The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

BREVET.

The undermentioned officer having completed three
years' actual service on the 3d July, 1857, in the rank of
Lieut.-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel in the Army,
under the Royal Warrant, 6th October, 1854.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Holmes Tidy, half-pay 14th
Foot (Deputy Adjutant-General, Jamaica)

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 1.
Corps of Royal Marines—Sergeant-Major Joi] Lewis
to be Quartermaster, vice Ruston, retired on half-pay;
Quartermaster-Sergeant Matthew Brickdale to be Quarter-
waster, vice Austin, retired on half-pay ' • Sergeant-Major
William Scott to be Quartermaster, vice Dibban, retired
on half-pay. •

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS,

Tower Hamlets—St. Pierre Butler Hook, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant.
Huntingdonshire Regiment of Militia—Stephen Ron-
land Woulfe, Eiq.' to ba First Lieutenant.
Merionethshire Royal Rifle Corps of Militia—Arthur
Edward Morgan, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Thoina3 Ellis,
Gent., promoted.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—George Manley,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bell, whose commission has
been cancelled.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32. f r
the Week ending on Saturday, the 29th day of Aug., 1857.
NettE DEPARTMENT.
•
Notes Issued • • .... • • 25,323,965

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 3,459,900
Gold coin and hullibn 10,848 965
Silver bu11i0n........ < -

£25,323 965
W.
Dated the 3d day of Sept., 1857,

£95,323,965
MILLER, Deputy C.►shior.

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ........ ...... 3,585,010
Public deposit E (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of

:PARTMENT.

Governmentsecaritles

(Includg.Dead Wci,;h t

Anna 10 593,654
Other securities...... 17,S 11,663
Notes •• .. .......... 5,999'790
Gold and silver coin.. 631,622

National Debt, Sav7

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,429,294
Other deposits ...... 0,705,366
Seven Day and other
Bills .. 784,059

£35,036,729
W.
Dated the 3d day of Sept., 1857

.£35,050,729
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

Ihe Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Saist.
1, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid on
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.

Frain the British Possessions in America 36 4
Muscovado, the produce of the Alauritins.....
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 23 74
Average of the above descriptions.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
-Department of the Accountant-General of-the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 3, 1837.
Notice is hereby given, to all parties interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended dis-
tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brig Apsis,
captured on the 15th May, 1855, by her Majesty's ship
Niger, and the ship-of-war Le Milan, belonging to his Im-
perial Majesty the Emperor of the French.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceed 4, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
an 1 paid tinier the sanction of the Judge of the said
Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor-
ney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by
virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the
sbaro belonging to I,ny captor, are requested, with as little
delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by
the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Depart-
ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi-
ralty, Somerset-hour.
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the commence-
ment of distribution; and at the same time, the amount
of an individual's share in the respective classes will be
announced.