The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

Majority for Layard....
Two O'CLOCK.

Layard
Scovell

758

... 3,931
. . . 2,950

Majority for Layard.... 981
THREE O'CLOCK.

Layard
Scovell

. 4,308
. 3,209

Majority for Layard.... 1,099
CLOSE OF POLL—FOUR O'CLOCK.

Layard .....
Scovell

. 4,585
. 3,367

Majority for Layard .... 1,218

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING).

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 8.
This day had audience of her Majesty, his Excellency
the Count Rudolph Apponyi, Ambassador from the Em-
peror of Austria, to deliver his credentials •, to which audi-
ence he was introduced by the Right Hon. Lord John
Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 11.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to make and
ordain a special Statute of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, for appointing Lord Lyons, her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United
States of America, and the Right Hon. Sir Edmund
Walker Head, Baronet, Captain-General and Governor-in-
Chief in and over the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and
Governor-General of all her Majesty's Provinces in British
North America, and of the Island of Prince Edward, to be
extra Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or
Knights Commanders of the said Most Honourable Order.
WHITEHALL, DEc. 10.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Jean Edouard Remono, Esq., First Puisne Judge
of the Superior Court of the Island of Mauritius.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Scott Waugh, Bengal
Engineers, Superintendent of Trigonometrical Survey, and
Surveyor-General of India.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint David Robertson,
of Ladykirk, in the shire of Berwick, Esq., to be her Ma-
jesty's Lieutenant and Sheriff. Principal of the said shire
of Berwick, in the room of James, Earl of Lauderdale,
deceased.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Ramon
Gonzalez Zabala as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 11.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord
Napier, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands,
to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary to the Emperor of All the Russias.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Sir John Fiennes Crampton, K.C.8., now her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Emperor of All the Russias, t 4 be her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen
of Spain.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C.B. now her Majesty's Envoy
Exraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen
of Spain, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
John Savilo Lumley, Esq , late Secretary to her Majesty's
Embassy at Constantinople, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Daniel
M. Huckins to be Consul at Cape Town for the United
States of America.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEc 8.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TUE PRESENT
PAItLIAMENT.

Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Somerset Archibald
Beaumont, of Bywell, in the county of Northumberland,
Esq., in the room of George Ridley, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Commissioner under the Copyhold and hole-
sure Commissions Act.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 11.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Charles
Paulett Rotton to be Captain, vice Bayley, removed to
the Supernumerary List ; Lieutenant Wm. James Hall
to be Second Captain, vice Rotton ; Second Captain
Brymer Francis Schreiber to be Adjutant, vice Rotton,
promoted.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant George Le Breton
Simmons, with temporary rank, to be Lieutenant, with
permanent rank.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederic Henry,
Baron Methuen, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the
Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia, to be one of her Ma-
jesty's aides-de-camp for the service of her militia force,
with the rank of Colonel in that force.

ADMIRALTY, Dec. 6.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Francis Wal-
ton to be Captain, vice C. B. Parke, to half-pay ; Second
Lieutenant Henry William Frampton to be First Lieute-
nant, vice Walton, promoted.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Joseph Linley, manufacturer of sheep shears, Sheffield
William Kirkwood 111‘Liver, draper, Stoneliouse, Devon
shire.

BANKRUPTS.
Elias Mansfield, boatwright, Chesterton, Cambridge-
shire, to surrender Dee. 20, at one, and Jan. 24, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwin Taylor, butcher, Wimbourne, Dorset, Dec. 21 and
Jan. 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Alfred Broome, licensed victualler, Russell-street,
Covent-garden, Dec. 21, at two, and Jan. 29, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John Brotherton Whitaker, card maker, Little Britain,
Dec. 21, at twelve, at Jan. 24, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Frederic Tillett, spiral flambeaux manufacturer, Banner-
street, St. Luke's, Dec. 21 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Edward Wm. Lennard, baker, Redcar, Yorkshire, Dec.
21 and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Charles Stead, flock dealer, Huddersfield, Dec. 2,1 and
Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
John Wedd Martin, farmer, Yalding, Kent, Dec. 21,
and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Rudd Knights, currier, Bermondsey-street, Sur-
rey, Dec. 2, and Jan. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Charles States, victualler, Aldershot, Dec. 21, at twelve,
and Jan. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Robert Samuel Hayward, apothecary, Lodway,
Somersetshire, Dec. 24 and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court.
Charles States, club-house keeper. Aldershot, Dec.2l,
at twelve, and Jan. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Robert Samuel H syward, apothecary, Lodway,
Somersetshire, Dec. 24 and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Bris-
tol District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
H. Wallace and Co., boot and shoe makers, Glasgow.
Richard Jones, merchant, Linlithgow, formerly of Corn-
hill, London.
Mrs. Margaret Sutherland, distiller, Dalmore, Ross-
shire.
George Banks, boot and shoemaker, Edinburgh.
George Rintoul, jun., manufacturer, Glasgowl
Andrew heir, farmer, Noss, Caithnesshire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TIits D.T.
Amsterdam
Ditte 3 Months. 11 17/ 11 173/4
Rotterdam
Antwerp ...... .
Brussels — 25 35 25 40
Hamturgh . .
Paris
Ditto
Nlarseilles
Frankfort on Blaine — 117} 117
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid

Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
1,1-esQina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro

494
494
25 60
25 571
25 55

391
119
119;
521
63

49!
49j
25 70
25 6 i
25 70

39a
1.19 f
113 k
53k
531

New York - • • • .
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars .............. .0 • • ,9 00 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 5 1k
South American Doublons

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panda. The new proprietors are M. Emile de Girardin,
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