The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-21 00:00:00

GERIIANY•

The authorities of Posen (says the Times' corre-
spondent) have enough to do to answer the strange
applications that are sometimes mode to them by the
Polish and German peasantry. The idea that has
got abroad among them of the vast grants of land
Kossuth has received from the "King of America"
does not stand alone ; another impression that
has taken root in their minds is much
more extraordinary ; for sonic time past
the officials have received numbers of applications for
s'alres in a " Rothschild Lottery," of which they of
course knew nothing; but, on inquiry, was fuund
the peasants have been persuaded that the " great
Rothschild" has been sentenced to be beheaded! But
from his intimate relations with the European
monarchs he has been allowed to procure a substitute
(if he can) by lottery 1 For this purpose a sum of
many millions is devoted, all the tickets to be
prizes of 3,000 thalers each, except one ;
that fatal number is a blank, and whoever
draws it is to be decapitated instead of the cele-
brated banker ! Notwithstanding the risk, the ap-
plicants for shares have been numerous, and the
officials are scarcely believed when they explain to
the deluded people that the lottery is a fiction. The
origin of the absurd report cannot be traced, but it
has given the authorities a good deal of trouble. The
jouraals lament that any part of the population should
be in such a state of ignorance as to render belief in
such a story possible.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, April 20.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 7, 1852.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 21st
April instant, at two o'clock.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 7.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will bold
'raving-rooms, at St. James's Pelac-,, on the following
lays, at two o'clock :—Thursday,2 -A.17. April inst.; and
EThuraday, 13th May next, to celetrate her Majesty's
irth•day. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are
to appear in their collars at the drawing-room on the
13th of May next.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S
DRAWING-ROOMS.

The Ladies who purpose to attend her Majesty's draw-
ng-rooms are requested to bring with them two large
cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one to
be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the
Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the
Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her
Majesty. And those Ladies who are to be presented
at the Drawing-room on the 29th of April instant are
hereby informed, that it is absolutely necessary that their
names, together with the names of the Ladies who are to
present them, should be sent in to the Lord Chamber-
lain's office on Tuesday, the 27th of April instant, before
12 o'clock, in order that they may be submitted for the
Queen's approbation; it being her Majesty's command,
that no presentation shall take place unless the name of
the Lady presenting, together with that of the Lady to
be presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered to
the Lord Chamberlain, which name shall correspond
with those previously sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's
Office. It is particularly requested that in every case
written cards only be delivered.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William
Charles Gibson, EiAi , to be Auditor-General for the
island of Ceylon; Caries Peter Leyard, Esq., to be
Government Agent for the Western Province of that
island; and Edward Hums Smedley, Eiq., to be District
Julge of Gallo, in that island.
AD sIIRALTY, APRIL 19.
We, being two of the Commissioners for executing the
office or Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, hereby order that on and
after the Ist January, 1:..453, all nr.val clerks who *hall
have pe.ss€d the requisite ex-imination a 3 to fireees tor the
rank of Pty master in the Royal :`,Z,vv, se as to be duly
denominated " Pas%ed Clerk," shall be exempt from
the provisions and regui itics of the several Acts o
Parliameet relating to petty officers and sea;nen in her
Majesty's service, so far as regardi their wills, aduaiuis-
teatir,nti, powers of atto:r.y, ft act priz3 orders ; and that
any deeds of assignment which " Passed Clerks" may
make after that date will be subject to the rules apply-
ing to those of commissioned officers.
A . DUNCOMBE, A. MILNE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Arm 17.

