The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-14 00:00:00

PAJITMENT,

Government securities
(inel udg. Dead Weight
Annuity) .......... 11,682,126
Other securities...—. 14,333,306
Notes .... .......... 5,952 735
41431 d and silver coin ~ 631,3 a

£31,599,490 I £32,599,490
M. MARSHALL, Chief i.aakiet .
Dated the 12th day of June, 1856

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending June 10,
1856. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 29s. 2id.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius
Muscovado, the produce of the Eist Indies
Average of the three foregoing do criptions 29s. 7 id.

VACANCIER, APPOINIMEV I'S. AND PROMO-
TIONS IN TI-14' '''Vfh SERVICE.

The Foreign Department: v..eancy in the office of
chaplain to the British Legation at Lima has been caused
by the death of the Rev. F. J. Biddulph.
The Board of Trade.—Mr. W. Peake, collector of cus-
toms for the port of Cardiff. has been appointed receiver of
droits of Admiralty, in lien of Mr. Rich.
Legal Department.—The office of county court judge of
the Thirty-third Circuit (Bury St. Klinund's, Ipswich,
Lowestoft, &c.), has become vacant by the death of Mr.
Francis King Eagle ; a vacancy in the office of signer of
Mesne Process Department Exchequer Office of Pleas has
been caused by the death of Mr. Francis Reavens ; the
office of treasurer of the county courts of Northumberland
and Durham has become vacant by the death of Mr. An
thony Lambert, of Alnwick.
Customs.—Mr. H)ward Snare has been appointed a
clerk in the London Dock ; Mr Thomas Weddle has been
appointed a supernumerary clerk in the Receiver• General's
office in London ; Mr. John Hill has been appointed a
clerk for general business .n London; Mr. James Adamson
has been promoted from tidewaiter of the first class to be
inspector of patrol at Glasgow ; Mr. Robert Simmie hat
been promoted from the s,cond to the first class of tide-
waiters at Glasgow ; Mr. Abraham Morphy has been pro-
moted from clerk of the HO class for general business at
Liverpool to be nineteenth clerk at Dublin.
East Indies.—Lieut.-Colouel Hendarson, C. 8., of the
Uadras Engineers, has been appointed chief engineer of Hy-
lerabad, in addition to his duties as superintending engi-
neer of the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force; Mr. C. T. Buck-
land has been appointed junior secretary to the govern-
ment of Bengal ; Mr. S. Wain:hope has been appointed
register of the Sudder Dewanny and Niz%mut Adawlut :
Ur. A. W. Russell has been appointed to officiate as re-
Aster of the Sadder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut ; Ma
F. L. Beaufort has been appointed to officiate as superin-
tendent and remembrancer of legal affairs and Government
►+fvocate ; Mr. H. Staiaforth has been appointed to offi
:iate as a member of the board of revenue ; Mr. H. C
,Metcalfe has been appointed to act as an extra judge 09
the Court of. Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut.
Ceylon - A vacancy has been created in the office of Chief
Justice of Ceylon, by the death of Sir William Ogle Carr.
—Civil Service Gazette.

HAMBURG.—The advices from liamsurg state that P
:onsiderable quantity of silver has been sent to Vienus
and St. Petersburg, which has caused the rate of die-
count to advance to 7 per cent., while the exchange ou
London has declined in proportion.

A public examination of the gentlemen cadets of the
first class, ethicated at this college, was held yesterday,[the
13th inst., in the presence of the hairman (Colonel Sykes,
F.R.S.), te deputy chairman (R. D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.),
several members of the court of directors, and the follow-
ing visitors :—the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P. ;
Lieut.:General Sir Charles Pasley, B.O.B.; Major-Generals
—Sir Scudatnore Steele, RAJ B , Montgomerie, C. 8..
Beatsen, Powney, Yaldwyn, Alexander ; Colonels - Sir
Proby Caltley,lC.C. 8., Lake, C. B.,San.lharn, R. E., Leslie,
C. 8., Prosser, Portlock, R.E., Broughton, R.E., Napier,
What le, San dys, A pthorp; Sir John L, ,M. D.; Rev. Dr.
M,'Neile; Professors Mather', F.R.S, Christie, F.R.S.,
and Sylvester, F.R.S.; Messrs. Leach, Waterfield, P.
Melvill. Bayley, &0., &c.
There were thirty cadets brought forward. Of this num-
ber the following eleven were reported by the I,ublic ex-
aminer (Major-General Sir F. Smith, K.H., R.E.), to be
qualified for the Engineers, viz. :—John Magee M'Neile,
William Heuzey Oliver, Colin Campbell Scott Moncrieff,
William Barvill Holmes, Henry Francis Blair, John
Magee Heywood, Walter ardon Ducat, Henry Smalley,
Frederick James Smith, George Lane Cockburn Mere-
weather, and Wm. Tnlloch Which.
Seven for the Artillery, viz. :—Richard de Lautour St.
George, Hugh Chichester, Duncan Scott Pemberton, Wil-
liam Robert Craster, Beoj min Christie, Marmaduk Lit-
tlejohn Monckton, and John Ford.

And twelve for the infantry, viz.:—Robert Browne,
Henry Wm. Young, Frederick Lance, William Elphin-
stone Michael Bruce Ralisay, George Gordon Young, John
Collie Supple, Clement James Griffiths, (lward Charles
Goustin, Stanley Sutherland Sutherland, William Edward
Delves Broughton, Henry Thomas Harns, and Charles
Kenny Blair.
After the report of the Public Examiner and Inspector
of Studies had been read by Mr. Cochrane of the military
department, E .at India Rouse, the following distribution
of prizes took place :