The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-06 00:00:00

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[FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.]
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITE/JAIL. MAY 4-
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 Charge d'Affaires at
Stockholm, enclosing a declaration which has been issued
by the King of Sweden, for the guidance of the trade and
navigation of that country in times of war between Foreign
Powers, a translation of which is hereunto subjoined.
We, Oscar, by the grace of God, Sing of Sweden
face of the
and
Norway, &c., recognizing the necessity, in the
collisions threatening to take place between foreign mari-
time Powers, of the rigorous observance by our faithful.
subjects engaged in trade and navigation, of the obliga-
tions and precautions requisite to ensure to the Swedish
Flag all the rights and privileges appertaining to it,
in its quality of neutral, and also with a view to
avoiding everything that might render it in any
way suspected by the Belligerent Powers, and
exposed to insult, have judged it expedient, in re-
pealing previous orders on the subject, to decree that the
following rules shall be generally observed in future :
1. In order to be admitted to enjfq the rights and privi-
leges accruing to the Swedish flag, in its neutral quality,
every Swedish vessel must be furnished with the docu-
ments which, by existing ordinances,* are required to prove
its nationality, and these documents must always be on
board the vessel during its voyages.
2. Captains are strictly forbidden to have double or false
papers and bills of lading, or to hoist foreign colours on
any occasion or under any pretext whatever.
3. If, during the stay of a Swedish vessel at a foreign
port, the crew, whether by desertion, death, illness, or any
other cause, should be so diminished as not to be sufficient
for the working of the vessel, and foreign sailors should be
therefore engaged, the preference must be given to the
subjects of Neutral Powers ; but in any case the number
of the subjects of the belligerent Powers on board the ship
must not exceed one-third of the total crew. Every
change of this nature in the crew of the ship, with the
causes which have led to it, must be marked by the captain
in the ship's books, and the fidelity of the annotation cer-
tified by the proper Swedish Consul or Vice-Consul, or if
there be no such person at the spot, by the civil authorities,
the notary public, or some other person of the same autho-
rity, pursuant to the customs of the respective countries.
4. The Swedish vessels in their neutral quality may na-
vigate freely to the ports and on the coasts of the nations
at war; but the captains must abstain from all attempts to
enter a blockaded port, as soon as hey have been formally
warned of the state of that port byt the officer commanding
the blockade.
By a blockaded port, is meant a port which is closed by
one or more of the enemies' vessels of war, stationed so
near that it cannot be entered without evident danger.
5. All merchandise, including property of subjects of the
belligerent Powers, may be freely carried on board Swedish
vessels in their quality of neutrals, with the exception of
contraband of war. By contraband of war, are meant the
following articles : " cannons, mortars, arms of all sorts,
bombs, grenades, balls, flints, matches, gunpowder, salt-
petre, brimstone, cuirasses, pikes, belts, cartouch-boxes,
saddles, and bridles, as well as all articles directly serving
for warlike purposes"—excepting always such a quantity
of these articles as may be necessary for the defence of the
ship and the crew.
In case any changes or additions should bo made in the
definition of articles composing contraband of war, consequent upon conventions with Foreign Powers, further
notifications will be issued. _ •
6. Every Swedish captain is forbidden to enaploy.the
vessel which he commands, in the transport, for any of
the belligerent Powers, of despatches, troops, or munitions
of war, without being forcibly compelled. lu this case h©

