The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-17 00:00:00

MEMORANDA.

Second Captain William Smith,half-pay, late Land
Transport Corps, has been permitted to retire from the ser-
vice by the sale of his commission, he being about to become
a settler in New Zealand.
The undermentioned Officers upon half-pay have been
permitted to retire from the service by the sale of their
commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards
Circular Memorandum of the 15th February, 1861:

Major and Brevet-Colonel Guy Prendergast Clarke,
half-pay, Unattached.
Captain Henry Yarburgh Gold, half-pay, -Unattached
Captain Henry Young, half-pay Unattached.
Captain John Williamson, halt-pay, Unattached.
Captain Edward Barclay, half-pay, Unattached.
BANKRUPTS.

William Alfred Putnam, glass and china dealer, New
Oxford. street, to surrender, April 25, at two, and May 23,
at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. and M. T. Levitt, watch manufacturers, Minories,
April 30, at half-past one, and May 30, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Ebenezer Rae, merchant, Eastcheap, City, April 30 and
May 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Duffield and William Rispin Dauber, grocers,
Sheffield, April 27 and May 18, at ten, at the Council-hall,
Sheffield.
Richard Knight Boorman, cattle dealer, Marden, Kent,
April 29 and May 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Henry Hamburgh, upholsterer, High-street,
Poplar, April 23, at half-past twelve, and May 28, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edward Thomas Nash Jenkins, cigar and snuff matu-
facturer, Victoria Park •square, Bethnal-green, April 26,
at half-past twelve, and May 31, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Samuel Greenhalgh, confectioner, Bury, Lancashire,
May 1 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
John Mills, cotton manufacturer, Royton, near Oldham,
April 30 and May 28, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court.
Henry Charles Chown, shoe dealer, Sheffield, April 27
and May 18, at 10, at the Leeds-District Court.
Edward Breeze, grocer, Brierley-hill, Staffordshire,
April 26 and May 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-

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trict Court.
James Cowderoy, innkeeper, Crown Inn, Peckham, Sur.
rey, April 24, at half-past two, and May 28, at half-pa
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.

COURSE OF EXCIIANG7J.--YESTERD xY.
Amsterdam
Ditto - 12 W
Rotterdam ~ 11 191 11 19
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 50 25 s'fl
Haniturgb. .. — 13 71 13 'fl
Paris
Ditto
Niarseilles . — 25 521 25 57
Frankfort on Maine — 118' 1181
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —33 k
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
1 Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro

481
411
258 80
25 70
25 70
39
117
117
521
52t

481
49
25 85
25 75
25 75
39:
1171
1171
524
53

Newow York .......... •.. • •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars ees. ~ 0 4 11,
Silver in Bars (Standard) ~.. ~ 0 5 1,
South American Doublons

STATISTICS OF OYSTERS IN FRANCE.—The
last investigation into the st Ite, of the oyster-beds of
St.. Brieuc, carried on by members of the Council-
General of the Department, under the direction of the
Captains of the Chamois, Pluvier,
and Eveil, of the
French navy, placed by the government at the disposition of
the commissioners charged to carry on the work of inspee -
tion,
have given results that have far surpassed the most
sanguine expectations of the advocates of the new system.
Every time the drag was applied it brought up over 2,000
oyEtera ; and each of the three fascines of row No. 10, sunk
in 1859, and just brought up for examination, was found to
contain 20,000 young oysters, from three to five centimetres
in diameter. Those fascines, exhibited in various towns of
Britifany, created universal amazement, and will probably
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