The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT.
By the Queen—A Proclamation.
VICTORIA R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued
to Tuesday the third day of January next, we, with the
advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare,
that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the
said third day of January next, to Tuesday the thirty-first
day of January next ; and we have given order to our
Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great
Britain, to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same
accordingly : and we do hereby further, with the advice
aferdsaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the
said Parliament shall, on the said Tuesday the thirty-
first day of January next, assemble and be holden for the
despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; aid the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens,
and Burgesses, and the Commissioners fur shires and
burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and
commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at West-
minster, on the said Tuesday the thirty-first day of
January next.
Given at our Court, at Windsor, this twenty-ninth
day of December, in the year of our Lord 0,,e thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seven-
teenth year of our reign—God save the Queen.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE NAVY.
By the Queen—A Proclamation.
VICTORIA. R.—Whereas by our order in Council of this
day's date, We were graciously pleased to annul, from and
after the thirty-first day of March next, our Royal pro-
clamation of the thirtieth L;ay of July, one thousand eight
hUndred and forty-nine, regulating, according to the
scheme set forth therein or recognise thereby, the distri-
bution of the net proceeds of prizes captured from the
enemy, of captures and seizures under the several acts of
Parliament passed, relating to the revenues of Customs, and
to trade and navigation, for the abolition of the slave trade,
for the capture and destruction of pirates and piratical
vessels, and of the rewards conferred for the same ; as also
of the awards for the salvage granted to the crews of
our ships and vessels of war, when not otherwise
specially apportioned by the terms of the respective awards
and allowances ; and in consequence of several new ratings
and denominations and certain alterations having been in-
troduced and made in our royal naval service since the
date of our said former proclamation, and for other causes,
it is expedient that provision should be made for the future
distribution of such net proceeds and salvage not other-
wise specially apportioued, and all other monies whatso-
ever granted to be shared among the officers and crews of
Our ships and vessels in the manner of prize money.
W,g do, therefore, now make known to all our loving
subjetts, and to all others whom it may concern, by this
our proclamation, by and with the advice and consent of
our Privy Council, that our royal will and pleasure is, and
we do hereby direct that the distribution of all such net
proceeds of prizes, rewards, allowances, salvage awards,
and of all bounties and grants whatsoever distributable to
our royal navy in the manner of prize money shall be made
as follows, viz.:—
That the flag officer" or officers shall have one-twentieth
t-of the whole net proceeds arising from prizes captured
from the enemy, and from all other c tptures and seizures,
&c., as aforesaid, made by any of the ships or vessels un-
der his or their command, and of the rewards conferred
for the same, according to the following conditions and
modifications, save and except as hereinafter provided and
directed ; that is to say :
When there is but one flag officer he shall have the en-
tire due twentieth part, when two flag officers shall be
sharing together, the chief shall have two thirds and the
other flag officer shall have the remaining one third of
the one twentieth part ; and when there shall be more
than two flag officers, the chief shall have one half of the
