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London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

77th Foot—Ensign John Wordsworth to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Rising, who retires.
88th Foot—Lieutenant William John Saul, from the 45th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wyrley Birch, who ex-
changes.
89th Foot—Lieutenant Robert G. Newbigging, to be Ad-
jutant, vice Barstow, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign John William Lloyd to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hall, who retires.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant William Augustus
Trydell Helden, from the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Mather, who exchanges.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Captain and Brevet-Major James
Mitchell Macdonald to be Major, by purchase, vice Bre-
vet-Lieutenant-Col. Lillie, who retires ; Lieutenant Wm.
H. Peel, from the Cape Mounted Rifles, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Macdonald.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—The first Christian name of
Ensign Smyth, appointed on 17th December, 1858, is
Edmund, not Edward, as then stated.
Depot Battalion—Captain Tnaes Colin Munro, from the
12th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Parry, who exchanges.
BREVET.
The following promotions to take place consequent on the
decease of General Sir Alex. Leith, K.C.8., Colonel of the
31st Regiment, on Feb. 19, 1859:
Colonel John Patton, Inspecting Field Officer of a Re.
cruiting District, to be Major-General.
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Prior, Captain on half-pay
sth Foot, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major Renshaw Russell, Captain upon half-pay
60th Foot, and Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieut.-
Colonel.

Captain John Chester, upon half-pay York Chasseurs,
and Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Engineers
having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel, to bo Colonels in the Army, under the Royal War-
rant of 3d Nov., 1&54 :—Lieut.-Col. Sir "William Thomas
Denison, K.C.B. ; Lieut.-Col. George Wynne ; Lieut.-Col.
Henry Drury Harness, C.B. ; Lieut.-Col. Wm. Yolland
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 4.
MEMORANDUM—Lieutenant Robert Smith, having ob-
tained a first-class certificate at the School of Musketry at
Hythe, has been appointed by the General Commanding-
in-Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for
War, to act as Instructor of Musketry to the Royal Dublin
City Regiment of Militia.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 19.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Robert
Charles Harvey to be Second Lieutenant.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIBUTENANT.

County of Stafford--Basil Thomas litzHerbert, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Blundell Hawkes, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Grazebrook, resigned.
Royal Monmouthshire Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Captain Francis M'Donnell to be Major, vice Her-
bert, resigned; Lieutenant William Leigh to be Captain,
vice M'Donnell, premoted ; Ensign Reginald Blewitt
Dowling to be Lieutenant, vice Leigh, promoted; Ensign
Rhys Brychan Powell to be Lieutenant, vice Houghton
Forrest, whose commission has been cancelled ; William
Beedin, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Daunt, whose com-
mission has been cancelled. . _ _

Royal Aberdeenshire Robert H.
Playtair to be Lieutenant, vice Patrick Browne Simpson,
appointed to the 6th Foot; Ensign Robertson Gilchrist
Marshall to bo Lieutenant, vice James Charles Henderson,
resigned ; Ensigd Daniel Macleod Fullerton to be Lieute-
nant, vice Gersham Herrick, appointed to sth Foot; En-
sign Robert Campbell to be Lieutenant, vice George
Robertson, resigned.
Cambridgeshire Militia.—The Commissions of the under-
mentioned Officers of the Cambridgeshire Militia, absent
without leave, from the training of the Regiment on the
17th September, 1858, have been cancelled, viz.:—
Captain Edward Horlock Mortimer, Lieutenant William
Philip Newton, Surgeon William Augustus Toberns.
Royal Ayrshire Rifles—Notification—Her Majesty has
been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission
held by Surgeon John Joseph Moscrop Abercromby in the
Royal Ayrshire Militia.

NATAL TURKISH MEDALS.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, March 1, 18,59.
Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to approve
of the grantof a medal which has been awarded by the Sul-
tan of the Ottoman Empire to the Officers and Crews of
her Majesty's ships employed in the Black Sea, between
the 17th September, 1804, the date of the landingi of the
troops, and the 9th September, 1855, the date of the fall of
Sebastopol.
Notice is hereby given, that a portion of such medals
have arrived in this country, and will be distributed in the
first instance, to officers and men on board her Majesty's
ships on the home stations, and persons at present in the
United Kingdom.
A further notice will 'be given when the remaining
portion of the medals shall have been received.
Every applicant must state his rank or rating, and the
name of the ship or ships on board which he served;: also
in the case of every Petty Officer, Seaman, or Marine, it is
indispensable that his application should be accompanied
by his certificate of service, except in the case of his being
on board one of her Majesty's ships, and the applica-
tion being made through his Commanding Officer, in which
case the certificate will not be required.
.

