The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

of Clarendon, 8.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 4.
The Quotes has been pleased to approve of Mr. Heinrich
Martini as Vice-Consul at Dublin, for the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburgh Schwerin.
FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Mountain Bowen as Vice-Consul at Manchester, for the
Republic of Guatemala.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 8.

Tho Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto
Captain Charles Hinde, of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Ottoman Army, her Majesty's royal licence
and permission that he may accept and wear the Imperial
Order of the Medjidie of the Fourth Class, which the Sul-
tan bath been pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of
his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his services with the
Turkish army iu the defence of Silistria, and during the
campaign on the Danube, and that he may enjoy all the
rights and privileges thereunto belonging.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SM. 7-
The Right Hon. 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 de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Manilla, reporting
that the Captain-General at that place has issued a decree,
prohibiting the export of rice from Manilla, after the 31st
IttaY. and from the provinces after the 15th June.
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BOARD
.OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SiisT.,ll.-
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received two notices
to mariners, issued by the United States Lighthouse Board,
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copies of which are subjoined :
(Copy.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

BUOYS ON STELLWAGEN S BANK, ENTRANCE TO MASSA-

CHUSETTS BAY.
The following buoys have been placed on Stellvragen's
Bank, at the entrance to Massachusett's Bay, to mark the
approaches to Boston Harbour, viz.:—
A first-class can buoy, painted red, in about 11 fathoms
water, N.W. by N. N. (tree), six miles from Race Point
Lighthouse, and E.S.E.. (true), 28i miles from Boston
Lighthouse.
A second-class nun buoy, painted with white and black
perpendicular stripes, in about 15 fathoms water, E. 2 S.
(true), 26 miles from Boston Lighthouse.
A first-class can buoy, painted black, in about fifteen
fathoms water, E. by N. (true) 21i miles from Boston
Lighthouse.
By order of the Lighthouse Board.
(Signed) C. H. B. CALDWELL,
L. H. Inspector, 241 Diet.
Boston, Mass., July 10,1855.

(Copy.)
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
BUOYS. -NEWBURYPORi' HARBOUR, MASS.
A Nun Buoy, of the third class, painted with black and
white perpendicular stripes, has been placed in five fathoms
water, at low tide, off Newburyport Bar, the west light
bearing W. by S., distant 2,267 yards. Vessels bound in
over the bar should bring this buoy in range with the west
light, and run for it. This course will carry them over in
seven feet at low water.
The eastern light has been extinguished, and in its stead
a small bug light has been lighted. In running in at night
the bug light and the western light must be brought in
range.
When over the bar, and half way to the shore, there
will be found a spar buoy, painted black, to be left on
the port hand. Then the course is N.W. W., up past a
buoy in mid-channel, painted black and white perpendicu-
lar stripes, to the red buoy on Mack Rocks, when it is W.
S., passing a buoy off Joppa, Flats, painted black (to be
left on the port hand), and a red buoy on Joe Noyes' Point
(to be left on the starboard hand), to the upper mid-chan-
nel buoy, painted black and white perpendicular stripes,
thence between the two piers up to the anchorage. These
piers are near the city.
By order of the Lighthouse Board.
C. H. B. CALDWELL,
L. H. Inspector, 2d Dist.

Boston, August 14, 1855.
BOARD OF TRADE, SEPT. 11.
TO MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, AND TRADERS.
Reduction of the Outward Wharfage, Rates payable to
the Dock Company of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board of Trade have,
in exercise of the power given to them by the Bull Dock
Act of 844 (7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 103), reduced the
rates above-mentioned, as follows :
" The outward wharfage rates now collected by the
Hull Dock Company, under the powers given to them by
the Act of the eighth year of her present Majesty, chapter
one hundred and three, shall be reduced by one-third of
their present amount, in such manner that two-thirds
only of the rate which is now collected in respect of each
article shall be collected in respect thereof ; and that no
outward wharfage rates whatever, except two-thirds as
aforesaid, shall be collected by the said company.
" The said reduction to take effect on and after the Ist
October next.
" The said reduction to be effected by an abatement of
one-third upon the amount of every separate charge."
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 11.
87th Foot—General James Simpson to be Colonel, ♦ice
General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., recently removed to the
Royal Horse Guards.
91st Foot—Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Gore,
C.B , to be Colonel, vice General Gabriel Gordon, de-
ceased.
96th Foot—Lieutenant-General Mildmay Fane to be
Colonel, vine Lieutenant-General Charles Edward Con-
yers, C. 8., deceased.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 6.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Henry Lind-
say Searle to be Adjutant, vice Domville, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Essex—Myles Lonsdale Formby, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Robert Reddall Wil-
liamson, Gent., to be Ensign.
The Galloway Rifles—Erasmus Gower, Esq., to be
Ensign.
(This appointment is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the Gaza e of Tuesday last, the 4th inst.]
76th or Highland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—
Donald Macßae to be Lieutenant.