The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

BREVET.

Colonel Joseph Ellison Poi tlock, on the retired full•pay
of the Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, the rank
being honorary.
Lieut.-Colonel George Sandham, retired full-pay Royal
Artillery, to be Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 3d
Nov., Ibsl, in consequence of the promotion of Colonel
Cockburn, who stood below him on the Effective List of
the Regiment at the time of his retirement.
The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Artillery,
having completed three years' service in the rank of Lien-
tenant-Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the
Royal Warrant of 3d November, 1854 .
Lieutenant-Colonel St. John Thomas Browne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Aylmer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Irving, C.B.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bingham.
COMMISSIONS SIGN ED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

Regiment of Royal London Militia--Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel Henry Boys Harvey, late 95th Regiment, to be
Major, vice Graham Elmalie, resigned ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward Vere Jones to be Captain, vice Charles Mackinnon
Walmisley, resigned; Lieutenant Thomas William An-
drews to be Captain, vice Robert Wallen Jones, super-
seded ; Captain Miles Fisher Monckton, late 6th
Regiment of Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Edward Sackville Smith, resigned.
Captain John Lambrick Vivian, late 3d Regiment Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieutenant, vice Edgar
Wainwright Bishop, resigned ; Lieutenant Wm. Henry
EmerFon, late 63d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ed-
ward Kelly Obbard, resigned ; Thurlby Smith, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Augustus Belle 'de Lasalle, promoted;
Henry Frank Ottts Golding, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
James Cunningham, promoted ; Sergeant-Major John
Birkin to be Quartermaster.
3d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia En-
sign Walter Mainwariog Coyney to be Lieutenant, vice
Mainwo.ring, resigned.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Pimlott Oates to be
Surgeon, vice Lishman, deceased ; Charles Epward Elliott
Watchman, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Oates,
promoted.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia- -J. F.
Wilkinson, late Lieut. 2d Somerset Militia, to be Lieut. ; '
George Waugh, Gent., to be Lieut.
Bedfordshire Militia—John James Spedding, Gent., to
ho Ensign ; S. K. Wentworth, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Win. Henry
Spurway• to be Captain, vice Edward Sawyer, resigned ;
Lieut. Wm. Barrett, the younger, to be Capetainevuiticeiel
Lieute-
nant, Richards, resigned; Lieutenant _Alfred Hudson Ricketts
'
to bo Captain, vice Barrett, resigned • Ensign K
nor Augustus Arthur Itrasier Creagh to b
vino Willtioni John Everett Poole' appointed
to the 60th Rifles ; Ensign Richard Marker to be
Lieu-
tenant, vice W. H. Spur way, promoted ; Ensign Edward
evriiceHoWlti,lii William Barrett, jun ,
Gent., to be Ensign,
promoted;Fox to b e L
Williameu Lieutenant, n t,
dc re
vice Parkes, promoted ; William Frederic Gore Lang-
ton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Edwards , re signed ;
Spencer Cargill, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bellamy,
pointed to tho 2d West iudia Regiment) Cluiatopher

Lucas Salmon, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Chamb:rs, ap .
pointed to East India Company's Service.
Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Captain Jobn Mat-
thew Quantock to be Major; Lieutenant George Deedes
Warry, to be Captain, vice Quantock, promoted.;
Ensign Ralph Sadler, to be Lieutenant, vice G. D. Warry,
promoted; Septimus James Barrett, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Winaloe, promoted.
90th, Stirlingshire, &c., Militia, Highland Borderers
Light Infantry—James Dunlop, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Baird, resigned ; George Scott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Doering, appointed to the Line.
BANKRUPTS,
_ _ _

Samuel Edward Steane, soap and blue manufacturer,
Orford, to surrender Jan. 5 and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Samuel Harris and Isaac Gabriel Costa, wholesale
clothiers, Commercial-street, Whitechapel, Dec. 29, at
one, and Jan. 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
A petition for arrangement was presented by John
Britten, dealer in silk and worsted, Noble-street, Falcon-
square, City, at the Court of B tnkruptcy.
Andrew Veitch, music-seller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Dee. 30, at eleven, and Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Royal-
arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Charles Hubbard, builder, Queen's-road, Haveratock-
hill, Jan. 5, at three, and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
John Starkey and John Frederick Adcock, percussion
cap makers, Birmingham, Jan. 9 and 28, at half-past eleven,
at the Birmingham District Court.
John Collinson, licensed victualler, Old-street, St. Lake's,
Dec. 31, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the
Court of Bat kruptcy.
William Wainman, builder, Sheffield, Jan. 2 and Feb.
6, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield.
James Raynes, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 4 and 25, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District. Court.
John Jamieson M‘Rae, tailor, Newark-upon-Trent, Jan.
5 and z 6, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham.
Thomas Gullick, victualler, Bristol, Jan. 5 and Feb. 8,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.

Thomas B +no, tualster, Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 4
and 25, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Henry Johnson, licensed victualler, Welt Bromwich,
Jan. 4 and 25, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Die.
trict Court.

William Goundrill, farmer, Eastrington, Yorkshire,
Jan. 13 and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Samuel Burlow, grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 9 and Feb. 6, at
ten, at the Leeds District Court.
John Buckley Sharp, paper merchant, Bradford, Jan. 8
and 23, nt eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Roberts and Hanson, worsted spinners, Halifax, Jan. 8
and 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
John Hampson, grocer, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Jan.
4 and 25, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Skirving Walker, shipbroker, Liverpool, • Jan.
4 and 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Robert Cave, fishmonger, Windsor, Jan. 4, at twelve,
and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Marjory Moon, child-bed linen manufacturer, Green-
street, , Grosvenor-square, Jan. 4, at one, and Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Stead, builder, Dewsbury, Jan. 12, at half-past
eleven, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.'