said one twentieth part, and the remaining half shall be
equally di tided among the j uuior flae. officers. Commodores
.of the first. class and captain.s of the fleet to share as flag
officers, Provided always, that no flag officer, unless
actually on board any of our ships or vessels of war, and at
the actual taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise destroy-
ing any ship or ships of war, privateer or privateers, be-
longing to the enemy, shall share in the distribution of
any head money -or bounty money granted as reward for
the taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise destroying any
such ship or vessel of the enemy.
That no flag officer, unless actually present at the cap-
ture or destruction of any pirates or piratical ship, vessel,
or boat, shall share in any distribution of the proceeds or
bounty in respect of such pirates, or of the crews of such
piratical ship, vessel, or boat.
That no flag officer shall share in any remuneration or
reward conferred or awarded to the crew of any of our
ships or vessels as salvage, unless he shall have been actu-
ally on board the ship or vessel to which the award shall
be made, or have personally aided and assisted in the
transaction at the time the service was rendered.
That no flag officer commanding in any port in the
United Kingdom shall share in the proceeds of any prize
captured from the enemy, or in other captures, seizures,
rewards, or any distributive proceeds, as aforesaid, made
by any ships or vessels which shall sail from or leave such
port by order of the Lord High Admiral or of our Com-
missioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.
That when ships or vessels under the command of seve-
_ral flag officers belonging to separate stations shall be
joint captors, &c., each flag officer shall receive a propor-
tion of the one-twentieth part, according to the number of
officers and men present under the command of each such
flag officer ; and when ships or vessels 'alder orders from
the Lord High Admiral, or from our Commissioners for
executing the office of Lord High Admiral, are joint
captors, &c., with other ships or vessels under a flag or
flags, the like regulation as to the apportionment of the
flag share to the flag officer or officers is to be observed.
And with reference to these regulations it is to be noted
that a captain, commander, or other commanding officer
of a ship or vessel shall be deemed to be under the cons-
mand of a flag when he shall actually have received some
order from, or be acting in the execution of some order
issued by a flag officer, whether he be or be not within
. the limits of the station of such flag officer ,• and in the
event of Isis being directed to join a flag officer on any
station, he shall be deemed to be under the command of
such flag officer from the time when he arrives within the
limits of the station, which circumstance is always to be
carefully noted in the Log Book, and it shall be considered
that he continues under the flag officer of such station un-
til he shall have received some or ler directly from, or be
acting in the execution of some order issued by, some other
flag officer duly authorized, or by the Lord High Admiral,
or Our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High
Admiral.
And we hereby direct, that the captain, commander,
lieutenant commanding, master commanding, or any
other officer duly commanding any ship, sloop, or vessel
of war, singly making a capture or seizure, or otherwise
entitled to the distributive benefit arising from any proceeds,
reward, grant, bounty, salvage, or other award, as aforesaid,
that is to say, the officer actually in command at the time,
shall have one-eighth of the remainder, or, if there is
no flag, one-eighth of the entire net proceeds, except that
if the single capturing ship be a rated ship, having a com-
mander under the captain, the commander shall take a
portion of the one-eighth part as if he were commander of
a sloop according to the proportion hereinafter set forth ;
