The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 25.

Bth Light Dragoons— Captain D. W. Battley, from
64th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice W. Jones, who reverts
to his former half-pay, Oct. 25.
11th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant J. R. Wilton,
from 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Goold, promoted,
Oct. 25.

19th Foot—Lieutenant J. Maguire, from 55th Foo
to be Lieutenant, vice R. A. M. Franklin, who retires on
half-pay 55th Foot, Oct. 25.
24th Foot—Ensign W. Hartshorn to be Adjutant,
vice Williams, who resigns the Adjutautcy only, Oct. 25.
42d Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Macquarie to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Kinlock, who retires ; Ensign E.
F. G. Clavering to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Macquairie ; W. J. Cunninghame, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Clavering, Oct. 25.
93d Foot—Lieut. L. Skynner, from the 55th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Pule, promoted, Oct. 25.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut. W. Ward, from the 35th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, Oct. 25.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetahire.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
Cornet P. P. Bouverie, to be Lieutenant, vice Honey-
wood, resigned, Oct. 19 ; M. V. Maher, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Bouverie, promoted, Oct. 21.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry—A. L. Goddard,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Calley, resigned • The Hon.
G. Barrington to be Lieutenant, vice Goddard, promoted,
Oct. 12.

RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE.
WiIITSHALL, OCT. 24.
Referring to the notice in the Gazette of the 23d of
August, announcing the intention of the Railway Board
to examine into certain schemes therein enumerated,
with a view to the presentation to Parliament of minutes
or reports thereon, in the event of their becoming the
subjects of application to Parliament, the Board hereby
give notice, that it is further their intention to examine,
with a similar view, into the following schemes, viz.:—
I. Schemes for extending railway communication to
Goole and to Great Grimsby.
U. Branches from and extensions of the Eastern
Counties and Northern and Eastern Railways.

111. Railway communication between London and
Norwich, and other schemes, in the counties of Noifolk,
Suffolk, Cambridge, and Essex.
TV. Branches from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way, Clydesdale Junction, and Edinburgh and Galashiels
schemes. _ .

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V. Extension of the York and Scarborough and Hull
and Selby Railways to Bridlington and Driffield.
VI. Schemes for connecting Birkenhead with MAl-
chester and Stockport.
VII. South Junction through Manchester, Ashton
and Stockport J unction, and Manchester and Buxton.
VIII. Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, and other
schemes, in the district between the Bolton and Preston
and the Liverpool and Manchester Railways.
IX. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, and other
railway schemes, in the district between the Bolton and
Preston and Manchester and Leeds Railways.
X. Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury and
Chester schemes.
XI. Worcester and Wolverhampton and other schemes
for extending railway communication in Worcestershire
and Staffordshire. . .

XII. Schemes for extending railway communications
to the Potteries.
XIII. Schemes for extending railway communications
to Falmouth.
XIV. Schemes for extending railway communication
to Staines and Windsor.

XV. Schemes for making railway communication in
Ireland from Dublin to Cork, Limerick, Cavan, Galway,
Enniskillen, Londonderry, and Waterford ; between
Londonderry and Enniskillen ; between Cork and Ban-
don ; between Cork and Waterford ; between Cork and
Limerick; and completing railway communication be-
tween Dublin and Belfast.

The principal points into which the inquiry will l e
made, in connexion with the above schemes, are us
follows:

Ist. The ability and bona fide intention of the pro-
moters to prosecute their application to Parliament next
session for bills to authorise the several undertakings.
2d. The advantages to be obtained, in a national
point of view, in completing or extending important
lines of railway communication.
3d. The amount of local advantage afforded to the
towns and districts more immediately affected.
4th. The engineering circumstances of the line, so far
' as may be necessary to form a general judgment of the
character of the undertaking.
sth. The estimates of cost of construction, and of
traffic and working expenses, so far as ma)T be necessary
to judge of the probability of the line being completed
and efficiently worked in the event of its being sanc-
tioned by Parliament, and with a view to drawing a
comparison between the merit of competing lines of
railway.
The inquiry, in conformity with the recommendation
of the fifth report of the Select Committee on Railways,
will not embrace questions of private property or ink -
rest, which will be reserved altogether for the con-
sideration of the Legislature.
(Signed) I)ALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING.
RUPTS.
JOSEPH SIMPSON, builder, Stockwell, Surrey, to
surrender Nov. 5, BatA:Klf past eleven, and Dec. 6, at
eleven, at the Court ofai
assignee; Alexander, South-street,a naknrun. sbAurylsa.ger, official
WALTER WESTRUPCOCKSEDGE, millers, Shs,dwerlfill.°MAS MARTIN
6, at two, and
Dec. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bov.k
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings rSTearman
Bell,
and Slater, Great Tower-street.
. JAMES WATSON CARTER, coach plater, Long-
acre, Nov. 6, at one, and Dec. 4, at two, at the Court of
. Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
Street ; Beaumont and Thompson, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
ALFRED FOWLER, carpenter, Leamington Priors,
Warwick, Nov. 2 and 29, at eleven, at the Manchester

District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birming-
ham,. Russells, Leamington Priors,
JOHN GOULD, cattle-salesman, Cettgresbury,
mersetshire, Nov. 11, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 0, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Cotirt. Aetaihan,
assignee, Bristol. A'neekett anti Co., Golden-square,
London► _

BENJAMIN JONES, victualler, Birmingham, Nov. 7
and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Chilton and
Co., Chancery-lane, London ; Suckling, Birmingham.
WILLIAM WALKER, hatter, Birmingham, Nov. 7,
at half-past eleven, and Dec. 6, at one, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Jackson, Field-court, Gray's Inn, London ; Har-
rison and Smith, Birmingham.

