The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

DEPOT BATTALION

Captain Patrick Geraghty, 20th Foot, to be Instructor of
Musketry, in succession to Captain Carden, 77th Foot, who
has rejoined the depot of his regiment.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon Duncan Donald M'Cay M•Donald, having com-
pleted 20 years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major, un-
der the Royal warrant of Oct. 1,185 S.
Surgeon Robert Villiers George, M.D., from the 12th
Foot, to be Surgeon, viceWodsworth, appointed to the 12th
Foot.

Surgeon Vere Webb, from the 46th Foot, to be Surgeon,
vice Touch, appointed to the 46th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Watkin Sandom Whylock, M.D., from
the 75th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Woods, appointed to the 75th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Snell, from the 68th Foot, to be

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY TIIE QUEEN.
Ist Royal Cheshire Militia—Edward Charles
..1-licks,
Gent.. to be Quartermaster.

2d Regiment Royal Cheshire Militia—Captain Thomas
Fitzgerald to be Quartermaster, vice Barnes, deceased.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—Donald
Wyatt Frazer, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Boner,
deceased.

Ist Sussex Arli!lery Volunteer Corps—Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Joseph Estridge to be Captain.
_ _ _

East York Rifle:Voluntcers, Ist Company—john Cooke,
Gent., to be, Lieutenant.

2d Company—Anthony Bannister, Esq., to be Captain;
'William Thomas White, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Frederic
Fearnley Ayre, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers—The Right Hon.
the Earl Cowper to be Captain; William Robert Baker,
Gent., to bo Lieutenant; the Hon. Henry Frederick Cow_
per to be Ensign.
South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry—Hornce James S:nith,
Gent., to be Captain, vice Sir Henry Meta, Bart., re-
signed._

Ist Company of Norfolk Artillery Volunteers—John
Stephenson, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary urgeou.
Gth, Company of Cheshire Volunteer Ritles—Richard
Brooke, late Lieutenant Ist Life Guards, to be Captain ;
John Ireland Blaekburne, late Lieutenant lion. East India
Company's Service, to be Lieutenant.
BANKRUPTCT KS ANNULLED.

Samuel Johnson, draper, Burslem, S afford.
George Corbett, cattle salesman, Shottswell, Warwick.

BANKRUPTS.
Samuel Welldon, dealer and chapman, Manea, Cam-
bridge, 10th Feb. and 10th Jan., at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
John Ronald Lyon, brewer, Cambridge, Dec. 12, and
Jan. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Johnson, builder, Clerkenwell-close, Dec. 8, and
Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Abram Cross, ironfounder,'Westbromwich, Stafford, Dec.
9, and Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Covrt.
William Dugard, coach and harness furniture maker,
Birmingham, Dec. 17, and Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
John Cartwright, corn merchant, Dunston, Lincoln,
Dec. 13, and Jan. 5, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.

Jams Lomax, tailor, Deansgafe, Bolton, Lancashire,
Dec. 14, and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.

COURSE OF E X.CHANGE.—Tms DAT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 1.5 11 151
Antwerp
Brussels -i— 25 221 25 27+
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 32/ 2,5 371
Frankfort on Maine — 1171 1171
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 34 341
Madrid
Cadiz — 491 50k
Leghorn — 30 271 30 321
Genoa — 25 371 25 421
Naples
Palermo — 1211 1221
Messina — 122
..... 1221

Lisbon

Oporto
Rio Janeiro

New York .

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 2

311 SS CUSIIMAN AND TILE STAGE.

The manner in which she obtained her first en-
gagement in London is so characteristic of the
spirit and pluck of the woman, that I cannot re-
sist telling it, as it was related to me by Maddox,
the manager of the Princess's Theatre (1846). On
her first introduction to him, Miss Cushman's per-
sonal gifts did not strike Mm as exactly those
which go to make up a stage heroine, and he de-
clined engaging her. Charlotte had certainly no
great pretensions to beauty ; but she had per-
severence and energy, and knew that there
was the right metal in her; so she went to
Paris, with a view to finding an engagement
there, with an English company. She failed, too,
in that, and returned to England, more resolutely
than ever bent on finding employment there; be-
cause it was now more than ever necessary to her.
It was a matter of life and death, almost. She
armed herself, therefore, with letters (so Maddox
told me) from persons who were like to have weight
with him, and again presented herself at the
Princess's; but the little Hebrew was obthirate
as Shylock, and still declined her proffered
services. Repulsed, but not conquered, she
rose to depart ; hut, as she reached the door, she
turned and exclaimed, " I know I have enemies
in this country ; but (and here she cast herself on
her knees, raising her clenched hand aloft) so
help me —! I'll defeat them !" She uttered this
with the energy of Lady Macbeth, and the pro-
phetic spirit of Meg Merrilies. " Heiho !" said
Maddox to himself, " s'help me! she's got de stuff
in her!" and he gave her an appearance, and after-
wards an engagement in his theatre. She opened
there with Mr. Forrest, in " Macbeth ;" and carried
away the honours of the night. It was on this
occasion that those marks of disapprobation were
showered on the great American actor, which so
highly incensed him, and which were attributed by
him with great injustice, I believe, to Mr. Macready's
influence, and were so fatally revenged in 1849, at
the Astor Place Opera base ; when Mr. Macready
was driven from the stave, and compelled to fly,
probably, for his life. Innocent victims fell out-
side the theatre on that dreadful night who had no
hand nor part in the quarrel, perhaps scarcely a
knowledge of its cause."—.Mr. George Fandenhoira
.Experiences.

