The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

WHITEHALL, JULY 24.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Hill Burton,
Esq., advocate, to be Secretary to the General Board of
Directors of Prisons in Scotland, in the room of Ludovick
Colquhoun, Esq., deceased.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Alexander Oswald, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant of the
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, July 20.

East Kent Regiment of Militia Lieutenant Henry
Castle to be Captain, vice Perrott, who retires, retaining
his rank; Duncan Inverarity, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Castle, promoted, July 18; Edward Rodney, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Wingrove, who retires, July 19.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's wn Militia—
William George Daniel to be Lieutenant, July 22.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Charles Gould Morgan
Homfray, Gent, to be Ensign, July 15.
Essex Rifles—Charles Dunsmnre, late Lieut.-Colonel
42d Royal Highlanders, to be Major, vice Groves, resigned;
Lieut. Duncan Stewart to be Captain, vice Hall Dare, re-
signed ; James Davidße.rmu
esfaorrcd,s
WilliamGentto be Lieutenant,
vice Stewart, promoted ,
to be Ensign, July 18.
North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles— Francis For-
tescue to be Cornet, vice Desborough, promoted, June 28.
Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—Charles Fursdon to be
Captain; Thomas Hogg to be Lieutenant; Alexander
Ridgway to be Lieutenant, June 15 ; Albert Tanner to be
Ensign, June 21.
2d Devon Regiment of Militia—Charles Hayne to be
Lieutenant ; Codrington Parr to be Lieutenant ; John
Pitts Briggs to be Ensign, July 17.
Devon Militia Artillery—Thomas John Dennis to be
Second Lieutenant, June 16.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—Florance George
Henry Irby, Esq., to be Lieutenant, July 11; George
Scobell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon July 8.
2d Regiment Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalty—Matthew
Grenville Samuel Knapp, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Drum-
mond, promoted, July 10.
2d West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Serjeant-Major
John William Johnson to be Adjutant, July 20.
The Queen's Own Worcestershire Regiment of Yeo-
manry Cavalry-- Cornet Richard William Johnson to be
Lieutenant, vice Throckmorton, deceased ; Robert Hulme,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Watson, deceased, July 22.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Robert Isherwood and Strethill Foden, wool and cotton
dealers, Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS. •
Edward John Wells, ironmonger, Maidstone, to surren-
der Aug. 3, at two, and Sept. 12, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Moorgate-street
Thomson and Son, George street, Minories.
George Johnston, veterinary surgeon, Vere-street, Ox-
ford-street, Aug. 4, at two, and Sept. 12, at one, at. the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, offi dal assignee, Sam-
brook Court ; Howard and Dollman' Fenchurch-street.
William Beckett, cattle dealer, Gillingham, Norfolk,
Aug. 4, at one, and Sept. 12, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambr,ok-court,
Basinghali-street ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old
Jewry-chambers.
Henry Adron, baker, St. John-street, Clerkenwell,
Aug. 5 and Sept. 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Ellaby,' Queen-
street, Cheapside.
John Halsted and Henry Richard Halsted, woolstaplers,
Bradford, Aug. 8 at twelve, and Sept. 5 at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ;
Scholey, Marsden, and Skipworth, Wakefield; Humble,
Bradford; Bond and Burwick, Leeds.
Charles Henry Holgate, scrivener, of Kirton in Lindsey,
Lincoinsire, Aug. 9 and 30 at twelve, at tho Leeds District
Court. official assignee, Hull ; Scott, Tahourdin,
Lincoln's
Carrick,
n,s-inn-fields;
Plaskitt, Gainsborough.
Melchor Lopez' cigar and wine-merchant, Fenchnrch-
street, August 3 at eleven, and September 4 at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Chidley, Gresham-street.
Isaac Thorniley, cotton spinner, Bardsley, Ashton-under-
Lyne, Aug. 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Sale,
Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester ; Leach, Ashton-
under-Lyne.
William Guest, commission agent,- Manchester, Aug. 4
and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Heraman, official assignee, Manchester ; Lamb, Man-
chester.

