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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESD:A.Y EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1856,

diously avoided, and I therefore venture to hope
that the most strenuous supporters of the war and
the most ardent advocates of peace may meet ou
common ground to discuss the probabilities of the
future." It would certainly be convenient for Mr.
Cobden if he could persuade the supporters of the
war to agree to this proposal. His aim is to show
that to coerce Russia is a difficult and dangerous
undertaking. This nobody denies ; though few
think it quite so difficult and dangerous as Mr.
Cobden professes to do. Now the only valid rea-
son men. can have for engaging in any dangerous
or difficult enterprise is the importance of the ob-
jects sought to be attained. When Mr. Cobden,
therefore, invites the supporters of the war to leave
its objects out of consideration, he coolly invites
them to take part in a one-sided debate, in which
he shall be at liberty to bring forward all hie argu-
ments and they shall not be allowed to state theirs.

With singular inconsequence, Mr. Cobden, after
declaring that he will leave out of view the objects
of the war, proceeds to declare in the very next
page that " the war entered into by France and
England must be carried on without intermission
until peace is concluded with Turkey." This axiom
he follows up by what is meant to be a demonstra-
tion that France and England cannot compel Rus-
sia to make peace with Turkey. What is this but
to argue that the war ought to be abandoned be-
cause its object is unattainable ? And this is what
Mr. Cobden calls " studiously avoiding all allusion
to the original cause of the war." The attempt to
demonstrate that the object of the war is unattain-
able is quite worthy of this flagrant inconsistency.
Mr. Cobden maintains that Russia cannot be com-
pelled to come to terms, unless by the occupation
of its metropolis or the blockade of its ports. Its
metropolis, he maintains, is unassailable, because
" the example and fate of Napoleon will for ever
forbid an invasion of the interior of Russia," and
" Petersburg stands twenty miles above Cronstadt,
on a shallow river." The blockade of its ports,
Mr. Cobden declares, will be perfectly inefficient,
because the protectionist policy of Russia has ren-
dered it independent of sea-borne commerce. Be-
fore making this assertion Mr. Cobden ought to
have taken the trouble to inquire what proportion
the Customs duties of Russia bear to the whole
revenue of the empire, and what proportion the
Customs duties levied in the ports bear to the whole
revenue derived from Customs duties. On this point
he maintains a prudent silence. It is not without
a reason that he shirks this important part of the
question. He assumes that Russia can protract the
struggle indefinitely, because it grows more than
enough of food to provision its armies. He leaves
out of view, that even in Russia money must be
paid for munitions of war, for the transport of sol-
diers and military stores, and for other purposes ;
and that to this end the Government must have
money as well as corn and beeves.
In the dozen pages which Mr. Cobden devotes to
a dissertation on the Protectionist policy of Russia
and its internal trade—which might not be alto-
gether valueless in a discussion on commercial
policy, but which is rendered inapplicable to the
question of war or peace by the suppressions we
have pointed out—a passage occurs too character-
istic to be passed over without notice. Alluding to
some writers who have published remarks onßussia,
he says, sneeringly:—" These gentlemen have, I
doubt not, travelled longer and further in Russia
than myself. My only advantage has been, that I
had possibly an eye and ear more open to the com-
mercial movements and the economical resources
of the country." Mr. Cobden likes to put down an
antagonist, when debating about any foreign coun-
try, by declaring he has seen it with his own eyes.
In this lie reminds us of a Scotch humourist of our
acquaintance, who on the strength of his having
once crossed the Tweed, and spent half-an-hour in
England, took upon him to lay down the law on
all questions regarding English pronunciation.
What our deceased friend did in jest Mr. Cobden
is continually doing in dead earnest. He has visited
several foreign countries, but has not resided in
any one long enough to know it from personal ob-
servation. His flying visit to Russia was comical
enough. He does not speak or understand one word
of the language. His departure from Berlin was
telegraphed to St. Petersburg. He was taken
possession of at the frontier by a Government
official appointed to receive him ; and passed
, from the hands of one official to another, like a
bale of goods, till he left the country. He saw
1 nothing but what they were pleased he should see;
everything he was told was interpreted to him by
them. He spent one forenoon at the fair of Nishnei-
Novgorod, and remained in each of the other places
he visited a corresponding length of time. He
proceeded straight from the Prussian frontier to
Moscow and Nishnei-Novgorod, and thence to St.
Petersburg. In short, he saw as much of Russia,
and had as good opportunities of making observa-
tions while in it, as Lord Macartney and his suite
enjoyed in China on their mission to Pekin. And
, on the strength of this he presumes to pass off his
plentiful lack of knowledge on the public as irre-
, fragable wisdom.

