The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

THE DISSOLUTION.

Mr. T. MINCOMBE said it was understood that the
prorogation was to ttike place to-day, and he 'therefore
wished to ask the honourable gentleman opposite when the
dissolution would actually take place ; when the notice 01
that dissolution would appear in the Gazette, and when the
writs would be returnable?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a
council would be held on Saturday, at which her Majesty
would be advised to dissolve Parliament, when the writs
would go out on Saturday evening.

POOR RATES.
Mr. NEWDEGATE moved an address for a return of
the number of persons rated to the poor, at the sums of £5O,
£4O, £3O, £2O, £lO, and upwards, respectively, in each
county or division of county, exclusive of the represented
cities and towns in England and Wales; distinguishing,
as far as possible, the number who are householders (in the
same form as return No. 508, of session 1854).—Agreed to.
Precisely at two o'clock Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher of
the Black Rod, entered the house and summoned the
Speaker and Members to the House of Peers, to hear her
Majesty's Speech read by Commission, on the occasion of
the prorogation of Parliament, and also the Royal assent to
several public and private bills,

The SPEAKER immediately left the chair, and accompa•
nied by the whole of the members present, about fifty, pro.
ceeded to the House of Lords.

On their return the SPEAKER read the Royal Speech, and
having shook hands with several of the members, left the
house.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

THIRD EDITIOIN.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock,

AQUATIC'S.

The boat race between Chambers, of Newcastle,
and White, of London, for £lOO a-side, took place
to-day, at Newcastle. Chambers was for some time
past the favourite. White took the lead at starting,
but Chambers came in an easy winner.

LOND ON GAZETTE-( THIS EVENING )

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 16.
This day had audience of her Majesty :—Monsieur Tous-
saint and Monsieur Madiou, Envoys Extraordinary and
Ministers Plenipotentiary from Hayti, to announce to her
Majesty the establishment of that Republic, to &liver their
credentials; to which they were introduced by the Right
Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury, her Majesty's Principal Sec-
retary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Mafter of the Ceremonies.
INDIA-OFFICE, APRIL 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, K.C.8.,
to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Shah of Persia.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, APRIL 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Doctor Wawa
Baly, F.R.S., to be Physician Extraordinary to her
Majesty. . _ _

WHITEHALL, APRIL 15.
The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of
the Lords of Session in Scotland, to Charles Baillie, Esq.,
her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland, in the room of Sir
John Archibald Murray, deceased.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 16.
The Queen has been pleased to-graut the office of bet
Majesty:B Advocate for Scotland to David Mure, Esq., her,
Majesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland, in the room of
Charles Bailie, Erq., appointed a Lord of Session.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 19.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed, under the Great Seal, appointing the Right Iron.
Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Knt. ; Sir William Page Wood,
Knt., a Vice-Chancellor; the Right Hon. Sir Georg°
Cornewall Lewis, Bart.; the Right Hon. William Samuel,
Baron Wynford ; Robert Phillimore, LL.D. ; and John
Young, Esq. ; to be her Majesty's Commissioners teinquir°
into the expediency of bringing, together, into one place or
neighbourhood, all the Superior Courts of Law and Equio
the Probate and Divorce Courts, and the Court of Admi;
ralty, and the various offices belonging to the same, and
into the means which exist, or may be supplied, for pro'
viding.a site or sites, and for erecting suitable buildings,
for carrying out this object°.
The Queen has also bden pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Sir Jolla,
Wither Awdry, Knt., the Right Hon. William Reigns/of
Earl of Devon, and Richard Jebb, Esq., Barrister-at-Leo*/
to ba her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into eel
report on the Civil, Municipal, and Ecclesiastical Laws and
Customs now in force in Jersey.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters pato,
to be passed under the Seal appointed by the Treatl
Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great bet'
of Scotland, appointing the Right Hon. Sir George Clem,
Wart., of Pemcuik, in the county of Edinburgh ; James Campbell, Esq., of Craigie, in the county of Ayr; Alen'
ender Earle. Monteith, Esq., Advocate, Sheriff of the county
of Fife ; Archibald Campbell Swinton, Esq., the younger'
of Kimmerghame, in the county of Berwick and Professor
of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh;
Leslie, Esq., of Warthill, in the county of Aberdeen i•
Alexander Maclean, Esq., of Ardgour, in the county of
Argyll; and Foster Alleyne M‘Geachy, Esq., of ShenleY"
in the county of Middlesex, to be her Majesty's Conuale;
sioners to inquire into the laws regulating the sale. and
consumption of Exciseable Liquors in Scotland.
• • • .ADMIRALTY, APRIL 14.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenants IL Hewel
Edward M'Arthur' Henry B. Roberts James Shute, Jo"—
i.„
Busteed Seymeur, Arthur John Stuart, Chas Barker Parker
and John Yate Holland, to be Captains. Second Lientli
nants George Francis Gamble, Samuel Edward Weathers',
'Hemmans, Edward H. White, Alfred Fonblanque, AlSek,a
Andrew H. J. Heriot, Joseph Robert Leeds, BenjeJY'r_..,
Dutton Kennicott, George Clement Boase, William IVI°U,
Pribhat, William V. B. Hewett, George.M. Shewell, ~
M. Hamilton, John S. Bontein, James W. Scott, Hen"-1;
Wolrige, Samuel T. Collins, George Lyon Tupman, Goret:
H. Elliot, William W. G. B. Willis, George Wm. Olive;
John Gore Fitzgerald, William E.Despard, and Walt
Julius Barker to be First Lieutenants. '

