The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-21 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following promotion and appointments were made
at the Admiralty this afternoon
Mr. Benjamin Woolley has been promoted to the rank o
Master.
Midshipmen—Mr. James E. B. Bruce and Mr. Hugo
Pearson to the Liffy ; 31r. A. T. C. Warrington Mr, Ti.
D. Evans to the Curacoa.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 14.
It is hereby notified, that the Right. Hon. the Eaif
Cowloy, her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, has received
from his Excellency Count Walowski, the Minister for.
Foreign Affairs of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of
the French, an official communication, dated Pans, Doc.
8, 1868, transmitting two copies of an Official Notification
of the Blockade by the Naval Forces of France and Spain,
of the Bay and River of Touranne, and of the Port of
Cham-Callao, which was inserted in the journal called the
Ilfonitenr, of the same date, and requesting Lord Cowloy to
transmit the said Notification to her Majesty's Government.
The Official Notification of this Blockade inserted in th e
Moniteur, and transmitted by Count Walewski to Earl
Cowley, is as follows :
NOTIFICATION RELATIVE TO THE BLOCKADE OF THE BAT
AND THE RIVER OF TOURANNE, AS WELL AS THE PORT
OF CHAM-CALLAO.
Department of Marine.
It is notified, by these presents, that his Excellency the
Minister of Marine has been informed by Vice-Admiral
Rigault de Genouilly, Commanding-in-Chief the French
and Spanish Forces in Cochin China, that, on the Ist Sept.,
1858, and commencing from that day, there has been esta-
blished by the Naval Forces placed under his command, an
effective blockade of the Bay and of the River of Touranne,
as well as of the Port of Cham-Callao.
It is further notified by these presents, that all the met'•
sures authorised by the law of nations and the respective
treaties existing with the different neutral powers, will be
adopted and enforced with respect to all vessels which
shall attempt to violate the said blockade.
Paris, Dec. 7, 1858.
Naval Division in the Chinese Seas.
I, the undersigned, Commanding-in-Chief the French
and Spanish forges, charged with obtaining from the Em-
peror of Cochin China the redress for grievances which is
due to the Governments of France and Spain, and in virtue
of the powers which belong to me as Commanding in Chief,
declare—
Commencing from the Ist of September, 1858, the Bay
and River of Touranne and the Port of Chem Callao are
held in a state of effective blockade by the naval and
military forces placed under my command.
Proceedings will be taken against every vessel which
shall attempt to violate the blockade, in conformity with
international law, and with the treaties in force withneutral
powers.
Bay of Touranne, Sept. 1, 1858.
C. RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY.
WAR OFFICE, ,Dnc. 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Rear-Admiral Alexander Milne, one of
her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom,. of Great
Britain and Ireland, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Com-
manders, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and
of Richard Charles Kirby, Esq., Accountant-General of
the War Department, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the
said Most Honourable Order. •
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Biggs Andrews,
Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, to
be one of.the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to
act in the country in the room of Montague Baker &re,
Esq., deceased.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Williams
Sanders, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be one of the Commis-
sioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the room of
Edmund Robert Daniell, Esq., deceased.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

COUNTY OF HEREFORD.—The Hon. Montague Wm.
Grahain, commonly called Lord William Graham, in the
room of Thomas William Booker Blakemore, Esq.,
deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 21.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Reginald Onslow Farmer,
on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain ; Second Cap-
tain Charles Maitland Govan to be Captain, vice Rogers,
placed upon half-pay; Lieutenant Thomas Wright
Blakiston to be Second Captain, vice Govan.
BREVET.

