The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

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, kc.,
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 Iliad and Staat
Courant, in which this decree is published, and shall re-
main in vigour till the Ist 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 a 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., on the payment of four reals (or two
shillings) per ton, instead of one dollar four reals (or six
shillings) per ton, which was formerly exacted ; but it is
to be understood that these vessels are to have no other
merchandise on board.
By order.

J. EMERSON TENNENT.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 30.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—Henry Riwardes Handley,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice 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 Foot—Ensign 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 M‘Bayne, 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 Frederick Law to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice M`Kirdy ; Lieutenant Francis Gamble Blood
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Law ; Ensign
Charles Edward Malton to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Blood, Aug. 25 ; Gentleman Cadet 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 Bawtree, to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Fulcher, who retires ;
Second Lieutenant Anthony Butler to be First Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Bawtree ; Robert Lampden,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Butler,
Sept. 30.
3rd West India Regiment—Ensign Thomas Maurice
Quill to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wilson,
deceased, August 14.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—James Arthur Hanbury, M.B. to
be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Bell, appointed
to 74th Foot ; Robert Fleetwood Andrews, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice King, deceased,
Sept. 30.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 29.
Royal Regiment ofArtillery—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
William Fenwick Williams, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Colquhoun, deceased ; Second Captain Hugh
Archibald Beauchamp Campbell to be Captain, vice Wil-
liams ; First Lieutenant Henry Jervis White Jervis to be
Second Captain, vice Campbell ; Second Lieutenant Alex-
ander Walter Armstrong Ogilvie to be First Lieutenant,
vice Jervis, Sept. 18.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenants, with
Temporary Rank—Edward Renouard James, to be
Second Lieutenant, with Permanent Rank, Dec. 17, 1851 ;
William Bailey and Frederick Edward Blacket Beaumont,
to be Second Lieutenants, with Permanent Rank, June 23.