The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

onEpE rpSC 1 LONDON, TUESDAY ~:pyigAING, JANUARY 314 01860.

TLI I 13, 1) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock

LUPE lAL PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF L3RDS—(This EVENING.)
The Lonn CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

CHURCH-RATES.
Viscount DUNGANNON presented petitions from Den-
bigh, and Flint against the abolition of Church-rates
without an equivalent. _

Lord CHELMSFORD presented petitions from Essex
against the abolition of Church-rates.

The Bishop of OXFORD also presented similar petitions
and also petitions from York and other places against the
bill affecting endowed schools.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR;O;;(Ifoi a return of all
persons in confinementin England and Wales for contempt
of the Court of Chancery.

LAW AND EQUITY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR also intimated that a bill
was in preparation, enabling the Courts of Common Law to
take cognisance of questions of equity which might occur
therein. -

MONEY.

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ifffiiowp.erTvouldleTorasliaTto undertake passenger& to
a great extent while they were subject to such heavy and
unjust penalties for accidents which they could not prevent.
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OYD ON G.IZETTE4THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 31.
Royal Regiment -of • Horse Guards—Veterinary-Surgeon
Matthew John Harpley, from the Royal Artillery, to be
Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Byrne, who retires upon half-
pay.
Royal Artillery—Acting Veterinary-Surgeon Edwin
Thomas Cheesman to be Veterinary-SUrgeon; vice Harp-
ley, appointed to the Royal Regimentof,Horse Guards.
Military Train—Lieutenant Thomas Fletcher to be Captain,
'without purchase; Ensign Rbbert: Warner Saone to ba
Lieutenant, without purchases,; vice Fletcher; Ensign
Andrew Munro to he Lieutenant, without purchase.
3d Regiment of Foot:—Assistant-Surgeon George Forbes'
Adams, from the Staff. to bo Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Dolan, appointed to the Staff. • -
Bth ,Foot.—Captain Lewis• John Fillis Joliet from the
88th Foot, to be Captain, vice Alexander Ross Bayly,
- who exchanges.
11th Foot.—Lieutenant Henry Joseph Webb to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Francis W. Osborne, who has re-
signed the Adjutancy only.
13th Foot —Ensign Arthur Brooks to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Everett, promoted in the 25th Foot.
11th Foot.—Captain William Alexander Dobie from the
Ist West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Owen, who
exchanges.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Reginald Laurence Herbert
Curteis, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice de Medewe, who resigns.
20th Foot—Hugh Humphreys, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Webster, promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon
Thomas Ramsay, from the Staff, to bo Assistant-Surgeon,
. vice Shortt, appointed to the Staff.
22d Foot—Captain John Sackville Swann, from the 54th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Robin, Who exchanges.
23d Foot--.Ensign.William Robert Murray has' been per-
mitted to resign his commission.,
25th Foot—Captain Seth Nuttall Fisher, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain; Lieut. John Frederic Eve-
rett, from the 13th .Foot,,tosbe Captain, by purchase, vice
Fisher, who retires.
30th Foot—Ensign William Glascott to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tyner, who retires ; Ensign' the Hon.
Leopold William Henry Powys to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Austin, who retires. -
31st Foot—Captain William Wood Senhouse, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Law, who ex-
changes; Lieut. John William Townsend Fyler, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Senhouse, who retires ;
Ensign Alex. Gordon Selwyn Maynard to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fyler.
34th Foot—Sergeant Daniel O'Neill to be Quartermaster,
vice Rowan, appointed Paymaster.
38th Foot—Ensign George John Skinner, from the 100th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bailey, promoted.
43d Foot—Captain William Thomas Waldy, from the 46th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Richardson. who exchanges.
46th Foot—Captain William Stewart Richardson, from the
43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Waldy, who exchanges.
54th Foot--Captain Thomas Smith Robin, from the 22d
Foot, to be Captain, vice Swann, who exchanges.
75th Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Le Pelley to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut. Colonel Mellen,
C. 8., promoted.
77th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Francis Edward M'Farland
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeen, vice Adams,
whose appointment in the Gazette of the 30th ult. has
been cancelled.
88th Foot—Captain Alexander Ross Bayly, from the Bth
Foot, to be Captain, vice Jones, who exchanges.
90th Foot—Ensign Henry James Edgell to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Bingham, deceased ; Ensign Jas.
Felix Haig to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edgell,
whose promotion by purchase on the 13th inst. has been
cancelled ; Randall Ironside Ward, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Edgell, promoted.
96th Foot—Ensign William Robert Erstridge Durrant to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Geddes, who retires.
let West India Regiment—Captain John Owens, from the
14th Foot, to be Captain, vice Dobie, who exchanges.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign Sydenham
Clitherow M'Gill, from the 73d Foot, to be Ensign.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General Horake Neville
Tharp has been permitted to resign his commission.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon-Major Robert Templeton, M.D., who retires on
half pay, to have the honorary rank of Deputy Inspector-
General of Hospitals, in accordance with the Royal War-
rant of Ist October, 1858.
Assistant-Surgeon Theophilus Dolan, from the 31st Foot,
to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Stewart, ap-
pointed to the Royal Artillery.
Assistant-Surgeon Francis John Shortt, from the 20th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Rich-
mond, appointed to the Royal Artillery.
Benjamin Hinde, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces.

