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

BREVET.

To be Majors in the Array —Captain William Humbloy,
Rifle Brigade, Jan. 10 ; Captain Ernest Christian Wilford,
19th Foot, Nov. 9; Captain FitzVirilliam 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.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 4.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet-Major John Henry
Francklyn to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Burnaby, retired
upon full pay ; Second Captain Edward Arthur Williams
to be Captain, ♦ice Francklyn; First Lieutenant Robert
Poole Gabbett to be Second Captain, vice Williams ;
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Geale Humfrey to be First
Lieutenant, vice Gabbett, June 28 ; Second Lieutenant
Charles Watson Wilson to be First Lieutenant vice
Whitehead, retired, July I.
OFFICE OF ORDICA.NCE, JULY 6.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Quartermaster-Serjeant
Thomas Hendley to be Quartermaster vice McKown, re-
tired on half-pay, July 1.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Lincolnshire—Adderley Howard, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Jnly 3.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—William Hervey Wood-
house, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Peacock, promoted,
Jnly 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.

Treasury
REDUCTION
is The Lords Commissioners . of her Majesty's
ction of
ssioners for the redu
""ig certified to the Commi
of the Act, 10th Geo. 4,
the National Debt, in pursuance
OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
c. 27, sec. 1., that the actual Burp
Ireland, beyond the actual
-Kingdom of Great Britain and
the sth day of
expenditure thereof, for the year ended
five hun-
dred and twenty
April 1854, amounted to the sum of three million
hundred and eighty-
four
pounds
fotut-iseolu;
sthhielulisagnsdansedvee
National
The Commissioners fo la
reduction of the
r the .
ht hundred
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of eight and eighty-one thousand one hundred and ninety-six,
pounds three shillings ..
-I eight pence, being one-fourth
part of the said surplus oft hree million five hundred and
Illevenpence. a
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
to the following purposes, viz. : day of October, 1854,
To be applied towards the reduction of
the National Debt .................. . ...
Add Interest, receivable on acco unt..f
881,196 3 8
o
donations and bequests to be applied to
the purchase of Stock ..................... 6,898 3 6

888,09-1 7 2
.National Debt Office, July 4, 1854.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General,

BANKRUPTS.
John Webb, grocer, Rayleigh, Essex, to surrender, July
17, and August 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Goren, South
3:101ton-street, Oxford-street.

Samuel Youds, joiner, Birkenhead, July 21, and Aug.
10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Bell, Liverpool.
John Ellis Watkinson, grocer, Halifax, July 21, and
Aug. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds ; Wavell, Philbrick, and Foster,
Halifax.
James Jehn Norman And 41110$ Loadbetter, water.