The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 11.

The Queen has baen pleased to approve of Mr. Ernest
Joseph Alexandre Blaneheton. as Consul at Quebec for his
Majesty the Emperor of the French.

DEC. 13.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord
Napier, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to be
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to the King of the Netherlands.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Lord Lyons, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to
be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the United States of America.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
the Hon. Peter Camphell Searlett, C. 8., now her Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Emperor of Brazil, to be her Majesty's Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand
Duke of Tuscany.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
the Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes, now her Majesty's En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
King of Saxony, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Augustus Berkeley Paget, Esq., now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Berlin, to be her Majesty's Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of
Saxony.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 14.
30th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Hebden O'Grady
Ilaly, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase.
70th Foot—The transfer of Ensign Roger from the 30th
Foot has been antedated to 12th November.
87th Foot—Goatleman Cadet Robert Atkin Hickson, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Leadbitter, promoted.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 10.

Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant George Henry
Wriford to be Captain, vice Henderson Ward to half-pay ;
Second Lieutenant William Nicholas Gibson Johnson to
be First Lieutenant, vice Wriford, promoted.
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 fines 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.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Dec. 13, 1858.
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, as 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 clash l7 19 3
Sixth class l6 3 3

Seventh class ... . £lO 15 6
Eighth class.... 5 710
Ninth Class. 3 11 10
Tenth class .... 115 11

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

BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Goodbarn Thornton, watch maker, Richmond,
Yorkshire, to surrender Jan. 7 and 25, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court.
Thomas Williams, dealer in wines and spirits, Jermyn-
street, St. James's, Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Danield 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.
Bliza Perrins, artificial flower maker, Saltley, Dec. 22,
and Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
James Henly Norris, paper dealer, Birmingham Dec. 23.
and Jan. 20, at half past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. _

Henry Ranger Parka, grocer, East Greenwich, Dec. 22,
at twelve, ant:lJan. 24, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Edward Robert Slaney, jeweller, Kirby-street, Hatton-
garden, Dec. 28, at two, and Jan. 25, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
A petition has been presented by a creditor of the Patent
Carpet Company (limited), praying that the said company
Jay be wound up. The petition to be heard on the sth of
anuary,

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

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tms Di
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 30 , 25 321
Hamburlt
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 321 25 371
Frankfort on Maine —118 f
Vienna
Trieste
Petersbnrgh — 35 351
Madrid
Cadiz . —49 i
49. 49
Leghorn — 29 (10 29 75
Gonoa — 25 45 2.5 50
Naples
Palermo — 112 123
Messina — 1221 1231
Lisbon
'Oporto
Rio Janeiro
.. •
. New York ___.
.. ..

• E.I. Co's bis. House bit:. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 23i
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 23,1
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.
£1,201 5 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

Bew;al.
Madras.
Bombay

£1,2Q1 5 0

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

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF BONE,

This is the subject of perhaps the most curious
paper presented to the academy for many months
past. The reparatory action of the periosteum (or
membrane directly investing the bones) in repro-
ducing the osseous substance when partially lost
or destroyed either by accident or disease, is a well-
known fact, and various surgical operations are
founded upon it ; but Dr. 011ier's experiments
presented to the aeademy at its last sitting throw
quite a new light on the subject. These experi-
ments, performed upon rabbits, are divided
into three series :-1. Long slips of perios-
teum were detached from the tibia throughout
their length, one of their extremities only being
left adherent to the bone. These slips were then
rolled around the muscles of the leg in various
ways, and in the course of time bone was produced
in various shapes, as, for example, a spiral, an
8, &c. ! 2. In the second series of experiments,
the slips of periosteum were entirely detached from
the bone three or four days after the operation,
and notwithstanding this separation from its. pri-
mitive source of life, the periosteum still continued
to produce bone. 3. In the third series, the pe-
riosteum was entirely detached from the bone at
the outset, and immediately transplanted to some
other region, under, the skin of the shoulder or of
the back, for example ; still the periosteum pro-
duced bone. An advanced age, it appears, diminishes
this property of the periosteum, but does not com-
pletely destroy it. The osseous tissue thus ob-
tained is real bone, similar to that of the rest of the
body. After a certain time a cavity is formed
within containing marrow, which derives nourish-
ment for three or four issues. In short, these curi-
ous experiments show that bane may be obtained
wherever the periosteum can be introduced; and
that a membrane may preserve its properties not-
withstanding its removal and transplantation. The
cure and treatment of fractures may be consider-
ably improved by these unexpected facts.