WAR-OFFICE, May 5.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Ensign Sir Brydges
Powell Henniker, Bart., from the 68th Foot, to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Honourable J. B. J. Dormer, promoted,
May 5.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Assistant-
Surgeon Constantine Caridi Read, from the 91st Regiment,
to bo Assistant-Surgeon, May 5.
Ist Foot—Robert Atkinson, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Mee, promoted in the 44th Foot, May 5.
24th Foot—Ensign Francis Freeman White to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchaae,- vice Goodfellow, who retires ; Walter
Bernardino Logan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
White' May 5.
35th Foot—Paymaster John Mills Howson, from the
94th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Shearman, who exchanges,
May 5.
41st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Abbott Ander-
son, from the 51st Foot, to be Surgeon, vice William Mor-
timer Wilkins, who retires upon half-pay, May 5.
42d Foot—Serjeant-Major William Wood to be Quarter-
master, vice Paton, who retires upon half pay, May 5.
43d Foot—Ensign Honourable Arthur Ernest Harris,
from the 55th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Atty, who retires,
May 5.
44th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Mee, from the Ist
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Swettenham, appointed to the
Staff, May 5.
45th Foot—Charles Parke Allen, M.D., to bo Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Barker, promoted on the Staff, May 5.
46th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Vere
Webb to be Surgeon, vice Breslin, appointed to the depot
Battalion at Templemore ; Charles Carroll Dempster,
Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Franklyn, appointed
to the Staff, May 5.
48th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Augustus Frede-
rick Shelton, M. 8., from the 60th Foot, to be Surgeon,
vice Scot, appointed to the 79th Foot, May 5.
53d Foot—Lieutenant Patrick Flynn, from half-pay
39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Peel, appointed Pay-
master ; Ensign Charles Francis Herbert Lloyd to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Flynn, who retires ; Ensign
John Maxwell Macneill, from the 49th Foot, to be En-
sign, vice Lloyd, May 5.
60th Foot—Grahame Young, Gent.,
to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Shelton, promoted in the 48th Foot, May 5.
67th Foot—Malachy Nugent, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Herrick, who retires, May 5.
68th Foot—Edward Richard Fox Vicars, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Sir B. P. Henniker, Bart., ap-
pointed to the Royal Horse Guards May 5.
72nd Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel William Raikes Faber,
from half-pay 63rd Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel (paying
the difference), vice Freeman Murray, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference, May 5.
88th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Corbett to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Holme, who retires ; William Charles
Pearson, Gent., to bo Ensign, by purchase, May 5.
90th Foot—Lieutenant James Perrin to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Johnson, who reti re ; Ensign Richard
Henry Magenis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Perrin ; Leonard Howard Loyd Irby, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Magenis, May 5.
94th Foot—Paymaster William Shearman, from the
35th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Howson, who exchanges
May 5.
'
2nd West India Regiment—Ensign Thomas Mackesy
Vincent to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice
Charles John
,
Patterson, promoted, May 5
hams, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vico B Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Charles Richard
rit-
W;1-
tain promoted, May 5.
Royal Newfoundland Companies
Petrie to be Captain, by purchase, vice u3rlcahratsi
en,
• Jenkins, who re-
tires ; Easton John Cox, Goat., to be— Eljniesiugute,nbanytp
May 5.
Ambulance Corns—Captain John James Grant, half•pay
Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Command-
ant ; and to rank as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-
General ; Serjeant William Henry, of the 12th Battalion
Royal Artillery, to be Adjutant and Quartermaster,
May 5.
HOSPITAL STAFF—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class,
John Strange Chapman, to be Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals, vice W. H. Barrel, whose appointment was
cancelled in the Gazette of the 28th April, 1854 ; Surgeon
William Kilner Swettenham, M.D., from the 44th Foot,
to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice S. Smith
'appointed to the Depot Battalion at Fermoy ; Assistant-
Staff-Surgeon. Henry. Lionel Cowen to be Staff-Surgeon of
the Second Class vice Johnston appointed to the Depot
Battalion at Parlainrst Barracks ; Assistant Staff-Surgeon

