The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-11 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr, Franz
Prange as Consul at Liverpool for the Free Hanseatic City
of Bremen.

CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 6.
MEMBER RETVENED TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT.
City of Durham—Wm. Atherton, of Westbourne-terrace,
Hyde-park, Esq., her Majesty's Solicitor-General.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National Debt, that there was no surplus of actual re-
venue, over the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the 30th
September, 1859:
The Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt, hereby give notice that no sum will be applied by
them on account of the sinking fund, under th© provisions
of the Act 10, Geo., IV., cap. 27, between the 6th day of
January, and the 31st day of March, 1860.
A. Y. SPEARMAN,
Com
National Debt Office, 6th January, 186p0troller-General..
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 6.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieutenant Alexander Thomas Ewens,
having obtaining a First Class Certificate at the School of
Musketry at Hythe, has been appointed by his Royal High-
ness the General Commanding-in-Chief, with the concur-
rence of the Secretary of State for War, to act as Instructor
of Musketry to the Stirling, Ste., Regiment of Militia, vice
Junor, retired
NOTICE.—The Secretary of State for India will not en-
tertain any further claims made by Officers sent to India,
during the late mutinies, on account of their wives' passages
to that country, unless such claims be received at the India
Office within six months of the date hereof.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 10.

CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Commission of the
Reverend John Francis Browne, Chaplain of the Fourth
Class, to bear date 15th September, 1857, instead of Ist
April, 1859, as stated in the Gazette of the latter date.

BREVET.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of General Richard Blunt, Colonel of the 66th
Regiment, on 25th December, 1859 :
Lieutenant-General Thomas Kenah, C. 8., Colonel of the
63d Foot, to be General.
Major-General John Hobart, Lord Howden,
Major upon half-pay Unattached, to hare the rank of Lieu-
tenant-General.
Major-General James Alexander, Earl of Rosslyn, to be
Lieutenant-General.
Brevet-Colonel Ecl•ward Waller Forestier Walker, C. 8.,
Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Major-General.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel James Talbot Airey,
C. 8., Coldstream Guards, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major George Blicke C. Crespigny, Paymaster of
the School of Musketry, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Alfred Romaine Wraggo, Royal Artillery, to be
Major.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Mihtia—Cap-
tain Bertie Mathew Roberts to be Adjutant, vice Lynch,
resigned.
3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Ralph Con-
nor, Gent., to bo Quartermaster.
Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Captain John
Remington Breading to be Quartermaster.
COMMISSION S BY LORDS-LI EUTENANT.
County of Oxford—Henry Atkins Bowyer, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant.
County of IVorcester—Lord Northwick to be Deputy-
Lieutenant; John Whitmore Isaac, Esq., to be Deputy,
Lieutenant; Edward Vincent Wheeler, Esq., to be Deputy..
Lieutenant ; William Haigh, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu-
tenant ; Josiah Stallard, Esq., to be Deputy .Lieutenant.
3d Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—John Hal-
loweLieul, tel Esq„ to be Captain ; James Ball White, Gent., to
be cant; John Sanders Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign;
Charlr.s Booth, Esq., M.D., to Us Honorary Surgeon.
2d Subdivision of Berks Rifle Volunteers—George Chas.
Cherry, Esq., to be Ensign.
Hungerford Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—Edwin Mar-
tin Atkins, Gent., to be Cornet.
7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—John Reynolds, jun.,
Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Ist Subdivision of the Hertfordshire Rifle Volunteers—
The Hon. Reginald Algernon Capel to be Lieutenant;
Charles Francis Humbert, Gent., to be Ensign.
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, Northern Troop—
Charles Cholmeley Hale, Gent., to be Captain, vice Samuel
Heathcote Unwin Heatheote resigned.
2d Company of Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers—William
Alexander Mackinnon, Esq M P to be Captain ; Edwin
Danes Saunders, Esq., to boDaw”Lieutenant ; Francis Belling-
ham, Esq., to be
Ensign • Robert Coke Nash Davies, Esq.,
to be Honorary Surgeon.'
tat Company of Cinque Ports Artillery Volui t :ers—Ed-
ward Luard Wollaston, Esq., to be Captain; Edward Fer-
rand Astley, Esq., to be First Lieutenant; Percy Simpson
Court, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. ca
Bth Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers—Samuel pear-
son, Jr., Esq., late Lieutenant in her Majesty's King's
Dragoon Guards, to bo Captain; Charles Edward Proctor,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Edward Adshead, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
6th Company of Essex Rifle Volunteers—Sir Claude
William Champion de Crespigny, Bart., to be Captain ;
John Fitzsimmons Bishop, Esq., to be Lieutenant;
Egerton Green, Esq., to be Ensign.
Ist Subdivision of Essex Rifle Volunteers—Willis rn
Garnham Luard, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Charles Wocd,
Esq., to be Ensign.
Bth Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—Hardy Robinson,

Esq., to be Captain; Ensign Charles Lyall Grant to be
Lieutenant ; George Black Bothwell, Esq., to be Ensign,
vice Grant, promoted.
Ist Pembrokeshire Artillery Volunteers—John Mauls
Sutton, Esq., to be Captain ; John Gwynne, Gent., to be
First Lieutenant; Andrew Stevens Reed, Gent., to be Se-
eond Lieutenant.

7th Company of Surrey Rifle Volunteers—William
Reade Brenden, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James Vogan,
jun., Gent., to be Ensign.
[The following Appsintment is substituted for that of
Alexander James Scrutton, which appeared in the " Ga-
zette" of the 3d instant.]
South London Rifle Volunteer Corps—Alexander James
Scrutton, Esq„ to be Ensign.
Durham Militia Artillery—Second Lieutenant Mark
Quayle, resignation accepted, 9th Dec., 180.
90th or Stirlingshire, &c., Highland Borderers—Her Ma-
jesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Com-
mission of Ensign Edgeworth Horrocks from the 23d Dec.,
1859. The name of Ensign Kelly is Waldren Edward
Kelly, and not Rosser, as gazetted on 15th Nov. last.
Royal Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
James Howard Buller to be Lieutenant, vice Snow, re-
signed.

2nd Devonshire Rifle Volunteers—Charles Duperrier to
be Captain; Walter Damant to be Lieutenant, Mortimer
John Collier tc, be Ensign.
3d Devonshire Rifle Volunteers—John Beer to be Cap-
tain; William Clark to be Lieutenant; William Paul
Su ain to be Ensign.
3d Devon Riflle Volunteers—William Cotton to be Second
Lieutenant.

BANKRUPTS.
Edwin Hawker, tea dealer, Above Bar-street, Southamp-
ton, to surrender, Jan. 23, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John Stoate Date, flour merchant, Cardiff, Jan. 24 and
Feb. 21, at 11, at the Bristol District Court.
John Dyke, grocer, Birmingham, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Ross, draper, Truro, Jan. 25 and Feb. 15, at twelve,
at the Exeter District Court.
Robert Nuttall and Nathan Crossley, machine makers,
Halifax, Jan. 27 and Feb. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.
Edmund Thos. Shadwick, shipowner, Penarth, Glamor-
ganshire, Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Jeremiah Joyner, grocer, Croluarty.
David Robertson, mason, East Kilbride.
llugh Joyner, farmer, Glen-Urquhart, Cromartyshire.
John Finlay, carver, Glasgow.