and if more than one commanding officer of the same rank
of command shall be entitled to share as joint captors,
&c., the one-eighth shall be equally divided between
them ; but when captains, commanders, lieutenants
commanding, and masters commanding *respectively,
our ships and vessels of war,_ and commanders
under captains, in rated ships shall share together,
in whatever variety of combination, the one-eighth
shall be so divided into parts for a graduated apportion-
ment, as to provide for each captain receiving six parts ;
each commander of a sloop, or commander under the cap-
tain, in a rated ship, three parts ; and each lieutenant
commanding, or master commanding, or other officer
actually commanding a small vessel of war, two parts;
which we hereby direct shall be the proportion in which
they shall respectively share ; commodores of the second
• class, and field officers of marines, or of land forces serving
. as marines, doing duty as field officers, ajjove the rank of
major, to share as captains, and field officers of marines, or
of land forces serving as marines, and doing duty in the
rank of major, to share as commanders of sloops.
And we further direct that after provision shall
thus have been made for the flag share (if any).
and for the portion of the commanding officer or
officers, and others as above specified, the remainder of the
net proceeds shall be distributed in ten classes, so that
each officer, man, and boy, composing the rest of the com-
plements of our ships, sloops, and vessels of war, and
actually on board at the time of any such capture, seizure,
&c., as aforesaid, and every person present and assisting,
shall receive shares, or a share, according to his class as
sat forth in the following scale :
" First Class.—Master of 'the fleet, inspector of steam ma-
chinery afloat, when embarked with a fleet, medical in-
spector or deputy medical inspector, when embarked with
a fleet :—Forty-five shares each.
Second Class.—Senior lieutenant of a rated ship, not
bearing a commander under the captain, secretary to the
admiral of the fleet, or admiral commanding in chief :---
, Thirty-five shares each.
Third Class.—Sea lieutenant, master, captain of marines,
of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marines,
whether having higher brevet rank or not, secretary to an
admiral, or to a commodore of file first class, not com-
manding in chief, chief engineer :—Twenty-eight shares
each.
Fourth Class—Lieutenant or quarter-master of marines,
lieutenant of marine artillery, lieutenant, quarter-master,
or ensign of land forces doing duty as marines, secretary to
teoramodore pf the second class, chaplain, surgeon, pay-
master naval instructor, mate, assistant surgeon, second
--`?, clerk in charge:passed clerk, assistant engineer,
Fifth ta
gunner, carpenter- :—Eighteen sharekeach.
(not passers—Midshipman, master's assistant, pilot, clerk
boatswain's' master at arms, chief gunner's mate, chief
ate, chief carpenter's mate, chief captain of
the forecastle, admiral's coxswain, chief quarter-master.
seamen's schoolmaster, ship's stewards, ship's cook :—Ten
shares each.
Sixth Class.—Naval cadet, clerk's assistant, captain's
corporal, yarter-mas gunner's mate,
bocoaltssw;,aainin,,sshmipa'ste
ter,
a mate, captain of forecastle,
captain of the afterpard, Captain
of the hold, captain of
the main top, captain of the f„e top,
coxswain of the
launch, sailmaker, ropemakee, caulker, leading stoker,
blacksmith, serjeant of marines, of
as marines :—Nine shares each.rY
marine artillery, or of
land forces doing duty
l'anst, captain of the
Seventh Class.—Captain of the
of the main top,
mizen top, yeoman of the signals,. coxswain of the barge,
pinnace, coxswain of the cutter, second
coxswain of the
captain of the forecastle, second captain
second captain of the fore top, second captain of the after-
guard, sailmaker's mate, caulker's mate, musician, cooper,
armourer, corporal of marines or of land forces doing duty
as marines, bombardier of marine artillery, head kroornan

