The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-16 00:00:00

JULY 14.

In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's
Order in Council of the 22d February. 1870—Commander,
Stephen F. Douglas has been this day placed on the`
Retired List of his rank.

In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's
Order in Council of the 22nd February, 1870, the under-
mentioned officer has been placed on the Retired List of
his rank from this date :—Paymaster Samuel Hood
Linzee Giles. Mr. Giles has beep authorised to assume
the rank of Paymaster-in-Chief from the date of his
retirement.

BANKRUTCY ANNULLED.
Beach, Jphn, Oldbury, Worcester, =aster and builder.
BNKRUPTS.
Notice of Adjudications and First Meetings of Creditors,
To Surrender under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
In. London.

Bean, John George Whittingst all, late of Downshire-hill,
Hampstead-heath, coal agent, July 27, at one.
Bertrand, John, Saville-row, Burlington-gardens, club
manager, July 25, at one.
Chapman, Edward William, late of Tooley-street, Sonth-
wark, licensed lighterman, August 3, at twelve.
Gorham, Sarah Ann, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, late
hotel keeper, Aug. 10, at 12.
Hexter, Samuel, Warwick-street, Regent-street, ware-
houseman, Aug. 1, at 12.
Hollis, C. E., Lombard-street, City, timber broker, July
27, at two.
Marchbank, William, Torriano-avenue, Kentish Town,
draper, Aug. 1, at one.
M`Ewan, Peter, Queen's-road, Bayswater, wine merchant,
July 25, at two.

The Bishop of Salisbury has just written a letter
to the Rev. W. T. M'Cormick, of Portland, expressing
in strong terms his disapproval of the Contagious Diseases
Act. About twenty clergy in Dorset have also signed a
protest against the measure.

The office of Solicitor to the Admiralty and
Admiralty Coroner at Portsmouth is now vacant. It is
said to be worth £BOO a year, with relative rank. The
Law Times belives that Mr. Thomas Cousins, solicitor of
Portsmouth and Portsea, will be appointed on Mr.
Childers's return to the Admiralty.
An explosion occurred in a new pit near Quarter
Iron Works, Hamilton, Scotland, on Wednesday, by
which two men were killed and four severely injured.
One man was blown away from the mouth of the shaft.
The explosion was caused by the injudicious use of naked
lamps.

At the Manchester County Court on Thursday a
woman named Robins recovered £5O as damages for a
brutal assault committed upon her by a man named
Richard Mallard, and which rendered her paralytic for
life. The judge expressed his regret that he could not
award her five times the amount.
The real time at which the House of Commons
adjourned yesterday morning was five minutes past five.
This is the latest hour at which the House has been known
to sit since the debates onthe great Reform Bill. Yesterday
morning several members breakfasted in the tea-room of the
Houses of Parliament, there being no cabs in Palace yard
to take them home quickly.

On Thursday arrangements were made for disin-
terring the remains of the Fenian convict, William
Pherson Thompson, who died in Portland prison. The
friends of the deceased have prepared a leaden coffin with
glass in the lid, and ordered that a horse and trap shall be
ready for the remains immediately on the exhumation.
The authorities will not allow any demonstration.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has
Jven judgment in the case of " Elphinstone v. the Rev.
ohn Purchas," of Brighton. The promoter having died
since the commencement of the suit, the question was
whether Mr. H, Hebbert, a retired Indian judge, and now
a resident at Brighton, could act as promoter in the room
of Colonel Elphinstone. The Judicial Committee have
decided in the affirmative.

The last batch of parliamentary, papers issued in-
cludes a series of letters between the Colonial Secretary
and the Governor of Ceylon respecting a catalogue of
Oriental languages'; annual accounts of the Chamberlain
of the City of London ; commercial reports from her
Majesty's Consuls; the report of the Select Committee on
the Pilotage Bill ; and several bills, including the Forging
Bill, the Medical Act Amendment Bill, and the National
Debt Bill.

In the Irish Court of Probate on Thursday, the
Hon. Henry Ernest Newcomen King was declared the
legitimate son of the late Earl Kingston. The suit was
instituted in order to establish his legitimacy, he being
the second son of the late earl, who had left his wife about
the time petitioner was born, and there had been doubts
of the petitioner's legitimacy. Should his elder brother,
the present earl: die without issue, the prisoner would
succeed to the title and estates.

The Civilian says :—" The gentleman to whom Mr.
Baxter so kindly permitted £2,300 of the public-money to
be presented has not left the country. At first his
thought 4 not unnaturally turned to the United States ;
but upon reflection, he patriotically resolved to spend his
handsome douceur in the mother country. The law
advisers; having been consulted on the case, have decided
that, in their.opinionoq criminal offence.has_ been com-
mitted by the ex-official..