The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-04 00:00:00

CERTAIN KINDS OF MERCHANDISE.

Approved May 24, 1853.
Be it enacted by the King, the Nobles, and the Represen-
tatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council
assembled :

Section 1. That there shall be levied on all goods, wares,
and merchandise imported into this Kingdom, from any
port in China or the Phillipine Islands, a duty of fifteen
per cent ad valorem upon the invoice cost thereof ; provided,
however, that not more•than five per cent. duty shall be
levied on the article of-riee,and-further provided that this
shall not be construed into a repeal of any part of " An
Act leving specific duties. on _sugar, syrups of sugar and
coffee," passed. June 6, 1852.

Section 2. The increase of duties provided for in the first
section of this act shall not affect goods, wares or mer-
chandise, which are the growth or manufacture of any
foreign country haying a treaty with this Kingdom.
Section 3. In order to prove that any goods, wares, or
merchandise, imported into this Kingdom, from any of the
ports of China or the Phillipine Islands, are the growth or
manufacture of some other country having a treaty with
this Kingdom, it shall be necessary for the person entering
the same at the Custom House, to present to the Col-
lector of Customs a cortificateto that effect from the resi-
dent Hawaiian Consul,.or in default of such Consul, from
the Consul or Commercial Agent of such country, at the
port in China or the Phillipine Islands from whence such
goods, wares, or merchandise shall have been brought to
this kingdom ; and the person entering the same at the
Custom-house shall make oath that such goods, wares, or
merchandise are not the growth or manufacture of China
or the Phillipine Islands, to the best of his knowledge and
belief.

Section 4. This act shall take effect at the expiration of
six months from the date of its publication in the Poly-
nesian newspaper.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 3.

sth Regiment of Dragoon 'Guards—Lieutenant William
Inglis to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Bell,
who retires ; Cornet Richard Temple Godman to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Inglis, March 3.
2ud Dragoons—Captain George Augustus Filmer Suli-
van to be Major, without purchase, vic;Macleod, deceased ;
Lieutenant Frederick Philips to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Sulivan ; Comet Robert Scott Hunter, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Philips, Feb. 17.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guard—Lieutenant and
Captain Poulett G. Henry Somerset to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Clitherow, who re-
tires ; Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable Henry
William John Byng to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice Somerset; the Honourable William Arthur
Amherst to be Enlign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Byng, March 3.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant-Colonel George Wil-
liam Fordyce, from half-pay 13th Foot, to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice the Honourable Alexander Nelsen
Hood, who exchanges; Francis Brumley Baker, Gent., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, March 3.
let Foot—Francis Gore Currie, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Otney, promoted in the 7th Foot,
March 3.

ith Foot— Ensign Philip George Coney, from the Ist
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hunt, who re-
tires ; Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable Alfred
Henry Crofton, from the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of
Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Fitz Gerald, pro-
moted, March 3.
10th Foot—Ensign George William Graham, from the
90th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Peard, who retires,
March 3.

12th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Edward St. Maur, from
the 27th Foot, to be ,Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Rumley,
who exchanges, March 3.
17th Foot—Ensign William Dalrymple Tompson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Afylius, who retires ; Ed-
ward John Lees, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Tompson, March 3.
18th Foot—Captain John Lawrie, from the 82d Foot,
to be Captain, vice Wood, who.exchanges, March 3 ; En-
sign William James Hales to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Sargent, promoted, May 25, 1853 ; Ensign Tho-
mas Esmond° to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Hales, whose promotion without purchase on the 7th June,
1853, has been cancelled, June 7, 1853; Lieutenant Joseph
George Wilkinson to be Adjutant, vice Sargent, promoted,
March 3.

19th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Longmore to be
Surgeon, vice Odell, promoted on the staff, March 3.
20th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Edward
Howard to be Surgeon, vice Alexander, promoted on the
staff, March 3.
27th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Randal Rumley, from
the 12th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice St. Maur,
who exchanges, March 3.
35th Foot—Ensign Charles Robert Tennant to be Lieu-
, tenant, by purchase, vice Wright, who retires; Thomas
Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tennant,
March 3.

40th Foot—Cornet Alexander Bower St. Clair, from
the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Stephens,
promoted, March 3.
47th Foot—Assistant•Surgeon William Walter Weld,
from the 49th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Battersby, pro-
moted on the Staff, March 3.
48th Foot—Ensign the Hon. Robert John Handcock to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Noel, who retires; John
Godfrey Day, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ♦ice
Handcock, March 3.

49th Foot—Ensign Walter Robert Corbet to be Lieute•
nant, by purchase, vice tead, who retires ; William
Young, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Corbet,
March 3.

50th Foot—Major Richard Waddy to bo Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase ; Captain John Olaus Moller to
be Major, without purchase, vice Waddy; Lieutenant
Richard Moore Barnes to be Captain, without purchase,
lice Moller ; Ensign John Thompson to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Barnes ; Gentleman Cadet Frede-
rick Leycester Barwell, from the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Thompson, March 3.
53d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Nedham, from the 10th
Foot, to bo Lieutenant, y4ce Peel, appointed Paymaster,
March 3.

