The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-03 00:00:00

1857.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing,
viz. :

FOR GOVERNORS,
Sheffield Neave, Esq., Governor.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq., Deputy• Governor,

FOR DIRECTORS.

Thomas Baring, Esq.
Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq.
*Travers Buxton, Esq.
Ed ward Henry Chapman, Esq.
Itobt. Wigram Crawford, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.
Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq.

Kirkman Danl. Hodgson, Esq
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq
Jae. Gollibraud Hubbard, Esq
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq.
Alfred Latham, Esq.
George Lyall, Esq.
Thomas Masterman, Esq.
Alexander Matheson, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
George Warde Norman, Esq.
Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.

John Benjamin Heath, Esq. I Thos. Matthias Woguelin, Esq.
* N.B.—The gentleman against whose name an
asterisk is placed is a new candidate for tha direction.
The election for Governor and Deputy•Goveraor will
be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 14th April, and
for Directors on Wednesday, the 15th April, from ten
o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon,

A FORTUITOUS COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES.—
Messrs. C3bdon, Bright, and Gibson were rejected as
members to serve in Parliament on the anniversary of
the declaration of war being made by England and
France against Russia (March 28, 1854) ; and the public
declaration of their rejection was announced by the re-
turning officers on the treaty of peace with Russia being
egned in Paris (March 30, 1856.)
A. Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the official residence of the first Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street, The Ministers present were—Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Marquis of Lacsdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir
G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labou-
chere, Lord Paumure, the Coancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right
Hon. M. T. Baines. _ _ _

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on
Wednesday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave
have arrived in Belgrave-square, from the archiepiscopal.
palace at Bishopthorpe.
His Excellency the Russian Minister and the Countess
Chreptowitch entertained at dinner on Wednesday even-
ing the Marquis .of Lansdowne, Earl of Aberdeen, the
Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl
and Countess Grey, Lord J. Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor and Lady Cranworth, Sir Roderick and Lady
Murchison, and Mr. Norman Macdonald.
The Patrie announces that the Divans of the Danu-
bian Principalities are to meet about the 20th instant,
for the solution of the difficulties now pending.
At the annual meeting of the officers of the Royal
ArLi lery, held in the mess room, Woolwich, on Wednes-
day hit, M3jor Gtneral Sir W. F. Willianr, Bart.,
K corlituandsmt oc the gaCiriB4,nt preient,ol an
eLgant eilver cup and 280 s rvereigns tl Mr. William
J&ley, as an ackflowledgment of his long and faithful
services at the tne.s.

SLIGO.—Mr. John Ball has retirci, having discovered,
he says, "that ho could not, without a sacrifice of his
own principles, succeed in attaining a position which he
had thought an object of legitimate ambition."
GREAT Loss OF LIFE AT SEA.--Singapore, Feb. 19.
—A junk, from Canton, bound to this port and Penang,
was driven ashore on the morning of the 4th Jan. on the
east coast of Bintang, and became a total wreck. 120
Chinese out of 340 on board were drowned.
THE TRANSPORT BOARD.—The Transport Board, esta-
blished tor the late war, was dissolved on the 31st ult.,
but the duties of the department will be carried on by
Capt. W. Drew, who is htil! retained as director of trans.
ports.