VETERINARY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
To be Acting Veterinary Surgeons—Griffith Evans,
Gent. ; James Joseph Meyrick, Gent. ; John Marshall
'Wilson, Gent. ; William Appleton, Gent. ; Robert Mar-
shall, Gent. ; Adam Elijah Clarke, Gent. ; and John An-
derson, Gent.
BREVET.
Brevet Colonel Henry Keane Bloomfield, half-pay 11th
Foot, to have the temporary rank of Major-General while
holding the command of a Brigade in Ireland.
Brevet-Colonel Charles Franklyn, C. 8., from Inspecting
Field Officer of a Recruiting District, to have the tempo-
rary rank of Major-General while holding the command of
a Brigade at Gibraltar.
Captain Seth Nuttall Fisher, 25th Foot, to be Major in
the Army.
4is r, 25th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in the Army..
The under-mentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent upon the death of Major-General Henry Edward
Robinson on 14th January, 1860 :
Major -General Sir Thomas Harte Franks, K.C.8., the
Senior Officer promoted to the rank of Major-General for
distinguished service, to be placed upon the Fixed Este,-
blishment of General Officers, in accordance with the 6th
clause of the Royal Warrant of Oct. 14, 1858.
Captain and Lieut.-Colonel Charles Lennox Brownlow
Maitland, of the Grenadier Guards, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major William Goratin, half-pay 24th Dragoons,
Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieut.-Colonel.
Captain Frederick William Haultain, Royal Artillery,
to be Major.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—William
Hardement, Gent., to be Quartermaster. The above noti-
fication is in substitution for that which appeared in the
"Gazette" of 9th December, 1859.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANTS.
The Essex Rifles—Henry William Hartley, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Godfrey, superseded.
2d Company of Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers—Adam
Smith, Esq., to be Captain ; John Whitford, Gent., to be
First Lieutenant ; Francis Long, Gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant.
Dorset Regiment of Militia—Henry Thomas Baylie,
Gent., to be Ensign,7to complete the Establishment.
Royal Flintshiro Militia—Ralph Richardson the younger,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers-16th Company—
Charles Williams David, Esq., to be Captain ; Clement
Waldron, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Jeremiah Box Stock-
dale, Gent., to be Ensign.
11th Company Kent Rifle Volunteers—Montagu Lub •
bock, Esq., to be Captain; Edward Osmond Berens, Esq.,
to be Lieutenant; Wm. Darwin, Esq., to be Ensign; Ed-
ward Augustus Williams, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon.
19th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—James Maxwell, Esq.,
to be Captain; George Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., to be
Captain • James Muir Dowie, Esq., to be Captain ; William
Donald Ryrie, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Alex. Macdonald
Glassford, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; John Campbell Fraser,
Gent., to be Ensign.
21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Nathaniel Eckerslay,
Esq., to be Captain • Egerton Leigh Wright, Esq., to be
Captain ; George William Gunning, Gent. (late Captain
in the 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own
Militia), to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Marshall, Gent., to
be Lieutenant; Edward Scott, jun., G ent., to be Ensign ;
Lever Robert Rowbottom, Gent, to be Ensign; Thomas
Joshua Heaton, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Ist Subdivision-of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—George
Frederick Martin, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William Clarke
Deeley, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Company of the Banff Volunteer Artillery Corps—
William James Whyte, M.Th. to be Captain.
Norfolk Artillery Regiment of Militia—The Right Hon.
Jacob Henry Delaval, Lord Hastings, to be Honorary Colo-
nel, vice Jacob, Lord Hastings, deceased.
City of Norwich Rifle Volunteer Corps—John Davy
Brett, Esq., late Major 16th Lancers, to be Major Comman-
dant; Charles Foster, Esq., to be Captain; John Barwell,
jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant; Alfred. Master, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Foster, resigned; Beaumont Wilson Jolly,
Gent., to Is Ensign.
I ;let Subdivitsiox Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers—Ed-
ward Loomes, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Wm. Harris Bowker,
Esq., to be Ensign.
13th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—Alexander Simp-
son, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; Alexander Macdonald, jun.,
to be Lieutenant; Alexander Francis Blaikie, Esq., to be
Ensign.
Ist City of Edinburgh Artillery Volunteers—John Boyd
jun., Esq., to be Captain ; John Macnab, Esq., to be First
Lieutenant; William Elgin, jun., Esq., to be Second
Lieutenant.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Jan. 27.
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Notice is hereby given to theofficers, seamen and marines,
and to all persons interested therein, that the distribution
of the amount awarded for the destruction of pirates in the
China Seas, by her Majesty's' ship Comus, between the
24th and 27th August;lBs6, will commence on Mondaythe
6th February, 1860, in the Prize Branch of the Depart•
went of the "Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty,
Somerset-house." .

Agents and other persons holding prize orders, or other
instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled
to claim the share of any salvor, are requested to present
the same at this office-

Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, NON.
may desire to receive his share from the Collector of
Customs or of Inland Revenue within the United King
dom, is required to intimate the same by letter to
be addressed " On Prize Business, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, London"—in which letter his own place of re-
sidence is to be precisely stated, as well as the place of the
nearest Collector of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from
whom it would be convenient to receive such share of
prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

Commander £llB 0 6 Seventh class 7 19 11
Third class 37 6 2 Eighth class 3 19 11
Fourth class 23 19 8 f Ninth class.... 213 4
Fifth class l3 6 6 Tenth class 1 6 7
Sixth class .. 11 19 11 I