Slr. Cobden next proceeds to descant on the pa-
triotism and love of country of the Russians, and
the finances of Russia. He scarcely makes an as-
sertion that is not contradicted by well-known
facts, or by himself in some subsequent page, or
that does not rest upon confessedly unreliable
evidence. " There is no greater delusion in the
world than that which attributes to the Russian
people a desire to overrun and occupy, like the
Goths and Huns, any part of Western Europe."
To what, then, are we to attribute the annexation
of Finland, the Baltic provinces, Poland and Bessa-
rabia to the empire'—to what the repeated attempts
to seize on Wallachia and Moldavia ?—to what the
machinations which had in view the annexation of
Hungary ? " The Russian," he says again, " pos-
sesses in an eminent degree the organ to which
phrenologists have given the name of 'adhesive-
ness.' Ho is passionately wedded to his village
home." Yet in another page we find him asserting,
" There is no other country, with the exception of
the United States, where the inhabitants will un-
dertake such long journeys by road or river as in
Russia." Again : " With the exception of the dis-
position to encroach upon neighbouring Mahometan
countries" [such as Finland, the Baltic provinces,
and Poland], " the people feel no interest in fo-
reign politics, and the intervention in the affairs
of Europe excites no sympathy in Russia. On
the contrary, I found among the old Russian
party' at Moscow a spirit of hostility to the in-
cessant interference of the Czar in the politics of
the West. In fact, the foreign policy of the late
reign was very much the offspring of the personal
character of Nicholas." Wherein did the foreign
policy of the reign of Nicholas differ from that of
the reigns of Peter 1., Catherine 11., and Alexander
I.? Were not the ministers of these monarchs
Menschikoffs, Orloffs, and Potemkins ? What is
the foreign policy of the reign of Alexander II.?
This last question Mr. Cobden hashimself answered.
" There is not a fact or conjecture respecting the
finances of France that has not been passed in re-
view at St. Petersburg, where everything con-
nected with the resources of the Allies in men and
in..ney is as well known as in Paris or London."
Could this information be obtained without the
aid of a permanently organised system of local
espionage ? And does the maintenance of such a
eystem look like a want of interest in the politics
of Western Europe ? As an illustration of Mr.
Cobden's estimate of the value of his own authori-
ties, take the following:—" I subjoin a detailed
account of the income and expenditure of the Rus-
sian Government, which I obtained at St. Peters-
burg. The accounts are of old date, and for various
years; and although I have no reason to doubt in
the main their correctness, yet I do not offer them
as of any statistical value." And yet he expects
his readers to accept the inferences he draws from
these out-of-date, unreliable documents. He could
have got more recent and more trustworthy ac-
counts in von Reden ; but then he could not have
prefaced them with, " I obtained them at St.
Petersburg."
But we must hasten to Mr. Cobden's exposition
of " what course I should take if I were, without
reference to the past, responsible for the policy of
the country." Mr. Cobden's scheme of a future
foreign
policy for England has, indeed, no con-
ceivable connection with the previous disser-
tation, but it may be au object of curiosity as the
programme of Cobden the expectant Premier of
Great Britain.
In the first Place, then, Mr. Cobden "would
seek, above all things,
to withdraw every British '
soldier from Russian territory."
assigns is :—" Our army may now be brought
away without further loss or discredit relatsomn_ llht
aye
not always be so."
In the second place, " with regard to the terms
of a peace I should attach no value whatever to
the promises of Russia."

In the third place, lie would rely upon a tri-
partite treaty of Austria with France and F_'inglalid
to make Germany the bulwark of Western Europe
against Russian aggression.

