The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

then talerred to the laws Ly 'which the pollee tem of the
kingdom was at potent witabliolied and governed-
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THE MURDERS AT WESTMINSTER.

This afternoon Mr. Bedford, the coroner for West-
min-,ter, held an inquest at the Board room of St. James's
Win khouse, Poland-street, Oxford-street, on the holies
of the unfortunate woman, and her three children, who
were so dreadfully murdered by William Bousfield, the
husband and father of the decease,..', at No. 4, Portland-
street, Soho, on Sunday morning last. The prisoner was
not present during the examination.
After a ime evidence had been given, which was merely
a repetition of that which appeared yesterday, the jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder against the husband,
William Bousfield.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 5.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold
Levees at St. James's Palace on the following days, at two
o'clock:—Wednesday, the 26th instant ; Wednesday, the
27th instant ; Wednesday, the 12th of March next.

WAR DEPARTMENT, FEB G.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the following appointments to the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath :
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Second Class sr Knights Commanders of the said Most
Honourable Order, viz. :
General James W. Sleigh, C.B.
Lieutenant-General R. fa. 11. Clarges, CAL
Vice-Admiral Henry Prescott, C.B.
Lieutenant-General John McDona:d, C.B.
Lieutenant-General William Rowan, C.B.
Vice-A.dmil al Barrington Reynolds, C.B.
Lieutenant-General William George Moore.
Major-General James Frederic Love, C.B.
Major-General James Jackson.
Major-General Charles Yorke.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas. C.B.
Major-General Lovell Benjamin Lovell.
Major-General William Fenwick
Major-General G. A. Wetherell, C. 8., Adjutant-General.
Sir Gen. Maclean, Knight, Commissary-General, and
Dr. John Hall, Inspector-General of hospitals.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Honourable Order ; :
Major Henry Creswicko Rawlinson, C. 8., of the Bombay
Army.
John Laird Mair Lawrence, Esq., Chief Commissioner
anti Agent to the Governor-General of India for the Pun-

jab.
MAjor-General Win. Henry _ Sleeinan, of the Bengal
Army.
Major-General James Outram, C. 8., of the Bombay
Army, and
Benjamin Hawes, Esq.
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of
the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honour-
able Order, viz. :--
Lieutenant-General William Sutherland.
Captain the Honourable Henry Keppol, R.N.
Captain Lord Clarence Paget, R.N.
Captain George Goldsmith, R.N.
Captain George Ramsay, R.N.
Captain George H. Seymour, RN.
Captain George G. Wellesley, R.N.
Captain James Willcox, R.N.
Colonel Hatay Frederick Lookyor, 97th Regiment.
Colonel Edward Birch Reynardson, late of Grenadier
Guards.
Colonel Charles Trollope, 6 d Regiment.
Colonel John tat. George, Royal rtillery.
Captain Henry Caldwel, R.N.
Captain Sherrsrd. Osborn, R.N.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sidney Powell, 53d Regt.
Lieutenant-C&0..el Arthur St. George Stepney, Cold-
stream Guards.
Licutenant.Colon,tl Luke Smyth O'Connor, Ist West
India Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonelt. Wm. West Turner, unattached.
Lieutenant-Colonel'. George Bent, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Eustace Fane Bonrchier, Royal En.
gineers.
LieWeiant-Colonel Henry Atwell Lake.
Major Henry Francis.. Strange, Royal Artillery.
Major Henry Chas. Ctinliffe Owen, Royal Engineers.
Major Jas. Frankfort h fanners Browne, Royal Engineers.
David Deas, Esq., Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.
Dr. David Dumbreck, Deputy Inspector General of
Hospitals.
Dr. Wm. Linton, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals.
Dr. John Forrest, Deputy Inspector General of lips-
, .
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Deputy Inspector General of
Hospitals.
John Robert Taylor, Esq., Deputy Inspector General of
Hospitals.
Dr. Archibald Gordon, Staff-Surgeon of the First Class.

