The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

THE WHITSUN-HO LID A.YS.

Lord PALMERSTON, in deference to the wish o
the house, moved the adjournment of the house at it
rising till Monday the 19th. The Government won't
loose by that arrangement eight hours of valuable tiint
for the transaction of Government business, and b.
:toped the house after the recess would have no objectio)
to allow the Government to take the eigkit hours o:
)1-der nights after 12 o'clock. (Laughter.)
PARDON TO FROST, WILLIAMS, JONES,
SMITH. O'BRIEN, AND OTHERS.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the First Lord of th.
Treasury, "whether, in consequence of the numerou
memorials pre,ented at different times in favour of a fu,
And free pardon to Messrs. Frost, Williams, June
S'lmith O'Brien, and other po.itical prisoners, vrhese cot,-
luct during exile had bee❑ without reproach, it was als,
he icteution of her Majesty's Government, on the tale
.ration of Peace, to advise her Majesty to comply wit.
she prayer of those memorials, and thereby enable thos,
o return to their native laud ?"

Ldrd PALMERSTON ,aid that he had great plea
sure in btAttng that the announcement that had ar
peared in the daily papers relative to the amnest,
was entirely and perfectly true. (Loud cheers.) Be
tlajesty, following the impulse of the dictates of thos
;enerous feelings which so eminently distinguished her
was determined to take advautiga of the rt
turn to peace, and from the unexamplei loyalty
.hat pervaded the kingdom from one end of it to ti,
ether—(cheers)--to do an act of grace and clemency to
wards all persons suffering exile for political offence
(with the exception of those unf prtunate persob.
who had broken all the ties of honour), and th
3innesty would therefore include the persona naniel b
he right hon. gentleman the member for Finsbury
whose conduct since their banishment had been exemi
iary. (Cheers.)

GREECE.
Mr. JAMES WGREGOR called the attention of th.
house to the state of Greece.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LONDON GAZETTE=—(This Evening.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY S.
This day had audience of her Majesty;
His Highness Aali Paella, Grand Vizir of the Ottoman.
Empire, to deliver to her Majesty a letter from the Sultan
The Grand Vizir was accompanied to this audience b.
his Excellency Mons. Musurus, Ambassador Extro.ordinar3
and Plenipotentiary from the Sublime Porte ; and hi,
Highness was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.,
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, ant:
conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
K C.H., her Mjesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 6,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
A. Everitt as Consul at Birmingham for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Luis
Y. Sautamaria as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of
New Granada.

WHITEFIALL, -.11.Y 7.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Win. Charles Middleton Grant to the church and parish of
Durness, in the;Kesbysery of Tongue, and county of Suther-
land, vacant by the ueath of the Reverend Alex. M'Coll,
late Minister thereof.
CRO WN-OFEICE, MAY 9.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRRSEIT PARMA-

MENT.
Borough of Cheltenham—Fr: noir' Wiliam Fitzharding
Berkeley, Esi., CAptain in her Maje,ty's E,egiinent o
Horse Guards, in the room of Grenville Charles Leimux
Berkeley, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward oi
her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
BOARD OF TRAIM, WHITEHALL, MAY 9.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee
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, en-
closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, regulating a,
fo.lows the import duties upon cocoa (in the beau and
husk) :
From the French colonies
From countries west of Cape Horn `present duties.
From ekewhere out of Europe,
n Fiech hips 65f.
From the entrepots, I In
( foreign s ships 75f. } per 100 kilog.
Also, copy of another Imperial decree, fixing the import
duty upon iron tubes at 301 per 100 kilogs.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL MALL, MAT 9.

6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—hornet Samuel
"vVentworth Stevenson has been permitted to resign
commission. _ _

7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant A. G. Montgomery
Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Majoi
Macartney, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant David
Scotland to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Cornet James
Vance Cleland to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Moore.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant David Philip Brown to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir Lydston Newman, Bart.,
who retires ; Cornet William Henry Seymour to be Lieu-
tentiat, by purchase, vice Brows.
15th Light Dragoons Lieutenant George Travers
Macartney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brett, who
retires; Cornet Chat lee William Bell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macartney.
Royal Engineer,—The surname of the Lieutenant ap-
pointed on 7th April, 1856, in the Gazctte of the 29th ult.
is Home, and not Horne, as previously stated.
7th Regiment of Foot_4he first Christian name of En-
sign Follett is Hardinge and not Harding, as previously
stated.

10th Foot— The second Christian name of Ensign Erskine
appointed on the 18th of April, 1856, is Jones.
25th Foot—Major Samuel Wells to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Strao,e, who retires upon
full pay; Brevet-Major George Holt to* be Major, witi,ou:
purchase, vice Wells ; Lieutenant Astley Campbell Smith
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Holt; Ensign
Richard Ross to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vie,
Swath; Ensign Raymond South Paley, from the 4th Mid•
lesex Militia, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Rot;.
'Bth Foot—Lieutenant Henry C. Worthington to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Huey, who retires.
32d Foot—Ensign Nathaniel T. Crane to be lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Power, proinot4d.
35th Foot—Ensign Woodford Wright Sherlock to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vide Dundas, who retires;
Richard Parson; Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Sherlock.
50th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Charles Goff to he Ad-
jutaLt, vice Ensign Gordon, who resigns the Adjutancy
only.
53d Foot Ensign John Maxwell Macneill to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Follows, deceased.
Lieut. Joseph C. Smythe, from the Perthshire Militia,
to b, Ensign, without purchase, vice
57th Foot—Lieut. Blake Goble has been permitted to
retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
60th Foot—To bo Lieutenants, by puichttoo