The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The opening of the University of Vienna, which
was to have taken place on the Ist, has been postponed
to the month of November, owing to there having
been scarcely any students.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,fcr
the Week ending on Saturday, the 3d day of February, 1849.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued.. •• •• •• 28,330,645

Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984.500
Gold coin and bullion 13,828,773
Silver bullion • • • • • • 502,072

£ 28,330,845
MARSEIALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the Bth day of February, 1849.
NANKIN 0 DEPANTMEN T.

£28,330,845

Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest . • • 3,576,625
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-bank s, and Di-
vidend accounts) •• 3,922,307
Other deposits • • • . . • 11,328,544
Seven day and other
bills • • • • • • • • _1,144,824

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 13,882,267
Other securities •• • • 10,314,654
Notes • • • • • • • • 9,553,460
Gold and silver coin.. 774,919

X 34,523,300

X 34,525,300
M. MARSIIILL,Chief Cashier.
1849.

Dated the Bth day of February.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Arstster.lam .......... 12 2341
Dit'.u, at sight • • .... 12 ON,
goat rdarn .... • . 12 214
Antwerp 25 75
LlArnburgh ••111.13. 13 1134
Paris, 3 dayeslglit .... 25 40
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 60
rfarseilles ............ 2.5 65
80urdeaux......... • 25 70
Frankfort on Maine.... 121%
Petersbusgh, Sil. Hble.. 36%
Berlin • • .. • • ...... • • • •
Vienna, effec. fib— •• 11 29
Trieste, ditto—. •• 11 29
Madrid •• .. • • ........ 48%
Cadiz •• .• •• •• .• •... 49
Bilbao.. •• • •
Barcelona •• • • ........
Seville.. • • •• • • • • • • • •

NGE.-(THIS DAY.)

Gibraltar.. • • ........ • •
Leghorn ........ ••• . • • 32 50
Genoa •• • • .......... 26 60
Venice........
gaples ...... •• .. •• 401/6
Palermo, perm. 1184
Messina ...... 119
Lisbon.... • • 51%
Oporto 524
Rio Janeiro • ....... • •
IBuenos Ayres ........
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia

PRIM OF BULLION, PEE OS
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.. • . 0 4 10%
Silver in bars .. 0 4 11N

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, FEB. 7, 1849.

Notice is hereby given that Her Majesty %ill hold
Levees at St. James's-Palace, on the following days at
two o'clock :—Thursday, 22d February instant ; Wed-
nesday, 28th February instant ; and Wednesday 21st
March next.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, FEB. 7.

Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing•room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the
29th of March next, at two o'clock.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 31.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon Elkanah Armitage, E.A. late
Mayor of Mane Lester.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Edmund
Lyons, BArt., G.C.8., now her Majesty's Minister Pleni-
potentiary to his Majesty the King of Greece, to be her
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated
States of the Swiss Cantons.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Thomas
Wyse, Esq., to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipoten.
tiary to his Majesty the King of Greece.
DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 9.

The Quecn has been pleased to appoint George Wil
Liam Anderson, Esq , to be Governor and Commander
in• Chief in and over the island of Mauritius and its de
pendencies.

CROWN OFFICE, FEB 8.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR.

LIAMENT.

Borough of Portsmouth—The Right Hon. Sir Francis
Thornhill, Baring, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Town of Kingston-upon-Hull—Matthew Talbot
Baines, Esq., First Commissioner for administering the
Poor-law in England.
Borough of Leominster—Frederick Peel, of Drayton
Manor, in the county of Stafford, Esq., in the room of
Henry Barkly, Esq., who has accepted the office of
Governor of British Guiana.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 9.

3d Light Dragoons—Cornet James Macqueen to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Rathwell, deceased,
Oct. 31; Ensign Augustus Barton White, from the 10th
Foot, to be Cornet, vice Macqueen, Feb. 9.
7th Light Dragoons—David Philip Brown, Gent.
(Ridingmaster), to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Harbord,
promoted, Feb. 9.
12th Light Dragoons—George Charles Selwyn Du-
rant, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Arden, pro-
moted, Feb. 9.
herlt4ythtoLigbhetuDeurtaegnottonnt.se—Mi Dragoons—Major
.Henry Edward Do-
Havelock, killed in
be Major, vice action;Dohertiie one , without pnrchase, vice
Captain William Clarke to
To be Captains wikoutopvu.r3c.hase—Lieutenant James
Chambre, vice Cvlaicreke,F promoted; Lieutenant John Au-
gustusoGrenrea
tl d,
Williamdied of
p Dundas
a wounds,
oßuonydds:
Todd, itca
Nov. 27.:
To be Lieutenants—
vice Chambre; Cornet Honourable Richard Walter
Sergeant Major John
ChTeotwybn, vice
edCorneTt—od, Nov.Rdegim en2ta7,
l
Holliday, vice Chetwynd, Nov. 27.
4th Regiment of Foot—Hadder Roberts, Gent, to be
Ensign, by purchase, Feb. 9.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant Richard Wilson Hartley to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brown, deceased; En-
sign William Waldegrave Nson to be Lieutenant, vice
Hartley; Herbert Vernon Lillicrap, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Poason, Feb. 9.
10th 'Foot—Ensign Richard MacCulloch Peard, from
the 73d Foot, to be Ensign, vice White, appointed to the
3d Light Dragoons, Feb. 9.
12th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Dundas to be Adju-
tant, vice Crof ton, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
Feb. 9.
18th Foot—Ensign Robert Halahan to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Burrell, deceased. Jan. 1; Thomas
Hardwick Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Balaban,
Feb. 9.
21st Foot—Captain John Ramsay Stuart to be Major,
by purchase, vice Sutherland, who retires ; Lieutenant
Thomas William Prevost to be captain, by purchase,
vice Stuart; Second LieutenantlCharles Beevor Daveney
to be First Lieutenant by purchase, vice Prevost; the
Hon. William George Boyle to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Daveney, Feb. 9.
25th Foot—Ensign William Trail Arnold to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Johnston, deceased, Nov.
2, 1848.

26th Foot---Ensign Augustus Frederick Thistle-
thwayte, from the 85th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Young,
who exchanges, Feb. 9, 1849.
30th Foot—Frederic Alfred Carrington, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Anderson who retires, F, b. 9.
72d Foot—William Henry Urquhart, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith, promoted in 63th Foot.
Feb. 9,
73d Foot—John cox Lawler, Gerd., to be Ensign,