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London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

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THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have re-
ceived a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at Santo
) omi ago, inclosing a notice to Mariners, a copy of which
is subjoined, relative to a Lighthouse recently erected in
t city.

By order, T. H. FARBER.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

SANTO DOMINGO LIGHT.—From the 14th August, 1853,
h e Dominican Government have ordered a white fixed
g h t to be exhibited between sunset and sunrise, from
t e bastion of San Jose, at the city of Santo Domingo.
r he cupola of the iron frame work, the columns of which
aro painted white, the cornices red and blue, rises 113
et above low water mark ; the lantern with the re-
ctors commences at 100 feet.
The lighthouse is situated in latitude 18 deg. 28 min. 5
ec. north, longitude 69 deg. 52 min. 30 sec. west of Green-
wi ch. It bears north 58 deg. west (true) distant 1,423
y ards 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 3hd.) 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. 03, 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 date 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 Viet., 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 A ffairs, a copy
of a dispatch from her Majesty'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.)

(Translation.)

ROYAL DECREE.

In consequence of the extraordinary measures taken by
neighbouring states to encourage the importation of grain
and other articles of food, it appears necessary here also to
facilitate their introduction. We therefore, &c., &c.,
decree :
Art. 1. The duties on the importation of the under-
mentioned good shall be diminished to the following scale :
Cents.
Potatoes 5 per 10 mud.
Millet
Wheat lO „ last.
Maize, barley, malt, buck-wheat, oats,
beans, vetches, peas, lentils, groats,
pearl barley " , 100 kilos.
Art. 2. The above regulations shall come into operation
five days after the date of the Staats Blad and Staat
Courant, in which this decree is published, and shall re-
main in vigour till the lst of July, 1854, or till it is other-
wise determined by law. (Signed) WILLIAM.
Utrecht, Sept. 15, 1853.
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 v, dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at Acapulco, re-
porting that an order had come down from the seat of Go-
vernment to the Custom-house of that port, allowing all
vessels laden with coal to enter on the payment of reduced
tonnage dues, viz,.stenn.etahg payment of four reals (or two
shillings) per ton, of one dollar four reals (or six
shillings) per ton, whichwas formerly exacted ; but it is
to be understood that these vessels are to have no other
merchandise on board.
By order.

J. EDIERSON TENNENT.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 30.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—Henry_
vice
Eclwardes Handley,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,Feilden, appointed
to the 13th Light Dragoons, Sept. 30.
3d Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Richard Michael Wil-
liams, from the 59th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sullivan,
who exchanges, Sept. 30.
11th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant James Miller to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Brisco, who retires ; Cornet
Coleraine Robert Vansittart to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Miller, Sept. 30.
14th Light Dragoons—Cornet Claudius Buchanan Whish
o be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gratrex, who retires ;
Cornet William Henry Travers Clarke 'Travers to be Lieu-
tenants, by purchase, vice Ford, who retires ; Edward
Orlando Vawr Haldane, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Whish, Sept. 30.
11th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Roe to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Ward, who retires ; Ensign
William Dutton Napper to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Roe ; Thomas Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Napper, Sept. 30.
17th Foo---Ensini. Evan Forbes Mcßayne, from the
44th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bradford, who exchanges,
Sept. 30.
39th Foot—Lieutenant Bernard Henry O'Reilly, from
half-pay 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gee, promoted
without purchase to an Unattached Company, Sept. 30.
44th Foot—Ensign Michael Bradford, from the 17th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice JlPBayne, who exchanges, Sept. 30.
59th Foot—Lieutenant John Sullivan, from the 3d
Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Williams, who
exchanges, Sept. 30.
69th Foot—Major David Elliot M`Kirdy to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Paxton, deceased ;
Captain Charles Fredenck Law to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice M`Kirdy ; Lieutenant Francis Gamble Blood
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Law ; Ensign
Charles Edward Mahon tobeLietiten twithout pur-
chase,vice Blood, Aug. 25 ; Gentlemana
nCadet James
Warren Hastings Anderson, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Malton,
Sept. 30.
71st Foot—Lieutenant James Horne to be Captain by
purchase, vice Wilson, who retires, Sept. 30.
87th Foot—First Lieutenant Henry Smyth Bw t eto
be Captain, by purchase, vice Fulchei whoa re
relt.;
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. Second Lieutenant Anthony Butler to '
beFirstLieens-;
Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Bawtree ; Robert Lampdeu,
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SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The number of institutions in
union with the Society of Arts now amounts to 289.
During the quarter just completed, seventeen institu-
tions have joined the association. The following is a list
of these institutions :—Allenheads, library and news-
room ; Andover, literary institute ; Berkhampstead,
mechanics' institution ; Brighton, London. Brighton,
and South Coast Railway literary and scientific institu-
tion ; Bury St. Edmunds, Athenaeum and Suffolk insti-
tute of archaeology and natural history ; Combe, sub-
scription library ; Coalcleugh, library and news-room ;
Colchester, mechanics' institution ; Coventry, mechanics'
institution ; Hartlepool (West), literary and mechanics' in-
stitution ; Newhouse, library and news-room ; Norwood,
library and reading-room ; Odiham, mechanics' institu-
tion ; Shaftesbury, literary institution ; Tamworth,
reading-room ; York, institute of popular science and
literature. It is satisfactory to know that the usefulness
of the union increases as it should do with the increase
of members. Since the issue of the list of lecturers, no-
ticed a short time back, the society has put in circulation
among the institutions a small collection of photographs,
numbering nearly one hundred specimens, and illus-
trating the best results obtained by the most able pho-
tographers in each process, who have most kindly, and
let us add wisely, seconded the efforts of the Society of
Arts to extend a knowledge of this art by lending, and
in some cases presenting, the specimens for this itine-
rating exhibition.
REPORTED ESCAPE OF THII EXILE JOHN MITCHELL.—
The Adelaide Observer of the 2d of July says :—" Mr.
John Mitchell, one of the Irish State prisoners, has
effected his escape from the island ; he is the fourth of
these prisoners who has escaped." In another part of
the same paper we find the following :—" By way of
Melbourne we have dates to the 19th of June. John
Mitchell, whose escape we have already recorded, is
gazetted as an absconder, and a reward of 21., or such
lesser sum as may be determined upon by the convicting
magistrate,' is offered for his apprehension."
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[ADVERTISEMENT.] --Holloway's Ointment and Pills
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LADVERTISEMPST.I—SPORTSMEN'S, DEER-STA L1K-
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ULASSA TELESCOPES.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—
Observe, opposite the York Hotel. - The Royal Exhibition.
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waist-
coat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person
can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ;
they answer every pin-pose on the race-course at the
opera-houses conatry scenery
~ and ships are clearly seen
tickles.ly4miles
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to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers,
y are invaluable for shooting, deer-
and tourists. Telescopes_
A new and most important
inventionoin
asttalik2intog,
telescopes, Possessing
such extraordinary
powers that some, ches, with an extra e7e-piece, will
show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the
double stars ; with the same telescope, weighinc, only 3
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles
and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles,
They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket.
and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing Powers
accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful
power ; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles
distant. Messrs. S. and B.Solomons, have opticians,
'al
in-
vented invaluable preserving spectacle
seinses. Immediately
they are placed before imperfect vision, object
appears te
clear and distinct; the most aged,
every (l
ecl ,
defective sight
b 'lliant is brought to its youthful,
becomes bright and ri
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natural, and original state. Deafness—New D
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and
The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary po
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from all others, to kind that
surpass anything of the
Being
of than he
been, at probably ever can be, produoed.
same colour as the skin, it is not peroeptible ; it enab es
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