William Munro, M.D., to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class, vice Webb, appointed to the 46th Foot • Assistant-
Surgeon Francis Oliver Barker, from the 45th 'Foot, to be
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Gibb, appointed
to the Depot Battalion at Walmer ; Samuel Joseph Bay-
field, Gent., to bo Assistant Staff-Surgeon, vice Cowen, pro-
moted on the Staff; John Joseph Mulock, Gent., to be
Assistant Staff-Surgeon, vice Munro, promoted on the
Staff, May 5.
STAFF. -Major Thomas Weston Easterbrooke Holds-
worth, from the 2il Foot, to be Deputy Quartermaster-
General in Nova Scotia (with the rank of Lieutenant-Co-
lonel in the Army), vice Brevet-Colonel Bazalgette, who
retires; Veterinary Surgeon Felix Delany, Ist Dragoon
Guards, to be Veterinary Surgeon to the Army proceeding
to Turkey, May 5.
UNATTACHED.-Brevet-Colonel John Bazalgette, Major
on half-pay Unattached, late Deputy Quartermaster-Ge-
neral in Nova Scotia, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase, May 5.
MEMORANDA.- The Christian names of the Hon. Ensign
Ward, of the 73d Foot, aro " Crosbie Richard Maxwell."
The name of the Purveyor to the Forces, the date of
whose commission was altered in the Gazette of 28th April,
is Henry Hamilton Acheson, and not Henry Hamilton
Acheron.
Errata in the Gazette of 28th April, 1854.
Ist Regiment of Foot-For Assistant-Surgeon William
Dunibrock, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, 28th
April, 1851 ; read Assistant-Surgeon William Dumbreck,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
HOSPITAL STAFF.-For Francis Stephen Bennet and
Frangois de Chaumont, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeons to
the Forces, 28th April, 1854 ; read Francis Stephen Ben-
net Frangois de Chaumont, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces.
BANIBUPTS.
George Nathaniel Grane, surgeon, Chaney, Sussex, to
surrender, May 13, at half-past twelve, and June
an, 16, at
half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cann off.
cial assignee, Aldarmanbury ; Fesenmayer, Bedford-row.
Joseph Bailey Millington, builder, Harrow-road, Pad-
dington, May 16, at one, and June 15, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street
Buildings ; Trail, Temple.
James Bowerman, common brewer, Gloucester, May 16,
and June 13, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Smith, Gloucester.
Thomas Benjamin King, dealer and chapman, May 18,
and June 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Richardson and Gold,
York ; Balmer, Leeds.
William Wood, smith, Staleybridge, Lancaster, May 19,
and June 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Brooks, Ashton-
under-Lyne.
John Hunter, tea merchant, Manchester, May 22, and
Juno 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Worthington and
Earle, Manchester.
Joseph Buhrer, fancy warehouseman, Holborn Hill, May
15 and June 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee; Clntton & Ade, Southwark.
Thomas Hughes, innkeeper, Wednesbury, May 20 and
Juno 10, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bit-
tleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Duignan & Hem-
mant, Walsall; E. & H. Wright, Birmingham.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED
R. Stanton and J. Beard, Stratford, Essex, railway con-
tractors-C. L. Graue and G. Scheurmann, Newgate-
street, musical warehousemen and publishers-M. and J.
S. Hammond, Romford, carpenters and builders-T. and
R. Whittaker, Fosdyke Fen, Lincolnshire, maltsters and
brewers-W. I. Jones and J. Vick, Birmingham, pin
manufacturers-A. M. Power and 0. R. Strickland, Liver-
pool, shipbrokers-E. and F. Togwood, St. Neots, Hunting-
donshire, and Upper Thames-street, paper manufacturers-
3. Scholfield and J. Halliwell, The Smithies, near Barnsley,
linen manufacturers-J. Hardwick and J. Turner, North-
