The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-15 00:00:00

WHITEHALL,' JAN. 13.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal .f the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto James Andrew,
Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., the office of Constable of her Ma-
jesty's Castle of Dover ; and also the office of Warden and
Keeper of her Majesty's Cinque Ports ; and the office of
Admiralty within the said Cinque Ports and their Mem-
bers • and likewise all wrecks of the sea whatsoever.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting unto William
Monsell, Esquire, the office of Clerk of the Ordnance of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

CROWN-OFFICE.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
JAN. 13.
ik County of Dumfries.—The Right Hon. Archibald Wil-
I ham Douglas, commonly called Viscount Drumlanri,g,
6 Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household.
1,34 County of Haddington.—The Hon. Francis Wemyss
4 Charteris, one of the Lords Commissioners for executing
. the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain,
14 and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.
County of Cavan.—Sir John Young, Bart., pf Baffle-
% borough Castle, in the said county of Cavan, Chief Secre-
tary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JAN. 12.
The Queen has been pleased on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Frederic William
Hamilton, Esq., late Captain of the 12th Royal Lancers,
one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms,
I vice Morison, retired.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 14.

Ist Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Knox
Birnie, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Jan. 14.
sth Foot—Lieutenant James Wallace Dunlop Adair,
from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bennett, who
exchanges, Jan. 14.
20th Foot—Lieutenant George Bennett, from the sth
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Adair, who exchanges, Jan.
14.

ice. 21st Foot—Lieutenant John Francis De" Carteret, from
the .3rd West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Savage, who exchanges, Jan. 14.
31st Foot—Lieutenant Honourable Eyre Challoner Henry
1 Massey, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Pedder, who re-
tires ; Ensign Robert Place Gould, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Honourable E. Massey; Ensign William
George Herbert Taylor Fairfax, from the 9th Foot, to be
$,; Ensign, vice Gould ; Assistant-Surgeon John Meane, from
) the 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Jan. 14.
- 46th Foot—Ensign John Augustus. Fane to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Sir Arthur Henry Dillon,
Bart., deceased, Dec. 31.
ice.
74th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Lapsley, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon vice Robinson, ap-
pointed to the Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 14.
t 34 85th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Fisher
) Bartley, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Jan. 14.
34 92d Foot—Ensign John Allan M`Donald, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires, Jan. 14.
3d West India Regiment--Lieutenant Williamage,
from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice de Carteret, who
exchanges, Jan. 14.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 13.
Ordnance Medical Departisuent.-7Surgeon Dempsy to be
tce• Senior Surgeon, vice Richardson, retired on half-pay;
Assistant-Surgeon Elliot to be Surgeon, vice Dempsy ;
Temporary Assistant-Surgeon Wright to be Assistant -Sur-
geon, vice Elliot, Jan. 1.
The following article is substituted for the one which
appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, the llth • January :
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County
Palatine of Durham.
Richard Lamb, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Jan. 1.
t% Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ross-shire.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Bait, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie,
Bart., Keith William Stewart Mackenzie, younger, Esq.,
Louis Mark Mackenzie,. Esq., James Falconer Gillanders,
ice. Esq., William Cruickshank Robertson, younger, Esq.,
Kenneth Mackenzie, younger, Esq., John Andrew Shaw
Mackenzie, Esq., and John St. John Munro, younger,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, Dec. 24.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Cap-
tain James Scott Walker, late of the 88th Regiment of
Foot, to be Major, vice Grant, promoted, Jan. 11.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire.,
Royal Radnor Militia—Edward Mawthill Tearne, Gent.,
to be Surgeon, Jan. 8.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding
lof Yorkshire.

3d Regiment of West York Militia—Theophilus Smith
to be Ensign, Jan. 4; Frederick Durham to be Ensign,
Jan. 8.
2d Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant John
Michael Barstow to be Captain ' • Lieutenant Wormley
Edward Richardson to be Captain ; Robert Stansfield, Esq.,
late 17th Foot, to be Captain ; Ensign Thomas Holy Holds-
worth to be Lieutenant, Jan. 8.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.

