The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-21 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ;
lamb, 5s 8d to Os 8d; veal, 3s 6d to 48 6d; and pork, 3s 2d
to 4s 4d per 8113 s, by the carcase.

WHITECHAPEL.

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Beef, from 25 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 35 6d to 42 6d ;
lamb, 66 8d to 66 8d ; veal, 3s 6d to 45 6d; and pork, 35 2d
to 45 4d per 81b5 by the carcase.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
63/4d to 7d; of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2itl to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d
to 30 ; 721 b to 801 b, 34d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 41(1 ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to 5d ; 961 b to 1041 b, —d to Od ; 1041 b to
1121b,—d to —d. Horse hides, lOs Od to 12s Od ; calf skins'
light, 28 6d to 45 Od ; full, 8s Od to Os Od ; Dom,shee, Os
Od to Os Od ; half-breds, —s Od to —8 Od ; lOO Od to
12s Od; lambs, 3s Od to 48 8d; shearlings, ls 11d to Os Od.
HAY MARKETS.
SmmatzLD.—Meadow hay, £2 105 to 108 £4 10s Od;
eclover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, 45 to £lload,
Trade dull.
CmusHßLANDMea,low hay, £2 100 to £4 10s; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od; and straw, £l4s to £1 10s per load.
Trade Blow.
WHIECHAYEL.—Meado hay £2los to Di 108 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 105 Od ; and straw, Li 4s to LI lOs per load,
Trade inactive.

ATTEMPTEDTEDSUICIDE BY A BRIDE.—An aged
female, who had for some time been in receipt of 30s. a
month' from some fund, attempted to commit suicide at
Devonport under the following circumstances :—lt appears
that on Thursday morning she was, to the surprise of many
of her friends, unitedin the bonds of matrimony, and by so
doing she forfeited her monthly allowance. After the wed-
ding ceremony was concluded she was made acquaintea
with the fact, and this so preyed upon her spirits that she
took a dose of poison. Medical aid was sought, and having
been attended to, she was removed to the hospital is a oab.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY,
D111133Y.
sto 1 agst General Peel (taken)
6to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken)
Bto 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken)
9to 1 agst Birohbroom (taken)
12 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken)
16 to 1 agst Historian (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
25 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken)
33 to 1 agst Stafford (taken)
33 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken)
50 to 1 agst Ackworth (offered)
100 to 1 agst Forager (offered)

LONDON 'GAZETTE--Last Evening.

LORD CHAINIBERLAN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 3L
ba
otice is hereby given that her Royal Highness the
Princess Drawing of
Rooma
Walest
jainyes,s commandrace of the Queen, hold a
on behalf of her
Majesty, on Tuesday, the 14th June next, at two o'clock.
It is the Queen's pleasure that presentations to her Royal
Highness at the Drawing Room shall be considered as
equivalent to presentations to her Majesty.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 31.
Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales will, by command of the Queen, hold
levees at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on
Wednesday, the Ist of June next, and on Wednesday, the
22d of June next, at two o'clock.
It is the Queen's pleasure that presentations to his Royal
Highness at thum Levees shall be considered as equivalent
to presentations to het Majesty.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 19.
Notification of the raising of the blockade of the Prussian
ports in the Baltic, and the ports of Sleswig and Hot,
stein.
It is hereby notified that Earl Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has re.
ceived from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Copenhagen
an official notification, issued by the Ministry of Marine of
the King of Denmark, and dated the 10th May,.1864, an-
nouncing that the blockade, by the Danish Naval Forced,
of the Prussian ports in the Baltic, and of the parts of Sles-
wig and Holstein (which ports and places are particularly
named in the official notice hereunder set forth), will, from
the 12th of this present month (May, 1861) be raised, and
ceased to be in force.
The following is the official notification received by Earl
Russell :
The Ministry of Marine notifies herewith, that according
to the suspension of hos ilities, concluded yesterday in Lon-
don, the blockade of the ports cammin, Swinemunde,
Wolgast, Greifswalde, zAralsuEc:, Barth, Danzig, and
Pillau will be raised the 12th of this month.
Further, the. blockade of ports anci inlets in the Duchies
of Sleswig and Holstein, notified under the ISth and 27th
of February and 22d of March this year, will be raised from,
the same time. 0, LuTKEN.
_ _

Ministry of Marine, Copenhagen,
the 10th May, 1864.
WAR-OFFICE, MAT IS.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Major Patrick Stewart, of the Royal
(late Bengal) Engineers, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Gadban a
Consul-General in London fur the Sublime Ottoman Porto
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Manuel Jose Quintana as Vice-Consul at Newcastle for
her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MAY 20.
6th Lancers—Captain Cornwallis H. Chichester, from 13th
Foot, to be Captain, vice E. F. Weaver, who exchanges.
7th Hussars—Lieutenant Francis Arthur Hutchins, front
the Bth Hussars, to be Lieutenant, vice E. 11, Kennard,

who exchanges.
Sth Hussars—Lieutenant Edmond Hegan Kennard, from
7th Hussars, to b 3 Lieutenant, vice F. A, Hutchins, who

exchanges.
12th Lancers—Lieutenant David Roche Vandeleur to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Henry Marlow Sidney, who
retires—Cornet Edward Albert Pole to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Vandeleur—Henry Lancaster Graham,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pole.
15th Hussars—Ensign Henry %Vise Ridley Blackett, from,
the 86th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Cuthbert Larking, who

retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Hon. Thomas 0. W
Plunkett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major
Richard Llewellyn Williams, who retires—Ensign Ernest
Alexander Morant to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hon. T. 0. W. Plunkett—Ensign Frederick Coninghat
from the 53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morant.
2d Foot—Captain 'William M. D. Alderson, from the 77th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Gair, who exchanges.
3d Foot—Captain Penrose John Dunbar to be Major, by
purchase, vice William Henry Cairnes, who retires—
Lieutenant Walter Augustus Daubeny to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Dunbar—Ensign Thomas William Car-

