The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 6.

The Queen has• been pleased to approve of Mr. William
F. Hopkins as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for the United
States of America.

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DOWNING-STREET, MAY 4.
The Queen has been placed to appoint W. J. Jeffrey,
Esq., to be Assistant-Receiver-General, D. Broadhead,
Esq. to be Stipendiary Magistrate, and G. L. Tucker, Esq.,
to be' Commissary of Taxation, for the Colony of British
Guiana.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Vene-
rable Archdeacon Poore and Nathaniel Hart, Esq., to be
Members of the Legislative-Council of the Island of St.
Christopher.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 6.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant Robert Clarke to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Fitz-Gerald, who retires.
= --- .- - , Cornet Richard J. Wyrley Birch to
~. ;purchase, vice yid/ince, promoted.
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~;1` II re:_iiiTh—Lieutenani. Led Ralph Drury Kerr
to be Adjutant, vice Fife, promoted.
Military Train—Lieutenant John Briggs to bo Adjutant,
vice Joseph Harris, promoted to an Unattached Company,
without purchase.
Coldstream Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Alexander
William Adair to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur-
chase, vice St. Vincent B. H. Whitshed, who retires;
Denzil Hugh Baring, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Adair.
9th Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Court Ferguson
Grier, from the 23 Royal Lanark Militia, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Eppes, who resigns.
17th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Oates Travers to be Captain,
by purchase, vice the Honourable S. R. H. Ward. ap-
pointed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion ; Ensign Thomas
IBraddell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice J. 0.
'1 ravers.
21st Foot—Ensign Frederick George Jackson to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Hollwav, promoted.
37th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Robert Bigsby Barnes to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires;
Ensign Albert Jones to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Barnes.
47th Foot—Captain Robert Ficklin, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, repaying the difference, vice Fin-
nerty, who exchanges; Lieutenant Browniow North
Ganner, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ficklin, who
retires.
49th Foot—Captain George Robert James Marshall, from
half-pay 57th Foot, to be Captain, vice Edward Le Mar-
chant, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Charles John C.
C. Roberts, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Marshall,
who retires; Ensign George Donovan to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Roberts.
55th Foot—Ensign Francis Barnston, from the 51st Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Frobisher, promoted.
74th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Wylde Sherlock to be Cap- '
tain, by purchase, vice Ross-King, promoted to an Un-
attached Majority, by purchase.
75th Foot—Ensign Anthony Rowband, from the 61st
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Gledstanes, promoted.
80th Foot—Sergeant-Major Samuel Harrison tq be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Cosens, promoted.
95th Foot—Lieutenant John North Crealock to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Alcock, who retires.
96th Foot--Lieutenant Walter Barnes Pugh to be Adju -
tent, vice John Hamilton Thompson, who resigns the
Adjutancy only. -
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Thomas Roworth Parr to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Henry .David Bonne,
deceased.

Scnom, or MUSKETRY (at Hythe).—Lieutenant John
M'Kay, from the 41st Foot, to be Captain, without
purchase. •
UNATTACHED.—Captain William Ross-King, from the
74th Foot, to be Major, by purchase; Captain William
George Drummond Stewart, from the 93d Foot, to be
Major, by purchase.

BREVET.
Major-General Sir William Fenwick Williams, Bart.,
K.C.8., to have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in
North America.
Captain Robert Ficklin, 47th Foot to be Major in the
Army.
Brevet. Major Robert Ficklin, 47th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in the Army.
Lieut. Charles Johnson Nicholson, of the 54th Regi-
ment Bengal Native Infantry (doing duty at the East India
Depot at Warley, vice Gordon, resigned), to ha.ve the rank
of Lieutenant in the Army while so employed.
MENEORANDUM.-Brevet-Colonel Charles Robert Raitt
and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Stewart, upon half-
pay as Majors unattached, have been permitted to retire
from the service by the sale of their Commissions, for the
purpose of becoming settlers in Canada.
WAR .OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 6.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieut. William Griffin Stack having
obtained a First Class Certificate at the School of Musketry
at Hythe, has been appointed by the General Command-
ing-in-Chief. with the concurrence of the Secretary of State
for War, to act as Instructor of Musketry to the sth Mid-
dlesex Regiment of Militia. ,
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Middlesex—To be Deputy Lieutenants—Joseph
Arden, Esq. ; William Bird, Esq. ; Hans Busk, junior,
Esq. ; Samuel Fisher, Esq.; William Henry Griffiths,
Esq. ; Richard Hall, Esq. ; Charles Henry Mills, Esq. ;
James Montgomery, Esq.; Henry Paull, Esq.
County of Lincoln—Guildford James Hillier Onslow,
Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Charles -Edmond Hassell
Alpe, Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Norfolk—The Honourable George Watson
Milles to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Richard Henry Weyland,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Norfolk Militia Artillerv—Second Lieutenant the Honour-
able Harbord Harbora to be First Lieutenant, vice
'Mums, re.signed ; Henry Harington Molyneux Seel,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Harbord, promoted.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Brins-
ley De Courcy Nixon, Gent , to be Cornet, vice Sewell, re-
signed.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Edwin Robert Ives,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Quen's Own Reoiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—William
M bent., to be Cornet, vice Fetherston-
haoungth7 eromajoctreaftd, Richard George Glyn, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Hussey, resigned.
First Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Ensign Thomas John Gatehouse to be Lieutenant, vice
Mott, promoted ; Lieutenant Walter Richard Hickman to
be Captain, vice Mott, resigned; Ensign Walter Ormerod
Bottles to be Lieutenant, vice Hickman, promoted.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Evan Francis Anderton, Esq., to be Captain, vice James
Robert James Gregg, resigned.
Royal Carnarvonshire Militia__ Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commis-
sion held by Captain Pennant Athelwold Iremonger, as
Adjutant of the Royal Carnarvonshire Militia.
2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—The Queen
has been graciously pleased to accept the Resignation of
Captain Joseph Dingwell.

