The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

CROWN-OFFICE, Nov. 22.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Reading—Tillery Pigott, Esq., Sergeant-at.
Law, in the room of Francis Pigott, Esq , who has ac-
cepted the office of Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of
Man.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 5.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Major
James Hay Wodehouse to be her Majesty's Consul in the
Society or Leeward Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Admiral Sir
Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., G.C.8., the office or place
of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of
the Earl of Dundonald, deceased.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of November,
1860. Present—The Qneen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased,
on a representation of the Right Honourable the Lords of
the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint the
Rev. John William Nutt, M.A., Fellow of All Soul's Col-
lege, iu the University of Oxford, to be one of her Ma-
jesty's Assistant Inspectors of Schools.

GRANT FOR THE NAVAL FORCES ON THE
CHINA STATION.

The Accountant-General of the Navy gives notice in this
Gazette that preparations are now being made for the in
tended distribution of the sum of £33,000 voted by Pa-lia•
ment for the naval forces employed on the China Station,
between the let of October, 1856, and the 26th of June,
1158, which will be distributed upon the principle of grant-
ing to each person so employed one month's additional pay
of J 0 days, according to their respective ratings on the last
day of their service on that station, within the above-men-
tionei period. The names of her Majesty's ships entitled
to participate are as follows :
Acorn Elk
Amethyst Esk
Actaeon, with Fury
Dove, gunboat Forester
Algerine Furious
Assistance Firm
Adventure Hornet
Bustard Highflyer
Banterer • Haughty
Belleisle Hesper
Barracouta Inflexible
Comus Janus
Calcutta Kestrel
Camilla Leven
Cruiser Lee
Cormorant Minden
Clown Melville
Drake Nankin
Encounter Niger

Nimrod
Opossum
Pique
Plover
Princess Charlotte
Racehorse
Sybille
Sampson
Starling
Staunch
Sans Pareil
Slaney
Spartan
Surprise
Tribune
Yolcano
Woodcock
Watchful.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

It is intimated in this Gazette that the distribution of
proeeeds arising from coals captured on board a Russian
vessel, name unknown, by her Majesty's ship Viper of the
26th of May, 1855, in the sea of Azoff, will commence on
Thursday, the 29th inst., in the prize branch of the depart-
ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty,
So m erset -house."

The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :
Flag share £l2 14 0
Lt.-Commanding 30 3 3
Fourth class 8 18 11
Fifth class .... 4 19 5
Sixth class 4 9 5

Seventh class .... £2 19 7
Eighth class 1 9 10
Ninth class 0 19 10
Tenth class

WAR-OFFICE; PALL-MALL, Nov, 23.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon.
Joseph Watts, from the 70th Foot, to be Assistant •Sur-
geon. vice Davidson, appointed to the Staff.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Robert Spencer Liddell,
from the 15th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas
Shirley Ball, who exchanges.
11th Light Dragoons—Surgeon John Burton St. Croix
Crosse having completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major, under the Royal Warrant of Ist October,
1858.
4th Regiment of Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon James B.
Jardine to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kearney, ap •
pointed to the Staff.
11th Foot—Sergeant-Major John R. Atkins to be Quar-
termaster, vice William C. Napier, dismissed the service
by the sentence of a general court-martial.
15th Foot —Lieut. Thomas S. Ball, from the 10th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert S. Liddell, who
exchanges.
31st Foot—Stall-Surgeon William F. Daniell, M.D., to be
Surgeon, vice Atkinson, appointed to the Staff.
39th Foot—Staff- Surgeon Charles Thompson Abbott, M. 8.,
to be Surgeon, vice George Thomas Woodman, M.D.,
placed upon half-pay.
53d Foot—Capt. Sidney Godolphin Quicke to be Major, by
purchase, vice Annesley Paul Gore, who retires; Lieut.
Robert Fannin Stoney to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Quicke; Ensign Robert Brown to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Stoney.
56th Foot—Ensign Henry John Nuthall to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Williams, promoted ; Lieutenant
John William uskisson to be Adjutant, vice Lieute-
nant Williams, promoted.
58th Foot—Major Chas. Hood to be Lieut.-Colonel, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Colonel Cyprian Bridge, who re-
tires; Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Charles Wm.
Thompson to be Major, by purchase, vice Hood ; Lieut.
John Augustus Tighe to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Thompson; Ensign Charles Ed-
ward Foster to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tighe ;
William George Clayton Wade, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Murray, promoted.
70th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Evelyn Alston,
M.D., tone Assistant-Surgeon, vice Watts, appointed to
the Ist Dragoon Guards.
84th Foot—Surgeon James M‘Grigor Grant, M.D., having
completed 20 yea's' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-
Major, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 1, 1858.
87th Foot—Surgeon Richard George Davys Banou, having
completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-
Major, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 1, 1858.
89th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon J. Sumpner Joyner,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Walsh, appointed to the
Staff.
93d Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major William Gustavus
Alexander Middleton, to be Major, by purchase, vice
George Cornwall, who retires ; Lieutenant Arthur

