The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-25 00:00:00

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 22.

This day had an audience of her Majesty, his Excellency
Monsieur Musurus, Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary from his hive ial Majesty the Sultan, to deliver
a letter from his Sovereign. To which audience he was in-
troduced by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Aff►irs,
and conducted by Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Edward
Cust, her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEn. 23.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon William Atherton, Esq., M.P., her Ma-
jesty's Solicitor-General.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Alfred
Dick, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Mazatlan, to be
her Majesty's Consul in the Society or Leeward Islands,
in the Pacific Ocean.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Palmer,
Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the
Island of Prince Edward ; and Macnamara Dix, Esq., to
be Treasurer for the Island of Saint Lucia.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 22.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIA3LENT. •
Borough of Ennis—William Stacpoole, of Ballyalla, in
the county of Clare, Esq , in the room of the Right Hon.
John David Fitz Gerald, who has accepted the office of one
of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Northampton—The Right Hon. Samuel Jones,
Lord Overstone, to be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Southampton—llamphire Yeomanry Cavalry—
William Fox, Gent., to be Cornet, vice llatherell, re-
signed.
MILITIA AND VOLUNTEER CORPS.

County of Sussex-2d Sussex Rifle Volunteers—R odolph
Alexander Hankey, Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Cambridge.—Cambridgeshire Militia—John
1 Vance, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Masters, resigned.
County of Cumberland.-2d Cumberland Rifle Volunteers
—Joseph Fletcher, Esq., to be Captain Commandant.
County Palatine of Chester.-3d Company of Cheshire
Artillery Volunteers—Francis William Reynolds, Esq.,
to be Captain ; Daniel Roberts, Gent. to bo First Lieu-
tenant; Henry Pooley, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
County of Cornwall.-11th Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—
Humphry Willyains to be Captain • Francis H. Cock to
be Lieutenant; Edwin Parkyn to be Ensign. 12th Corn-
wall Rifle Volunteers—Edward Collins to be Captain;
James Henderson to be Lieutenant ; Arthur 'Williams to
be Ensign.
County of Lancashire.-sth Lancashire Artillery Volun-
teers—Captain Robert Ravnsford Jackson to be Cap-
tain-Commandant; James Barlow Stewardson Sturdy,
Esq., to be Captain; John Walmsley, Gent., to be First
Lieutenant; Hiram Craven Coulthard, Gent., to be Se-
cond Lieutenant. let Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—
Captain Nathaniel George Philips Bousfield to be Cap-
tain Commandant •, Lieut. Geo. Hunter Robertson to be
Captain ; Ensign John Lord Howard to be Lieutenant
Ensign George Butler lleushall to be Lieutenant. 6th
Laneashire Rifle Volunteers—Lieut. Edward Stanley
Heywood to be Captain, vice Ashton, promoted ; Ensign
Fenton Mangnall to be Lieutenant, vice Heywood, pro-
moted; John Bradshaw the younger, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Mangnall, promoted. 11th Lancashire Rifle
Volunteers—Joseph Bray Gilbertson, Esq., M.D., to be
Assistant-Surgeon; Captain Henry Newsham Pedder to
bs Captain Commandant 15th Lancashire Rifle Volun-
teers—Thomas Henry Winans, Esq., to be Surgeon.
19th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Captain George Alex-
ander Mackenzie to be Captain Commandant; Anthony
Cumming the younger, Gent , to be Lieutenant; Samuel
Blain Greenshields, Gent., to be Ensign • Hugh Per.
king, Gent., to be Ensign. 26th Lancashire Rifle Vo-
lunteers John Thompson, Esq., to be Captain ;
James Wood, Gent , to bo Lieutenant; Maskell
William Peace, Gent., to be Ensign; Walter
Fawkes Mackenzie Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
27th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Lieut. Arthur Bailey
to be Captain; Ensign James Cross Ormrod to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Arthur Bailey, promoted ; George Fell,
Gent., to be Ensign vice James C. Ormrod, promoted.
4341. Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—William Slingsby,
Esq , to be Captain ; John Slag;, jun., Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant.
County of Dumbarton.—Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers
—let Company—Alexander H. Dennistoun, Esq., to be
Captain ; Colin Dunlop Wilson, Gent., to be Lieutenant;
James Honeyman, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Company
—Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; John Leckie Ewing, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Hugh Kirkwood, Gent., to be Ensign. 3d Company—
Mathew Gray, Esq., to be Captain ; Thos. Logan Stillie,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Edward M'lntyre9 ant., to be
Ensign. 4th Company—A. Orr Ewing, Esq., to be
Captain; Jame, Campbell, jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant;
Thomas Roxburgh, Gent., to be Ensign. sth Company
—Mathew Clark, Esq., to be Captain. 6th Company—
John Macausland, Esq., to be Captain ; William Pater-
son, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William Graham,
Gent., to be Ensign. Ist or Gareloch Subdivision
John Cabbell, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Robert Bennett Browne, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d or
Loss Subdivision—Montague J. Martin, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; Alexander Macniven, Gent., to be Ensign.
Dumbartonshire Artillery Volunteers, Ist Company—
James Galbraith, Esq., to be Captain; John Honeyman,
jun., Gent., to be First Lieutenant; William Reid,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
County of Haverfirdweet. —Haverfordwest Volunteer Rifle
Corps—John Harvey, junr., Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Surrey.-9th Company of Surrey Rifle Volun-
teers—John Newburgh Higinbothom, Esq., to be Lieu-
tenant ; Robert Hamilton Few, Esq., to be Ensign ;
Charles William Izod, Surgeon, to be Honorary Surgeon.
County of Montgomeryshire.—Newtown or Ist Mont-
gomeryshire Rifle Volunteerii—John Pryce Drew, Esq.,
to be Captain; Richard Edward Jones, Esq., to be
Lieutenant ; David Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign ;
Richard Jones, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon.
County of Lanark.-9th Corps Glasgow (2d Northern
Battalion)—Donald Dewar, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon.
29th Company (Coatbridge)—Thomas Jackson, Esq., to
be Captain ; George Pollock, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
John Maxwell, Gent., to be Ensign. 50th Company
—John Wallis Kerr, Esq., to be Captain; Archi-
bald Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign. 54th Company
—Thomas Steel, Esq., to be Captain; William Morier,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Peter Fulton, Gent., to be En-
sign. 58th Company—James Thomson, Esq., to be
Captain; Hugh Colquhoun, Gent., to bo Lieutenant;
Robert M'Callum, Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Aberdeen.-6th Aberdeenshire Artillery Volun-
teers—John Blaikie, Esq., to be Captain; Peter Duguid,
Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. sth Aberdeenshire
Artillery Volunteers—Lewis Chalmers, Esq., to be
Captain ; George Wallace, Eq., to be First Lieutenant ;
Dr. John Mellis to be Second Lieutenant. let Aber-
deenshire Rifle Volunteers—The Hon. Arthur Gordon,
C.M.G., to be Captain-Commandant; George Shepherd
to be Lieutenant ; John Grant to be Lieutenant;
Alexander Davidson to be Ensign; Alexander Brebner
to be Ensign.
County of Kincardine, Ist Subdivision of Kincardineshire
Rifle Volunteers—Walter Dingwall, &lg to be Lieu-
tenant ; William Alexander, Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Berwick.-4th Berwickshire Rifle Volunteers—
George Warrender, Esq., to be Captain; William Bloom-
field, jun., Esq., to be Lieutenant; James Nesbit, Esq.,
to be Ensign.

