The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's duti-
ful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur-
gesses of your Majesty's ancient and loyal borough of Pres-
ton, humbly approach your Royal person to express our
sense of the high honour your Majesty has conferred upon
the borough by having again made it the place of your
temporary sojourn.
It has been a source of proud gratification to the autho-
rities of the town and all the inhabitants to find that the
enthusiastic reception of your Majesty on your former
visit to Preston, has induced your Majesty to honour our
ancient borough by a second temporary stay.
We beg to assure your Majesty that we and the rest of
the inhabitants of Preston at all times feel a lively interest
in your Majesty's welfare, and that of your Royal Consort
and. Family, and pray the Almighty that your Majesty
may long be spared to reign over a loyal and devoted
people.
Given under the common seal of the borough of Preston,
this 14th day of October.

PETER CATTERALL, Mayor.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 17.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, trans-
lations of Decrees from her Majesty's Minister at. Turin,
reducing the import duty on corn in the kingdom of
Sardinia, By order,
J. EMERSON TENNENT.
(Copy No. 1864.)
VICTOR EMANUEL 11., &c.
Seeing Article 2, of the law of the 14th of Jnly, 1851,
on the proposition of the Minister of Finance, we have or-
dained, and do hereby ordain :
Article 1. From the 12th day of the current month of
October, the import duty on cereals (cereali) is reduced as
follows :

Fr Cs.
Wheat per hectolitre 0 50
Rice and rice for seed 0 50
Grain, barley, oats, rye, &c
(" Marsaschi"), and chest-
nuts 0 25
Flout-or iiiheat the 100 kilos. 0 80
Tapioca (Fecoledi Manice) PP 0 50
Bread and sea biscuit 1 00
Wheaten bread (paste) and Se-
mola. 2; 1 00
Bran and the residue of every de-
scription of ground corn If 0 10
Article 2. These reductions are to be submitted to the
sanction of Parliament.

The Minister of Finance is charged with the execution
of the present decree, which is to be registered at the office
of General Control, and published and inserted in the col-
lection of Government acts.
(Signed) VICTOR, EXIANIJEL.
Cr. Civouß.
Turin, Oct. 6, 1853.

VICTOR EMANUEL 11., Ste.
The Minister Secretary of State for Public Works, in
concert with the Minister of Finance, having set before
us the expediency of making a provisional reduction in the
Tariff for the conveyance of cereals by railway from Genoa
to Turin, and the intermediate stations,
We have decreed and do hereby decree
Article 1. The proportional rate of 12 centimes per ton
and per kilometre, charged by the Tariff'of the 17th of
January, 1851, on the transport by railway of the follow-
ing articles, comprised in the 3rd class ; that is to say :
wheat, vegetables, flour, potatoes, chestnuts, maize, is pro-
visionally reduced one-half ; viz.: to 0.6 for all such goods
forwarded from Genoa to Turin, and to'the intermediate
stations.
The fixed rate of 0.20 per quintal, chargeable by the
same Tariff, is likewise provisionally abolished for the
transmissions aforesaid.
Article 2. The present decree will take effect from the
date of its publication, and will cease to have effect at the
end of May next.
The Minister, Secretary of State for Public Works, is
charged with the execution of the present decree, which is
to be registered at the Office of General Control, and pub-
lished and inserted amongst the Government Acts.
Given at Turin, October 6th, 1853.
(Signed) ' VICTOR EMANUEL.
PALEOCAPA.