The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-05 00:00:00

TO BE COLONELS.

Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Corae Scott, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Seaton Guthrie, Bengal
Engineers.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL.
Major William Freeth, Bengal Infantry.
TO BE MAJORS.

Captain James Dennis De Titre, Bombay Infantry.
Captain Wm. Swainson Stuart, Bombay Engineers.
[Erratum in Gazette of Nov. 27, 1857.]
For Quartermaster John O'Connor to be Paymaster of
the 14th Foot, read Quartermaster John O'Connor, from
the 14th Foot, to ba Paymaster of the 6th Foot.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Clapham, nurseryman, Headingley, Leeds.
BANKRUPTS.
Ebenezer Goold, bookseller, Leamington Priors.
Robert Whiston, builder, Wolverhampton.
William Palmer, locoman, Finsbury, London.
George Spink, boot and shoemaker, St. Ives, Hunting.
donshire.
John Denbigh, hearth rug manufacturer, Bryan-street,
Islington,.
Henry Farrington, auctioneer, Walsall, Staffordshire.
Charles Harrison, rope maker, Runcorn.
John Warden, brick manufacturer, Stratford-upon.
Avon, Warwickshire.
John Wilkins, innkeeper, Baikwell.
James Mullins, grocer, Liverpool.
Charles Martin Nelson, baker, Oxford-street, London.
Robert Whiston and James Henry Staples Wildsnaith,
manufacturing chemists, Wolverhampton.
James Henry Butler, merchant, Liverpool.
Joseph Goslow, licensed victualler, Walsall, Stafford.
shire.

Charles Smith, miller, Alder% asley, Derbyshire.
William Conduit, lace manufacturer, New Lenten,
Nottingham. ,
James Credland, builder, Hulme, Lancashire.
William Cross, victualler, Saint Ann's-road, Mile End.
Edward Meyers, grocer, Leeds.
William Bird, the elder, and William Bird the younger,
Spirit Merchants, Great Yarmouth.
Charles F. Schlesinger, Edward Schlesinger, and Chas.
Parfitt, drysalters, Basinghall-street.

BANK OF

'GLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on WeJnesda3

7th and Bth ♦lctorla, cap. 32, for
.7 the 2d day of December, 1857.
'ARTALENT.

ISSUE ID]

Notes Issued _ _ 23,370,770

Government debt— •• 11,015,100
Other securities ... • 5,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 6,895,770
Siver bullion— • • ...•

N.B. Of which two
millions are issued un-
der the authority of
the letter from the
First Lord of the Trea-
sury and the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer.

X 23,370,770

Dated the 3d day of December,

BANKING DI

Proprietors' capital 14,553,000
£
Rest.... • • ....... 3,459,356
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings' Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,072,267
Other deposits
Seven Day and other
Bill S...... • • •

,0.770
M. MA.RSIIA.LL, Chief£23 Cashi37
er.
,1857.
,EPAICTICENT.

Government seenrltte!

841,261

£39,362,070

- :
(Incluttg.Dead Weight
Annuity). •'6,441,647
Other Securities • ..... 31,191,86
Notes ..... .• • • ..... 2,268,340
Gold and Silver Coin.. 460,697

Dated the 3d day of Dec., 1857.

£39,362,070
r, MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
I-he Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, COM•
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dee.
1, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : a. d.
From the British Possessions in America; 25 1

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEsTimply.)

•
The LOBE CIIANCELLO3 took his seat on the woolsack
M five o'clock.

THE BELFAST RIOTS.
Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice that on Mon-
day next he intended to ask the President of the Council
whether the report of the evidence, taken by the Com-
missioner, who recently sat at Belfast, was likely to be
presented to their lordships.
INDIAN NEWSPAPERS.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gave notice that
on Monday next he would move that there be laid on
the table a copy of the Arms' Act lately passed by the
Legislative Council of India ; also a return of ail native
and European newspapers licensed under the Act of
the Legislative Council up to the 29th of June last,
together with copies of all letters of warning addressed
to the editors of such native and European newspapers,
of all revocations of the licenses of newspapers, and of
all correspondence with regard to the restriction of such
licenses.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP ACT AMENDMENT
The Bishop of OXFORD asked if it was intended to
press this bill to a second reading on Monday next.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said he should state
the principles of the bill on Monday, and postpone the
second reading till a future day.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPILLIUR took the chair at 4 o'clock.
BEVERLEY ELECTION.
The SPEAKER announced that he had received a
communication horn the examiner of recogeisances,
stating that the recognisances for prosecuting an in-
quiry against the last return for Beverley were unobjec-
tionable.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND AND RUSSIAN G UNS.
Lord ALFRED CHURCHILL moved for returns of
the amount contributed by each of the colonies respect-
ively toward the Patriotic Fund, distinguishing the sums
voted by their different Legislatures from the amounts fur-
sighed by voluntary subscriptions ' • and, of the number
of Russian guns taken during the late war, which have
been distributed as trophies amongst the different colo-
nies, specifying the number sent to each colony.—
Agreed to.
EAST INDIA (BISHOPS AND CATHEDRAL
ESTABLISHMENTS, &c.)

Col. SYKES moved for a return of the annual eetpeu
diture for Ecclesiastical objects in India, at the diffe-
rent presidencies, from 13364337 to the latest period,
under the several heads of bishops and cathedral esta-
blishments ; number of regular chaplains ; number of
uncovenanted auxiliary chaplains ; coat of building
churches; cost of grants in aid of church builling ;
allowances to Roman Catholic chaplains; and miscella-
neous expenditure.—Agreed to.

EAST INDIA (MILITARY FORCE.)
Sir F. SMITH moved for a return of the actual mili-
tary force that was i❑ India at the time of the outbreak
of the mutiny at " Meerut ;" distinguishing the several
branches of the service, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers,
and Sappers, and Infantry ; and distinguishing the
troops of the Queen's service from those of the East
India Company ; showing, also, as far as can be
ascertained from documents now in the hands of the
Government and of the Board of Control or East India
Company, the stations at which the troops were at the
time of the outbreak of the mutiny severally quartered.
—Agreed to.
TRANSMISSION OF TROOPS AND STORES.

Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice of a motion
relative to the transmission of troops, &c., to India, but
he spoke in his usual low tone of voice, and was conse-
quently inaudible in the galleries.
ENDOWED SCHOOLS (IRELAND).

Mr. GREER asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether the report of the Commissioners of Inquiry
in regard to endowed schools in Ireland had yet been
given ; and, if noi, when it was expected to be ready.
Mr. H. HERBERT said that the report had not yet
bean sent in to the Government but he expected shortly
to receive it.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONS BILL.

Mr. KNATCHBULL HUGESSEN asked the
Secretary of State for the Home Department whether
it was the intention of the Government to re-introduce
the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill of last session during
the present session.
Mr. MASSEY said that such a bill would be introduced
in the other House of Parliament, but he was unable to
say whether or not it would contain the provisions of
the bill of last session.