ampton, shoo manufacturers-A. W. Wildblood, J. Col-
dough, and S. Goddard, Burslem, ornamenters of china and
earthenware-S. Thornely, J. Winchester, and H.
Thornely, Liverpool, tailors, as far as regards H. Thornely
-W. Matthews and J. Flewellen, Wild's-rents, Ber-
mondsey, tanners, and hide splitters-A. W. May and J.
Roberts, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, surveyors-T. H.
Sinkinson and H. Lancaster, Walsall, iron manufacturers
-B. Weyer and E. Wright, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, school-
mistress-J. and W. H. Deykin, Birmingham, button
manufacturers-J. B. Sanderson and P. James, jun.,
Little Britain, lithographers and engravers-E. Lowe,
B. Saloway, and S. P. Yates, Bridgnorth, car-
pet manufacturers-B. Rycroft and E. W. Hargreaves,
Idle, Yorkshire, ironmongers-S. S. C. and W. A.
Sothern, Great Yarmouth, booksellers, printers, sta-
tioners, and binders-J. Gregson and J. Brien, late
of Gresham-stret West, now of Cheapside, silk warehouse-
men-W. Pearson and R. N. Earnshaw, Liverpool, coach
builders-S. T. Wharton and C. Carlton, Ellaud, York-
shire, boot and shoemakers-J. Vernon and J. Taylor, Bur-
slem, earthenware manufacturers-J. and H. Toule, Not-
tingham, foreign timber merchants-J. and F. Crossley,
Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, drysalters and manufacturing
chemists-T. and J. Willis, Bradford, Yorkshire, brass-
founders-T. It. and W. S. Chalkley, Liverpool, joiners
and builders-W. Flower and. G. Watmough, East Ret-
ford, mercers and drapers.
DIVIDENDS.
May 24, J. Goble, Shoreham, miller-May 17, S. G. M.
Scowen, Wood-street, Cheapside, warehousemen-May
27, F. Adamson, Bond-court, Walbrook, merchant-
' May 27, D. Fraser, late of Little Tower-street, City,
shipowner-May 29, T. Lumley, Gutter-lane, Cheap-
side, merchant - May 29, A. J. Meirelle.s, Liver-
pool, merchant -May 29, T. Gidden, Farringdon-
victualler-May 26, R. Cross, Southampton, watch-
maker and jeweller-May 27, G. Nock and J. Williams,
Frith-street, Soho, goldsmiths and jewellers-May 27, A.
Colvin, W. Ainslie, B. D. Colvin, T. Anderson, and D.
Ainslie, Calcutta, merchants and East India agents-May
26, J. Ashworth, Litchurch, near Derby, hotel-keeper-
May 29, H. H. King, Bristol, bookseller and stationer-
May 26, D. E. Monies, Liverpool, broker-May 26, A. S.
Burns, Liverpool, hosier and draper-May 26, J. P. Reilly,
Litherland, Lancashire, coal merchant-May 29, J. ISPColni,
Manchester, waste-deafer and rope manufacturer-May 30,
J. Gray, Hulme Lancashire, butcher and contractor.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
May, 1, J. A. Homes, High-street, Southwark, and
Portland-cottages, Hatcham, woollen-draper (first class)-
May 1, G. S. Amsinck, Frederick-street, Hampstead-road,
brewer (first class)-April 22, L. M. R. Smith, Salisbury-
street, Strand, boarding-house-keeper (second class) May
2, H. E. blethered, Churton-street, Pimlico, linendraper
(second class)-May 3, J. Eyton and M. J. Cooke, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, merchants and manufacturing chemists
(third class)-April 28, R. Cleasby, Eccles, Lancashie
ffi ere,
builder (second class)-April 29, D. Ullyett, Shld,
draper (third class).
INSOLVENT DIVIDEND.
F. M. Colchester, Gloucester, tailor and hatter-div. of
10d. in the pound, any day after Monday, May 8, at the
office of Mr. Wilton, Gloucester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Aiken, Glasgow, contractor and, builder, May 12,
at 1 o'clock, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
Robert W. Ralston and John Macalaster Houston,
Paisley, commission merchants, May 15, at 2 o'clock, at
the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 2d day of
May, 1854, is 255. 61a. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
,ortation thereof into Great Britain.

PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.

This society, established for the relief of aged and in-
firm printers and their widows, celebrated its twenty-
seventh anniversary by a dinner, on Thursday, at the
London Tavern. In the absence of Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., M.P., owing to an affecting calamity in the
Mediterranean, Mr. Layard, M.P., discharged the duties

of the chair.
In proposing the customary local toasts, reference was
made to his Royal Highness Prince Albert having be-
come a patron of the society. The toast of "The Army
and Navy" was received with marked enthusiasm.
The Rev. Mr. NICOLAY, in acknowledging the toast
of "The Church," said the printing press had done more
for the evangelisation of the world than anything else
that could be named.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "Prosperity to the
Printers' Pension Society," said his absence from the
chair last year had been unavoidable. This year he
had great pleasure in officiating for Sir Robert Peel, who
had been incapable of performing the duties in conse-
quence of an awful catastrophe in the Mediterranean, of
which they had heard of through the newspapers. It
was a source of gratification that Providence h ad spared
him the calamity which had befallen so many, and that
the honoured name of Sir Robert Peel was still ill preserved
to their country. (Cheers.) He hoped , n the
absence of Sir Robert Peel, they would putb up
with him. (Laughter.) They knew that he
shoad
.teieens
employed in excavating old stones on the site f
that were once as famous as their own. It might
occur to them to inquire what was the cause of the dis-
appearance of those cities fro
absences
thseenaocee
of knowledge,
f he earth.
One cause, he thought, was te
and the absence of a power in those
times to distribute
it. (Cheers.) knowledge was then confined to the priest-
hood and a few other classes. The printing press was now
become as necessary to them as the air they breathed.
It was by its instrumentality that the great and sacred
truths contained in the Bible had been disseminated over
the globe. If they wished to ascertain the value of
the printing press, let them imagine fora moment what
would be their state under its absence. They re-
membered the cab strike. (A laugh.) Now, let them ima-
gine what would be their feeling if all the morning
newspapers had been stopped. What would be the feel-
ing of members of Parliament to find no record of their
speeches? How would the City merchant dispense with the
record of the money market ? How would they miss the
account of the taking of Sebastopol—news which, whether
true or false—(laughter)—was always so gratifying?
Mistakes would happen—they all knew that ; but still
they all knew the value of the morninf, papers. Toe duty
of the printer was of an arduous character. The mid-
night hour, at which he most frequently pursued his labour,
was most destructive to health, and one of the great
afflictions peculiar to printers was the loss of sight. As a
member of Parliament, he had often.. been struck, after
the house had risen at four o'clock in the morning to see
"those burning lights " at the offices of the morn-
ing newspapers which indicated that the words, only
as it were just out of the mouths of members of their
Houses of Legislature, would soon be on their breakfast
tables. (Cheers.)
Mr. CowAN, M.P., in proposing a toast, said, the
public—not less than printers—were indebted to the
authors of the country. It was notorious that not one
book in three, nor one pamphlet in three, paid its ex-f
lin
ex-
penses. Without attempting to investigate the cause
.o
this, he might observe that it evinced a feeling of cbs-
interestedness which was creditable to the authors of
this country. (Cheers.)
Subscriptions were than announced au:tow:Ain to
about 400/.

Although the races contested at Newmarket on Thursday
and Friday were numerically insignificant, yet they were
marked by incidents of interest and importance. Champagne
and Scythian contested the 100 Sows Sweepstakes,
and their meeting was watched with no little curiosity. A
slashing race too it was between them; Champagne when
called upon for the finishing effort swerved, but Marlow's
skill enabled him to win on the post by a head. He followed
up his success on Friday by " turning the tables" on Middle-
sex for the Newmarket Stakes. He ran kinder and gamer,
too, than on Tuesday and Thursday. This circumstance is
explained by the fact of " plating" him differently, for yes-
terday leather was placed between his hoofs and the plates.
Champagne is what is technically termed a " soft horse,"
and both in riding and training requires tender treatment.
Boiardo's performance created no little surprise.
Tho movements relative to the Chester Cup were many and
important. Dr. O'Toole was brought into prominent notice,
and Aldford, Domino, and others received a support suffi-
ciently spirited to be significant of their owners' intentions.
Acrobat was, however, yesterday advanced to the position of
leading favourite. So well, indeed, was the demonstration
iu his favour sustained, that his stable eompanion, Newmin-
ster, rapidly receded in the betting. Acrobat's sudden rise
was not utterly unexpected, but perhaps few people were
prepared to see him occupy so conspicuous a position in the
list of quotations. lam little inclined to regard his victory
over the Physalis colt as evidence of great racing power, but I
am compelled to acknowledge that his appearance and style
of going indicate him to be a horse of a superior stamp. In-
deed many persons believe Acrobat to be the best three-year-
old in John Scott's stable, and have frequently declared their
conviction that he is intended ultimately to supersede Dervish

iu the Derby betting !
A meeting will take place at Tattersalls this afternoon,
when it is probable that speculation will undergo some im-
portant changes. I shall therefore reserve a full and unre-
served expression of my opinion as to the Chester Cup chances
until Monday. In the meantime, I shall diligently watch the
market, and endeavour to find a satisfactory answer to the
momentous question, " What's to win the Chester Cup ?"
He, however, who attempts to solve this query correctly,
needs possess the gift of second sight. For my part, I must
confess my inability to " see into the middle of next week.
By an impartial examination of the chances of the probable com
petitors, it will, however, be possible, to render my " guesses
at truth," pretty accurate.
May 6

A FRESH MAN.