The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-05 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

PORT REGULATIONS—MARSEILLES.
NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS AND MASTERS.
BOARD OF TRADE, JUNE 5
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
have received n despatch from her Majesty's Acting Con-
sul at Marseilles, iuclosing fa letter from the Prefet of
that Department, notifying that, in consequence of the
Chamber of Commerce having called his attention to the
abuses which exist in ttie settlement of average expenses,
from the false statements often made by masters
of merchant vessels, he (the Prefet) has, in virtue
of a law, passed on the 2nd of July, 1856, decided
that in future the regulation shall be enforced compelling
masters of all vessels, and of whatever flag, if called upon,
to submit their log books to an officer of the Customs, im-
mediately on arriving at the Pott of Marseilles, in order
that such officer may sign the page where the writing ends,
sal thus prevent the master from making any further ad-
dition thereto after his arrival in port.
Shipmasters trading to the port of Marseilles are accord-
ingly hereby cautioned to have their log books properly
written up before their arrival iu port, and to produce
them when asked for, as, in case of damage to ship or
cargo, serious difficulty may otherwise be experienced in
the settlement of average.
WHITEHALL, MAY 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward 'Pates, of
Gravesend, in the county of Kent, Gentleman, to be a
Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Cuurt of
Chancery in England.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 5.
16th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Cecil Bisshopp,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General T. E. Napier,
C. 8., removed to the 71st Foot.
71st Regiment of Foot--Lieut.-General Thomas Erskine
.Napier, C. 8., from the 16th Foot, to bo Colonel, vice
General Sir James Macdonell, G.C.8., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 5.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Frederick
Augustus Weatherlev, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, vice John Wynter James Gifford, who ex-
chancres.
7117 Dragoon Guards—Cornet John Richards Wclstead
to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice \Valker, who retiree.
Ist Dragoons—Clermont Costobadie, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Peyton, who retires.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Wynter James
Gifford, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant,
vice Weatherly, who exchanges ; Cornet Douglas Fyfo
has been permitted to resign his commission.
Bth Light Dragoons--Lieutenant John Puget to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Reilly who retres.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain John Martin Brown,
from half-pay, Ist Foot, to be Captain, vice John Edward
Sharp, who exchanges.
2d Foot—Ensign James Wharton Harrel to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Steele, who has retired ; Henry
Waring, Gent., tobe Ensign, by purchase, vice Harrel.
llth Feet —Surgeon Joseph Hamilton Dwyer, from the
31th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Chalmers, who exchonges.
23d Foote-Quartermaster James Darker, from half-pay
of the late sth Regiment British German Legion, to be
Quartermaster, vice William Honey Smith, who retires
upon half-pay,
31th Foot—Surgeon W. K. Chalmers, M.D., from the
14th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dwyer, who exchanges.
43d Foot—Capt. T. Horan, from the 81th Foot, to be
Captain, vice R. M. Pakenham, who exchanges.
53J Foot—Ensign Josopk C. Smythe to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Miller, deceased.
54th Foot—Lieut. Charles Fitzroy Barnett to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Bourne, who retires ; Ensign Geo.
Cronyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barnett; Jas.
Chute, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cronyn.
71st Foot—Ensign Clifford Stirling Trotter has been
permitted to resign his commission.
78th Feat- —Ensign Edward Jackson Fitziumns to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sinclair, whose promotion,
by purchase, on the 17th April, 1857, has been cancelled.
84th Foot—Capt. Robert Maxwell Pakenham, from the
43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas Horan, who ex-
changes.
94th Foot—Captain J. L. M'Andrew, from half-pay,
Unattached, to be Captain, vice Woe. H. Dore, who ex-
changes.
Rifle Brigade Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Cclo jal J.
R. Glyn, from half-pay Unattached, vice William Harry,_ni
Earl of Errol, who exchanges ; Captain M. Dillon,fro
half-pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain vie Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Glyn, promoted to o
the Substan-
tive Rank of Major under the Royal Warrant of the 6th of
October, 1854.
2d West India Regiment—Lowden
-M'Adam De Laicery:
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, Nice Ogden, who i a
ires.

DEPOT BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Alexander George
Dalzell, from half-pay of a Depot Battalion, to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel John T. Hill, who ex-
changes.
UNATTACIIED.—Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Ju-
lius Richard Glyn, from the Rifle Brigade, to have the
Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of
6th October, 1851.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Norfolk—Charles John Palmer, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant.
Regiment of Roy al Perthshire Rifle Militia—Lieutens..l
Joaeph Stewart Pender to be Captain, vice Condie, re-
signed.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia-- Lieutenant Deane John Hoare to be Cap-
tain, vice Lloyd, resigned ; Robert Bothwicke, Esq., to
be Captain, vice Captain Beckham resigned.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Triuity Torm, 20th Victoria,
4th June, 1857.
This Court will en Saturday the 13th„ Monday, the

