The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-08 00:00:00

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To be Majors in the Army -Captain William Humbloy,
Rifle Brigade, Jan. 10 ; Captain Ernest Christian Wilford,
19th Foot, Nov. 9; Captain Fitz William Walker, 73d
Foot, Nov. 11.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Brevet-Major
Wm. Humbley, Rifle Brigade, Nov. 11; Brevet-Major
Ernest Christian Wilford, 19th Foot, June 20.
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COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Lincolnshire—Adderley Howard, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, July 3.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—William Hervey Wood-
house, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Peacock, promoted,
July 3._

Royal North Lincoln Militia—John Parkinson, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, July 3.
Royal Wilts Regiment of Militia—Joshua Walter Bond,
Esq., to be Captain, June 6; John Frederick Nicholls,
Esq., to be Assistant-Surgeon, June 27.
Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—Edward Walter, Esq., late Captain in
her Majesty's Bth Regiment of Hussars, to be Captain.
Royal Anglesey Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—
Rowland Williams, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Charles Mackay, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Knowlys,
July 3 ; James Robert Innis Gregg, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Robinson, who retires, July 4 ; Quarter-
master-Serjeant Robert Knights to be Ensign and Quarter-
master, July 3; James Henry Brooks, junr., Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, July 4.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En-
sign George Crozier Cole to be Lieutenant, vice Brown,
resigned ; John Carrington Jones, Gent, to be Ensign,
vice Cole promoted, June 30.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Thomas Leslie, Gent., to be Ensign ;
Charles Henry Blake, Gent., to be Ensign June 30.
The Essex Rifles—William Mathew Dunbar, Gent., to
be Ensign, July 3.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia Houghton Forrest,
Gent., to be Ensign, July 3.
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L)UCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National Debt,
c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United
in pursuance of the Act, 10th Geo. 4,
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
expenditure thereof, for the year ended the sth day of
April 18a4, amounted to the sum of three million five hun-
dred and twenty-four thousand seven hundred and eighty-
four pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence.
The Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of eight hundred
and eighty-one thousand one hundred and ninety-six
pounds three shillings and eight pence, being one-fourth
part of the said surplus of three million five hundred and
twenty-four thousand seven hundred and eighty-four
pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence, will be ap-
plied, under the provisions of the said Act, between the
6th day of July, 1854, and the 10th day of October, 1834,
to the following purposes, viz. :
To be applied towards the reduction of
the National Debt
Add Interest, receivable on account of
donations and bequests to be applied to
the purchase of Stock

ACCIDENT ON THE'. MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The 3.45
p.m. train from Doncaster to Sheffield had arrived on
Monday within a short distance of the Sheffield station,
when a horse which was drawing two coke waggons
wandered off an adjoining siding on to the main line, on
which the train was running. The engine knocked down
the animal, and ran over three of its legs, part of which BANKRUPTS.
were crushed to atoms. Other injuries were also in. John Webb, grocer, Rayleigh, Essex, to surrender, July
Meted, which caused its instantaneous death. A boy 17, and August 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
who was in charge of the waggons ran up at the moment Canaan, official assignee,
tAldermanbury ; Goren, South
of the accident, and whilst attempting to reach the horse Melton-street,
di Axfporidn-esrtree
Birkenhead, July 21, and Aug.
he was knocked against the foremost of the coke wag- Samuel. ° '-i
gons. Ins forehead was injured in a frightful manner, 10, at eleven; Ye
"uatsthe Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
and he was removed to the infirmary, where he it! not i John 'Ellis Watkinson, grocer, Halifax, July 21, and
expected i 4) recoTer. - cial assegiveen;Liverpool; Bell, Liverpool.
' Aug, 9, at eleven, at the Lewin Diettiot Court, Young,
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6,898 3 6

888,091 7 2

National Debt Office, July 4, 1854.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller• General.