In the fourth place, if he could not prevail upon
Austria to enter into such a treaty, he "should be
(reposed to reconsider his own views on the sub-
ject, and doubt whether ho had not been led
away by an exaggerated alarm." Mr. Cobden, it
is obvious, has studied honest Doyberry to good
purpose.
Doyberry. * This is your charge ; you shall
comprehend all vagrom men ; you are to bid every man
stand in the Prince's name.
2d Watch. But if 'a will not stand 1
Dogberry. Why, then take no note of him, but let
him gu ; and presently ca'l the rest of the watch to-
gether, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
And lastly, in the fifth place, " I would not risk
the life of an Englibliman, or spend another slid-

ling, for the barren triumph of extorting pacific
pledges from the Russian Government ; and hay-
ing come to this determination, there would no
longer be any obstacle to peace." Under this
head Mr. Cobden adds that, " whilst attaching no
value to the limitation of the number of Russian
ships, exclusively," he would try to persuade
France and England to reduce their naval estab-
lishments at the close of the war, although
(or because—it does not clearly appear which) there
appears to be a growing desire in the United States
to increase their navy. Believing it impossible to
persuade or compel one State to diminish its naval
force, Mr. Cobden would try his hand on three or
four.

Really it would be sheer waste of time to throw
away a word in the way of criticism on the foreign
policy of Mr Premier Cobden.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Colossus, 81, screw ship, Captain Robinson, was
taken into dock yesterday at Portsmouth to complete her
refit for the ensuing Baltic campaign. The Blenheim,
60, screw block-ship, Capt. W. H. Hall, was taken out
of dock at Portsmouth yesterday after a refit. The
Brodlisk, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Jenner, was taken
into the steam basin yesterday at Portsmouth for repairs.
The Norman steam-transport left Portsmouth yesterday
afternoon for the Thames. The Vivid, paddle-wheel
steam despatch boat, Master Commander W. H. Allen,
left Portsmouth on Monday night for the eastward. The
Avon steam-transport, Second Master Veitch, left Ports-
mouth on Monday night with supernumeraries for the
eastward, and the Rbadamanthus left yesterday also for
the eastward, to ship more machinery for the vessels in
the engineers' hands at Portsmouth. Her Majesty's
steam-sloop Vesuvius, 6, Commander Hore, arrived at
Spithead yesterday from the Black Sea. The Borussia,
No. 33 transport, arrived yesterday from Liverpool to
take in troops, &c.
The new screw steam-ship Belgique, Capt. Tack, which
left Antwerp on the 30th of December, and Southamp-
ton on Sunday morning, with passengers and Belgian
mails for New York, put back to Plymouth Sound dis-
abled yesterday afternoon. She got as far as 90 miles
west of the Lizard on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
when it was found that there were 18 inches of water in
her hold, and that three of her pumps were choked; her
fireplaces and cylinders are only four feet from the bottom
of the ship, and the master took the precaution to be-
speak the assistance of the passengers to throw the cargo
overboard in case of emergency. The leak was kept under
by the two engine pumps, and against a strong easterly
wind she returned to Plymouth in about 23 hours.
The gun-boat Bustard, Lieut. W. Hewett (acting) com-
mander, move d down from Woolwich basin yesterday
morning to the Arsenal wharf to receive her ammunition
and sea stock. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Pearl was re-
moved from the inner to the outer basin and placed
under the sheers for the purpose of coaling.
The crew of the Conqueror, 100, Capt. T. C. Symonds,
at Plymouth, got up fore, main, and mizen topmast
rigging on Monday.
The paddle-wheel steam-frigate Sampson, from Ports-
mouth, with seamen belonging to the Neptune, 120,
Capt. Hutton, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, and left
on Monday for Portsmouth.
The Albion, 90 was warped on Monday to the sheer
hulk in Hamoaze to have bor masts taken out.
Among the horses landed from the steam-transport
Cambrian at Plymouth on Monday was a beautiful
Arab, a present to Lord Hardinge, the General-Com-
manding-in-Chief.
So great is the facility in reuniting the disjointed tim-
bars composing the experimental mortar raft at Wool-
wich, that in three hours after receiving the pontoon
ey;inders, which have been repaired and strengthened,
the raft was again in service order. This is an important
item in this newly-invented species of raft, showing the
ready manner in which it may be trausferred to any
destination.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince
Gustavus of Saxe-Weimar, attended by Col. Hamilton,
Grenadier Guards, and two subaltern officers, paid a
visit to Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning, where
they were officially attended by Col. Wilmot, Colonel
Tulloh, Capt. Boxer, and Capt. Orr, representing the
departmental government of the Arsenal. The visitors
were conducted in the usual manner through the foun-
dries, various workshops, and laboratories, and repeatedly
expressed their gratification as they were shown the
working of the huge and powerful machinery. Before
leaving the Arsenal the Princes expressed their convic-
tion that this important establishment was unrivalled in
Europe.
The adjutants of her Majesty's corps of Royal Engi-
neers, at Woolwich, have resolved on presenting to
Quartermaster Bradford. on his recent promotion, as a
testimony of their appreciation of his worth, an elegant
sword, on which the following is to be engraved :
" Presented to Quartermaster Michael Bradford, Royal
Engineers, by the following officers who served as Act-
ing-Adjutants to the corps at Woolwich during the time
he was Serjeant-Major there, as a mark of their esteem
and regard for his character and conduct :—Capt. Theo-
dosius Webb, Capt. G. Ross, Capt. Fitzroy Somerset,
Capt. Francis Cox, Lieut. G. Lempriere, Royal Engi-
neers."

