelve-E. H. Dalby, Hornsey-road, butcher, Jan.
14, at half-past one-R. Sewell, Swaffham, scriviner, Jan.
14, at half-past one-T. Messon, Fenchurch-street, coal-
merchant, Jan. 15, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
P. A. Morley, Great Bridge, Staffordshire, iron manu-
facturer, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham-
S. Grocock, Leicester, hosier, Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court,
Birmingham-A. W. Bellairs, Stamford, Lincolnshire, and
J. Bellairs, Derby, bankers, Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court,
Nottingham-R. Eminsou, Grantham, Lincolnshire, scriv-
ener, Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham-H. Glad-
win, Nottingham. draper, Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court,
Nottingham-T. Young, Hartlepool, Durham, grocer, Jan.
21, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-'Tyne-
G. Rowell, jun., Carlisle, painter and glazier, Jan. 21, at
eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-D. Gibson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer, Jan. 21, at twelve, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-E. M. Hadaway, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, grocer, Jan. 21, at one, at the Court, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.