The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

UNATTACHED.

Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Douglas
Mackenzie, from the 92d Foot, Deputy Quartermaster-
General to the Forces serving in China, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet J.
Wolseley, from the 90th Foot, Deputy Quartermaster-
General to the Forces serving in China, to be Major, with-
out purchase.
Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. James Charlemange
Dormer, from the 13th Foot, Assistant .Adjutant-General
to the Forces serving in China, to be Major without pur-
chase.
Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. Augustus H. A.
Anson, from 7th Light Dragoons, to be Major, without
purchase.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.

Deputy Commissary-General Philip Turner to be Cora-
missary-General.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General Charles Foster
to be Assistant-Commissary-General.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General James Bailey to
be Assistant-Commissary. General.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals 'William M. Muir,
M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals.
Staff-Surgeon W. Rutherford, M.D., to be Deputy In-
spector• General of Hospitals.
Assistant. Surgeon John Ogilvy, M.D., from the 33d
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice McCarthy, ap-
pointed to the 90th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Charles George Lumsden, from the
90th Foot, to bo Staff Assistant-Surgeon vice Henry, ap-
pointed to the 91st Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon John M'Lean Marshall, from the 91st
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Spry, appointed
to the 33d Foot.

The appointment of Staff Surgeon James Jgckson, which
appeared in the Gazette of the 18th December, 1860, has
been cancelled.

VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.—CharIes George Hether-
ington Reilly, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgon.

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles William
Dunbar Sfaveley, C. 8., 44th Foot, to have the temporary
rank of Brigadier-General while in command of her Ma-
jesty's Forces at Tien Tsin, from the date of his assuming
such command.

Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Frederick Saunders,
retired full-pay, 3d West India Regiment, to have the
honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Captain Henry Wylie Norman, C. 8., of the 31st Bengal
Light Infantry (having the local rank of Lieut.-Colonel in

the: En st Inercs, to be in the Army.
Brevet-Major Henry "Wylie Norman, C. 8., of the 31st
Bengal Light Infantry (having the local rank of Lieu-
tenant• Colonel in the East Indies), to be Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Army.

Captain Froderici Sleigh Roberts, Bengal Artillery, to
be Major in the Army.
Quarter-Master John Lilley, half-pay, Grenadier
Guards, to be Captain in the Army, the rank being hono-
rary only.
Colonel Sir Robert Napier, K.C.8., of the Bengal Engi-
neers, serving with the army in China, with the local rank
of Major-General, to be Major-General.

TO BE COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Charles
Arthur Stephenson, C. 8., Scots Fusilier Guards, Deputy
Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in China.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Hawkins Gascoigne, Royal
Marines.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE. ARMY.
Captain and Brevet-Major Mark Walker, 3d Foot, Bri-
gade-Major to the Forces serving in China.
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Andrew Sarol, 17th
Light Dragoons.
Captain and Brevet-Major Guy Rotton, Royal Artillery.
Major Gibbes Rigaud, 60th Foot.
Captain and Brevet-Major Martin Dillon, Rifle Brigade,
Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General, to the Forces serving
in China.
Second Captain and Brevot-Major Arthur A'Court
Fisher, Royal Engineers.
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Gerald Graham,
Royal Engineers.
Captain and Brevet-Major John Dosborough, Royal
Artillery.
Captain and Brevet-Major . M—Frobyn, C. 8., 3d
European Bengal Light Cavalry.
Captain and Brevet-Major H. D. Taylor, Ist Madras
Fusiliers.
Captain and Brevet-Major John Temple, 12th Madras
Nativo Infantry.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.

Captain %gold Stewart Miller, 67th Foot.
Captain Thomas Walter Milward, Royal Artillery.
Captain Jermyn Charles Symonds; Royal Marines.
Captain Robert J. Hay, Royal Artillery, Brigade-Major
to the Forces serving in China.
Captain P. Bedingfeld, Royal Artillery?!.-
Captain Charles Maitland Govan, Royal Artillery.
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Captain Bowen Van Straubenzee, 9th Foot, Brigole..
Major to the Forces serving in China.
Captain William Robert Gray, Military Train.
Captain John Basset Prynne, Royal Marines.
Captain Edward Lister Green, 77th Foot, Deputy
Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in
China.
Captain Henry Francis Brooke, 48th Foot.
Second Captain Biddulph, Royal Artillery.
Captain H. E. Hicks, Madras Artillery.
Captain C. H. Brownlow, 4th Bengal European In•
fantry.

