The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MILL, OCT. 17.

6th Regiment of Drageons—Assistant.SurgeonHim
Richard Grylls has been permitted to re3ign his commis-
sion.

Bth Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Rodo/oh
de Salia to be Lieutenant Colonel, without purchase, vie.)
Brevet-Colouel F. G. Shewell, C. 8., deceased ; Captain
Arthur James Lord Killeen to be Major, without purchase,
vice de Saha.

Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Alfred C. Cure, from half-pay Unattache 1, to be Cap-
tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Hon.
Alex Gordon, who exchanges.
15th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Lewes Dashwood, from
the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ball, who exchanges.
21st Foot —Lieutenant Richard Stephens to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Tinley, who retires.
34th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Ball, from the 15th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dashwood, who exchanges.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Geo. Robt. Jas. Marshall to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Boyd, deceased ; Ensign
Richard Lloyd Hawkes to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Marshall.
45th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Bast to be Surgeon, vice Waring, who exchanges.
46th Foot—Ensign George Power Cobbe to be super-
seded, he having been absent without leave.
53d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Gei•vas Stanford Deve-
rill, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lientenant-Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel Haverlock, who exchanges ; Major
John M`Neill Walter to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur-
chase, vice Deverill, who retires ; Captain Patrick W. Sy-
denham Ross to be Major, by purchase, vice Walter.
54th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel Nathaniel Faikiner, from
the North Tipperary Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Herrick, promoted.
65th Foot—Captain Frederick Rice Stack, from the St.
Helena Regiment, to be Captain, vice D'Arcy, promoted,
without purchase, to an Unattached Majority.
78th Foot —Lieutenant R. thert Bogle to ba Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Major Grehan, who retires ; Ensign
Montagu Alexander Kirby to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Bogle ; Richard Pierce Butler, Gant., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kirby.

14 West India Regiment—Lieutenant West Holmes
Hill, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant,
vice Green, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Christopher F.
Holt, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Malone, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Patrick Malone,
from the lat West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Holt, who exchanges ; Ensign Meyrick William Bidwell
Edwardes to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Laughlin, appointed to the 41st Foot.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Francis Shearman to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice D'Esterre Taylor,
deceased ; Lieutenant Francis John Green, from the let
West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Hill, Ivho
exchanges ; Ensign James Bower Jackson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Rowland, whose promotion by purchase
on the 15th May, 1855, has been cancelled; Regimental
Sergeant• Major James Arnold to ba Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Shearrnan.

DEPOT BATTALIONS. •
Major William Hai dy, from half-pay Unattached, to be
Major.
Captain William Daunt, 9th Foot, to be Adjutant.
TO BE QUARTERMASTERS.

Lieutenant Thomas Vonsden, from the 21st Foot.
Lieutenant James Scott, from the 55th Foot.
Assistant- Q narterrn aster John Desmond.
Quartermaster Thomas Fitzgerald. from the 94th Foot;
Q nartermaster Timothy Morris, from the Depot Batta-
lion, Scutari.
Assistant-Quartermaster Thomas Walker.
Quartermaster Robert Jameson, from the 79th Foot.
Quartermaster John H. Andersen, from the 49th Foot.
Quartermaster Chhrles Knight, from the British German
Legior.
Quartermaster James Simpson, from the British Swiss
Legion.
Quartermaster-Sergeant William Drage, from the Gre-
nadier Guards.
Sergeant George Pittendrigh, from the 63,1 Foot.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 22d July, 1856.—F0r
Captain John Atkinson, from the 89th Foot, to be Assist-
ant Adjutant, read, Capt. John Atkinson, of the 89th
Foot, to be 9.s.sistant Adjutant.

UNATTACHED.
Brevet-Colonel Robert Walpole, Major on half-pay of
the Rifle Brigade (late Deputy Qaartermaster General,
lonian Islands), to be Lient.-Colonel, without parch ase.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon Francis Robe. Waring, from the 45th Foot, to
be Staff Surgeon of till Second Class,
changes. vice Best, who ex-

BREVET.
Lient.-Celonel John Watson, retired full-pay, of the 14th
Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary
only.
Lient.-Colonel Charles Howe Spence, 60th Foot. having
completed three years actual service in the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel, on the 2d Oat., 1856, to be promoted to therant:
of Colonel in the Army, under the provisions
s of the Royal
Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com•
pany's service, retired upon full pay, to have a step of ho-
norary rank, as follows :
Colonel George Borlase Tremenheere, Bengal Engineers,
to be Major-General.
To be Lientenan t•Colon els—Major John Hardin g Mayetv,
Bengal Infantry ;
Major Charles Robert Hobart, Madras
Infantry; Major John Sims Freshfield, Madras Light ca-
valry.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Middlesex—Rawson Hart Boddam Reid, Esq.,
and Thomas Chapman, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yea •

manry Cavell y•—•.3iozaan awns 7, Gent., to be Cornet,
vice James, resignel.
Royal Wiltstnre Militia—Edmund George Benson,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Black, promoted.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Oct. 16.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the slave schooner, name
unknown, supposed to be the Oregon or Mercedeta, cap-
tured on the 30th August, 1854, by her Majesty's ship
Crane.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, nnliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit the particulars of any such demand to
the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, are requested, with as litle delay a:: possi-
ble, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual docu-
ments, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Henry Dudden, wine and spirit merchant,
Paulton, Somerset.
BANKS UPTS.
Archibald Hurst, manure manufacturer and wharfinger,
Bull Head Dock, Rotherhithe, to surremler, Oct. 27, at
one, and Dec. 1, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ;
Cox and Sons, Sise-lane, City.
Randal Woollatt, tea and coffee dealer, Fenchurch-st.,
City, Oct. 25, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 29, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole-
man-street-buildings ; Russell and Davies, Coleman-street.
Joshua Gill, grocer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Nov. 4, at
twelve, and Dec. 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Scholes and Son, Dews-
bury ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Henry Inman, shopkeeper, Bradford, Oct. 28, at half-
past eleven, and Nov. 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Bond and Bar-
wick, Leeds.
William Augustus Reeves, baker and grocer, Walling-
ford, Barkshire, Oct. 25 and Nov. 25, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Linklaters and Hackwood, Size•lane.
William Naylor Anderton, merchant, Kingston-upon-
Hull, Nov. 12 and Dec. 3, at twelve, at the Kingston-
upon-Hull District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull;
Wells and Smith, Hull.
Henry Woodhams, licensed victualler, Idol-lane, City,
Oct. 28, at half•past one, and Dec. 2, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Overbury and Peek, Frederick's-place, Old
Je wry.
William Curtis Cooper, cheeaemonger, Warwick-street,
Pimlico, Oct. 30 and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Clarke and Carter, Moorgate-street.
Edwin Hetherington, grocer, Godalming and Aldershott,
Oct. 28 and Dec. 2, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Linkla-
ters and Hackwood, Sise-lane.
John Roberts, corn dealer, Pentre, Flintshire, Oct. 30
and Nov. 21, at eleven, at tha Li, erpool District Court.
Bird, official assignee, Li7erpocl ; Evans and Son, Liver-
pool ; Roberts, Mold, Flintshire.
John Johnson, ironmonger, Bourn, Lincolnshire, Oct
28, and Nov. 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis•
trict Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Phil.
lips, John-street, Adelphi ; Motteram and Knight, Bir
mingham.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Leishtnan, grocer, Allos, at Thomas' Royal Oak
Hotel, Alloa. Oct. 27.
James S. Siliars and Co., yarn merchants, Glasgow, at
the Waverley Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 29.