The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-03 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

OFFICE O' ORDNANCE, FEe. 1, 1436.
Ordnance Medical Department.
Assistant-Surgeon S. Chisholm, from the half-pay, to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Tuthill, retired on half-pay, Sept. 14.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 2, 1836.
-The King has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir John llarvey
to be Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf
of St. Lawrence. _ _ .

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The King has also been pleased to appoint Jeffrey Hart Bent,
Esq. to be Chief Justice of the Colony of British Guiana.
The King hai also been pleased to appoint Andries Stocken-
strum, Esq. to be Lieutenant-Governor of the eastern division of
the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, comprising the several
districts of Albany, Somerset, Uitenhage, and Graaff Reynet.
The King has also been pleased to appoint John Hindmarsh,
Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, to be Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia. . _ _

The king has also been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Torrens, C.B. ; William Alexander Mackinnon, M.P. ;
William Hutt, M.P. ; John George Shaw Lefevre, George Pal-
mer, jun., Jacob Montefiore, Samuel Mills, Edward Barnard, Jo-
siah Roberts, and James Pennington, Esquires, to be his Majesty's
Commissioners for carrying into effect certain parts of the Act,
passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled an " An Act to
empower his Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Pro-
vince or Provinces, and to provide for the colonization and govern-
ment thereof," tke said Commissioners to be styled the Coloniza-
tion Commissioners for South Australia."

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts.
Wilts Regular Militia—T. Villett, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Warneford, deceased, Jan. 16. .

Devizes Troop of Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry—E. G. Pol-
hill, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Estcourt, promoted, Jan. 15.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.
The Ist or Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—P. T. H. Wykeham, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Earle, resigned, Jan. 26.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

CHARLES SUTTON DIXON, stationer, Aldersgate-street,

BANKRUPTS.

EDWARD SARGEANT, chemist, Stamford, to surrender
Feb. 12 and March 15, at. twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Watts, Dean-street, Southwark ; Clark, official assignee, St. Swi-
thin's-lane, Lombard-street.
WILLIAM POUND, carriage-lamp-manufacturer, Long-acre,
Feb. 9, at twelve, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Alsager, King's Arms-buildings, Cornhill, official as-
signee; Price and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields.
STEPHEN LAKEMAN, ship-owner, Regent-circus, Picca-
dilly, Feb. 11, at half-past twelve, and March 15, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Ow.en and Dixon, Mincing-lane; Whit-
more, Basinghall-street, official assignee.
WILLIAM RITCHIE, baker, Liverpool, Feb. 18, and March
15, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Blackstone and
Co., King's Bench Walk, Temple, London ; Bardswell, Lord-
street, Liverpool.
JOSEPH WAYBRAM HAINES, linen-draper, Upper-street,
Islington, Feb. 10, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Cattlin, Ely-place.
JOSEPH STALEY, druggist, Witney, Oxfordshire, I'eb. 15,
at ten, at the Crown Inn, Witney, and March 15, at ten, at the
Mitre Inn, Oxford. Leake, Witney; Close, Furnival's Inn:London.
JOHN SPEDEN, spirit-dealer, North Shields, Feb. 23, and
March 15, at eleven, at the Bankrupt Commission-room, Royal
Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Brooksbank and Farn, Gray's
Inn-square; Brown, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
MICHAEL SAMUEL SCHLESINGER, merchant, Strand,
London, Feb. 9, and March 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Abbott, official assignee ; Adlington, Gregory, and
Faulkner, Bedford-row.
WILLIAM MILES, cattle.salesman, West Ham, Essex, Feb.
15, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tucker,
Bank-chambers, Lothbury ; Lackington, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street.

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
H. S. Mason and H. M. Kettlewell, coal merchants, Surrey
Wharf, Addington-square, Camberwell, Feb. 25, at twelve—W.
Key, linen draper, Isleworth, Feb. 23, at eleven—S. Morrey, linen
draper, New Bond-street, Feb. 23, at one—W. J. Potter, vic-
tualler, Little Compton-street, Soho, Feb. 25, at one—R. Wilson,
merchant, New Bridge-street, London, Feb. 25, at two—J. T.
Reeve, licensed victualler, Whitechapel High-street, Feb. 25, at
three—J. Wolff and J. Dorville, merchants, New Bridge-street,
London, Feb. 25, at twelve—J. Staig and J. Poulson, marble mer-
chants, No. 12 Wharf, City Basin, Feb. 24, at two—R. Holden
and Co., West India brokers, Mincing-lane, Feb. 24, at one—C. A.
and T. Phillips, bankers, Milford, Pembrokeshire, Feb. 24, at
twelve—C. Carter, woollen draper, Oxford-street, Feb. 24, at eleven.
In the Country.

J. Watson, brewer, Leeds, Feb. 2-4, at eleven, at the Court
House, Leeds—H. Burdekin, table knife manufacturer, Sheffield,
Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Town Hall, Sheffield—W. Dickins,
grocer, Northampton, Feb. 26, at two, at the Peacock Inn,
Northampton—R. Evamy, hop merchant, Southampton, Feb. 25,
at two, at the Star Inn, Southampton—J. Brooke, chemist, Lin-
coln, Feb. 23, at two, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Lincoln—D.
M‘Vicar, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 25, at one, at the office of
Messrs. Lace and Co., Liverpool—J. Richardson, merchant, Liver-
pool, Feb. 24, at twelve, at the office of Messrs. Lace and Co., Li-
verpool—W. R. Williams, spirit merchant, East Retford, Notting-
hamshire, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, East Ret-
ford—R. Kilsby, victualler, Donhead, St. Andrew, Wiltshire,
March 4, at twelve, at the Bath Arms Inn, Warminster—J.
Shelley, dealer in colour, Hanley, Staffordshire, Feb. 24, at twelve,
at the Roebuck Inn, Newcastle-under-Lyme—J. Brittain, hop mer•
chant, Kingston-upon-Hull, Feb. 27, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Mather, innkeeper, Hindley, Lancashire,
Feb. 27, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Preston—Z. B. Houghton,
timber merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 24, at three, at the Clarendon-
rooms, Liverpool—Y. Wrigley, fustian manufacturer, Manchester,
Feb. 23, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.