The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

AUGUST.

North Staffordshire 7 1
Brighton
Brighton Club 1.0 1
*Wolverhampton 13
*Reading l4
SEPTE

*Lewes 16
York • 22
*Egham 28
*Derby 08

isilBER.
I Newmarket F 0 25
*Northallerton 07

Warwick
Doncaster 11
*Leicester 19
OCTOBER.
*Chester 2 *Warwick Autumn 16
*Wrexham 4 *Richmond l7
Bedford 4 Newmarket H 22
Newmarket S 0
NOVEMBER.
.*Liverpool 6 *Shrewsbury 13
The meetings to which an asterisk is prefixed are
given in accordance with the periods at which they
usually take place, but have not been officially an-
uounced.

IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1855.
APRIL.

Curragh April
MAY

...24

Howth and Baldoyle 16 Cady Castle 30

JUNE.
Curragh June
JULY.

.. _.26

Monk sto wn
Bellewstowa
Carlow
AUGUST.

Galway
Tramore Sand
Tuam l4
SEPTE.
Curragh September 4
Jenkinstown Park 11
Cahirciveen l7
OCTO

Johnstriwn
Irish Metropolitan
Curragh Octobea 16
NOVE

Roscommon 21
Kilcock 28

IMBER.
Tramore Strand lB
Kilkie ls
Linierick 25

Armagi

IBER.
I DownßoyalCorporation 23
Cashel' 3O

:BER.

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AGRICULTURAL PR•SPECTS IN NORTH NOTTINGHAM-
SIZIRE.-1111 the clay wheats have found a capital bed,
and the plant, which has already made its appearance,
has a very promising aspect. Some of the seed on the
strong soils went in rather rough, but the recent fine
rains have softined the soil and prepared the seed for
germinating.

THE ILLBGAL. MARRIAGES AT BAMPTON.--The Rev.
Dr. Giles, lately curate of Bampton, who failed to appear
on the 27th of October, in pursuance of recognisances,
to answer a secsond charge of solemnising matrimony,
at Bampton chutroh, prior to &o'clock in the morning, i
surrendered himself on the sth inst., under the advice I
of his friends. The charge having been entered upon,
and witnesses coaled in support, the magistrates consulted
together, and a nmounced that the case must be sent for
trial to the ne:s.t Oxford Assizes. Bail was accepted
for Dr. Giles' aip pearance to answer to the charge. The
magistrates next proceeded to hear another similar charge
against the defe eidant, who was held to bail to appear at
the assizes on tiiis charge also.
INCREASE OP' THE TRADE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

r_ll-_. _!..CE. 0:2

LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 7.
All Peeresses, on announcing their intention to be pre-
sent on the occasion of the opening of Parliament, will
have places reserved for them iu the House of Lords, if
the announcement be madeat this office, before five o'clock,
on Monday, the 11th inst.
Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers' eldest
Sons' Box forwarded to them upon a written or personal
application at the office.
No strangers can be admitted except by a ticket from the
Lord Great Chamberlain.
. _ _

The doors will be opened et twelve o'clock.
WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 28.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick-
Temple, Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, to be one of the
Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room
of John, Marquis of Ormonde, K.P., deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Ebenezer Perry,
David Morrison Armstrong, Benjamin Seymour, Eusebe
Cartier, Walter Hamilton Dickson, and Joseph Legere,
Esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of Canada.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Ernest
Baudet, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of Govern-
ment of Mauritius during the absence of Dr. Harel.
GROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESBNT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Bedford—William Stuart, the younger,
Esq., fn the room of Henry Stuart, Esq., deceased.
City of Coventry—Sir Joseph Paxton, of Rock-Hills,
Sydenham, in tho county of Kent, gut., in the room of
Charles Geach, Esq., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 7.

The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
have received a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
Minister at Brussels, enclosing the copy of a Belgian law,
dated Nov. 29, 1851, of which the following is a trans-
lation :
I. The undermentioned articles will be admitted free of
duty :—Wheat, cleansed spelt, meslin, peas, lentils and
French beans, rye, maize, buck wheat, small beans and
vetches, barley, malt, oats, uncleansed spelt, oatmeal and
pearl barley, meal of all kinds, bran, fecula, and other
amylaceons substances, rice, bread, biscuit, potatoes, bulls,
oxen, cows, bullocks, young bulls, heifers, calves, sheep,
lambs, and pigs. Meats of all sorts are also decreed free
of import duties.
11. Wheat and wheat meal, rye and rye meal, and pota-

toes are prohibited to be exported.
111. The above regulations will be in force till Decem-
ber 31, 1855. Nevertheless, the Government is em-
powered before that period to put an end to the stipula-
tions of Art. 11.
IV. The privilege of free entry decreed by Art. I. will
be applicable to all Belgian or foreign ships, the papers of
which declare that the loading was completed and the de-
parture made from a foreign port before the date of the re-
establishment of the duties.
V. The royal decree of July 25, 1854, provisionally
maintaining the prohibition to export potatoes, is con-
firmed.
VI. The present law will come into force on the day after
publication.

DEC. 8.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
have receiyed a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
Minister in Mexico, enclosing the subjoined ;translation of
a decree of the Mexican Government with respect to the
manner in which the general invoices of cargoes sent to
Mexico from foreign ports are henceforward to be drawn
up.

