The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STREET, SEPr. 25, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right lion.
Sir Charles Edward Grey, Knt., to be Captain-General and
Governor-in-Chief of the island of Jamaica.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Reid, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal En-
gineers, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over the islands of Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincent,
Tobago, and St. Lucia.

Her 'Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles
Elliot, Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, to be Governor
and Commander-in Chief in and over the Bermudas or
Somers Islands.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to apoint the Right
Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Major-General in the
Service of the East India Company, to be Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the settlement of the Cape
of Good Hope. _

WAR-OFFICE, SErr. 25.

24 Regiment of Foot—Ensign Richard Ormerod Potts to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Otway, who retires; Robert
Holdsworth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Potts,
Sept. 25.
20th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Morrison, from the
89th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Teevan, promoted, Sept. 25.
25th Foot—Henry Daniel Parrott, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Strange, whose appointment has
been cancelled, September 25.
29th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Thomas Fitzgerald, from
the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry,
who retires, September 25.
30th Foot—Mark Walker, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Butler, promoted in the 60th Foot, Sept. 25.
47th Foot—Sergeant-Major William M'lntosh to be Quar-
termaster, vice O'Donnell, deceased, Sept. 25.
64th Foot—Lieutenant William Baihie Jopp to be Captain
by purchase, vice Fownes, who retires; Ensign Neville Hill
Shute to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jopp ; Henry
Robert Crewe Godley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Shute, Sept. 25.
69th Foot—. Ensign Charles Eyre Butler, from the 30th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Carmichael,
appointed Adjutant ; Ensign George Bagot to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Mundell, who retires ; James Smyth, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bagot ; Lieutenant Charles
John Carmichael to be Adjutant, vice Moore, promoted,
Sept. 24.
71st Foot—Ensign William Stratton Prince to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Domville, who retires; William
Nathaniel Micklethwait, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Prince, Sept. 25.
84th Foot—Ensign Alexander hfacbean, from the 97th
Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice O'Brien, pro-
moted, Sept. 26.
87th Foot—Second Lieutenant Frederick Thomas Patter-
son to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John
Wentworth Austin, superseded ; the Hon. Augustus Murray
Cathcart to be Second Lieutenant, vice Patterson, Sept. 25.
97th Foot—Alexander Macbean, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Peat, who retires; Richard Francis Holmes,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Macbean, ap-
pointed to the 84th Foot, Sept. 25.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Charles Frederick Am iel
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, appointed to
the 29th Foot; William Ivers Lutman, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Amiel, Sept. 25.
STAFF. —Lieutenant John Sabine, from half-pay Royal
African Corps (repaying the difference), to be Paymaster of
a Recruiting District, vice Lucas, deceased, Sept. 25.
Hosprran STAFF.—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class John
Hall, M.D., to be Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals ;
Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Atkinson, M.D.,P
to he Staff Surgeon of the First Class; Surgeon Stevenson
Teevan, M.D., from the 20th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the
First Class, vice Thomas Smith, M.D., who retires upon half-
pay ; Assistant Surgeon Andrew Ferguson, M.D., from the
18th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class; Assist-
ant Surgeon Frederic Roberts, from the 59th Foot, to be Staff
Surgeon of the Second Class, Sept. 25.
To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—George Waterloo
Pennington Sparrow, Gent.; Edward William Thomas Man-
deville, Gent.; William Thomas Black, Gent.; William
Cameron, M.D. ; Brinslev Nicholson, M.D. •, James Simpson
Grant, M.D. ; Frederick Burton Phillipson, Gent., Sept. 25.
Cot nission by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
George Bowyer, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 18.
.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

Thomas James Agar Robartes, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu,
,onant, Sept. 16.

WHITEHALL, Siwr. 12.

The Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has ap-
pointed Robert Holyland, of Brierly, near Barnsley, in the
county of York, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual ommis-
sioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds, to be
executed by married women, under the Act passed for the
abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of
more simple modes of assurance, in and for the West Riding
of the county of York.

BANKRUPTS.
John Cramp, cowkeeper, Carlinge, Kent, to surrender
Oct. 5, at half-past one, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-
chambers ; Goren, South Molton-street, Oxford-street.
Edmund Garbett, banker, Skinner's-place, Sise-lane, Oct.
7, at two, and Nov. 5, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Owens and
Andrews, Moorgate-street.

William Miles Morley, warehouseman, Bread-street,
Cheapside, Oct. 8, at one, and Nov. 5, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Hardwick and Davidson, Weavers'-hall.
John Wallace Falshaw, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire,
Oct. 6, at half-past one, and Nov.lo, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane;
Norton and Son, New-street, Bishopsgate.
Frederic Shaw, eating-house-keeper, Manchester, Oct. 5
and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hob-
son, official assignee, Manchester ; Gregory, Faulkner,
Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London; Chew, Man-
chester.

James Brett, grocer, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, Oct. 7 and 28,
at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official
assignee, Hull; Jones, Sise-lane, London; Blackburn, Leeds.
William Morgan, draper, Treforest, Glamorganshire, Oct.
13, and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Grover, Cardiff.
James Lewis, butcher, Dawley-green, Shropshire, Oct.
13, and Nov. 3, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy official assignee, Birmingham ; Smith, Birmingham.
William Clemson, victualler, Dawley-green, Shropshire,
Oct. 13 and Nov. 3, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Smith,
Birmingham.

Hewson Dutchman, ship-owner, Toxteth-park, near Li-
verpool, Oct. 20 and Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Cazenove, official assignee ; Sharpe and Co.,
Bedford-row, London, Miller and Peel, Liverpool.