The following promotions to take place, consequent on
the death of Major-General William Turner, on the 12th
December, 18b8:
Brevet-Colonel Lord William Paulet, C. 8., from half-
pay Unattached, to be Major-General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Orange, Cap-
tain half-pay 34th Foot, Staff-Officer of 'Pensioners, to bo
Colonel.
Brevet-Major Henry Buckley Jenner Wynyard, Captain
on half-pay Unattached, Major of Brigade at Gibraltar, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Daniel Henry Mackinnonl half-pay Unattached,
Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 21.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieut. John Bryce Wilkinson, of the
4th Lancashire Militia, having obtained a First Class Cer-
tificate at the School of Musketry at Hy.the, has been ap-
pointed by the General Commanding in Chief, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of State for War, to act as In-
structor of Musketry to the 4th Royal Lancashire Regi-
ment of Militia.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—James Walter Tweed,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice John William Marshall, ap-
pointed to an Ensigncy in the 60th Foot.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Thomas Joseph Sun-
derland, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—A. H. H. Lefroy, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Davidson, promoted;_ D. S. Mason,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Herbert, resigned.
West York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Percy Hughes
Hewitt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice William Munro, pro-
moted ; Thomas Leonard Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Richard Hewloy Graham, promoted.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieuts. William George Daniel, James Ruthven Elpkin-
stone Gouldsbury, and Arthur Wallace Munro, having
been absent without leave from the recent training, to be
struck off the strength of the regiment.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Lieut. Chas.
Berington, having absented himself without leave from the
recent training, to be struck off the strength of the regi-
ment.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Richard Smith Bull, baker, Newcastle-under-Lyne.
Richard Henry Hamlen, fanner, Cardiff.
BANKRUPTS.
William Richards, blind manufacturer, Oxford-street,
to surrender, Jan. 3, at one, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankiuptcy.
Robert Mason, stationer, Bryan-street, Caledonian-road,
Jan. 4 and Feb 1, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Hatfield, lodging-house keeper. Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, Jan. 1, at one, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
George Pye, flax dresser, Ipswich, Dec. 30, at half past
twelve, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Archibald Montgomery, merchant, 3, Great Winchester-
street, City, Dec. 30, at eleven, and Jan. 25, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Hyslop, draper, Wellington, Jan. 5 and 26, at
one, at the Exeter District Court.
John Thompson, publican, Stainmoor, Westmoreland,
Dec. 30, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
William Baker, corn merchant, Cheapside, City, Jan. 19,
at twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull.
John Davies, builder, Tachbrooke-street, Middlesex,
Dec. 31, at two, and Feb. 4, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Wrn. Angell Day, brickmaker, Hadlow House, Mayfield,
Sussex, Jan. 7, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 1, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Wm. smith, fish curer, Runham, Norfolk, Jan. 7, at
half-past one, and Feb. 1, at half-past twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Edward Sharp, miller, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, Jan. 4
and 25, at half-past ten, at the Shire Hall, Nottingham.
Joseph Hart, licensed victualler, Water-lane, Blackfriars,
Jan. 4, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Francis Sharon, nurseryman, Acre-lane, Lambeth, Jan.
4, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 1, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH B.A. ZUPTS.
James Batchelor, plumber, Bantf.
Young, Fotheringham, and Co., ship store and export
provision mer &ants, Glasgow.
James Mathew, innkeeper, Kinloss, Elginshire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Tires DAT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 lit 11 171
Antwerp
Brussels — 2.5 30 25 35
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 321 25 37
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 351. 361
Madrid
49i
Cadiz — 49
49
Leghorn — 29 60 29 66
Genoa — 25 40 25 60
Naples
Palermo — 14 122
Messina —. 122 122
Lisbon
Oporto
62 52
+ f
Rio Janeiro
New York .

E.I. Co.'s rupee
s House 1.)
3le. 60d
. Co'
26 ble .
21
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 - 23
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inef.
Bengal 1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0 0
0 0— 0
Bombay
..—.---

£1,201 6 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars ...
Silver in Bars (Standard) ll 0 0 0

GOVERN3fENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship David M'lvor, 862 tons, Captain Robert
Bain*, which sailed from Liverpool on the 4th of June, in
charge of Surgeon Superintendent Isaiah Burrows, with 38
married couples, 123 single women, 101 single men, 36 girls
between the ages of 1 and 12, 27 boys between the same
ages, five female infants, and six male, making a total of
374 souls, equal to 331} statute adults, arrived at Sydney,
New South Wales, on the 24th of September. Five deaths
(two adults and three children) and two births occurred
during the voyage,