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

to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

WHITEHALL, MAY 5.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
John Park to the charge and office of First Minister of the
church and parish of St. Andrews, in the presbytery of
St. Andrews, and county of Fife, vacant by the death of
Doctor Robert Haldane, late First Minister'thereof.
HOME-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, MAT 5.
Whereas many English workmen have lately proceeded
to France in search of employment, and having failed in
obtaining work of any description, have fallen into great
poverty and distress, and have suffered much misery and
privation : all such persons, intending to go over to France
for the same purpose, are lier&:y cautioned and warned of
the inconvenience to which they will be exposed, unless
they shall have entered beforehand into some contract or
engagement with some person in France, who is able to
employ them ; or unless they shall, before leaving their
own country, have provided themselves with funds suffi-
cient to preserve them from want while abroad, and to
enable them to return, if they' cannot find the employment
they have sought for.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, 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 Charg6 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, King of Sweden and
Norway, &c , recognizing the necessity, in the face of 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 enjoy the rights and privi-
leges:teeming 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.
lf, during the stay of a Swedish vessel at a foreign
port, the crew, whether by desertion, death, illness, or any
other cause, should ba so diminished as not to be sufficient
for the working of the vessel, and foreign s ►ilors should be
therefore engaged, the preference ►rust 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
tn-es which haveled 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- .onsul, 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 te the customs of the respective countries.
4. The Swedish vessels in their neutral quality may na-
vigate freely to the ports and ou the coasts of the nations
at war; but the captains must abstain from all attempts to
enter a blockaded port, as soon as they have been formally
warned of the state of that port by 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, al-, 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 be made in the
definition of articles composing contraband of war, conse-
quent upon conventions with Foreign Powers, further
notifications will be issued.
6. Every Swedish captain is forbidden to employ the
vessel which he commands, in the transport, for any of
the belligerent Powers. of despatches, troops, or munitions
of war, without being forcibly cornfielled. In this case he
should protest formally against such an employment of
force.

7. The ships of the belligerent Powers may import into,
and export from, the ports of Sweden, all commodities
and merchandise, provided their importation or exporta-
tion be permitted by the general Custom-house tariff, with
the exception of articles contra,baml of war.
8. All Swedish subjects are forbidden to arm or equip
vessels, as privateers, against any of the belligerent Powers,
their subjects, and property, or to take part in the equip-
ment of vessels intended for that purpose. They are equally
forbidden to serve on board any foreign privateer.
9. No foreign privateer shall be allowed to enter a
Swedish port, or to stay in our roads. Prizes are not to
be taken into Swedish ports, except in cases of proved dis-
tress. Our subjects are also forbidden to buy captured
effects of any kind from foreign privateers.
10. When a captain, sailing without escort, is met in
open sea by any vessel of war of one of the belligerent
Powers having right to examine his ship's papers, he must
neither refuse nor endeavonr to avoid the search, but is
bound to produce his papers loyally and with Out evasion,
and to take care that none of the documents concerning
the ship or its cargo be abstracted or thrown into the sea,
either after the vessel is hailed, or during the search.
11. When merchant vessels sail under escort of vessels of
war, the ca Mains must act in conformity with the pre-
scriptions of the Royal Ordinance of 10th June, 1512.
12. The captain, who observes scrupulously all the above
regulations is entitled to enjoy, in accordance with treaties
and the law of nations, a tree and uninterrupted naviga-
tion, and if he be, notwithstanding, molested, he has a
right to expect tha most energetic support oa the part of
our ministers and consuls abroad in all his just attempts to
obtain reparation and indemnification; whereas the captain
who omits or neglects to observe what is above prescribed
for his guidance, will only have himself to blame for the
unpleasant consequences of his negligence, without hope of
our support and protection. .
13. Iu case of the seizure of a Swedish vessel, the Cap-
tain should remit to the Swedish Consul or Vice• Consul,
if there be one in the port where his ship has been brought,
or, in default, to the nearest Swedish Consul or Vice-
Consul, a faithful and duly certified report of the circum.-
stances of the capture, with all its details.
We direct and order all those whom it may concern to
onform themse.ves exactly to the above. In faith of which
we have signed the present with our hand and have affiied
thereto our Royal seal.
Given at the Castle of Stockholm, April 8, 1851.
OSCAR. (L.S.)

(Countersigned) J. F. FAHRAEUS.

* The Royal Ordinances of March 1, 1841, and August
15, 1851.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of th© Committee of
Privy Council for Tiade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a
copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Berlin,
inclosing the subjoined translation of a royal ordinance of
the King of Prussia respecting the duty to ha levied on the
importation of foreign syrup.
(Translation.)
- . _ _

We, Frederic Willitina, by the grace of God, King of
Prussia, &c. A further agreement having been conc!uded
between the Governments of the States of the Zollverein,
relative to carrying out the arrangements for the duties on
foreign syrups, do, with the assent of the Chambers, de-
cree as follows :

§ 1. The duty of two thalers per centner on foreign
syrup, prescribed by the ordinance of the 11th of June,
1853 (Gesetz Saminlung, p. 441), from the lst of January,
1854, to the end of August, 1855, shall apply only to ordi-
nary syrup, that is to say, to such as, according to the
result of the testa which are to be directed for this pur-
pose by the Customs' authorities, contains no crystallizable
sugar, or only a small quantity. Any syrup which is
found to be incompatible with the terms of the aforesaid
rule, shall be charged with the import duty of four thalers
per centner.
§ 2. This order shall be applicable to' all the clearances
already effeetel, fr•im the Ist of January, 1854.
§ 3. Our Minister of Finances is charged with the execu-
tion of the present law.

Attested under ur hand and royal seal.
(L.S.) (Signed) FREDERIC WILLIAM.
VON MANTEUFFEL. VON WESTPHALEN.
VON DER HEYDT. VON BODESCHWING.
SIMONS. VON BONIN.
VON BALMIER.
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 R-giment of Foot Guards—Assistant-
Surgeon Constantine Caridi Read, from the 91st Regiment,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, May 5.
Ist Foot—Robert Atkinson, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, ;Ace Mee, promoted iu, the 44th Foot, May 5.
24th Foot—Ensign Francis Freeman White to be Lieu•
tenant, by purchase, vice Goodfellow, who retires; Walter
Bernardino Logan, Gent., td be Ensign, by purchase, vice
White, May 5.
35th Foot—Paymaster John Mills Hewson, 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 ba 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,
Moy 5.
41th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Mee, from the let
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Swettenham, appointed to the
Staff, May 5.

45th FOot—Charles Parke Allen, M.D., to be 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 Templomore; 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.
sid 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 purchise, 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 Fout—Edward Richard Fox Vicars, Gent., to bo
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 be Ensign, by purchase, May 5.
90th Foot—Lieutenant James Perrin to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Johnson, who retires ; Ensign Richard
Henry Magonis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Perrin • Leonard Howard Loyd Irby, Gent. to be Ensign,
*by purchase, vice Magenis, May 5.
titii PC4411110001 5.44643 14,41W0 Oc_l4