The authorities of the Horse Guards have forwarded

an order to the Commandant of Chatham garrison to
hold in read:ness the men of the various depots in the
provisional battalion on the Indian establishment who
have gone through a course of instruction at the school
of musketry at Hythe, and have qualified themselves for
instructors in the use of the Enfield rifle, to embark for
the several presidencies in India, to enable the Corn.
mander of the Forces in that country to carry out the
orders on this head. The following are the depots from
which instructors will be selected :—For the Bengal
_ _

station—the 10th, 32d, 35th, 6th, and 95th Regiments,
one from each depot ; for Bombay—the 64th, 78th, 83d,
Bth, and 80th Regiments, one man from the first three
and two from the latter; for Madras —the 74th and 84th
Regiments, four instructors from the former and one
from the latter,

APPOINTMENTS.
The following appeared in our late edition laii
night :

COM3JANDERS.
Fairfax Moresby, to the Sappho.
W. T. Bate, to the Mariner, Tice Cochran, invalided

LIEUTENANTS.
H. T. Ryves, to the Impregnable.
Douglas Walker, to the Devastation.

MATE.

Thomas T. Mackenzie (acting), to the Intrepid.

SURGEON.
Hugh O'Hagan, to the Impregnable.
ASSISTANT-SURGEON.
Robert Madden (acting), to 11.181ar Hogpit

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, JAN. S.

The market for cotton cloths has been quiet, but
prices have not given way, and the extent to which
manufacturers are still under engagement prevents many
goods being pressed upon buyers. In yarns the quiet-
ness is not so uniform. Buyers report in some cases
that they hare obtained twist at rather easier prices, but
sellers have in some instances done a fair business, and
in low numbers rather better prices hare been obtained.
The general report is ono of quietness, with steady
prices.

The stoppage of an old and respected spinning and
manufacturing house is reported, but the public will not
be sufferers, the stoppage arising principally out of new
family arrangements.
Messrs. Joh❑ Slagg and Co. report :—" There is no
new feature in the market to-day. Transactions con
tinue to be on a very small scale, and prices are un.
changed."

LEEDS, JAN. 8.

The woollen cloth markets this morning have been
marked by tho same cheerful tone that we have had to
point out as the characteristic of the last two or three
markets. There has been a fair amount of cloth, in-
cluding the middle and better qualities, as well as those
of a commoner kind, sold. Merchants appear to be re-
plenishing their stocks for the spring trade. Prices are
firm, and have blightly improved for the all-wool sorts of
fabrics. The price of the raw material (wool) is very
firm, with an upward tendency. The manufacturers
throughout this district are gradually increasing their
work, giving employment to more hands or running
longer time, so that the year opens well for the opera-
tive as well as for the master manufacturer. I❑ some of
the outlying towns of this district a good amount of
work is doing for army and navy orders, and in the
immed,ate neighbourhood of Leeds some extensive
orders for Spanish stripes and other fabrics for the East
Indies and China have been given out.
The Leeds Intelligencer of this morning thus speaks
of the present position and prospects of the woollen
trade :

