The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

DECEMBER 22.

County of Northampton—Northern Division —George
Ward Hunt, Esq., in the room of Augustus Stafford
O'Brien Stafford, Esq., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEO. 21.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Bern-, report-
ing that the Swiss Federal Government have reduced the
import duties upon meat, bacon, sausages, and sewing silk,
of British produce or manufacture, if accompanied with a
certificate stating them to he of British origin, to 3f.
per quintal, and that all articles intended for transit
through Switzerland should be accompanied with a similar
certificate in order to be admitted at the lowest rate of
duty.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 22.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel William Biddle-
comb Marlow to be. Colonel, vice Portlock, retired on
full: pay ; Captain Conolly McCausland to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Marlow'; Second Captain John Gor-
don Jervois to be Cap'ain, vice McCausland Lieu-
tenant Wilbraham Oates Lennox to be Second daptain,
vice Jervois. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets
to be Lieutenants, viz.:—Joseph Allan Millar, Edward
Pelham Hardinge, John Robert Hogg, Napier George
Sturt,s Thomas Pilkington White, Charles John O'Neill
Fergusson, George Herbert Boliand, Richard Warren
Stewart, and William &amend.
91st Foot—Ensign Elliot Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Dobie, who retires; Wm. Hunter Baillie,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong.
BREVET.

Colonel Joseph Ellison Pot tlock, on the retired fall-pay
of the Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, the rank
being honorary.
Lieut.-Colonel George Sandham, retired full-pay Royal
Artillery, to be Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 3d
Nov., 1851, in consequence of the promotion of Colonel
Cockburn, who stood below him on the Effective List of
the Regiment at the time of his retirement.
The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Artillery,
having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the
Royal Warrant of 3d November, 1854 .
Lieutenant-Colonel St. John Thomas Browne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Aylmer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Irving, C.B.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bingham.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEITTE MART.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—BreVet-Lieutenant-
Colonel Henry Boys Harvey, late 95th Regiment, to be
Major, vice Graham Elmslid, resigned ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward -Stare Jones to be Captain, vice Charles Mackinnon
Walmisley, resigned ; Lieutenant Thomas William An-
drews to be Captain, vice Robert Wallen Jones, super-
seded ; Captuin Miles Fisher Moucktou, late 6th
Regiment of Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Edward Sackville Smith, resigned.
Captain John Lambrick Vivian, late 3d Regiment Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieutenant, vice Edgar
Wainwright Bishop, resigned ; Lieutenant Wm. Henry
Emerson, late 63d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ed-
ward Kelly Obbard, resigned ; Thurlby Smith, Gent.. to
ba Ensign, vice Augustus Belle de Lasalle, ' promoted;
Henry Frank Otte...Golding, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
James Cunningham, promoted; Sergeant-Major John
Birkin to be Quartermaster.
31 Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia En-
sign Walter Mainwaring Coyney to be Lieutenant, vice
Mainwaring, resigned._ _