King's Own 2d Regiment of Staffordshiie Militia—The
Hon. Dudley-Francis Stuart Ryder, commonly called Vis-
count Sandon, to be Captain j • Charles Oldham, Esq., to be
Captain ; William Thomas Locker, Esq., to be Captain ;
Robert liargreayns, Esq., to be Captain; Charles Garnett,
Esq., to rbe C4pt
ain ;;Edward Mayne, the younger, Esq.,
to be Captain, ;Jan.
-5,. •
r,oiiimission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Qxfordslgie.
Oxford. Regiment of Militia.—Henry taward Francis
LaTbert,•-Eki., to be Captain, vice Dillon, resigned ; Ben-
jamin _Williams; Esq., to be Captain, vice Holloway,
• feeiigene'd ; Willitrin -Wemyss Methven Dewar, Gent. to be
Lieutenant, vice Scott, resigned, Jan. 12.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Morayshire.
% Inverness, Banff, Elgin, and Nairn Regiment of
• Militia.—Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming, Esq., late
Captain in her Majesty's 71st Highland Light Infantry
and 4th Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice C. L. Cumming
Bruce, Esq., M.P., who retires.
BANKRUPTS.
George Benjamin Costerton, merchant, Great Yarmouth,
to surrender, Jan. 24, at half-past one, and Feb. 24, at two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee ;
Bell and Co. 'Bow-churchyard.
John Lockyer, steel and iron warehouseman, Clerkpn-
"well-green, Jan. 24, at eleven, and Feb. 24, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Pearce, Giltspur-street.
Benjamin James and Thomas Girdwood Hardie, builders,
Newport, Monmouth, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee,
Bristol ; Bachelor, Bristol.
John Petrie, confectioner, Plymouth, Jan. 20 and Feb.
17, at half-past ten, at the Exeter District Court. Herna-
mann, official assignee, Exeter ; Elworthy, Plymouth.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Morse, Neithorpe, Oxfordshire, woolstaper, Feb. 5, at
half-past, one—W. Hodsoll, South Ash, Kent, farmer,
Feb. 4, at twelve—W. Pike, Reading, Berkshire, tobac-
conist, Feb. 8, at one—J. Cole, Robert-street, Limehouse,
victualler, Feb. 8, at one—C. Webb, Oxford, apothecary,
Feb. 4, at eleven—E. Ritherdon, Mill-wall, Poplar, ship
builder, Feb. 8, at twelve—J. Dobson, High Holborn, .ma-
thematical drawing instrument maker, Feb. 4, at eleven—
E. W. Cherrill,. Ramsgate, cabinet maker, Feb. 4,
at
eleven.
In the Country.
C. J. Wragge, Stourbridge, Worcester, banker, Feb.:
7,
at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—T. Shaw, Birmingham ,
stationer, Feb. 12, at ten, at the Court, BirminghaJ"
F. Bailey, Burslem, Staffordshire, boot and shoemaker
Feb. Feb. 7, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—H,
Chester, grocer, Feb. 4, at eleven; at the Court, Liverpool
---31 L Warren, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk dyer, Feb. 4, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
W. Boyce, sen., Dover, hotel-teper, 55. 3d., on Satur-
day, the 15th inst., and three u sequent Saturdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr.'Edwards, Sam-
brook-court, Basinghall-street.
J. Hucks, Millpond-bridge, Rotherhithe, cooper, lid.,
on Saturday, the 15th inst
days, between eleven and t., and three subsequent' Satur-
wo, at the office of Mr. Edwards,
Sambrook-court, B
F. Long asinghall-street. .
, Yere-street Oxf
, on Saturday ord-street, importer of foreign
lace, ls, lid.
turdays, between el next, and three subsequent Sa-
Abchurch-lane,: even and two, at the office of Mr. Groom,
T. Lam
plugh, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, grocer, is. 6d.,
any Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the foe of Mr.
Carrick, Hull.
T. C. Perritt, Kingston-upon-Hull, money scrivener,
2s. 6d., any Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Carrick, Hull.
J. Beach, Bradford, apothecary, is., any day, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
R. Hunter, Swansea, ]inendraper, 3s. 6d„ any Wednes-
day, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Miller,
Bristol.
J. Thomas, Shrewsbury, grocer, 2s. 40., any Thursday,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie,
Birmingham. = • •
C. H. Canning, Birmingham,
eleven draper, 2s. 7d., any
Thursday,
.between and three, at the office a Mr.
Christie, Birmingham.
V. Cooke, Worcester, cabinetmaker, Os., at the rate of
is. 4d., in the pound, any Thursday, betiVeen eleven and
three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
merchant,34d., any Monday, A. Smith, Liverpool,
be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Green, Harrow-road, builder, Feb. 4, at two—J.
borne Leigh, Essex, butcher, Feb. 5, at one:
In the Country. •
H. Hastings, Cheltenham, grocer, Feb. 9 at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. King, Ryeford, Gloucestershire,
mealman, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W.
Longson, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, joiner and builder,
Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
R. Wilson, Cambridge, grocer and tea dealer, certificate
of the second class—H. G. Winstanley, chemist and drug-
gist, Poultry, certificate of the first class—B. -Mustan
ley, Poultry, chemist, and druggist, certificate of the first
class—R. Pitt, Ealt Donyland, Essex, shipowner and
builder, certificate of the second class—R. Tamsitt,
Woolwich, builder, certificate of the second class—J.
Silby, Poole, timber-merchant, certificate of the F.
Keddell, Gravesend, brewer, certificate second
of the