It is hereby notified that the Earl of Malmesbury, her
Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has
received from the Lords Cotnmissioners of the Admiralty
a copy of a dispatch, dated the 11th of February last,
from Henry William Bruce, Esq., Commodore and Com-
mander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Naval Forces on the
West Coast of Africa, informing their Lordships that he
had issued the following notification of the raising of the
blockade of certain ports and phicos in the Bight of
Benin :
Her Britannic Majeaty'a steam-ship Penelope,
Wbydah, February 11, 1352.
Notice is hereby given, that the Kings and Chiefs of
the places noted in the margin,* having entered into en-
gagements with her Britannic Majesty's Government for
the complete abolition of the traffic in slaves, their sea
coast and ports are to be exempt from the operations of
the blockade established by me on the 6th of December
last, and to be considered free as heretofore for the pur-
poses of legitimate trade.
(Signed) 11. W. BRUCE, Commodore and
Commander-in-Chief of her Bri-
tannic Majesty's Naval Forces
on the West Coast of Africa.

* Block-ouse, Elmina Chita, Adaffie, Flohow, Porto Se-
garo, Gomnlata, Little Popoe, Aghwey, Great Popoe, Porto
Novo, Lagos.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 19.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Major Alex-
ander Tanen to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Louie, re-
tired on full-pay ; Second Captain William Swinton
to be Captain, vice Tulloh ; First Lieutenant
Thomas Walter Milward to be Second Captain,
vice Swinton ; Second Lieutenant John Keane
Pickering to be First Lieutenant, vice Milwurd ;
Brevet Major Henry Poole to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Wood, retired on full-pay; esecond Captain Delves
Broughton to be Captain, vice Poole; First Lieutenant
Henry Lowther Cherrnsids to be Second Captain, vice
Broughton; Second Lieutenant Augustus William
Johnson to be First Lieutenant, vice Chermside;
Brevet Major henry George Teesdale to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Lethbridge, retired on full- pay ;
Second Captain Allan Hamilton Graham to be Captain,
vice Teesdale; First-Lieutenant Alexander Theophilus
Blakely to he Second Captain, vice Graham; Second
Lieutenant John Andrew Price to be First Lieutenant,
vied Blakely; Brevet Major Noel Thomas Lake to be
Lientenant-Colonel, vice Stow, retired on full-pay; Se-
cond-Captain Jehn Miller Adye to be Captain, vice
Lake, April 1.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Merionethshire.
Sir Robert
Lie Williames Vaughan, Birt.. to be Deputy
_Versant; Theme., Edgard .Nana. I, ' 1 M '
E2(11 ,to bt, re-, --- a elf osln,
Ed-
ward wynn,l,eiuty Lieutenant; William Vi akin Ed-
Meredith ItichaTT tee" be Deputy Lieutenent; Richard
Commiseions e- til, ....,;1„, to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal mialtilDis.eo-Lord-Lieutenaut of Mid-Lethian.
William Blithe to be Captain, Cavalry—Lieutenant
resiened; Cornet Jon„ kr' Ti" Stewart Baiiii° Hare'
. Mowbray to be Lieutenant,
vice Baillie, promoted, Et,
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BANKRUPTcy
.
SiIPERSEDED.
Leamington Priors, Wa a; k h.re
Henry Cooke, hatter,
BANKRUPTS , r ..e II 1 .
William John Dante and J • Porter, builders,
, at the
Han-field-place, Mile End-rout], ta,rne3
arurender, May 4, at
two, and May 31, at eleven
