The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-10 00:00:00

THE NEWCASTLE BANK.

In reply to Mr. HUTT,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated that he did not wish to speak prejudicially
of this Bank the other night. What he meant
tc convey was that it had obtained a tem-
porary loan from a district branch of the Bank
of England, which had been repaid. The loan was
made to meet a very heavy run, and the application
for it he did not consider prejudicial to the directors,
who, he regretted, had been annoyed at the statement
as construed by them.
EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS.
In reply to Lord JOCELYN,

Mr. C. LEWIS stated that the Calcutta Presidency
had consented to the construction of a line called the
C-ILLLa into
terior, the terms being that the sections should be
executed so that the line should cost no more than
3,000,0001. The Government were to find the land
and were to guarantee interest at the rate of 5
.per
cent., and to have the option of purchasing the line in
25 or 50 years. A similar offer had been made to the
Great Indian Peninsular from Bombay, inwards 35
miles in length. No arrangement had been made
with the Madras line.

Sir R. PEEL inquired if legislative mectsures were
required to effect this purpose ?
Mr• C. LEWIS apprehended that the East India
Companies thought they had power to carry out those
arrangements without legislative sanction.
Mr. BRIGHT said the cost of the recent failures
in Lancashire would have made the Peninsular line.
Two years delay had already taken place, and as
work could not be done from June to September,
another year would be lost if greater speed was not
made. Ile did not think the terms sufficiently liberal
to enable the directors to raise money in the English
market. He should, therefore, after the recess,
move for the production of the correspondence. The
subject was most important to Lancashire.

I tilr. C. LEWIS considered the granting of the
land exceedingly liberal.
Mr. WADDIKGTON enquired whether the terms
had merely been offered or whether they had been
agreed to.
Mr, C. LEWIS said they had merelybeen offered.
Lord G. BENTINCK wished to ask the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer to postpone the nomination
of the Committee to inquire into the causes of the
recent distress until a further day. The present ap-
pointment was not at all a satisfactory one to many
Honourable Members in that House. A great
number of gentlemen thought that neither Scotland
nor Ireland were sufficiently represented in the
matter. It appeared to him that due consideration had
not been given to those Hon. Members who were op-
posed to the Bank Charter Act of 1844. It appeared
that every lion. Member who opposed the passing of
that Act in 1844, were excluded from the Commit-
tee. He trusted, therefore, that the Right Hon.
Baronet would postpone the appointment of the Com-
mittee until some day next week, and in the meantime
he would give notice of other names which if the
II ouse should wish he would propose should be
added to the Committee.—(Hear, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said that he had endeavoured as far as pos-
sible to do justice in the selection of Mem-
bers for the Committee, and he was most
anxious that the constitution of that Committee
should give general satisfaction to the House. He
hal no objection to postpone the nomination of the
Committee till Monday.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Com-
mittee, when appointed, would commence with their
inquiry until after the recess.

The CHANCELLOR of 11 EXCHEQUER
said that it would be for the Committee, when it met,
to decide what ceurse they would adopt. If he were
to state his opinions as to what that course would be
he should say that upon their meeting their first duty
would be to elect a chnirman, and then determine as to
what course they would pursue, and what accounts
and returns they might require. Having decided
upon that point they would probobly aejourn, in
order that they might have the returns ready pre-
vious to the examination of the severol witnesses whom
they might thiY,k it to call before them.
Mr. WAKLEY thought that as this was Friday,
if the Chancellor of the Exchequer postponed the
nomination of the Committee till Monday only, no
time would be afforded to the Noble Lord the
Member fur Lynn to give notice of any other names,
and suggested that it should be postponed to a later
day than Monday next. It was his intention to move
that the name of Mr. Muntz, the Hon. Member for
Birmingham, should be added to the Committee.
Mr. HUME requested that his name might be
struck off the list, in order to make room for some
other, as he did not see that any advantage could pos-
sibly arise from an inquiry into the subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said that he should move the appointment of the
Committee nomination to that of which he had
give notice, and it would be for the House then to
decide whether any and what names should be struck
off or added to the Committee.

REPORTS FOR MILITARY OFFICERS
(IRELAND).
In answer to a question put by an HON. MEMBER,
Sir G. GREY said the reports made by the
various military offices of Ireland to the Commander-
in-Chief of that country, and from him to the Corn-
mander-in-Chtef in this country, and the Home
Secretary were of a strictly confidential nature, and
he should be acting moot improperly if he answered
any question upon the subject of their opinion as to
necessity of proclaiming martial law in Ireland.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

