The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

AMERICA,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO HALL
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The following is the substance of a private tele-
graphic despatch received at Halifax, and dated
New York, December 22 :
The Hermann has not arrived.
Advices from Washington, state that the Naval
Committee of the Senate had .reported favourably
on the proposition for the immediate construction
of six steam frigates.
An exciting debate on slavery has taken place
i n the House of Representatives. The subject was
introduced by Gerrit Smith, the Abolitionist Re-
presentative for New York, while the House were
considering a resolution voting a sword and thanks
to Capt. Ingraham, for his conduct at Smyrna in
the Kossta. affair.
We learn from Pennsylvania that the railroad
riots were being continued. The citizens, headed
by the Mayor were, on the despatch of the news,
tearing up the track of the Western Railroad at
the street crossings in Fairview Township; the bells
were ringing, cannons were being fired, and the
greatest excitement prevailed.
The Legislature of Texas had passed a bill in-
corporating the Mississippi and Pacific Railroad.
The river steamer Zachariah Taylor had exploded
her boiler, by which three persons were killed, and
ten severely scalded. A still more fatal steamer
explosion had occurred at Charlestown. The vic-
tims in this latter case amounted to thirteen.
The United States Government has despatched
an officer to the Pacific to take measures to capture
the Sonora invaders.
Advices from New Orleans deny positively that
any Cuban expedition is fitting out.
Flour has advanced 121 c. Sales to-day, 11,000
barrels. Wheat is inactive, and corn unchanged.
Continues firm, with sales for the last two days
amounting to 3,250 bales.

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THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

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ADMIRALTY REGULATIONS.
(This Article is substituted for that which appeared in the
" Gazette" of Friday last.)
By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the sth
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the
Third, chapter 159, intituled " An Act for the better re-
gulation of the several ports, harbours, roadsteads, sounds,
channels, bays, and navigable rivers in the United King-
dom, and of his Majesty's docks, dockyards, arsenals,
wharves, moorings, and stores theroiff, and for repealing
several Acts passed for that purpose," it is enacted
(among other things) that no person or persons shall
take any ballast or shingle from the shores or banks,
or any portion of the shores or banks, of any
part, harbour, or haven of this kingdom, from
which the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being
shall find it necessary for the protection of such port, har-
bour, or haven, or the works thereof, by order, under their
hands or the hands of their Secretary, and published in the
London Gazette, shall prohibit the taking or removing of
such shingle or ballast upon pain of forfeiting for every
such offence the sum of ten pounds.
And whereas we, as Commissioners for executing the
office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, have
found it necessary for the protection of the port of Ports-
, mouth, in the county of Southampton, and of certain
shores and banks thereof, to prohibit the taking or remov-
ing of any ballast or shingle from the shores or banks of
the said port, or any part thereof, between high and
low watermark, between Hill Head and Lee Point.
And we do therefore hereby order, that no person or per-
sons shall take or remove any ballast or shingle, between
high and low mater mark, from the shores or banks, or any
portion of the shores or banks, of the said port, between
Hill-head and Lee-point aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 28th day of December, 1853.
R. S. DUNDAS,
ALEX. DIILNE,
Two of the Commissioners for exe-
cuting the Office of Lord High
Admiral of the United Kingdom.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 19.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Nethersole, of
No. 3, New-inn, Strand, Gentleman, to be a London
Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Conrt of
Chancery.