The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-14 00:00:00

BREVET.

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., to bo
General in the Army.
WAR-OFFICE, PALE-MALL, MAY 14.
Royal Horse Guards—Thomas Charles Douglas R. Whit-
mom •e, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Hay-
tivae promoted.
sth Dragoon Guards—Thomas Fate Banyon, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase.
4th. Light Dragoons—John Kennedy, Gent., to be Cornet,

by purchase:
sth Light Dragoons—Lieut. William Eigeworth, from
the Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant; Alexander Malcolmson,
Ge:nt., to be Cornet, without purchase; Sergeant Ed-
wsa d Greatorex, from 3d Light Dragoons, to be Itidibg-
Master.

Btialight Dragoons—Cornet John Mathew Biddle to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Helme, deceased ;
Augustus Tonnochy, Gent., to be Cornet, without pur;
chars, vice loge, promoted in 18th Light Dragoons -
Tbi
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to Dragoons.—Se gcoooron s.o
Cornet E. Pulleyne, from the sth Light Dragoons, to be
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9th
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aunttp-ltracjhoarseß.Richard Freer
ICotla ,Light Dragoons,—Lieutenant William Mayne to be

• purchase, vice Gill, who retiree • Owen R.
Captain, by ,'to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Slacke, Geht.. appointment has been cancelled.
Hartwell, whoa. —Cornet A. A. Erin Lethbridge to
13th Light Dragoons.'
nrcbase, vice Munn, promoted.
be Lieutenant, by p. non. Frederick Amherst to be
14th Light Dragoons--
n
Cornet, without puro.hu. vice Phillips, promoted in
the 18th Light Dragoons. ,
18th Light Dragoons—Thk, Chri, tutu name. of Lieutenant
previously stated.
Hardy is Harmer, not 11.1.rman as`
Military Train—Lieutenant David' to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Ahoy, appoin,'ed to the sth
Light Dragoons ; Captain Hugh Brabazon, f.ir half-
pay unattached, to be Captain, vice C. E.
pointed to 49th Foot ; Lieutenant Edward M. I-.
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brabazon, who retire:
Ensign Robert Cope FLarcy to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Palliser.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Charles James Tyler to be
Second Captain, vice Luard, deceased.
Royal Engineers—Second Captain Walter Samuel Stace to
be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Ord, seconded; Lieut.
Donald Alex. Frazer to be Second Captain, vice A. J.
Clerke, died from the effects of a gunpowder explosion ;
Lieut. Ddmund Frederick Du Cane to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Stace. The 'promotion of Second Captain
Durnford has been antedated to March 18, 1858.
2d Foot—Lieutenant William Wiltshire Lynch, from the
70th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice David-
son, appointed to the 17th Foot.
sth Foot—Captain Duncan D. Grabame, from the 78th
Foot, to be Captain, vice St. George, who exchanges.
6th Foot—Major and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. Francis
Colborne, C. 8., from baif—pay,
Unattached, to be Ma-
jor, vice -illis, who exchanges.
Bth Foot—To be Captains without purchase—Lieutenants
J. V. W. B. Webb, A. R. Bayly, and W. R. Ximenes.
9th Foot —Harry Elmhirst, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase.
11th Foot—Ensign James Leslie Day to be Lieutenant,
without purchase.
12th Foot—Cornet Wm. Ross, from half-pay of the late
Land Transport Corps, to be Quartermaster, vice Nes-
bitt, dececased.
13th Foot—Lieutenant John A. Rowley to be Captain
without purchase, vice Moorsom, killed in action ' • En-
sign Chas. E. Palmer to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Rowley ; Ensign E. L. England to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Palmer, whose promo-
tion on the 30th April, 1858, has been cancelled.
15th Foot—Assistant-surgeon James Hinton, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
18th Fot—Lieut. J. A. Chippindall, from the 62d Foot,
to beo Lleutenant, vice M. Hall, who exchanges. The
appointment of Lieut. R. C. Healy as Adjutant, to bear
date 9th, instead of 26th March.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week eliding on Wednesday, the 12th day of May, 1858.

ISSUE DEPARTMEIST.
£ £
Notes issued
Other securities .... 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 17,018,105
Silver bullion • • • ..,

£31,493,105 \ £31,493,105
M. MAIISIIALL, Chief Caahien
Dated the 13th day of May, 1858.

EANICING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest • • .. • • . 3,207,191
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

ings' Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,749,169
Other deposits
Seven Day and other
Bills .... • • •• . . 877,842

£36,631,034

Dated the 13th day of May, 18

Government securities

(includg.llead Weight
Annuity) .. • •
Other Securities.
Notes ..... • •
Gold acid Silver Coln 779,602

£36,631,03S
;, MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May
11, 1858, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : a. d.
From the British Possessions in America 27 44
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 2O 44
Muscovado, tho produce of the East Indies l5
Average of the above descriptions.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Teas DAY.
11 143 Gibraltar...... •• ••• • • •
Ditto, three months .. 11 174 Leghorn .. • • ... 29 65
rOtterdam ............ 11 174 Genoa

Antwerp .............. 25 32x, Milan ...... • • ...... ••
Brussels .... • 25 32 Venice........ •• •
41
aamburgh ............ 13 6% ?Tapia', -• ...... •••
Altos ..•• ............ • • Palermo ...... 125 l 4
Paris• • ...... .. • • .... 25 12% Messina
Do. three months 25 32 Lisbon .......... ..•• 51%
Marseilles ............25 321 A Oporto ........ ••• • •• 51%s
Bou.rdeaux Rio Janeiro
Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 118% ,Buenos Ayres...• • • ....
Berlin •• New York ,60 days' sight
Vienna • • .... 10 33 Philadelphia .•
Trieste.• •• •• .• •• •• ~• 10 34 PRICES OF BULLION Pea oz:
Petersburg ............ 35,4 Foreign Gold In Bars L 3 17 9
Madrid .... 49 'Portugal Gold Coin • 00 0
Cadiz ......... • • 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0%
BAreelona New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Seville .. Silver in bars ...... 00 0