On reading the order of the day for going into
Committee of Supply.
Mr. E WART wanted to know from the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, whether it would be in the
power of the Government to take any general
view of their whole system of taxation, for
the object of simplifying and reforming it,
in the present session of Parliament. The
subject was one which excited a considerable
interest throughout the country, and he should there-
fore be happy to hear from the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer something of the plan to which he had
alluded in the last session of Parliament.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXBHEQUER
was not aware of having alluded to any plan last ses-
sion, or having held out any expectation on
the subject referred to by the Honourable
Member. Whilethe Honourable Member pro.
posed to bring the subject of taxation under the view
of the llouse, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
stated that in the present state of the country it would
be unfair to renew the income-tax, or at all events to
deal with that question.—(Hear, hear.) It was ex-
ceedingly inconvenient and not very aduantageous
to any one that he should answer questions
with respect to the intentions of the Government
with regard to measures which it would be his duty
to propose in the beginning of the spring. Govern-
ment usually reserved its determinations on these
subjects, and then announced their intentions when
they were prepared to do so, in orthr to prevent any
undue expectation or disappointment.
Mr. HUME—Can the Right Hon. Gentleman give
the house any idea when the Budget will be brought
forward ?—(Hear, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—
In reply to that question, I can only give a general
answer, that it will be brought forward after the
recess.—(Cheers and laughter.)
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 10, 1847.
graciously pleased to give orders
for the
Queen h
he appointment bnteoefn the Marquess of Normanby, her
Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten-
tiary to the King of the French, to be an Ordinary
Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or
Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath.

'WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 10.
6th Dragoon Guards—John Davis Sherston, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Gwyn, promoted, dated
Dec. 10.

3d Light Daagoons—Cornet Thomas Heathcote Stisted
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burton, appointed
to the 16th Light Dragoons; Michael Cusac Smith,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stisted, Dec. 10.
7th Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
George B. lomefield, from half-pay Unattached. to be
Major, vice G. P. Bushe, who exchanges ; Captain
Charles Hagan to be Major, by purchase, vice Biome-
field, who ietirea ; Lieutenant William Viscount St.
Lawrence to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hagan;
Cornet Colmore Frind Cregoe Colmore to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Viscount St. Lawrance; Henry
William Meredyth, Gent to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Colmore, Dec. 10. P
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Charles Freville
Surtpes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barry, who re-
, u ase,
re-
tires; Cornet Benjamin Aylett Branfill to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Surtees P • John Rawlinson Cuthberth,
Gent., to be Cornet b rch
vice Branfill, Dec, 10.
16th Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
John Rowland Smyth to be Lieutenant Colonel, by
purchase, vice MacDowall, who retires; Captain George
O'Halloran Gavin to be Major, by purchase, vice Smyth;
Lieutenant Charles John Foster to be Captain, viee
Gavin; Lieutenant James Gubbins Archer Burton, frog
the 3d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Foster,
Dec. 10.

Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Brevet-
Colonel George Todd, from
Captain and Lieutenant. Colonel, vice E. D. Wigram,
half-pay unattached, to be
who exchanges ; Brevet-Major Lieutenant and Captain
the lion. Robert Edward Boyle to be Captain and
Lieutenant. Colonel, by purchase, vice Todd, who retires;
Ensign and Lieutenant Francis William Newdigate to
be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Boyle ;
Arthur George Bethel Thellessuu, Gent., to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Newdigate, Dec. 10.
Scots Fuvilz,er Guards—Brevet Colonel the Hen.
Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant, from half-pay Un-
attached, to bo Captain and Lieutenant Colonel, vice
Francis Hugh George Seymour, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant and Captain Arthur Edward Onslow to be
Captain and Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase, vice
Pennant, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutlinant
Henry Green Wilkinson to be Lieutenant,
and Captain, by jpurchase, vice Onslow; Ensign Hugh
Fitzhardinge Drummond, from the .57th Foot, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilkinson,
Dec. 10.

3d Foot —Captain Donald Meent Cameron to be Major,
by purchase, vice Eaton, who retires ; Captain Lord
Charles Lennox Kerr, from half-pay Unattached, to be
Captain, vice Edward Henry MooreKelly,who exchanges;
Lioutenant Frederick Francis Maude, to. be Captain by

