The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

QUARANTINE NOTICE.
British Consulate, Carthagena, Sept. 28, 1853.
In consequence of the cholera being at Newcastle-on-
Tyne and its neighbourhood, the Health Department of
this city has this clay declared all vessels arriving from
thence to proceed to Mahon, there to ride out quarantine ;
vessels bound to Carthagena had better undergo quaran-
tine at Viga.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
RE-LIGHTING OF HVITINGS LIGHT, COAST OF
NOR WAY.
The light on Hviting, so near Stavanger, having been
altered, will be re-lighted on the evening of the Ist Oct.
next, at the same time as the other lights in the kingdom,
and will continue in future to be lighted in the same man-
This light is consequently from this time a fixed light, with
a flash every fourth minutes of the second order, system
(Fresnels). Its elevation above the level of the sea is 45
Norwegian feet, extent of illumination S to 5i sea miles,
long. 5 deg. 25 min. E. of Greenwich, lat. 59 deg. 4 min. N.

NEW LIGHT ON THE ISLAND OF BLANA OF
TABARCA, COAST OF VALENCIA.
The Minister of Marine has communicated to this office,
through the Department of Public Works, the following
detailed information relative to the situation of a new
light-house, erected on the coasts of the Spanish Peninsula,
by the Corps of Engineers of Roads, Canals, and Ports,
according to which the subsequent notice has been drawn
up :

MEDITERRANEAN SEA.—Coast of Valencia. Light-
house of the Isla Plana, or Tabarca. Province of Ali-
cante.—From the Ist of January, 1854, a new light-house,
established on tho " Isla Plana, or Tabarca," and at a dis-
tance of 2010 feet, Burgos measure, from the eastern point
of the island, and of 560 feet from the sea shore in the
northward direction, will be lighted every night from sun-
set to sunrise.
This light-house lies in-
-38 deg. 10 min. 13 sec. north latitude, and
5 deg. 45 rain. 38 sec. east longitude, from the Ob-
servatory of St. Fernando.
Its apparatus is of the third catadioptrical order, with a
permanent natural light, varied with flashes every two
minutes. The elevation of the light above the level of the
sea is of 98'9 feet, and produces a tangent of 10.9 miles ;
but it may be visible for a greater or minor distance, ac-
cording to the state of the atmosphere and the elevation
of the obierver.

The above notice is published hereby, in fulfilment of a
Royal order, for the guidance of mariners.
Madrid, Sept. 16, 1853.
(Signed)

JORGE LASSO DR LA VEGA

LIVERPOOL—Ocr. 7.
A boat, with her bottom painted white, and her upper
part green, with the name " Alice, William Lewis, of
Liverpool," inside,. was picked up on the sth of October,
off Black Coombe, by the Whitehaven steamer.
The Annie Jane, hence for Quebec, was totally lost on
the 28th Sept., on the Island of Barra ; about three-fourths
of the passengers and crew lost.
The Sir Charles Napier, Cardiff to Coquimbo, was
spoken Sept. 9, in lat. 14 N., long. 29 W., with loss of
three topmasts. She was supplied by the Minnesota with
a spare topmast and top-gallant mast.

CUSTOM-HOUSE--OCT. 7.
ENTERED INWARDS.—The Mountain Lass, from Mar-
seilles ; Aarhuus, Archangel ; Chalmers, Calcutta ; Menai,
Calais ; Abeone, Rouen ; Abacem, Saguala, Grand ; Jane
Maria, Jamaica ; Bounty of Providence, Dunkirk ; Excel,
Marseilles and Cette ; Claus Honieren, Saguenay ; John
Bull, Haraburgh ; Priscilla, Rouen; City of Boulogne,
Boulogne. _

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Cassaadra, for
Malta; Sheaf, Antwerp ; Prince Albert, Dunkirk ; Ger-
mania, Konigsberg.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Lion, of Aberdeen, Sept. 7, lat. 52 N., long. 37 W.
The Lismahagow (barque), of Scarborough, from Belfast
to Quebec, Sept. 1, lat. 46 N., long. 51 W.
Tiber (s), Liverpool to Gibraltar, Sept. 28, lat. 37 N.,
long. 8 W.

The Tay, from Liverpool to Melbourne Oct. 3 lat. 49
N., long. 8 W. , ,
The Timandra, from Moulmein to London, Sept. 13, lat.
29 N., long. 34 W.
The America, from Amsterdam to Melbourne, Sept. 12,
lat. 29 N., long 13. W.
The Victoria, barque, of Glasgow, Aug. 26, lat. S S.,
long. 22 E.
The Rosalia, brig, Sept. 8, lat. 24 N., long. 24 W.
The Nautilus, brig, of London, Aug. 27, lat. 11 N.,
long. 26 W.
The Captain, brig, of London, Sept. 28, lat. 14 N.,
long. 26 W.
The Theodosia, from Liverpool to Demerara, Sept. 3,
lat. 15 S., long. 42 W.
The Eucles, from Valparaiso to Liverpool, Sept. 27, lat.
44 N., long. 69 W.
The Corsair, from Valparaiso to Falmouth, Oct. 1, lat.
50 N., long. 13 W.
The Emporium, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, Aug.
28, lat. 13 N., long. 24 W.
The Mary, standing S., Aug. 30, lat. 11 N., long. 25 W.
The Flyaway, from New York to Australia, Sept. 11,
lat. 25 N., long. 35 W.
The Queen, from Buenos Ayres to Liverpool, Sept. 17,
lat. 36 N., long. 32 W. and supplied.
The Madras, to London, Sept. 20.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of Y ESTERDAY.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. G. Becks
as Vice-Consul at Melbourne, Australia, for his Majesty
the King of the Belgians.
...._ . _ _

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, 00T. 3.
The Right Honourable the Lord. of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from
her Majesty's Mission at Naples, the annexed translations
of a Neapolitan decree increasing the period for the free
'mportation of grain into the Neapolitan dominions.
By order, J. EMERSON TENNENT.
(Copy, 1803.)

(Translation.)
Ferdinand, 11., &c.
At the suggestion of our Ministers, the Minister of Fi
nance, the Minister of the Affairs of Sicily, and the Di
rector of the Ministry of the Interior, our ordinary Coun
cil of State is heard, we have resolved to decree, and de.
tree as follows :
Art. 1. The exemption from duty of foreign importa-
tions into our Royal dominions on both sides of the
Straits, of grain, barley, oats, Indian corn, pulse, flour,
conceded by Royal decree of August Bth of this year, is
extended until the end of May, 1854.
Art. 2. Our Ministers, Minister of Finance, Minister of
Affairs of Sicily, the Director of the Ministry of the In-
terior, and our Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom be-
yond the Straits, are charged with the execution of the
present decree.

(Signed) FERDINAND.
And the Ministers of State.
Naples, Sept. 20, 1853.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 6.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretrry of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a dispatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, at
Madrid, transmitting copy of a Notice to Mariners, pub-
lished in the Madrid Gazette of the 24th ult., a translation
which is subjoined, relative to a new light on the Isla
Plana, or Tabarca, on the cost of Valencia.
By order, T. H. FARBER.