The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-17 00:00:00

Liverpool and Isle of Man
Holyhead and Kingstown
Aberdeen and Lerwick
Thurso and Stromness
Southampton and Chau. -Islands
Dover & Calais Dov. & Ostend
Southampton,Vigo, Oporto,Lis-
bon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
Liverpool and Halifax, and Bos-
ton, • Liverpool and New York,
and New York and Nassau
Halifax, Bermuda, and St. Tho-
mas' and Halifax, and St
John's, Newfoundland
Southampton and West Indies
Do., and Brazils & Buenos Ares
Panama, Callao, and Valparaiso
England and W. Coast of Africa
England and Cape of Good Hope
Southampton and Sydney, and
branch from Marseilles to

Alexandria __-
Australia and New Zealand
England and Alexandria, Cey-
lon and Calcutta, with branch
from Marseilles to Malta
Aden and Bombay
Additional mails to India by al-
ternate weeklycommunication
to Bombay and Calcutta
Allowance of Government
Agents on board the contract
packets

'acket Establishments, Dover,
Holyhead, Liverpool, and
Southampton

991,590

083,468

Sir John Pakinoton (First Lord of the Admiralty)
and Captain Arrow have been elected Elder Brethren of the
Trinity House; the former in the room of she Earl of Had-
dington, deceased, and the latter in the place of the late
Captain Shepherd.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has
appointed the Rev. Henry White, curate of St. Jame',
Dover, to the incumbency of the Savoy Church, in the
Strand.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.--The Liverpool, New
York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Balti-
more, Captain Robert Leitch, left the Mersey for New
York about half-past H this day, with the -United States
mails, 189 passengers, and a fair cargo of fine goods. The
Cunard screw Steamship Jura, Captain Moodie, which left
her moorings on Saturday last for New York, but had to
come to at the North Light on account of fog, when she was
run into by the Windsor steamer, and so damaged that she
had to return to dock, will sail again- on Friday morning
with a mail.

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BREVET-COLONELS.—A return " of colonels pro-
t
moted to the rank of major-general in the brevets of 1851
and 1854, having served six years or more as effective field-
officers on full pay, and not being now colonels of regi-
ments, was moved for by Lord Hotham, M.P., and laid
on the table a few days ago. The only name returned is
that of Lord de Ros (premier baron of England), who served
as a substantive major for 4f, and as brevet lieut.-colonel
and colonel for 20f years, making altogether 24 years.
The date of Lord de Ros's brevet is June 20, 1854.
THE LATE MR. PRESCOTT.—A Boston cor-
respondent writes, " Precisely a week before Mr. Prescott's
death, I had seen and conversed with him in his study at
Boston, where he sat surrounded by the material for his
great History of Philip 11.,' and enjoying apparently excel-
lent health. His handsome features presented no trace of
the paralytic attack under which ho had suffered about a
year before, and the vivacity of his conversation was no
loss disting-uished than in former years. On Friday, the
28th, however, at a little after noon, Mr. Prescott, who had
entered his bath, was heard to groan by his secretary, Mr.
John Foster Kirk. The latter immediately despatched a
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