The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, April 26.
In consequence of the services rendered by Major and
Brevet-Colonel Edward Robert Wetherell, C. 8., Unat-
tached, as Chief of the Staff with the Force under Major-
General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.8., during the latter part of
the operations of that column in Central India, in the year
1858, and subsequently in the command of a column in the
late campaign in Oude, which attacked and captured the
Fort of Rampoor, her Majesty' has been pleased to promote
this officer to the substantive rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
unattached.

By order of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief,
(Signed) G. A. WETHERALL,
• Adjutant-General.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 21.
' Corps of Royal Marines—FirstiLieutenant J. F. Haw-
key to' be Adjutant; First Lieutenant Frederick George
Pym to be Quartermaster; First Lieutenant Cuthbert Ward
Burton to be Quartermaster I First Lieutenant Harrisson
John Bull to be Quartermaster.

COMMISSIONS BY LARDS-LIEUTENANT.
Tolv'er Hamlets—John R. Riddell, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant.

' Royal East Kentßegiment of Mounted Rifles Yeomanry
Cavalry?—The Earl of Mount Charles, Captain Ist Life
Guards, to be Captain, vice .D'Aeth, resigned ; Lieut.
Wyndham Knight to be Captain, vice Derin resigned;
Cornet Denne to be Lieutenant, vice Hammond, resigned;
Cornet' Sir Courtenay Honywood, Bart., to be Lieutenant,
vice Knight, promoted ; Lieut. Sir Courtenay Honywood,
Bart., to be Captain, vice Bell, resigned.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Ensign John Hatton
Brereton to be Lieutenant, vice. Ricketts, promoted ; Wm.
V. Andrews, Gent., to be Ensign. , vice Marker, promoted ;
John Grant Wilson, Fellow e the Royal College of Sur-
geons in England, to be Surgeon, vice Schroeder, appointed
to the Army; Ensign William Pea.rd Jillard to be Lieute-
nant, vice Wilkinson, appointed to the Tower Hamlets
Militia; Henry Masters Sproule, Gent., to be Ensign. vice
Fox, promoted ; Robert Townlyy Woodman, late Lieute-
nant 14th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Parkes,
resigned.

Vaginient of Stirlingshire Militia, Highland Borderers
Light infantry—John Dunbar,. Esq., to be Ensign, 'desk.
Williaxd James Junor, Esq., promoted, to be Lieutenant.
Royal Wilts Militioe—ldieuti-Colonel Lord Methuen to

bear the title of Lieutenant-Celonel Commandant from the
9th of January.

BANKRUPTS.
Herbert Birks, grocer, Sheffield, to surrender, May 7;
and June 11, at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Henry Hicks, glass-cutter, King David-lane, Shadwell
sth May and June 3, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Kidd, commission merchant, Leith.
Thomas King, watchmaker, Glasgow.
James Bennet, grocer, Lanark.
Nicholas Ward, railway contractor, Parkhouse, near Ayr
James Paterson and Company, free storekeepers, Glas•
gow

Hance Walker and Sons, grain and provision merchants,
Glasgow.
Brown and Austin, nurserymen, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tins DAT. I
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam ll 16} 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels - 2,5 12} 20 20
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 25 25 30
Frankfort on Maine — 117} 118
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —33 f
Madrid
49f 49f
50

Cadiz

Leghorn — 30 40
Genoa — 25 35
Naples
Palermo — 121
Messina — 121;
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York —

30 60
25 40
4021
121
12
62
63

• •
E.I. Co's bls. House Ms. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee : 26 24!
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 at
gait India Company a Bills diawn, from the 26th ult. to
the 9th.iuet.
• • Bengal £433 6 8
• • Madras • 0 0 0
Bombay

£433 6 8

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