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London, England, 1856-10-18 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 16

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Forelegs Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Ambassadori at Paris,
enclosing copy of a French Imperial decree, regulating, as
follows, the duties upon Indian colewort-seed and rape-
seed, imported for the purpose of conversion into oil, for
exportation :
1. Indian colewort-seed and rapeseed, imported by sea
under the French flag or the flag of the CaLlatry of produc-
tion, for conversion into oil for exportation, will be ad-
mitted free from duty on condition of the oil being ex-
ported in accordance with the provisions of the law of sth
July, 1836.
2 The oil may be extracted from the above seeds only
in the ports where an eatrepit exists, or on the land fron-
tiers only where a transit office or a chief Custom-house is
established.
3. Parties making a declaration will be required to give
proper security for due account being rendered of the
above seeds, or the oils produced therefrom, whenever
called upon to do so doting the process of manufacture,
and to deposit in bond, or to export within a period of six
months at the utmost, the oil produced.
4. Every substitution, subtraction, or default proved by
the Customs' officer, will render the party offending sub-
ject to the penalties, Ice., provided by Art. 5 of the Law of
sth July, 1.136.
5. The produce of oil is fixed at—
White colewort-seed 33 per cent.
Black 17
Rape-seed 3O „
of the weight mentioned in each permit delivered by the
Customs.
6. Oils extracted from the above seeds, and which, in-
stead of being deposited in bond, are at once exported,
must be despatched conformably with articles 61. and 62
of the law of 21st April, 1818, accordingly as the exporta-
tion may take place by land or by sea.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 16.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trado and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
cbsing a espy of a French Imperial decree, prolonging
until the 31st Dec., 1857, the period fixed in respect of the
modification of duties upon the importation of grain, flour,
meal, and dried vegetables into Martinique, Guadeloupe,
the Ile de la Reunion, and Senegal.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, 00T. 16.

The Right Hon. 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 Ambassador at Paris, enclos-
ing copy of a French Imperial Decree of 29th Sept., 185 G,
adding to the list of articles destined for purposes of naval
construction, which were admitted duty free into France,
by the Imperial Decree of 17th Oct., 1855, copper, pure
or mixed with zinc, and zinc in sheets intended for the
covering of ships' bottoms.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 16.
The Right Hon. 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 Minister at Athens, reporting
the issue of a regulation by the Greek Government, enforc-
ing a quarantine of ten days on all vessels corning from
Constantinople, as well as such other ports of Turkey, from
Malta, or other States, as have not yet adopted such sani-
tary precautions as appear to the Greek Government satis-
factory, in regard to vessels arriving from Constantinople.
WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, Om 17.

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The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that
the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners shall henceforward
be denominated the Corps of Royal Engineers, and form
one body with the existing Corps of Royal Engineers.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, OCT. 17.

6th Regiment of Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon William
Richard Grylls has been permitted to resign his commis-
sion.
Bth Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Rudolph
de Salis to be Lieutenant• Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel F. G. Shewell, C. 8., deceased ; Captain
Arthur James Lord Killeen to be Major, without purchase,
vice de Salis.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Alfred C. Care, from half-pay Unattached, to be Cap-
tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Hon.
Alex. Gordon, who exchanges.
15th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Lewes Dashwood, from
the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ball, who exchanges.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Richard Stephens to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Tinley, who retires.
34th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Ball, from the 15th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dashwood, who exchanges.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Geo. Robt. Jas. Marshall to be
Captain' without purchase, vice Boyd, deceased ; Ensign
Richard Lloyd Hawkes to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Marshall.
45th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Best to be Surgeon, vice Waring, who exchanges.
46th Foot—EnSign George Power Cobbe to be super-
seded, he having been absent without leave.
53d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Gervas Stanford Deve-
rill, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel Haverlock, who exchanges • M •
John M`Neill Walter to be Lieutenant-Colonel, bNOT
V.
pt chase, vice Deverill, who retires ; Captain Patrick W. Sir-
denham Ross to be Ma*, by purchase, vice Walter. y.
54th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel Nathaniel Falkiner, from
the North Tipperary Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Herrick, promoted.
65th Foot—Captain Frederick Rice Stack, from the St.
Helena Regiment, to be Captain, vice D'Arcy, promoted,
without purchase, to an Unattached Majority.
78th Foot —Lieutenant Robert Bogle to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Major Grehan, who retires ; Ensign
Montagu Alexander Kirby to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Bogle ; Richard Pierce Butler, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kirby.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant West Holmes
Hill, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant,
vice Green, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Christopher F.
2d West India Regiment—
' Lieutenant Patrick Malone,
Lieutenant, vice
from the let West India Regiment, to be .
Lieute-
nant,Elolt vfireeemmtahloone2dwWhoesetxclhnadnigaesßegiment, to be
Laughlin, appointed to the 41st Foot.
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3d West India Regiment —Ecsign. Francis to
Ensign Meyrick William Bidwell
ieutenant, without purchase, vice
deceased ; Lieutenant
India. Tooinaent to be Lieutenant, vice Hill, who
West .
Ensign James Bower Jackson to be Lieutenant,
hvialcep'E Green,stferrorme Tthaeyllorsi
by purchase, vice Rowland, whose promotion by purchase
ebxecLhiaenugten;an without
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Sergeant Major
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