, Vim.
m Crossley and Geo. Crossley, cotton spinners,
Elland, Yorkshire, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at eleaen, at the
Leeds District Court.

Edwin Spence Roberts, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 7,
and 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.

George Worsdell, iron manufacturer, Warrington, Jan.
4, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
E lward Stuytb, draper, Swansea, Jan. 4, and Feb. 9, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. _ _

Alexander Bryson, brewer, Itedcar, Yorkshire, Jan. 11,
at half-past twelve, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- Trim DAT.
tm5terdam............ IL 16% Gibra1tar......Gibra1tar..............••
Ditto, three months .. 12 1% Leghorn 30 70
aotterdam ••••••• • •• •• 12 1% Genoa ••• •• 26 15
Antwerp •• •• •• •• •• .. 25 80 Milan ...• •• •••••• •• •• -
Brussels ••••••••.. • . • • 25 80 Venice..................••
Bamburgh ••••..•••• • • 13 104 Naples •• •• •••• ...... 41
Altcna •• •• •• .. •• •• •• • • Palermo •• •• •••••• .. •• 12214
Paris •••• •• • • •.... 25'32%a% Messina . 123
Do. three months ••25 80 Lisbon ... 51%
Mart eillma 25 85 Oporto
Bourdcaux .. • • ',Rio Janeiro...... ••
Fr ankfort-on-Nlaine .... 121% Buenos Ayres
Berlin ...• .. •• •• ••• • •• • • New York,6o days' sight •••••
Vienna.. •• •• •••••••• •• 10 55 Philadelphia • • ewe
friegte•• s• ose r••• •• •• 4re 10 b 8 PRICES OF BULLION, PEI oz:
Petersburg ............ 33N Foreign Gold In Bare £5 17 9
Scradrid .........., 474 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz 474 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
BAreelona ............ New Dollars . 0 0 0
50vi11e•.•.•...••. .. ISilverin bars .•.. . 0 0 0

POLICE INI'ELLIGENCE.— (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A JUVZNILN 'hum—James Sullivan, a dirty little
arehin, whose head scarcely reached the top of the dock,
was charged before Mr. Beadon, with stealing a purse,
*Waiving 1/. 16s. 6d., in gold and silver, money belong-
fhg to Mrs. Harriett Warren, 7, Belsize-road, St. John's
Wood.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecntrix, that
on the previous afternoon, about half-past five, she was
with her daughter in a confectioner's shop in Regent-
street, when she had occasion to lay her parse, con-
taining the sum named in the charge, on the counter.
At the rear of the latter was an ornamental plate of
silvered glass, and, on happening to cast her eye
thereon, she distinctly saw a dirty hand stealthily
aove along the counter and clutch hold of the parse.
Proitecutrix immediately turned round and saw the
prisoner running out of the shop with the purse in
Lis hand. She pursued him through the mud across
the street, when he was st.pped by Webb, one of the
Mendicity constables,. who picked up the purse, which
the prisoner had previously thrown away.
The prisoner, being interrogated by the magistrate,
replied that he knew "neat wot somdever " about
the purse, and he was as " hinnercent " as a young
kitten. He subsequently changed his tone, and pleaded
guilty. Mr. Beadon therefore committed him for a
;month.

THAMES.
btrIMENT ROBBERY BY CARD ..iHARPRRS.---John
Hann and William Jones, aged 30 and 25 respectively,
Vero brought before Mr. Selfe charged with stealing
three sovereigns from the person of Johann Hanning, a
German.

Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, defended the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor and
countryman of his went into a public-house in White-
shape! to obtain some refreshment, and were followed
by the prisoners, wbo marked the foreigners as their
prey. The prisoners, who are most notorious card-
sharpers, commenced playing and betting with three
cards, and invited the prosecutor to play and win
some money, which he refused to do. Soon after.
wards the prosecutor's companion called for a
pint of beer, and Harming said he would pay
for it, and put his hand in his pocket and took out three
sovereigns. While the prosecutor was looking among
the sovereigns for a shilling to pay for the beer, Williams
made a snatch at the German's gold, and took it away
from bim and ran away. The German made an attempt
to pursue the prisoner Williams, and Jones got between
them and made pretence that the money was taken in
fun, and would be given back. Williams got away, and
was pursued and overtaken by the prosecutor and his
friend, but no money was found upon him. Jones
fled in a different direction, and was actively sought
after by the police. He was met with accidentally,
and taken into custody. The sum of 31. 9a. Bd.,
which included two sovereigns, was found upon
him. He was proved to have changed a sovereign
after he left the public-house where the robbery
took place, and there is no doubt be received the gold
from bis companion in the public-house. Brass medals
resembling sovereigns, cards, and all the apparatus for
carrying on the trade of sharpers, were found on the
prisoners, who were said to be two of the most notorious
card sharping impostors that ever infested the races and
fairs in the kingdom.
Mr. Young adroitly attempted to make the whole
affair look very ranch like a gambling transaction, but
the prosecutor said that he never bet on the cards at all.
His friend did bet 25., and lost it.
The depositions having been taken, Mr. Young pleaded
guilty for his clients, and
Mr. Selfe said—l convict them of larceny, and sentence
Them to tour months' imprisonment and hard labour.