The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening•)

WAR DEPARTMENT, DEC. 24.
Lord Panmure has received the following returns of
casualties from General Sir Wm. Codrington, K.C.B. :
Head-Quarters, Sebastopol, Dec. 7.
NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES ON 3D

DECEMBER, 1855.
18th Foot-4 rank and file wounded by a shell when on
duty in the Dockyard of Sebastopol.
W. L. PASENHAN, Adjntant•General.

NOMINAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES ON 3D
DECEMBER, 1855.
WOUNDED,
By a shell in the Dockyard of Sebastopol.
DEO. 3.
18th Foot—Privates Thomas Sullivan, dangerously ;
Sl.nanel Whelan, dangerously, since dead ; Owen Mac-
Kevett, slightly; Edward Tully, severely.
W. L. PAKENH AM, Adjutant-General.

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Friedrich
Wilhelm Jansen as Consul at Melbourne for the Free
Hanseatic City of Bremen.
NEW WRIT.

The Gazette of this evening conbains a notice that the
Speaker shall issue a warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to
make out a new writ for electing a member for the city of
Lincoln, in the room of the late Charles De Laet Waldo
Sibthorp, Esq., in fourteen days.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 24.
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 Consul at Jassy, report-
ing that the Imperial Government of the Sultan has per-
mitted the export of timber and salt from Moldavia, by
way of the Danube, subject to the regulations, of which
the following- is a translation, and which have been framed
with a view to prevent the export of the articles in ques-
tion to Russia.
ART, I.—Any person, desiring to export timber will be
required, in the first instance, to make a declaration iu
writing at the Custom House (Perialabie), at Galatz, in
which declaration it will be necessary to name the port of
destination.
ART. IL—On receipt of this declaration the Customs
will, through the Captain of the Port, proceed to verify :
The quantity of timber to be exported.
2 l. Its quality.
:id. The name of the vessel employed for the purpose of
transport, and that of the captain.
4th. The flag of the vessel ; and .

sth. The value of the timber to be exported.
lll.—These particulars being obtained by the Cap-
taie of the Port., it will be necessary for the exporter to
deposit at the Custom-house-
-Ist. A written security from a respectable merchant do-
mesticated at Galatz, to the effect that, in default of
production at the Custom-house, at the expiration of
five months, proof that' the said timber has been landed
at the port indicated as its destination, the person so
• guaranteeing shall be held liable for the payment to
the Custom-bowie of a sum equivalent to double the
value of the timber.
A written declaration to the following effect :
" e'er such quantity and such kind of timber which,
according to my written demand, addressed to the
Honourable Board of Customs (Hrialabie), bearing
date the , I have shipped on board the
ship , under the flag
Captain, to the port of of such empire
or kingdom, &c., I, the undersigned, do hereby
engtge not to unload the said timber in any port other
than the above mentioned, and under no circumstances
in any port situate in the territory of Russia. To this
effect, for the security of the Moldavian Government.,
I have this day deposited with the Honourable Board
of Customs (Perialabie) the written guarantee of Mr.
,in tho manner prescribed. Moreover, in
proof of the entire fulfilment of my engagement above
mentioned, I undertake to lay before the Honour-
able Board of Customs, before the expiration of five
months from the present date, a certificate from the
Custom House of the port of destination of such tim-
ber, verifying that at such a date the said timber, in
quantity and quality as before mentioned, has been
truly discharged in the said port, from the said ship
Captain . If at the above-named
date I do not produce such certificate aforementioned
in due form, such failure to producg such certificate
shall be held as proof that the said timber has been
exported to a prohibited port, and in such case the
person who shall have held himself security on my
nob- if shall be called riper, to pay the amount named
it the bond.

Art. IV.—Upon the delivery of snch a declaration,
which must ho authenticated by the Board of Customs,
the said Boas d shall deliver to the exporter a certificate in
due form, in which shall be repeated the purport of the
above-named declaration, after which the vessel shall bo
at liberty to depart.

Ai a guarantee against all infraction on the part of any
vessel, proceedings will be adopted, as in the ease of ves-
sels ascending the Danube to their port of destination,
14The above regulations shall also apply to the exporta-
tion of salt.