The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, JAN. 16.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plar_lations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a French
imperial decree, regulating as follows the admission or ex-
portation of certain foreign merchandise at the undermen-
tioned custom-houses :

Art. 1. The Custom-houses of Thionville (railway sta-
tion) and of Apach (Moselle) -are opened for the importa-
tion, Ist, of goods paying duty at the rate of more than 20
francs per 100 kilos., or designated by name in the Bth
Article of the Law of the 27th March, 1817 ; 2d, of large
undressed skins, dry and of European origin, at the rate of
5 francs per 100 kilos. ; 3d, of wool in mass; 4th, hemp and
flax yarn; sth, machines and mechanical apparatus.
The Custom-house at Thionville (station) is also opened
for the importation and exportation of grain and meal, and
to the importation and transit of books in the French lan-
guage.
The Custom-house of Apach is opened for the importa-
tion and transit of books in foreign and dead languages.
From the 3lst December last the Custom-house of E'-
range (Moselle) is closed against the importation of mer-
chandise paying a duty of more than 20 franca per 100 kilos.,
or specially designated by Art. 8 of the Law of thd 27th
March, 1817, and for operations of transit.
The Custom-house at Sierck is closed from the same date
against the importation of machinery and mechanical appa-
ratus, the importation of flax or hemp yarns, and the admis-
sion of books in foreign or dead languages.
From the same period the privilege of importing by the
Custom-house of Sierck, Ist, merchandise paying more than
20 francs per 100 kilos., or specially named by the Law
of the 27th March, 1817 ; 2d, wool in mass ; 3d, raw
hides, dry and of European origin, at the rate of 5 franca
per 100 kilos. ; and, 4th, the privilege of transit through
the same Custom-house of goods, whether prohibited or not,
will be limited to operations effected by the Moselle.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Jew. 17.
66th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Edward Wells
Bell to be Colonel, vice General Richard Blunt, deceased.
WAR•OFFICE, PALL -MALL, JAN. 17.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Commissariat Clerk
Richard Stephenson Price to be Deputy Assistant-Com-
missary-General.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Worcester—Sir Charles Hastings, lint., M.D.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant.
3d Worcester Rifle Volunteers—Alfred Talbot, Esq., to
be Captain; John Dixon, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Alfred
Brinton, Esq., to be Ensirn.
County of Kent—Thr, Earl of Brecknock to be Deputy
Lieutenant.

