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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'C!ock.

BIRMINGHAM RACES—(This Day).

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SUTTON STEEPLECHASE,

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May Day
ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE

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Forest gieen...
Hopeless Star..

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Fourteen ran.

NORTHAMPTON-MONDAY NIGHT.

AnnivED.—Assayer, Tame Deer, Adamas, Skirmisher,
Somerset, Amati, Jessie, Sir C11;n, Elcot's dam colt,
Codrington, Lady St. Liz, Wentworth, Titnotington,
Lord Nelson, Odd Trick, Jack the Giant Killer, Betel-
nut, Gemma di Vergy, Western Power, Madame Clic-
quot, Malacca, Olympus, Surrender, Strawberry,
Heroine, Companion, Squire Watt, Gaudy, Saraband,
Grand Duchess, Sister to Viscount, Speedwell colt
(2 yrs), Threes, Greyling, Happy Land, Peter Flat,
Bracken, Prince's Mixture, Stormsail, Vaulter, Her-
cules, Volatore, Spinet, Cumberland, Rohallion, Centu-
rion, St. Giles, Blue Rock, Porto Rico, Alonzo, Lawn,
Fiction, Redemption, Bessie, Brabantia, and Borderer.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.)

The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty this afternoon :

Commander—W. H. Haswell to the Himalaya, vice
Priest.

Paymaster—H. H. Shanks (confirmed) to the Cen

Surgeon—Dr. William Macleod to the Melville.
Assistant-Surgeon—Edward T. Mortimer to the

Helper.

Masters' Assistants—Walter H. Worsfold to the Hes-
per, and Henry Sutton to the Rhadamanthua.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening).

At the Court at Buckinghath Palace, the 20th day of
March, 1357, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
the Most Noble Charles Cecil John, Duke of Rutland,
to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of
the county of Leicester, the Eight Hon. William, Rail of
Burlington, to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum
of the county of Lancaster, and William Thomas Spencer,
Esq. (commonly called Viscount Milton), to be Lord Lieu-
tenant and Castes Rotnlorum of the West Riding of the
county of York, they this day took the oaths appointed
to be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance
and supremacy.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon a re-
presentation of theßight Hon. the Lords of the Committee
of Council on Education, to appoint Charles H. Alderson,
Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law, late Scholar of Trinity Col-
lege, Oxford, and John Reynell Morell, Esq., to be two of
her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, and the Rev. Benja-
min James Binns, 8.A., late Principal of the Caernarvon
Training College, to be ono of her Majesty's Assistant
lA)ectors of Schools.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of
March, 1857, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. This day the Right Hon. James, Earl of
Elgin an! Kincardine, was, by her Majesty's command,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
and took his place at the Board accordingly.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, biter! 20.
This day had an audience of her Majesty—his Exce-
1, ncy Ferukh Kban, Ambassador Extraordinary from his
Majesty the Shah of Persia, to deliver his credentials, to
which audience be was introduced by the Right Hon. the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., 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, JAN; 1.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Thorley Bing. Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Moscow.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 23.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, unto the Rii4ht Eon. Claas S. Lefevre, late Speaker
of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body-
lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Vis-
count Everaley, of Heckfield, in the county of South-
ampton.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Ma.norr 21.
The Right Honourable 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 Ambassador at Pads, trans-
mitting copies of two French Imperial Decrees, the first ail-
rnitting oil of ground nuts free of duty into French ports
as a natural production of Algeria, and the second fixing
the following import duties ripen the undermentioned
articles :
Ginger—Same duties as medicinal roots not specified.
bladder—Foots, dry, in French ships, Bf.; in foreign
ships, 10f.; ground or cut, 20f. per 100 kilos.
Palm, Cocoa Nut, Illepe and Touloncouna Oils, if im-
ported in French ships from foreign sAtlements in the East
Indies, 2f. tOc. per 11,0
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL MARCH 21.
The Lords Commissioners cf Privy Council for Trade
and Foreign Plantations herebygive notice that, by virtue
of a Treaty concluded on the 14th inat., between Great
Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Hanover, Mecklenhurgh
Schwerin, Oldenburgh, the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia,
Sweden end Norway, and the Hanse Towns, on the cue
part, and Denmark on the other part, Denmark has en-
gage.d l o open the Sound and to discontinue the levying of
the Sound Dues, from and after the first of April next.
Until, however, certain engagements of the Treaty to-
wards Denmark shall have been fulfilled by the contract-
ing parties, it has been agreed that the Danish Govern.
ment shall have the right to maintain a prxrisional state of
things in the Sound, by taking* from vessels passing
through, security for payment of the dues intended to be
abolished, such security to be cancelled and discharged as
soon as the country, by whose vessels it has been given,
shall have fulfilled the said engagements.
The owners and masters of British vessels are therefore
apprised- that although actual payment of the Sound dues
will not b 3 required, yet until further notice it will be
necessary for them to give security for the amount of such
dues. This may be done by the master rending his papers
either on shore or to .the guard ship, accompanied by a
signed declaration, undertaking in case of the nonfultilment
of the engagements aforesaid, to pay the amount of dues
with which, according to his papers, he may be chargeable
for the vessel and cargo.
The particular attention of masters and owners is re-
quested to this notice, in order that they may not incur
inconvenience or loss by neglecting the required formali-
ties.