1%1 E 0 ititiDtim.-7th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the
resignation of Lieutenant John Blaikie.

BANKRUPTS.

George Read, cattle dealer, Portsmouth, to surrender,
March 9 and April 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

harles Henry Charlton, solicitor, Garden-Court, Temple,
Middlesex, March 2 and April 13, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Stephens, innkeeper, Exeter, March 9 and 28, at
twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
John James Gummoe, agent, St. Austin's, Cornwall,
March 9 and 28, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
John Henry Cohn, general merchant, Limo-street, City,
March 7, at half-past one, and April 4, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Joseph Wall and Joseph Buxton, wholesale grocers,
Manchester, March 6 and April 3, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court.

Sylvester Mathison, butcher, Liverpool, March 6 and
April 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Blair, clothier, Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.
Edward Bowen, ironmonger, Glasgow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 22d day
of February, 1860:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £28,0:28,100 Government Debt .£11,015,160
Other Securities .. 3,459,0)
GsiolvlderCtoitinitioltriu ....
111oia 14,_453,194

£28,925,19 ii
/I AN KING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Secu-
Rtal .............. £14,553,000 rifles (including
est .Ur ........... 3,445,062 Dead Wn-
po eightA
Public sits (in- nuity) .......... £10,171,190
chiding Exche- Other Securities .. 20,940,989
quer, Savings' Banks, Commis- Gold Notes ............ 8,362,800
.
missioners of Na- Coin and
...... Silver
......
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) .......... 7,277,548
Other Deposits.... 14,191,528
Seven Day and
other Bills ...... 732,955

528,928,190

699,631

£40,174,613
M. 3

£40,171,613
ARS lIAL 1,, Chief Cashier.

Dated Feb. 23, 1800.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 21st day
of Feb., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain:—

Per .
From the British possessions in America 28scwt
3d
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 26s 6d
MuseTvado, the produce of the East Indies —s
Average price of the foregoing 278 81c1