The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

Total ... —.1,521
*Li this number are included 9 cases of death by
Cholera, 43 by Scarlatina, end 46 by Typhus Fever.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.—The letters of soldiers and
seamen in the service* her Majesty or of the East India
Company, when addressed to a foreign country, being
atibject to the payment of any foreign rates of postage, in
addition to the reduced rates of British postage specified in
the general instructions, all such letters addressed to the
United States will in future be chargeable with the
United States' inland rate of 5 cents, or lid. sterling
each, in addition to the British rate of postage of one
penny. The combined rate of 30. upon soldiers' and
sailors' letters, addressed to-the United States, must be
paid in advance.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 20,1849.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Tburs-
day next, the 22d instant, for bis late Majesty the King
of the Netherlands, viz.—The ladies to; wear black silk,
fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear
rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets.
'lhe gentlemen to wear black, —full trimmed,
fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles.
The Court to change the mourning on Thurs-
day the sth of April next, viz.—The ladies to wear
black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets,
or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver
stuffJ, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black
coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or
white and silver stair 'waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured
swords end buckles. And on Thursday, the 12th of
April next, the Court to- go out of mourning.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 19.

It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Pricciral Secretary of State forForeigrt Affairs,
bas eceived from the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, the copy of a letter and its inclosures addressed to
their Lordships by Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
K.C.11, Commander. in-Chief of her Majesty's Naval
Forces on the west Coast of Africa, announcing that
war had, in the month of February last, been declared
against the Chiefs of Gallinas; and. that he, the said
Cummodorr, had established an effective blockade of
that coast between Solyman Puint on the South and
Cazee en the North.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 16.
BRITISH MARRIAGES ABROAD.- NOTICE.

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reason to suppose that ;.n many cases of
marriages heretofore solemnized in the chapels or houses
of British Ambassadors and ni Ml.prtq, and in the at Foreign
Ci
chapels of Britishstfearcsteries abroad,
the clergymen by whom such
u custody
d
marriages were solem-
nized, have :'stagged in their y the records
of such marriages,
in consequence of therenot hay-
ing been at the time ' any fixed office
appointed
this country for registering the same • bu arrange-
meets in
merits for that purpose' having been made in therr year
ange-
-1816, since which period such records have been tran
'flitted, through the medium of her Majesty's Principals.
Secretary- of State for Fdreign Affairs, to the'RerAristr3 -
office of the Lord Bishop of London, in Doctors' Com-
mons: this is to give notice to all 'such clergymen or
their representatives, or others, whp may be in posses-
sion of such records as aforementioikd, dated before the
year 1816, that they are requested to transmit such re-
cords to the Foreign-office, in' order to their being depo-
sited in the London Registry-office.
ADMIRALTY, MARLS
19.
The following pronrcti&nWhave this day taken place,
consequent on thedeath of Rear-Admiral Thomas Searle,
C. 8., en ,the 17th instant .•-•-'-

Rent-Admiral of the Blue, Philip Browne, to be Rear,
Admiral of the White.

Captain William Bowen Mends to be Rear-Admira.
of the Blue.

Colmission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherlandshire.
The Honourable George William Sutherland Leve-
son Gower, commonly called the Marquis of Stafford
and Lord Strathnaver, to be Deputy Lieutenant,
March 9.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant;of Oxfordshire.
Henry Edward Francis ;Lambert, Esq. to be Deputy
Lieutenant, March 16.
Cornraissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouth.
John Arthur Herbert, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant;
George: gave, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, March.l6.
WHITEHALL, Mencu 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Hubert Smith,
of St. Leonard's, Bridgnortb, in the county of Salop,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery.

lIANKRupTcy s
Thomas Stafford, jun., pawnbroker,
BANKItuV:er, West Smithfield.
Isle of Wight,
at haw. past one, anel April 2'6,
George Iklorris, broker and grb.„er,
March 29,
Paul's church-
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belt,
of;tejoarite o'clock,
Coleman-street-buildings; Parker, Saint assignee,
yard.
John Waite, licensed victualler, High Ilolborn, March
29, at two, and April 27, at one, at the Court of Bank
official assignee, Frederick's_piace:
raptay. Edwards,
°ft' Jewry ; Govett, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn.
road.
Cho.rlep- oswin, dentist, Harley-street, Cavendish-
square, March 30, at two, and May 1, at twelve, at the
Court of 'Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
cllbreh-lane; JOOO3, Clifford's Inn.
Joel Wilson, steel 'manufacturer,- West Bromwich,
,Otaffcrlibire, April 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Birming-