"Trade continues to show an improved tone, and se-
veral large London buyers have been down during the
week, making purchases chiefly in anticipation of the
spring demand. In the warehouses generally there is
more doing for the home trade, and the American orders
are double those of last year. The hall markets show
little alteration, but the stocks on hand do not accumu-
late to any large extent. Manufacturers are remark.
ably well employed, and have large orders on hand.
Now that the accounts of 1855 are straightened, and
balances aro struck, the amount of business which has
been transacted at a remunerative profit is most extra-
ordinary, and the woollen trade is another example of
the slight influence wlo'cli the war has had on the com-
merce of the country. With many the past year has been
better than the preceding ; and if the gross returns have
in most instances been smaller, the absence of heavy
losses, as in 1854, must be considered as a campensa-
time It is an open question whether, taking the trade
as a whole, it has net been beeefitted rather than in-
jured by the war, and whether the advantages of large
Government and foreign contracts have not outweighed
any evils arising from monetary prgssure and a co),
traete,l home trade. Nor must the latter feature le
laid altogether to the account of the war. A severe
check was certain to follow the reckless overtrading of
the last few years, and if it had been further delayed the
reaction would have been all the more violent when it
did come. Present prospects are good. The foreign
trade suffers no interruption ; the colonial markets arc
no longer choked with goods, and are returning to a
more healthy state ; at home stocks of every description
are light, both in the wholesale and retail trade. There
is a general determination on the part of the merchant;
to act cautiously, and on the part of the manufacturers
to work only to order."

In reference to another point of our staple trade, we

copy the following from antother article in the same
journal:—
.

" The American market at present is that which offer■
the most probable continuance of enjoyment generally ;
for the condition of the continent of Europe may be so
changed in a commercial point of view this year, in con-
sequence of the war, that wee• may hardly know what
reliance to place upon its (ni atom. And, in fact, in
many parts of it our trade Las declined so much of late
years that we seem to have kegs and less to expect thence,
without even reference to the war. Austria, for in-
stance, in whose territories there was a gradual falling
off of trade with this country between 1846 and 1852 of
7 per cent., exhibits a specific falling off in woollen,
worsted, hosiery, and small wares between 1852 and
1854 of not less than 13 per cent. ; while she has in-
creased the declared value of her purchases of steam-
engines and machinery in the same two years equal to
191 per cent. We look upon this increase as significant
of the fact that her population is becoming employed on
English models, if not on English machinery, in weaving
such pieces as she used to buy ; and that, as coming
events cast their shadows before, so our manufacturers
are to learn from it that some of the old markets for
English goods are likely to be narrowed rather than
widened; and that others must be sought among popu-
lations less settled, and therefore less capable of turning
their attention to the arts of peace. If there is much
competition among the manufacturers between now and
May wool will necessarily be dearer. If that competi-
tion be legitimate the prices of goods will rise. We are
thankful to see the very great caution which the manu-
facturers, as a body, are displaying ; and the end of it
will be that, if large fortunes are not made so fast, they
will be the more safely kept when they are made."
HUDDERSFIELD, JAN. 8.
There has been a decided improvement in the market
to-day. More buyers attended, and the transactions
effected were of a more extensive character than for some
time past. Black and steel doeskins and mixtures are
principally in request ; other kinds are also in good de-
mand. Wool firm, but in fair request.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

At the Court at Windsor, the 21st day of Nov., 1855,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parlia-
ment, holden in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
amend and. consolidate the laws relating to the Cus•
toms of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man,
and certain laws relating to trade and navigation, and
the British possessions," it is enacted that, "if the legis-
lature, or proper legislative authority, of any of the
Britith possessions abroad, shall present an address to
her Majesty, praying her Majesty to authorise or permit
the conveyance of goods or passengers from ono part of
such possession to another part thereof, in other than
British ships, it shall thereupon be lawful for her Ma-
jesty, by Order in Council, so to authorise the convey-
ance of such goods or passengers, on such terms and
under such conditions as to her Majesty may seem
good."
And whereas an address has been presented to her
Majesty, by the Legislative Council of Ceylon, praying
her Majesty to authorise and permit the conveyance of
goods and passengers from one part of that island to any
other part of the same in other than British ships : -
Now, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice
of her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority
committed to her by the said recited Act, doth order,
and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the day of
the date of this Order, goods and passengers may be
conveyed from one part of tlse Island of Ceylon to an-
other part thereof, in other than British ships.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Hon. Henry Labou-
chere, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to
them may respectively appertain.
WM. L. BATHURST.

