The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-26 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Henry Robert Bouchcrett, Esq., to be Deputy Lieuten-
ant of Lincolnshire, April 7.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Henry Edward Fane,
Esq. (late Major 4th Queen's Own Light Dragoons), to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir Glynne Earle Welby, Bart ,
resigned ; Captain Gervais° Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp
to be Major, vice Sir Thomas Whichcoto, Bart., resigned;
John Robert Bankes, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 20.
' County of Merioneth—William Kenyon, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; Howell Hedd Clough, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant, March 29
Royal Rifle Corps of Militia—Bertram Aynsley James
Mitford, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice Jones, pro-
moted ; William Downing Bruce, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Mitford, promoted, April 20.
West Kent Militia, Light Infantry Regiment—Lieut.
Robert Sheffield Sorrell to be Captain, April 2L
Royal Caruarvonshire Militia—Second Lieutenant Frank
Mucklestone Allen to be First Lieutenant ; Owen Massey
Jones, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 20.
2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Edward Geo.
Hartnell, Esq., to be Lieutenant, April 21; John Richard
Molineux, Get., to be Ensign, April 17.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Francis Charles
Freeman Malden, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 17.
East Suffolk Regiment of Militia, Artillery Corps—
Thomas William Bograve Proctor Beauchamp, Esq., to be
Major, vice Pytches, resigned, April 18.
Royal Breckuock Rifle Regiment of Militia—Edmund
Roderick Ximenes Barlow Gwynne, Gent., to be First
Lieutenant, April 18.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Thomas Fauleoner Wisden, Gent., to be Ensign, April 17.
Royal Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—Henry
Baylis Bennett, Esq., late Lieutenant in her Majesty's
80th Regiment, to be Captain.
South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet
George Nathaniel Curzon, to be Lieutenant, vice Franklin.
County of perks --Hune-erford Corps of Yeomanry
Cavalry—Cornet James Hay Erskine Wewyss, to be
Lieutenant, April 12 ; George Barker, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Wentyss, promoted ; Richard Barker, Gent.,
to be Surgeon, April 13.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 30.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Vincent, of
No. 4, Inner Temple-lane, Temple, Gentleman, to be a
London Commissioner to administer oaths in the High
Court of Chancery.
[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of Friday last.]
WHITEHALL, APRIL 7.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Brindley
Acworth, of Rochester, in the county of Kent, Gentleman,
to be a Comissioner to administer oaths in the High Court
of Chancery in England.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle-
men to be Commissioners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery :
William Payn of Birmingham.
Richard Henry Witty, Essex-street, Strand.
Walter Southwood, Somerset-street, Portman-square.
Richard Nation, Orchard-street, Portman. s.luare.
Murray Maxwell Johnson, Austin-friars, City.
BANKRUPTS.

John Stapp, wholesale cheesenionger, to surrender, May
4, at half-past eleven, and Juno 8, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Do Jersey, Ann's-lane, Aldersgate.
William Shuttleworth, stuff manufacturer, Bradford,
May 9, at eleven, and May 30, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Bentley
and Wood, Bradford ; Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds.
Joseph Thorns, builder, Exeter, May 3, and Juno 1, at
one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official as-
signee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter.
Duncan Mearns Maitland, wine merchant, Finchley,
Middlesex, May 6 and Juno 3, at oue, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Plews and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Mary Long, hotel-keeper, Clifton, Bristol, May S and
June 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

Love and Keys, of Liverpool, looking-glass manufac-
turers, second dividend of Is. 3d. in the pound, payable at
9, South Castle street, Liverpool, on any Monday.
Andrew Love (of the firm of Love and Keys), of Liver-
pool, looking-glass manufacturer, first dividend of Bid. in
the pound, payable at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool, on
any Monday.
Augustus Mongredien, of Liverpool, merchant, second
dividend of sd. in the pound, payable at 11, Eldon-cham-
bers, South John-street, Liverpool, on April 27, or any sub-
sequent Thursday.
John Gray and Robert Williams, of Chester, engineers,
final dividend of 54d. in the pound, payable at 11, Eldon-
chambers, South John-street, Liverpool, on April 27, or
any subsequent Thursday.

DIVIDENDS.
William Creebo and John Hay, of Lambeth, Surrey,
tailors, May 18—George Jackson, of Hertford, upholsterer,
May 19—James Johnson, of Bloomsbury, Middlesex, book-
seller, May 19—James Rudge, Peckham, Surrey, mer-
chant, May 19—Charles Poilo, of Rye, Sussex, merchant,
May 16—William Skeath, of Davies-street, Berkeley-
square, saddler, May 19—Albert Hardwick, of Windsor,
linen draper, May IG—James Wilks of Bermondsey, wag-
gon builder, May 19—William Hesketh, of Blackburn,
Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, May 17