MEMORADUM.—Tier Majesty has been pleased to approve
of the Royal Malta Fencible Regiment being converted
into an Artillery Corps, and being in future designated the
Royal Malta Fencible Artillery."
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 13.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES.
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First Lieutenant and Adjutant George Naylor to be
Captain.
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.t;icceni Lieutenant Frederick Warwick Gray to be First
Lieutenant, vico Naylor, promoted.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Charles Cornell, merchant, Rochester.
BANKRUPTS.

George Brook, boot and shoe manufacturer, Canterbury.
James Nickell and Robert Frazer North, tallow brokers,
27, Bishopsgate-street Within, City.
Arthur Smith, engineer, Paragon-buildings, New Kent-
road.

John Stephenson Boughey, wholesale tea dealer, Great
Tower-street.
George Burrows, lace manufacturer, Nottingham.
William Henry Williams, apothecary, Plaistow, Essex.
Edmund John Niemann, picture dealer, Newman-street,
Oxford-street.

Benjamin Robinson, cloth merchant, Huddersfield.
Alexander M‘Millan and William Blackburn, ware-
housemen, Star-court, Cheapstde, City.
William Hogg, buyor and letter of machines, Lapford,
Devonshire.
John Carlyle, linen and woollen draper, Liverpool.
William Daniel, innkeeper, Penydarren, near Merthyr
Tydfil.
James Ferguson, draper, Stonehouse, Devonshire.
Robert Horatio William Drummond, manufacturer of
manure, Old Ford, Bow.

Thonias Howarth and William Cronshaw, calico manu-
facturers, Warrington, Lancashire.
John Simpson Roberts, gun maker, Birmingham.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 13th day
of Feb., 1861 : • .

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued 1......X25,226,005;

£25,228,005

BANKING D.
Proprietors' Capi-
tal .£14.553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 4,700,293
Other Deposits 12,161,118
Seven Day and
other Bills 615,735

£35,529,314
M.

Dated Feb. 14,1861.

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 9,902,643
Silver Bullion .... 848,362

;PARTMNNT.
Government Secu-

£25,226,005

rities Aincluding
Dead WeightAn-

nuity) - £8,444,776
Other Securities 20,728,396
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 820,327

£35,529,344
RSHALL, Chief Cashier,

THE LATE LOSS OF FOUR LIVES IN

THE FLEET SEWER.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Sergeant Payne, the
coroner for the City of London, resumed the inves-
tigation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital into the
deaths of John Devany, aged 45 ; Daniel Harrigan,
aged 50 ; Patrick Ryan, aged 32 ; and Alfred
Ward, aged 20, the unfortunate men who lost their
lives in the Fleet sewer on the morning of yester-
day week.

The jury having answered to their names,
Dr. Henry Letheby said he was the medical
officer of health for the City of London. He had
seen the bodies of the deceased men. From their
appearance he had no doubt death was caused by
sulphuretted hydrogen. He also saw the bodies of
seven dead rats taken from the sewer, which pre-
sented exactly similar appearances to the men, and
no doubt death was caused in a similar manner.
The Coroner—What conclusion do you arrive at
from your examination P
Dr. Letheby said that his opinion was that the
men had died from the inhalation of sulphuretted
hydrogen being suddenly let loose upon them.
That gas might have come upon them in three
ways—by the letting in of liquid charged with
sulphuretted hydrogen, as for example gas refuse ;
or by the disturbance of the mud of the sewer, and
thus letting loose tar hydrogen; or, thirdly, the
action of an acid suddenly flushing the mud of the
sewer. From the most diligent inquiries, he found
that the gas could not have come upon them from
the two first reasons, but as to the third probable
cause, he bad made inquiries into all the factories
and other places likely to affect the sewage, and
there was but one case in which acid liquors had
been discharged, and that was Messrs. Tyler's, a
most respectable firm, who carried on business as
braziers and folinders near Newgate-market.
these premises there were large quantities of nitric,
sulphuric, and other acids, and there were tanks
containing water in which the metal articles were
immersed after leaving the acids. Ten days ago a
tank containing 100 gallons of this said liquor was
discharged into the sewer, and since that another
tank containing between 80 and 90 gallons was
discharged.
The Coroner—What would be the effect of this
liquid being discharged into the sewer ?
Dr. Letheby said that ho had a sample of the
liquid, and he found it to contain * per cent. of
nitric acid, and this he threw on the sewer mud,
and it immediately brought up sulphuretted hydro-
gen. The only question was, whether these pro-
mises were in communication with the sewer.
By Mr. Humphreys (who appeared for Messrs.
Tyler)—A large quantity of sewage runs into the
Fleet sewer, and he should say that the acid might
be destroyed, if it was mixed with a large quantity
of sewage and alkaline matter.
By a Juror—The Fleet sewer was more free from
dangerous accumulation than any other in London.
Of course, all deposits wore better removed than in
the sewer.