lett Nightingale to be Captain, by purchase vice Brevet-
Major Middleton; Ensign Charles Hastie to be Lieu-
tenant, by pu-chase vice Nightingale.
96th Foot—Captain William Frederick Metge from
purchase, half-
-1,3r
pay Gold Coast Artillery Corps, to be Captain, Tice
John Smith Cannon, who exchanges • Lieutenant
George Irwin Thompson to be Captain,
vice Metge, who retires ; Ensign Edward Barret Hodges
Curteis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thompson.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Arthur F. Piercy
Cosens, from the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bourke,

promoted.
2d West Ind'a Regiment—Ensign Andrew Halliday Han,
from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
0' Shaughnessy, promoted.
UNATTACHED.—Captain and Brevet-Colonel William
Henry Adams, half-pay, unattached, Professor of Fortifi-
cation at the Royal Military College, to be Major, without
purchase.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Surgeon Thomas Johnston Aqcinson, frf?m the 31st Foot,
to be Staff-Surgeon, appointed to the 31st
Foot. Daniell,

Assistant-Surgeon William Alexander Davidson M.D.
TO BE STAFF7A.SSISATAINT SURGEONS.
from the let Dragoon Guards, vice F. O'Conor, placed on
half pay.
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Walsh, from the 89th Foot,
appointed to the 70th Foot.
Sirgeon Edward Barrett Kearney, from the
'nted
4th Foot, vice Joyner, appoi to the 89th Foot.
vice AA ss
Alston,ss:
stant . ,
BREVET.
Captain Robert Petley, half•pay, Unattached, Professor
of Military Surveying at the Royal Military College, to be
Major in the Army.
Captain Francis Tower, Adjutant of the Recruiting
District at Warley, to have the local rank of Major while
so employed.

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BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Joseph Povey, innkeeper Warwick.
Thomas Powles, hosier, Milk •street, Cheapside.
Isaac Guttmann, watchmaker, Sheffield.
Ralph Errington Ridley, Great St. Helen's, Bishops-
gate-street.

BANKRUPTS.
Doi* Basset, *an inergiatio, Uxbridge, to ourreader

Dec. 5 at one, and Jan. 7 at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
Jo'y.
in Hawkes, builder, Hornsey-rise, Dec. 3at eleven,
and Jan. 7 at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Whitfield. linen draper, Tottenham-court-road,
Dee. 5 at twelve, and Dec. 31 at two, at the Court of Bank.-
rupW illtcy.
iam Joyce Smith, coy: mission agent, Newcastle--
upon-Tyne, Dec. 4, at half-post eleven, and Jan. 10, at
twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Thomas Barton, publisher, lirqllington-street, Strand,.
Dec. 6, at half-past one, and Jan. 8; at eleven, at the Court..
of Bankruptcy.
James Pritchard, saddler, Newnham, Gloucestershire,.
Dec. 4 and Jan. 1, at eleven, at the Brivtol District Court.
William Binks, painter, Kingston-upon-Hull, Dec. 12,.
and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Townhall,. Kingston-upon--
Hull.

Thomas Rees, ironmonger, Swansea, DOC. 4 and Jan. 1,,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Abner Woodhall, felt manufacturer, Barrels' Cray, Kent„,
Dec. 7, at two, and Jan. S, at one, at the Coint of Bank—
ruptcy.
James Wells, toy dealer, Liverpool,
Dec. 5, twelve,,
and Dec. 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
George Russell, hotel keeper, Leamington Priorb War-
wickshire, Dec. 12 and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Bkming—
ham District Court.
Benjamin Silvester, draper, Manchester, Dec. 6 an'd 27,.
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Joseph North, carrier and contractor, Brighton, Dec. 5,
at half-past twelve, and Jan. 7, at hat -past
two, at th e,
Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Christopher Renshaw, mast and block maker,
5, Stony-lane, Tooley-street, Borough, Dec.. 6, at half-past
twelve, and Jan. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Gustave Laurent, coffee .house keeper, 5, Leicester-square,
Dec. 7, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 11, at half-past one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Charles Partridge, boot and shoe manufacturer, 21,
Langley-place, Commercial-road, Dec. 7,
at half-post
eleven, and Jan: 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy..

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victor
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 21st • Lay
of Oct., 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ......£27,010,095 Government Debt £11,015 ,100
Other Securities .. 3,459 ,900
Gold Coin do Bullion 12,535, 095
Silver Bullion .... -

X 27,010, 995

427,910,9951
BANKENG DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen-
tal X 14.553,000 rities (including
Rest .. 3.205,626 Dead WeightAn-
Public Deposits (in- nutty)
£9,490,' 2 73
eluding Exche- Other Securities
quer, Savings' votes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin 621,13 %6
tional Debt, and
Dvidend Ac-
courts) 6,073,597
Other Deposits ... 2' 665' 022
acycn El .y And
other Bills .

725,661

£37,222,905
M.]

£37,222,9 05
Chief Cashier.

HALL,

Dated NOT. 22, 1860

AVERAGE PRICE OF SIMAA.•
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado &War, com—
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 20th dar
of Nov., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :
Muscovado, the produce of the British pos-
sessions in America
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius
Average price of the foregoing .. 29s 51c1 •