60th Foot—First Lieutenant Henry Francis Williams,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sotheby, who retires ;
Second Lieutenant Rowley Willes Hinxman, to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Williams; James Durham
Dundas, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Hinxmau, March 3.
77th Foot—Lieutenant William Rickman, to be Adju
tant, vice St. George, who resigns the Adjutancy only-
March 3. _

79th Foot—Ensign James Herbert Frame, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vico Webster, who retires ; James
Bell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Freme,
March 3.
80th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Nelson Irwin,
from the 27th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Taylor, promoted
on the Staff, March 3.
82nd Foot—Captain John Joseph Wood, from the 18th
Foot, to be Cap:ain, vice Lawrie, who exchanges, March 3.
84th Foot—Lieutenant Campbell Barber Browne, from
the 98th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wolseley, appointed
to the 90th Foos, March 3.
90th Foot—Robert Henry Evans, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice G. W. Graham, appointed to the 10th
Foot, March 3.
94th Foot—Second Lieutenant George Lake Hedley,
from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to bo Ensign, vice King,
appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, March 3.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Henry lbbotson, from half-pay
103rd Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ferris, promoted with-
out purchase to an Unattached Company, March 3; Ensign
Matthew Brinkley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Ibb( tson, who retires, March 3 : Nutcombe Quicke, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brinkley, March 3.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment Ensign Edward Hammond
King, from the 94th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hedley, appointed to the 94th Foot,
March 3.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Major Percy Hill, from
/half-pay of the Regiment to be Major, vice McDougall,
who exchanges, March 3.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
George Walter Prosser, from Major and Superintendent of
Studies, to be Lieutenant-Governor, vice Taylor, deceased,
Jan. 9 ; Major Patrick Leonard McDougall, from the
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Major and Superin-
tendent of Studies, vice Prosser, March 3.
UNATTACHED.—Captain John Johnston, from the 66th
Foot, to be Major, without purchase, March 3.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—To be Staff-Surgeons of the First
Class—Surgeon Robert Battorsby, from the 47th Foot ;
Surgeon John Robert Taylor, from the 80th Foot ; Sur-
geon William Odell, M.D., from the 19th Foot ; Surgeon
Thomas Alexander, from the 20th Foot, March 3.
To be Surgeons of the Second Class—Assistant-Surgeon
Robert Lowing, M.D., from the 63d Foot ; Assistant-Sur-
geon Wm. Mediae, from the 90th Foot, vice Howard, ap-
pointed to the 20th Foot, March 3.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Henry Thos. Sylvester, M.D.;
James Balfour Cockburn, M.D. ; George Lawson, Gent.
March 3.
MEMORANDUM.—The promotions of the undermentioned
officers, which appeared-in the Gazette of the 2d Septem-
ber, 1853, have been ante-dated to Ist July, 1853 ; viz. ;--
+ 2d Foot—Brevet Lieut.. Col. Oliver Robinson, Captain
Robert Holdsworth, Lieut. John Croome.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 24.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenants Edward
Lawes Pym to be Adjutant, vice Kennedy, promoted;
Thomas Quin Meade to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster,
vicL, Elliott, promoted ; George Stephen Digby to be Ad-
jutal A, vice Barnard, promoted ; William James Dunn to
be Atsintant, vice Allen, promoted. Second Lieutenants
Freda/ ick Augustus Foster to be First Lieutenant, vice
Jones, 1 aromoted ; Henry Freeland to be First Lieutenant,
vice Jo. 'liffe, promoted • Philip Harington to be First
Lieuten: ott, vice Kennedy, promoted ; Francis Worgan
Festing, to bo First Lieutenant, vice Boyle, promoted ;
William Addis Delaconabe to be First Lieutenant,
vice Lit tlo, promoted ; Henry Eyre Wyatt Lane,
to be Fit •mt Lieutenant, vice Elliott, promoted ; William
Frederick Portlock Scott Dodson to be First Lieu.
tenant, vi 9 M'Arthur, promoted ; Charles Frederick
Short to b, ) First Lieutenant, vice Gwyn, promoted ;
Francis Leas t to be First Lieutenant, vice Barnard, pro-
moted; Ale xander Tait to be First Lieutenant, vice
Davies, pron toted; John Blackwood Colwell to be First
Lieutenant, vice Allen, promoted; Henry Swale to be
First Lieutenant, vice do Courcy, promoted ; Cuthbert
Tetherstonot Daly to be First Lieutenant ; William San-
ders to be lri, "st Lieutenant ; Edward Congreve Langley
Durnford to, b a First Lieutenant ; Edward Gladstone to be
First Lient( inalat Ussher L. Morris to be First Lieutenant;
Joseph GeG Tv, Shanks to be First Lieutenant; Arthur
Charles Josltu a Diclfeekan to be First Lieutenant ; George
Frederick WI dker to be First Lieutenant ; William Pit-
man to be Fit st Lieutenant ; Henry Laws Morrison to be I
Fiat Itioutni} ant ; Thomas Harbert Alexander Drum to