When there are several claimants on board the same ship,
it is desirable that they should make their applications in
one letter through their Commanding Officer, by a list
alphabetically arranged under the ships in which they were
serving at the time, and affording the information as above
required.
No other 'claims should be mixed up with the applica-
tions for the Medals in question, axd in all ,cases
where the parties have served in more than one ship
in the Black Sea between the dates before stated, the name
of each ship. must be given.
Distribution will commence on the 4th day of March,
1859.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

John Walker, licensed victualler, Stockport.
Edwin Hills, manufacturing chemist, Warsash, Hants.

BANKRUPTS.

William Ivery Hays, printer, Freeman's-court, Cheap-
side, to surrender, March 17, at one, and April 21, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
George Womersley, hatter, Derby, March 15 and April
19, at' eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham.
George Bullock Portus, apothecary, Liverpool, March 18
and April 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Fowler, grocer, Bradford, March 16, at two,
and April 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Joseph Redshaw, leather dresser, Bermondsey, March
16, at half-past one, and April 18, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Francis Folkard, builder, East Bergholt, Suffolk, March
16, at half-past twelve, and. April 18, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
James David Jones, eating-house keeper, Fleet-street,
March 15, at half-past two, and April 15, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
George Francis Cooke, lime merchant,Wouldham, Chel-
sea, March 18, and April 15, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Richard Williams, shoe minufacturer, Dudley, Worces-
tershire, March 17, and April 9, at eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court. _

James Hubbard Skeeles, boot and shoe dealer, Liverpool,
March 17 and AprilB, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool
District Court. _

Thomas Crow, painter, Berwick-upon-Tweed, March 14,
at twelve, and April 11, at eleven, at the Royal-arcade,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Baird, merchant, Glasgow.
William W‘William, farmer, Cairn, Wigtownshire.
John King, innkeeper, Cardross, Dumbartonshire.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day
of March, 1859:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £33,593,490 Governent Debt £11,015,100
Other Sm
ecurities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 10,118,490
Silver Bullion

X 33,593,490;

£33,693,490

BANKING D:
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest 3,617,569
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners ot Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 8,315 065
Other Deposits 13,355,063
Seven Day and
other Bilis 758,787

:;PAIITP&INT.
Government Secu-

rifles ((including
Dead Weight An-
nuity) 410,606,147
Other Securities 16,782,980
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 766,142

.£11,229,504
M.

£41,22004
:A.RSHALL, Chief Castile;

Dated March 3,1859.

AVERAGE PRICE OP SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the let day
of March, 1859, 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 296
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 30s cl
Muscovado, thefproduce of the East Indies 28s 0 d
Average price o the fofegoing 29s 0 d

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tito DAT.
Amsterdam I Short. 11 16 11 151
I.',.Ditto 3Months. 11 17 11 11
Rotterdam — 11 17 •11 18
Antwerp
Brussels — 26 32 25 3.,
Hamburgh
Paris 3 Months.
25 71 25 16
Ditto
Marseilles .. .
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 1181
Vienna
Trieste ..
Petersburgh — 35 35
Madrid
Cadiz — 49 49
Leghorn — 29 75 29 (
Genoa — 25 471 25 ki
Naples
1
Palermo • 1201 40k
Messina — 1201 121
201
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York ..

E.I. Co's bis. 'Home Mft. 00d,
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 211
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 241
East India Company s Bills drawn, from the 24th ult. to
Bengal ..................
Mad the Bth inst
ras
Bombay

£0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

£0 0 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per oz. 13 17 9
Mexican Dollars „ 00 0'
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 11

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the noose of
Commons will hold his first Levee at his official residence,
in the palace of Westminster, on the evening of Saturday,
the 20tla March, at 10 o'clock.