—Six shares each.
Eighth Class—Leading seamen, shipwright, second cap-
tain of the hold, able seamen, carpenter's crew, saihnaker's
crew, cooper's crew, armourer's crew, yeoman of store
rooms, steward's assistant, ordinary seamen, blacksmith's
mate, private and fifer of marines, or of land forces doing
duty as marines, gunner of marine artillery, painter,
stoker, coal trimmer, second head krooman, sick berth at-
tendant, bandsman, tailor, butcher :—Three shares each..

Ninth Class—Cook's mate, ship's steward's boy, admi-
ral's domestic, superintendent's domestic, admiral's stew-
ard and cook, captain's steward and cook, ward room and
gun room steward and cook, subordinate officer's steward
and cook, commander's servant, secretary's servant, second
class ordinary seaman, assistant stoker, barber, boy of
the first class, first and second class krooman, supernpme-

raries, except as hereinafter provided ; persons borne
merely as passengers and not declining to render assist-
ance on any occasion of capture, seizure, &c. :—Two shares
each.
Tenth Class.— Boy below the first class, one share.
All supernumeraries holding ranks in the service above
the ranks or ratings specified in the fifth class of this our
proclamation, who have been ordered to do duty in any
of our ships and vessels by the Lord High Admiral, by
our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High
Admiral, by the senior officer of the fleet or squadron, or,
if none senior, then by the captain or commanding officer
of the capturing ship or vessel, if not by special authority
employed in higher capacities, shall share according to the
ranks which they respectively hold in the service, but, in
all cases, to qualify them for so sharing and not merely as
supernumeraries in the ninth class, due notation of their
being thus respectively ordered to do duty must have been
made on the muster books.
And with respect to supernumeraries of ratings in the
service below the denominations of those specified in the
fourth class of this our proclamation, and who at full vic-
tuals are engaged in the ordinary duties of the ship, it is
our will and pleasure that they shall always share accord-
ing to the ratings which they bear in the service.
And, in order that our royal intentions herein may be
duly carried into effect, we further direct that when any
capture or seizure is made, or service performed for which
a distributable grant or reward is to be, or is expected to
be, conferred or awarded to any of our ships or vessels of war,
the captain or commanding officer shall transmit, or cause
to be transmitted, as soon as may be, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, a perfect list of all the officers, seamen, marines,
soldiers, and others who were actually on board on the occa-
sion, accompanied by a separate list containing the names of
those belonging to the crew who. were absent on duty or
otherwise at the time, specifying the cause of such absence ;
each list to contain the quality of the service of each per-
son, together with the respective descriptions of the men
taken from the description book of the ship or vessel, and
their several ratings, to be subscribed by the captain or
commanding officer, and three or more of the chief officers
on board.
And when the list of those actually on board, and the
separate list of persons absent, though belonging to the
ship or vessel, shall have been verified on examination
with the muster books, &c., lodged as official records, the
Account-General of our navy shall, upon request, grant
to the agent or agents nominated or appointed by • the
captors or seizors, &c., a certificate that such lists aro cor-
rect, or have been corrected, as occasion may require, in
order that distribution of the respective-prize or other
proceeds payable as prize money may be duly made.
And in the event of difficulty arising with respect to
any of the regulations hereby ordered, or it any case should
occur not herein provided for, or not sufficiently provided
for, We are pleased hereby to authorise the Lord High
Admiral, or our Commissioners for executing the office of
Lord High Admiral for the time being, to issue such
directions thereupon as may appear just and expedient,
which directions shall have the same force and effect as if
specially provided for in this our Royal Proclamation, pro-
vided always that the distribution hereinbefore ordered,
shall take effect only with respect to the proceeds of cap-
tures, seizures, and services, as aforesaid, which shall be
made and performed on and after the first day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and that the
proceeds arising from all captures, seizures, and services,
as aforesaid, made or performed prior to that date, shall
be distributed in accordance with any proclamation or
proclamations now in force, or in force at the time of such
captures, seizures, or services respectively, and applicable
thereto, which we are pleased hereby to direct accordingly.
Given at our Court at Windsor, this twenty-ninth day
of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seventeenth
year of our reign.—God save the Queen.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Noble
Towner as Consul at Barbadoes for the United St4tes of
America. _ _

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Sichel
(senior), as Vice• Consul at Manchester for his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
George Wortmann as Consul at Gibraltar for his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Oldeuburgh.
CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 28.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT. _

Borough of Cionmel—John O'Connell, Esq., of Gowran-
hill, iu the county of Dublin, in the room of the Honour-
able Cecil Lawless, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 30.
4th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir John
Bell, K.C.8., from the 95th Regiment, to be Colonel, vice
General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., deceased, Dec. 26.
20th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Nathaniel Thorn,
C. 11., to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Henry Godwin,
K.C.8., deceased, Dec. 26.
95th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Francis
Cockburn to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir John
Bell, K.C.8., removed to the 4th Foot, Dec. 26.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 30. . . . .

14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel John Lewis Black, from half-pay unattached, to
be Major, vice William Clarke, who exchanges; Brevet-
Major William Wilmer, to be Major, by purchase, vice
Black, who retinas ; Lieutenant Thomas Barrett to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Wilmer ; Cornet Chas. Wetnyss
Thesiger to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barrett ;
James Giles, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thesi-
ger, Dec. 30.
Ist Regiment-of Foot—Ensign Charles Hurt to be Lieut-
enant, without purchase, vice Scroope, deceased ; Gen-
tleman Cadet Henry George White, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase. Dec. 30.
sth Foot—John Cornish Brown, Gent. to be Seeond
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tritton, appointed to the
87th Foot. Dec. 30.