--Isaac Beck, licensed victualler, Birmingham, August 11,
at twelve and 31, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Wright,
Birmingham.
Wm. Wild Foot, sharebroker, Sheffield, Aug. 5, at ten,
and Sept. 16, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Bre-
win, official assignee, Sheffield ; Marshal, Sheffield.
Theodore Jewitt and Edmund Micklewood, booksellers,
Plymouth, Aug. 14 and September 11, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Queen-
street, Exeter; Ellirorthy, Plymouth.
Edward Crane Hunt, ironmonger, Kidderminster, Aug.
11, at twelve, and Aug. 31, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Hodgson, Birmingham ; Bonner, Birmingham.
Joseph Cundell, carpenter, Sheffield, August 5, at ten,
end Sept. 16, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Hoole and Yeomans,
Sheffield.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Hamilton Laird, nurseryman, Cupar-Fife.
Kennedy M`Nab, merchant, Millburn Cottage, near
Inverness.
Israel Guttstam, oil manufacturers, Glasgow.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London. New Price Current of this day.)

SUGAIL—This article is quiet. There are several auc-
tions, The quantity of British Plantation lauded last
weak at the :East And Went India .Docks was G,227 hhcla

220 ti erces 573 barrels, there were taken forlhome eon•
gumption 1,054 hhds 102 tierces 466 barrels. The stock in
the same places is 8,730 hhds 1,460 tierces 2904 barrels.
To-day there was again a reluctance to purchase inferior
and brown West India, whilst the rates taken were rather
under those of Friday, but superior sorts of yellow and
grey met with ready buyers at full prices.
REFINED.—To-day refined sugar met with ready buyers
for home trade purposes, and supply not being more plen-
tiful, rates ruled firm; brown lumps at 44s 6d, and low to
fine grocery 458 to 49s Gd per cwt.
FQREIGN.—To-day the operations in foreign sugar were
on a more extended scale; still duty paid parcels and
floating cargoes were to be obtained at last week's rates.
year. Home melted is now 64s Gd to 70s cash, supply
ample for demand. There is now only a limited sale for
other sorts of tallow. Australian mid to fine mutton 610
to 65s 6d, beef 60s to 635, and South American 60s to 660
per cwt. Stock of tallow is more than last season by
16,000 casks, and deliveries are 3,000 less, still rates rule
higher by 12s to 14s per cwt.
COFFEE.—The market is firm. Good ord Native Ceylon
44s 6d to 45s per cwt.
TEAS.—The prices current were—congou, ord to good
ord, IOAd to lo id ; rather blackish leaf, is 20 to is 3d ;
pekoe kind, is 10d to 2s 3d per lb.
COFFEE.—To-day plantation Ceylon was less in demand;
fine to fine ord selling at 64s to 6fis 6d, low mid to mid 570
to 60s, good mid to good 61s, one lot fine 675, and triage 530,
Costa Rica is wanted, and 1,025 bags went at firm rates ;
good to fine fine ord 51s 6d to 545, low mid to mid 55s to
60s 6d-

Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 937 puns 433 hhds, there were
taken for home consumption 164 hhds, and exported 80
puns 3 5 hhds.

ARROWROOT.—Bermuda, 89 barrels sold publicly at lsld
to is 2(1 per lb for good and fine, but 16 packages St. Vin-
cent's were bought in at 4d.

INDIGO.—The quantity passed up to last evening WO
12,540 chests, of which 6,289 chests were sold.
OlLS.—Sperm 1021 to 1041 for mid to fine quality. Seal,
pale selling at 391 to 401, and other sorts 351 to 381 Ws'
Cod, 381 15s to 391. Southern, 371 to 401. Cochin 50s to
50s 6d ; Ceylon 48s to 49s 6d ' • and Sydney 47s to 48s 0d••
Palm good to fine at 45s to 47s 6d. Olive, and the market
presents a firmer aspect. Gallipoli at 561 to 581, and other
sorts 521 to 541 per tun. Lard oils sell slowly at 53s to 550
per cwt.