Penter, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Daubeny—
William Robert Aylmer Raly, Gent., to be Ensign, by

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purchase, vice Carpenter. -
Bth Foot—Sergeant-Major Alfred Beiry to be Quarter.
master, vice Charles ',lsherwood, who retires upon half.

pay.
12th Foot—Sergeant-Major James Edwin Tripp, to ba
Quartermaster, vice Thomas Huddlestone, appointed
Paymaster.
13th Foot—Captain Edward Francis Weaver, from the
sth Lancers, to be Captain, vice C, H. Chichester, whQ

exchanges.
Nth Foot—Captain Cornelius George O'Brien, from. the
Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Captain, vice John Blakey
who retires upon temporary half-pay.
39th Foot—Lieutenant John Henry Murray to be Captain,
by purchase, vice William Newport Tinley, who retires
—Ensign Henryi Lewis Brooke White to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Murray—Henry O'Brien, Gent., to ha
Ensign, by purchase, vico
53d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Frederick Coningham, front
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Ainsworth, promoted—Alfred Philip Mules,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice F. Ceninghare,
transferred to the Ist Foot.
62d Foot—Ensign Edward Podmore Clarke to be Lieuten.,
ant, by purchase, vice Eugene Charles Pol'eaten, who
retires—Thomas Fentham Todd, Gent,, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Clara.
77th Foot—Captain William Clair, from 2d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Alderson, who exchanges.
86th Foot—Lieut. Joshua James Bowness to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Robert L. Grant M'Grigor, who re-
tires—Ensign Edward Philipps to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Bowness—Henry Brooke Rhodes, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice H, W, R. Blackett,
transferred to 15th Hussars—George Cooper, Gent., tg
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Philipps.
92d Foot—Ensign Henry Benjamin Archer has bee 4
superseded for being absent without leave.
94th Foot—Ensign Francis John Hassard to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice James Strachan, who retires—George
Mussel Salvia Bowlby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hassard.

BREVET.
Captain Alexander Cockburn, half-pay, Unattached, to
be Major.
Captain and Brevet Major Alexander Cockburn, half.
pay, unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Frederic Brine, Royal Engineers, to be Major.
Captain Ambrose Wolrige, Royal Marines, to be Major.
Captain Robert Edward Henry, 86th Foot, to be Major 4
Captain Henry John Wilkin, 94th Foot, to be Major.
The following promotions and alterations in dates of corn.
missions to take place consequent on the promotion of
Colonel E. Frome, Royal Engineers, as Major-General, on.
sth January. 1864, and of Colonel B. Cuppage,
goys
Artillery, as Major-General, on March 1, 1864.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.

Major William Williamson, 85th Foot.
Major Wliay Rynd, 62d Foot.
TO BE MAJORS.

Captain Spencer Henry Hutchins Edwards, 98th Foot.
Captain Matthew Bligh Forde, Royal Artillery.
MEMORANDUX.—Captain Alexander Cockburn, half-pay
unattached, has been permitted to retire from the service by
the sale of his commission, under the Horse Guards' Cir.!
cular Memorandum of February 15, 1861.

Henry BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial Inv.
portance in the Gazette :
Hussey, beerseller, London-road, Southwark
Thomas Menzies, ship chandler, Poplar
Robert Poulter, clerk, Lambeth
Andre Giraud, wine merchant, Aldgate
Alphonse Lambert, general agent, Red Lion-square
Donald Macdonald, glass-stainer, Camden-town
Thomas Stuart, builder, Islington
Richard Metcalfe, grocer, Melton
Roderick Jones, saddler, Brecon
James Smith, draper, Boston
Joseph Richardson, grocer, Liverpool
James H. Hayes, broker, Liverpool
Henry Edwards, fishmonger, Sunderland
Stephen Escudier, surveyor, Kensington
Samuel Young, tailor, Ride
John Cutts, haberdasher, Bilston
James Heathwaite, cheesemonger, Poplar
Alfred Crabb, surgeon, Poole
SCOTCH BANKRUF
James Carmichael, poulterer, JO inburgu
John Dunlop, auctioneer FraserbFrgh h
Gillon and Shiells, meroll E b h
dm urg
John Belshay Marr, builder,
Stotfaulds, Forfarshire.
1 James Dickson, farmer, ants,Rdinburg

;e of the Exchange.—.yesterday.

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25 77#
'Vienna
11 85 11 90
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Berlin
Madrid
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Milan
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Naples
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25 80 25 85
25 85 26 g 0

The King of the Belgians left Brussels on Tues-
day morning for the chateau of Ardenne. His
Majesty was accompanied by Count Con,
way, intendant of the Civil List, and Dr,
licepl, his physician.
On the previous even,
ing the King gave a grand dinner at the
palace in Brussels in honour of the new
Minister of Mexico, Don Arrangoitz y Berzobal,
and the Grand Duke of Hesse. Besides the royal
family and the guests above-mentioned, his Majesty
had invited several members of the diplomatic
body, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Presi,
dent of the Chamber of Representatives, and other
high functionaries.