The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-10 00:00:00

BAN K. OF LONDON,
Threadneedle-street, and Charing-cross.
C3AIRMAN—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P.
VICE•CHAIBMAN—JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq.
Current Acecunts are received, and interest allowed on Balances.
51. per cent. Interest is at present allowed on deposits, with 10
days' notice of withdrawal on sums of 101. and upwards.
By order.
MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager.
BENJAMIN SCOTT, Secretary,
Threadneedle-street, April 28, 1856.

rlir HE ROYAL BRITISH BANK
yi allows INTEREST on the DAILY BALANCES of Drawing
Accounts, if not under 1001., and on DEPOIITS of any amount.
Cash Credits are granted to its regular Customers on suitable seen-
rities, on the Scottish system; and Circular Bills, &c., are issued
without charge, payable in every town abroad, free of Commission.
The HOLBORN BRANCH ef the Bank, at the corner of Chancery-
lane, was opened for business on the Ist May current.
The Interest allowl at present en Deposits is 5 per Cent.
HUGH INNES CAMERON, General Manager.

iII'ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
The DIRECTORS of the BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
do hereby given notice that the YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
of Proprietors will be held, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement, on
TUESDAY; the 13th June next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7,
St. Helen's-place, Bishopsote-street, at 1 o'clock precisely, when
the Election of Three Directors, in the room of those going out by
the provisions of the Peed, will take place.
By order of the Court.
A. GRAHAH DUNLOP, Secretary.
London, sth, May 1556.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 8..

This (lay had audience of her Majesty;
His Highness Aali Pacha, Grand Vizir of the Ottoman
Empire, to deliver to her Majesty a letter from the Sultan ;
The Grand Vizir was accompanied to this audience by
his Excellency Mons. Musurus, Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary from the Sublime Porte ; and his
Highness was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.,
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Mejor,General the Hon. Sir Edwt),Opust,
K C.IL, her Majefity's Laster of the Ceremoniei.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 6.
Tile Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
A. Everitt as Consul at Birmingham for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Luis
Y. Santamaria as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of
New Granada.

WHITEHALL, MAY 7.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Wrn. Charles Middleton Grant to the church and parish of
Durness, in the:presbytery of Tongue, and county of Suther-
land; vacant by the death of the Reverend Alex. M'Coll,

late Minister thereof.
CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 9.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIA-

MENT.

Borough of Cheltenham—Francis William Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, Esq., C iptain in her Majesty's Regiment of
Horse Guards, in the room of Grenville Charles Lennox
Berkeley, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of
her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 9.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, regulating as
follows the import duties upon cocoa (in the bean and
husk) :
From the French colonies
From countries west of Caps Horn present duties.
From elsewhere out of Europe
In French ships 65f.
From the entrepots In foreign ships 75f. j. per 100 kilog.
Also, copy of another Imperial decree, fixing the import
duty upon iron tubes at 30r per 100 kilogs.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL MALL, MAT 9.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Samuel
Wentworth Stevenson has been permitted to resign his
commission.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant A. G. Montgomery
Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Macartney, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant David
Scotland to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Cornet James
Vance Cleland to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Moore.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant David Philip Brown to
be Captain, by purchase. vice Sir Lydston Newman, Bart.,
who retires ; Cornet William Henry Seymour to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Brown.
15th Light Dragoons Lieutenant George Travers
Macartney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brett, who
retires • Cornet Charles William Bell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macartney.
Royal Engineers—The surname of the Lieutenant ap-
pointed on 7th April, 1556, in the Gazette of the 29th ult.,
is Home, and not Horne, as previously stated.
7th Regiment of Foot—The first Christian name of En-
sign Follett is Han-lingo and not Harding, as previously
stated.
10th Foot— The second Christian name of Ensign Erskine
appointed on the 18th of April, 1856, is Jones.
25th Foot—Major Samuel Wells to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Strange, who retires upon
full pay; Brevet-Major George Holt to be Major, without
purchase, vice Wells ; Lieutenant Astley Campbell Smith
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Holt • Ensign
Richard Ross to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Smith; Euigu. Ilayra £3auLL Paley twin the 4th Mid
lesex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ross.
28th Foot--Lieutenant Henry C. Worthington to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Huey, who retires.
32d Foot—Ensign Nathaniel T. Crane to be Lieutenant,
by pnrchase, vice Power, promoted.
35th Foot—Ensign Woodford Wright Sherlock to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dundas, who retires ;
Richard Parson; Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Sherlock.
50th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Charles Goff to be Ad-
jutant, vice Ensign Gordon, who resigns the Adjutancy

only.
53d Foot—Ensign Sohn Maxwell Macneill to be Lieu.
tenant, without purchase, vice Follows, deceased.
Lieut. Joseph C. Smythe, from the Perthshire Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Macneill.
57th Foot—Lieut. Blake Goble has been permitted to
retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
60th Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensigns
Frederick A ustin, vice A.dderley, who has retired ; Edward
C. Ainsley, vice Robertson. promoted ; James S. H. Al-
gal., vice Fox, promoted • E. R. Ktng-Harman, vice Ellis,
promoted ; Joseph Bradshaw, vice Liddell, promoted. To
be Ensigns, by purchase—George Henry Mackenzie, Gent.
vice King-Harman ; Richard Jephson Verschoyle, Gent.,
vice Bradshaw.
611 Foot—Lieutenant F. V. M. B,aynes has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com-
mission ; the appointment of Quartermaster-Sergeant
James Linford to the Quartermastership to bear date 28th
December, 1835, instead of 18th January, 1855, as previ-
ously stated.
69th Foot—Ensign Peter Shuttleworth, from the Sligo
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Charles William Quin, from the
99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, who exchanges.
8341 Foot—Ensign Edward Dickson Ricard, from the
18th Foot. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzßoy,
promoted in the 63d Foot ; Braithwaite Chamley, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant
Meade, promoted in 30th Foot.
84th Foot—Ensign William Poole to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Kenny, deceased ; Ensign Hugh
Pearson, from the 57th Foot, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Poole.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Henry Drage, from the
Essex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Falconer Wilson, from the 70th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Quin, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Geo. James Ivey
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Harger, deceased ;
Ensign Edmond Frederick Tarte to be Lieutenant, with-
. out purchase : Lieutenant Charles Bury Cradock, from the
6th Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase
vice Tarte.