Mr. Humphreys said his client would adopt any
course which Dr. Letheby should suggest to pre-
vent a recurrence of such accidents, whether they
arose from Mr. Ty2er's gas or not.
Dr. Letheby said he should recommend a con-
tinued stream of water let into the sewer.
Mr. Bazalgette, chief engineer to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, said he was thoroughly acquainted
with the construction of metropolitan sewers. The
plan produced showed that the sewer, where the
accident took place, was properly ventilated with
shafts. These shafts are about 100 yards apart.
It is a usual thing for the doors of the man-holes to
be shut down.

Mr. Haywood said it was a clause in the contract
that no less than two men should go down at ono
time, that the hole at the top of the side entrance
should be left open, and that a man should be sta-
tioned outside.

By the City Solicitor—He had been acquainted
with the sewers for many years, and this was the
first case of loss of life which had occurred in the
City Sewers.
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Mr. Alfred Tyler, of the foundry, said the drain
through which the acid water went into the sewer
in Ludgate-street, from thence would pour into the
Fleet sower lower down than where the accident
took place.

The Coroner having summed up,
The jury deliberated a short time, when the fore-
man said the jury bad come to the verdict that the
deceased persons died from the inhalation of ob-
..noxious gas, but they had not sufficient evidence
fr0,,1 whence it came. The jury were desirous to
expres a hope that the Commissioners of Sewers
and theft' officers would investigate the matter
further in of der to ascertain whether it is a practice
to let obnoxiousmatters into the sewers, and also to
prevent a recurren
ce of this sad calamity. The jury
also wished to say thOt in their belief there had been
every disposition on tie part of the Commissioners
of Sewers to facilitate the inquiry, and therefore
they (thejury) left the matter with every confidence
in their hands.

The Coroner—You mean to record your verdict
as one of accidental death ?
The Foreman—Yes.

The City Solicitor, on the part of the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, said that every inquiry should be
made into the matter.

The inquiry was then brought to a conclusion.

COUNTRY DIARRETS.

LIVERPOOL-FEB. 15.

There was a small attendance of the town and country
trade at this morning's market, and we had a limited sale
for wheat, which may be quoted at ld to 2d per cental
decline. Flour was also a slow sale, at 6d per sack lower.
Indian corn was in good request, at 378:6d per 4801bs for best
mixed American, and 39s to 39s 6d for white. Oats and
oatmeal were slow of sale, but unaltered in price. Beans
and peas 6d dearer. Barley a retail sale, at about the
currencies of last Friday.

WAKEFIELD—FEn. 15.
The supplies of grain here this week are fair. Wheat
is generally herd with firmness at last Friday's prices, but
the demand is not active, and it is still difficult to make
progress in sales, except of a little fine old English or the
bast new foreign. Fine barley quite as dear, other sorts
quite neglected. In beans, oats, and shelling there is no
alteration to note.

Averages for the week :
Wheat . 2336 qrs., at 61s 6id
Rye — -d
Peas .. 11 s2s Od
Beans -s Od
8ar1ey......... 1485 4ls 2 d
Oats

EXETER-FEB. 15.

A fair business was done in the corn market to-day, at
about late prices :
Wheat, white.. 6s 9d to 8s Gd 1 Barley.. 4i3d to 5s 9d
Ditto red Os Od to Os Od I Oats .. 2s 9a to 3s Od
Flour, fine, 38s to —s; seconds, 36s to —s per sack.