purchase, vice Cameron; Lieutenant Hugh Smith, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Lord Charles Lennox Kerr,
r. rctin :-; C,:rJan:lt
by purchase, vice Maude; Ensign Octavious Cobb
Ronne, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smith;
Ensign Robert Sandford Warburton, from the 30th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Taylor; George Robert Gray, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rooke, Dec. 10.
4th Foot—Lieutenant William Wilby to be Captain,
by Captain, by purchase, vice Shortt, who retires; En-
sign James White Minchin, from die 95th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilby, Dec. 10.
taloth Foot—Ensign Cuthbert Barlow to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Manse!, who retires ; Henry Bag
shawe Harrison Rooke, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Barlow, Dec. 10.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Trevor Irwin, from
the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Doran, appointed Adjutant, Dec. 6'
20th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Gillespie Wood,
M.D., from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice James Mori-
son, who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 10.
29th Foot—Ensign John Sheridan Henderson to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Dowson, appointed
Quartermaster; Colonr sergeant William D. Chapman
to be Ensign, vice Henderson; Lieut. Charles Suther-
land Dowson to be Quartermaster, vice Kneebone, de-
ceased, Dec. 10.
30th Foot—Thomas Mapleson Fitz-Patrick, Gent to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Warburton, appointed to
the 3d Foot, Dec. 10.
32d Foot—Ensign Rowland Edward Louis Henry
Williams to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Money
Kyi le, deceased, Sept. 23; Ensign Henry Donatus
O'Callaghan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ack-
land, who retires; Edward Chippendale, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Callaghan, Dec. 10;
John Birtwhistle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Pearson, appointed to the 95th Foot, Dec. 11 ; Samuel
Hill, Lawrence, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Williams, Dec.
12.

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44th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Walter to be Captain
by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires ; Ensign Edward
Ogle Streatfield to be Lieutenant, by purcbase,vice Walter.
George Augustus Elliot, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur
chase, vice Streatfield, Dec. 10.

57th Foot—James Franklyn Bland, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Drummond, appointed to the
Scots Fusilier Guards, Dec. 10.

78th Foot—Major Edward Twopeny to be Lieute-
nant Colonel, by purchsse, vice Forbes, who retires;
Brevet Major Walter Hamilton to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Twopeny; Lieutenant Frederick Edmund
Caldwell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hamilton;
Ensign Thomas Anderson to be Lieutenant, by pnrchase,
vice Caldwell, Dec. 10; Ensign Robert Bogle to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Paulson, promoted in the
Royal Newfoundland Companies ; Joseph Webster,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bogle, Dec. 11;
John Simon Francis Dick, Gent., to be Ensign, by pua-
chase, vice Anderson, Dec. 12.

81st Foot—Ensign Frederick Sidney de Vere Lane
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Murray, who retires;
George Betts, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Lane, Dec. 10.

84th Foot—Major David Russell to be Lieut.-Colonel'
by )purchase, vice M'Bean, who retires ; Brevet Major
Charles James to be Major, by purchase, vice Russell;
Lieutenant Charles F. Seymour to be Caplain, by pur-
chase, vice James; Ensign James Edmund Leahy to be
Licuntenant, by purchase, vice Seymour; Edmund Kerr
Vaughan Arbuckle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Leaby, Dec. 10.
86th Foot—Ensign Orlando Robert Hamond Orlebar
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wood, who retires;
Edward Leet, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Orlebar, Dec. 10.

95th Foot—Ensign Richard Lyons Otway Pearson,
from 32d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Minchin, promoted in
the 4th Foot, Dec. 10.

97th Foot—Ensign Charles Henry Lumley to
ba Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sutton, who retires ;
William Richard Annesley, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Lumley, Dec. 10.
99th Foot—Ensign Bernard Henry O'Reilly to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pigott, who retires; Wil-
liam Henry Dowling Reeves Wclman, Gent., to be
-Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Reilly; llenry Higgins
Jones, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Smith, ap-
pointed to the Staff, Dec. 10.
Royal Newfoundland Companies—Captain Bicknell
Currey, from half-pay 17th Light Dragoons, to be Cap-
tain, vice Bindon, promoeed; Lieutenant Charles Patti-
son, from 78th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Coney, who retires, Dec. 10.

BREvET•—Captain Bicknell Coney, of the Royal
Newfoundland Companies, to be Mojor in the Army,
June 28, 1838.

UNATTACHED.—Captain Henry George Boyce, from
the 2d Lite Guards, to be Major, by purchase, Dec. 10.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon George Roche
Smith, from 99th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces, vice Wood, promoted in tho 20th Foot, Dec 10.
MEMORANDUM.—Major William Bindon, upon half-
pay Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the
army by the sale of an Unattached Majority, he being
about to become a settler in Nova Scotia, Dec. 10.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 9.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Samuel
Philip Townsend to be Captain, vice Tireman, retired
on full pay; First Lieutenant William Robert Gichard
to be Second Captain, vice Townsend; Second Lieu.
tenant Philip Bedingfield, to be First Lieutenant, vice
Gichard; Nov. 24.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West
Riding of Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Hussars, Regiment of West Riding Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Godfrey Wentworth Bosville, Gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Murkland, resigned, Dec. 1.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 3d instant.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County

Palatine of Cheater.

The King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry
—For Cornet the Honourable Hugh Lupus Earl Gros-
venor, UP., to be Captain, vice Sir Philip de Malpas
Grey Egerton, Bart., promoted—Read, Cornet the
liVit Honourable Hugh Lupus Earl Grosvenor, M.P.,
to be Captain, &c.