CERTIFICATES.
John Dent, of Homerton, Middlesex, carpenter, May 23
—James Richardson, John Sanders Wicks, and Henry
Smith,. of Brompton, Middlesex, upholsterers, May 17—
Philip Oliver, of Brompton, Middlesex, dealer in mining
shares, .May 17—Francis Salter, of Mile-end, Middlesex,
doctor of medicine, May 17—Samuel. Godfrey Moulton
scowen , of Wood-street, Cheapside, warehouseman, May
17—Ch srles Clarke, of Norwich, maltster, Nay 20—Wil-
liam Loigh, of New Windsor, Berkshire, wine merchant,
May 17—Walter Fitch Hart, of Worthing, Sussex, tailor,
May I'7—Frederick Scudamore Robinson, Bloomsbury-
;rare, Middlesex, manufacturer of patent medicines,
ay 17--Robert Muloch Wright and Joseph Smith Anstie
of Upper Thames-street; drysalters, May 17 —Lucy Martin
of Teign mouth, Devonshire, baker, May 25—Thomas
Honey, o f Launceston, Cornwall, grocer, May 15—Joseph
Head, of Exeter, silversmith, May 23.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Wilcockson (anti not Wihorkson, as advertised in
last Tut sday's Ortzettc), of Hasland (and not Harland),
Derbysh ire, beer-shopkeeper—George Britain, of New-
castle-ur, on-Tyne, beer-shopkeeper--Robert Cowan, of
Newcastl e-upon-Tyne, bookbinder—Charles James Vyner,
of Nantss job Cheshire, clerk to a solicitor— William Cotes,
of Macch mfield, Cheshire, auctioneer —William Haggett,
of Hasell )ury Plucknett, Somersetshire, baker—George
Sydney 1:7, vies, of Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, attorney
—John Harris, of Courty Gallen, Brecknockshire, coach-
Man.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 22.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Louis
Frederic de Brigg,raff as Consul at Dublin for his Majesty
the Emperor of the French.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
Hart, junior, as Consul at Port Louis, in the Mauritius,
for the United States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Robert Bogle as Vice-Consul at Jamaica for the Republic
of Now Granada.
HOME-OFFICE, APRIL 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Earl of
Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff
Principal of the shire of Fife, in the room of Rear-Admi-
ral James Erskine Wemyss, deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Myrie
Holl, Esq., to be Treasurer, Edward Palmer, Esq., to be
Attorney-General, Francis Longworth, Esq , to be Colo-
nial Secretary, and George Wright, Esq., to be Registrar
and Keeper of Plans for Prince Edward Island.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Myrie Holl,
Edward Palmer, Donald Montgomery, Fi ancis Longworth,
James Heron Conroy, Rodrick Mc Aulay, and Emanuel
Mc Eachon, Esquires, to bo members of the Executive
Council of Prince Edward Island.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Freddie,
Esq., to be a member of the Council of the colony of Sierra
Leone.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hugh Culling
Eardley Childers, Esq., to be Collector of Customs, Ed-
ward Grimes, Esq., to be Auditor-General, and Norman
Campbell, Esq., to be Registrar-General for the colony of
Victoria.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 22.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Cumulates of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Mexico, inclosing
translation of a Mexican decree (a copy of which is sub-
joined), respecting the regulations to be observed by coin-
• inerstial associations of mixed nationality, with a view to
their being placed under the protection of one Government.
(Translation.) (Copy.)
Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
His Serene Highness the General President has been
pleased to send me the following decree.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA, kc.
Art. 1. In those Commercial Association contracts in
which all the partners are foreigners, if three-fourths of
them are of the same nation, the association will boa; the
character of that nationality.
If the partners be of two nations, and equally divided as
to persons, the nationality of the company will be that of
the persons who represent the greatest amount of capital ;
and should this be variable amongst partners of different
nations, they must chose amongst themselves the nationality
which they may deem most convenient, within three
months after the publication of this decree for already ex-
isting companies, and within one month for those which
may be formed in future.
This notice must be given in to the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, that the necessary inscription be made in the re-
gistry relating to foreigners.
Art. 2. The infraction of this law will be punished by a
fine of horn one thousand to ten thousand dollars, to be
destined to the support of some beneficial establishment;
and the Association will not be able to claim the protec-
tion of any foreign nationality.
Wherefore I command that this be printed, made pub-
lic, circulated, and that due fulfilment be given to it.
Done in the National Palace, at Mexico, on the 16th
February, 1854.
(Signed) ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA. ANNA.
To the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
And I communicate it to you, &c.
(Signed) BOUILLA, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 19.
Corps of Royal Marine—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
Compton Pratt to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice
McAdam, retired; Captain Henry William Parke, of the
Artillery Companies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Pratt,
promoted ; First Lieutenant George Webb, to be Captain,
vice Parke, promoted ; Second Lieutenant John Frederick
Sanders to be first Lieutenant, vice Webb, promoted.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 20.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadets Henry Bras-
nell Tuson, Gustavus Francis Munro, Arthur Huntly Hill
Walsh, Alexander Bassett StephenShairp, John Cairn-
cross, Henry Dixon, Henry Townsend Morris Dodgin, and
Charles Stark, to be Second Lieutenants.