The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, ]LONDON, FRIDAY_ EVENING, MAY 22, Ish7.

the right hon. gentleman said that, during the life of
George 111., he received from the country in various
forms the sum of 10,029,0001. The right hon. gentle-
man said the Government proposed to give her Royal
Highness a marriage portion of 40,0001,, with an an-
annuity of 8,0001. a-year.
[LEFT SPEAKING ]

7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, offi-
cial assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
George R. Booth, engineer, Wandsworth-road, June 2
at half-past twelve, and June 30, at eleven, at the Courtof
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Colelran-street-build-
ings ; Greatores, Chancery-lane.
Francis Manser, baker, Brownlow-place, Haggerstone,
Juue 2, at twelve, and July 3, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Small, Lawrence-lane.
John Barber, miller, Derby, June 9, and 23, at half-
past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, officia.
assignee, Nottingham ; Baker, Derby ; Reece, Bir-
minghsim.
John Dance and Henry Wane, grocers, Fairford, Glou-
cestershire, June 3, and July 7, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Trenerry,
Bristol. _

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
public business,

DR. LIVINGSTON.
The court presented a very gay appearance in
conequence of the attendance of a numher of ladies
to witness the ceremony of presenting the freedom
of the city to Dr. Livingston, as a testimonial in
recognition of his zealous and persevering exertions
in the important discoveries he has made in Africa.

