The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 24.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Stepbeen Rice,
Esq., to be her Majesty's Treasurer for Prince :Edward
Island.

NOTIFICATION.
Claims by British Subjects on the Government of the
United States.
Whereas by a Convention between her Majesty and the
United States of America, signed on the Bth of February,
1853, for the settlement of outstanding claims by a mixed
commission, it is agreed that all claims on the part of sub-
jects of her Majesty upon the Government of the United
States, and all claims on the part of citizens of the United
States upon the Government of her Majesty which may
have been presented to either Government for its interpo-
sition with the other, since the 24th December, 1814, and
which remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims
which may be presented within the time specified in the
said Convention, shall be referred to two Commissioners
for their final determination.
Notice is hereby given, that all British subjects who,
since the said 24th day of December, 1814, have presented
to the British Government for its iterposition with that of
the United States, claims which yet remain unsettled and
which they desire to have laid before the Commissioners
under the said Convention, are required to notify such de-
sire to the agent of her Majesty's Government under the
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said Convention ; and to transmit to him forthwith any
further statements or particulars of their claims,
with the documentary evidence necessary to
It is further provided by the said Convention, that all
claims shall be presented to the Commission, that claims
shall be presented to the Commissioners within 6 months
from the day of their first meeting, which was held
on the
14th September, 1853, unless under special circumstances,
to be proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in
which case the time may be extended to any time not ex-
ceeding three months.
All claims not presented within the periods above-men.
tioned, will be considered as barred.
Communications to be addressed to James Hannon, Esq ,
Agent of her Majesty's Government under the American
Claims Convention, No. 2, Essex-court, Temple, London.
Foreign-office, Jan. 20, 1854.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 21.
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 Lisbon, report-
ing that the Board of Health in that city has declared Re-
don and the right bank of the river Minho, to be in-
fected with Cholera Morbus, and all the other Ports of the
Spanish province of Gallicia, to be suspected of infection
therewith.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.
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, copies
of two despatches from Her Majesty's Ambassador, at
Paris, enclosing two Imperial Decrees, the one authorizing
foreign ships to trade between France and Algeria ; the
other extending till 31st July, 1854, the coasting trade
facilities granted to foreign ships, of which the following
are translations :

Art. I. The privilege granted by the decree of the 30,h
September, 1853, to foreign vessels to carry, until 31st
December, 1853, corn, meal, rice, potatoes, and dry vege-
tables, between Algeria and France, is extended to- 31st
July, 1854.
Art. 11. Whatever may be the date of their arrival at
their destination, foreign vessels thus laden shall enjoy the
benefit of the abcve article, provided they lahall have
quitted the port of departure previous to 31st July, 1854.
Art. 111. Our Ministers of War, of Commerce, and of
Finance, are charged, each in his own department, with
the execution of the present decree.
Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, 17th December,
1853.

NAPOLEON.

By the Emperor. The Marshal of France, Secre-
tarf of State for the Department of War.
A. DE SAINT ARNAUD.

Art. I. The privilege granted by our decree of I2th Oc-
tober, 1853, to foreign vessels to carry from one sea to
another, coastwise, grain and other provisions loaded in a
French port, is extended, under the conditions named in
the above-mentioned Decree, to the carriage, coastwise, of
the same articles, from one port to another in the same
sea•

The above privilege, which is to extend to the 31st July,
18-;4, shall only be applicable to vessels laden exclusively
with grain and the other provisions specified in the Decree
of 12th October last.

Art. 11. Vessels thus laden shall be admitted at their
port of destination at whatever date they may arrive, if
their clearance papers shall prove that they sailed previous
to the 31st July, 1854.

Art. 111. Our Ministers of Agriculture, Commerce, and
Public Works, and of Finance, are charged, each in his
own Department, with the execution of the present Decree.
Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, 16th January, 1854.
NAPOLEON.
By the Emperor. The Minister Secretary
of State for the Department of Agricul-
ture, Commerce, and Public Works.
P. MAGNE.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foi eign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister, at Lisbon, stating that
the Portuguese Government has decided that the possession
of a clean Bill of Health does not of itself entitle a vessel
to free pratique in a Portuguese port, and still less so if
arriving from an infected port ; and that, in the case of
colliers, the Portuguese Government has conceded the pri-
vilege of commencing their quarantine at Belem from the
day of their making their entry at that port.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINE
DEPARTMENT, JAN. 24.
The Right Hon. 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 Minister at Madrid, trans-
mitting copy of a notification published in the Madrid
Gazette (a translation of which is subjoined), announcing
the establishment of a new lighthouse on the north side of
Cape Prior, coast of Galicia.
(Copy.)
(Translation.) Hydrographical Office.