The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 2S.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have re-
ad ved a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at Santo
Domingo, inclosing a notice to Mariners, a copy of which
is subjoined, relative to a Lighthouse recently erected in
th t city.

By order, T. H. FARBER.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SANTO DOMINGO LIGHT.—From the 14th August, 1853,
the Dominican Government have ordered a white fixed
light to be exhibited between sunset and sunrise, from
the bastion of San Jose, at the city of Santo Domingo.
The cupola of the iron frame work, the columns of which
are painted white, the cornices red and blue, rises 113
feet above low water mark ; the lantern with the re-
flectors commences at 100 feet.
The lighthouse is situated in latitude 18 deg. 28 min. 5
sec. north, longitude 69 deg. 52 min. 30 sec. west of Green-
wich. It bears north 58 deg. west (true) distant 1,423
yards from Punta Torrecilla ; and south 44 deg. west, dis-
tant 617 yards from the Homenaje, or signal tower of the
fort.

The fixed white light consists of nine reflectors of the
first class, patent of Messrs. Alcot and Brothers, at Roches-
ter, in the state of New York ; and may be seen, with a
clear atmosphere, in from 18 to 20 miles. Its range ex-
tends nearly in a half circle from south to east and west-
ward.

Vessels coming from the east running for Santo Do-
mingo roads, ought to keep in mind that having doubled
Punta Causedo, the light will show over the land, some-
what to the north of Punta Torrecilla, and that from this
point from whence as already observed, the light bears N.
58 deg. W., distant 1,423 yards, a short reef extends south-
westward, upon which the water breaks when the sea
is agitated. Bearing up for the pilotage, as indicated in
the Colombian Pilote, and other sailing directions, this
danger ought to be guarded against.
A duty of 61 cents. (equal to 34-d.) per ton, is levied from
every vessel, national and foreign, that comes from abroad,
for the support of the light.
British Consulate, Santo Domingo, Aug. 22,1853.
(Signed) ROBERT H. SCHOMBURGK, Consul.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations having, with the
concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
determined to exercise the powers given to them by the
Mercantile Marine Act, 13 and 14 Vic, chap. 93, sec. 32,
of dispensing with the observance of so much of the Gene-
ral Merchant Seamen's Act, 7 and 8 Vict., chap, 112, as
relates to the register, tickets of seamen.
Notice is hereby given, that from and after the first day
of October next the system of registering seamen by means
of tickets will be discontinued, and after that dale neither
masters of British ships nor British seamen will be required
to observe any of the provisions of the said Act, 7 and 8
Vict., chap. 112, requiring such tickets to be procured,
kept, or produced, or otherwise relating thereto.
The special tickets issued for the purpose of recording vo-
luntary contributions to the Merchant Seamen's Fund, under
the Act for winding up the fund, 14 and 15 Vict., chap. 102,
will still continue to be issued by shipping masters, and to
be used as heretofore, and those masters and seamen who
wish to keep up these contributions with a view to earning
pensions for themselves or their families, are hereby
warned that they must keep their fund tickets, and pro-
duce them for the purpose of having their contributions re-
corded, upon pain of forfeiting their claims upon the fund.
With a view to the correctness of the records henceforth
to be kept, mariners are hereby warned, that by the 75th
sect, of the Act 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 93, it is provided
that, if any seaman, on or before being engaged, makes a
false statement of the name of his last ship, or of his own
name, he shall forfeit out of his wages a sum not exceed-
ing five pounds.

By order,

T. H. FARRER.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 29.
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 dispatch from her ➢lajesty's Consul at the Hague,
transmitting the subjoined translation of a Decree reducing
temporarily the duties on the the importation of grain into
Holland, By order,

J. EMERSON TENNENT.

(Copy.)

ROYAL DECREE.