The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-26 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE-( THIS EVENING).

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 26.
The Quern has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Colonel George Everest, on the
Bengal Retired List, formerly Surveyor-General of India,
and Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey
of that country, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil
Division of the Third Class, or Companion,, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London • Major-
General Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C. 13. ; John ihwaites,
Esquire, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works ;
Captain Douglas Galion, of the Royal Engineers;
Edward Burstal, Esquire, Commander in her Majesty's
Navy, Secretary of the River Thames Conservancy Board ;
Henry Arthur Hunt, Esquire, Surveyor of Her Majesty's
Works and Public Buildings; and John Robinson McClean,
Esquire, to be her Majesty's Commissioners to examine
into Plans for embanking the River Thames within the
Metropolis.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAx. 3.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Laurence Oliphant, Esq., to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation in Japan.

CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 22.
The Queen has been pleased, by let tors patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to give and grant to
George Hayes, Serjeant-at-Law, place and precedence at
the Bar next after Archibald John Stephens, Esq., one of
her Majesty's Council learned in the Law.
The Queen has been pleased, by several letters patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute
and appoint the following gentlemen to be of her Council
learned in the law, viz. :
William Dugmore, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn..
William Anthony Collins, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn.
Anthony Cleasby, Esq., of the Inner Temple.
Henry Warwick Cole, Esq , of the Inner Temple.
John Fraser Macqueen, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn.
Thomas Chambers, Esq., of the Middle Temple.
Edwin Plumer Price, Esq., of the Inner Temple.
Josiah William Smith, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn.
Richard Bagallay, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn.
Henry Mills, Esq., of the Middle Temple.
The Hon Adolphus Frederic Octavius Liddell, of tha
Inner Temple.
William Baliol Brett, Esq., of Lincoln's •inn.
John Burgess Kerslake, Esq., of the Middle Temple.
William Digby Seymour, Esq., of the Middle Temple.
John Duke Coleridge, Esq., of Middle Temple.
The Hon. George Denman, of Lincoln's-inn.
George Mellish, of the Inner Temple.
FEB. 23.
Thomas Wheeler, of the Middle Temple, London, LL.D.,
was this day called to the degree of a Sergeant-at-Law, by
writ under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Pembroke—Sir Hugh Owen Owen, Bait, in
'le room of Sir John Owen, Bart., deceased.

BANKRUPTS.
William David Simpson, brick maker, Crayford, Kent-,
to surrender, March 8, at half• past twelve, and April 11,
at one, at the Cot rt of Bankruptcy.
John Blunsom Hutt, stationer, Cambridge, March 13,
at half-past one, and April 10, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy..

'William Teale Bellingham, auctioneer, Gresham•street,
March 8 and April 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwin Botting, grocer, Brighton, March 13, at one,
and April 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Moore, licensed victualler, St. Albans, March 12,
at half-past two, and April 12, at twelve, at the Court of
Binkruptcy.
Francis Brotherton, innkeeper, Middlesborough, York-
shire.

Joshua Barnsley, hay dealer, South Wingfield, Derby-
shire.
James Westbury, innkeeper, Gloucester.
James Carey, bootmaker, Tonbridge-wells.
William Griffin, small-, Cradley-heath, Staffordshire.
John Smith Whittaker, cooper, Great Grimsby, March
20 and April 10, at twelve, at the lownhall, Kingston-
upon-Hull.
Isaac French, cheese factor, Manchester, March 12 and
April 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

D. Crawford and Sons, dylrs, Milncroft, Glasgow.
James Galt, farmer, Whiteshaw, Carluke.
John Wight, stabler and horse dealer, Edinburgh.
Ronalds and Company, carpet merchants, Paisley.",
John Carlyle, cattle dealer, Shaw, Dumfries.
John Davie, merchant, Glasgow.
Archibald Macalister, farmer, West Clyth, Caithness-
shire

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuns DAY.
.krnsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 0} 12 1
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 65 25 721
Hamturgh
Paris
i)itto
\larseilles — 25 75 25 80
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119/
Vienna
Trieste - 15 35 15 GO
Petersburgh — 331 33/
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz — 481 481
Leghorn
Milan — 25 821 25 871
Genoa — 2.5 80 25 87/
Naples
Palermo
Messina — 118 1181
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
Now York — ..
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican. Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 0 0
South American Doublons

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—MoNDAY.

