The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

WHITEHALL, Nov. 5.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Henry Went-
wort% Acland, M.D., the office and place of Professor of
Physic, in the University of Oxford, in the room of James
Adey Ogle, M.D., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 6.
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-General at Tunis, report-
ing that the Bey of Tnnis has abandoned the Government
monopoly of the Oil Presses In that country, and that the
export duty upon oil has been fixed at 10 per cent. ; the
amount of duty chargeable in the case of the oil being ex-
ported by foreigners, to be deposited with the Consul of
their nation.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 6.
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 Charg d'Affaires at Madrid, re-
porting that the Spanish Government has issued regula-
tions, providing that masters of vessels arriving with car-
goes in Spanish ports from any port in Europe, within a
distance of 30 kilometres, of which there is no Spanish
Consular Agent, will be required to produce a declaration
signed by the shipper, and countersigned by. the local
authority at the port of clearance, with which declaration
it will be necessary to exhibit the ship's manifest or bill
of clearance issued by the Custom-house of the port from
which the vessel has arrived.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 6.

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 Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing copies of two French Imperial Decrees, with re-
ference to the duties upon the importation of iron, and of
which the following is a translation :--
DECREE No. I.—The admission of bar-iron, under the
provisions of the Decree of the 17th October, 1855, is re-
stricted to bars of the following dimensions :
Flat bars, of the width multiplied by the thickness, of
458 milimetree, or more.
Square bars measuring 22 milimetres or more on each
face.
Round bars measuring more than 15 milimetres or more
in diameter.
Flattened iron, of irregular shape, and similar to the
above, will enjoy the same freedom from duty.
With the following exceptions, the under-mentioned
articles will not be admitted is discharge of the Customs'
Warrants :
Articles manufactured from iron bars of irregular form,
except those of similarly irregular shape to the bars from
which they are manufactured.
Articles manufactured from round bar iron, excpt those
which are obviously manufactured from round bar iron.
Wrought iron, except such is of more than 2 milimetres
in thickness, or articles of wrought iron not exceeding
that thickness.
The provisions of the decree are extended only to ship-
builders or manufacturers of articles required for the
fitting out or rigging ships.
The period fixed by Article 2, of the Decree of the 17th
October, 1855, for permitting the nationalization of foreign
sea-geing vessels, whether sailing or steam, on payment of
10 per cent, on the value, is prolonged until the 17th
October, 15S.
DECREE No. 2.—The undermentioned articles will bo
admitted, under the following conditions, free of im-
port duty, conformably with Article 5 of the Law of
the sth July, 1836, if imported for Masters of Forges,
Builders, or Manufacturers, who can certify to foreign
orders :
Rough cast iron, bar iron, wrought iron, gutters and T
pieces (cornieres), steel in bars, and copper laminated,
pure or with alloy, imported from abroad, to be re-
exported after having been applied in French manufac-
tories, &c., to the construction of iron ships or boats, or
machines, or apparatus, whether for railways or for other
works.
The above-namel metals must be imported either under
the French Flag, or under that of the country of pro-
duction.
The regulations respecting the importations of iron
bars, &e., under the provisions of this decree aro similar
to those contained in degree No. 1, having reference to the
same Articles.
Importers must give real security either to re-export or
to return to the depot, within aeperiod not exceeding six
months, the articles manufactured from metals admitted
under the present decree, no deduction for difference of
weight being allowed.
In none of the above cases will metals be permitted to be
imported, or the articles manufactured from them to be
exported, otherwise than through the established entre-
pots, or through the Custom Houses, whether those of
transit or those opened for merchandise rated at more than
20 francs the 100 kilogrammes.
Manufactured articles, which instead of being placed in
depot, are at once exported, should be forwarded either
,under the general transit regulations, or under Articles 61.
and 62 of the Law of the 2lst April, 1818,•accordiugly as
they may be despatched by land or by sea.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 6.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. H. Dalton Wittit
Lyon to be Captain, without purchase, vice Fountaine
Rogge Allen, deceased ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
John Graham Smith has been permitted to retire from
the service by the sale of his Commission.
Ist Dragoon Guards.—Constantino McDougall Moorsom,
Gent., to ho Cornet, 'without purchase.
6th Dragoon Guards,—Captain Robert Bickerstaff to be
Major, by purchase, vice Lord George Augustus Beau-
clerk, who retires; Lieutenant Francis Nathaniel Astley
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bickerstaff.
7th Dragoon Guards.—Clavering Heilman, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase.
Ist Drigoons.— Cornet Edward Francis Weaver, from the
7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Tucker, ap-
pointe to the 17th Light Dragoons.
31 Light Dragoons—Captain Honourable A. T. Moreton,
from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Mayne,
removed to Bth Light Dragoons.
4th Light Dragoons.--Captain Benjamin Aylett Branfill,
from the Bth' Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hon.
A. T. Moreton, removed to 3d Light Dragoons.
Bth Light Dragoons—Captain T. L. Mayne, from the 3d
Light Dragoons, to be Captain vice Branfill, removed
to 4th Light Dragoons.
Military Train Lieutenant John Walsh, from half-pay
of the late Land Transport Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice
M‘Leughlin, appointed to the 11th Light Dragoons.
Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon George Davidson
Milne, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Allinson, promoted on the Staff.
Scets Fusilier Guards --Ensign and Lieutenant Sussex V.
Stephenson to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieu-
tenant and Captain Honour able Roger Mostyn, who has
resigned that appointment ; the appointment of Acting
Quartermaster William Smith to be Quartermaster, vice
Jones, resigned, to be dated sth September, 1856, and
not 16th October, 1857; as previously stated.
4th Regiment of Foot--Ensign C. R. Durrant, from 33d
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Kuper, deceased.
sth Foot —The promotion of Major Walter Crawford Ken-
nedy to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, to
bear date 29th Aueust, 1857, instead of 4th September,
1857, but such antedate is not to carry back pay.
7th Foot—Captain William Vivash Maskelyne, from half-
pay 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Hib-
bert, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Sub-
stantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Octo-
ber, 1854; Lieutenant William M`Geachy Keats, from
the 84th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase; Ensign
Joseph Smith, from the Military Irate, to be Ensign

