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FROM THEGAZETTE, OF LAST NIGHT.

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE ROMAN STATES.
Declarations exchanged between the Governments of
Great Britain and of the Roman States for securing
National Treatment to the Vessels and Commerce of
the one country in the ports of the other.
The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires at the Court of Tuscany, having received from
his Eminsnce the Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State
to his Holiness Pope Pius IX., the assurance that no other
or higher duties or charges are levied in the ports of the
Papal States on British vessels than are payable on na-
tional vessels, nor on goods imported or exported in Bri-
tish vessels than are payable on the like goods imported
or exported in national vessels, has received the commands
of her Majesty to declare :
1. That no duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouse,
pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding
duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomina-
tion, levied in the name or 'for the profit of the Govern-
ment, public functionaries, corporations, or establishments
of whatever kind, shall be imposed in British ports upon
Papal vessels, from whatever port or place arriving, which
shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national
vessels ; and that no duty, charge, restriction, or prohibi-
tion shall be imposed upon, nor any drawback, bounty,
exemption, or allowance withheld from, goods impoi ted
into or exported from British ports in Papal vessels, which
shall not be equally imposed upon or withheld from such
goods, when so imported or exported in national vessels.
2. That no other or higher duties shall be imposed on
the importation into the dominions of her Britannic Ma-
jesty of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of
the Papal States, than are or shall be payable on the like
article, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any
other foreign country. That no other or higher duties or
charges shall be imposed in the British dominions on the ex-
portation of any article to the Papal States, than such as
are or may be payable on the exportation of the like arti-
cle to any other foreign country ; and that no prohibition
shall be imposed upon the importation of any article the
growth, produce, or manufacture of the Papal States into
the British dominions, nor upon the exportation of any
article from the British dominions to the Papal States,
unless such prohibition shall extend to all other nations.
3. That Papal vessels shall be at liberty to import into
British ports any article legally importable, and to export
from British ports any article legally exportable, on payment
of the same duties, and with a right to the same bounties
and drawbacks, as are or may be payable or allowed in
respect of the same articles if imported or exported in
national vessels.
4. That all vessels which according to the laws of the
Papal States are to be deemed Papal vessels, shall for the
purposes of this declaration, be deemed Papal vessels.
5. That the foregoing stipulations shall not apply to the
coasting trade, which is reserved exclusively to national
vessels.

6. That if any ship of war or merchant vessel of the
Papal States shall be wrecked.on the coasts, of the British
dominions, such ship or vessel, or any parts thereof, and
all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and
all goods and merchandise which shall be saved therefrom,
or the produce thereof if sold, shall be faithfully restored
to the owners, upon being claimed by them or by their
duly authorised agents. If there are no such owners or
agents on the spct, then the said ships or parts of ships,
furniture, appurtenance, goods, and merchandise or the
proceeds thereof if sold, as well as all papers found on
board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be delivered to
the Papal Consul or Vice-Consul in whose district the
wreck may havetaken place, upon being claimed by him ;
and such Consul, Vice-Consul, owners, or agents shall pay
only the expenses incurred in, the preservation of the pro-
perty, together with the salvage or other expenses which
would have been payable in the like case of a
wreck of a national vessel. The charge for such
salvage and other expenses shall be made and set-
tled immediately, subject to such right of appeal
on the part of the person paying the same, as may exist in
the British dominions. The goods and merchandise saved
from the wreck shall not be subject to duties unless cleared
for consumption, in which case they shall be liable to the
same duties as if they had been imported in a British ship.
7. That the foregoing concessions are granted on condi-
tion of a perfect and entire reciprocity in favour of British
vessels in the ports of the Papal States. They shall come
into operation from and after the date of the present decla-
ration, and shah remain in force for seven years, and fur-
ther until the expiration of twelve months after notice
shall have been given by the British Government, or by
the Papal Government, for terminating such reciprocal
arrangement.
In witness whereof the undersigned has signed the pre-
sent declaration, destined to be exchanged against a simi-
lar declaration on the part of his Eminence the Cardinal
Secretary of State, and has affixed thereto the seal of his
arms.
Done at Florence, the seventeenth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT.
(This article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of 31st May, 1853.)
DOWNING STREET, MAY 30.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Lieut.-General the Hon. George Cath-
cart, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Major-
General Henry Somerset, C. 8., to be Ordinary Members
of the Military Division of the Second Class or Knights
Commanders of the Most Honourabla Order of the Bath ;
and of Colonel William Eyre, Lieut.-Colonel of the 73d
Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel John Michel, of the 6th
Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel Charles Cooke Yar-
borough, of the 91st Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel
George Thomas Conolly Napier, late Lieut.-Colonel of the
Regiment of Cape Mounted Riflemen ; and Lieut.-Colonel
John Maxwell Perceval, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, to
be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third
Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 5.