Very little change took place in any of the events now
before the public. For the Grand National, 7 to 1 was
offered on the field. When the rooms had become much
thinned, 100 to 9 was offered against Jealousy, but we
had seen 100 to 10 taken previously; 10 to 1 was offered.
against Anatis, and both Freshman and Old Bea Roe
would have been supported at any advance over the
prices quoted.—Chere Arnie was freely supported at 10 to
1 for the Chester event, and 35 to 1 was taken about The
Brewer.—For the Birmingham Steeplechase, 3 to 1 was.
taken about Colonel. North Lancashire was installed the
favourite for the Liverpool Spring Cup, and very freely
backed, the betting on him finishing at 81 to 1, takes.
Closing prices :

BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASE.
3to 1 agst Colonel (taken)
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
17 to 2 agst North Lancashire (taken)
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.
10 to 1 agst Emperor (taken)
10 to 1 agst Jealousy (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Anatis (offered)
100 to 8 agst Old Ben Roe (offered)
100 to 8 agst The Freshman (offered)
20 to 1 agst Redwing (taken)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Kiarikoff (offered)
9to 1 agst Russley (taken)
10 to 1 agst Overton (offered)
10 to 1 agst Preceptress (offered)

TILE CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
30 to 1 agst Killigrew (offered)
3,5 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
40 to 1 agst Butterfly (taken)

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND OTHER
METROPOLITAN MATTERS.

(From the Observer)
A Royal Commission will be immediately issued,
to whom the question of the Thames embankment
will be submitted for inquiry, and if possible for
completion. This commission will be composed of
seven gentlemen, selected for their competency for
the task, and their connection with the public
interests at stake. The chairman will be the Right
lion. W. Cubitt, M.P., the present Lord Mayor
of London. The other members will comprise Mr.
Th wedtes, the President of the Metropolitan Board
of Works ; the Secretary of the Thames Conservancy
Board, and two or three engineers of eminence.
To these will be entrusted the preparation and the
construction of the great works, with which will
no doubt be combined, if practicable, the execution
of the low level sewers of the metropolis. The
labours of the commission will be greatly lessened.
by the several plans submitted from time to time
and the successive inquiries set on foot, especially
the report of the House of Commons in the last
session. So soon as the commission can mature
their plans a bill will be brought in by the Chief
Commissioner of Works to carry them out. The
Home Secretary will propose a more limited area
for levying the coal duties, and perhaps will modify-
their amount.
The 20 miles' area is considered as unjust to those
who are outside the boundaries of tom metroplitan
improvements, and even the police area of 15 iles
may by some be considered too extensive; but it
is clear that a circle must be taken. The area of
the Metropolitan Board is objectionable, as being
too small, and as being irregularly extended in some-
directions. It would not do, for example, to levy
coal duties on the Kentish banks of the Thames,; and
allow them to be landed free of duty on the Essex
side of the river.

The Chief Commissioner has proposed a small bill for
the purchase of some houses to extend the site for
public office; after which he will probably ask ,for
a vote for the construction of the Foreign Office,
when the plans are approved of.
He will also proceed with the bill for the pur-
chase of houses and lands, and the consolidation of
the law courts and offices, in the neighbourhood of
the Inns of Court, in spite of Lord St. Leonards'
captious Opposition.
Lord Derby has given a strange notice respect.
ing the progress of London railways and the
ejection of the working classes from their homes.
It has puzzled the curious not a little ; but we
believe it is chiefly with a view to remedy
the injustice done to weekly tenants, who come
in for no share of the large compensations claimed
by the owners of these lucrative tenements, whilst
the poor occupier gets nothing, and is thrust forth
to seek a habitation elsewhere.