At:the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of Dec.,
1855,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parlia-
ment, holden in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
amend and consolidate the laws relating to the customs
of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man, and cer-
tain laws relating to trade and navigation and the Bri•
tish possessions," it is enacted that " if the Legislature
or proper legislative authority of any of the British peg-
se.sions abroad shall present an address to her Ma-
jesty, praying her Majesty to authorise or permit
the conveyance of goods or passengers from one
part of such possession to another part thereof, in
other than British ships, it shall thereupon be lawful
for her Majesty, by Order in Ceunoil, so to authorise
the conveyance of such goods or passengers on such
terms and under such conditions as to her Majesty may
seem good."
And whereas an address has been presented to her
Majesty by the Legislative Council and the House of
Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, praying her Ma-
jesty to authorise and permit the conveyance of goods
and passengers from one port of that colony to any
other port of the same in other than British vessels.
Now, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice
of her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority com-
mitted to her by the said recited act, doth order, and it
is hereby ordered, that from and after the day of the
date of this order, goods and passengers may be conveyed
from any one port of the colony of the Cape of Good
Hope to any other port thereof in other than British
ships. _ _ .

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury and the Right Hon. Henry
Lahouchere, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as
to them may respectively appertain.
C. C. GREVILLS.

witted to retire from the service by the sale of his corn-
mission.

49th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class James
Hamilton Bews to be Surgeon,' vice Davies, promoted on
the Staff.

51st Foot—Capt. Henry Edmund Austen, from half-pay
Sub-Inspector of Militia, to be Captain, vice Crookehank,
who exchanges ; Lieut. Chas. Acton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Austen, who retires ; Ensign Dunlop Gloag
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Acton ; Wm. Henry
Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase vice Gloag.
53d Foot—Lieut. B. Walton to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Wedderburno, who retires.
63d Foot—Lieutenant K. B. Stuart to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Fraser, deceased ; Ensign G. de Lacy
Lacy to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Stuart.
65th Foot—Andrew John Hicks, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lewis, promoted.
67th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Augustus Shiell,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Duff, pro-
moted on the Staff.

68th Foot—Ensign C. E. Beaty-Pownall to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Watson, who retires.
69th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon James Robert
Crawford t) be Assistant-Surgeon.
76th Foot—The restoration from half-pay 88th Foot to
full-pay of Captain James Young, vice Senhouse, who ex-
changes, as also the two brevet steps of the former officer,
as well as the promotion of Lieutenant Preston, as stated
in the Gazette of the 28th ultimo, have been cancelled.
82d Foot—Ensign Frederick Holyar, from the 40th Foot,
to be Ensign, without purchase.
84th Foot—Captain Honourable Augustus H. A. An-
son, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice Stewart,
who exchanges.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Montagu Barton to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Manners, promoted by purchase, to an
Unattached Majority.
89th Foot—Ensign Netterville J. Barron to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice J. W. Gray, deceased ; Lieu-
tenant James Pott, from the Edinburgh County Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Barron.
92d Foot—Ensign Alexander Forbes Mackay to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Beetham, who retires ; William
Grisdale Hicks, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Mackay.

93d Foot—Lieut. R. S. Williams to bo Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major R. L. Ross, whose Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1851; Ensign Fitzßoy
McPherson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, ♦ice Wil-
liams ; Lieut. W. F. Fullarton, from the 2d Royal Lanark
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice McPherson.
95th Foot—Captain C. J. Patterson, from the 2d West
India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Hill, who exchanges ;
Captain G. Bros n, of the 95th Foot, to be Paymaster,
♦ice Wethered, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
Rifle Brigade—Captain R. C. Stewart, from the 81th
Foot, to be Captain vice Hon. A. H. A. Anson, who ex-
changes ; Lieut. W. Norris to be Captain, by purchase,
vice the Hon. H. W. Campbell, appointed to the Cold-
stream Guards ; Ensign G. M. L. Egerton to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Norris ; E. H. Chamberlsin,Gont.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Egerton.
2 i West India Regiment—Captain William Hill, from
the 95th Foot, to be Captain, vice Patterson, who ex-
changes.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Alexander Moore
Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Donald, appointed to the 10th Foot.
Gold Coast Corps—Henry Butts Bernard Owen, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Andrews, promoted.

LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.
The appointment of Second Captain William Handyside
to bear date the 7th Sept.' 1855, instead of the 25th of
that month, as previously stated.
The surname of the Cornet appointed on 23d Nov.,
1855, is Gatt, and not Galt, as previously stated.