Ed sards, official assignee, Sambrook- court,
of Bankruptcy.
court Berne
street; Sere end Gribble, Lombard-street. , , . hall-
Edmund Spettigue and G'eorge Farrance, b ok
Chnncery-lane', April 30 and June 4, at eleven, at
Court of Bankruptcy. Celina's, official assignee, Aatldthe
menbury; Tilsen, Clarke, end gerice, Colemea-streeer-
John Dawson. surgeon, Tolleshunt Darcy, Es-set.
April 30, at hall-pazt eleven, and Jute 4. at eleven Essex,
the Ceurt of Bankruptcy. Nicholsen, ereeiat
assignee,
1h 11 Remnev-eerrace -
Besingeell-strect; Ant:. , , . , horseferry.
road and Colchester. .
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c.ur e
Williere freenr, waeiesale mien9fe. e),.., Stationer,
Great Merlboreughnereet, Weatinneqer, May e, and
June 8, a: ~,..ne, at the Conrt el Bankruptcy. stalateid,
otikial ng3ignee; Lir klntor, Sise-lane, Buckl,nisoury. •
Woolwich, April 29. at
John Hints iletline, grocer,
tee!ve, and May 27, nt eleven, at the Court of Batik-
ruptcy: am, etei,i s„-".nee; Bathe, America-square.
Plieteck BArrin provistoe dealer, Liverpool, May 4
and Jane •a, at eleven, at, the Liverpool District Court.
Ctii:qloVe, aem orreeal . -
.. . knee. . .i '
L;vcrouol• Yates, jars., Li-
veriol. ' '-.
Mary Feuraere, innkeeper VsT7gere 11',..sr'Fash, ire. May
1 au't 17, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court.
M35-'l;:etzie, efileiel n5,3.ic2n,3.,0, Manchester,- Peice, Wigan.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
T. Sinfield, General Puso,eoffice sorter, Trinity-street,
Liverpool-road, Islington.
I-letry Blom picture dealer, Stanley-street, Chelsce.
ter: N. chin :ore, saddler, St. Jel.n,treet.
He H. Creed, clerk in the House. of Common', Deka-
street, St. James's. -
F. Rabinsen, checsemonger, Church-street, Shoreditcb.
E. Hall, ceffee-hoesek.gepee,Peeer's-bill, Motors' Com.
E. A. (3.e.ire, dentist, -Henriette:'-atreet, Covent-harden.
John Benton, Acton-street, Gray's Inn-road.
Thoutal .11,Iiirraer, printer, rainoes guars, Kennington.
Themes J. Winter, attorney-at-law, Illichmond, Surrey.
N.Daniell,:den,iit, Upper Gordon-street, Euston-square.
G. Raii9, cornet 14th Light Dragoons, Brixton-road.
B. -.reeving, tea dealer, Ceeticowcrhy, Camherl -4nd.
W, Letcb,jau., beteller, Gesforth, Camberland.
IV. F. mills merchant, Stanleyeatreet. Brompton.
--e- teisho j-' . ' 0 ller Birminghaw.
iemo__P, licensed veni. . e,
w. J 540, malts ter, Biraiingeam.
N,1717, provision deal-z, Beatifert, Brecknockshire.
B. loenetule lies, brick make-, L Waite, Worcestershire.
E. nlete„„,t,n,.ker, Middlcseerough, -Yorkshire.
J. G .c...-3r_..,
rr0,45 founder, Birmingham.
Gorge, dread eu, .
T. I e Ruskin, tee ' veyor, Ceventry, Warwickshire.
B. E ~)sine,.., hatiseeeter, Werrington, Devonshire.
C. Vl. Carriegt,„,er r, T Ilri bridge Wells.
C. T. Kirby, thieedP„°''4l"ee, Blackbeath-h'll
• epee Is 1 , i •
T. ~:-.ai,enece, matater, ec-',,i a month.
I. *.,,er. Liudloy, currier, m:ZiIY•
We Marcheut, shopeeen, Ramsgate,
J. :Marsh, screw bolt maker, eVotv,e);
J. Wrigglesworth, licensed victualleent. Lancashire.
J. X Clarke, snip chandler,Lieeeg;ile. iyeepool..
W. Donbavand, journeyman dagger, ma
J..ii-Teensby„ bookbinder, Blandford pomne_cheetar.
R. Greeneinnkeener, Northampton. en Drchester.
N. lieeetrowitz, .cigar dealer, Manchester.
J. Sui:elin,diMe burner.
Gorton, Lancashire.
A. Sa?i'diflUti, baler, banchester.
S. Swin dells, provision shop keetiei, NewtOn,
_rica Li - ihiri.
J. S. Ya,%es, grocer, Leeds.