20th Foot—Captain Frederick Charles Evelegh, to be
Major, by purchase, vice Lord Mark Kerr, promoted, by
purchase, in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment ; Lieutenant
George Tomson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Evelegh ;
Ensign William Henry I‘l.6Xeill, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Tomson ; Hector Barlow Vaughan, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice M'Neill, Dec. 30, 1853.
3lth Foot.—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Francis Max-
well, from the 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brown, who exchanges.
41st Foot.—Lieutenant Charles Yelverton Balguy to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Tuckey, who retires ; Ensign
John William Swaby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Balguy ; John Stirling, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Swaby.
Glst Foot—Surgeon Ludovic Charles Stewart, from the
94th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Gammie, who exchanges,
Dec. 30. _ _ _ _ _ _

68th Foot—Major Henry Smyth to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Lord Arthur Lennox, who retires ; Cap-
tain Heneage Griffith Wynne to be Major, by purchase,
vice Henry Smyth ; Lieutenant the Honourable Daniel
Greville Finch to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynne ;
Ensign Frank Garforth to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Finch ; Sir Brydges Powell Henniker, Bart., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Garforth, Dec. 30.
82d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas It. Brown, from
the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Maxwell,
who exchanges, Dec. 30.
87th Foot—Captain Alexander Murray to be Major, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutentant-Colonel Shortt, who
retires ; First Lieutenant Thompson Macky McClintock to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, who retires ;
First Lieutenant George Wolfe to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Murray ; Second Lieutenant Charles Edmund God-
dard, to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
M'Clintock ; Second Lieutenant John Wall, to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wolfe ; Second Lieutenant
Edmund Spry Tritton, from the sth Foot, to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Goddard ; John Rawson Simpson, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wall,. Dec. 30.
94th Foot—Surgeon Patrick Gammie, from the 61st
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stewart, who exchanges, Dec. 30.
3d West India Regiment Captain George Floyd
Dukett, from half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice
MacGregor, who exchanges, Dec. 30.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Major Lord Mark Kerr, from
the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Simmonds, who retires, Dec. 30.
MEMORANDUM.—Tho commission of Ensign John Har-
ger, who was appointed to an Ensigncy, without purchase,
in the 2nd West India Regiment, on 11th November,
1853, to bear date 12th of that month.
The Christian name of Ensign Pocklington, of the 38th
Foot, is Frederic only, and not Frederick Sharpe, as
stated in the Gazette of 18th October, 1853.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT
OF THE COUNTA OF SUFFOLK.

Sir Charles Blois, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec.
21; Edward Robert Starkie Bence, EN., to be Deputy.
Lieutenant, Dec. 24.

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Eastgate, boot and shoe salesman, Churton-
street, Pimlico, to surrender, Jan. 6, at half-past eleven,
and Feb, 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, Official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Story, Great
James-street, Bedford-row.
and Solomon Davis, clothiers, East Smith-
fieljod,hJnanDvis
.412, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 10, at half-past
eleven, Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan official
assignee,aAlt thed evmanbury; Levy, Strand.
Benjamin Vincent, boot and shoe maker, Canterbury,
Jan. 10, half-past eleven, and Feb. 9, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
strlevetitiri Cobb,
ladi Stretton and Fastens, Strand. builder, Maidstone,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee ; Stenning and Croft, Basinghall-street ;
Stenning and Carnell, Tonbridge.
Thomas William Thame, ironmonger, Greenwich, Jan.
9 and Feb. 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen-
nell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Bristow and
Tarrant, Bond-court, Walbrook.
William Legh, wine merchant, New Windsor Jan. 7at
half-past two, and Feb. 11 at one. Pennell, official
assig-
nee, Guildhall-chambers ; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-
lane, Cannon-street.
David Pratt, thimble maker and metal roller, Aston,
Birmingham, Jan. 12, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Smith, Birmingham.
Thomas Bull, ship owner, Bristol, Jan. 12, and Feb. 9
following, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court- Hut-
ton, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Angus and Company, engineers, ironfounders,
and millwrights, Rosyth, Fife—to meet Jan. 10.
Mrs. I. Craig, house and sign painter, Glasgow—Jan. 10.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 24th day of December, 1853.

ISSUE DEP.

'ARTMENT.

Notes Issued .. • • .... 29,128,435

Government debt .... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 15,128,435
Sliver bu11i0n........ -

£29,123,435

£29,128,435
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
53.
:PARTMENT.

Dated the 29th day of Dec., 18

Government securities

(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) 15,043,730
Other securities 16,643,651
Notes • • ..
Gold and silver coin 690,606

£40,696,267
". MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.