BRITISH GER➢IAN LEGION.
3d Jagor Corps—The name of the Lieutenant, appointed
in the Gazette of tho 28th ultimo, with date 25th July,
1855, is Paul von Suenson, and not Paul von Shepsop, as
previously stated.
BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.
Robert William Burdett Desinges, Esq., to be Pay-
m aster.

2d Regiment—Captain Robert Crauford, late Rifle Bri-
gade, to' be Major.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand White, C. 8., from
half-pay, Unattached, to bo Major' vice Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel E. A. J. Muller, who exchanges.

14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Stubbs, Moorgate-street.
Elizabeth Benson and Sarah Benson, hotel keepers,
Mansfield-street, Portland-place, Jan. '2, at two, and Feb.
19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stausfeld, offi-
cial assignee ; Eland, Trafalgar-square.
William Thomas, sail maker and ship chandler, Cardiff,
Glamorganshire, Jan. 22 and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol;
Bevan, Bristol. _ _

John Hardman and Company, iron founders, Sutton,
Lancashire, Jan. 17 and Feb. 13, at eleven, at Liverpool.
Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bretherton, Liverpool.
John Doakin, joiner, Sheffield, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23,
at ten, at Sheffield. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ;
Chambers and Waterhouse, Sheffield.
Joseph Johns, innkeeper, Hertford, Jan.l7, at two, and
Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joh❑son,
official assignee, Basinghall.street ; Mason and Sturt,
Gresham-street ; Longmore, Sworder, and Longmore,
Hertford.

John Page, coach builder, Chelmsford, Jan. 22, at two,
and Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-count, Basinghall•
tr6et ; Prall, jun., Essex-street, Strand.
Joseph Hughes, manufacturer, Manchester, Jan.
18 and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Leaning, Man-
chester.

Bancroft Pierpoint Brooke, grocer, Heaton Norris, Jan.
21, and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Higson and
Robinson, Manchester.

James Craggs Herring and William Hen ing, merchants,
West Boldon, Durham, Jan. 23, at eleven, and Feb. 12,
at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker,
official aseignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Kidson, Sunder-
land ; Pringle, Shum, Wilson, and Crossman, King's-road,
Bed ford-row.

Charles Slorach, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Jan.
22, and Feb. 12, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Bow-
ley, Nottingham; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham.
Edward Ladd, draper, Cambridge, Jan. 17, at half-past
one, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bristow and
Tarrant, Walbrook ; Bell, Cambridge.

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
Benjamin Newton, of Brighton, brush manufacturer,
first dividend of 2s. 10d. in the pound, payable at 20, Al-
dermanbury, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, and three subsequent
Wednesdays.
Henry Adams, of Uxbridge, mealman, first divideni of
ss. 9d. in the pound, payable at 2, Basingh,ll-street, on
any Wednesday.
Vrancis Lloyd Bayley and Samuel Milner Barton, of
Manchester, small ware manufacturer, first dividend of
6s. 2d. in the pound, payable at 69, Princes-street, Man-
chester, on any Tuesday.
James Fenton, of Crawshaw Booth, Lancashire, cotton
manufacturer, first dividend of is. lOid. in the pound,
payable at 69:Princess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
Alexander Jackson, of Manchester, clock manufacturer,
first dividend of 10s. 3d. in the pound, payable at 6.), Prin-
cess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
William Riley, James Lupton, .R bert Halstead, and
John Haworth, of Burnley, Lancashire, cloth manufac-
turers, first dividend of Bs. lOid. in the pound, payable at
69, Princess-street, Manchester, on any Toes ay.
Isaac Thorniley, of Bardsley:Lancashire. cotton spinner,
second dividend of 10.3 d. in the pound, payable at 69,
Princess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
John Manley, of Manchester, machine maker, first divi-
dend of ls. 51d. in the pound, payable at 69, Princess-
street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
Charles Phillip 4, of Weston-super-Mare, and of Burn-
ham, Somersetshire, potter, dividend of is. 10d. in the
pound, payable at 19, St. Augustine's-place, Bristol, on
any Wednesday.
Geo. B. Pouting, Devizes, Wiltshire, innkeeper, a divi-
dend of 3s. 6d. in the pound, payable at 19, St. Augus-
tine's-place, Bristol, on any Wednesday.