The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im.
portance in the Gazette :
Charles Holt, pavior, Manchester
Robert Smith, warehouseman, Huhn()
James Tipper, hatter, Leek
Elizabeth Atkinson, publican, Macclesfield
John Gilbert, machinist, Shenton-street, Old Kent-rd
George Allen, boot maker, lie.nt-street, borough
John Cobb, leather merchant, Great Yarmouth
Thomas Morton, builder, Dewsbury
Edwin Thomas Monk and John Brook, silk spinners,
Huddersfield.
Ann Loring, ironmonger, Bristol
Bartley Hodgetts, nail manufacturer, Dudley
Samuel Bowers, farmer, Norton Bridge, Staffordshire
Thomas Booth, carpenter, Wolverhampton
John J. Manby, law stationer, Castle-street, Holborn
William B. Hardwick, chemist, Dalston
John fdoore, licensed victualler, Maidstone
William Phillips, wheelwright, Hereford

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Keith, auctioneer, Kincardine
John Lindsay, merchant, Carupbelton
William Robertson, bookkeeper, Glasgow
Robert Gordon, flesher Elgin
Donald Maclellan, distiller, Isle of Skye

Course of the Exchange—Yesterday.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 19}
Antwerp..
Brussels — 25 67f
Hamburgh — 13 tif
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1191
11 90
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples .............
Palernio
Messina
Lisbon

11 171
12 0
12 0
25 621
25 62#
13 9
25 30
25 70
25 70
1191
12 0
12 0
351
481
481
25 77i
:25 77t
25 76
25 771
25 77t
25 77i

48}
483-
25 72f
25 72t
25 70
25 75
25 75
25 75
52a

Oporto —52 i
Forsign Gold in Bars (Standar,l), per oz.. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars -
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doublons

WARSAW, Nov, s.—The Revolutionary Commit-
tee of Galicia has not been discouraged by the die,
feat of Czachowski's and Waligorski's bands.
Authentic intelligence has been received that it is
redoubling its efforts to form new corps. Upon the
night of the 23d ult. a band of 300 men assembled
upon the frontier of the district of Cracow, with the
intention of joining the band of Chmieleuski at
Lendrzajow. Upon the 26th the band of Roche-
brun made preparations for passing the frontier in
the district of ZAlkiew. No official report has yet
been received that these different detachments have
really entered the kingdom.

How I BECAME ANADMEEtAL.—itI the course of
the evidence taken last summer before the Com-
mons' Select Committee on promotion in the navy, Rear-
Admiral G. Elliot was examined. After answering a great
many questions, the gallant officer said,—" I do not like to
sit under the possibility of its being supposed that I desire
to coaceal anything with reference to my own position. If
my father had not been an admiral, and if he had not been
lucky in holding commands, I should not have been on
admiral, or perhaps a captain by this time; but he gave me
every pi-emotion that I have had in consequence of.deatn
yneaneiee . My father nominated his son, and in that way
I was plat~ Id on every occasion over the heads of all
e
who had no t the good fortune of having a father
h e had
dmi-
rel." He mided, in answer to Mr. Ayrton;
that
seen a very in efficient officer promoted in thl's
pwroa y, and, in
bably he
answer to a flu -tiler question, he agieed
that
and Admiral Gr.l3' the committee
navy. Captain J. Sullivan mentioned .ng
were the most fortunate officers in the
to
the same ship
an instance of twa Midshipmen °fathom, still a mate, had
ass' Powerful interest, had been
within a year of each other •; o" other, wh
'stance a the ose sloop
vsng
onlyl latter
served
affisceevr
afterwards to go to the
was on shore, and who, When this
etahryoeuagrhs
three years a commander.
interest became a captain
„a had never served a day after
from the time of passing/ e—ir
,he had
great interest to ob-
being made a cap toin,alth°ug it. He had
b.•
tain service if ho had wished _ one on the Re-
served Admirals'
List, and has ; oos 1 of about £6,000 in
the shape of half pay.
Captain Sulk van added that we
have never bad such fair promotions as in the last two or
three years; but that tho system does still 'Work of making
ointments on account of interest, and that atone, either
affP,,ily or political, and that though the men with interest
mayof have as fair a proportiongood officers a them.
the
as the other class, it is very disheartening to deserving
officers to see promotions made from interest alone without
regard to qualification, and interest alone sufficient to rNlte
men rapidly to the higher ranks.
AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN took place
this morning, Nov. 11—being, however, invisible
to us in England, It began at 10 minutes before 6h a.m.,
mean time at Greenwich, in longitude 9 deg 5 min W of
Greenwich, end 23 deg of south latitude. The central
eclipse began generally at 17 minutes past 7h a.m. in longi-
tude 43 deg 19 min W of Greenwich, and latitude 48 deg
S. The central eclipse ended at 9h a.m., in longitude 173
deg E of Greenwich, and latitude 65 deg 10 min S ; and the
eclipse ended on the earth generally at 27 minutes past 1011
a.m., in lougitud© 125 deg 41 min E of Greenwich, and
latitude 42 deg 30 min S. This eclipse will have been
visible from the Great Southern Ocean, and from the Cape
of Good Hope, where it will have been partial only, begin-
ning at 22 minutes past 7h a.m. ; the middle of the eclipse
taking place at 12 minutes after Sh a,m., and ending at
piputes after 9h a,w., mean thp at the Cape,