The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

THE ERUPTION OF ./ETNA.

We have been fay.,ured with the perusal of a pri-
vate letter as late as the 16 h September, announcing
the lava to have taken another direction, and is fast
approaching Milo, the inhabitants of which, to save
the wood, are cutting down their chestnut trees, and,
of course, emptying their houses.
A coasting vessel, the Mongibello, when lying at
anchor near Catania, has been covered with sal am-
moniac, the issue from the mountain. A specimen
has been sent to this island, and has been pronounced
of the very best quality. Tile mountain sent it forth
in vast clouds.

We find the following graphic account of the lava
in a 'utter, dated Ca'ania, Aug. 30:—
" Yesterday, after breakfast, we reached Zaffarana ;
from the last house in the village we saw the lava at
gunshot distance, and at that distance the heat was
way great.
"The manner in which the extraordinary and
frightful torrent advanced is not to be described—it
must be seen. It moves slowly and uninterruptedly :
the first waves, if I may so express myself, rise and
fall at the least obstacle they encounter ; then send
forth streamlets here and there, recede, extend them-
sqlves, and again advance. Now it is heard as a con-
tinned sound of glass breaking in the fire, nothing
more, and now immense damage succeeds. Every
now and then it is arrested, denoting the presence of
greater obstacles or of water.
"By day all this grand mass presents an appear-
ance between red and yellow, sometimes dull, some-
times brighter. I can ill describe the spectacle by
night. : that dull stream of fire, those clouds of ashes
and sulphureous vapours, are beyond description, and
sublimely horrible.

The streams of lava are much higher than the
surrounding land, for as the former beds have become
solid the new lava flows over them.

"In truth, nothing can be more picturesque, could
we divest ourselves of the feeling of misery and grief
which pervades this hapless region.
" The lava flows over the richest and most cultivated
part of the country, (lestroying vineyards, all sorts of
fruit trees, and some houses. Conceive the misery
that has fallen on many proprietors and colonists.
" Since writinp the above, we have accounts from
Catania to the 24th September, up to which date the
eruption conti-nu,d,
•
but without havingdestroyed any
village, thou ,11
rich
vineyards, woods, &c., have been
de yes tat e d." • Malta Mail.

rHE, LSNDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

Tl3e Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Jo4ll Christie to the church and parish of Arbirlot, in
the presbytery of Arbroath, and county of Fogs', vacant
b s the death of the Reverend George Addison, late W 1
/sister thereof.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 4, 1852.
The following promotio❑s, consequent on the decease,
on the 30th tilt., of Rear-Admiral of the Red William
Fisher. have taken place, dated Ist October, 1852:
Bear-Admiral of the White William Fitzwilliam Owen
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Bear-Admiral of the Blue: Sir% David Dunn, Knt.,
KGB., to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain William James Mingaye to be Rear-Admiral of
the Blue.
Captain Sir Charles Betray!. Bart., on the retired list,
to be Retired Rear-Admiral, on the terms proposed
in the London Gazette of Ist September, 1846, with-
out increase of pay..
Como:fig:awl by the Queen.
Derbyshire Militia—John Edward Leveson Gower,
Dq. (late Captain of the 50th Rt,g,ment), to be Adju-
talat, Sept. 2.

Commission by the Queen.
*Royal Iterionetb,hire Regiment of Militia—William
Piederick Ward (late Li,ot,tinut her Majesty's 56th
Regiment of F.ot) to be Adjutant, Aug. 4.
'Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire.
Adjutant William Frederick Ward, of the Royal
Merionethshire Regiment of to -serve with the
rank of Captain, Sept. 1.
[This article is substituted for the one which appeared
in the Gazette of Tuesday last].
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding

of Yorkshire.
Edward Horner Reynard, Esq., to be Depul Lieu-
tenant, Sept. 16. _

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire.
Hammond Whalley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-

tenant; Robert Owen Moulsdale, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Sept. 24.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey.
The Right Honourable Charles Crespigny, Lord
Vivian, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Thomas Williams,
E q., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Brisc Owen,
Eeq., M.D., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Sal's
Schwabe, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Hugh
Roberts, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Henry
Pritchard, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Norris
Matthew Goddard, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Stephen Roose, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Charles
Stanbope Jones, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
Priestley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Owen Owen,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. John Wynne Jones,
Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. William Williams,
Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. Charles Williams,
Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. William James
Poole, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. Henry
Owen, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rev. Hugh Jones,
Clerk, D.D., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Sept. 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
Hender John Moleswnrth St. Aubyn. Esq. to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Thomas Simon Bolitho, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; John Michael Williams, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant; Frederick Martin Williams, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Augustus Coryton,
to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Phillips, resigned;
Francis Glanville, Esq , to be Captain, vice Trick,
resigned; William Price Michell, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Bartlett, deceased; R. J. N. Symons, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice Thackery, deceased; Second Lieutenant
Fulbert Archer to be Lieutenant, vice Hicks, deceased;
John Jeffery Sole, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant ;
Walter Carew Cooks, Esq, to be Second Lieutenant,
Sept. 30.
Commission by the. Lord Lieutenant of the North

