The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-29 00:00:00

COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.

To be Deputy Commissaries-General—Assistant Com-
missary-Generals Montague William Darling, and William
James Tyrone Power.
To be Assistaut-Commissaries-General—George Joseph
Webb, John Francis Rogers, James Wilkinson Woodley,
Charles Garrow Blanc, Charles Palmer, and Chas. Bagot
Smith.

To be Deputy Assistant-Commissaries•General—gdwin
Litchfield and Alfred Ernest Petrie.
HOSPITAL STAFF.

Assistant• Surgeon James Crosse Johnstone, Supernu-
merary in the 9th Foot, Ito ba Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces.

Staff Assistant-Surgeon Daniel Benjamin Hine has been
permitted to resign his commission.
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services :—William Sharpe, David Knox, M.D., James
Graham Hildige, M.D., Thomas Henry Newsom, Joseph
Read, James Gideon Creasy.
BREVET.

Colonel Pennel Cale, retired full pay of the Royal Engl.
neers, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only.

Brevet-Lieutenunt-Colonel Peter Reyne, retired
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Celonel in the Army, the
rank being honorary.
MEMORANDUL—Brevet-Colonel F. Chidley Irwin, upon
half pay Unattached, asLieut.-Colonel, has been permitted
to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission,
he being about to become a settler in Western Australia.
C )MMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

The Hon. Win. Henry Forester Deniscn to ba Deputy.
Lieutenant.

North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Ensign Duncan
Forbes to h 5 Lieutenant, vice Shafto, whose appointment
has been cancelled.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED,

Thomas Truman, ironmonger, Pontypridd, Glamorgan

BANKRUPTS.

John Howes Tipple, shoo manufacturer, Norwich, to
surrender Sept. 11, at eleven, and Oct. 10, at hslf-past one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basiughall-street •, Bircham, Dalrymple, and Drake, Par-
liament-street; Dalrymple, Norwich.
Henry Bottomley, grocer, Halifax, Sept. 11, at eleven,
and Oct. 13, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Lanoaster, Bradford ;
Bond and Barwick, Leeds. . _ _

Henry Stott, grocer, Halifax, Sept. 11, and Oct. 20, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official as-
signee, Leeds ; Wavell. Pbilbrick, and Foster, Halifax.
Francis Williams, baker, Almondsbury, Gloucester-
shire, Sept. 8, and Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
G,urt. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Trenfield, Chip-
ing Sodbury, Gloucestershire.
William Henry Broadhead and William Hudson, build-
ers, Nottingham. Sept. 16 and Oct. 7, at the Shire-hall,
Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham;
Freeth, Rawson, and Browne, Nottingham.

Ephraim Snell, builder, Alfred-road,„ Harrow-road, Pad-
dington, Sept. 15, at two, and Oct. 21, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guild-
hall-chambers; Tucker, Greville, and Tucker, St. Swith in's-
lane.

Rowland Oldham, wine and hop merchant, Stamford,
Sept. 16, and Oct. 7, at half•past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham;
Atter, Stamford; Brewster, Nottingham.

Wm. Eld, grocer, Brierley bill, Staffordshire, Sept. 10
and Oct. 1, at ton, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hodgson and
Allen, Birmingham.

John Burgess, builder, Kidderminster, Sept. 8 and 29,
at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittlestou,
offi,ial assignee, Birmingham ; Saunders and Son, Kidder-
m inster ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Panayotti Demetrius Leno, merchant, Great Winches-
ter-street, Sept. 12, at eleven, and Oct. 17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Oliverson, Lavie, and Peachey, Old Jewry.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Wight, horse dealer, King's Stables, Edinburgh.
Alexander Hamilton, grocer, Leith.

Robart Oliphant, writer to the signet, Perth.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda:

tNGLAND.
rth and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, fo'
the 23d day of August, 1856.
LIATNENT.

ISSUE DEP,
Notes Issued • • .... • . 26 22G,795

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 3,409,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,751,795
Silver bu11i0n........

£26,226,795

£26,225,795
I. MAR3FIALL, Chief Cashier.
1856.
:PAATMENT.

Dated the 28th day of August,

BANKING DEI
X
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000

Goverrunentsecuritles

Rest ................ 3,416,323
Public deposit s (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 4,721,84 ,
Other deposits ...... 10,021,829
Seven Day and other
111115........ .... .. 832,965

(incindg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .......... 12,062,022
Other securities...... 14,562,33
Notes .• .. .......... 6,287,650
Gold and silver coin.. 683,961

£33,595,963 £33 595,963
M. MARSIIA.LL, Chief Casttr.
atted the 28th day of August, 1856.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 26,
1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain.
From the British Possessions in America 3ls. 6/d.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mat tritius 28s. 4id.
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies
Average of trio three foregoing descriptions 3ls. 6d.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— TRis DAY.

Am5terdam............ 11 17
Ditto, three months .. 11 1954
Rotterdam .. .• .• 11 19
Antwerp •• •• •• •• • • • • • • 25 50
Brussels ••..•••••• •• •• 25 50
Hamburgh •• •• •• •• •• • • 13 8%
Alton& •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
•• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• 25 35
Ditto, three months .. 25 67%;
arseill es 25 67
Bourdeaux . •• •• •• .• ••
Fr ankfort•on-lfaine •• .. 120
Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Vienna•• •• •• •• •••• •• •• 10 23
Trieste.. •• •• .• •• • .• .. 10 24
Petersburg •• •••••• •• f• 37%
Madrid .........., 49%
Cadiz •..•••••••• • • •• •• 50%
Barcelona •• •• •• •• ••••

Gibraltar ••••••••••••
Leghorn
Genoa ******* •••••• 25 7734
Milan •••• •• •• •• ••••••
........ •• •• ••

i7a---p1efi..7...... ..... .. 44
Palermo .. ... ..... .... 1234
Messina . .. ... 1:434
Lisbon ._ •••• 52%
Oporto .•... .•.. •• • ...... 52%
Rio Jane trc ..... . •• •• ••
Buenos Ay] os.. •• •• •••;,:
New York, 60 dayitlikit
Philadelphi a ••.• i
PRICED 'OF BULLICN, PER OZ.
Foreign •C./e Id in Bars £3 17 9
Portugal 0 old Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican. D ollars .... 0 0 0
New l 301 lays .....- 0 0 0
Sliver in bras .. - -• 0 5 1M

" Marshal Canrobert," says the Memorial Bordelai,
of the 26th, "passed through this place the day before
yesterday for Valence d'Agen. yr. Moquart, private
secretary to the Emperor, passed tenrough on the Fame
day en route for Biarritz."