The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-15 00:00:00

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign► David Dowie to be Lieutenant, vice Marston, resigned.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Ensign.
William Martin to be Lieutenant, vice Cranipton, pro-
moted; William Shaw, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lenthall,
promoted.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 7.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Evans, of
Chepstow, in the county of Monmouth. gentleman, to be a
Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Court of
Chancery in England, under the Act of Parliament passed
for the relief of her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish
religion.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 8.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fraser, of 78,
Dean-street, Soho, gentleman, to be a London Commis-
sioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30.
The Right Hon. Sir Alex. Edmund Cockburn, Bart.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common
Pleas, has appointed the following gentlemen as Perpetual
Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds
to be executed by married women, under the Act passed
for the abolition of tines and recoveries, and for the substi-
tution of more simple modes of assurance :
William Winterbotham, of Tewkesbury, for the counties
of Gloucester and Worcester.

Henry Robinson, of Settle, for the West Riding of York-
shire.

John Marmaduke Teesdale, of Fenchurch-street, for the
cities of London and Westminster, and the county of Mid-
dlesex.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Dcpartment of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Dec. 13, 18,58.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and
marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the dis-
tribution of the tonnage bounty awarded for the slave ves-
sel, name unknown, captured on the 27th April, 1856, by
her Majesty's ship Dolphin, will commence on Thursday,
the 30th December, 1858, in the Prize Branch of the De-
partment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Ad-
miralty, Somerset-house."

Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, 'seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or
of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is required
to intimate the-same by letter to be addressed " On Prize
Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London,"—in
which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely
stated, os well as the place of the nearest Collector of Cus-
toms, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be con-
venient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :
Lieut. command. £79 0 9
Fourth class 32 6 8
Fifth class 17 19 3
Sixth class l6 3 3

Seventh class .... £lO 1.5
Eighth class.... 5 710
Ninth class. 3 11 10
Tenth class 1 15 11

BANKUPTCY ANNULLED.
Joseph Samuel Ouston, wino and spirit merchant, King-
ston-upon-Hull.

BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Goodburn Thornton, watch maker, Richmond,
Leeks bhire, to s
Courturrender Jan. 7 and 28, at eleven, at the
District .
Thomas Williams, dealer in wines and spirits, Jermyn-
street, St. James's, Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Daniel Mesnard, cutler, Park-street, Grosvenor-square,
Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Barker and William Barker, builders, Albany-
road, Old Kent-road, Dec. 22 and Jan. 25, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
James Tebbut, jun., cattle-dealer, Yeading Hayes, Mid-
dlesex, Dec. 22, at half-past one, and Jan. 24, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Eliza Paring, artificial flower maker, Saltley, Dec. 22,
and Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
James Henly Norris, paper dealer, Birmingham, Dec. '3.
and Jan. 20, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
Dis-
trict Court.
at twelve, and Jan. 24, half-past eleven, a
Henry Ranger Barton,
grocer, East Greenwich, itchhe,
CDoeucr.t2o2}
Bankruptcy.
at two •and Jan. 25, at ,
garden, Dec. 28,
Edward Robert Slaney, jeweller, Kirboyn-setraeettth, He actotournt-
of Bankruptcy.
A r
presented by, a creditor of the Patent
Carpet Company
petition ha been s
(limited),
ited pray in;; that the said company
may be wound up. The petition to be heard on the 6th of
January.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
William Otto Watson, spirit merchant, Glasgow.
James Finlay, farmer, Portmoak, Kinross-shire.
John Carruthers, innkeeper, Annan. -
R. and W. Hill, ale and porter dealers, Hamilton.
Alexander Sinclair, fishcurer, Wick.

Yesterday., pursuant to notifications issued seve-
rally, by the Midland, Great Northern, and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies, the pas-
senger fares between towns in the West Riding of York-
shire and London were:raised. Announcements of this
kind have been rather frequent of late,