Riding of Yorkshire.
William Joseph Coltman. Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Simon Thomas Scroop, jun., Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Sept. 30.
North York Regiment of Militia—George Heneage
Lawrence Wharton, Esq.. to be Captain; Thomas Light
Elwon, Gent., to be Ensign; Charles Sidney Bradley,
Gent., to bo Ensign, Sept. 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent.
Harry William Carter, Esq,, M.D., to be Deputy
Lieutenant; William Courtenay Morland, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant; Arthur Vansittart, Esq., to be De-
puty Lieutenant.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Aurelius Sicard,
Gent., to.be Surgeon.
West Kent Regiment of Militia—Captain John Far-
naby Cator, half-pay Royal Artillery, to be Major, vice
Brockman, promoted, Sept. 22; Evelyn, Viscount Fal-
mouth, to be Captain, vice Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson,
Bart., promoted, Sept. 23; John Robinson, Esq., to be
Captain, vice Evans, who retires, Sept. 26; George
Robert Stevenson, Esq., to be Captain. vice Whitehead,
who retires, Sept. 27; Ensign Henry Squires Shrapnell
to be Lieutenant, vice Woodgate, who retires, Sept. 26;
John Stewart, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Sir Walter
James, Bart. who retires, Sept. 27.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
Derbyshire Militia—Thomas Gamble, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; George Collinson, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
Sept. 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.

Henry Drummond, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Alexander Fraser, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
William Gooch Spicer, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
2d Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia—Captain James
Fitzherbert de Teissier to be Captain and Adjutant.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.
Royal Bucks or King's Own Militia—David William
Bernard, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Macnamara, re-
signed; Charles Bruce Gaskell, Esq., to be Lieutenant,
vice Carrington, resigned ; John Joseph Augustin
Lenard Creaton, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Hatehard, re-
signed, Sept. 27.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Alexander
Browne, Esq., Adjutant of the Northumberland .Regi-
ment of Light Infantry, late a Captain in her Majesty's
11th RE-giment of Foot, to serve as Adjutant, with the
rank of Captain; John Craster, Esq., to be Captain;
William Ker Gray, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Henry
Gordon Longridge, Gent., to be Lieutenant; John Job-
ling Weatherley, Gent., to be Ensign, Sept. 27.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
King's Own Regiment of Staffordshire Militia—Cap-
tain Charles Inge, late of the 53d Regiment, to be Ma-
jor, vice Giffard, promoted, Sept. 30.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Soaiersetshire.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Thomas Barrett,
Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Terry, deceased, Sept. 29.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding

of Yorkshire.

East York Militia—Henry Baines, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Howard, retired, Sept. 28; Ensign Henry
Puget Raikes to be Lieutenant, vice Richardson, retired,
Sept. 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Lieutenant Colonel
Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp to be Colonel, vice
Colonel the Earl Brownlow, resigned; Major Glynn
Earle Welby to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Lieutenant
Colonel Sibthorp, promoted, Oct. 2.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of He fordahire.
South Herts Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Charles
Peter Christie, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Sir Robert
Murray, Bart. resigned, Oct. 2.
MIDDLESEX LIEUTENANCY-OFFICE,
4, Old Palace-yard, Oct. 4.
MEMOBANDII3I.—MIDDLESEX MILITIA.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct
that the Royal Westminster Regimeut of Middlesex
Militia, and the Royal West Middlesex Regiment of
Militia, shall be formed into Light Infantry Regiments.
WHITEHALL, Sm.'''. 24.
The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, Kat., Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
West minater, bas appointed John Ben bow Hebbert, of Bir-
mingham, in the county of Warwick, Gentleman, to be one
of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re-
coveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the county of Warwick, also in
and fur the counties of Stafford and Worcester.
BANKRUPTS.

