The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

County of Middlesex—To be Deputy Lieutenants—Joseph
Arden, Esq.; William Bird, Esq.; Hans Busk, junior,
Esq. ; Samuel Fisher, Esq. •, William Henry Griffiths,
Esq. ; Richard Hall, Esq. ; Charles Henry Mills, Esq. ;
James Montgomery, Esq. ; Henry Paull, Esq.
County of Lincoln—Guildford James Hillier Onslow,
Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Charles Edmond Hassell
Alpe, Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Norfolk—The Honourable George Watson
Milles to be Deputy Lieutenant; Richard Henry Weyland,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Norfolk Militia Artillery Second Lieutenant the Honour-
able Harbord Harbord to be First Lieutenant, vice
Thierens, resigned ; Henry Harington Molyneux Seel,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Harbord, promoted.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Brins-
ley De Courcy Nixon, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Sewell, re..
signed.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Edwin Robert Ives,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—William
Montagu Calcraft, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Petherston-
haugh, promoted; Richard George Glyn, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Hussey, resigned.
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graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commis-
sion held by Captain Pennant Athelwold Iremonger, as
Adjutant of the Royal Carnarvonshire Militia.
2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey
Militia—The Queen

has been graciously pleased to accept the Resignation of
Captain Joseph Dingwell.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Wescott and William Wescott, paper manu-
facturers, Commercial-road, Lambeth; to surrender, May
17, at one, and June 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Henry Sherwood, cloth manufacturer, Esholt, York-
shire May 31 and June 21, at eleven at the Leeds District
Court.

Arthur Ledger, grocer, Great Pearl-street, • Spitalfields,
May 12, at half-past one, and June 9, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Gyles Bingley, druggist, Manchester, May 19,
and June 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Frederick Mayston, grocer, Iltuldersfield, May 31. at
half-past eleven, and June 21, at twelve, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.
Thomas Cheetham and Thomas Thornley, hosiers, Bu-
ford, Nottinghamshire, May 17, and June 14, at eleven, at
the Birmingham DiAtriet Court.
George Cox and George Co; jun., butchers,' Noithamp-
ton-row, Holloway, May 20, at half-past twelve, and Anne
7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Penney, merchant, Lincoln, May 25 and June 22,
at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Richard Pain, ironmonger, Exeter, May 14 andiJune 15,
at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Blair, joiner, Glae;gow'.
John Chambers Proudtbot, timber merchant, Glasgow.
Frederick James Audsley, merchant, Glasgow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 4th day
of May, 1859 :

ISSUE rot P ART:VENT.
Notes issued £31,016,035 Government Debt X 11,015,100
Other Securities .. - 3,459,900
Gold Coin Sr. Bullion 16,571.035
Silver Bullion ....

X 31,016,033;

RANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
3,163,488
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 6,468,00$
Other Deposits 16,963,971
Seven Day and
other Bills 784,760

.f 30,933,227
?,
Dated May 5,18,9,

531,046,036

EPATITMINT.
Government Seen-
! rides (including
Dead WeiglitAn-
nutty) £U,371,118
Other Securities 19,137,314
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin .

634,445

,933,
.RSIIALL, Chief£39 Cashier.2t7

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 3d day
of May, 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 27s 814.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 23s 8d
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 30s laid
Average price of the foregoing 2Bs 41d

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DIY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam..„ — 11 14} 11 15
Antwerp
Brussels — 24 95 25 5
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on. Maine — 115 1151-
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 32 321
Madrid
Cadiz — 491 491
Leghorn — 31 50 32 0
Genoa —
Naples
Palermo —119 k
Messina — 120 120
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York .

E.I. Co's bls. Mum bis. 80d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 24}
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 24f
East India Company s Bills drawn, from the 9th to
the 25th April.
£58416 4
0 0 0
0 0 0

Boattal
Madras
Bombay

£3Bl 16 4

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard). ...per oz. £3 17 9}
Mexican Dollars „ 0 5 04
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5