The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

FROM THE dAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, OCT. 10.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday
next, the 12th instant, for her late Serene Highness the
Duchess Marie Antoinette Gabrielle, widow of his late
Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg and
and Gotha, and aunt to her Majesty the Queen, viz. :
The ladies to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or
white shoes, feathers, and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain
gold or silver ornaments.
The gentlemen to wear black court dress, with black
swords and buckles.
The Court to change the mourning on Sunday, the 19th
instant, viz. :
The ladies to wear black dresses with coloured ribbons,
flowers, feathers, and ornaments, or grey or white dresses,
with black ribbons, flowers, feathers, and ornaments.
The gentlemen to continue the same mourning.
And on Sunday, the 26th instant, the Court to go out of
mourning.

WAR .OFFICE, OCT. 7.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Capt. Peter Cracroft, of the Royal
Navy, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division
of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most Hon. Order
of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Wm, Stuart, now Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Athens, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at Washington.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace Rurnbold, Esq., late Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation in China, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Athens.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Edgar to the church and parish of Dunbog, in the presby-
tery of Cupar, county of Fife, vacant by the transportation
of the Rev. John Gilchrist, late minister thereof, to the
church and parish of Clackmannan.

MEDALS FOR THE LATE TURKISH CON-
TINGENT.
WAR OFFICE, OCT. 10.
MEMORANDUM.—The Turkish Medals due to those per-
sons who served in the late Turkish Contingent during the
Russian war, whose names have been included in a nominal
list furnished to this Department by the general officer who
commanded that force, have been received in this country,
and are ready for distribution,

Applications for these Medals must be made to this De-
partment by letter, addressed to the "Under Secretary of
State for War, War Office, London, 5.W.," with the
words Application for Turkish Medal " in the corner of
the cover. Those persons below the grade of officer, whf,
received certificates of discharge at the time, should for-
ward such certificates wiih their applications. Those who
are now serving in the Army must forward their applica-
tions through their present Commanding Officer, accom-
panied by a statement of their service in the force in each
case. The Medals of deceased persons will be forwarded
to the legal representative in each case, on proper proof of
identity being furnished.
It must be distinctly understood that, in order to obviate
a double issue, no application can be entertained from thew::
persons who served In the Turkish Contingent, and have
already received, or are entitled to, the Turkish Crimean
Medal, for service in the British Army before Sebastopol,

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 10.
CAVALRY DEPOTS..

Maidstone—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Chas.
Hagart, C. 8., from Canterbury, to be Comm.andant,
vice Gibsone, promoted to be Major-General.
Canterbury—Lieutenant-Colonel and Btrvet-C olonel Wm.
Neville Custance, C. 8., to be Comtr,andant, vice Hagart,
removed to Alaidatone.
MEMORANDUM.—Her Majesiy has 'oeen graciously
pleased to approve of Major-General 7erederick William
Hamilton, C. 8., beir, appointed. Vice-President of the
Council of Military Ecrucattc,n, in succession co Lieuten-
ant. General William ThOrrtas }ltollys,
appointment. who resigns

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Thoma■ comer, tailor, Aldgate, City
Ferdinand Dupre, doctor of medicine

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of any commercial
importance which appear in the " Gazette" :
Robert Richardson, builder, King's-cross
Joseph Apsey, engineer, Lambeth
William Osbiston, coach-builder, Belper, Derbyshire
George Badham, builder, Hereford
Thomas Mapplesdon, jun., butcher, Brompton
Wm. Firth, draper, Bradford
Richard King, farmer, Osten., Chester
Thomas Ibbetsen, jun., core merchant Sheffield
George H. St. Clair, auc'doneer, Birmingham
Charles A. Martin, mr.,rehant, Hatton-garden
Douglas Whitlock, tea dealer, Holloway
Robert J. Terry, farmer, Romney
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Leander merchant, Paisley-road, Glasgow
Arch(l. Rodger, grocer, Dunbar
Alex. Turnbull, tanner, Powfoulis, Stirlingshiro
Duncan Cameron, farmer, Damhead, Perthshire
William Thomson, furniture dealer, Edinburgh
Robert Laurie and Co., merchants, Glasgow

AVERAGE PRICE OF SI3 GAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending Oct. 7, 18G2,
exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain :

From the British possessions in America 225. cwt
7d.
Mauritius
East Indies
Average price of the foregoing

COURSE OF_ EXCHANGE.--.YESTERDAT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 18
Antwerp — 25 45 25 47/
Brussels — 25 45 25 471
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119 119$
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin .
Madrid
Leghorn ...,•••••••• 49 49i
}
Cadiz
........ 25 52i 2549 60
Milan .......
Genoa
Palermo
"25 521 ,
'-'i -
Naples ........... 391 1101
Messina
Li5b0n.....,, — 1119 119 i
52i 521
-di

Oporto —
53
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ....... £3 175 li
Mexican Dollars .
Silver in Bars (SCinclard) ................................. 12° 8 il,'
South American Doubloons ........... • 0

messenger, accompa-
nied morning a Governinreinved
in London from St.
nied by an agent of police,
"miens of the Hebrew per-
suasion, named Marcus and H
FORGERIES ON THE RUSSIANt BANE DP POLAND
Bank of Poland at Warsaw.
Petersburg, in pursuit of two povains,
charged with exten-
sive forgeries en the Russian
TAX" in their possession a
large quantity of the p
simulated to
The fugitives are p
notes,have
doubtless with the
view of disposing of them to the money changers of Lori-
don, Liverpool, ac.
—The first and most Im-
portant section of p, '
CONFEDERAI: the new tax bill before the Confederate
supposed
fel iesys
:____
t‘ That on the first day of January,
1863 there lift'
Congress is asn
be
levied and assessed on each pm son re, .
for
and the defence 'of the country the foll e
the Confederate States, the support of *th
fifth the value of all the wheat, v wing
sident in
One
, corn,
oats, potatoes, b emp, flax, peas, beans b • )
antGaxetorobna:nlic°t:tp rod'a c e I by him in those States
rice, rys,
) a r Cy, hay,
resin, tar, pit.ch., turpentine, cotton, sugar,,
wool,
alto one-fifth of the ',,ralue of the
molasses,
during the
previous calenr;ar year ;
increase for the preceding calendar year of the, horses, asses,
cattle, sheep and swine ; and, also, one-fifth, of the 'profits
made in the preceding calendar year by the feeding o
swine, sheep, cattle, or mules ; also oue-fifth of each per-
son's yearly income for the preceding calendar year, from
all sources Whatsoever,
except from the sources herein
before described, and except from the interest on Confed-
erate bonds, certificatesi or treasury notes ; provided that
said tax so levied and. assessed shall be due and payable on
the Ist day of April, 1863; provided, further, the foreigners
resident within tb.e Confederate states shall not be requirQd
to pay,
except from the aforesaid articles produced by or
for them, or from incomes or profits derived from bur,iness
conducted by them within those States ; nor shall silly tax
be levied upon the products of residents where the total
value of such products, during the said year, is loss than
500 dols. ; nor shall any tax be levied upon the in-
come of residents where the total value of such income is
lieu than 500 do's,"