James Mount, Esq., Staff'-Surgeon of the First Class.
George Adams, Esq., Deputy Commissary General.
John Win, Smith, Esq., Deputy Commissary General,
and
Wm. Henry Drake, Esq., Deputy Commissary General-
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the
Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable
Order, viz.:—
Edward Deas Thompson, Esq., Colonial Secretary for
New South Wales.
Alexander Stewart Esq., late Master of the Rolls fur
Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Koarsley Dawson, on the
Retired Full-pay List of the Royal. Engineers.
Lieutenant-General Mark Cubbon, Commissioner for
the government of Mysore, and
John Hall Maxwall, Esq.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
knighthood upon Peter Benson Maxwell, Esq., Recorder
of Prince of Wales Island.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 25.
Tho Queen has been pleased, on tho nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Charles Edwardl:lep-
ton, Esq , late captain. 23d Fusiliers, one of her Majesty's
Honourab:o Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Rice, re-
tired.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.
The Archbishop of Cantetbury has, under the authority
of the Act of the 13th ru-nd 14th years of her Majesty's
reign, chapter 94, appoin.ted the Right Honourable Spencer
Horatio Walpole to be a Church Estates Commissioner,
in the place of the Right Honourable Henry Goulburn,
deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Fort ign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing a copy of a French Imperial Decree, fixing the
duty on cotton wool im.pertedfrom the eutrepots in French
vessels, at 25 francs per 100 kilogrammes.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 4.
Admiral of the Blue Sir Janes Alex. Gordon, G.C.8.,
Vico-Admiral of the Blue Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Rear-
Admiral of the Red Sir Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. K.C.B ,
having, in pursuance of her Majesty's Order in Council of
the 301.1, January, 1856, been removed to a Reserved List,
which is to consist of Flag Officers holding appointments
in Gminwich Hospital, the following promotions conse-
quent thereon, dated the 31st ultimo have this day taken
place :--
Vico-Admiral of the Red Sir Thomas John Ccehrane,
K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White Chas. Sibthorp John Haw-
tayno to be Vice-Admiral of the Red:
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Henry Presscott, C. 8.. to be
Vice-Admiral of the White.
Kear-Admiral Sir Andrew Pellett Green, K.C.H., on
the Reserved List, to be a Vioe-Admiral on the Reserved
List.
Rear-Aimiral of the Red Wm. Bowen Mends to be
Vice-Adniral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral George Ferguson, on the Reserved List,
to be a Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir George Rose Sartoriu.s to
be Vice. Admiral of the Blue.
TO BE REAR-ADMIRALS OF THE RED.
Rear-Admiral of the White William James Mingage.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir James Hanway Plum-
ridge, K.C.B.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B.
TO BE REAR-ADMIRA.LS OF THE WHITE.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Eden.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Frederick Wm. Beechey.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue James Scott, C.B.
TO BE REAR-ADMIRALS OF THE BLUE.
Captain Thomas Wren Carter, C.B.
Captain Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Bart.
Captain Sir John Hindmarsh, K. 11., to be a Rear-Ad
rniral on the Reserved List,
Captain Christopher Wyvill to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Derby—Richard Henry Fitzherbert, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant.
Radborne Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Ernest Swin-
nerton Manes, Esq., to be Cornet.
Hertfordshire Militia—Henry Dickson Domain, Cent.,
to bo Ensign ; Stuart Vivian Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign.
Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Charles Beauclerk,
Gent., to be Second-Lieutenant, vice Jackson, promoted.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign Henry Thomas
Howell to be Lieutenant, vice Grey, absent without leave.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia—CaPtain Eustace
Heathcote, late Captain in the 34th Regiment, to be Ma-
jor vice Burrard, resigned.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi•
inent of Militia—William Elisha Smith, Gent., to be
Lieutenant.
Richa Tan-
Royal Montgomery Rirlos.—Lient. John Matthew
rd Jones
to be Captain, vice Jones, resigned; Ensign
field Vachell to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, promoted ; John
Wm. Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Vac ell, promoted.
Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry Wm. Henry
Adams, Gent., to be Cornet, vice eak, never gazetted.
AppOilltMent 1? substituted for that which
[The following
appeared in the Gazdte of hritlay last, the Ist instant.]
Cambridgeshire Militia—Emign Arthur Harris Rees to
be Lieutenant.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-House, Jan. 31.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations aro now making for the intended
distribution of proceeds arising from the Russian schooner,
no name, No. 12,044, captured on the 29th May, 1855, by
her Majesty's ship Merlin. .
Agents or other persons having, any just and legal de-
mand unliquidated against the said proceeds are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, ft,nd 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
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay
as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, 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 Loaden, Gazette, of the date proposed for thetheecm
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same timl,
amount of an individual's share in the respective c asses
will be announced.

BANKRUPTS.
S°Pliis Wightwiek, builder, Town Mailing Kent, to
tirrender, Feb. 15, at half-past one, and March 2t?, at one,