HOSTILE ENCOUNTER.—The magistrates of Quin
(county Clare) petty sessions have granted informations
against Lord Donboyne for an assault upon Mr. Singleton.
The case is to be tried at the next quarter sessions. A
counter charge preferred by the defendant against the com-
plainant was not pressed.
BRITISH TRADE IN THE EAST.—A statementjust
received in Liverpool by the recent mail from India gives
some interesting details concerning the trade carried on be-
tween the continent of Europe, America, our own posses-
sions in the South, and the empire of India. The amount of
trade carried on in one single port will give a very correct
idea of that which takes place in others. The port of Cal-
cutta outdoes Bombay in the export trade, as the following
figures will tend to show. The amount of shipping loading
for London in the port of Calcutta on the 22d October last
was 22,531 tons; for Liverpool, 8,318; for the Continent,
1,821; for Australian ports, 1,358; for the United States,
15,465; for eastern ports on the coast, 73,626; steamers,
7,230 ; disengaged, 14,803 ; making a grand total of 175,185
tons.

THE NEW REFORM BILL.—The return applied
for by Government of the number of tenements in the
borough rated at 1:5 and upwards has been prepared ; and
the result shows that the extension of the franchise to £5
householders would more than treble the list of Parliamen-
tary voters fur the borough The number of voters on the
list for the borough of Salford is now 4,300; but the num-
ber of tenements rated at various sums from £5 and upwards
is no less than 13,144. The number of tenements in the
various townships rated at £.5 and upwards will be seen by
reference to the statement made by the clerk to the guardians
at the weekly meeting yesterday.—Salford Weekly News.
TIIE DEFENCE OF THE SOLENT. —We are enabled
this week to lay before the public a short description of the
entirely new line of defence in Stokes Bay, which will con-
nect the forts at the east and west ends of the shore by means
of a continuous rampart to be constructed of earth, and ex-
tending from the inundation at Fort Monckton to. Fort
Gooier. The works have been already commenced, and are
to be carried out with the utmost despatch. In front of the
rampart for musketry fire there will be a broad and wet
ditch formed, while at the rear of the line four or five strong
batteries, mounting cannon of the heaviest calibre, will be
erected. These, assisted by the fort to the left of Gilkicker
and the batteries at Browndown, will form au effectual pro-
tection of by far the greater portion of the Solent, and par •
titularly so as it is understood that Gooier (and we have
little doubt the fort at the other extreme of the line) is to
be among the first that will be armed with the celebrated
Armstrong gun. Those of our readers who are acquainted
with the locality will at once recognise in these works a
system of defence which, from the disposition of the flanking
forts and those at the rear of the new works, will forte a
most powerful concentration. By this plan, too, one of the
most open parts of our coast (the utter defencelessness of
which has of late been so much animadverted upon) will be
rendered secure against the probability of invasion. It is
also said—but we give the report publicity with due reser-
vation—that it has been determined that a number of small
casetnated earth batteries shall be built, extending from
Blockhouse Fort to the rampart at the easternmost extreme
of Fort Monckton.—Hampshire Telegraph.
A BRITISH SAILOR.—The brig St. Mary, John-
son master, from New York for Martinique, arrived at St.
Thomas's, West Indies, on the 16th October, in tow of her
Majesty's steamer Gladiator, Captain Hickley. Captain
Johnson reports that on the sth of October he encountered
a hurricane, in lat. 30, long. 70, when the ship was thrown
on her beam ends, dismasted, and lost deck lead. On the
11th he discovered a steamer steering for him, which proved
to be the Gladiator. Soon after Capt. Hickey came on
board in his boat, and asked what assistance he could ren-
der. Capt. Johnson said he would like to have some spars
to rig jurymasts, when he replied, " I have no spars that I
can let you have, but I am from Bermuda, bound for St.
Thomas, and if you like to go there I will take you in tow,"
Capt. Johnson said it would take his vessel and cargo to pay
him for such services, and he could not think of it. Capt.
Mickley tapped him on the shoulder, and said, " Never
mind, old boy," pointing. to his vessel, "that is her British
Majesty's ship, and it is my duty to assist you in distress;
I will not charge you a cent. Have you any hawsers ? if
not I have." And he went on board, and sent hawsers to
the St. Mary, and took her. in tow. Two nights before
they arrived at St. Thomas, it being rough, both hawsers
parted during the night, when the gallant captain of the
Gladiator immediately dewed up his sails, turned his ship's
head for the brig, and hailed :Captain Johnson, "Never
mind, old fellow, I will not desert you, but lay by you until
morning," which he did, then took her in tow, and brought
her safely into port, having towed her nearly SOO miles,
Such gallant and meritorious conduct on the part of Cap-
tain Hickley is deserving of all praise.—Hampshire Inde-
pe nden t.

Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Venour, appointed to
the 46th Foot.

Assistant-Surgeon George Evans (Supernumerary in the
9th Light Dragoons) to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces
vice Barry, appointed to the 58th Foot.
Assistant-Sume,, on John Sparrow, from the 98th Foot,
to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Archer, who
exchanges.

BREVET.
Captain William Jenny Pengelley, retired full-pay
Royal Marines, to have the honorary rank of Major, under
her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th Nov., 18.58.