LONDON GAZETTE—{This Evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 22.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Richard George
Beresford Bolton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
the Hon. G. R. C. Hill, promoted.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Harold de
Bourbel has been permitted to retire from the Service by
the sale of his Commission.
10th Light Dragoons—Lientenant Dundas Reinhardt
Gill to be Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. F. C. G.
Fitz Clarence, who retires ; Cornet and Adjutant John
Fife to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Cornet Harry Pan-
mure Gordon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gill ;
James John London M`Adare, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Gordon.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Instructors
of Musketry—Lieut. and Captain Hon. John B. J. Dor-
mer; Lieut. and Captain Fitzßoy Augustus Talbot Clay-
ton ; Ensign and Lieutenant Edward Henry Clive.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Instruc-
tors of Musketry—Lieut. and Captain Christopher E.
Blacket • Lieut. and Captain and Brevet-Major John Au-
gustus Conolly.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Fergus Farrell, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieut. R. L. Wil-
liams, promoted.
3d Foot--Brevet-Colonel George Walter Prosser, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Green, who ex-
changes ' • Brevet-Major George James Ambrose to be
Major, by purchase, vice Prosser, who retires ; Lieutenant
William Ross Turner to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Ambrose.
4th Foot—Ensign R. Davies to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice St. Clair, who retires.
7th Foot--Lieut. A. Bennett to be Instructor of Mus-
ketry; Ensign G. J. Franklin has been permitted to resign
his Commission.
Bth Foot—W. Edgeworth, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Corfield, promoted.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Retallack to be Captain,
by purchase, vice William Armstrong, who retires; En-
sign Arthur Platt to be :Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Retallack ; James Dunlop Knox, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Platt.
22d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Napoleon L'Estrange to
be Captain, by purchase, vice William Thomas Smith,
who retires ; Ensign Graham Palliser to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice L'Estrange ; Henry Leigh, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Palliser.
23d Foot—Lieut. G. Phipps Provost to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Crofts, who retires ; Ensign Wm Romilly
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Prevost ; Thos. Hyde
Crawley Boevey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Romilly; Lieut. Charles Frederick Gregorie to be Adju-
tant, viee Provost, promoted.
30th Foot—Ensign Horace Sibbald Harrison, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice S. S. Bristowe, who retires.
42d Foot—Lieutenant William Baird to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Montgomery, wise retires; Edmund White-
head, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to
Lieutenant Baird.
51th Foot—Lieutenant Francis George S. Parker to be
Instructor of Musketry.
60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Peter Joseph Hoey, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
75th Foot—Montagu Cholmeley Morris, Gent., to be
Ensign, by pus chase, vice Faithfull, promoted.
99th Foot—Lieutenant George Hayter Macaulay, from
the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Bay-
lis, who exchanges.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Honourable Alan Joseph Pen-
nington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice C. A. Talbot,
who retires ; Lieutenant William Palliser to be Instructor
of Musketry.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Baylis,
from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Macaulay, who
exchanges ; Edgar Wainwright Bishop, Gent., to be En-
sign, by' purchase, vice Macnamara, promoted • Lieute-
nant Henry Carvell '
has been permitted to retire from the
service, by the sale of his commission.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Thomas Herrick, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Fowler, promoted.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment--Sergeant-Major Abra-
ham Cook to bo Quartermaster, vice Harkness, deceased.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—To be Ensigns, without
purchase—John Halpen Thompson, late Captain in Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, vice Hewett, promoted; Quarter-
master Thomas Bradley Thornett, from the Engineers of
the late Turkish Contingent, vice Cumming, promoted.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Arthur Robert Fowler,
from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase.
BREVET.
Major and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel George Jackson Carey,
of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, having completed three
years' service as Military Secietary to Lieut.-General Sir
James Jackson, K.C.8., exercising the Chief Command at
the Cape of Good Hope, to be Colonel in the Army.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
upon the decease of the following officers :
Lieutenant-General Sir R. G. Hare Clarges, K.C.8.,
died April 13.
Major-General M. Everard, C. 8., died April 20.
General Sir J. Macdonell, G.C.8., died May 15.
TO HATE THE RANI OE MAJOR-GENERAL.
Brevet-Colonel W- Cartwright, Major, upon half-pay,
Unattached.
Brevet-Colonel A. Gore, Major upon half-pay, Unat-
tached,
Brevet-Colonel D. Goodsman, Majorupon half-pay, Un-
attached.
Brevet-Colonel L. Owen, Major upon half-pay, Unat-
tached.
Brevet-Colonel Pringle Taylor, from Major upon half-
pay unattached, to be Major-General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Chambre, half-pay
unattached, to be Colonel.
Major the Hon. W. H. Stapleton Cotton, half-pay un-
attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain William Lacy, half-pay unattached, Staff Officer
of Pensioners, to be Major.
The promotion of Captain Henry Joseph Coote, half-pay
18th Foot, Brigade-Major at Wellington, to bear date the
16th May, 1857, instead of 14th April, 1857, as stated in
the Gazette of the Ist instant.
MEMORANDUM.—Captain Matthew White, upon half-
pay Unattached, has been permitted to retire from the
Service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to
become a settler in Canada.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAT 22.
BREVET.
MEMORANDA.—In pursuance of a memorandum, dated
in October, 1854, the Queen has been pleased to confer
upon Lieutenant John Archibald Ballard, C. 8., of the
Bombay Engineers, and Lieutenant-Colonel in the service
of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, such honorary rank, however, to con-
fer no privilege as a British Lieutenant-Colonel on that
officer.
In pursuance of a memorandum, dated in October, 1854,
the Queen has been pleased to confer upon Lieut. Robert
Cadell, of the Madras Artillery, and Lieut.-Col. in the Ser-
vice of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary
rank of Lieut.-Col., each honorary rank, however, to confer
no privilege as a British Lieut.-Col. on that officer.
ADMIRALTY, MAT 19.
The following promotions, dated the 14th instant, conse-
quent on the death, on the 13th inst., of Admiral of the
White the Right Hon. Lord Wm. Fitzßoy, K.C.8., have
this day taken place :
Admiral of the Blue R. Thomas to be Admiral of the
White.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8.,
G.C. EL, to be Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White H. Hope, K.C.8., to be
Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Augustus W. J. Clifford,
Bart., C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White
Rear-Admiral of the Red F. E. Loch to be Tide-Ad-
miral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir M. Stopford,
K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue F. T. Michell, C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain William Frederick Lapidge,
Captain James Brasier,
Captain Robert Contart M'Crea,
to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved Half-pay List.
Captain Michael Quin to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
The following Captains on the Retired List have also
been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals on the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist September,
1846, without increase of pay :
Captain William Slaughter, K.H.
Captain Thomas Gill.
Captain William Allan Herringham.
Captain Robert Gordon.
COMMISSION SIGNEDIBY LORD-LIEUTENANT.
Worcestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—John
Swinton Ibaac, Gent., to be Cornet.