awl Adjutant:
Bth Foot—Serjeant-Major Edward Emerson, from the 96th
Foot; to be Ensign, without purchase, awl Adjutant ;
The transfer of Ensign Thomas Stanley Mitchell, from
the 89th Foot, as notified in the qa,-..:ettc of the 23d Octo-
ber, 1857, has been cancelled.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur F. Bingham Wright to
,11,e
Adjutant ; Quartermaster James Parrott Arrowsmitb,
from half-pay of the late 3,1 Rifle Regiment, British
Italian Legion, to bo Quartermaster.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Halahan to be Captain!,
without purchase, vice Greensill, deceased ; Ensign
John Johnstone to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Halahan.
29th Foot—Assistant Surgeon William Langford Farmer,
from the Staff to be Assistant Surgeon, vice McGregor,
promoted on the Staff.
33d Foot Christopher Rawes Durrant, Gent., to be En 7
sign, by purchaee, vice Coxen, promoted.
37th Foot—Sergeant-Major William Hodgkinson to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Groeme, promoted ;
Assistant-Surgeon William Samuel Chapman, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fleming, promoted
ou the Staff.
The promotion of the under-mentioned officers in suc-
cession to Lieutenants Bagenall and Birkett, killedi in
action on the 30th July, 1857, to bear date 31st July, 1857,
instead of 30th July, 18.17, as previously stated :—Ensigns
J. D. Groemo and G. G. Fraser.
40th Foot--Lieut. 'William Gibson to be Instructor of
Musketry.
41st Foot—Capt. Arthur Robert Fowler, from half-pay
unattached, to he Captain, vice Brevet-Major Hugh
Rowlands, whose brevet rank has been converted into
substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant, 6th Oct.,
1854.
47th Foot—Lieut. Henry Bowles George Stokes to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Philips, who retires.
60th Foot—George Fead Lamert, Esq., late Paymaster of
the 3d Rifle Regiment, British Italian Legion' to be
Paymaster; Assistant-Surgeon William Silver Oliver,
M.D. from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Biddle, who has resigned.
67th Foot—Lieutenant George Turnour Horton Aitchison
to be Adjutant, vice Graham, promoted in the 9th Foot.
68th Foot—Captain Herbert Vaughan, from half-pay 68th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Hon. Daniel G.
Finch, whose Brevet Rank has been convected into Sub-

stantivo Rank, un ler the Royal Warrant of.tire-61h
Oct., 1854: Assistant-Surgeen Augustus Oliver Applin,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon ; the Christian
names of Ensign Craig, appointed from the Military
Train, on the 23d Oct., 1857, are Robert Guthrie, and
not James, as previously stated.
69th Foot—Ensign Thomas Hyde Crawley Boevey, from
the 23d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Eustace, superseded,
being absent without leave.
Assistant-Surgeon John Henderson Whittaker, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
75th Foot—Ensign Augustus L'Estrange, from the 17th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Row, promoted.
78th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Watt Beveridge,
M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
"V;Tillock,, promoted on tha staff.
81st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Wm. James Mulian, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, %ice Auc h' lin ee , pro-
moted on the Staff.
£2l Foot- -The undermentioned otEc.ers have been permitted
to resign their Commissions :—Ensigu Charles Thomas
B. Spiller Ensign Gdrdon Cowper.
-83 d Foot —Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Rawlings Mould,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Touch, pro-
moted on the Staff.
84th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Jas. Cruice, from the Staff
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice La Presle, promoted ou the
Staff. _ .

86:1; Foot—Assistant-Surgeon C. IT. Browne, from the
Staff, to be Assi6tant-Surgou, vice 'Collie, promoted on
the Staff.
87th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon D. 0. .I.4`Fall, from the
staff, to to Isai tart-Surgeon, vice Tones, promoted on
the Staff.

89th FocA—Ellaigu Mitchell been rouiovea fora