TALLOW.—The market has an unsettled appearance; iII
the early part of last week prices declined, but towards
the close advanced ; since which a decline has taken place,
speculators and the trade operating with reluctance. Prices
now rule for first sort P.Y. Candle on the spot 65s 6d to
65s 9d, 67s 6d to 67s 9d for delivery in last three months of the

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—THis DAY.
kmsterdam ............ 11 15% Gibraltar .. ..
Ditto, three months .. 11 17 Leghorn .............. 30 50.,
lotterdam ............11 17% Genoa .....• •. .•
.• 25 37Y3
tntwerp .............. 25 25 Milan ................
•
•
•
liamburgh .• •••••• .• • • 13 6% Naples .•••••••• • • • • • .. 43%,
iltona ................ Palermo .............. 197 i
Paris .......... •••• . I ... 25 0 Messina ........ 1277 i,
Ditto, three months •. 25 57% !Lisbon ....... .............. 534,
Marseilles. .• • • • .... 25 30 )Oporto p
Bourdeaux ... ••••• • • • • -- Rio Janeiro .• ••••• • .. • •
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118% Buenos Ayres ..........
Berlin ................ New York, 60 days' sight
Vienna .. • • ............ 12 32 Philadelphia ..........
Crieste •.•• • • •• .....• •••12 35 PRIOEB OF BULLION FEB 051
Petersburgl... •• • • ...... 36% Foreign Gold In Bars ,X 3 17
Madrid ................ 493 i Portugal Gold Coin 00 0L
Cadiz „ „„ ,„ ,„ „ 50 Mexican Dollars 0 5 '27

Barcelona.. ,• r ~.....
Seville .....:..........

New Dollars • • ~ . •
Silver in bars .•.. - ,

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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CHELMSFORD—JULY 21.
Prices :—Wheat, white,[s2s Od to 76s Od; red, 424 Od
to 71s Od. Barley, malting, 00s Od to 00s Od ; grindin4
211 Od to 30s 9d. Oats, old, 26s Od to 33s Od ; new, 006
Oil to ON Od. Beans, ills Od to 478 Od. Peas, 403 0i t°
603 Od. Malt, 71s Od to 78s Od. Tare; 00s Od to 00s Ocb

COLCHESTER.JULY 22.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 66s to 72';
red, 60s to 66s ; barley, 00s to 00s ; oats, 30s to 34s ; bes 5'
Mazagan, 42s to 44s ; middle and small, 46s to 48s ; Pev'"
white, 56s to 60s ; grey, 42s to 445.

Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., receivedin the port of London, from the following ports, fro'.
the 17th to the 22d July, both inclusive.

Colchester
Harwich
Leigh
Maldon

1151 -
650? -

KIRKCALDY-JULY 22.

100
104

Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Bea Od
I I
First 66s Od —s Od 33s 6d 1 Os u
Second 64s Od I
I—s Od s Od I Os °„(ci,
Third • 57s Od —s Od —s Od 1 Os '
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 00s Od to 00s Od.

DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—JULY 20.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
317 Wheat 68s Okl
003 el
331 Oats 36s Oki oos Od
94 Barley 36s Od oos Od
42 Peas & beans 52s Od oos Od
Average of wheat, 2/. 19s. 2d.

LET.—Joir 24.
;he close of the market.
Wallsend,

COAL MARL
Prices of Coal per ton at ti
s. d.
Bate's West Hartley 19 6 l'•
Carr's Hartley
20
010
Framwellgato .;...........19 3
Howard's West Hartley Hetton 2l.
Netherton 20 0 Haswell 21 " North Percy Hartley ...19 0 Hetton Lyons Main 2O n 3
South Tanfield 16 6 Plummer 20 "
ranfield Moor l7 0 'Russell's Hetton 20 620 9
Tanfield Moor Butes 17 0 South Hetton
19
Walker Primrose .........15 9 Stewart's
21
West Pelton l6 0 assop 6
Heugh Hall 19
Wallsend, &c. Kelloe 20 6
Gosforth lB 9 South Hartlepool ........20 0
6
Hilda 18 3 Tees 2l 9
15
69
cWohwitpwenorth
Wharneliffe
8
Boll's Primrose2o 0
Eden Main 20 0 Derwentwater Hartley. 14/
Belmont 19* 6