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

BANKRUPTS.

Tilden Chrismas, coal merchant. Sheernests aid N43w
Brompton, to surrender Jan. 20, and Feb. 24, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Eli Wainwright, baker, Earl-street, Kensington, Jan.
24, at twelve, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Henry Rogers, milliner, Bradford, Jan. 21 ar.d Feb, 18,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Walter Lodge, merchant, Castle-hill, Abu ondt atrs•,
Yorkshire, Jan. 27 and Feb. 18, at eleven; at the Lee&
District Court.

Birmingham; Jan. 21 and
Feb.
grocer,lilirmiagham District Court.
-J liohalnrol'esl at
Vjeolaoe‘mlf-eelslthilactityllh' eounger, small ware manufac,:mrer,
Manchester, Jan: 28 and Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court.
Mr. Commissioner Fane will sit at the Court of 73ank-
ruptcy, on Thursday, 20th Jan., in the matter of t h.e wind-
ing-up of the Joint-stock Companies Acts, 1856 ar.d 1857. ,
Mr. Commissioner Fonbianque will sit, in the Court of
Bankruptcy, on the 22d Feb., at one, in the natter of
winding up the Maresfield Patent Gunpowder 'company
(Limited).

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Bruce, builder, Ifillhead, near Glasgow-.
' Scott and Edmond, oil merchants, Glasgow.
Malcolm M'lntosh, merchant, Portrce. •
.James Fleming, grocer, Leith.
John Inglis, builder, Glasgow.
Walter Edgar, grocer, Glasgow.
Alexander Macdougall, Fettes Farm, Killer nan, ROBS..
shire.
James Martin, farmer, Goldenberry, West KD bride, Ayr-
shire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tnts TAT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 17* 11 17/
Antwerp
Britssels
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 35 25 40
-Frankfort on Maine — 114 118!
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35 36
Madrid .. — 49 49
Cadiz — 491 491
Leghorn — 29 75 29 5
Genoa — 25 50 25 .55
Naples
Palermo — 1211 122
Messina — 122 1221
Lisbon
524 52k
Oporto
Rio Jafteiro
New York — • •

. _
E.I. Co's bls. louse big. 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.

Ben„w.al £1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0..0
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. 17 9

Mexican Dollars ...
Silver in Bars (Standard) tl
„0 0 0

FOURTH EDITION.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

(Fronz a Supplement to the London Gazette of
this Evening.)

BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
Victoria, R. Whereas our Parliament stands
prorogued to Thursday, the thirteenth day
of this instant January; We, with the advice of
Our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare,
that the said Parliament shall be further pro-
rogued, on the said thirteenth day of January in-
stant, to Thursday, the third day of Feb. next ;
and We have given order to Our Chancellor of that
part of ourUnited_Kingdom called Great Britain
to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same
accordingly ; and we do hereby, with the advice
aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure, that
the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday,
the third day of February next, assemble and
be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and
important affairs : and the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Bur-
gesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby
required and commanded to give their attend-
ance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said
Thursday the third day of February next.
Given at Our Court, at Windsor, this eleventh
day of January, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and in the
twenty-second year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

LIEUT.-COLONEL DICKSON AND THE
EARL OF Ti'ILTOiY

The following additional correspondence has
been handed to us for publication :
War-office, Nov. 17, 1858.
My Ltii-d,—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 aequaint '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 .ofresigning, 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 Sextant, ' (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 the
my 'Own 'honour and standingservice
in vindication of
adhere to ray determination not to resign m y 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 arc 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
to say, is ap-
proved .ray pride
for so many years to belong.
paii)l3-d a large circle
'litlaraymmna
of friends who have done me the honour to look into
Th is ,odfeit3eyrmeNi.nera3t,iomni
all the circumstances and correspondence connected
with the ease, independent. of which, having taken
legal advice on the subject, I hereby solemnly pro-
test Against the Seefetary 'for .War's sentence, as
being contrary to law----vide Militia Act. 55 Geo.-
m., c. 168, secs. 1,2, which require due notice of
any offence' int'olving' punishment being served
upon the accused -within' six months after the
cinbodiment of the regiment; and as my offence, if
proved, 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-.
wilt 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 Runlets Militia,
Deputy-Lieut. and J. P. fur Middlesex.
Bertie Williams Wynn, ,Esq., Cle-.li to
- Tower Hamlets Lieutenancy. -