The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-16 00:00:00

BITCKINGTIADI PALACE, JULY 11.

This day had audience of her Majesty; his Royal
Highness the Prince Oscar of ilweden, to take leave.
His Royal _Highness was attended by the Baron Hochs-
child, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway at the
Court of her Majesty :
To which audience his Royal Highness was introduced
by the Earl of Clarendon, LG., her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 4.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Alex-
ander Fraser, Esq., now British Consulsr Agent at Ba-
tavia, to be her Majesty's Consul at Batavia.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Thomas Bonhote, Esq., now British Consular Agent at
Sourabaya, to be her Majesty's Consul at Sourabaya.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Donald Macls,ine, Esq., now British Consul at Semarang,
to be her Majesty's Consul at Semarang.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 15.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Troilus°ll
Gilbert, Esq., to be Solicitor-General for the colony of
British Guiana, and Henry Tudor Davies, Esq., to be
Chief Magistrate for the colony of Hong Kong. _

BOARD OF TRADE, "WHITEHALL, JULY It.
The Right Ron. 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 de-
spatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing
copy of a French Imperial decree, authorising the estab-
lishment of a depot for native sugar at Havre.
Also copy of a notification to the effect that machinery
intended for the manufacture of drainage pipes will be ad-
mitted into France at the duty of 15 francs per 100 kilos.;
machinery for the purpose of crushing or preparing the
material for the tiles, or all other accessory machines im-
ported singly, not being complete in itself for the manufac-
ture of drainage pipes, will continuo to pay the import
duty applicable to machines other than steam engines, not
specified.

WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 15.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert George
Ellison to be Captain and Ilentenant-Colonel, without
purchase, vice the Hon. A. F. Foley, promoted.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 9.
BREVET.
Corps of Royal Marines—Capt. Nicholas Moore having
been allowed to retire on full pay, under the provisions of
her Majesty's Order in Council, 13th Sept., 1854, to be
Major, the rank being honorary only.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 10.

Corps of Royal Marines-.. First Lieutenant Wm. James
Kinsman to be Captain, vice Moore, retired ; Second Lieu-
tenant Chas. Durham Hocart Robilliard to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice Kinsman, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Forfarshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas George Bowes-
Lyon, Earl of Strathmore, to bo Lieutenant-Colonel ; the
Hon. Claude Bowes-Lyon, late Lieutenant 2d Life
Guards,. to be Captain ; David Graham-Drummond
Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie, to be Captain ; Sir Tho-
mas Munro, Bart., late Captain 10th Hussars, to
be Captain. William Henry Kennedy Erskine, late Cap-
tain 17th Lancers' to bo Lieutenant.
2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry-Wil-
liam Maberly, Gent., to be Cornet.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, July 14.
Notice is hereby given to all persona interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessel
Victoria, captured on the 20th September, 1855, byher Ma.
jesty's ship Nile and her tender the Redwing gun-boat; the
Magpie gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ; arid.
the Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Majestic.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit the particulars of any such demand to
the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, In order
that the same may bo examined, taxed, and allowed by
that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
Branch belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay,
accompanied by the usual
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somer-
set-house."
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Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; aud, at the same time, the
transmit smit
Prize theßen same,ch
of the Department of the
amount of an iniividuars share in the respective classes
will be announced.