The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN•OFFICE, JUNE 15.

Notice is hereby given, that on and after this 15th day
of June, the charge payable on the issue of a Foreign
Office Passport is reduced from six shillings to two
shillings.
• WAR OFFICE, PALL-MA.IA., June 15.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet Ft allele G. A.
Fuller to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Williams,
promoted.
4th Dragoon Guards —Captain John RI war I Brodhurat,
from the 40th Foot, to be Captain, paying the difference,
vice Shawe, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
9th Light Dragoons—Captain Charles Clements Brooke,
from the Royal London Militia, to be Riding Master.
10th Light Dragoons—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—
Cornet E. Lovell, vico Mayne, promoted ; Cornet Lord
Ralph D. Kerr.
11th Lancers--Troop Sergeant-Major George Pumfrett to
be Riding Master.
Military Train—Major Henry Ralph Browne to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice G. Robeson, who re-
tires; Captain Godfrey Cooper to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Browns ; Ensign Bernard H. Burke to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murphy, appointed
to the sth Light Dragoons.
4th Regiment of Foot —To ba Lieutenants, wil hoot pur-
chase—Ensign A. C. Twentyman, Ensign F. Rynd.
sth Foot —William Ford Longbourne, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase.
9th Foot—Captain George Spaight, from half-pay Una' -
tached, to be Captain.
10th Foot 7-Lieut. J. L. Whaito, to be Captain, without
purchase.
11th Foot—Captain R. V. Dickens, from half-pay 'Unat-
tached, to be Captain ; Lieut. William Henry Clarkson
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Boyd, who retires;
Ensign William Taylor Corrie to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Clarkson ; Quartermaster David Simpson
to be Paymaster, vice Boyd, who retires on half-pay.
14th Foot —To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs S. Watson' G. L. Bryce, and J. Wilson ; Lieut.
Henry William Heaton to be Instructor of Musketry,
in succession to Lieut. Costin, appointed Adjutant.
15th Foot—Lieut. J. Smyth to be Captain, by purchase,
Tice Butler, who retires ; Lieut. R. 11. Fry to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Synge, promoted in the Ist West
India Regiment ; Ensign Alfred Wintle to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Smyth.
17th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
Thomas Rochfort Hunt, vice John Lee, appointed to
the 100th Regiment ; Ensign D. F. Allen.
19th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs G. D. Harris, T. D. Rew, W. R. Islie, R. H.
Hackett. _ _

20th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase -Ensign
S. Egan, Ensign R. Blount, Ensign T. H. Hublyn,
and Ensign C. K. Chatfield. Wm. Wynno Goodrich,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, iu succession to
Lieut. ltochfort, promoted. Augustus Bc,llo de Lasalle,
Esq., formerly Paymaster in the British German
Legion, to be Paymaster.
21st Foot--Lieut. Arthur Cassidy, from the 78th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase. To bo Lieutenants,
without purchase—Ensign G. W. Furlong, Ensign E.
T. Bainbridge, Ensign F. W. Hamilton, Ensign J. H.
Patrickson, Ensign E. W. Pearman, and Ensign R.

B. Gaskell.
22d Foot—Lieut. Henry Albert -Norris, from 73d Foot, to
be Captain, without purchase ; Lieut. George Collins,
from half-pay, 4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice H. A. U.
Deane, who exchanges ; Ensign Thomas Gilling
from the 48th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Collins, who retires ; Frederick Trotter, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Holyoake, promoted.
24th Foot—Ensign Wm. Wynne Goodrich, from the 20th
Foot, to be Ensign ; the Christian names of Ensign Hen-
messy are Alexander Carden.
37th Foot—Brevet-Major Edward D. Atkinson to be Major,
without purchase, vice Lewis, who retires upon full-pay.
39th Foot--Ensign Frederick Trotter, from the 22d Fo.,t,
to be Ensign, vice Gosselin, appointed to the 23d Foot.
90th Foot—Captain Charles Fleetwood Shawo, from the
4th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Brodhuret,

