The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-06 00:00:00

BREVET.

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Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.8., to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-General in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Pratt, C. 8., 22d Foot,
having completed five years' service as a Regimental Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army.
Major Alick John Fraser, serving with local rank in
Syria, to have the local rank of Colonel, while employed
on a special mission in that country.
ADMIRALTY, FEn. 4.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Frederick
Herbert Ruel, to be Captain, vice Davis, placed on half-
pay; Second Lieutenant Laurence Paulet Shawe, to be
First Lieutenant, vice Ruel, promoted.

BANKRUPTS.
J. Brooksbank, King-street, Clerkenwell, brush board
cutter, to surrender, Feb. 14, at half-past eleven, and March
10 of plpvan, attliA I'mirt
J. Alcock, Fuller-street, St. Matthew, Bethnal-green,
ps inters' joiner, Feb. 14, at eleven, and March 19, at twelve,
at the Court, Basinghall-street.
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A. M‘Millan and W. Blackburn, Star-court, Bread-
street, Cheapside, woollen warehousemen, Feb. 14, at
eleven, and March 14, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall-
street.

M. Hayes, jun., Hounslow, teadealer, Feb. 15, at half-
past twelve, and March 19, at one, at the Court, Basing'
hall-street.

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A. Skinner, Camberwell-green, Lambeth, Denmark-hill,
and Dulwich, Surrey, coach builder, Feb. 18, at eleven, and
March 18, at one, at the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. M. Hagenbuch,i Addle-street, Aldermanbury, City,
trimming dealer, Feb. 15 and March 15, at half-past one,
at the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Le Mare and W. C. Currie, Broad-street-buillinga,
City, merchants, Feb. 18, at two, and March 20, at eleven,
at the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Kirk, Birmingham, milliner, Feb. 20 and March 259
at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham.
B. Penn and J. Attwell, Tipton, Staffordshire, xse iron
manufacturers, Feb. 21 and March 14, at eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham.
J. Bickley, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, grocer,
Feb. 22 and March 15, at eleven, at the Court, Birrifing-
ham.
G. Barton, Cromford, and Bonsall, Derbyshire, draper,
Feb. 19 and March 14, at half-past eleven, at the ghlrehallt
Nottingham.
C. Cairns, Newport, Monmouthshire, provision merchant,
Feb. 19 and March 19, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol.
M. W. David, Aberaman, Glamorganshire, draper, Feb.
19 and March 19, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol.
E. Parkes, Gloucester, currier, Feb. 19 and March 19, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol.
W. Whitaker, Bradford, Yorkshire, merchant, Feb. 15
and March 15, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds.
W. Buxton,!Liverpool, butcher, Feb. 15, at twelve, and
March 8, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE,_YESTERDAY.
A.msterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 181 11 19
Antwerp
Brussels
Eiamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Alarscilles — 25 55 25 60
Frankfort on Maine — 118 118 k
Vienna
Trieste - 15 40 15 60
Petersburgh —34 k
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz — 481 49
Leghorn — 25 85 26 90
Milan — 25 70 25 75
Genoa — 25 70 25 75
Naples
Palermo — 118; 1181
Messina — 1181 1181
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — . • .
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ....per oz. £3 17 9
Nlexican Dollars 0 0 0
PI
Silver in Bars (Standard) • 91 0 5 11
South American Doublons
•• 0 0 0

BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.—On Mon'
day two men, named Cash and Plain, were killed by the
explosion of a large boiler or the premises of Mr. Dickin-
son, NA, ater•street, Manchester. Two others were seriously
injured.