The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account purmant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32. for
the Week ending on Saturday the 24th day of December, 1853.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ........ 29,1;2,435

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities.-- 2,994,900
Gold coin and bullion 15,128,435
Silver bubi0n........ -

429,128,435 1 £29,128,435
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 29th day of Dec., 1853.
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

£
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ... • .... • ...... 3,198,455
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and

Government securities .'
(includg.DeadlN'eight
Annuity) .... l 5,043,730
Other securities...... 16,643,65
Notes ........ • • .... 8,3 8,280
Gold and silver coin .. 690,606

Dividend Accounts) 11,157,724
Other deposits ...... 10,607,922
Seven Day and other
8i115...• .• .• 1,179,166

£40,696,267

£40,696, c;7
:. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated tho 29th day of Dec., 1853.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 27th day of
Dec., 18.53, .Is 245. 61. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Eastgate, boot and shoo salesman, Churton-
street, Pimlico, to surrender, Jan. 6, at half-past el v en,
and Feb. 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Ba,singhall-street ; Story, Great
James-street, Bedford-row.
John Davis and Solomon Davis, clothiers, East Smith-
field, Jan. 12, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 10, at half-past
eleven, at the Court •of Bankruptcy. Cannan official
assignee, Aldermanbury; Levy, Strand.
Benjamin Vincent, boot and shoe maker, Canterbury,
Jan. 10, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 9, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings ' • Stratton and Postens, Strand.
William Cobb, builder, Maidstone, Jan. 10, and Feb. 7,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee ; Stenning and Croft, Basinghall-street ;
Stenning and Carnell, Tonbridge.
Thomas William Thame, ironmonger, Greenwich, Jan.
9 and Feb. I], at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen-
nell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Bristow and
Tarrant, Bond-court, Walbrook.
William Legh, wine merchant, New Windsor, Jan. 7at
half-past two, and Feb. 11 at one. Pennell, official assig-
nee, Guildhall-chambers; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-
lane, Cannon-street.
David Pratt, thimble maker and metal roller, Aston,
Birmingham, Jan. 12, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Smith, Birmingham.
Thomas Bull, ship owner, Bristol, Jan. 12, and Feb. 9
following, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hut-
ton, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Angus and Company, engineers, ironfounders,
and millwrights, Rosyth, Fife—to meet Jan. 10.
Mrs. I. Craig, house and sign painter, Glasgow—Jan. 10.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
JohniVoller, of Landport, Southampton, first dividend
of ss. 104 d. in the pound, payable at 24, Basinghall-
street, on any Tuesday.
James William Havers, of 14, Judd-street, Brunswick-
square, first dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound, payable at
24, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday.
A. H. Chambers and Son, late of New Bond-street, and
South Melton-street, bankers, fourth and final dividend of
2s. 10d. in the pound on the joint estate ; also a dividend of
64d. on the separate estate of A. H. Chambers, sett., pay-
able at 12, Abchurch-lane, City, December 31, and three
subsequent Saturdays.
William Mole, of Birmingham, victualler, first dividend
of 2s. sd. in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo-street,
Birmingham, on any Thursday.
Charles Forster Cotterill and William Henry Hill, of
Walsall, Staffordshire, merchants, a final dividend of lid.
in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo-street, Birmingham,
on any Thursday.
William Haden Richardson, Benjamin Richardson, and
Jonathan Richardson, of Wordsley, Staffordshire, and 75,
Lamb's Conduit-street, glass manufacturers, first dividend
of 3s. in the pound, on the separate estate of William
Haden Richardson and Benjamin Richardson, payable at
7, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on any Thursday.
John Bottomley, of Marton, Lincolnshire, miller, first
dividend of 4id. in the pound, payable at Quay street,
Hull, on any Tuesday.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Septimus Press, of Skireholme, Yorkshire, cattle dealer
—William Cooper, of Sedgford, Norfold, cordwainer—
Thomas Price, jun., of Cheddingham, Buckinghamshire,
trainer of horses—Peter Al'Kittrick, of Bradford, York-
shire, grocer—Thomas Allen, 'of King's Lynn, Norfolk,
surgeon—Henry Bromwich, of Birmingham, out of busi-
ness.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Samuel Bot3on Aldred and John Hayward, of 35, St.
Martin's-lane, woollen-drapers—William Thomas, George
Churchill, and George Edward Lowe, of 19 to 21, Catherine
street, Strand, advertising agents—Thomas Wilkinson and
Wm. Wildman of Bingley, Yorkshire, wool-comb makers--
Charles Sutherland and Charles Sutherland, jun., of 24,
Mincing-lane, City, colonial produce brokers—Chas. Lucey,
Joseph Lucey, and H. Lucey, of Coxes-quay, City, lighter-
men—Henry Barnett, of Lewisham, William Carr, of Lee,
and Hugh Stott, of Greenwich, Kent, surgeons (so far as
regards Hugh Stott)—Mary Atkin and Edward Thomas
Atkin, of Sheffield, silver cutlers—Alfred Parker, Frances
Balfour Paton, Donald M`Callum, Edmund Walter Win-
grove, and John Hamilton (deceased), of Calcutta, auc-
tioneers (so far as regards Alfred Parker and Francis Bal-
four Paton)—Sarah Rebecca Poole, Samuel Swonnell, and
Joseph Swonnell, of Kingston-upon-Thames, malsters
William Pogson and John Walker Taylor, of Halifax,

ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT.
By the Queen—A Proclamation.
VICTORIA R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued
to Tuesday the third day of January next, we, with the
advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare,
that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the
said third day of January next, to Tuesday the thirty-first
day of January next ; and we have given order to our
Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great
Britain, to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same
accordingly : and we do hereby further, with the advice
afordsaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the
said Parliament shall, on the said Tuesday the thirty-
first day of January next, assemble and be holden for the
despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens,
and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for shires and
burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and
commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at West-
minster, on the said Tuesday the thirty-first day of
January next.
Given at our Court, at Windsor, this twenty-ninth
day of December, in the year of our Lord o ie thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seven-
teenth year of our reign - God save the Queen.
CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 28.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Clonmel—John O'Connell, Esq., of Gowran-
hill, in the county of Dublin, in the room of the Honour-
able Cecil Lawless, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 30.
4th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir John
Bell, K.C.8., from the 95th Regiment, to be Colonel, vice
General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., deceased, Dec. 26.
20th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Nathaniel Thorn,
C. 8., to b Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Henry Godwin,
K.C.8., deceased, Dec. 26.
95th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Francis
Cockburn to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir John
8011, K.C.8., removed to the 4th Foot, Dec. 26.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 30.
14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel John Lewis Black, from half-pay unattached, to
be Major, vice William Clarke' who exchanges; Brevet-
Major William Wilmer, to be Major, by purchase, vice
Black, who retires ; Lieutenant Thomas Barrett to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Wilmer ; Cornet Chas, Wemyss
Thesiger to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barrett ;
James Giles, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thesi-
ger, Dec. 30.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles Hurt to be Lieut-
enant, without purchase, vice Scroope, deceased ; Gen-
tleman Cadet Henry George White,from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, Dec. 30.
sth Foot—John Cornish Brown, Gent. to be Seeond
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tritton, appointed to the
87th Foot. Dec. 30.
20th Foot—Captain Frederick Charles Evelegh, to be
Major, by purchase, vice Lord Mark Kerr, promoted, by
purchase, in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment ; Lieutenant
George Tomson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Evelegh ;
Ensign William Henry M'Neill, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Tomson ; Hector Barlow Vaughan, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice M`Neill, Dec. 30, 1853.
34th Foot.—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Francis Max-
well, from the 82d FOOt, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brown, who exchanges.
41st Foot.—Lieutenant Charles Yelverton Balguy to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Tuckey, who retires ; Ensign
John William Swaby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Balguy ; John Stirling, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Swaby.
61st Foot—Su re-eon Ludovic Charles Stewart, from the
94th Foot, to be 'Surgeon, vice Gammie, who exchanges,
Dec. 30.
68th Foot—Major Henry Smyth to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Lord Arthur Lennox, who retires ; Cap-
tain Heneage Griffith Wynne to be Major, by purchase,
vice Henry Smyth ; Lieutenant the Honourable Daniel
Greville Finch to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynne ;
Ensign Frank Garforth to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Finch ; Sir Brydges Powell Henniker, Bart., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Garforth, Dec. 30.
82d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas R. Brown, from
the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Maxwell,
who exchanges, Dec. 30.
87th Foot—Captain Alexander Murray to be Major, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutentant-Colonel Shortt, who
retires ; First Lieutenant Thompson Macky McClintock to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, who retires ;
First Lieutenant George Wolfe to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Murray ; Second Lieutenant Charles Edmund God-
dard, to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
M'Clintock ; Second Lieutenant John Wall, to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wolfe; Second Lieutenant
Edmund Spry Tritton, from the sth Foot, to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Goddard ; John Rawson Simpson, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wall, Dec. 30.
94th Foot—Surgeon Patrick Gammie, from the 61st
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stewart, who exchanges, Dec. 30.
3d West India Regiment Captain George Floyd
Dukett, from half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice
MacGregor, who exchanges, Dec. 30.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Major Lord Mark Kerr, from
the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Simmonds, who retires, Deo. 30.
MEMORANDUM.—The commission of Ensign John Han-
ger, who was appointed to an Ensigncy, without purchase,
in the 2nd West India Regiment, on 11th November,
1853, to bear date 12th of that month.
The Christian name of Ensign Pocklington, of the 38th
Foot, is Frederic only, and not Frederick Sharpe, as
stated in the Gazette of 18th October, 1853.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT
OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Sir Charles Blois, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec
21 ; Edward Robert Starkie Bence, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Dec. 24.