Yesterday a special general meeting of this com-
pany was hell at the Paddington Station, to take
into consideration certain bills now peindin; in Par-
liament, as required by the standing orders.
Tile Hon. Mr. PONSONBY took the chair, stating
that Lord Barrington had resigned the chairman-
ship of the board, and that the directors had done
him the honour to elect him as his successor. Be
was happy to add that Lord Barrington had con-
sented to be their deputy-chairman.
A SIIAREHOLDER inquired whether the hon.
gentleman bad been previously a d rector of the
company ?
Mr. SauNDEns (,he secretary) replied that Mr.
Ponsonby was not a director at the last half-yearly
meeting, but that he held that position at a former
period.
The first resolution proposed was to sanction a
bill for making a railway from the Torquay branch
of the South Devon Railway to or near Dartmouth,
to be called the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway,
and for other purposes. On this motion being put
from the chair, a long discussion took place upon
the general question as to the propriety of entering
into arrangements with other companies at th 3
risk of involving this company in expenses without
any guarantee that their interests would be thereby
promoted.
The CHAIRMAN replied that the new branch lines
to which the bills in question referred said not in-
volve this company in any liability whatever. The
only clauses which immediateiy concerned the
Great Western Company were of a permissive cha-
racter, giving power to the directors to enter into
workine, arrangements with the new branches at
some future time if it should be thought desirable
to do so.
Mr. MaraNs begged to be allowed to take this
opportunity of asking some explanation respecfng
the arrangements between the Great Western Rail-
way Company and the Weymouth and Channel
Islands Steam Navigation Company, as thera was
a general impression that those arrangements were
calculated to entail a loss ( n this company.
Mr. SAUNDERS replied that it was a mistake to
suppose that the arrangements were likely to involve
the company in any loss. The result up to the present
moment, he was happy to say, had been far/othe
wise, and lie was quite sure that the agreement in
question was one of the most important which the
directors had yet entered into for promoting the
interests of the company.
The motion was then put and carried unani-
mously ; as were also resolutions al proving hills
for making railways between the city of Bristo' and
the South Wales Railway, with a steam ferry across
the river Severn, in connexion therewith, for the
purpose of improving the railway communication
between Smith Wales and Bristol, Southampton,
and the south-western districts of England ; for the
making and maintaining of the Stratford-on-Avon
Railway, and for other purposes ; for making a
railway from the Llantrissant station of the South
Wales Railway to Penrhiwfer, with branches to
Glanmychydd and Mynydd Gellyrhaidd ; fer
ma'iing a railway from the Llanidloes and New-
; town Railway to the town of Machynlleth.
The meeting was then made special, to consider
and ratify certain agreements entered into with the
Bridport Railway Company and the Stratford-on-
Avon Railway Company, for working their re-
spective lines, in pursuance of resolutions of the
last half-yearly meeting Gf the company.
A resolution upon this subject was proposed and
agreed to ; and votes of thanks were passed to the
chairman, to the late chairman, to the board of
directors, and to Mr. Saunders, the secretary.
The meeting then separated.

FALL of TEE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
AT PLYMOUTH.—The Roman Catholics in Plymouth
have for some time past had in course of erec ion, in a
field leading to Eldad, a noble-looking structure, which
was to serve them as a cathedral for the new diocese of
Plymouth. The building was rapidly progressing to-
wards completion, and it was expected that it weal-( be
ready for consecration on the 4th of August next. That
hope was entirely destroyed yesterday (Wednesday), for
early in th° afternoon about half of the roof fell in with
a tremendous crash, and the building, with its lofty
western front standing apart from the roof which con•
nects the transept with the chancel of the church,
we re
re-
E-ents the appearance of a ruin. Happily no live=
lost. The church was formed with Bide aisles, and front
one end to the other the roof, which was an extremely
lofty one, was supported by arches which sprang front
pillars. These pillars were formed of Bath stone, and
the arches springing from them were of brick. The Bath
stone proved weak for the weight which it had to Sus-
tain, and some it split, and thus endangered the whole
structure. Before the measures for shoring up could be
matured, the architect saw that the building was
likely to fall, and he bad only time to warn the men to
leave the building, and then to get away himself, when
the four southern arches of the nave, and the large
eastern arch, fell with a tremendous crash, bringing down
with them the southern clerestory. —Plymouth, vernal
ofl'mn
yesterday.
Enlßs (FRANCE).—Yest-erday was published a
male
6th hayndth7ethvie.,
copy of an Order in Counctl approving certain rules or
Committeeclip .
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theo ll
mfoorreTreaffd4ec,.
by-lawsunder
teal performance of the convention with France con-
cerning the fisheries :it the seas between France and the
British islands.
On Wednesdayt of
afternoon, a body was brought on
the Lundhill pit, which was claimed as that of Israel
Hobson, of Lundhill, aged 20, making a total of 116
recovered up to the present. time.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the meeting on
Monday next, the Bth inst., the following papers will be
read :-1. On the Battles of Sellasia, Marathon, and
Therrnus ; by General Jochmus. 2. Remarks on Ser-
pent ; by Captain Sprat, R.N. 3. On the Hydro-
graphy of the Valley of the Arve ; by Professor Paul
Chair). 4. Exploration of Darien ;byH. G. Caldwell,
Esq., 3,1.1)., U.S.N., &c.
FIRE AT LISIEHOCSE.—Last night, about ten o'clock-,
a fire I roko out in the extensive premises belonging to
Messrs. Wilkes, wneelwrighie, Love-lane, Limehouse,
and extending into Glasshouse-fields. In spite of the
exertions of the firemen the flames were not subdued un-
til the wen kshops and other adjoining premises belong-
ing to Messrs. Wilkes were levelled with the ground.
Some damage has been done to the property of Messrs.
Ravenbill and Miller by hasty removal. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but the sufferers are supposed to be
fully insured.