The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-01 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1858.

GRAND CEREMONY and FESTIVAL on
the 18th of June next, at the OPENING of the SOLDIERS'
DAUGHTERS' HOME, Ha ,Tristead, by his Royal Highness the
PRINCE CONSORT, who, with his Royal Highness the PRINCE
of WALES, have been graciously pleased to purchase Presentations
to the Home.

Several Military Bands will play in the beautiful Grounds of the
Home. Admission by purchased tickets, to be had only at the Of
of the Home. No. 7, }Viii ehall, (exactly opposite the Horse Guards.)
A single ticket for the Ceremony and Grounds, 10s. ; a doub e ticket
for two 151.; a reserved seat for the Ceremony and the Break-
fast, 20s-
An Omnibus starts from the Tottenham-e3urt-road end of Oxford-
street every 12 minutes, reach'ng Hampstead, without changing, in
40 minutes.

H. L. POWYS, Chairman.

BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
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I,OTICE IS HEBERT GIV N, That a Vacancy has occurred In
the Direction of this Bank by the death of the late Sir Hobert
Campbell, Baronet, which will be filled up at the ensuing Annual
General Meeting.
By the terms of the deed of settlement it is required as follows :
"That every proprietor intending to become a candidate, or to pro-
pose some other proprietor as a candidate, for the office of Director,
must, within ten lays from the time when the advertisement shall
have been inserted, signify by some writing under his or her hand,
to be left within the same tan days at the office of the Corporation,
either his intention to become a candidate, or the name and place of
abode of the candidate intended to be proposed by him or her."

Names of candidates cannot, therefor, be recei'ed after the 9th
May.
By order of the Court.

C. IVNII3, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, 29th April, 1858.

From the London Gazette of Last J. ight.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 28.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the Honour
of Knighthood upon Adam Bittleston, Esq., Judge of the
Supreme Court of judicature at Madras.

WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint
H.R. IL the Duke of Cambridge, KG-,
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,
The Right HonourAble Earl Grey,

The Right Honourable Lord PaUtnure, G.C.B.
Major-General the Lord Rokeby, K.C. 8.,
The Right Honourable Sidney Herbert,
The Right Honourable Edward Ellice,

Major-General Sir William Fenwick. Williams, Bart.,
K.C.8.,
Major-General the Honourable Sir James Yorke Scar-
lett, K.C.8.,
Major-General Sir John Mark Frederic Smith, K.H.,.
Colonel Sir Henry Knight Storks, K.C.8., and

Colonel Henry Eire,
to be her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into the
working of the system recommended in the Report of the
former Royal Commission of inquiry into the several
modes of promotion an.l retirement in the Army, and also
into the question of promotion and retiretliont in the
higher ranks of the Army, commencing with the rank of
Major.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 28.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Charles Bowyer Adderley to be the Fourth Charity Com-
missioner for England and Wales, in the room of the
Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines, resigned. •
WHITEHALL, AIL 28.

The Queen 11;111;enpleqsed'to present the Rev. Alex.
Maclean to the church of Croick, in the Presbytery of
Tain and shire of Ross, vacant by the transportation of
the Rev. John Macdonald to the church and parish of
Rogart.

sign Cumberlege, is Althani, not Allham, as stated in
the Gazette of March 23, 1858.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps--6nsign Francis John Bolton
to be Adjutant, vice Taylor, promoted.
Depot Battalion— Captain and Adjutant George King to
be Major without purchase, vice Sir J. E. Alexander,
promoted in the 23d Foot ; Captain R. Young, from the
15th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice King, promoted ; Pay-
master Monkhouse Graham Taylor, from half-pay of a
Depot Battalion, to•be Paymaster, vice Charles Scarlin
Naylor, transferred to the Invalid Depot at Yarmouth.
MEHORANDUIC—For Major and Brevet-Col. Wm. C. E.
Napier, upon half-pay Unattached. to be Superintendent
of Studies at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, vice
M`Dougall, which appeared in the Gazette of Feb. 5, 18 43,
read,—Royal Military College—Major and Brevet-Colonel
Wm. C. E. Napier, upon half-pay Unattaohed, to be Major
and Superintendent of Studies, vice M`Dougall.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, William Sall, M.D.,
from half-pay, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, upon
full-pay, and attached to the 20th Foot.
Francis Henry Preston, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces, vice Frankly; appointed to the Royal
Artillery.

