The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

FROM 7IrE GAZETTE Off LAST EVENING.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct J etters patent to be
pissed under the Great Seal, appointing the Right Hon.
Henry, Earl Grey; the Right Pion. Richard Southwell
Bourke (commonly called Luna Naas) ; the Right Hon.
Robert Mousey, Baron Crar.worth ; the Right Hon. Fre-
deric, Baron Chelmsford : the Right Hon. Sir John Somer-
set Pakington, Bart., G.C,B. ; the Right Hon. Spencer
Horatio Walpole; the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Hen-
ley; the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie ; the
Right Hon, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Bart.,
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench ;
Horatio Waddington, Esq. ; Russell Gurney, Esq., Re-
corder of the city of London; Charles Owen O'Conor,
Esq. (commonly called the O'Conor Don) ; and Hugh
Culling Eardley Childers, Esq.; to be her Majesty's Corn-
missi,ners to inquire into the operation of acts relating to
transportation and penal servitude, and into the manner in
which sentences of transportation and of penal servitude
have been and are carried into effect, under tho provisions
of the said acts, or any of them.

CRO WN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Boorough. of Andover—William Cubbitt, of Penton
Lodge, in the county of Southampton, Esq., in the room of
Henry Beaumont Coles, Esq., deceased.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of importance in
the Gazette :
George Henry Pain, ironmonger, Brighton
William T. Frewer, builder, Holland-street, Blackfriaril
George B. Ratho, saw maker, Natingham
John S. Moore, cabinetmaker, Hoxton

Edward .-_-heppard, baker, Rotherhithe
John Taylor, publican, Warwick
Wm. I'. Hodge, farmer, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall
Thomas F. Anderson, attorney-at-law, Liverpool
Thomas Dickins, baker, Stewkley, Buckingham
John Thomas Leedham, tailor, Sedgley, Staffordshire
Robert Blezard, fismonger, Preston
George Bremham, mason, Wath-upon-Dearnee, York
John Fieldhouse, builder, Yeadon, Leeds
Charles V. Clark, stock-broker, Threadneedle-street
Richard Nicholls, jun., dealer in mining shares, Ham-
mersmith
John Gottlieb Ulrich, watchmaker, Wellclose-square
John H. Bray, builder, Hoxton

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Rodger, joiner, Overtown, deceased
Thomas Anderson, farmer, Muirloch, Perthshire
John I‘l'Minn Inglis, merchant, Hamilton
Alexander Fenton, commission merchant, Leith
William Forbes, hotelkeeper, Gourock

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TZSTBEDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 163 11 161
Antwerp.. - 25 45 25 50
Brussels — 25 45 25 50
Hainburgh — 13 61 13 61
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 118; 119
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35 351
Berlin - -
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 55 25 60
Milan — 25 55 25 GO
Genoa — 25 55 25 60
Naples
Palermo —119 k
Messina
.. 119 f 1191
Lisbon 62/ 52/
Oporto — 521 52k
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars . .. 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

SLAVERY DOOMED.—Whether the North or the
South be the victor, this is clear—that slavery is doomed,
Supposing the North to win, the time has passed when any
compromise with the "domestic institution" would have
been possible, and abolition must be forced upon the Go-
vernment whether they like it or not. Supposing the South
to win, abolition will then only be a matter of time. The
Fugitive Slave Law is already repealed, and any slave
making his way into Northern territory is declared to be free,
instead of being restored to his master as before the war.
The independence of the South established, this law would
most certainly not be revived. It may be taken for granted
that the Northerns will do everything in their power to
harass and impoverish their former brethren; and, as far as
slavery is concerned, they will succeed. The repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law, alone, will be felt, when peace is once
restored, as a severe blow, against which the system can
scarcely stand. It will cause an immediate depreciation in
the value of slave property, will render the slave a burden
instead of a profit to his master, and will have a most de•
pressing effect upon the cotton cultivation. Anticipating,
perhaps, the time when her monopoly of the market must
cease, and bent upon supplying her present wants as well,
the South has even now,
it is stated, laid down half her cot-
ton lands for the growth of corn—a measure which already
reduces to a considerable extent the value of the slave—who
is required in ordinary times mainly for the cultivation of
articles of export. Let the slave become still less valuable,
and the South fail to regain her former place in the cotton
market—which she must do unless England be insane
enough to neglect her opportunities of getting supplies from
other quarters—and slavery cannot hold cut.---slit the
Year Round.