NA VAL AND HILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, late of the 30th Regi-
ment, arrived in Clonmel on Tuesday morning, and is
now second in command of the 21 battalion, 20th Regi-
ment, in that town. This battalion is rapidly augment

ing its numbers.
Yesterday the troops belonging to the Royal En-
gineers were again engaged in some experiments for the
purpose of still further testing the strength of the port-
cullis chain harrier which has been recently invented by
Captain S. Westmacott, R.E. The experiments, whicb
were under the direction of Colonel 11. Sandbam, com-
manding the Royal Engineers, come off at Fort Am-
herst, near the Belvidere Battery, where one of the
portcullis barriers had been again erected. Since the
last experiments were undertaken some improvements
have been effected by Captain Westmacott in the in
vention, with the view of givicg increased strength to
the chain barrier, as it was found on the occasion of the
former experiments that the portcullis was destroyed in
a part where it was considered the strain would be least
felt. This defect in the invention having been remedied
it W2ll yesterday proposed to try what effect a shell
would have in destroying the barrier. With this view
an ordinary 8-inch shele filled with about 31b. weight
of gunpowder, was suspended from one of the rings of
the portcullis let down from a groove in the brickwerk
of the archway at Fort Amherst. In order to give in-
creased explosive force to the shell, and also to prevent
a any mischief arising from the pieces flying abort,u the
portcullis was securely covered by uof
planks. On the shell being exploded its effect on the
chain barrier was most complete, a portion of the bar-
rier, about five feet square, being torn away, and the
supports of the portcullis much damaged. It thus ap-
pears that although Captain Westmaeott's invention is
a moot valuable one, and of sufficient yielding force to
defy 4struction by means of the ordinary charges of
gunpowder, yet when a cotnparatively smell quantity
is exploded in a shell the portcullis may be easily de-
stroyed. The experiments were witnessed with much
interest by Colonel F. A. Yorke, the AssiAing-Adju-
tant-General of the Royal Engineers and a large
number of Engineer officers. A report of the experi-
mente, together with a drawing of the chain barrier after
its destruction, taken by Lieut. G. Phillips, R.E., will
be forwarded to the authorities at the War-effice.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-TIIURSDAY.

Layers were more numerous than backers, and the
adage about letting "I dare not " wait upon "I would,"
which is generally aalhered to by speculators jest before
the Derby, seemed to have influenced the subscribers
during the early part of the afternoon. Offers to lay were
plentiful enough, and it was not until late that the sup-
porters of certain animals. gathered confidence and de-
voted themselves to business. After 825 to 200 had been
hooked about Fits Roland, 5 to 1 was currently offered,
a movement which was explained by the advance of his
stable companion Beadsman from 25 to 1 to 15 to 1.
500 even was laid once between F,tz Roland and Toxi-
pholite, but the former had a decided call at the cl),,e,
when lie was backed at 5 to 1, whilst half a point higher
odds might have been obtained about " Ttx. ," Long-
range was not in much request, and Ancient Briton,
who had been freely supported in the City during
the morning, was backed at 14 to 1, the taker offer-
ing to go on at the price ; 100 even was b.tted once
between Longrange and Ancient Briton ; 100 to 6 was
offered against Happy Land ; 10 to 1 was wanted about
Mr. Howard's lot, whilst Ssdbury and Eclipse were
backed outright at the quoted prices. Several invest-
ments were made on Ditto at 20 to 1, and at last 18 to
1 was booked ; 1,000 to 30, and finally 40 to 1, were
offered against Physician. Ethiopian superseded his
stable companion Deceiver, and was advanced from 40
to 1 to 25 to 1 taken and offered ; 20 to 1, and at last
1,000 to 60, were taken about the two coupled.
The transactions on the Oaks were unimp)rtant.

LATEST BE TTING.
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Fitz-Roland (taken)
sto 1 aget Toxopholite
12 to 1 agst Llngrange (taken)
14 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken)
15 to 1 agst Beadstnan (taken)
100 to 6 agst Eclipse (t and off)
100 to 6 agst Happy Land (offered)
100 to 6 agst The Hadji (offered)
13 to 1 agst Ditto (taken)
20 to 1 aget Sedbury (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ethiopian (t and off)
1000 to 30 agst Kelpie (taken)
40 to 1 apt Physician (offered)
43 to 1 apt Decetver.(uffered)
50 to 1 agst East Langton (,offered)
1000 to 10 agst J )rdan (taken)
1000 to 60 aget Ethiopian and Deceiver coupled

SALE OF UTE WYNNSTAYSTUD —The magnificent
stud of hunters and other horses belonging to Sir
yli,ainons Wynn took
under the direction of
oVfWa‘tykyinan%BVtail place in the stable-yarn
.11r. Richard Tattersall. ,
local
ltendance of the aristo-
cracy, leading horse-dealers
gentry, &c. was very
treat. All the animals fetched good prices.
Cassio (by Murphy), by many consiJered
lit e best The
best'r
in England," was put up at 200 guineas. The principal"s
bidders were: Messrs. Anderson, Percival, and Darby.
In a fear minutes he was knocktd down to Mr. Ander-B.n
for 620 guineas, amid the cheers of the company. Kif g
Dan (a splendid horse, six years old), was also sold to
Mr. Anderson for 460 guineas. Croomaboo, a noble
horse, was knocked down to Mr. Darby at 300 guineas