The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-06 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening,

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 5.
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FOREIGN-OFFICE, JANUARY 14.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Frank
Ringler Drummond Hay, now her Majesty's Consul in the
Island of Crete, to be her Majesty's Consul-General at
Tripoli.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint.
Charles Hanmer Dickson, Esq;, now her Majesty's Consul
at the ports of Soukhoum Kale and Redoubtliale, to be her
Majesty's Consul in the Island of Crete.
MARCH 31.
The Queen has been graciousl pleased to apoit Sir
Edmund Hornby, Knt., late Judgey of the Supreme Con-
sular Court at Constantinople, to be Judge of the Supreme
Court for China and Japan.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, Esq., to be Assistant Judge of
the Supreme Court for China and Japan.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
John Fraser, Esq., to be Law Secretary and Registrar of
the Supreme Court for China and Japan.
APRIL 21.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed-
ward Robert Lytton, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Lisbon.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Edward St. John Neale, Esq., C. 8., now Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation in Japan, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Athens.
APRIL 25.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre-
derick Roberts, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Moscow,
MAY 4.
to be her Majesty's Consul at Moscow.

The Queen has been pleased to-approve of Don Carlos
Pedro Schaeffer as Consul-General in London, Don Ignacio
Fato as Consul at Liverpool, Don Roderick Kameke as
Vice-Consul at Belfast, Don Jose Joel Ellis as Vice-Consul
at Bristol, Don Francisco M. Morgan as Vice-Consul at
Cardiff, Don Roberto C. Hall as Vice-Consul at Cork, Don
Alfredo E. Fox as Vice-Consul at Falmouth, Don Francisco
M. Faulkner as Vice-Consul at Folkestone, Don Guillermo
Malcolm asVice-Consul at Glasgow, Don Tomas W. Fox as
Vice-Consul at Plymouth, Don Vctor`Shakery as Vice-
Consul at Liverpool, Don Alfredo L. Hodges as Vice-
Consul at Ramsgate, Don Tomas Harling as Vico-Consul
at Cowes, Don Jose Clark as Vice-Consul at Southampton,
and Don James L. Hart as Vice-Consul in London, for his
Majesty the Emperor of Mexico.
DOWNING STREET, MAY 3.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Cham-
bers, Esq., to be one of Her Majesty's Counsel for the
Island of Nevis.

SCIENCE AND ART 'DEPARTMENT, May 3.
MEMORANDUM.— In the Gazette notice (2nd May, 1865)
of commissioners appointed by the Queen to promote the
success of the Universal Exhibition to be held at Paris, in
the year 1867, the name of the Right Honourable Benjamin
Disraeli was inadvertently omitted.

BAN KRIJ2 TS,
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial
importance in the Gazette:—
James Holman, linendraper, Salisbury
John Kingett, dyer, Bermondsey
Josiah Pryce, coal merchant, Swansea
George Smith, builder, Bayswater
Edward Gould, grocer, Old Kent-road
James T. Harben, clerk, Milo-end
John Smurthwaite, ship builder Sunderland.
Wm. Bowerbank, builder, Penrith,
John Sands, chair maker, Kingston-on-Hull.
Stephen Warren, bootmaker, Stepney
Richard Isaac Beard, printer, Farringdon-street.
Ulysses Carapata, gentleman, Stoke Newington,
Henry Harrison, grocer, Cheltenham
Moses Bath, draper, Melksham, Wiltshire
Murthwaite Y. Colquhoun, printer, Liverpool
Henry Hunt, commission agent, Derbyshire
Thomas Cartwright, ginger beer manufacturer, Derby-
shire

Charles Perry, commercial clerk, Bow,
John H. Lance, builder, Stratford
William Hilton, yarn agent, Manchester
Russell Porter, commission agent, Manchester
Abraham Fielden, cotton spinner, Todmorden

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BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
James Wilson, merchant, Russia-row
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Alexander Morton, provision dealer, Glasgow
J. Mar Erskine, merchant, Glasgow
John Dobie, tobacco manufacturer, Edinburgh

COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16}
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19

11 17
11 191
11 191
25 50
25 50
13 91
25 221
25 47
25 50
120 k
11 171
11 14
31

Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40
Marseilles
Frank-for; on the Maine 120;
Vienna.
Trieste — 11 12f
Petersburgh - 301
Berlin
47 471
Madrid —
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 55 25 60
Naples — 25 60 25 65
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon —51 f
Oporto — 511 51i
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per 0z.... XS 17 9