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
M. Cooke, builder, Manchester—first div. of Bi4d. in the
pound, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, or any subsequent Tuesday, at
the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
J. Nield, woollen manufacturer, Manchester—first div. of
Is. 11/2d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
G. Sex, livery-stable keeper, Stone-cutter-street, Farring-
don-street, Oct. 17, at one--T. Simmons, corn merchant,
Buckinghamshire. _

In the Country.
J. M. Stark, bookseller, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Oct. 28,
at ten, at the Town-hall, Hull—T. Gough, commercial tra-
veller, Porrishead, Somersetshire, Oct. 16, at eleven, at the
Bristol
District Court—J. Sansom, wheelwright, Arnold,
Nottinghamshire, Oct. 23, at eleven, at the Town-hall,
Sheffield—M. Pennington, cabinet maker, Huddersfield,
Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—M. Horsley,
farmer, Deighton. Yorkshire, Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court—J. Sutcliff, carrier's agent, Halifax, York-
shire, Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—C.
Hirst, farmer, Hangingheaton, Yorkshire, Oct. 21, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court—W. Ward, constable, Rother-
ham, Yorkshire, Oct. 23, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Shef-
field—A. Taylor, cloth manufacturer, Leeds, Oct. 21, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court—E. B. Clarkson, de-
signer, Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire, Oct. 21, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. •
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
W. Ashdown, ironmonger, Chatham, Oct. 16—I. Bird,
grocer, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Oct. 16—J. C. Hill, grocer,
Reading, Oct. 19—E. Sewell, hatter, Old Bond-street,
Oct. 16—E. B. Smithis, glass merchant, Great Dover-road,
Oct. 16—J. Biggs, undertaker, Houndsditch, Oct. 16—T.
Court, bootmaker, Brighton, Oct. 16-3. Reid, ship broke:,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Oct. 20—W. Wood, wine merchant,
Shrewsbury, Oct: 20—P. Bury, dalico printer, Manchester,
Oct. 19—W. Holdswortb, apothecary, Ripley, Yorkshire,
Oct. 16—W. H. Osborn, stockbroker, Leicester, Oct. 16--L.
George, furrier, Downham-road, Kingsland- road, Oct. 16—
W. Morphew, linendraper, Sevenoaks, Kent, Oct. 15—J. Dutt,
builder, Upper-street, St. Mary, Islington, Oct. 16—C. F.
Came and M. Telo, merchants, Liverpool, Oct. 16—T.
Bointon, money scrivener, Pickering, Yorkshire, Oct. 16—J.
S. Walters, surgeon, Bakewell, Derbyshire, Oct. 16—A S.
Syer, grocer, Sudbury, Suffolk, Oct. 16—J. Senior, common
brewer, Salford, Lancashire, Oct. 16—W. Bradley, flax spin-
ner, Leeds, Oct. 16—G. Wharf, potato dealer, Boston, Lin-
colnshire, Oct. 16—C. Ball, linendraper, Cheadle, Stafford-
shire, Oct. 16—T. Oakley, farmer, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire,
Oct. 16—J. Seaton, farmer, Frickley-cum-Clayton, York-
shire, Oct. 16—C. H. Stonehouse, ship broker, Newport,
Monmouthshire, Oct. 16—W. Walker, dealer in potters'
materials, Eastwood, Staffordshire, Oct. 16—J. Martin,
fringe manufacturer, Wood-street, Cheapside, Oct. 16.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and T. Barker, razor manufacturers, Sheffield—M. and
K. D'Oyly, milliners, Wakefield, Yorkshire—W. M. Town-
son and J. Ryan, tailors, Liverpool—J. and J. M. Edelsten,
pin manufacturers, Warrington, Lancashire—F. Jordan and
S. W. Ackerley, commission merchants, Liverpool—W. Jones
and W. Haley, gold-chain makers, St. James-street, Clerken-
well—F. E. Folkard and J. Cobbett, grocers, Brighton—J.
Russell and G. R. Hookey, coal proprietors, Newport, Mon-
mouthshire—J. Atkinson and G. Hearon, builders, Leeds—J.
Cartwright and R. Tilley, engineers, Wigan, Lancashire-4,
Turner, R. Parkinson, J. Hayhurst, C.. Walmsley, and H.
Smithies, engineers, Blackburn, Lancashire—R. Bennett and
S. Smith, bricklayers, Liverpool—J. Taylor and T. Smith,
joiners, Bradford, Yorkshire—A. Ferrer and H. P. Jenkins,
wine merchants, Cross-lane, St. Mary-at-Hill, City—C. N.
Ponten enc. G. Bean, hosiers, Cheapside—,D. Howard and
D. Barker, corn dealers, Dorset-place Pall-mall East—J. D.
and E. Roche, commission agents, Liverpool—W. Dyson, J.
Dyson, and T. Dyson, woollen clothiers, Huddersfield—T.
Cope and J. Critchley, woollen drapers, Wolverhampton—S.
T. Jones, A. Jones, A. Munkittrick, H. A. Smythe, H. A.
Garrett, L. Thomas, and J. Heard, Manchester (so far as
regards H. A. Smythe and A. Munkittrick).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
John Maxton, founder, Edinburgh, Oct. 1 and Oct. 22, at
three, at the Waterloo-hotel, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possessions in America, computed from
the returns made in the week ending September 22, 1846, is
328. B%d. per cwt.

Lord and Lady Alan Churchill left Farranee's Hotel
yesterday for West Huntington, York.