The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.

Captain Charles K. Bushe, 59th Foot.
Captain F. P. Cassidy, 34th Foot.
Second Captain Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, V.C.,
Royal Engineers.
Staff-Captain George Rand, retired full-pay of the Inva-
lid Depot at Chatham, to be Major in the Army, the rank
being honorary only.
The second Christian name of Major-GeneralCarmichael,
C. 8., of the Bengal Cavalry, is Montauban, and not Mont-
abin, as stated in the Gazette of Feb. 6, 1855.
The following promotions to take place consequent upon
the death of Lieut.-General Robert Barclay Macpherson,
C. 8., Colonel of the 88th Foot, on 23d December, 1858 :
Major-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan, K.C.8.,
Colonel of the Bth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-
General.

Brevet-Colonel Philip M'Pherson, C. 8., Inspecting
Field-Officer of a Recruiting District, to be Major-General.
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Edward Lacy, Captain on
half-pay Unattached, Assistant Adjutant-General at Gib-
raltar, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major Bernard G. Layard, Captain half-pay 67th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Charles William Meadows Payne, half-pay Un-
attached, to be Major, with date of 26th October, 1858, such
antedate not to carry with it any claim to additional pay,
previelus to 24th December, 1858.
OOMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners Regiment of Militia
--Joseph Pomery, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Chas. Vereker
Hamilton Campbell to be Captain, vice Hunter, resigned ;
Cornet Claude Alexander to be Lieutenant, vice Spiers.
deceased; Cornet John Cricht on. to be •Lieutenant, vice
Patrick, deceased ; Cornet William Parker Adam to be
Lieutenant, vice Campbell, promoted ; John Campbell
Madan, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Crawford,

.eceasfAl
Tower Hamlets King's Own Light Infantry Regiment
of Militia—Alfred Dower Reynolds, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Bernard Byrne, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Rom, resigned.
Ross, Caithness, Sutherland and crmarty, or 96th,

I Regiment of Militia—Adrian William Keith Falconer to
be Captain, vice John Paton, deceased.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Henry Alan Clery,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ramsay, resigned.
2d egiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—William Ben-
nion Foulkes, Gent., to be Ensign, vice F. H. Kensall,
promoted.
MEMORANDUM.-Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia
—Lieutenants John Legh Sykes, Francis Pullen Mudd, and
William Birch Sykes, removed from the strength of the
Regiment, having retired on their allowance. Ensign
Joseph Morley Delmis, absent without leave during the
late training., is removed from the strength of the Regiment.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—George Robert Mae-
call, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign George St. John Sherwood Doyle to be Lieutenant,
vice Fitzgerald, resigned; Thomas John Gatehouse, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Dowie, promoted.
2d Regiment King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Francis
Berry Featherstonhaugh, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Mar-
tin, promoted ; Edward Whitacre Davies, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Sneyd, resigned.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Alfred Critchill, cabinet maker, 1, Upper Dorset-place,
Clapham-road.
Henry Chellingworth, maltater, Park Attwood, near
Kidderminster.

BANKRUPTS.
Tilden Chrisrnas, coal merchant, Sheerness, and New
Brompton, to surrender Jan. 20, and Feb. 21, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Eli Wainwright, baker, Earl-street, Kensington, Ja^.
24, at twelve, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Henry Rogers, milliner, Bradford, Jan. 21 mid Feb. 18,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Walter Lodge, merchant, Castle-hill, Almondbury,
Yorkshire, Jan. '27 and Feb. 18, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. .

Charles James Hill, grocer, Birmingham, Jan. 21 and
Feb. 10, at 'eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
John Woolf the younger, small ware manufacturer,
Manchester, Jan. 28 and Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court.

Mr. Commissioner Fane will sit at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, on Thursday, 20th Jan., in the matter of the wind-
ing-up of the Joint-stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857.
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque will sit, in the Court of
Bankruptcy, on the 22d Feb., at one, in the matter of
winding up the Mare3field Patent Gunpowder Company
(Limited).

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Bruce, builder, Hillhead, near Glasgow.
Scott and Edmond, oil merchants, Glasgow.
Malcolm Wlntosh, merchant, Portrce.
James Fleming, grocer, Leith.
John Inglis, builder, Glasgow.
Walter Edgar, grocer, Glasgow.
Alexander Macdougall, Fettes Farm, Killiernan, Ross-
shire.
James Martin, farmer, Goldenberry, West Kilbride, Ayr-
shire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THis DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels — 2.5 30 25 35
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 35 25 40
Frankfort on Maine —118 j
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35} 36
Madrid.
Cadiz — 49 49
Leghorn — 29 75 29 5
Genoa — 25 50 25 65
Naples
1
Palermo l2ll 122
Messina
122 1221
Lisbon 4. —52 f
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — • - - •

E.I. Co's Ws. House bis. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 24
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 24
East India Company's Bills drawn, from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.

Bew,al £1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 0 0

LIE UT.- COLONEL DICKSON AND THE
EARL OF WILTON.