Dr. Liiingston was introduced, amid great ap-
plause, by Mr. J. E. Saunders and Alderman Rose,
the mover. and seconder of the resolution, and was
addressed by Sir J. KEY, the chamberlain, after the
declaration as a freeman was read, in the following
speech :—Admitting, Sir, as we occasionally do, to
the freedom of our ancient city, by the public reso-
lution and unanimous vote of this Court, those who
have rendered essential service to their country and
to mankind, yet hardly could two successive pre-
sentations exhibit a more striking contrast than the
one recently accorded by this Court to a distin-
guished general and that which I am the privileged
medium of conveying to you this day. True, sir,
in both cases we recognise in the objects of this
honourable distinction the friends of civilisation,
the friends of moral progress throughout the world.
But the vocation of the one led him to seek the ac-
complishment of these objects in the " grappling
vigour and rough form of war," unparalleled hard-
ships of camp and siege—in those incredible dis-
plays of heroism and patient endurance which
brought more honour to his country's name in the
surrender of a fortress than its capture will ever
procure for the foe. (Cheers.) Your calling, on
the contrary, has led you to seek the honour of
your country and the moral elevation of mankind
by the peaceful triumphs of the missionary, by the
expanding influence of scientific discovery, by pre-
paring the way for that intercommunion and com-
merce between alienated races the tendency of 1
which is to make a corporate guild of all nations, to
unite all the tribes of earth in a bond of universal
brotherhood, to hasten that grand millenium of the
whole civilised world " when nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more." (Cheers.) But, sir, on occasions
like the present it is expected that I should ex-
plain to a newly-adm'tted member of our body the
grounds on which this Court has designated him to
an enrolment with patriots, with heroes, with
statesmen, with all who have left on their genera-
tion the stamp of greatness, and whose labours will
outlive their names. In fulfilling this expectation
my only difficulty is in deciding on which aspect of•
your beneficent labours it will become me chiefly
to insist. The commercial constitution of our body,
however, would perhaps suggest that I mention
first that which, except as subservient to ulterior
results, you would yourself only think of last. I
mean the vast openings for commerce which, by
means of your geographical discoveries, are now
made in the interior of the African continent. Con-
sidering the enterprise and zeal which mark the
age in which we live, there is perhaps hardly a fact
more remarkable than the ignorance, the contented
ignorance, in which we have allowed ourselves to
remain in reference to this part of the world, leaving
it on our maps a hopeless blank, a great unknown
of waste and barrenness and interminable sands, as

Robert Keetley, ship-builder, Great Grimsby, June 3
and July 8, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court, King-
ston-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Richard-
son and Sadler, Old Jewry-chambers ; Bond and Barwick,
Leeds.

Edward Elsam, merchant, Liverpool, May 29 and June
25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool.
Edward Teall and Reuben Teall, boat builders, Leeds,
June 4 and July 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds - Weddall and Parker,
Selby • Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Luke Priestley, worsted manufacturer, Dudley-hill,
Yorkshire, June 4 and July 3, at eleven, at Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Cariss and
Cudworth, Leeds. _ _ _

John Hair, insurance broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
June 11, at eleven, and July 10, at twelve, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Chater, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
James Bentley, ironmonger, Warrington, Lancashire,
June 10, and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Sale,
Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester; Baker, Bir-
mingham.
James Iliffe, commission agent, Birmingham, June 3
and 24, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece,
Birmingham.
Thomas Carrier, general dealer, Wolverhampton, June
5 and 26, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Bartleet, Wolverhampton ; Knight, Birmingham.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Whyte, Brothers, and Co., wool merchants, Glasgow.
Robert Stuart, commission merchant, Glasgow.
James Williamson, North Richmond-street, Edinburgh.
James Mills, dyer, Glasgow.
Watson and Reid, painters, Glasgow.
Virtue and M`Nair, fruit merchants, Glasgow.

ANGE. -THIS DAY.

