The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

TYRO STAKES.

Blackeock
Miss Penfill
Fife 2

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NURSERY PLATE.

Q.E.D
1
Letty Long
2
Imperatrice
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r GIMCRACK STAKES.

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Johnny Armstrong .
Genealogie
Carisbrook

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MEMBERS' PLATE.

Princess Maud
Johnny Bright ,
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Anne de Clare . 3

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CONSOLATION SCRAMBLE.

Sheffield
Bernice ............... . ...................... 2
Lord Albert Of ...... '3
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LATEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
7to 4 agst Kettledrum (taken)
10 to 1 agst Janus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)

LONDON GAZETTE-(7HIS EVBNING).

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George
Benvenuto Mathew, Esq., now her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Guate-
mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, to
be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to those Re-
publics.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 27.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Hugh
Smith to be Consul at Dundee for the United States of
America.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 29.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty's Minister at Washington, transmitting a copy of
a bill which has passed through the Senate and Congress
of the United States, and by which the following import
duties are fixed upon the undermentioned articles :
Raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado or brown sugar,
and on sugars not advanced above No. 12, Dutch standard,
by •claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process, and on
sirrup of sugar o of sugar cane and concentrated molasses,
or concentrated melado, 2 cents. per pound, and on
white and cloyed sugar. when advanced beyond
the raw state, above No. 12, Dutch standard, by
clarifying or other process, and not yet refined, 2f cents
per pound ; on refined sugars, whether loaf, lump, crushed,
or pulverised, 4 cents per pound ; on sugars after being re-
fined, when they are tinctured, coloured, or in any way
adulterated, and on sugar candy, 6 cents per pound; on
molasses,. 5 cents per gallon : Provided, that an sirups of
sugar or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses or melado,
entered under the name of molasses, or any other name
than sirup of sugar or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses,
or concentrated melado, shall be liable to forfeiture to the
United States ; on all teas, 15 cents per pound ; on almonds,
4 cents per pound ; slielled almonds, 6 cents per pound ;
on brimstone, crude, 3 dols. per ton ; on brimstone, in rolls,
6 dols. per ton ; on coffee, of all kinds, 4 cents per pound ;
on cocoa, 3 cents per pound ; on coca leaves and cocoa
shells, 2 eents per pound ; on cocoa, rrepared or manteac-
tared, 8 cents pet pound ; on chicory root, 1 cent per pound :
and on chierry, ground, 2 cents per pound ; on chocolate, 6
cents per pound ; on cassia, 10 cents per pound ; cassia
buds, 15 cents per pound; on cinnamon, 20 cents
per pound ; on cloves, 8 cents per pound ; on
cayenne pepper, 6 cents per pound ; on cayenne
pepper, ground, 8 cents per pound on currants,
5 cents per pound ; on argot 3 cents per pound;
on cream tartar, 6 cents per pound ; on tartaric acid and
tartar emetic, and Rochelle salts, 10 cents per pound ; on
dates, 2 cents per pound ; on figs, 5 cents per pound ; on
ginger root, 3 cents per pounds; on ginger, ground, 5 cents
per pound • on licorice paste and juice, 5 cents per pound ;
licorice root, 1 cent per pound ; on mace and nutmegs, 25
cents per pound ; on nuts of all kinds not otherwise pro-
vided for, 2 cents per pound ; on pepper, 6 cents, per pound.
on pimento, 6 cents per pound ; on plums, 5 cents per
pound ; on prunes, 5 cents per pound ; on raisins, 5 cents
per pound ; on unmanufactured Russia hemp, 40 dols. per
ton ; on Manilla and other hemps of India, 25 dols. per ton;
on lead in pigs or bars, 1 dol. 50 cents per 100 pounds; in
sheets, 2 dole. 25 cents per 100 pounds; on white lead, dry
or ground in oil, and red lead, 2 dole. 25 cents per 100 pounds;
on salt, in sacks, 18 cents per 100 pounds, and in bulk 12
cents per 100 pounds ; on soda ash, f cent per pound ; on
bicarbonate of soda, 1 cent per pound; on sal soda, f cent
per pound ; on caustic soda, 1 cent per pound ; on chloride
of lime, 30 cents per 100 pounds; on saltpetre crude, 1 cent
per pound; refined or partially refined, 2 cents per pound;
on turpentine, 10 cents per gallon ; on oil of cloves, 70 cents
per pound; on bandy, 1 dol. 25c. pergallon; on spirits distilled
from grain or other materials, 50 cents per gallon; on gum
copal, and other gums or resinous substances used for the
same or similar purposes as gum copal, 10 cents per pound.
Arrowroot, 20 per centum ad valorem • on ginger,
wi
pre-
served or pickled, 30 per centuir ad loram ;on limes,
lemons, oranges, bananas, and plantains, 20 per centum ad
valorem ; on Peruvian bark, 15 per centum ad valorem ; on
quinine, 30 per centum ad valorem ; on rags, of whatever
material, 10 per centum; on gunpowder, 30 per centum ad
valorem ; on feathers and downs, 30 per centum ad valorem;
on hides, 10 per centum ad valorum ; on sole and bend
leather, 30 per centum ad valorem; on India rubber, raw or
unmanufactured, 10 per centum ad valorem ; on India
rubber shoes and boots, 30 per centum ad valorem; on ivory
manufactured, and on vegetable ivory, 10 per centum ad
valorem ; on wines of all kinds, 50 per centum ad valorem ;
on silk in the gum, not more advanced in the manufacture
than singles, tram, and thrown or organzine, 25 per centum
ad valorem; on silks valued at not over 1 dol. per square
yard, 30 par centum ad valorem ; on all silks valued at over
1 dol. per square yard, 40 per centum ad valorem • on alt
silk velvet, or velvets of which silk-is the component mate-
rial of chief value, valued at 3 dols. per yard, 35 per oentum
ad valorem ; valued at over 3 dols. per yard, 40 per centum
ad valorem; on floss silks, 30 per centum ad valorem ; on silk
ribbons, galloons, braids, fringes, laces, tassels, buttons.
button cloths, trimmings, and on silk twist, twist composed
of mohair and silk, sewing silk in the gum or purified, and
all other manufactures of silk shall be the component ma-
terial of chief value, not otherwise provided for, 40 per
centum ad valorem.

All articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, imported
from ber,nd the Cape of Good Hope in foreign vessels, not
entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discrimi-
nating duties, tonnage and other charges, and all other
articles, goods, wares, and merchandise not imported direct
from the place of their growth or production, or in foreign
vessels, entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from
discriminating duties, tonnoge, and other charges, shall be
subject to pay, in addition to the duties imposed by this act,
10 per centum ad valorem : provided that this rule shall
not apply to goods, wales, and merchandise imported from
beyond the Cape of Good ll,pe in American vessels.
From and after the passage of this act, there shall be
allowed on all articles wholly manufactured of materials
imported, on which duties have been paid, when export 'd,
a drawback, equal in amount to the duty paid on such ma-
terials and no more, to be ascertained under such regula-
tions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury •
Provided, that 10 per centum on the amount of all draw-
backs, so allowed, shall be retained, for the use
of
the
United States, by the collectors paying such drawbacksh
respectively.
All goods, wares, and merchandize, actually on shipboard,
and bound to the United States, and all goods, wares, and
merchandize, on deposit in warehouses or public stores at
the date of the passage of this Act, shall besubject to pay
such duties as are provided by law before and at the time of
the passage of this Act: And provided further, that all
goods deposited in public store or bonded warehouse after
this Act takes effect and goes into operation, if designed for
consumption in the United States, must be withdrawn
therefrom, or the duties thereon paid in three months after
the same are deposited, and goods designed for exportation
and consumption in foreign countries may be withdrawn
by the owner at any time before the expiration of three
years after the same are deposited, such goods, if not with-
draws in three years, to be regarded ee abandoned to tae
Government, and sold under such regulations as the Secre-
tary of the Treasury may prescribe,b°, and the proceeds paid
into the Treasury : Provided, that merchandize, upon which
the owner may have neglected to pay duties within three
months from the time of its deposit, may be with-
drawn and entered for consumption at any time
within two years of the time of its deposit, upon
the payment of the legal duties, with an addition of 25 per
centum thereto : Provided also, that merchandise upon
which duties have been paid, it exported to a f coun-
try within three years, shall be entitled to return duties,
proper evidence of such merchandize having been landed
abroad to be furnished to the collector by the importer, 1
per centum of said duties to be retained by the Govern-
ment. _