who eaclianc,bes.
41st Foot—To bo Ensigns, without purchase—Thomas P.
A. Bracken, Gene., vice Jemmett, promoted in 15th
Foot; John Caulfield, Gent., vice Boyne, promoted in
16th Foot.
47th Foot—Lieut. James A. Bloomfield to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Lowry, who retires ; Ensign John Stan-
ley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bloomfield.
52.1 Foot —Lieut. Thomas Archer Julian to be A.ljutant,
vice Stopford, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
60th Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign A.
H. Woodgato, vice promoted ; Ensign W. 11.
Moseley, vice Sewell, who has retired ; Ensign W. L.
K. Ogilvy, vice Denne, who retires.
Gist Foot—Charles Hercules Atkinson, Gent., to be En-
sign by purchase, vice Boileau, promoted.
64th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Edward Couper, from the
82d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dickens, promoted,
without purchase, to as Unattached Company.
67th Foot—Captain John Stanley Howard, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice Daniel Thompson,
seconded, being appointed Captain Instructor of Mus-
ketry, at Hythe ; Lieutenant Arthur Henry Coney to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Howard, who retires;
Ensign George Masters Caidew to ba Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Coney.
88th Foot—Lieut. Sheffield Grace to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Wilkinson, who retires.
73d Foot Sergeant James Kirk, from the Royal Marines,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bayley, promoted.
75th Foot—Ensign James Streets to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Faithful, deceased.
86th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Sawyers, M.D.,
from the 21th Foot, to be Sargeon, vice Stack, killed in

action.
93th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Wield to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Bazalgette, killed in action ; Ensign
Robert Macnee to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice

Wield.
100th Foot—The transfer of the undermentioned Officers,
as stated in the Gazette of the Ist June, 1858, has been
cancelled :--Lieut. George Fox Grant, from the 62nd
Foot ; Lieut. Charles J. Hampton, from the 51;th Foot.
Rifle Brigade—To be Ensign without purchase.—Gerald
Edmund Boyle, Gent., vice Rainsbottorn, promoted;
Christopher Hatton Tumor, Gent., vice Phillips,
promoted.
promoted.
Ist West India Regiment--Captain Robert Follett Synge,
from the 15th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice
Chamberlayne, promoted in the 3il West India Regiment.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant R. S. Wilkinson
Jones to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lake, ap-
pointed to the 100th Foot ; Ensign Charles Edward
Russell to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Jones.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign William Henry
Surman to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps —Edwin Hewett, Gent , to b)
Ensign, without purchase, vice Clark, whose appoint-
ment, as stated in the Gazette of the 7th May, 1858, has
Loan cancelled.
Royal Malta Fencible Regiment—Ensign T. Emanuel
Bonavia to bo Instructor of Musketry.
UNATTACHED.
Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel James Villiers, of

the 47th Foot, to have the Substantive Rank of Liente•
nant-Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October,
185 %
The undermentioned Officers to have their Brevet Rank
converted into Substantive Rank, under the 'Royal War-
rant of 6th October, 1854 :---
Brevet-Major Charles Elward Mansfield, of the 33rd
Foot.
Brevet Major William Warry, of the 34th Foot.
Lieutenant Robert Vaughan Dickens, from the 61th
Foot, to be Captain without purchase.
BREVET.

The following promotions to take place consequent upon
the death of Major General Thomas Falls, on tho l'thh
May, 1858 :
Major-General Sir W. R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Chief of
the Staff in the East Indies, promoted on the 18th May,
1858, for distinguished service, to be placed on the Per-
manent Establishment of General Officers.
Brevet-Lieut -Colonel Charles Wise, upon half-pay as

Major Unattached, to ho Colonel.
Brevet-Major John Sampson, upon half-pay as Captain
4th Garrison Battalion (Staff Officer of Pensioners), to he
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Lieutenant-Colonel John D. Johnstone, C. 11., 33l Foot.

Captain and Lieutenant-Colenel the Hon. A. E Hard-
Ingo, C. 8., Coldstream Guards, Assistant-Quartermaster-
General in Dublin.
Major J. 0. Lewis, retired full-pay 37th Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel iu the Army, the rank being honorary
only.

Captain Henry Reynolds, 58th Foot, to be Major.
The undermentioned Officers, having completed thr3e
years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonels,
to be promoted to be Colonels in the Army, under the
Royal Warrant of &h October, 1834 :
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest C. Wilful-3, Chief
Instructor of the School of Musketry, Hythe.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MAL, JtAtt 15.
IMEMORANDTJM.
Her Majesty has been pleased to command that
the two following Officers bo appointed additional Mem-
bers of the Council of Military Education
Brevet-Colonel Thomas Elwyn, of the Royal Artillery.
The Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., Canon of Bristol.
COMMISBiON SIG-NED B THE QUEEN.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia--Thos. Walter Hives,
Gent., to bo Quartermaster from the 23d Apiil, 185.?, vice
Heyddn, deceased.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Jacob Isaac de Jonge, merchant, Nark-land.
BANKRUPTS.

