The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-12 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT,

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 8.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
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 Consul at Mexico, en-
closing a Decree of the Mexican Govetnment announcing
the establishment, of a duty on the exportation of all de-
scriptions of Logwool, at the rate of 8 per cent. upon the
valuation, of 50 cents. per quintal.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 10. •
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received in-
formation, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
of the following reduction, by the Governor of Algeziras,
of the quarantine imposed on arrivals from England, viz.,
from 2 to 5 days on ships with cargoes, and. to 3 days
when in ballast.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 10.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
John Savage to be Colonel, vice Jones, deceased, March
21; Captain Thomas Hosmer Rimington Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Savage ; Second Captain George Clement Baillie to be
Captain, vice Rimington; First Lieutenant Henry What-
ley Tyler to be Second Captain, vice Baillie; Second Lieu-
tenant Henry William Hart Davies Dumaresq, to be First
Lieutenant, vice Tyler, March 31.
MEMORANDII3I.—The date of the promotion of the un-
dermentioned officers has been altered to 21st March :
Liutenant-Colonel Renwick, Captain Gosset, Second Cap-
tain Jervois, First Lieutenant Hale.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—William Martin Powell,
Esq., late Captain of lnniskilling Dragoons, to be Adju-
tant, with rank of Captain, April 5.
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Charles John
Sanford, Gent., to be Surgeon, April 5.
[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 17th March last.]
Leicestetshire Militia—Edward Harry Thomas, Esq., to
be Captain, Feb. 25.
Leicestershire Militia—Edmund Arthur Paget, Esq., to
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Rifle Corps of Militia—Thomas Parr Williams Ellis,
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pointed to the 21 Regiment, April 8 ; Peter Herbert Dela-
mere, Gent., to be Ensign, April 7; Kynaston William
Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, April 8 ; John Robert Leigh,
Gent., to be Ensign, April 10.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—George
,Smirthwaite, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 10.
County of Cambridge—Charles James Lindam, Esq., to
be Captain, April 6.
Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Thomas Frederick
Charles Vernon Wentworth to be Lieutenant, vice Hart-
ley, who retires ; Ensign Theodosius Stuart Russell to be
Lieuteuant, vice Chain hellai rs e, promoted. Match 7.
2d Regiment of West Yolk Militis—Richard Johnstone,
3,1 -Regiment
of
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Gent., to be Ensign, April 4.
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Heaton, Gent., to be Ensign, March 24.
First Major ; Captain Charles Cooley Craven
George
6th Regiment of West York Militia—Godfrey Armytage,
Adjutant by her Majesty's; Commission, to be Cap-
tiOesbtlehletetecoOinbuiLnieutenant, March 24
Esq., HenryCap-
tain, March 23 ; Charles Conn 'll, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; Hylton de Cardonnell Lawson, Esq., to be Captain,
March 24.
2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—William Ponti-
fox, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Barclay, resigned, April 3.

BERDAN GOLD MACHINE COMPANT.—A company
under the above title has appeared during the present
week before the public. From the prospectus it ap-
pears that the directions is composed of City men of
great respectability, and scientific gentlemen of the first
rank. The object of the company is the sale and manu-
facture of the celebrated gold machines under Berdan's
patent. The capital is to be 120,0001. The company
have purchased Mr. Berdan's patent and all the profits
arising from the sales of all the machines since the
patent was taken out in England, amounting now in
cash to 25,0001. It• is also stipulated that a portion of
the purchase money for the patent, viz., 30,0001. shall
not be paid to the patentee until the balance of the
capital shall receive a dividend of 1001. pn- cent. The
applications for shares closes next Thursday the 13th
inst.
CUSTOMS ORDERS.—The Boardipoaft:liCaumsteonmts,
16 and
have, with
reference to the 356th section of the Customs' Consolida-
tion Act of the last session
of
issuedV i c t., cbayp i
hleom7, i
nthe caused
year the
.1853
general
forthe
orders and minutes
regulation of
trade, &c., to be printed in a collective form. Copies
of these orders can be had by merchants and others in-
terested and concerned, on application to the Store-
keeper at the Custom house, in Thames-street, or of the
Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs, a t the seve-
ral outports throughout the United Kingdom.
INCONVENIENCE OF THE MOUSTACHE.—Another incon-
venience has an absurd effect ; the breath, out of doors,
congeals upon the moustaches and beard, and speedily
produces icicles, which prevent the possibility of opening
the mouth. My moustaches were converted each day
into two sharp icicles, and if anything came against them
it hurt horribly ; and those who wore long beards were
often obliged to commence the series of Turkish civilities
in dumb show ; their fads being fixtures for the time,
they were not . able to. speak ,till their beard thawed.—
The Hon. Robert Curzon's Armenia,
AMERICAN RAILROAD AND STEAM BOAT ACCIDENTS.—
In 1853 there were 138 railroad accidents in the United
States ; 227 persons were killed, and 483 injured. In
the same year there were 31 steam-boat accidents, by
which 359 persons were killed, and 158 injured. The
New York Herald considers that, adding to the deaths
a proportion of the cases of severo injury as an allow-
ance for the number who never really recover, "it will
be found that one life per day is not tuore than the usual
consumption of American railroads." The list includes
the wholesale slaughter of 46 persons on the New Haven
Road, in May last, the most awful catastrophe in the
annals of railway travelling. During the present year
BANKRUPTCY- ANNULLED. 17 fatal steam-boat accidents have occurred in the United
William Morris, innkeeper, Ludlow.
-States-. Of these, one—the burning of the Independence
BANKRUPTS.
- ' near Margaretta Island in the Pacific—hurried 120 souls
into eternity. The sinking of the John L. Avery, in
Henry Jesse, corn factor, Basingstoke, to surrender,
la olrßu;3l4chas;iganiice,e.lr-
April 25, at two, and May 23, alt twelve, at the Court ofmagnitude; and the burn-
hich destroyed
Bankrultcy. Sta,nife , . .1 'n of the Caroline in the samarlver, and of
. .
Weatherhall, and SO, Ring- Temple,
is,l..t h_ge
the Mississippi,A
Alabama
bitm a ranksriver
in next
Januaryin.
last, w
Lamb, Brooks and Challis, Basingstoke.
Thomas Bishop and William Bishop, builders, White ! respectively 51 and 50 persons, complete a dreadful total
Lion-street, Bishopsgate, Aprill9, at two, and May 23, at of 281 deaths from four accidents."

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle-
men to be Gotnniissioners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery :
William Holt, GI-NA Yarmouth.
William Roberts, jun., Coloford, Gloucestershire.
John Entlell Powles, gonmonth.
William Henry Bedford T,nulinson, Wakeaeld.
Henry Minett, Ross, Herefordshire.