The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEG. 22.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of
a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Athens, enclos-
ing a translation of an order of the Greek Government
admitting vessels arriving in Greek ports from Syria and
Egypt, and having a clean bill of health, to free pratique.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of
a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, enclosing
a copy of an order of the Board of Health at that capital,
notifying that all the ports of Brazil are considered free
from infection.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 23.
MEMORANDUM.

The next Examination of Candidates for direct Commis-
sions in the Army will be held on Wednesday, the Ist of
February, 1860, and following days.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20.
Corps of Royal Marines—Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph
Oates Travers to be Assistant Adjutant-General of the
Corps; Captain and Brevet-Major Richard Carr Spalding
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Travers, appointed to the
General Staff: First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Frede-
rick George Pym to be Captain, vice Spalding, promoted;
Second Lieutenant Henry Eyre Russell to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice Pym, promoted.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

County of Inverness—Sir John Ord, B art., to be Deputy.
Lieutenant; Duncan Cameron, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant ; James Baird, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John
Baillie Baillie, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Gor-
don, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Eneas Ronald Mac-
donell, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Lincoln—Charles Seely, Esq., Joseph Shuttle-
worth, Esq., Robert John Taylor, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenants.

Ist Lincolnshire Volunteer Rifles—Francis Delaval
Walsh, Esq., to he Honorary Surgeon.
Ist Section of the Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers—
John Benjamin Andrews to be Lieutenant.
Ist Company of Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers—The
Hon. George Waldegrave to be Captain; Vandaleur Barnet
Crake, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; James Rock tho younger,
Esq., to be Ensign.
Ist Gloucestershire Artillery Volunteers—Major Henry
Bourchier Osborne Savilo, lrto Royal Artillery, to be Major
Commandant.

Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Lumley Buckley
Williames, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Lewis, resigned.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Henry Broomhead, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Doyle, pro-
moted ; Godfrey John Bective Tuite Dalton, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Fletche-..., resigned.
2d Subdivision. of Berks Rifle Volunteers—Henry
Richard Eyre, Eaq., to be Lieutenant.
County of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Corps—James
Cowan, Esq., to be Captain ; Henry Graham Lawson,
Gent., to be Lieutenant t David Noble Millons, Gent., to
bo Ensign ; Andrew Hugh Turnbull, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice John Ballantyne, promoted.
Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Richard Wil-
liam Johnson. to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Humphreys,
deceased.
Royal Rifle Regiment of Denbigh Militia—Thomas
Lloyd, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Renfrewshire Volunteer Company-Ist Company—
Robert Burrell, Gent., to bo Ensign, vice Neill, promoted.
2d Company—Ensign Stewart Neill, of the Ist Company,
to be Lieutenant, vice Stewart, resigned. 4th Company—
James Tassie, Gent., to be Ensign.
Warwickshire Rifle ,Volunteers—Alfred Hill, Gent.,
M.D., to be Surgeon.
3d Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—John Reynolds Mac-
Innes, Esq., to be Captain • Bas Field, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant ; George Holford, Gent., to be Ensign.
13th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—James Bird, Gent., to
bo Lieutenant.

Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers-12th Company—John
Fulton, Gent., to be Litutmant ; Archibald Pollock, Gent.,
to be Ensign. 13th Company—George Buchanan, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant. 15th Company—Alexander Bennet
M'Grigor, Esq., to be Captain; James Morrison, Gent., to
be Lieutenant; Thomas Grieve Wright, Gent., to be En-
sign. 18th Company—Robert Downie Wylie, Esq., to be
Captain; John Wylie, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William
Lochhead, jun., Gent., to be Ensign. 21st Company—John
Boag Esq., to be Captain; John Robertson, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; Wm. Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign. 23d
Company—Robert Buchanan Stewart, Esq., late Ensign,
Bth Company, to be Captain • Thomas Leburn Arnett,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Robe;t Baird Rodger, Gent., to be
Ensign. _ .

Glamorgansbire Rifle Volunteers— 4th Company, Ist
Subdivision—The name of Lieutenant Herrmann, inserted
in the " Gazette" of 20th inst., should have been Bern-
hard Gustav Herrmann.

BANKRUPTS.
Robert Walton Feast, and Henry Feast, oilmen, Vic-
toria-road, Islington, to surrender Jan. 3, at half-past two,
and Jan. 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Robert Daplyn, grocer, Diss, Norfolk, Jan. 5, at twelve,
and Feb. 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Isaac Thomas Perrins, iron merchant, Dudley, Jan. 9
and Feb. 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Richard Castle, cattle dealer, Wattage, Berkshire, Jan.
2, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Patrick Birnie, livery stable-keeper,. Edinburgh.
Thomas Henderson, grocer and spirit dealer, Auchen-
leek, Ayrshire.
George Campbell, draper and clothier, Dundee.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 21st day
of December, 1859 :
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £30,757,625 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,282,625
Silver Bullion .... -

V 0,757,625!

£30,757,625

BANKING D'
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis -
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) ... .
Other Deposits 13,31 24
Seven Day and
other Bills 750,107

,EPARTNLICNT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,925,157
Other Securities 19,586,996
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 719,115

£41,313,2,3
DI. 1

£41,313,283
ARSIIALL, Cashier.

Dated Dec. 22,1859.

AVERAGE. PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 20th day
of Dec., 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain

Per ev►t.
From the British possessions in America 26s 7d
Muscovado, the produce of tho Mauritius' 27s 81d
Muscovadoz the produce of the East Indies —s —d
Average price of the foregoing 26s 8d

THE CHELMSFORD BANK.,-We understand that
at the close of the present year Mr. Edmund Round will
retire from the banking firm of Messrs. Sparrow and Co. of
-ibls town, and that ho will be succeeded by Mr. John Oxley
Parker, of Woodham Mortimer, and Mr. Robert Wood-
house, of the firm of Messrs. It. Woodhouse and Co., East
India merchants, London.—Chelinsforel Chronicle.
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