Robert Edwards, joiner, Mold, Flintshire, June 29 and
July 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Charlas Garlick, ironmonger, Guildford, Surrey, June
28, at two, and Aug. 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

John Lockwood, cloth manufacturer, Mold Green,
Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, June 29, at half-past eleven, autl
July 2G, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.

Sohn Cowen, travelling draper, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Juno 26 and July 15, at half-past cloven, at the Birming-
ham District Court.

Robert Cumberland, fancy goods marinfw turer, Addle-
street,:City, June 25, at eleven, and July 22, at half-past
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Rolfe, pianoforte maker, Regent-street, June
28 and Aug. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John William Holderness, timber merchant, Kingston-
upon-Hull, June 30 and Aug. 4, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court.

George Hubbard Rimmington, grocer, Wymondhatn,
July 8 and August 3, at half-past ter., at the Birmingham
District Court.

John Wall, carpenter, late of Southport, June 25 and
July 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
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Alexander Rigg and Con;pany, coalmasters,'Rank, New
Cumnock.

Thomas Webb, Fort William, Inverneashire.
George Christie, Grocer, Aberdeen.
David Smith and William Smith, grocers, Edinburgh.
James Galloway, mas3n, Glasgow.
Donald CampbA, provision merchant, Glasgow.

THE PROPERTY QUALIFICATION BILL.

(From the Times )