East Kent Regiment of Militia—Thomas Dennis, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vicO Tanner, promoted.
Kent Militig Regiment of Artillery—The Hon. Ro-
bert /rlarskare to be Second Lieutenant, vice Strother,
promoter;,
4tl). Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—Walter
Roden, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Samuel Lewis, jun., Gent.,
to be Ensign.
4th Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—James
Bourne, Esq., late Major in the Royal Lancashire Militia
Artillery Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandaneto!
James Walter, Esq., to be Major. To be Captains—Goo.
Gushby,
Melly,Esq., Thos. Arthur
Esq., Barton Wrigley,
Esq., Henry Hugh Hornby, Esq., Charles Backhouse
Robinson, Esq., Samuel Hayward Turner,
Esq., James
Pitcairn Campbell, Esq., and Charles Langton,ieute
be First Lieutenants—Eustace Greg, late Lieutenant in herTo
Majesty's 3d Buffs, Joseph
Drinkwater, Gent., Alex.
Gardner, Gent., Peter Bourne
Sparrow, Gent., Wm. Radcliffe, G n .
e t , and Jas. Poole, Gent.
Gent.,Henan,
Corbot Lowe, Gent., Thomas
urkne"
George SinclairTo be Second
Robinson,Lliets-iTar slbleorltt,Bju*
Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—John
Ist Company of _
Gent., and Caleb Charles otheram, Gent.
Lord Howard, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Robertson, pro-
moted.
25th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Alex.
M'Neile, Captain on half-pay in her Majesty's Madras
Army, to be Captain ; Cherie:. Lee Campbell, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; Robert Horsefall, Gent., to be Ensign.
6th Division of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—To be Cap-
tains—Horatio Simon. Samuel, Esq. ; Francis Philip
Rickards, Esq. ; William Spencer Sawyer, Esq. ; James
Knowles, Esq. ; David Bleackley, Esq. ; John Pearce,
Esq. ; Samuel Henry Hindo, Esq. To be Lieutenants—
Robert Bridgford, Gent. ; John Bagshaw, Gent. ; Hugh
Fleming, Gent.; George Hartley Goldsmith, Gent. ;
Richard Papa Ford, Gent. ; Francis Henry Glover, jun.,
Gent. ; Herbert Philips, Gent. To be Eusrms—Andrew
Stirling, Gent. ; Robert May, Gent. ; Thomas Walker Nel-
son, Gent. • Wm. Borlase Willock, Gent. ; Robert Bell-
house, Gent. ; John Howarth Ashton, Gent. ; Albert L.
Dickins, Gent. To be Surgeon—Anthony Beaufort Bra-
bazon, Esq., M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeon—Robert
Manners Mann, Gent.
10th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Peter
Allen, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Surgeon.
15th Division of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—To be
Captains—Robert Gordon Hamilton, Esq.; Richmond H.
Tucker, Esq.; Francis James Eaton, Esq. To be Lieute-
nants—Richard Rankin Heap, Gent.; Thomas Stanley
Rogerson, Gent.; Alfred Middleton, Gent. To be Ensigns
—Allan Stanley Clare, Gent.; Thos. Alex. Bentley, Gent.
16th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Alfred
King, jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Butler Hen-
shall, Gent., to be Ensign.
sth Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—Alfred
Crosby rope, Gent., to be Honorary Surgeon.
6th Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—David
Barbour McCulloch, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Isham
Henry Edward Gill, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Ist Company of Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—En-
sign Fawcus to be Lieutenant, vice Fenwick, resigned ;
Mr. Edward Shotton to be Ensign, vice Fawcus, pr( moted.
2d Company of Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—John
Fenwick, Esq., to be Captain; Mr. Alexander Shannon
Stevenson to be Lieutenant; Mr. John Twizell to be
Ensign.
2 Company of Northumberland Artillery Volunteers—
Emanuel Young, Esq. to be Captain.
2d Company of Berks' Rifle Volunteers—Lieutenant the
Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville Hore Ruthven to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Samuel Thomas George Evans to bo Lieu-
tenant, vice Ruthven, promoted ; Ramsay Hamilton
Couper to be Ensign, vice Evans, promoted.
Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers—Charles James
Newbery, Esq., M.A., to be Captain •, Charles Twemlow
Royds, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Oswald Smith, Esq., to be
Ensign ; Frederick Whitmore Holland, Esq., 8.A., to be
Captain ; Edmund Bouinois, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; John
Begot & ' riven Esq., to be Ensign ; Henry Salusbury
Hughes, Esq., to be Captain ; John Armin° Willis, Esq.,
to be Lieutenant; Robert Augustus Bayford, Esq., to be
Ensign.
Cornwall Volunteer Cerps-2d Company Artillery—Wm.
Thomas Alexander Pattison to be Surgeon. Rh Company

Rifles—John Kempthorne to be Captain ; William Goat-
wych Gard to be Lieutenant ; John Peter, the younger, to
be Ensign. Ist Company Artillery—Henry Marley to be
Surgeon.
East York Rifle Volunteers, 3d Company—Philip Salt-
marshe, Esq., to be Captain; Eric William Clark, Esq.,
to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Carter, Esq., to be Ensign.
sth Regiment of West York Militia—Major William de
Cardonnel Elmsall, late Royal Dragoons, to be Major.
MEMORANDUM.—Her Majesty has been pleased to accept
the rosignation of the Commission held by Lieut. Henry
Broomhead in this regiment.