Notice is also hereby given, that from and after the Ist
of April the Danish transit duties en all the roads and
. canals which connect the North Sea and the Elbe with
the Baltic will be reduced to the uniform rate of 16 skil-
lings, Danish currency, per s')Olbs. Danish, the exemptions
which now exist on some of those roads or canals, in favour
cf certain enumerated articles of home or foreign produc-
tion, being extended to all of them.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Ritle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
' Walter Main waring Coynoy, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Banks Wright, appointed to 1 th Light Dragoons.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieut. John
Sherlock to be Captain, ;tee Lawson, resigned.
[This Article is substituted fur that which appealed in
the Gazette of the 17th March.]
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia =William
Waring Gwillim Gent., to be Ensign, vice Townsend, ap-
pointed to the Royale Regiment.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Henry Newman Kettle, grocer, Godalming, Surrey.
William Attewell Wane, grocer, Highworth, Wilts.
.BANKRUPTS.
- Frank Rennison, merchant, Milk-street, Cheapside, to
surrender April 7, *at two, and May 5, at twelve, at the
Court cf Bankruptcy. Standeld, official assignee ; Moss,
Moorgate-street, City.
Edward Clark Lone, oil and drug merchant, Cullum-
street, City, April 2, at two, and May 8, at one, at theiCourt
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Ring and George, King-street, Cheapside.
Richard Eaglet d, manufacturer, Wilsden, Bradford,
April 21 and May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds • -Weatherhead and
Barr, Keighley ; Bond aneßarwick, Leeds.
William Popham Davis and James Davis, slate mei..
chants, Cardiff, April 6 and May 5, at eleven, at the Bris-
tol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol;
Lovihond, Bridgewater ; Bevan and Gir]ing, Bristol.
Robert Collena, hop merchant, High Holborn, April 3,
at half-past two, and April 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ;
King awl George, King-street, Cheapside.
Samuel Atack, builder, Leeds, April 3, and May 1, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official as-
signee, Leeds ; Dibb, Atkinson, and Piper, Leeds.
Tilden, Christmas, coal-merchant, Chatham, March 13,
at half-past eleven, and April 31, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, otifeial assgnee, Vasinghall-street ;
Selby, Coleman-street.
Thomas Atkinson, woollen manufacturer, Brearley,
- Yorkshire, April 3 and May 1, at eleven a the Leeds
District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Holroyde,
Son, and Cronhelm, Young, official
and Barwick, Leeds. 11,1
Edward Gray Brocklehurst, he manufacturer, Liver-
pool, April 3, and 21 at eleven, attire Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Tyrer, Li-
verpoel.
George Davy Richardson, ironfounder, Carlisle, March
31, at eleven, anal 8, at Maytwelve, at Newcastle-
A N_rtrong
ins
npon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official the
assignee
New.
castle-upon-Tyne; Wright, Carlisle ; Gray,
and Monnsey, Staples-inn, London; Hoyle, ewcastle-
,
upon-Tyne.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. and R. Dun, tinplate workers, Glasgow.
John Barr, engineer, Glasgow.
Thomas Simpson, baker, Grngemlnth

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam.. • .... 11 16 Gibraltar •• " " ;;
Ditto, three months .. 11 19 ' Leghorn •••• •• • • •
29 457
RRotterdamll 19 Genoa ...... .. • • ••„.• •‘' a" 5
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-Antwerp •..... 25 52% Milan .
-Brasses • • •••• •• • ...... 25 52;4 Venice ..... •• .. .•.• ••
• namburgh ............ 13 8 Naples ... 43
•Altona •• •• •• •• •• • • Palermo ... • 130
Paris. •••• • • •••••••• •• •• 25 271 Messina .. •
13N
Ditto, three months .. 25 70 Lisbon
..............25 72% Oporto-................ 52 Is
Bourdeaus ..•• .. • • .... Pio Janeiro ...... ••.• • .
Fr ankfort-on-Malno •• .. 119% 11 en o s
New York,6o days' ;lila
•• •• •• •• • • •... 10 29 Philadelphia
Tric5t0........ •• • • .... 10 31 , PRICES OD BULLION, rlia oz.
Petersburg 3714 I Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 10
Madrid ••• •• • • 49% , Portugal Gold Coin 00 0
'Cadiz ....... •• • • •..... 50 Mexican Dollars
8arce10na......... New Dollars
Seville, • • .•• ..
•• ...• •• • • Sirver in bars • 0 0 0