The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, WIIITEIIALL, AUG. 19.

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 Consul at Lagos, repn-t-
-ing that he has concluded an agreement with the
King
and principal Chiefs of Abeokuta, and the Presidents of the
Trading Corporations of that town, by which the monopoly
hitherto enjoyed by the latter, of the trade of Lagos, Abec-
kuta, and the towns on the coast, has been abandoned.
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 de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting
that by a recent Swedish Order, all hides, hoofs, and other
portions of cattle not certified to be imported from countries
other than those in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea,
between Hangn and Lubec, will be required to be kept free
from contact with live animals, and susceptible articles of a
similar nature, also they will be required to be separately
warehoused and purified with lime or otherwise before deli:.
veri.

WHITEHALL, JULY 10.
The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Edmund Cockburn, Bart.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
at Westminster,has appointed Edward Walker, of Dol-
gelley, in the county of Merioneth, Gentleman, to be one of
the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledg-
ments 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 nodes tf assurance, in and
for the county of Merioneth.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
_East Kent Regiment of Militia—Dominick Daly, Gent.,
to be Ensign,. vice Monypenny promoted.
The folloecing, appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday last, the 17th inst.:-
Ist Regiment of Duke of Lancaster's Own
Louis Robert James Versturme, Esq., late a Captain in her
Majesty's 27th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Stevenson, Sluffleld, Yorlifhire, auctioneer and
comtni,sion agent.

BANKRUPTS.

James Massey, Crown Inn, Cranbourne-passage, Leices-
ter-square, victualler and innkeeper, to surrender Aug. 30
and Oct. 2, at half-past n, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee, Mr. Whit-
more, 2, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Cooper and
Hodgson, 3, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-iun, and 8, Sise-
lane.
Frederick How, Whitstable, Kent, butcher, to surrender
Aug. 30, at half-past 12, and Oct. 8, at 12, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee,
Mr. 'Whitmore, 2, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs.
Mason and Start, 7, Gresham-street; and Messrs. Sankey
and Son, Canterbury.
Leonard George Boor, 132, St. George-street, St.George-
in-the-East, surgeon and apothecary, to surrender Sept. 4,
at half-past 11, and Oct. 5, at 11, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee, Mr.
Graham, 25, Coleman-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Morris,
Stone, Townson, and Morris, Moorgate-street-chambers.
Samuel Richard Whitehouse, Snape-street, Birmingham,
factsr, to surrender Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, at 10, at the
District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham. Official assig-
nee, Mr. Kinnear, 37, Waterloo-street, Birmingham.
Attorneys, Messrs. Hodgson and Allen, Waterloo-street,
Birta;nattftm.
u L 'boon Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, grocer, to surrender Aug. 30 and Sept. 20, at 10,
at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.
cial assignee, Mr. Kinnear, 37, ‘Vaterloo-streer, Birming-
ham. Attorneys, Mr. Adderley, Longton ; and Mr. Smith,
Birmingham.
Henry Slater, Balsall Heath, King's Norton, Stafford-
shire, brewer and maltster, to surrender Sept. 2 and 24, at
half-past 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Birming-
ham. Official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, Temple-street,
Birmingham. Attorneys, Mr. Jackson, West Bromwich ;
any Mr. Smith, Birmingham.
William Smith Slater and Thomas Herbert, Birkenhead,
Cheshire, steam saw mill proprietors and timber merchants,
to surrender Sept. 6, at 11, and Oct. 4, at 12, at the District
Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool. Official assignee, Mr.
Morgan, 10, Cook-street, Liverpool. Attorney, Mr. Gill,
Albion-buildings, Market-street, Birkenhead.
John Og Mackinnon, late of Liverpool and Birkenhead,
commission and general agent, to surrender Sept. 6 and
Oct. 4, at 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Liver-
pool. Official assignee, Mr. Cazenove, Eldon-chambers,
South John-street, Liverpool. Attorneys, Messrs. Francis
and Almond, 31, North John-street, Liverpool.
Benjamin Bradley, Manchester, iron merchant and agent,
to surrender Sept. 10 and 20, at 11, at the District Court
of Bankruptcy, Manchester. Official assignee, Mr. Her-
namao 69, Princess-street, Manchester. Attorney
Messrs., Bellhouse and Bond, Princess-street, Manchester.s,

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Hugh Millar, Dairy and KilwinninF, Ayrshire, iron-
monger, plumber, and gasfitter—William Gill, Be'made
Aberdeenshire, general merchant—James Scott, Bal!entree;
I
Arshire, farmer—Rev. Donald Chisholm minister of the
united parish of Boleskine and Abertarff, nverness-shire.

EXAMINATION.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street—Aug. 30,
at 11. W. Elsou, Hartley Wintney and Elvetbarn, South-
ampton, brick maker.