~That
the Act entitled " An Act to provide for the pay-
ment of outstanding Treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to
regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other pur-
poses," approved March 2, 2861, be, and the same is here-
by, amended us follows, that is to say ; First, in section
six, article first, afrer the words " in cordials and," strike
out "liquors" and insert " liqueurs;" second, in the
same section, after the word " represent," insert
" Provided also, that no lower rate or amount
of duty shall be levied, collected and paid on brandy,
spirits, and all other spirituous beverages, than
that now fixed by law for the description of first
proof, but shall be increased in proportion for any
greater strength than the strength of first proof;"
third, section twelve, article first, after the words
" 18 cents," where they first occur, insert " or
less ;" fourth, section thirteen, article second, after the
word " manufacturer," insert " except hosiery;" fifth, in
the same section, article third, strik out " wool," wherever
it occurs, and insert in each
place, " worsted ;" sixth, in
section fourteen, article first, after the words " ten per
centum," insert " ad valorem ;" seventh, in section fifteen,
before the word " yarns," insert " hemp ;" in the same
section, after the word " sheetings," insert " of flax or
hehip ;" and strika oat " jute goods ;" and in lieu thereof
insert " jute yarns ;" eighth, in section twenty-two, strikeout the words" unwrought clay 3 dolts, per ton; ninth la

section nit:3l,2cm, strike out "compositions of or par..!
'-
not set, intended for use by jewellers ;" tenth, in wtiort
twenty-two, strike out "compositions of glass or paste when
set ; eleventh, in section twenty-three, article sheathing
metal, strike out " yard," and insert " fcot ;" in section
seven, clause filth, the words "on screws, washed or plated,
and al other screws of iron, or any other metal, shall be
stricken out, and the words "on screws, of any other metal
thaniron," shall be inserted.

BANKRUPTS.
William White, builder, Kentish-town, to surrender
Sept. 13, at three, and Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.

Benjamin Weston Wells, floor-cloth manufacturer,
Camberwell, Sept. 14, at eleven, and Oct. 11, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Matthew Dixon Robinson, grocer, Oldbury, Worcester-
shire, Sept. 13 and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.
John Essex, watch manufacturer, Coventry, Sept. 9 and
30, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
John Shatrock, farmer, Long Ashton, Somersersbire,
September 10 and October 8, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court.

Thomas Kibby, baker, Honiton, Devonshire, September
11 and October 9, at twelve, at the Exexter District Court.
Thomas Ferris, tailor, Ashburton, Sept. 11 and Oct. 9,
at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.

George Thorp, cloth manufacturer, Holmfirth, Sept. 10
and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Joseph Thickbroora, publisher, 13, Paternoster-row,
Sept. 9, at half-past one, and Oct. 9, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Mark Feltham, miller, West Winch, Norfolk, Sept. 12
and Oct. 10, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Hamlet Beardmore, joiner and builder, Burslem. Staf-
fordshire, Sept. 13 and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Birming.
ham District Court.

George Henry Hopkins, auctioneer, Belper, Derbyshire,
Sept. 12 and Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court.

James Sandiford, contractor, Accrington, Sept. 10 and
Oct. 9, at twelve,-at the Manchester District Court.
Thomas Robson Harrison and William Waters, iron-
mongers, Sunderland, Sept. 10 and Oct. 16, at half-past
eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Charles William Leete, furniture dealer, Liverpool, Sept.
9, at twelve, and Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court.

George Henry Ogden, toy dealer, Bangor, Carnarvon=
shire, Sept. 13 and 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court.
Elisha Spink, eating-house keeper, High-street, Whits.
chapel, Sept. 9, at twelve, and Oct. 9, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Everett, carpenter, late of Rainham, and now of
Green- hill Grove, Essex, Sept. 9, at one, and Oct. 9, at
half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
SCOTCH [BANKRUPTS.
John Sharp, smith, Stirling.
James Gibson, coach hirer, Airdrie.
David Stewart, grocer, Dumbarton.
Lewis Stewart, auctioneer, Glasgow.
George Stewart, cattle dealer, Fochabers, Elgin.j
David Tannahill, engineer, Glasgow.
AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

Computed from the Returns made in the week ending
Aug. 27, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : per cwt.
Muscovado, the produce of British America 22s 3d
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 30s 6d
Muscovado, the:produce of the East Indies.. 17s lld
Average price of the foregoing
.. 21s 104 d

COURSE OF EXCRANGE.•—THrs DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 Antwerp
Brussels — 25 65 25 70
Paris
El amturgh
Short. 25 40 25 47i
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 70 25 75
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 1191
Vienna
frieste
Petersburgh —32 k
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz - 481 48?,-
Leghorn — 25 821 25 871 Milan — 25 771 25 82i
Genoa — 25 771 25 821
Nraples
Palermo — 1171 1171
Lisbon
Mesiina — 117/ 118
52/
Oporto
521
Rio Janeiro —
• •
New York — .. • •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9
:Mexican Dollars
..
c'ilver in Bars (Standard) ~,
If 0 5 Of
south American Doubloons
.... 0 0 0