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London, England, 1855-05-22 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL. MAY 21.

The Right Hon. the Lo'rds 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 Mljesty's Minister at Copenhagen, enclos-
ing a copy of a Danish law, suppressing. from and after Jan.
1, 1856, the monopoly of the trade with the Faroe Islands
enjoyed by the Danish Government, and throwing that
trade open to the subjects of all nations. The coasting
trade and the trade between Denmark and the. Faroe
Islands are, however, restricted, in the case of foreign
vessels, to those of about fifteen lasts measurement.
All masters of vessels arriving from the Fame -Islands
will be supplied with a copy or translation of the law, in
English or Dutch.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 22.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
throngs the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, en-
closing a notice to mariners issued from the Hydrographi-
cal Office there, respecting a new light on the Castle of
San Sebastian at Cadiz, a translation of which is sub-
joined. _ .

(Translation.)
(Copy.) Hydrographical Office.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Lighthouses on the Ocean Coasts of Spain.
The Ministry of Marine has communicated to this office,
through the Ministry of Public Works, some information
relative to an alteration which has been made in the Ca-
diz Lighthouse, under the direction of the Corps of Engi-
neers of Roads, Canals, and Ports, in consequence whereof
the following notice has been drawn up :
Cadiz Lighthouse.

From the Ist of June of this year the new catadioptrical
apparatus of the second order, great model, with which
the old reflecting light, which was placed on the most
western point of the Castle of San Sebastian, at Cadiz, has
just been substituted, will be lighted from sunret to sun-
rise ; the situation of this light, to which no alteration has
been made. is the following :-
36 deg. 31 min. 10 sec. N. latitude, and
00 deg. 06 min. 38 sec. W. longitude, from the Naval
Observatcry of San Fernando.
The elevation of the luminous focus above the level of
equinoctial full tides is of 1,575 feet (43.7 m), and it pro-
duces a white permanent light, varied with red flashes
every second, which will be visible from a distance of 20
miles, provided the state of the atmosphere allows it, and
the eye of the observer be placed at 28'5 feet (7•81 m) on
the same height.
Madrid, 23d April, 18551

, .
(Signed) JOAQUIN' GUTIERREZ DE RUBALCAVA.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 22.
STAFF.
Captain John Swinburn, of the 18th Foot, to be Assis-
tant-Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
OFFICE OF ORD NANCE, MAY 19.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant Robert Wolse-
ley Haig to be Second Captain ; Serjeant-Major Thomas
Bishop to be Lieutenant, -vice Philips, retired on full pay.
Ordnance Medical Department—Acting Assistant-Sur-
geons Edward Bubb and Nathaniel Philip Betts, to be
Assistant-Surgeons.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Captain Charles
Yelverton Balguy (late of the 42d Foot) to be Adjutant,
vice Captain Leveson Gower, resigned.
Ist West York Regiment of Militia—Charles Edgecumbe
Davenport, Gent., to he Adjutant.
2d West York (Light Infantry) Regiment of Militia.—
Charles John Eweu, late Captain 65th Regiment, to be
Adjutant.
Royal Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia.—Captain and
Adjutant James Bland to be Paymaster ; Captain Samuel
Rawson, late of the 28th Regiment, to be Adjutant, vice
Bland, who accepts the Paymastership.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Stafford—William Orme Foster, Esq., Theo.
Ithilus John Levett, Esq., and Robert Thomas Kennedy
..Levett, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants.
County alatine of Lancaster—Joseph Christopher
:Swart, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia— John Row-
Jamison Marshall, Esq., to be Captain William Browne
Yousonby, Esq., late Lieutenant, Bombay Native Infan-
try, to be Captain ; Richard Clement, E.g., to be Captain ;
Honourable William Henry Curzon to be Captain ; Thomas
Greenwood, Esq., to be Captain ; James Ashton, Esq.,
to be Captain • Edward Barlow, Gent., to be Lieutenant;
John Satterthwaite, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William
Frederick Pearse, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas
Acres Ogle, Gent., to be Ensign ; Richard Trafford White-
head, Esq., to be Surgeon.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the 3d April.]
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Adjutant
William Hartshorn to serve with the rank of Captain.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Itegiment of Militia—
Ensign John George Slade to be Lieutenant, vice Blake,
appointed to 47th Regiment.
The Galloway Rifles—Septimus Parrot, Esq., to be En-
sign.

West Essex Militia—Captain Champion Russell to be
Major, vice Elwes, resigned; Lieutenant Edward Brett to
be Captain, vice Russell, promoted ; Ensign Arthur H.
M`Kenna to be Lieutenant, vice Brett, promoted.
Renfrewshire Regiment of Militia—Assistant-Surgeon
John Bell, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Thomas Smith Mac-
call, M.D., resigned.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Tom Brook, Esq., to be
Captain, vice Lewis, resigned.
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia—Compton Legge,
Gent., and Henry Edward Harrison, Gent., to be Ensigns.
Royal Berks Militia—Robert Tebbott, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Morris, promoted ton commission in the line.
West York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Ed-
ware Muscroft to he Captain, vice Mande, who retires ;
Ensign Edward Mason to be Lieutenant, vice Mtheroft,
promoted; George William Achir, Gent., to be Ensign ;
John Lambert Reid, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hill, re-
tired.

3d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia.—
Edward Landen, Gent., to be Ensign ; John Geo. Smyth
Willcocks, Gent., to be Ensign.
sth Regiment of West York Militia.—William Lynam,
Gent., to be Lieutenant.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazelle of the Bth May instanq
2d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia.—
Henry Charles Chawner, Gent., to be Ensign.
[The following apponatmeut is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the 27th April last.]
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia—Surtees Smith, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Crawshay, resigned.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Lieut. Rasch
retired.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Henry Holland, merchant. Liverpool.
BANKRUPTS.

Alfred Dixon Toovey and Joseph Wyatt, wholesale sta-
tioners, Aldermanburvf, to surrender, May 31, at eleven,
and July 7, at one, at The Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
Official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Linkiaters, Sise-lane.
' Thomas Sephton, licensed victualler, Prescott, June 1
and 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool;
Harsh, St. Helens.
David Hughes, draper, Bold, Merioneth, June 24 and
27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool; Sale, Worthington, and Ship-
man, Manchester ; Evans and Son, Liverpool.
• Henry Thompson, tailor, Ilkestone, Derb , shire, une 5
and July 10, at ten, at the Birmingham District ourt.
'Ygilkiuson official assignee, Nottingham ; Smith; Not-
°`ns ; Rushworth Birmingham.
Richard Hart, spirit merchant, 'West Hartlepool,.June
' thAteo`,Teti.i., and July 13, at twelve, at the Newcastle Dig-
\
anti Hale, Newcastle.
official assignee, Newcastle ; Hodge
Samuel ci "stle'
„Tune is,
at t ri.v manufacturer, Wakefield, Yorkshir©,
1 6, and July
District Court IG, at eleven, at the Leeds
land and Tayl:)r kvile, official assignee, Leeds ; West:nor-
Alfred Cheadle akefield ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Staffordshire, June
and Frederic Cheadle,d
• 11 ep 2, and ~,,, ...rapers, Sitone,
District Court.
ham;
Weaver and Christie,Hi,,,, official assignee, Birining-
Knight, Birmingham. ---.^B'
Stafford ; Motteram, and
Harriet Townsend, poulterer
ster, May 26, and June 30,atiwCharles-street, Westmin-
ster,
Pennell, Guildhall-chaurrts. -
the Court of Bank-
inn. . Shaw, Purnivid's-
: Henry Thomas, saddler, Walsall, taft
oraibire, Jiine 2,