(neon's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph' Pinalott Oates to be
Surgeon, vice Lish man, deceased ; Charles Ed ward Elliott
Welchrnan, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Oates,
promoted.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of F.
Wilkinson, late Lieut. 2d Somerset Militia, to be Lieut. ;
George Waugh, Gent., to be Lieut.
Bedfordshire Militia—John James Spedding, Gent., to
be Ensign; S. E. Wentworth, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Lient. Wm. Henry
Spurway to be Captain, vice Edward Sawyer, resigned ;
Lieut. Win. Barrett, the younger, to b 9 Captain, vice
Richards, resigned; Lieutenant Alfred Hudson Ricketts
to be Captain, vice Barrett, resigned P Ensign Kut-
ner Augustus Arthur Brasier Creagh to be Lieute-
nant, vice Willliam John Evered Poole, appointed
to the 60th Rifles ; Ensign Richard Marker to be Lieu:
tenant, vice W. 11. Spurway, promoted ; Ensign Edward
Fox to be Lieutenant, vice William Barrett, jun.,
promoted; William Frederic Holt, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Parkes, promoted ; William Frederic Gore Lang-
ton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Edwards, resigned ;
Spencer Cargill, Gent., to bo Ensign, vice Bellamy, ap-
pointed to the 2d West India Regiment; Christopher
Lucas Salmon, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Chamb,rs, up-
pointed to East India Company's Service.
Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Captain John Mat-
thew Quantock to be Major ; Lieutenant George Deedes
Warry, to be Captain, vice Quantock, promoted ;
Ensign Ralph Sadler, to be Lieutenant, vice G. D. Warry,
promoted; Scptimus James Barrett, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Winsloe, promoted.
90th, Stirlingsbire, &c., Militia, Highland Borderers
Light Infantry—James Dunlop, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Baird, resigned ; George Scott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Doezing, appointed to the Line.
BANKRUPTS,
Samuel Edward Steane, soap and blue manufacturer,
Oxford, to surrender Jan. 6 and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Samuel Harris an,-1 Isaac Gabriel Costa, wholesale
clothiers, Commercial-street, Whitechapel, Dec. 29, at
one, and Jan. 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
A petition for arrangement was presented by John
Britten, dealer in silk and Worsted, Noble-street, Falcon-
square,-City, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Andrew Veitch, music-seller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Dee. 30, at eleven, and Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Royal-
arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Charles Hubbird, builder, Queen's-road, Haverstock-
hill, Jan. 5, at three, and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
John Starkey and John Frederick Adcock, percussion
cap makers, Birmingham, Jan. 9 and 28, at half-past eleven,
at the Birmingham District Court.
John Collinson, licensed victualler, Old-street, St. Luke's,
Dec. 31, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Wainman, builder, Sheffield, Jan. •2 and Feb.
6, at ten, at the Council-ball, Sheffield.
James Raynes, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 4 and 25, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court..
John Jamieson M`Rae, tailor, Newark-upon-Trout, Jan.
5 and 26, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham-
Thomas Gullick, victualler, Bristol, Jan. 5 and Feb. 8,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.

Thomas 13,rrs, moister, Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 4
and 25, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Henry Johnson, licensed \Veit Brom wich,
Jan. 4 and 25, at half-past ton, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

William Goundrill, farmer, Eastrington, Yorkshire;
Jan. 13 and Feb.' 10, attwelve, at the Leeds District Coart4
' Samuel Burlow grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 9 and Feb. 6, al
ten, at the Leeds District Court.

John Buckley Sharp, paper merchant, Bradford, Jan. 8
and 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Roberts and Hanson, worsted spinners, Halifax, Jan. 8
and 22, at eleven, at the Leo, s District Court.
' John Hampson, grocer, Wrexham, Danbighshiro, Jan.
4 and 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Skirving Walker, shipbroker, Liverpool, Jan.
4 and.2s, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
'Robert Cave, fishmonger, Windsor, Jan. 4, at twelve,
and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Marjory Moon, child-bed linen manufacturer. Green-
street, Grosvenor-square, jab. 4, at one, and Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Stead, builder, Dewsbury, Jan. 12, at half-past
eleven, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Wm. Crossley and Geo. Crossley, cotton spinners,
Elland, Yorkshire, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at el.ven, at the
Leeds District Court.
Edwin Spence Roberts, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 7,
-and 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
George Worsdell, iron manufacturer, Warrington, Jan.
4, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Manchestei District ourt.
Edward Stuyth, draper, Swansea, Jan, 4, and Feb. 9, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Alexander Bryson, brJwer, Redcar, Yorkshire, Jan. 11,
at half-past twelve, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT. MANCHESTER, Toes.
d ay. —Last Friday was about the most depressed day
in this market since the crisis; end, notwithstanding
the rise J. per lb. in the cotton market since Thursday
last, there is no response here. Prices cf last Friday are
scarcely main slued for yarns; for clothe, the prices of
last week are not obtainable to-lay,
ADVERTISEMENT.j— SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES—.
POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVIa
GLASSES.—S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W.
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
traordina-y improveinents in the most powerful and brilliant
Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same Hesenpe •
can be seen a person's countena%ce three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from
.16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. - A valu-
able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket
Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and
known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur-
pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country
scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They
are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful
powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the
great est transparent power. " Toe great advantage derived
from thisqluvention is, that vision impaired becomes pre-
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