The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

PANAMA..

It appears that the freight business by this route is
progressively increasing, and will receive an impetus from
the recent reduction of the transit rate on coffee and
cocoa, which was made in consequence of the assurances
received by the directors from various quarters that the
quantities of both articles seeking the Panama route
were very great, and that the reduced rate would secure
the entire transport business. The receipts ou the line
for August were $125,000. A whole cargo of flour bad
beeia shipped at Baltimore for Callao to go over the rail-
w3 y, and stores were being shipped at New York to be
sc nt over the railway for vessels in the Pacific.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

COVENTRY RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
40/. HANDICAP PLATE. Three-quarters of a mile.
Laura Selina
Kate Hardcastle

50/, HANDICAP PLATE. One Mile.

Diego
Hanby
STEEPLECHASE.

Dieppe.......,
Thirkleby
Five ran. Odibam did not start.

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL.
Agis, Minerva, Romeo, Barrel), Ulster, Mary, Jenny
Wren, Salmon, Byrsa, Bobby Taft, Baroness, Fanny
Fern, Yule Cake, and Prince Plausible.
WELTER CllP.—Bourgeois and Morgan Rattler paid.
SEFTON HANDlCAP.—Bourgeois and Chicken, by Mag-
pie paid.

AINTREE PLATE.—Chicken, by Magpie, paid.
The ground is in good condition.

LONDON GAZETTE—.(This Evening.)

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 5.
In consideration of the services of Lieut. Joseph Henry
Ifarryat, previous to and in the attack on the Forts of
Kinbourn, he has been promoted to the rank of Com-
mander, by a commission dated this day.
FOREIGN OFFICE, OCT. 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Richard Levinge-wift, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
in the Island of St. Thomas.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
John Edward Wilkins, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
at Chicago, in the United States.
CROWN OFFICE, Nov. 6.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENP.
Borough of Totnes—George Hay, commonly called the
Earl of Gifford, in the room of Edward Adolphus St.
Maur, commonly called Lord Seymour (now Duke of
Somerset), summoned to the House of Peers.
_ _

NOVEMBER 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Wilkes, Esq.,
F.R.C.S., a Commissioner in Lunacy, vice Dr. Turner,
resigned.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 2.
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 Ambassador at Paris,
transmitting copy of a French Imperial Decree, reporting
that during three years, dating from the 17th October,
1855, timber for the purposes of construction, cabinet wood
in the rough or sawn of more than three centimetres in
thickness, pig iron, iron bars, iron plates, and corner plates,
raw zinc and copper, flax and hemp, raw or stripped, pitch
and tar, tallow and other animal fats, used in the construc-
tion of ships, will be admitted free of duty, on condition
that the importer shall, within one year from the date of
their importation, give proofs of their application to the
purposes for which they were declared to imported.
These proofs must be in accordance with the resolutions
concerted between the Ministers of Finance, Commerce,
Agriculture, and of Public Works.
All infractions of the orders promulgated on this subject
will render liability to the penalties and prohibitions of
Art. 2, of the Law of sth July, 1836.
For the space of one year from the same date, the
duties upon the importation of foreign ships will be as
follows :—sea-going vessels of all kinds, whether sailing or
steam, nationalised ou payment of 10 per cent. on the
value ; the value to be determined by the Consulting Com-
mittee of Arts and Manufactures.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 2.

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 Ambassador at Paris,
transmitting a copy of an Imperial Decree reporting that
foreign ships importing timber for purposes of construction
from the north of Europe into the ports of Algeria, to the
amount of three-fourths of their registered tonnage, and
departing with cargoes of French or Algerian produce,
will be exempt from tonnage duties.
In the event of the cargo of timber for the above purpose
not amounting to three-fourths of the tonnage of the ship,
duty will be charged in proportion to the amount of cargo
unemployed or devoted to other merchandise.
The duty will be-calculated at the same rate in the case
of ships which, having fulfilled the first csndition, depart
with less than one-half of the tonnage devoted to French
or Algerian produce.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 2.
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 Acting Consul-General
in Egypt, stating that they Egyptian Government have
communicated to him that the export of wheat and maize
from Egypt will be prohibited from the 6th January next,
except in the case of such ve.sels as may have completed
one quarter of their lading previously to that date.

BO ARD
_OF TRADE,