',Gibraltar •••• •• •••••• ••

Leghorn .. •• • • • • 29 60
IGenoa •• •• 45 85

ililan • • •• •• •• •• •• • • ••

Venice................

Naples •••••••••••••.•. 42%
Palermo ...... 130
Messina ... ... 130%

Lisbon .... 52.5;4
(Oporto •• •••••••••••••• 52%

if the malediction which by some is supposed to

attach to the inhabitants was thought by travellers
to be extended to the sod. But what, sir, has
been elicited in the course of your laborious journeys
of 11,000 miles, through the damp morass and arid
desert, across rolling torrents and under scorching
suns, in feverish sickness and with wasted frame ?
Why, that, instead of a waste howling wilderness,
there is in the heart of that unexplored continent
a mine of material wealth ; that nature has scat-
tered there with laVish hand the choicest of her
products ; that roots are embedded in that soil of
the highest value to the healing art ; that the indigo
plant throws out its spreading leaf in wild and use-
less luxuriance ; and that tusks of ivory which would
be well bartered for the best commodities of Euro-
pean merchandise lie rotting in the rain or bleach-
mg under a torrid sun. Nor are there wanting, we
are glad to bear from you, facilities for entering upon '
this most desirable commerce. The African mind is ,
awake. The Portuguese colonies are casting off their
jealousies. The slavedealers, taught by your wise
counsels, are turning their thoughts to the prospect of
a more lawful commerce, insomuch that it seems not
too much to expect that if a ship were to sail up
the Zambese river to-morrow not only might it be
soon filled with the most valuable materials for our
home manufactures, but every facility for interna-
tional barter would be afforded by the natives
themselves. Sir, I mentioned the slave dealer just
now, and the word suggests an anticipated and
glorious result of your labours which, if realised,
would make Africa almost worship the very sands
which bore the imprint of your footsteps, and cause
every wind that swept over her desert to resound
with her deliverer's name. I allude to the ultimate
extinction of the base trafficking in human blood,
and so effacing from the world's history the foulest
blot that ever stained its page. (Loud cheering.)
Sir, a nation which has expended 20 millions of her
money in the abolition of the slave trade, and still
devotes a quarter of a million annually to the same
sacred purpose, cannot be supposed to be indifferent
to any plans by which her righteous efforts may be
brought to a triumphant issue ; and if, as some of
our most enlightened travellers concur with you in
thinking, the Moorish slave dealer only persists in
his nefarious calling because' he can find no other
gainful employment, and if, as your discoveries
have abundantly proved, there is nothing to forbid
the great Zambese river, teeming as it does on
either side with all that could minister to man's
natural wants, from becoming a permanent som-
mercial path into the interior of Central Africa, all
hope favours the probability that on mere considera-
tions of worldly policy, the trade in human flesh
and blood will soon be driven out of the field, and
the last vestige disappear of a practice which for
centuries has been a reproach to civilisation and a
stigma to the Christian name. But all this time,
Sir, I feel I am overlooking that feature of your
successes the hope of which first led you to embark
on those perilous undertakings—successes which
alone could have borne you up under the unex-
ampled privations and dangers of the last 15
years, and which, when the ships of mer-
chandise have ceased and the fine gold of earth
shall have become dim—when there shall be no
mercenary to drag the negro from his home
and no oppressor to bind on the fetters of the
slave, will be their own satisfaction and their
never-ending reward. Yes, sir, I am glad to be
recalled from all further allusion to the commercial
and social benefits of your discoveries by the re-
membrance that I stand in the presence not of the
accomplished traveller only, noting down with
discriminating accuracy all that could throw light
on the phenomena of climes aid races—nor yet of
the man of science only, enlarging the field of
human thought and knowledge by the careful
philosophy of his observations—nor yet of the
enlightened statist only opening up to the enter-
prise of his country new channels for the develop-
ment of the national resources—but that I stand
in the presence of a man of God, of a Christian
missionary, of one who is sealing to spend and be
' spent in the noblest of services, and that on behalf
of the most injured and oppressed of men.
(Cheers.) Sir, let me in the presence of this Court
and in their name do all honour to that sentiment
of yours, breathing as it does the spirit of a high-
toned Christian chivalry, that "the end of the
geographical feat is the beginning of the missionary
enterprise." . Yes, sir, what we are now doing for
the evangelization of this distant continent is but
the beginning of the liquidation of that righteous
debt with which all Chistendom is chargeable for
Africa's protracted wrongs. The first instalment
of that mighty deodand which the retribution of
Heaven demands of us for the hearts we have
broken, and the homes we have desolated, and the
blood which has been shed, enough to have satu-
rated whole acres of those burning sands, when
every year saw 150,000 of Afric's sons transported
with ruthless violence to other climes to furnish
victims for cupidity and fraud. Oh, sir, what
heart is there so cold as not to respond to that
touching aspiration in one of your letters—" May
God grant me life to do good to this poor Africa ?"'
(Loud cheers.): ln this assembly, I am sure not
one. We do indeed tender you this token of our
grateful esteem for your services to commerce, for
your contribution to science, for the advanced post
to which you have conduced to in the march of a
moral civilisation ; but we would also that y ou should
bear backwithyou to the scene of your honoured la-
bours the assurance of our heartfelt prayer that the eye
of an unslumbering. Providence may watch over
your path ; that the promised presence of your
Saviour may cheer you under all opposition and
discouragement ; that idols abolished, superstition
renounced, eyes opened, hearts converted may be
Heaven's granted tokens to you of a prospering
work ; and that you may not be called to your rest
till you have witnessed the dawn of Africa's rege-
neration—till you have seen her " wilderness be-
come like Eden, and her desert like the gardens of
the East." (Long continued cheers.)
Dr. LIVINGSTON, who ou rising was most warmly
greeted, said—My Lord Mayor, I beg leave to
tender to your Lordship and the Court my heart-
felt thanks for the honour which has just been con-
ferred upon me. I can only say that my heart is
full. (Dr. Livingston was here almot overcome with
emotion). I cannot. express myself in the eloquent
language which has fallen from my friend Sir John
Key, but I Can assure you that it has a great effect
indeed upon my heart when I see the kind interest
that you take in Africa, and the kind expressions
which you make use of respecting my future labours
there, (Hear, hear) When in Africa I had not

