The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-14 00:00:00

[LEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening).

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB 11.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. E. C.
Downing as Consul at Cardiff for his Majesty the King of
the Belgians.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jose
Gervacie Sotillo as Consul in the Island of Trinidad for tho
Republic of Ven( zuela.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 14.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of John Peter Grant, Esq., Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil
Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, for appointing Hugh Seymour
Tremenheere, Esq., Richard Dugard Grainger, Esq., and
Edward Carleton Tufnell, Esq., to be her Majesty's Corn-
misioners for inquiring into the Employment of Children
and young Persons in Trades and Manufactures not al-
ready regulated by Law.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 13.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieu-
tenant-colonel Charles Doyle Patterson Egon of Her.
Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard,
vice Captain G. V. Macdonald, resigned.
CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 14.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

City of Lincoln—Tohn Bramley Moore, of Aigburth,
near Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Esq., in the
room of George Fieschi Heneage, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFfCE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 14.
Grenadier Guards—General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8., &c., from the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards, to be Colonel.
Scots Fusilier Guards—General Sir Alexander Woodford,
G.C.8., G.C.M.G., &c., from the 40th Regiment, to be
Colonel, vice General his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, appointed to the Grenadier Guards.
The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade—Field Marshal
Lord Seaton, G.C.8., G.C.M.8., to be Colonel-in-Chief,
59th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Plomer Young to
be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Jeremiah Taylor,
deceased.

BANKRUPTS.
Richard Willoughby, printer, West Smithfield
Joseph B. Chatfield, draper, Horsham, Sussex
Henry Ablitt, grocer, Montpellier-row, Brompton
Lewis Green, carpenter, Crouch End, Hornsey
John Wood, farmer, Headcorn, Kent
Henry Ablewhite, Stowmarket, Suffolk
William Hart baker, Hackney-road)
George Wm. Glinister, grocer, Stepney
Thomas Williams, licensed victualler, Jermyn-street
William H. Pickergill, licensed victualler, Marsh-gate'
Lambeth
James Bull, baker, Newport, Isle of Wight
William Martin, hay dealer, Ruislip, Uxbridge
Thomas Crawley, boot lace manufacturer, Smithfield
George Peffani, sail maker, Minories
George Hedge, timber merchant, Coventry
Benjamin, Amos, and Jcseph Greenwood, cotton manu-
facturers,
Halifax

John Wiggleswerth, Thomas Wigglesworth, and Jere-
miah Wigglesworth, cotton manufacturers, Accrington,
Lancashire.

John Smith, sen., and John Smith, jun., cotton manu-
facturers, Lancashire.
SCO ['CH BANKRUPTS.
John Fulton Anstruther, merchant, Port-Glasgow
Jehn Donaldson, slater, Glasgow
Wm. Sage, joiner, Hamilton
John Haddow, farmer, Holmains, Lanarkshire
Wm. Liddel, cattle dealer, Denny
Peter Ferguson, house factor, Edinburgh
Wm. Martin, farmer, Muirdike, Ayrshire
Thomas Morrison, contractor, Grange Mouth
Robert Miller, builder, Ckapelhall, Lanarkshire
George Fraser, miller, Mulben Mills, Elginshire
John Hay, merchant, Garmond Village, Aberdeenshire

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed,
from the returns made in the week ending Feb. 11, 1862
exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
Per. cwt. .
From the British possessions in America 23s. 111 d
Mauritius
East Indies
Average price of the three foregoing 24s. 101 d.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Thrs DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18 11 181
Antwerp — 25 375 25 40
Brussels — 25 375 25 45
flamburgh — 13 74 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1185 119
Vienna
Trieste
Peteraburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 55 2.5 60
Milan — 25 521 25 575
Genoa — 25 525 25 675
Naples
Palermo — 120 1201
Messina — 120 1205
OLisbrto 525 on . —
62 52k
po 521
Rio Janeiro
Now York —
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

SPORTING INTELLIGBNCF.

TATTERSALLW-YESTERDAY.
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Suburban (taken)
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
9to 1 agst The Dahe Oaken)
10 to 1 agst Huntsman (taken)
25 to 1 agat Bucephalus (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Old Calabar (offered)
9to 1 agst The Marquis (taken)
15 to 1 agst Wingrave (taken)
THE DERBY.
17 to 2 agst Old Calabar (taken)
23 to 1 agat Ensign (taken)
40 to 1 agst Master Fenton (taken)
Nothing done on the Chester Cup.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TrEuRspey.

The business of the day was almost confined to Hunts-
man and The Dane for the Grand National Steeple Chase ;
10 to 1 was taken about the former, and offered against
the latter ; but towards the close 10 to 1 was taken rather
freely about The Dane, and 100 to 6 was booked a few
times against Jealousy.—Closing prices :

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst The Dane (taken)
10 to 1 agst Huntsman (taken)
109 to 6 agst Jealousy (taken)

EXTRAORDINARY DETERMINATION TO COMMIT
SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, about two o'olock, a man,
with his face hideously disfigured, and the flesh
charred from the effects of pistol shots, was brought to St.
Thomas's Hospital by two police constables. The officers
stated that as they were going their beat that morning
along a road in the neighbourhood of Bromley, Kent, they
had found the unfortunate man lying on the pathway in the
state in which he then was. Their impression at first was
that a murder had been committed, as no pistol or gun could
be found near, but upon conveying him to the divisional
surgeon that gentleman pronounced him to be not dead,
but most seriously, if not mortally wounded, and upon
examining the injuries he said that they must have been
self-inflicted. He applied some temiorary remedies, and
directed the constables to convey him at once by train
to St. Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Bell (house surgeon
of that institution) immediately attended, and found that
there must have been two shots fired, the first directed
against the forehead, where the bullet, however, did not
enter the skull, but glanced off under the scalp. From the
burnt condition of the flesh, the pistol muzzle must been
held withcn an inch of the forehead when the shot was fired.
This shot having failed in its effect, the wretched man must
have placed the muzzle of the pistol in his mouth for ano-
ther attempt, because the palate is completely charred, as
well as the and though a bullet entered the roof of the
mouth, the front teeth had not been broken. Even th's
shot did not prove fatal, the ball having evidently glanced
from the palate and lodged in the neck. Death is, how-
ever, almost certain, and may be hourly expected. The
name of the unfortunate man is unknown ; but from the
appearance of his clothes, which were of blue pilot cloth, it
is inferred that he belonged to some marine institution.
Ills linen was marked " 9 >4 9. D. 2."

Yesterday morning Mr. Laing, the ex-magistrate,
who for many years presided at the old Hatton-garden
Police-court, expired at his residence, in the Inner Temple,
at an advanced age. The deceased wan called to the bar on
the 9th June, 1839, at Lincoln's-inn.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO-
ROAD.—This afternoon Mr. Sergeant Payne opened an in-
quest at St. Thomas's Hospital on the body of the unfor-
tunate man Robins, who lost his life by the falling of the
pavement in the Waterloo road on Monday last. Before
the inquiry can be fully entered into a survey and exami-
nation of the scene of the accident will have to be made.