The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 17

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Duncan
Macauley as Consul at Manchester for the United States of
America.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 16

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Venerable
Charles Caulfield, Archdeacon of Bahamas, to be a Member
of the Legislative Council of that Colony; and Henry
Hamilton Cooke, Esq., to be Postmaster of the Mauritius.

WAR-OFFICE, MAY 16,

The Queen has been graciously pleased to make and
ordain a Special Statute of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, authorising the following appointments
tothe
said Order :
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Colonel George Robert Barker, C. 8., Royal Artillery.
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Knights Walpole,
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Brigade.
Colonel John Douglas, C. 8., 79th Regiment.
Major-General Henry Gee Roberts, Bombay Army.
Major-General George Cornish Whitlock, Madras Army.
To be Extra Members of the Military Division of the
Third Class, or Companions ; viz. :
Colonel Maurice Griffin Dennis, 60th Regiment.
Colonel Samuel Tolfrey Christie, 80th Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel John Simpson, 34th Regiment.
Lient.-Colonel Robert Pratt, 23d Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel James Dodington Carmichael, 32d Regi-
ment.
Lieut.-Colonel Julius Richard Glyn, Rifle Brigade.
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Smith, 90th Regiment,
Lieut.-Colonel John McNeill Walter, 35th. Regiment.
Lieut.- Colonel Wm. Payne, 53d Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Henry Seymour, 2d Dragoon Guards,
Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Campbell Mollan, 75th Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel John Wm. Cox, 13th Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Lothian Nicholson, Royal Engineers.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Wm. Russell, Baronet, 7th Hussars.
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Lightfoot, 84th Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Edward Gascoigne Bulwer, 23d Regt.
Major John Bulkeley Thelwall, 24th Regiment.
Bengal Artillery, H
Li-Colonel Toy
James Wm. ungerford,
John Charles Graham Tice, Esq M.D , Deputy Inspec-
tor-General of Hospitals. • •
Francis William Ines, Esq., M.D., Deputy Inspector-
General of Hospitals.
John Fraser, Esq., • M.D.) Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals.
Charles Alexander Gordon, Esq., M.D., Surgeon, 10th
Regiment,
James Gordon Inglis, Esq., M.D., Surgeon, 64th Regi li
-
ment.

Joseph Jee, Esq., Surgeon, 78th Regiment.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles F. Sey-
mour, 84th Regiment, would have been recommended to
her Majesty for the dignity of Companion of the Order of
the Bath, had he survived.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 16.
Vice-Admiral of the White William James Mingaye. has
been appointed to receive a pension of £l5O a-year, as pro-
vided by her Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June, 1851,
vacant by the death of Vice-Admiral Peter John Douglas,
and the name of Vice-Admiral Mingaye has been removed
to the Reserved Half -Pay Lift accordingly; and, in conse-
quence of this removal, the following promotions, to date
from the 18th December, 1858, have this day taken place
• Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Herbert, R.C.D./
to be Vice -Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir George Robert
K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
• Retired Rear-Admiral John Gore to be Vice-
Admiral on
the Retired List. Lambert,

Rear-Admiral of the White Charles Ramsay Drinkwater
Bethune, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue George Rodney Mundy to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Thomas Henderson to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.

The undermentioned officers on the Retired List have also
been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms
proposed in the "London Gazette" of the ist September
1846, but without increase of pay :
Captains William Shepheard and William Lackraft.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 7.

Royal Marines—First Lieutenants to be Captains—
les Blake, Osborne Frederick Charles
Archibald Alexander Douglas, Charles Loftus Tottenham
Worthy Bennett, George Leslie,
‘Villiam Penn Burton, Nicholas Bennett Dalby, Enbule
Fraser, Usher, Gyve?"lfaem La
Henryicel
Daysh Thelwall, and Richard Pentland Henry. Second
eutenants o be First Lieutenants—Henry Sturt Lewis,
William Henryn Smith, John Straghan, William Henry
Poyntz, Thomas Linley Grant, Augustine Evans, Robert

• Reginald Augustus Woodforde, James Alfred 'Godfrey,
[ Longhorn Rokeby, William Armstrong, Charles William
Fothergill, Robert James Pascoe, Henry Cowley Bowker
Henry Ives De Kantzow, Sydney Thomas Bridgford, John.
William Walter O'Grady, Graham Hewett Henry Monck-
ton Kay, Nowell Fitz Upton Way, Ernest Augusttu3 Macy,
George Majendie Vivian, Charles Edward Bervante,
Edward O'Donovan Powell, James Anderson Morice,
Daniel Thomas Woodruff, and William Younghusband.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANTS.
Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry—James Richardson
Barnes, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Norman James Biggs
Uniacke, promoted.
2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—Hems
Walter Kiallmark, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Edmund Ruck-Keene, Esq., to be Captain, vice
Wykeham, resigned.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Henry Fuller, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Pargiter M.
Dickenson, promoted.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—David
James Sutherland Morrison Colquhoun Kemp, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Simms, promoted.
East Suffolk Regiment of Militia Artillery Corps—
Arthur Henry Brittain, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaseer's Own Militia—
Robert Highat, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Har-
rington Molyneux Seel, resigned.

BANKRUPTS.
James Holmes, licensed victualler Elgin-creseent, Ken-
sington, to surrender May 27, at half-past eleven, and July
rircchant Cotlm needs,
June .2 and
1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
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Frederick Davis, hair dresser, Melcombe Regis, Dorset-
shire, June 1 and 22, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
William Faiers, grocer, Hoxton, Middlesex, May 28 and
June 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Turner, brewer, Chester, May 30 and June 21, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Gemder Anthon Martin Aas, ship broker, Colchester-
street, City, May 31, at half-past one, and June 28, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Prowse, chemist, Bristol, May 30, and June 27,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
William Charles Reynolds, licensed victualler, Alders-
gate-street, May 26, at one, and July 1, at half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
_ _

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Davie Morrie Stirling, Esq., of Blackgrange,
deceased.
Peter M'Onie, merchant, Gartmore.
Miss Marion M'Neight, of Bellvue, Ayrshire.
William Fraser, tailor and clothier, Aberdeen.
' John Moncur, grocer and spirit dealer, Dundee.
Robert Anderson, brickmaker, Hillheaa, near Particle.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tars DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 15 11 15
Antwerp
Brussels — 24 971 25 21
Hamburgh
Paris Short. 25 2f 2.5 71
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 35 25 42}
Frankfort on Maine — 115/ 115$
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 31/ 32
Madrid
Cadiz — 49 49
Leghorn — 30 31 20
Genoa — 25 90 26 0
Naples
Palermo — 117 117
Messina —117 f
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 6O days at. ..
New York — • •..

E.I. Co's Ns. House bld. 60d.
• • 23f

Calcutta, Co.'s rupee
Bombay ditto
Madras dial')
• •
• -
East India Company s Bills drawn, from the 2d to
the 10th May.
£0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

Benpl..
Madras
Bombay

£0 0 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. 17 9}
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ~ 0 5 21