TO B$ ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEONS.

Henry James Shirley, Gent.
James William Crow, Gent.
Merrick Lloyd Burrows, Gent.
John Augustine Young, Gent.
Fitzgerald Edward Scanlan, Gent.
BREVET.
The undermentioned Officers, having completed three
years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenaut•Colonel, to
be Colonels in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of
6th October, 1,61 :
iirevet-Lieutenaut-Colenel J. J. Biasett, Cape Mounted
Rifles. •

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Lieutenant• Colonel Henry D. O'Halloran, let West
India Regiment.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Salop—Soutiv-Salopian Regiment of Yeo-
manry. Cavalry—Arthur 2.billp Lloyd, Gent., to be Cor-
net, rice Hunt. resigned.
Huntingdonshire Militia— The Hon. Henry Stevenson
Blackwood, to b 3 Ensign.
Isle of Wight Militia Artillery • •Benjamin Whitmore
Puckle, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, rice Manners, re-
signed.

Hampshire Regiment of Militia—Charles James Brett,
Gent , to be Ensign.
2d Regimentof R .yal Cheshire Militia—Richard Henry
Salkeld, Gent., to be Ensign, rice W. A. Fetherstonhaugh,
promoted.

4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi-
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia —Lieutenant Crawford
to be Captain, vice Mather, appointed to the
sth Lancers; Ensign William Selby Fraser Taunton
to be Lieutenant, vice Bridson, appointed to the 4th Foot;
Ensign Hallowes Henry Belton to be Lieutenant, vice
Crawford, promoted; Ensign Robert Edward Howarth to
be Lieutenant, vice Todd, resigned; Henry Vawell, Gent.,
to be K sign, vice Jefferson, appointed to the 16th Foot.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign Duncan Tylden
Chisholm to be Lieutenant, vice Wilford, resigned ; Alfred
David Barry, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Holdswortb, pro-
moted.

Northamptonshire Militia—Ensign George Alfred Law-
rence to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Wollaston Hutton,
resigned.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Tapseott, ship broker and passenger agent,
Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS.
Ed win Sore and Zechariah Groom, builders, Ridley-road,
Dalston, to surrender May 12, at 12, June 9, at 11, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John Daniel fleuriqueo, grocer, Park-road, Regent's
Park, May 13, Jun 3 21, at il, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Grossmitb, perfumer, Strand, May 18, at half-
past 1, June 11, at 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edward Trustram Wand, licensed victualler, Finchley,
M3y 11, at half-past 12, June 11, at 11, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. _

Archibald C Andrews, grocer, Tottenham-court-rvad,
and broad-street, Bloomsbury, May 14, at half-past 12,
June 11, at 1, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Ashton, pluniber and glazier, Littlethorpe, Leices-
tershire, May 12, June 1, at 10, at the Biriningha% Dis-
trict Court.

Edward Worley, grocer, Willenball, Staffordshire, May
13, June 3, at half-past 11, at the Birmingham District
Court.

William Timms, farmer, Gratodborough, Warwickshire,
May 13, June 3, at half-past 11, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

Thompson Hargreaves, innkeeper, Bradford, Yorkshire,
May 20, Juno 11. at 11, at the Leeds District Cou t..
Samuel and B twin Blackburn, cloth manufacturers,
Little Gemersal, Yorkshire, May 20, June It, at 11, at
the Leeds District Court
George T. Wright, tea dealer and hop merchant,
Huddersfield, May 11, at half-past 12, June 8, at 1, at the
Leeds District Court.

Welberi,innkeepor, Woodhall, Lincolnshire,
May 26, Juno 16, at 12, at tho Town Hall, Kingston-upon-
Hull.

William Pritchard, stationer, Carnarvon, May 17, June
1, at 12, at the Liverpool District Court.
Thomas Chaffer, stone merchant, Liverpool, June 2, 22,
at 11, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Dunn, grocer and spirit merchant, North
Shie:,ix, May 12, at 12, june 17.: 01, listroastlli-
upon-Tyne District Ceurt.