John August and William August, builders, Nor-
wich, to surrender Oct. 15, at twelve, and Nov. 12, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official as-
signee, Aldermanbury; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Al-
dermanbury ; Miller and Son, Norwich.
Joseph Morewood, merchant, Fludyer.street, West-
minster, and Basford-terrace, Liverpool-road, Oct. 14, at
one, and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Courte-
nay, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
James Marlow, iron founder, Glebeland Works,
Walsall, Staffordshire, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9, at half-past
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Wright, Birmingham.
John Guest, victualler, Burdens, Staffordshire, Oct.
16, and Nov. 8, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birming-
ham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
John Briadley Boone, woollen draper, Barslem, Staf-
fordshire, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee,
Birmingham; Lees, Buralem; Motteram, Knight, and
Emmet, Birmingham.
George Rowell, jun., painter, Carlisle, Oct. 19. at
eleven, and Nov. 16, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne; Griffith and Crighton, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
J. B. Murphy, builder, William-street, Newington-
causeway.
J. P. Ingham, ironmonger, Lambeth-walk.
T. Stevens, Selborne, Hampshire.
W. Shorter, licensed victualler, Hercules-passage, City.
J. Rinks, lodging house keeper, Stafford-place, Pimlico.
G. Borer, commission traveller, High Holborn.
L. Nathan, commission agent, Wardour-street, Soho.
J. Bingham, Bowling-green Inn, Denton, Lancashire.
W. Kew, Bishopstone, Wiltshire, baker.
J. Lea, Garley, Penkridge, Staffordshire.
J. Bailey, beer retailer, Titohfield, Southampton.
J. Thomas, stone Mason, Llanbaddock, Monmouthshire.
A. Higson, farmer, Grange Farm, Worsley, Lancashire.
M. Higson, farmer, Grange Farm, Worsley, Lancashire.
Mary
Higson,
Nsone,wffiaremiz,HWowordseleny, ,
Yorkshire.
J. Brown,
J. Dunnill, tailor, Wakefield.
W. Fearnside, Leeds.
W. Lister, post-office keeper, Addingbam, Yorkshire.
W. Middleton, wood turner, Leeds.
J. Strong, master of a steam-boat, Middlesborough.
J. Bowden, cotton yarn dresser, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire.
William Knowles, butcher, Kendal, Westmoreland.
A. French, superannuated officer in her Majesty
's Cus-
toms, Liverpool.
J. Turner, provision dealer, Little Bolton, Bolton-le-
Moors, Lancashire.
J. Wilson, farmer, Colton, near Ulverstone, Lancashire.
G. W. Elliott, professor of music, Birmingham.
J. Watts, miller, Bedminster, Somersetahire.
R. Beanlands, butcher, Halifax, Yorkshire.
W. M. Chile, lime merchant, Batley, Yorkshire.
J. Wood, dyer, Bramley, Yorkshire.
B. Walker, beerseller, Blackburn, Lancashire.
j. Moore, farmer, Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
w. IL C. Salmon, commission agent, Leamington Priors,
Warwickshire.

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam .......... it 1934
Ditto,threeraonthil.. 12 034
Rotterdam ....•••••• 12 0%
Antwerp•••••••••••••• 25 504
25 52%
ILipburgh 13 834

kNGt.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar...... ••
Leghorn •• •••••• •••••• 30 76
Genoa •••••••••• •••••• 25 65
Milan •••••••••• ••••••
Venice.. •• •• •• •• ••••••
gaplea 411 A
123)4
Messina •• •••••••••••• 128%
Liabon•••• •••••••••••• 61006
0p0rtn................ 33
Rio Janeiro ........

Altona •••• ••
Paris, 3 dayscight • • 25 52y~
Ditto, 3 months
Marseilles ............ 25 5a
80urdeaux........
Frankforton,Mate.. • • 121
B
Vienna, effee. fio 11 46
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 48
retersburgh .......... 37%
Madrid ...... 49%
, Cadiz ........ 4J%
Barcelona

Buenos Ayres
New York,6odays'aight

!Philadelphia

. —PB, toi e or ammor, rza oZ.
FOrOign Geld inbars..X3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .• 0 0 0
Now Dollars •• .. .. 0 4 11
Sllrerln bars ........ 0 5 ON

The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and
Rotterdam produce markets state that business
was more
active, and that prices showed a tendency to improvement
Coffee was generally in better demand, higher rates having
been paid for particular descriptions. Refined sugar, in conse-
quence of purchases, had slightly advanced. Rice and in-
digo continued to be operated in freely. The accounts from
Antwerp and Hamburgh represent a similar position of
trade.

1 Letters from Rouen allude to an increased amount
of business in the market for manufactures, but quotations
were not fayonrable, considering the position of the raw
t material.