The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY—DEa. 17.

The following promodo-_ s 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 ; Viee-Admiral of the Red
Sir Samuel Pym, 8.C.8., to -beliAilruiral of the Blue ;
Vice-Admiral of the White Troinai 'Brovrn to be Vice-
Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Adthiral' of the Blue the Hon.
,Josceline Percy, C. 8., to be Woe-Admiral of the White ;
rhear-Admiral of the Red James Whitley Deans Dundas,
0.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral of
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
terms proposed in the London Gazette of Ist September,
1846, without increase of Pay :—Captain Henry Theodo-
sius Browne Collier, Captain John Brenton, Captain Wil-
liam 2,2.nasden, Captain Henry Stanhope, Captain John
Townsend Coffin, Captain Edward Curzon, C. 8., Captain
Septimns Arabin.

Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of
Pembrokeshire.

George Dann, Esq.. to be Deputy Lieutenant; William
Thomas, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Dec. 18.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Sir Frederick William Heygate, Bart., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; Captain George Floyd uckett 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, Egg., to be Deputy Lieutenant • James Rce, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Joceph Turnley, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; Robert Crook Walford, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Westmore-

landshire.

James Gandy, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 4.
Commigsions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Royal Wiltshire Militia--Johu 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 Somersetshi re Regiment of itiP,--Enstn 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 Kerridge, cheesemonger, Deptford, Kent
to surrender, Jan. 4, at twelve, and Feb. §, at eleven, ai
the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official- assignee, Ab.
church-lane ; Pocock and. Poole, Bartholomew-close.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap, 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 18th day of December, 1852.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

£
Notes issued ........ 34,495,125

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 20,475,971
Silver bullion

A:344495,125

434,495,125

d. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1852.

Dated the 23d day of December,

BANKING Dl
X
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest . 3,080,773
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
. _ _

:PARTMENT.

Government securities

cincludg.Dead Weight

Annuity) . .
Other securities...... 13,356,03.
Notes .. ............ 12,258,660
Gold and silver coin.. 670,099

Dividend Accounts) 8,648,726
Other deposits .. —.. 12,496,270
Seven Day and other
Bills —.. .......... 1,468,714

£40,247,483

£40,247,483
rf. MARSHALL, Chief Cashiep

Dated the 23d day of December

1852.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 21st day of
December, 1852, is 255. id. per hundred weight, exclusive
of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

COITRSE OF EXCHANGE—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam ......., .... 11 17 !Gibraltar ..............

....30 35
....25 371.

Ditto, three months .. 11 181( 'Leghorn ..
Rotterdam .
Antwerp .............. 25 30 Milan ...... .
Mussels .............. 25 30 'Venice ........
Bamburgh 13 654 Naples ...... .
Altona ................ Pe'ermo
Parts •....... 25 10 Messina ..
Ditto, three months • . 25 27% Lisbon
Marseilles........ •..... 25 30 Oporto
Bourdeaux
Frankfort.on•Maine .... 119% Buenos Ayre5..........
Berlin . New York; 46ir clays' -sight
Vienna .. .. 11 23 Philadelphia ..........
Trieste ... ........ • • .. 11 24 PRICES OF BULLION, Pl.?. oz.
Petersburgh.. 38 4 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid. .... 49% Portugal. Gold Coln .. 0 0 0
Cadiz ........ 50% Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 11
Barcelona.... . ..... New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Seville .• • . Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0