The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

BANKING DE'

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest . ...... . .. 3,215,7 , 6
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, an
Dividend Accounts) 5,870.7,%9
Other depaiits ...... 9,297,19:3
Scum, Day and other
Bills ..

860,002

£33,7J'6,610

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Dated thin nth day of December,

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
1-he Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com
puted from the roturns made in the week ending flee.
9, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid of
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Groat
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 3l
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 35 10
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 3B 92.
Average of the above three descriptions 3t3 1.1

BINKEITPTCY ANNULLED.
TooleyWillia streetm Denny Ruck, cheesetuonger, Toi ping's-wharf,
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its will follow this rule,
fated in paragraph 4 of

"The 12th and 65th Reg
instead of being exempted, as s
the abne quoted memorandum.
" By command.
" G. A. IVETIEERALL, Adjutant-General."

The following circular memorandum was issued yes-
terday, addressed to officers commanding regiments—
cavalry, infantry, Royal Artillery, and Royal Engineers
—and to general officers in command:—
"Horse Guards, Dec. 4.
"The proposal of his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief to establish a military school for music
having received the support of all officers commanding
regiments is the service, measures will be adopted with-
out delay to place the school in working order.
"To meet the expenses connected therewith, 'com-
manding officers are requested to cause the sum of 51. to
form a fund for the purchase of instruments, &c., and the
annual subscription of 8/. for the support of the institu-
tion, to be paid into the hands of Messrs. Cox and Co.,
of Craig's-court, as soon as possible, to the credit of the
Military Music Fund.

" It is hoped that the institution will be ready to re-
ceive pupils on the Ist of January ; of this, however,
due notice will be given.
" The building in which the school will be temporarily
established is capable of accommodating 100 men, and
each regiment at home will, as a commencement, send
to the Adjutant-General the names of two men, or one
man and one enlisted boy cr lad, for instruction as
musicians, bugle-majors, or trumpet-majors ; those in-
tended to qualify for the two latter appointments being
men who have already acquired some knowledge of their
instruments, or, should the commanding-officer consider
any man, from his musical knowledge and general in-
telligence, likely to make an efficient leader, he may
submit his name as one to be perfected as a bandmaster.
"It is indispensable that the candidates selected
should be of exemplary character, that they have musi-
cal ability, and be capable of tnrning their instruction
to good account; and that the boys or lads should have
exhibited a musical aptitude. Regulations for the conduct
of the institution are in course of preparation, and will
be furnished to every regiment and corps in the army
as coon as they are completed.
" By command.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the Camp at
Aldershot, Lieut.-Col. J. C. Kennedy, paid a visit to
the Colchester Camp yesterday for the purpose of in-
specting the newly-invented canteen, which has been
con,tructed by Mr. J. Redden, of Chatham. The build-
ing has elicited the warm commendation of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the other autho-
rities. The visit of inspection was made by Col. Kennedy
with the view of ascertaining the desirability of adopting
the plan of the canteen at Colchester for those which are
to he erected in the permanent barracks at Aldershot.
The reduction of the army is still proceeding at Chat-
ham, and during yesterday 190 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men received their discharge at that garrison.
The troops selected to be discharged had nearly all re-
ceived wounds or were disabled in the Crimea. Before
leaving Chatham each man was presented with 20 days'
pay.

The non-commissioned officers belonging to the 10th
Hussars who have been selected for the Cape Mounted
Riftls will embark this morning at Deptford, on boar 1
the Trafalgar, fur the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty's block -oaip Pembroke, GO, was com-
missioned yesterday at Portsmouth by Capt. Fraser for
C iastguard service.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Furious, 16 (paddle), was
taken into dock yesterday at Portsmouth for repairs.
Her Majesty's screw steamship James Watt, 91, Capt.
T. V. Anson, having completed taking in her stores and
provisions, steamed out of Hamoaze with topgallant yards
across on Wednesday, and brought up in Plymouth
Sound. She was appointed to sail yesterday for a cruise
in the Channel to try her engines, previous to sailing for
Lisbon.
The steam transport Rhadamanthus sailed from Ply-
mouth on Wednesday afternoon with supernumeraries
for Portsmowh, and is appointed to proceed thence to
Woolwich.
The screw steam corvette Satellite, 21, Capt. Jas. C.
Prevost, continues in Plymouth Sound waiting orders
from the Admiralty.
The frig=ate Spartan, 26, Capt. Sir W. Hoste' Bart.,
on arrival from the Est Indies, is appointed to be paid
off at Plymouth.
At the monthly examination of officers to qualify for

promotion, and of candidates for entry into the service,
which terminated at the Royal Naval College, Ports-
re,tii,b, yesterday, the following passed in the order
named :—Mates R.N. for Lieutenants. —H. F. Cleve-
lend, ...T,. B. Reid, V. H. Coming, R. P. Dennistoun,
N. C. Eartcn, C. R. Gayer, and J. S. Rudd. Fez.
Naval Cadets.—R. H. flamond, W. J. Ogilvy, Joshua
Cole, H. Morris, C. Hobert, J. C. Montgomery, R. H.
W. Cornwall, L. P. Willan, and C. J. Kent.
A seaman of the Prus-ran corvette Frenolant having
died at Spithead, his remains were landed at Portsmouth
yesterday and buried with military honours. The band
of the 20th Regiment headed the funeral procession and
played the " Dead March in Saul." The officers of the
ship and the chaplain followed.
In consequence of the number of ticket-of-leave con-
victs who succeeded during the war in gaining admix.
sion into the ranks of the Royal Artillery Regiment,
and were detected in numerous cases of robbery and
theft, the punishment of the lash has been of very fre-
quent occurrence at Woolwich for some months past,
insomuch that " black Monday" bas become a quaint
term in the garrison. The new week has been ushered
in for months past by the garrison order to " muster all
hands in the riding-school, to be present at the infliction
of corporal punishment." Yesterday a private who
had twice deserted, and who had moreover been con-
victed of high insubordination to his superior officer, was
marched through the streets of the town in charge of an
armed picket, to be conveyed to Coldbath-fields to un-
dergo six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, which
punishment was awarded'him by court-martial.
The continuAtion of the line of wall intended to en-
close the newly acquired premises attached to Woolwich
Arsenal from the Plunistead-marshes, and which is to
extend upwards of two miles in length, is ordered to be
discontinued for the present in the proximity of the
marshes, as experiments are being daily carried out, by
means of machinery, for the purpose of testing the re-
duced strength (if any) of the returned stock of powder
Provided for the late war. Notice will be given of the
Admiralty
termination of the experiments, when the works will be
proceeded with.
the The following appointments were made yesterday at
Lieu
pie,
Becond.terciaasnetebri,yt,otothtehep.Pluemteb.roAkue
Nv. T.t-wll.-,,L. C. Robinson, to the Dasher ; Lieut.
Augustus
uJs
touhsn
J.
BCahrai
up-.
ston, second master, to the wizar'd ; E. H. J. O'Neill,
clerk, to the Her
the James Watt Hermes ; C. F. Hotham, naval cadet, to
;C. S.
Boardman, naval cadet, to the
James Watt
de Michell, naval cadet, to the
3thleonMarocnha;rc
C.
; H.
. Stone,
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8,
James Watt ; Edwar
assistant-clerk,
Arundel, assistant-clerk, to the
assistant s ii'sthaini Phillips,
clerk,Ps ass
Welles-
leyerkto ; Arthur Hughes,
w. p. Albin, assistant-el k
assistant-clerk, to the Scourge ;
er , to the Scourge.
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