The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-12 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Arrived at Melbourne--The Goldfinder, Indian Queen,
Mariner, Shalimar (in 76 days), Gipsy Bride, Ahnora,
and Glanmawn, from Liverpool ; the Amazon, Osiris,
Sir Colin Campbell, and Canaan, from London ; and the
Racer, from Dundee.
Arrived at Sydney—The John Taylor and Eurocly-
don, from London, and the Nabob, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Adelaide—The William Stevenson, from
Liverpool.
Arrived at Launceston—The Flora Macdonald, from
Liverpool.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, May 11.--In
addition t) the arrangements entered into with Messrs.,
James Baines and Co.'s Black Ball line of Australian
packets, to carry a mail from this porte to Melbourne
on the sth of every month, the Post-office authorities
have just confirmed the terms of a contract with Messrs.
Pilkington and Wilson to carry a further mail on the
20th of every month by their White Star line of
packets. There will therefore be a bi-monthly mail to
and from Melbourne.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, May 11.—Our stocks of
West India are so low that it tends to restrict business.
The sales this week have been confined to a few small
parcels of Barbadoes. There have been some extensive
sales of Manilla and Mauritius at full price. Refiners'
produce is firm, but the inquiry dull. The supply of
rum is small, and there is a good demand.
TROOPS FOR THE CRlMEA.—Plymouth, Friday.—The
steamer Holyrood sailed this morning for the Crimea,
with a detachment of the Land Transport Corps. 30
men and 60 horses of the 6th Enniskillen Dragoons
arrived here by special train from Bristol at noon to-
day, and immediately proceeded to Dejvonport, to em-
bark on board the Mary Ann for the Crimea. The trans-
port Great Tasmania, with 1,000 troops, under the com-
mand of Lord A. Russell, which put in here on Wed-
nesday, sailed this evening for the Crimea.
The Oest. Zeitung has received news from Sissek, of
the 2d May, to the effect that in many parts of the neigh-
bouring wine country the spring frosts have destroyed
half or three-fourths of the grapes. The fruit also, and
especially the plum,, have suffered greatly in Sclavonia,
end the greatest distress is likely to prevail.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—An accident of a singular
character took place, on Thursday. night, in Charles-
street, Mayfair. It appealed that, at the corner of
Queen-street, some men had been employed forming
a rewer, and the excavation exteAded from the
orner of Queen-street into Charles;-street. To p. e-
ver.t any vehicle from running into the hole, poles
had been placed round and lanterns had ben attached
tt)e- ,to ; but on Thursdny night, shortly after ten,
o'clock, the coachman of the Duke of Gralton, in turning
,sharply round the corner of Queen-stre et, into Charles-
street, did not notice that the ground hao been opened, for
the two horses drawing the cal riage dat•he d by the wooden
hoarding, and, together with the vehicle, feu into the
sewer, throwing at the same time the coachman off his box
an 1 severely ibjuring him. One of the valuable horses was
kil'ed, and could not be got out of the aperture in the
ground for some hours ; the other was obliged to remain
in the hole until nearly five o'clock yesterday morning,
and when extricated, by means of swinging and digging
a vay the ground, was found to be also severely injured.
Neither the duke nor any of his family were in the car-
riage. The coachman was perfeetl sober At the time.

REGELATIOIVS RESPECTING FOREIGN
ORDERS.

The Queen has been pleased to direct that the
following regulations respecting, foreign Orders
and medals shall be substituted for those now in
force :

1. No subject of her Majesty shall accept a fo-
reign Order from the Sovereign of any foreign
country, or wear the insignia thereof, without
having previously obtained her Majesty's permis-
sion to that effect, signified by a warrant under
her Royal sign manual.
2. Such permission shall not be granted to auy
subject of her Majesty, unless the foreign Order
shall have been conferred in consequence of active
and distinguished service before the enemy, either
at sea or in the field ; or unless he shall have been
actually and entirely employed, beyond her Ma-
jesty's dominions, in the service of the foreign
Sovereign by whom the Order is conferred.

3. The intention of a foreign Sovereign to con-
fer upon a British subject the insignia of an Order
must be notified to her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, either through
the British Minister accredited at the Court of
such foreign Sovereign, or through his Minister
accredited at the Court of her Majesty.
4. If the service for which it is proposed to con-
fer the Order has been performed during war, the
notification required by the preceding clause must
be made not late ! than two years after the ex-
change of the ratifications of a treaty of peace.
If the service has been performed in time of
peace, the notification must be made within two
years after the date of such service. _

5. After such notification shall havebeen received
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Fo:
reign Affairs shall, if the case comes within the con-
ditions prescribed by the present regulations, and
arises from naval or military services before the
enemy, refer it to her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State -for the War Department, previously to
taking her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, in order
to ascertain whether there be any objection to her
Majesty's permission being granted.
A similar reference shall also be made to the
Commander-in-Chief, if the application relates to
an officer in the army, or to the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, if it relates to an officer in the navy.

0. When her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the
Queen's pleasure on any such application, and shall
have obtained her Majesty's permission for the
person in whose favour it has been made to accept
the foreign Order, and wear the insignia thereof,
lie shall signify the same to her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Home Department, in
order that he may cause the warrant required by
clause 1 to be prepared for the Royal 'sign manual.
When such warrant shall have been signed by
the Queen a notification thereof shall be inserted
in the Gazette, stating the service for which the
foreign Order has been conferred.
7. The warrant signifying her Majesty's permis-
sion may, at the request arid at the expense of the
person who has obtained it, be registered in the
College of Arms.
8. Every such warrant as aforesaid shall contain
a clause providing that her Majesty's license and
permission do not authorise the assumption of any
style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege
appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of her Majesty's
realms.

9. When a British subject has received the Royal
permission to accept a foreign Order, he will at any
future time be allowed to accept the decoration of
a higher class of the same Order, to which he may
have become eligible by increase of rank in the
foreign service, or in the service of his own country,
or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly
consequent upon the acceptance of the original
Order, and common to every person upon whom
such Order is conferred.

10. The preceding clause shall not be taken to
apply to decorations of the Guelphic Order which
were bestowed on British subjects by her Majesty's
predecessors, Kin°. George IV. and King William
IV., on whose heads' the crowns of Great Britain
and of Hanover were united.

Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be con-
sidered as rewards granted by a foreign Sovereign
for services rendered according to the purport of
clause 2of these regulations. They must be rather
considered as personal favours bestowed on British
subjects by British Sovereigns, and as having no
reference to services rendered to the foreign Crown
of Hanover.