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 16th day of May, 1857.
ISSOE DEPARTMENT.

Notes Issued • ..... • • 23,594,790

Government debt .. .. 11,015,100
Other securities ~ .... 3,459,000
Gold coin and bullion 9,119.791
Silver bu11i0n........ -

423,594,790

£23,594,790
ki. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 21st day of May. 185'

B►NBING DE
Proprietors'capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .... 3,340,201
Public deposits (in-

:rsiTaclENT.

Governmentsecurities

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .... 10,329,041
Other securities . 18 445,616
Notes .. .... 4,349,865
Gold and silver coin .. 733,819

eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt,Sav-

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 5,651,924
Other deposits ...... 9,589,236
'Seven Day and other
Bills ........ .. 724,030

5,33,858,391,

£33,858,391
:. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 21st day of May, 185'

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May
19, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or

payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 44 101
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 4B 4
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 47 11
Average of the above descriptions.

BA.NKIITJPTCY ANNULLED.
James Bookies; grocer, Maryport, Cumberland.
BANKRUPTS.
Joel Parry and Joseph Parry, builders, Houghton-street,
Clare-market, to surrender, May 29, at eleven, and June
3, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Murrough, New-inn.
James Savage, sen., Charles John Savage, and James
Savage, jun., shirt-manufacturers, Noble-street, June 2, at
hali-p-st twelve, and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stanafield, official assignee ; Turner and Turner,
Alderman bury.
William Henry Richards and Sigismnnd Louis Bork-
heirs, Gracecliurch-street, werchants, June 2, at two, and
30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee; Dimmock and Burbay, Suffolk-lane..
Benjaminat Batkee Bristol apothecary,
Districtbecary cniffr.
CarediJu3niilr
e3lean,
official
d July
6, at eleven,
assignee, Bristol ; Cruttwell and Co., Bath ; Bevan and
Girling, Bath.
Thomas Jones, grocu, Merthyr Tydfil, June 3 and July