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of the elements of education ; and advocated tem-
perance amongst all classes.
On the motion of Mr. J. CIIEETIIAM, M.P.,,
seconded by Mr. J. P. BROWN-WESTITEAD, M.P.,
a vote of thanks was passed to Lord John Russell
for his attendance and address ; and a similar com-
pliment was paid to the noble chairman for pre-
siding, on the motion of Mr. JAMES CROSSLEY,
seconded by Mr. MALCOLM Ross.
The proceedings terminated about a quarter to
11 o'clock.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY

WHITEHALL, OCT. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Lieut.-
Gen. Robert Cannon her royal license and permission that
he may accept and wear the insignia of the Imperial Order
of the Medjidie of the seconeclass, which his Imperial
Majesty the Sultan has been pleased to confer upon him as
a mark of his Majesty's approbation of his services while
actually and entirely employed beyond her Majesty's domi-
nions in the service of his Imperial Majesty.
MEMORANDUM.—Order of the Medjidie, sth Class—ln
the • Supplement to the London Gazette of the 2d March,
1858—For Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Percy Lea,
late 57th Regiment, read Major Frederic Percy Lea, half-
pay unattached, late 57th Regiment.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 21.
The Right Hononrable 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 Charge d'Affaires at Monte
Video, enclosing copy of a law recently enacted by the Monte
Videan Government, containing the following regulations
with respect to the payment of Customs' Duties, and
exempting from Import Duties the articles undermen-
tioned
Art. 9. The amount of the importduties shall be satisfied
by each importer in the following manner :-
1. In cash, if the duties do not exceed 500 dollars.
2. If they exceed 500 dollars, the fourth part shall be
given in cash, and the other three-fourths parts in bills of
exchange, at two and four months' sight, by halves.
Art. 10. The terms shall be reckoned in all cases from the
day in which the despatch may have taken place.
Art. 11. The bills above mentioned shall be signed by
the importer and by a merchant established and domiciled
in the place, to the satisfaction of the Custom House, both
being jointly responsible for the whole.
Art. 12. Five days, at most, after the despatch of the
effects or merchandise, and after the end of the term of the
bills, the importers or guarantees not having paid the duties,
the Custom-house shall proceed to sell by public auction
the effects which the said importers might have in deposit,

sufficient to cover those duties.
There being no goods in deposit, it shall prosecute them
before the tribunals.
Art. 13. The following goods or invoices shall not pay
any import duties :
Large machines for the -ase of a griculture and industry
and improved ploughs, every kind of steam machine, what-
ever be the;use for which it may be designed.
Machines or apparatus which may serve to construct,
improve, or keep the roads in order, to clean roadsteads or
ports, to open and keep channels of navigation, and improve
those of the rivers, the st eamers which may come in pieces
to be put together in our ports and rivers, surgical instru-
ments, machines and apparatus destined for the study of
mathematics and natural sciences. _ _ _

Printing machines and the paper for their use.
Printed books, sea-salt, coals, barks for tanning, ashes
without being prepared,. wooden hoops and staves, ox, cow,
horse and sheep hides with hair, dry or salted and other un-
prepared hides, tallow and grease, wool, hair, horns, and
other animal produce, called produce of the country ; live
animals for the encouragement of industry and improve-
ment of breeds, gold and silver coin and bullion, seeds and
plants destined for agriculture and gardening ; baggage,
the total weight of which does , not exceed 15 arrobas, and
ice.
The articles which the executive power may consider ex-
clusively destined for public worship, and which may be
i
required by the priests n charge of the churches.
The instruments or utensils which may serve for some of
the objects to which the machines and apparatus exempted
from the import duty may be destined, cannot in any case
be assimilated to the said machines and apparatus, and shall
be subject to the duty established by the law, in case they
are not expressly mentioned in the tariff.
Art. 14. The importation of gold and silver coins which
have not the legal weight is prohibited, as well as copper
money, unless imported on account of the Government.
Art. 15. The duty which flour ought to pay shall be re-
elated in proportion to the price of wheat in the market,
viz.:—When the price of wheat is from 3to 4 dols. the
fanega, 65 per cent, ; when from 4to 5 dols., 55 per cent. ;
when from 5 to 6 dols., 45per cent.; when from 6 to 7 dols.,
35 per cent. ; when from 7 to 8 dols., 30 per cent.; when
from 8 to 9 dols., 25 per cent. ; when from 9 to 10 dols., 20
per cent. ; when from 10 dols. upwards, 15 per cent.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 22.
GENERALIORDER.
Dated Horse Guards, S.W. Oct. 22.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command
that Colonel Sir Edward Lugard, 1i.C.8., be promoted to
the rank of Major-General in the Army, in consideration of
his services in the command of a Division at the capture of
Lucknow, and subsequently in the command of the Azim-
ghur Field Force.
By Order of his Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief.
(Signed) G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 22.
BREVET. _ _ _

Brevet-Colonel Sir ETlwa.raLugard. K.C.8., from tho
29th Foot, to be Major-General.
COMMISSION BY THE QtEEN.

Royal Anglesey Regiment of Militia—Edward Octavius
Pearse. Esq., to be Adjutant, from 21st July, 1858, vice
Cary resigned.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

County of Sussex—John King, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.

Royal Wilts Militia—William Stevens Perry Keene,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hilliard, resigned.
2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Lieut. Wilkinson to
be Captain, vice Lord George Henry Cavendish, resigned ;
Ensign Poyser to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkinson, pro-
moted.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieut. John Gould Noble to be Captain, vice John Kirkes,
deceased.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Frederick Augustus White, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Francis Law, promoted.
7th Regiment of Lancashire Militia—Ensign Owen Havi-
land Francis :O'Malley to be Lieutenant, vice Lawrence
Fort, resigned ; George Hollings, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Owen Haviland Francis O'Malley, promoted.
Royal Ayrshire Rifles—Lieut. William Wallace, to be
Captain, vice George Henry Walker, resigned.
t Notification by her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieu-
enancy for the county of Ayr.
Royal Ayrshire Rifles—Her Majesty has been pleased to
permit Lieut.-Col. Sir T. M. Cunningham, Bart., whose
resignation was notified in the Gazette of Sept. 14, to retain
the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
[Erratum in Gazette of Tuesday, October 12, 1858.]
Under head Commissions signed by Lord Lieutenant of
the county of Suffolk. Long Melford Troop of Yeomanry
Cavaly—For John George Weller Poley, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice John Thomas Ord, resigned, read John George
Weller Poley, Gent., to be Lieutenant, (John Thomas Ord
not having resigned).

WHITEHALL, JULY 31.
The Right Hon. Sir A. E. Cockburn, Bart., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at West-
minster, has appointed William Rowell, of Rickmans-
worth, in the county of Suffolk, Gentleman, to be one of the
Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments
of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act
passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the
substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for
the county of Hertford.