Thomas Wescott aßnAdNWKißllitjamPTWS.escott, paper manu-
facturers, Commercial-road, Lambeth, to surrender, May
17, at one, and June 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Henry Sherwood, cloth manufacturer, Esholt, York-
shire, May 31 and June 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court.
Arthur Ledger, grocer, Great Pearl-street, Spits. Melds,
May 12, at half-past one, and June 9, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Gyles Bingley, druggist, Manchester, May 19,
and June 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Frederick Mayston, grocer, Huddersfield, May 31. at
half-past eleven, and June 21, at twelve, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.
Thomas Cheetbam and Thomas Thornley hosiers, Bu-
ford, Nottinghamshire, May 17, and June 14, at eleven, at
the Birmingham District Court.
George Cox and George Cox, jun., butchers, Northamp-
ton-row, Holloway, May 20, at half-past twelve, and Juno
7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
at JtwohnelvPe,eantntehye, mijeeerds ch aDnits,triLcit concolnur,
tM. ay 25 and June 23,
Richard Pain, ironmonger, Exeter, May 18, ancl..Tune 16,
at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

John Blair, joiner, Glasgow.
John Chambers Proudfoot, timber merchant, Glasgow.
Frederick James Audsley, merchant, Glasgow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 4th day
of May, 1859:

rssUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued
... v ... i,016,035 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,571,035
Silver Bullion -

£31,046,035

531,046,035

BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen-
tal X 14,553,000 rides (including
Rest
PublieDeposits(in- nutty) £11,371,118
eluding Exche- Other Securities 19,137,314
quer, Savings, Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) .......... 5,468,008
Other Deposits.... 15,963,971
Seven Day and
other Bills ...

634,445

781,760

X 39,033,227
Dated May 5, 1859. 4111* J

1-39,933,227
:ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, ecru •
puted from Returns ma-de in the week ending the 3J day
of May, 1&59, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain
Per cwt.
From the British possessions in America •• _ ZSs 8
275, 81d
Muscovado, the produce of the I%.latriliuff 30528 s 10 Id
Muscovado,. the produce of the Last i
In di
es
4 d
Average prize of the foregoing i

BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.-INQUIRY.
The OPEN and UNBLUSHING BRIBERY and COR-
RUPTlONpractised at the late ELECTIONS, and the alleged
cognizance cf the members of her Majesty's Government
thereof; has excited the universal indignation of the whole
country, and it is felt that a great blow has been struck at
the freedom of Election by such unconstitutional proceedings.
This question affects, and an INQUIRY into it ought tote
promoted by, the nation at large.
The burden of such an inquiry is too onerous to be borne
by individual boroughs. 'A Committee of Gentlemen is in
course of fersuatiq; for:,carrying out this object, and the
countrtia called von to support them. Co-operation is
earnestly solicited, and every information should at once be
flutdshed to
• WILLIAM WILDE, Jun., Hon. Sec.
Offices, 23, Parliament-street, S.W.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Manag!anent of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will beVesented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING lIPARY
King Henry V., Mr. C.:4*n; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

11-11EATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone.
Tills EVENING will be performed the new and original
Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The
characters by Messrs. Compton, Bnckstone, Howe, W. Far-
ren, Rogers ; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Sr.c.

After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled
ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs.
Compton, Braid, ClltPk, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright,
Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Loclercq.
And 'TWAS I.