The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-16 00:00:00

JULY 12.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Frederic Hamilton, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Frankfort, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's
Legation:at Stockholm.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Edwin Corbett, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Stockholm, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Frankfort.

JULY 14.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas
Fitnam as Consul at Gaspe Basin for the United States of
America.

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 15.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT. Wi
County of Montgomery—Charles WatkinMains
Wynn, Esq., in the room of Herbert Watkin Williams
Wynn, Esq., deceased.
The Queen has by letters patent under tbe Great Seal of
the United Kingdom determined the letters patent whereb3r
Edwin John James, Esq., was appointed one of her Ma-
jesty's Counsel Learned in the Law, and removed and die-
charged him from the said office.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only Bankruptcies of any commer-
cial importance which appeared in the Gasutts of last

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John Bailey, commission agent, Manchester
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C a les Rolfe Dale, broker, Basingstoke
Burnley
JjoahinnesCpleeaavner nail maker,
hr Gray, builder, Northampton
William Robertson, shipping agent, Crutched Friars
William Turner, colourman, Hackney-road
Patrick Murphy, cattle dealer, Liverpool.
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Chas. H. Tidbury, wharfinger, Surrey
Wm.
Morrison,SC OtoTbaCclico BmAanNuKfaßctutlrPerT, S . eExastcheap
Glasgow
John Love, baker, Glasgow
Wm. Garroway, baker, Barrhead •
A. M'Dougall, grocer, Glasgow

`COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YBSTERDAY.
Amsterdam ........ Short. 11 16 11 181
Ditto 3 Months. 11 185 11 185
Rotterdam — 11 184 11 la
Antwerp ......... . — 25 47t g 525 Brussels — 25 475
II amburgh _ 13 8 13 8
Paris
25 475 Ditto
25 475
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine 3 Months,— 2251519:45i
1195
Vienna
12 95 13 0
Trieste
1
Petersburgh — 33 33
--
49
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
25 25 571
Leghorn 675
Milan .. 254055
...... -
C enoa
Naples ............. 1105
Palermo ............ 1194
Messina ............ 521
Lisbon 2sk
Oporto

49
491
25 50
25 521
25 52f
391
119
119 k
621
521

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THE CROPS IN SOUTH WALES. The hetivY rains
have much retarded the hay harvest in the hilly districts of
South Wales, where it is always late, but in the lower lands
crop
equantities have been housed in fair condition. The
is
generally good, the undergrowth being thick and
heavy. The breadth of wheat sown this year is unusually
large, and the crops look well and clean, but they sadly re-
quire sun to ripen them.
n ipah y, of
perhaps,
the
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considered upc h
public
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CORONERS.—A contested election between a
doctor and a lawyer for part of the mantle of the late Mr.
Wakley, has ended
in
immense quantity of promotion goes to lawyers, and 60
c
that this this
It by that large majority laiattalesatottrnsfaedacicalryrorceann,
personally, knew and cared as little about either of the candidates,
as about the nature of the office for which they
contended. With the exception of one or two of the inferior
judges of the city of London, the coroners are the only
judicial officers in this country who are chosen by popular
election, and if the office were more important the excessive
absurdity and inconvenience of such a mode of appointment
awnodu would
ibse
aabauntradnagnetlryeliob • vious. Still it does no great harm,
curiosity aboutc ofit theß past, with %cetera::: anti-
quarian"
become a complete and almost useless usa esletranss an_ge'alaalY' 1 thous
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becoming a sinecure, and has thus escaped destruction.—
MOW.