Yesterday afternoon the House of Larde witnessed
one of those solemn testimonies and I.st stands which
are occasionally made in favour of our ancient institu-
tions. Lord Ravensworth delivered his soul on the sub-
ject of chat was once a prime article of the poli•ic 1
creed—the property qualification ; and, had it been
r: salty itself, or the Christian religion, his lordship could
not have beeu more earnest, or, we dare say, more ein-
core. The tenth is, that there is a large class of people
—so large and so powerful that we must accept them as
a dispensation of Providence—who will bear martyrdom,
or next to it, for anything which they have or ce been
taught is a proper occasion for the sacrifice. The merest
counter with them is sterling coin. You have only to
catch them tolerably young, and show them an object
for the display of their z-eal, as you would show a stick
to a jog, and they will fetch, carry, and fight fir it as
long as a tooth remains in their heads or a drop of blood
in their bodies. Reason is wholly out of the question
with these people. They answer you candidly that the
worth of the thing is not in itself, but in the principle
embodied, in the doctrine conveyed, in the moral
significance, apart from the pracical validity. Thus
the property qualification signified the proper thee
for the House of Commons, and so testified
in favour of the landed qe retry. It is also
quite sure that Radical Reformers will derive
a shadowy sort of satisfaction from seeing one more bul-
wark of our glorious constitution disappear. So here at
once is a thing to go to the stake fur, it is tine that the
house of Commons n ,toriously contains many men
without an acre or a shilling of rent to call their own. It
is true that none have helped so much to evade the law
as the nobility themselvee. It is true that the house has
always cmtair ed a number of persons who, if their
affairs were p 1 iced in the hands of an a2ceuntant, would
be found insolvent. But from these solid and obvious
feats we aro referred to the purport of the property
qualification. It meant so and so, and the meaning is
what we are to look to. The fittest parallel for legisla-
tion of this antique and ineffective character is to be
found in the fif:een hundred toilet of stone wall and
thousand miles of palisade built-by the (mews. to k-ep
out the Tartars. The enemy got over the wall or got
round it as often as they pleased. Still, it signified they
were not to come in, and, though they were in at last
for good, and got possession of ail China, they st 11
kept up the fiction that the wall was to keep out the
enemy. The wall of the Property Qualification
has been surmenntod, and turned, and undermined
in all sorts of ways by anybody who wiihA to
do AO ; but as long as it reared its imposing front
against penniless Radicals or other adventurers it wee
to be maintained. It might be only a pasteboard forti•
fib alert ; it might be a wooden gun ; it might be a sham
steamer emitting straw smoke ; it might be any otht r
undeniable humbug ; still the pretence, the name, the
figure-head, the devic on the stern, were all wise and
good ; so it was a crime to give it up. That is the pur-
port of Lord Ravensworth's speech. It is a speech we
have heard a hundred times before, arid, if we live long
enough, shall hear a hundred times again.
As it happened, when this last fight was made against
one of the last bulwarks of our robe constitution in the
House of Lords, the other house had beau addressed a
few hours before by a member whose qualification has
recently been rifted outside the walls of Parliament, and
been found a minus quantity. At the very time Lord
Ravensworth was defending the Home of Commons
against the intrusion of leckland alventurere, Mr. '
Townsend was still a member, still safe in his seat,
though Droved in public court to be not only penniless,
but without the means of real fying his creditors. The
of If result of this state of affairs that the hen. Matti •
her for Greenwich suffers a brief eclipse of his splendour.
For a twelvemonth the house will cot base the oppor-
tunity of listening to his arguments, however pro—
found, or his eloquence, however persuasive ; bu
he still represents the town of Greenwich, in spite
of the bulwarks erected by the wisdom of our forefathers
Nainat gentlemen of limited incomes. Indeed, Mr.
Townsend could n t be prevented from addressing the
house in d.fence of his briet Parliamentary career, his
speeches, his votes, and his constituenie. The 30,000
free, honest, and independent men of Greenwich are
still at x ous to retain his servces, and will not have
him put out to make room for any money-bag candidate.
Their views ou this point are diametrically opposite to
those which Lord Ravensworth shortly after delivered
in the House of Lords. They do not care a rush whe-
ther their representative has 50,000/. a year or only
500/ , if he is only true to his bus ings 'professions. No
doubt, this is very noble in the electors r f Greenwich ;
but, with all due deference to them and the man of their
choice, this was not the question they bad to consider.
The choice did not lie between two positive incomes, or
two plus quantities of any kind, but between a plus and
is negative quantity—between income and deficiency.
The case is all the more remarkable as an illustration of
the state of things defended by Lord Ravensworth.
Under it a man may continue to be a member of the
House of Commons who not only has no gialification
whatever, but is a declared bankrupt.
The two addresses—viz., Lord Ravensworth's in
favour of Property Qualification, and Mr. Townsend's
in favour of the freer principles that influence the 30,000
electors of Greenwich, are riot SO dissimilar as might be
expected. Parliamentary eloquence does not divide
itself so naturally into brimstone and treacle as the
harangues of another rostrum. Both these spoke as
earnest men ; both appealed to the true Englishman ;
both were equally persuaded that they represented a
good cause, and were making a noble confession.
Nevertheless, both these patriots are under the fatal
necessity of hutting their eyes to the real facts of the
case—Lord Ravensworth to the fact that his qualifies
tion does not keep out gentlemen like Mr. Townsend,
and. Mr. Townsend himself to the fact that it was not a
The
unction, question of qualification, but of mere solvency.tliie that
testimony he delivered with so much
in the Upper House, was beyond tbe fnacetsloof the case.
It would be to Lord Ravensworth's purpose if he could
have shown that the law kept out poor men, and it
would have been to Mr. Townsend's if he could have
shown that his was a case of
therbblameless
: we Leg to record a
admirers
ire of Parliamen-
poverty, and the
rs
electors of Greenwich simply
Parliamen-
tary Cincienatus. For our p
quiet protest against illusions of all kinds, and it was as
illusion in both houses yesterday to suppose honest po-
verty really in
i question. We have no wish to exclude
it—indeed, it s evident we cannot ; but we do think it
much better that a member of Parliament should be
able to pay 20s. in the pound.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The 67th Regiment is appointed to leave Ply.
mouth citadel this morning, by the South Devon
Railway, for Aldershott, and the 96th, from Alder-
shott, is appointed to-arrive at Plymouth, by the
same route, to-morrow (Thursday) morning.
The troopship Lord Raglan sans this .day from
Liverpool for Gibraltar to embark the 14 Royals
for conveyance to Hong Kong, after which tarvice
she will take on hoard the 59th Rogiment for con-
veyance to the Cape of Good Hope, This vessel is
equipped in every re,pect for the accommodati, n
ot 50 officers and 1,000 men.
Sir J. Pakington, as First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, held 'a levee Yesterday at the Admiralty, at
which the uudermentiencd officers attended :
Vice-Admiral Cater, Lieut.- Gen.-Corylon Royal
Marines ; lar-Admiral Lord G. Paulet, Capt. G.
P. Horn by, alpt. De Horsey, Capt. Fisher, Capt.
Hayes' Capt. H. J. Douglas, Capt. L. J.,nes, Capt.
W. E.Elmons'oi.e, Capt. W. H. Moorhead Caps
R. J. Otway, Capt. T. Birch, Capt. J. S'oddart,
Capt. Pierce, Copt. E. Herrick, Commander
Harvey, Commander E. P. Denr, Commander P.
A. Ellis, Commander J. E. Parish, Commander
Thorp, Commander F. S. Tretnlett, Commander
J. Ellwau, Capt. Dyer, R. M., Lieut. W. F. Robin-
son, Lieut. W. N. Boyce, Lieut. H. A. Claveriuth
Lieut. J. W. Jame s, and Mr. Paul (master).
In consequence of the Woolwich Division of
Royal Marine Light Infantry being below its re.
quired strength, Admiralty orders were ree,ived
at Chatham yesterday by Col. H. W. Pazke, Com.
in;ndant of the First Division, directing the n,)n-
-e-)mmissiond officers and men of the Woolwich
Division who have been doing duty with the Chat-
ham Division for several mouths past to join head-
quai tors forth w ;tit. _