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN..,,,
Suflolk Artillery Regiment of Militia—Patrick _,
patrick, Gent., to be Quartermaster, from the Bth of Marc"'
1859.
ANT
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infant q) ReSi
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia James -Frel`d,
Steiner, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Edwin Rickard 10-',,,
promoted.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Mer
Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign; Thomas Henry Tracer,
Gent., to be Ensign. 10'
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of ,
dlesex Militia—William Griffin Stack, to be Lieuten°'
vice Cockney, resigned.
East Suffolk Regiment of Militia Artillery Corps—Fi,l4„
Lieutenant Wickham Talbot Harvey to be Captain, 'oei
Barlow, resigned; Edward Griffith Austin, Gent., late crit
Bengal Aatillery ; Joshua Thelluson Rowley, Gent It°l'e
Welch Coates, Gent., John Bryce Wilkinson, Gent., to bi°
First Lieutenants ; Gerard Thomas Worthington Fervor;
Gent., Charles Abercrombie Cooper, Gent., Cooper Chao°
Rankin. Brooke, Gent.,.to•be Second Lieutenants. moo
City of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery Militia.—lftrt
Davidson, Gent.,, to be Second Lieutenant, vice 11•°"-- •
Nicol, prometted.

BANKRUPTS.
Richard Geddes, coal merchant, Homerton, Middles
to surrender, May 5, at eleven, and June 3, at one, a
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Pritchard, builder, Bushey, Hertfordshire, ~.11.•
3 and 31, at two) and May 31, at one, at the Court of D'u"-
ruptcy. ao •
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William James Tomlinson and Michael Lawrence.lioae..
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at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. 1
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
George Somerville, power-loom tenter, Glasgow. .....fa..
William Dick and Company, potato merchants, 1!'"
barton and Alexandria.
Thomas Scott, Clyde-street, Edinburgh.
David Milliken, draper, Kilmarnock.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This D Al•
Amsterdam
11
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 16f 11 110
Antwerp
Brussels --25 15 222
Hamburgh
--10
Paris I Short. 25 2f 25
Ditto
25 31

Marseilles — 25 27i 117;
Frankfort on Maine — 1171 12 •`2'''
Vienna
Trieste -11 10 344-
Petersburgh —34 a
Madrid
Cadiz — 491 30 6
Leghorn — 29 90 25 371
Genoa — 25 301 401
Naples
1
Palermo — 1211 122
Messina —
12152
52
52
Lisbon
1 1i 53
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
...Aj
New York —
B.'. Co's bls. House iiie•
26 241
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee --"" 261 241
Bombay ditto - 26 241
Madras ditto .
9 th inst.
East India CompanY 5
the
Bills drawn, from the 26th uii..• to
Bengal .................. £433 6 8
0 0 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay.