The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-02 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 1.

20th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir William
Chalmers, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Sir Andrew Pilkington, K.C.8., deceased, Feb. 28.
50th Regiment of Foot—Major-General the Right Ho-
nourable Sir George Arthur, Bart., to be Colonel, vice
Major-General James Allan, C. 8., deceased, Feb. 28.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 28.
In consideration of the successful operations against
Rangoon and Pegu, and in the Irrawaddy River, the fol-
lowing Naval Promotions have taken place, dated the 25th
instant :—_

To be Captain—Commander Charles Frederick Alex-
ander Shadwell.
To be Commanders.—Lieutenants John William Dor-
ville, Henry Shank Hillyar, Rowley Lambert, and George
William Rice.

To be Lieutenants.—Mr. Hugh Alan Hinde, Mate ; Mr.
Charles Ashwell Boteler Pocock, Mate.
To be Master.—Mr. Richard Sturgess, Second-Master. .
To be Surgeons.—Mr. Thomas Seecombe, Assistant-Sur-
geon; Mr. Henry Slade, Assistant-Surgeon.
To be Boatswain of the Second Class.—Mr. John Camp-
bell, Boatswain of the Third Class.

The Board have furtheiClirecTed the promotions of the
undermentioned officers, contingent on their passing the
required examinations :
Mr. Robert Cronyn Copland, Mate, to be Lieutenant ;
Mr. John Felix Johnson, Assittant-Surgeon, to be Sur-
geon ; John Minton, Boatswain's Mate, to be Boatswain.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
The Right Hon. Charles William, Earl Fitzwilliam,
8.G., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Feb. 16.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.

Robert Hanbury, junior Esq., to be Deputy-Lieuten-
ant ; Hugh Parnell, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Feb.
l G.

Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia.—Theophilus Caractacus Lewis, M.D., to be
Surgeon ; Ensign Frederick Bush, to be Lieutenant ; Wm.
Noble, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Clarence Holcombe Judd,
gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 26.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia Theodore
Edwin Houghton Platt, Esq., late of her Majesty's 49th
Regiment of Foot, Feb. 21; Arthur Chilrer Tupper, Esq.?
Feb. 22—to be Captains.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—To be Lieutenants—
Ensign John Frederick Nicholls, vice L'Estrange, who re-
tires on the allowance, Jan. 3 ; Alfred. Waring, Gent.,
vice Chivers, who retires on the allowance ; Isaac Wil-
liams, Gent., vice Callanan, who retires on the allowance ;
Samuel Baker Coates, Gent., vice Tucker, who retires on
the allowance ; Alfred Ainge Harris, Gent., vice Barker,
who retires on the allowance ; Wallington Coates, Gent.,
vice Perham, superseded, Feb. 15. To bo Ensigns—Robert
Blindman Dowling Marshall, Gent, vice Williams, re-
gsined ; Henry Lionel Nicholls, Gent., vice Homer, re-
signed, Jan. 4.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
King's Own 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Miltia—Ro-
bert Thomas Kennedy Lovett, Esq. to be Captain • John
Capel Philips, Gent. ; Edward Esq.,
Gent. ; William
Johnson, Gent.; Thomas Salt the younger, Gent.; Reginald
John Buller, Gnt. ; the Hon. William Vernon; Greville
Charles Lane, Gent. ; Thomas Moreton Johnson, Gent. ;
John Plimley Edwards, Gent„. Newton John Lane, Gent.
—to be Lieutenants ; Henry Sinokler Chinn, Gent., to be
Ensign, Feb. 22. •
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Henry Vennall, mason, Hastings.
BANKRUPTS.

James Kerslake, sawyer, Collingwood-street, Blackfriars-
road, to surrender, March 10, at half-past eleven, and April
12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, offi-
cial assignee, Basinghall-street ; Hare, South-square,
Gray's-inn.
Edmund Plumber, butcher, Diss, Norfolk, March 11, at
half-past one, and April 15, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,- Basinghall-street ;
White and Borrett, •An itehalj-place ; Hazard and. San,
Harleston, Norfolk.
William Morton, bill discodnter, Belgrave-place, Pim-
lico, March 11, at eleven, and April 16, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Reed, Coleman-street, City.
William Ness and Thomas Snowdon, tar and naphtha
distillers Leeds, March 18, and April 15, at eleven, at the
Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ;
Payne, Eddison, Ford, and North, Leeds.
Thomas Lamb Atkinson, linen warehouseman, Wood-
street, City, March 11, at twelve-, and Aprill6, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street.; Mason, Ironmonger-lane.

William Price, eating-house keeper, Cheapside, March
15, at half-past twelve, and April 13, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Stansfieldr official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Thompson, Bncklersbury.
John Taylor, common brewer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
March 10, at half-past twelve, and April 13, at one, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Crosby and Compton,
Old Jewry; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
George North, coal dealer, Chesterfield, March 12, and
April 16, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman,
official assignee, Sheffield; Palmer, Bedford-row; Busby,
Chesterfield.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. Grear, Bradley-terrace, Wandsworth-road, and Long-
acre, wax and tallow chandler, March 22, at half-past
eleven—J. Beaumont, Leman-street, Whitechapel, engi-
neer, March 23, at half-past one—W. Barlayman, Fearing,
Essex, carpenter, March 23, at two—J. Keele and R. J.
Bisdee, -Riches-court, Lime-street, merchants, March 23,
at two—W. Lawson, Diss, Norfolk, chemist and druggist,
March 22, at twelve.