The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, hay.
ing had her repairs completed at Chatham, has been
put out of dock, and will be sent to Sheerness for
the purpose of being attached to the steam reserve,
for which service she has been fitted.
The Marlborough, 131, Cap!ain herd F. Kerr,
flig of Vice-Admiral A. Fanshawe, C. 8., left Spit-
head last evening about 5 o'clock for the Mediter-
ranean. Her detention, we are informed, been
consequent upon some irregularity on the pay day,
which, prevented the wives of the seamen from get-
ting their money. She was visited in the afternoon
just b,foie sailing by the Danish-Minister. A
salute of 15 guns was fired in his honour on leaving
thie ship.
The (Mande., 50, screw, the first of a now class
of frigates, was launched at Pembroke on Satur-
day last, and the event, from the length of the ves-
sel, caused much interest, not only in Pembroke-.
shTe, but throughout the adjoining counties, that
the crowd of spectators was beyond all precedent.
The ceremony of naming w, s performed about
5.30 p.m., by Mrs. Ramsay, wife of the captain
stiperintendeut of the establishimeut, ahorily after
which the noble fabric glided into the waters of the
haven amidst the shouts of thousands of spectators.
The following is a scale of her dimensions :—Length
b.-tween the perpendiculars, 300 feet ; length of
keel for tonnage, 264 feet 4 ii cies ; breadth ex-
treme, 52 feet; ditto, for tonnage, 51 feet 6 inches;
di to, moulded, 50 feet 8 inches ; depth of hold, 1.9
feet 10 inches; burden in tons, 3,726 70-94 ; horse-
powt r, 1,000. SIC is to carry guns of the largest
&Iva (50 in all), and will be placed in commission
as soon as she is furnished with machinery. For
this purpose there is a large rarty of Fez+ men there
from Devonport, to jury-rig and navigate her round
to that place.

Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. J. Denman, was taken out of dock yes-
terday at Portsmouth, after repairs, &c.
The Cesar, 91, has been commissioned at Ports-
mouth for Captain Frederick, to form one of the
Channel Peet.

Th-) Nile freight ship, 1,200 tons, Captain W.
Strange (one of Messrs. Green's Indian fleet), ar-
rived at Spithead on Monday from the Thames, for
Madras and Calcutta, for which port she would sail
last evening' or this morning, after shipping her
stock and embarking her passengers.
A serious accident happene I at Chatham dockyard
to the freight ship Mary Catherine, which has just
coinpleted discharging a cargo of Italian oak for
that establishment. After discharging the vessel
was proceeding to take in her ballast, and for that
purpos3 had the raft port left open, when she gave
a sudden lurch, and the water rushing into the raft
po. t she rapidly filled and fell over on her side.
She still lies in tie harbour, with het masts com-
pletely immersed, but every exertion is being made
by a large party of workmen belonging to the dock-
yard to raise her from her present perilous position.
The screw steamships Renown, 91, Capt. Arthur
Forbes, and Racoon, 22, Capt. filtlbs A. Paynter,
from Gibraltar, arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Monday afternoon. The Renown and Racoon left
Lisbon on Saturday, May 29, and. arrived on Sa-
turday, June 5, at Gibraltar, wh. re three sets of
s item Lord 1.130ns awaited them. The first
instructed the ships to proceed up the Mediter-
ranean, the tecoud to remain until the French fleet
pas:ied, and the third to return to England it they
did pass. They left on Wednesday the 9th, in
comp lance with the last order. Tao French fleet
was observed steering out of the straits on the night
Thereday. the 3d .1-n!.p, by the a toulu erc.garat.ila
Urgent, which happened I o be then going in. It is
stated to cons'st of about 12 sail, including three
fria.' es, which were supposed to be bound to Bret.
The following appointments were made yester-
d,y at the Admiral' y :
Mr. John Wm. L twless, naval instructor, to the
Calsar ; IL St. L. Palliser and A. R. Gordon, mid-
si.ii:men, to the Euryalus.