The following additional correspondence has
been handed to us for publication :
War-office, Nov. 17, 1858.
My Lord,—ln acknowledging the receipt of your
lordship's letter of the 16th inst., recommending
Major Walker to be lieut.-colonel of the 2d Tower
Hamlets Militia, vice Dickson displaced, I have the
honour to acquaint you that I deem it expedient to
give the latter officer one more opportunity of
withdrawing his refusal to resign his commission.
In communicating this to him, your lordship will
inform him my instruction that he be displaced in
consequence of his refusal to resign was based on
the grounds that while in command of the regiment
he did not administer the interior affairs of the
corps, more particularly those connected with the
officers' mess, with that good judgment and unre-
mitting attention and superintendence which the
regulations of the service enjoin, and which it is
my duty to enforce.
It is on these grounds alone that I came to this
decision, and should Colonel Dickson still decline to
avail himself of this opportunity of resigning, now
for the last time presented to him, I shall feel it my
duty to adhere to the decision that he be displaced.
I have the honour to be, .my lord, your lordship's
obedient servant, (Signed) J. PEEL.
To Field Marshal the Viscount Combermere,
G.C.8., &c.

10, Stanhope-terrace, Hyde-park-gardens,
Nov. 25, 1858.
_ _

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 20th inst., together with
a copy of a letter addressed by the Secretary for
War to Viscount Combermere, and in reply I beg
you will inform his lordship that in vindication of
my own honour and standing in the service I
adhere to my determination not to resign my com-
mission, as I feel confident that when fairly brought,
as I intend to be, face to face with my accusers, I
shall be able to prove that the charges of Colonel
the Earl of Wilton are as frivolous as they are false,
and as an officer and a gentleman I have never dis-
graced a profession to which it has been my pride
for so many years to belong.
This determination, I am happy to say, is ap-
proved of by every military man and a large circle
of friends who have done me the honour to look into
all the circumstances and correspondence connected '

with the case, independent of which, having taken
legal advice on the subject, I hereby solemnly pro-
, test against the Secretary for War's sentence, as
being contrary to law—vide Militia Act. 55 Geo.
111., c. 168, secs. 1,2, which require due notice of
any offence involving punishment being served
upon the accused within six months after the dis-
embodiment of the regiment; and as my offence, if
'moved, after all, is admitted to be only an error of
judgment with regard to the mess by Gen. Peel,
and that took place in 1855-6, during the embodi-
ment of the regiment, and as no notice whatever
has subsequently been delivered to me, the illegality
of the recent and partial proceedings, and my
threatened displacement founded upon them, is as
undeniable as it is unprecedented.—l am, sir, your
very obedient servant, _ _

(Signed) LOTHIAN S. DICKSON,
Lieut.-Colonel 2d Tower Htmlets Militia,
Deputy-Lieut. and J. P. for Middlesex.
Bertie Williams Wynn, Esq., Cle-± to
Tower Hamlets Lieutenancy.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—The following mysterious
circumstances, which have produced no small amount of ex-
citement in the neighbourhood of Glasnevin, took place on
Friday last. A fine little girl named Mary Gartland, the
daughter of a poor man residing at a short distance from
the seventh lock on the Royal Canal, went on Thursday
evening to fetch some water, and, not returning-, her
brothers and sisters became alarmed, and on their going to
the canal bank they saw the jug which the little girl had
carried with her floating on the water. Information of the
circumstance having been conveyed to the police station,
the next morning police-constable 63 D proceeded witliatae
drag, &c., to search for the body of the child, of whose
there was very little doubt. While engaged in the search the
constable found the drag resisted by some soft substance.
After vigorous efforts he succeeded in bringin g to
face the body of a man, which, on being got on shore, seemed
the
by the the dress, &c., to be that of a gentleman, and to have
been in the water about three weeks, decomposition having
gone on extensive 3,. Around the neck of the body a red
e
sthilekohtrerdeknedrchiwaefs Navasttactodttaedr byiee eonote, itsbofrassw
ends, w'b to
the
ta. was found afterwards to hay belonged
This mass of me 1
to a force pump. Its weight was sufficient td keep the body
under water, despite of the buoyancy consequent on de-
composition, and the remains would doubtless have re-
mained much longer submerged and undiscovered had it
not been for the circumstance of the canal being dragged.
for the missing child. The body of the deceased ap-
peared to be that of a man about 27 years old and five
feet seven inches in height, wearing short dark whiskers
and dark hair. The clothes on the body comprised
a black cloth frock coat with outside flaps at the hips,
but without pockets, the cDllar and breast bound
with
black silk and black silk lining. The vest was of dark
brown tweed, also bound with black silk. The trousers
were of the kind called " shepherd's plaid." The shirt
was of fine linen, and round the neck was a black silk
scarf. A pair of fashionably made Wellington boots
were on the feet. The body was conveyed to St. George's
Cemetery, Whitworth-road, where it remains in charge of
the police, awaiting the coroner's inquest, which will be
held this day. It is feared that the deceased encountered
some parties who had been committing a robbery, and that
he met with foul play at their hands. The piece of brass
which was used to sink the body is thought to have been
part of the plunder. Others are led to believe that it was a
ease of suicide, inasmuch as the sum of ss. 90. and abunch
of keys were found in the pockets. The detective police
are actively engaged in making inquiries for the purpose of
ascertaining the identity of the deceased. The body of the
little girl, Mary Gartland, was taken out of the canal, and
was conveyed to the house of her afflicted parents, where
=inquest will be held this day. Dublin paper.