Secretary of State's Office.
His Serene Highness the General President has been
pleased to issue the following decree :
Art. 1. It is prohibited to make use of phrases which
admit of a double meaning, or of different interpretations,
ix the invoices of goods that are brought to this country.
Art. 2. It is also prohibited that in the above-mentioned
invoices a statement be given only of the number, weight,
and measure of the goods contained in one package, when
there are several packages contained in a larger one, but it
is necessary to state the whole contents, as well as their
marks and numbers, if they have any.
Art. 3. The second part of the 97th Article of the tariff
of the Ist of June, 1853, prohibiting the introduction of
several packages under one corer, or in One large bale, is
annulled.
Art. 4. The penalty of confiscation will be imposed for
the infraction of the provisions of the 'first and second
articles of this decree, which will come into effect four
months after its publication in the capital.
Wherefore I (command that it be printed, published, Sze.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA,
Communicated, &c.
M. OLASAGARVII, Minister of Finance.
National Palace, Mexico, Aug. 28, 1854.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 8.
TO BE LIEUTENANTS WITHOUT PURCHASE.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign George Roe Fenwick ;
Ensign Morgan James O'Connell ; Ensign Charles J. T.
Oakes, Dec. 8.
4th Foot—Ensign Henry John Bower ; Ensign John
Howley • Ensign John Wimburn Laurie, Dec. 8.
7th Foot—Ensign Lewis John Fillis Jones ; Ensign
Lord Richard Howe Browne, Dee. 8.
17th Foot—Ensign James Dalgairns Travers, from the,
12th Foot; Ensign Charles Grasme .Grant; Ensign Wil-
liam H. J. Diabrowe, Dec. 8.
19th Foot—Ensign Alexander Fraser Unett ; Ensign
Godfrey Baldwin ; Ensign Edward William Evans, Dec. 8.
20th Foot—Bnaign Hector Barlow Vaughan ; Ensign
Frederick Parr ; Ensign John W. D. Lewis, Dec. 8.
21st Foot—Second Lieutenant Richard Stephens Se-
cond Lieutenant Godfrey W. Beaumont; Second Lieu-
tenant Vaughan H. Lee, Dec. 8.
23d Foot7—Ensiga Hubert D. Radcliffe Ensign Regi-
nald H. Somerville, Dec. 8.
28th Foot—Ensfgn H. Clark Worthington ; Ensign Ed-
ward G. Waldy ; Ensign Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick,
Dec. 8.
30th Foot—Ensigns Charles John Moorsom, John
Forbes, and Henry Corbet Singleton, Dec. 8.
33d Foot—Ensigns Langford R. Heyland, James
Mitchell 'McKie, and John Owens, Dec. 8.
38th Foot—Ensigns John F. Clinton Boyle, Thomas
Brodie Wardlaw, and Frederic Pocklington, Dec. 8.
41st Foot—Ensigns Henry Seymour Hill, E. Leslie B.
Lowry, and Henry James Nowlan, Dec. 8.
42d Foot—Ensigns Herbert Henry Moseley,' Rothes
Lennox Dunbar, and Robert Whigham, Dec. 8.
44th Foot—Ensigns Francis John Hemp ; Ensign Alex-
ander W. Cobham ; Ensign George Evatt Acklom, Dec. 8.
46th Foot—Ensign Henry Carr W. Hamond.; Ensign
Henry Lawson ; Ensign Eclward)H. Helyar, Dec. 8.
47th Foot—Ensign Thomas Palmer . Ensign Henry
B. G. Stokes ; Ensign Grainville Waddifeve, Dec. 8.
49th Foot—Ensign Charles E. Gibson; Ensign John
Ramsay Maule ,• Ensign Henry Dalton Szoones, Dec. 8.
50th Foot—Ensign William Wensley
Bond; Ensign
Frederick L. Barwell ; Ensign Robert Henry P. Doran,
Dec. 8.
62d Foot—Ensign Richard Draper Templeman ; Ensign
Beville Ramsay ; Ensign Herrick Augustus Palmer, Dec
8

63d Foot—Ensign Thomas Kyd Morgan ; Ensign George
P. Beamish ; Ensign Samuel A. Yate Benyon, Dec. 8.
63th Foot—Ensign Sheffield Grace, from the 11th Foot ;
Ensign Edward Dash= ; Ensign Francis De Luttrell
Saunderson , Dec..B.
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71st Foot—Ensign George Campbell ; Ensign Courtenay
H. S. Scott ; Ensign Charles George Wingfield, Dec. 8.
Mungal Lamont Coign-
and John F. B. Dodd,
Dec. 8.
79th Foot—Ensigns David Cant; William Henry Mac-
kesev; and John Miller M`Nair, Dec. 8.
88th Foot—
h 07117 n t 11; Foot—Ensigns
George
Edward
Ensigns Courtenay W. A. T. Kenny; William
Little • and Horatio B. Preston, nee. 8.
89th Foot—Ensigns Barnes Slyfield Robinson ; Savage
Hall; and Richard Edward Beck, Dec. 8.
00th Foot—Ensigns Nicol Grahame ; Robert Henry
Evans ; and Leonard H. L. Irby, Dec. 8.
93d Foot—Ensign William
Meßean ; Ensign Rolland
V. S. Grimston ; Ensign Archibald Butter, Dec. 8.
95th Foot—Ensign James H. L. Brooke ; Ensign
Jonathan BenisonEnsign Robert Wield, Dec. 8.
97th Foot—Ensign Fenton J. Aylmer ; Ensign Regi-
nald C. Goodenough; Ensign Charles Henry Browne,
Dec. 8.
Rifle Brigade--Second Lieutenant W. J. M. Cuning-
kerne • Second Lieutenant Han. H. W. Campbell • Second
Lieutenant C. A. Penrhyn Belleau ; Second Lieutenant
Hon. Augustus H. A. Anson ; Second Lieutenant William
Norris; Ensign Lord E. W. Pelham Clinton, Dee. 8.