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

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The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
IRISH OFFICERS REMIJNERATION BILL.
Lord :DONOUGHMORE presented a petition from certain
persons residing in Clonmel against this bill.
ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF THE IRISH
CONSTABULARY..
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The Earl of LEITRIM presented a petition from the in-
habitants of Galway, complaining of the conduct of the
Irish police force in that neighbourhood.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time:—The
Finchley Road Estate, London and Brighton and South
Coast Railway (St. Leonards and Deviations), Coventry
Central Station and Southern Junction Railway, Little-
borough Gas, Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway, Sunderland
Docks Corporation, Bristol Docks, Redhill Gas, Maryport
and Carlisle Railway.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—The Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway (Deviation, &c.),
Somersall Gas, Leicester Lunatic Asylum and Improve-
ment, and Liverpool Improvement (Amendments).
THE EDMUNDS COMMITTEE REPORT.
The Earl of DERBYcalled the attention of the house to
a mistake which had appeared in the report, which had
been laid on their lordships' table last Tuesday. In the
report the Clerk had inserted two amendments which had
been consolidated into one and carried as a joint para-
graph in the report. It was a mere matter of
form, but he trusted that the irregularity would
be rectified before the report in its complete state
was laid before the house, considering the interest that
was attached to the proceedings of this committee.
As the report stood at present it would appear that
a. minority on the committee objected to the amend-
ment acquitting the noble and learned lord on the
woolsack of improper motives. The minority thought that
the Lord Chancellor had been guilty of an error of judg-

meat, but both the majority and minority were agreed that
the noble lord should be free from all charge of improper
motives. He repeated his hope that the matter would be
set right before the report was again laid before the house.
Earl GRANVILLE said that he felt grateful to the
noble Earl for having brought this matter before their
Lordships. Ile had observed the mistake referred to,
but it was only that morning. The mistake was
one of those which naturally arose on the part of
the clerk, but from the tenour of the document it
was evident that the committee intended to relieve the
Lord Chancellor from any imputation of improper conduct
in reference to this matter. The error alluded to would be
corrected in the full report that would be laid before their
lordships on Monday next.
CANADA.

The Earl of AIRLIE asked whether negotiations were
still pending between her Majesty's Government and the
Government of Canada on the subject of the defence of
that colony ; and if so, whether, after these negotiations
were concluded, the papers relating to them would be
laid before Parliament. He alluded to articles which had
appeared in the American press in reference to the subject
of an invasion of Canada. They were aware that a strong
party existed in America who entertained very hostile
feelings to this country, and were in favour of an attempt
to wrest Canada from this country.
Earl DE GREY and RIPON quite agreed with the noble
earl as to the importance of the question put by his lord-
ship. For that very reason, however, he could not reply
in any detail to the speech to which they had just listened.
All that he could then say was, that four members of the
Canadian Government had come over to this country to
communicate with her Majesty's Government on this sub-
ject. The communications between those gentlemen and
the Government were now going on. The Canadian re-
presentatives appeared fully impressed with the magnitude
of the question they had come to discuss, and with the
duties that lay on Canada with respect to them. 'When
those communications were closed, the Government would
take an early opportunity of informing Parliament of their
nature, and of the result which had been arrived at.
PRIVATE COMMITTEES.

Earl STANHOPE moved that, with regard to select
committees of this house other than those on private bills,
notice of any motion for naming any lord or lords to serve
on such committee, or for adding any lord to such com-
mittee, or for substituting any other lord for any lord
named on such committee, should be given and entered
among the printed notices on or before the day previous to
the day on which such motion should be made.
The motion was agreed to.
THE CONDUCT OF COLONEL JOHNSON.

Earl VANE called the attention of the house to the
charges brought against Colonel Johnson, a magistrate of
the county of Durham, and a friend of his own. In doing
so he expressed his regret that the Earl of Malmesbury,
by whom those charges were made, was not then in his
place. He did not deny that Colonel Johnson was
guilty of an informality in signing the warrant on which
the late unfortunate Mr. Docknall, of Sedgefield, in the
county of Durham, was committed to a lunatic asylum.
No one was more sorry for that informality than Colonel
Johnson himself, who had promptly offered to pay £BO by
way of amends. But it was said that Colonel Johnson
had committed to a lunatic asylum a man who was
perfectly sane, and that he had done this without
seeing the patient. The fact, however, was that
Mr. Docknall lived close to the colonel's residence, and
was perfectly well known to him. The unsound state of
Mr. Docknall's mind was also well known in the neigh-
bourhood. The next charge was that Colonel Johnson
had entered, into a conspiracy with the man's wife, who was
a bad woman, to imprison her husband. But any one who
was acquainted with Colonel Johnson knew that he was
quite incapable of such conduct, and was perfectly con-
vinced that in what he had done he had been actuated by
the best and kindest motives.
The LORD CHANCELLOR explained that ho had
hitherto taken no notice of the conduct of Colonel John-
son,- because an action was pending against him in respect
of his conduct in this case.
Lord RAVENSWORTH could boar testimony, from an
acquaintance of 40 years, to the high character and humane
disposition of Colonel Johnson.
After a few words from Lord CHELMSFORD and the LORD
CHANCELLOR, the subject dropped.
The Common Law Courts (Fees) Bill was read a third
time and passed.