INSOLVENT PETITIONS.
R. Shepherd, shoemaker, Camaby-street, Golden-
square,
Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee.
D. Thornton, clerk, Trinity-terrace, Tower-hill,
Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee.
W. Clark, grocer, Aldenham, Hertfordshire, Nov. 12,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee.
R. Jones, grocer, Canterbury, Nov. 12, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
W. Brice, turf-vendor, Peterborough, Nov, 18, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee.
W. Jackson, licensed victualler, Brick-street, Picca-
dilly, Nov. 18, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
J. D. Earles, surgical-instrument-maker, Marshall.
street, Golden-square, Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Graham, official assignee.
T. Packer, law-writer, Liverpool-street, Walworth-
common, Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee.
J. J. Blunden, stonemason, Bury-street, Fulham-
road, Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
Daniel Gooddin, butcher, Dunkerton, Somersetshire,
Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee.
J. H. Randell, beer-retailer, Bristol, Nov. 12, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee.
H. Gratton, butcher, Ripley, Yorkshire, Nov. 15, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official
assignee.
J. Whitley, gardener, Wakefield, Nov. 14, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
T. Webster, builder, Wakefield, Nov. 14, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
J. Seston, shoemaker, Norton, Derbyshire, Nov. 7, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official
assignee.
J. Taylor, surgeon, Manchester, Nov. 12, at twelve, at
the Manchester District_Court. Stanway, official assignee.

T. J. Stevens, Dolgelly, Merioneths-hire, Nov. 22, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee.
J. Lord, Birmingham,_ Nov. 2, at one, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Yalu, official assignee.
T. Johnson, provision-dealer, Manchester, Nov. 8, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
S. Sly, engraver, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, Nov. 16,
at eleven—T. J. Lancaster, merchant, Barge-yard,
Bucklersbury, Nov. 16, at eleven—A. Blazdell, harp
maker, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Nov. 16,
at one—J. G. Foster, tailor, Aldgate High-street, Nov.
16, at two—C. Teesdale and R.- Toulson, famishing
warehousemen, Westminster-bridge-road, Nov. 16, at
twelve—J. Milner, engine manufacturer, Brook-street,
New-road, Noy. 16, at eleven—R. Burton, silk ware-
houseman, Wood-street, Cheapside, Nov. 15, at half-
past eleven—G. Wightman, bookseller, Paternoster-row,
Nov. 15, at twelve—C. Dod and H. Bent, ship brokers,
Riches-court, Lime-street, Nov. 15, at eleven—E. Golds-
bury, draper, Hastings, Nov. 15, at twelve—R. J.
Making, grocer, Blandford-street, Manchester-square,
Nov. 19, at half-past twelve—J. and W. Field, wine
brokers, Mincing-lane, Nov. 20, at one—W. Gooding,
bootmaker, Chatham, Nov. 20, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
E. Hipkins, coal dealer, Egremont, Cheshire, Nov. 15,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Cecil, T.
Dennison, J. Benson, and M. Dennison, merchants, Li-
verpool, Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court—R. Rimmer, tailor, Liverpool, Nov. 19, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court—R. D. Sothern, ship
builder, St. Helen's, Lancashire, Nov. 16, at twelve, at
the Liverpool District Court—W. Denver and W. Nixey,
woollen drapers, Liverpool, Nov. 15. at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court—W. A. Brooks, quarryman,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Hudson and J.
Broadbent, jun., calico printers, Manchester, Nov. 19, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court—D. Dakeyne
and T. Wanklyn, flax spinners, Manchester, Nov. 20, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
C. Bond, leather seller, March, Cambridgeshire, Nov.
18—J. Robertson, draper, Wotton-under-Edge, Glou-
cestershire, Nov. 15—H. and J. Peacock, grocers,
Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham. Nov. 18—W. A. Brooks,
quarryman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 18—J. and E.
Yeardley, flax spinners, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, Nov. 15
—W. Weir, iron merchant, Carlisle, Nov. 15—W.
Baker, surgeon, Lower Grosvenor-street, Bond-street,
Nov. 15—H. Lake, printer. Cheltenham, Nov. 15—M.
Tildesley, timber dealer, Wolverhampton, Nov. 15—G.
Grantham, grocer, Manchester, Nov. 15—J. Barnard,
clothes dealer, Cheltenham, Nov. 15—J. Howden, iron-
founder, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Nov. lb—R. Edwards,
draper, Aberdovey, Merionethshire, Nov. 15.