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, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, at
Stockholm, enclosing a translation of a royal edict, issued
by the Government of Sweden and Norway, reducing the
duties on salt and firewood, of which a copy is subjoined.
(Translation.)
Royal Proclamation relative to the reduction of import
duties on salt and firewood :
We, Oscar, &c., hereby make known that, from con-
siderations laid before us, we have thought fit to order :
That from this day inclusive to the end of the year 1854
salt may be imported into the kingdom at a reduced duty
of 18 skillings banco a ton.
During the same period wood may also be imported on
paying the following duties
Birch wood 12 skillings a fathom.
Oak and beech wood 18 „
Other kinds of wood 8 „
Stockholm, 13th December, 1853.
(Signed) OSCAR.
(Countersigned) PALMYSTERNA.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 6.

2(1 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Orlando
Frederick Cavendish Brilgeman to be Adjutant, vice Cle-
ments, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Jan. 6.
7th Regiment of Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class Augustus Purefoy Lockwood to be Surgeon, vice
Mitchell, promoted on the Staff, Jan. 6.
9th Foot—William Claude Elliot, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bell, who retires, Jan. 6.
10th Foot—Captain George Hamilton, from the 75th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Chancellor, who exchanges,
Jan. 6.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Preston, from
the 26th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Kennedy, appointed
Paymaster of a Recruiting District, Jan. 6.
27th Foot--Lieutenant Walter Hamilton Twemlow,
from the 31th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice O'Loghlin, who
exchanges, Jan. 6.
30th Foot—Ensign Lachlan Macpherson to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Hepburn, who retires; John Simon
Chandos Harcourt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Macpherson, Jan. 6.
34th Foot—LieutenantJohn William Brooke, O'Loghlin,
from the 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Twemlow, who
exchanges, Jan. 6.
40th Foot —Lieutenant Francis Henry Atherley to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Rundle, who retires ; Ensign
Thomas Macpherson Bruce Gardyne, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Atherley ; J Lcob Francis Bryant, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gardyne, Jan. 6.
41st Foot—Lieutenant William Johnston, to be Adju-
tant, vice Barnard, promoted, Jan. 6.
52d Foot—Ensign Arthur Henley, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Gervis, who retires ; William Atkinson,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henley, Jan. 6.
53rd Foot—Ensign Wale Rymer Byrne, to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Grubbe, deceased, Oct. 20.
75th Foot—Captain Alexander Chancellor, from the
10th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hamilton, who exchanges,
Jan. 6.
2d West India Regiment -Major Stephen John Hill, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Mends, who
retires upon full pay; Captain John Miller to be Major,
without purchase, vice Hill ; Lieutenant John Harpur to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Miller ; Ensign Edward
James Laughlin to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Harpur ; Christopher Frederick Holt, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Laughlin, Jan. 6.
Hospital Staff—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class Charles
Whyte to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice
Shanks, deceased Surgeon John Mitchell, M.D., from
the 7th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the first class, vice
Whyte, promoted ; Assistant Staff-Surgeon Patrick Sin-
clair Laing to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice
Lockwood, appointed to the 7th Foot ; Frederick Moore
Smith, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Laing, promoted on the Staff ; Thomas Macdougall Bleck-
ley, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Lightbody, promoted ; William Henry Brice, Gent., to
be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Roosmalecocq,
deceased, Jan. 6.
BREVET.—Captain George Floyd. Duckett, of the 3rd
West India Regiment, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 11.
MEMORANDUM.—The date of the Commission of Lieu-
tenant John Burke, of the 22nd Foot, to bear date 22nd
February, 1853, in lieu of 15th March, 1853.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieutenant Mark-
ham le Fer Taylor to be First Lieutenant, vice Moody, de-
ceased, Dec. 2.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain Charles Fan-
shawo to be Captain, vice Denison, Seconded ; First
Lieutenant John Marshall Grant to he Second Captain,
vice Fanshawe ; Second Lieutenant Henry George Savage
to be First Lieutenant, vice Grant, Dec. 17.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. JAN. 5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants— Arthur Kennedy Rideout, vice Price,
promoted ; William Henry Watson, vice King, promoted ;
Henry Percy Tillard, vice Cairnes, promoted ; Edward
Chichester Bolton, 'rice Whitehead, promoted ; Oliver
Henry Atkins Nicolls, vice Jones, promoted ; Donald
George Campbell Maclachlan, vice Collington promoted ;
James Barton, vice J. li. Brown, promoted ; Charles
James Hope Johnstone, vice Prosser, promoted ; Robert
Horsley Cockerell, vice Strangways, promoted; Benjamin
Humphrey, vice Harrison, promoted ; Charles Watson
Wilson, vice Higgon, promoted ; Legh Delves Broughton,
vice Harward, promoted ; George Albert Augustus
Walker, vice Vibart, promoted, Dec. 21.

Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants with temporary rank—The Honour-
able Cameron Wrottesley, vice Grantham, promoted ;
Lonsdale Augustus Hale, vice Neville, promoted ; Henry
William Hart Davis Dumaresq, vice Barber, promoted ;
Arthur Reid Lempriere, vice Koe, promoted ; George
Longley, vice G. R. Lempriere, promoted, Dec. 21.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Lieu-
tenant Edward James Dyson to be Captain, vice Ogilvie,
resigned, Dec. 28 ; George Crozier Cole, Gent., to be En-
sign ; Thomas Tropimus Hodges, Gent., to be Ensign,
Dec. 27.
.3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Captain, John James Glossop to b