The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

FR0.31 THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGET.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, FEB. 1.
All peeresses wishing to be present on the occasion of
the opening of Parliament, on Tuesday, the 6th February,
will have places reserved for t,hem in the House of Lords,
if the announcement bn made-at the Lord Great Chamber-
lain's Office, before time o'clock, pp Monday, the 4th inst.,
and tickets, not transferable, or:the peeresses' bench will
be forwarded to them.
Peers' eldest sons w:11 have. tickets for the peers' eldest
sons' box forwarded to then 4 upon a written or personal
application at the Office.
No person, except those entitled to bo present in the
House of Lords, can be admitted without a ticket from the
Lord Great Chamberlait.
Tickets for the interior of the House of Lords will be ad-
mitted at the peers' entrance.
Tickets for the Royal Gallery at the Victoria Tower
entrance.
The doors will be opened at 12 o'clock.
W:LLOITGIIBY DB EMERY, G.C.

BY ORDER or THE LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN.
Regulations to be observed on such days as her Majesty
shall come publicly to tie House of Lords to open or
prorogue Parliament.
The front benches round the House of Lords to be re-
served for the Lords, the river bench, on the left of the
Throne, being the dukes' beach.
Peeresses, who have given due notice, to be shewn to
their places on the bench reserved for peeresses only.
The benches behind the peeresses' bench, on the left of
the Throne, to be reserved fen r.s' daughters.
cotch mud peers of Parliament,
ait'd ther-eklestuf pie' re, 'bri dtreot..l to the pcetrs
eldest sons' box below the bar.

The space below the bar to be kept cleat for the members
of the House of Commons.

No person whatsoever to be admitted at the peers'
entrance without a ticket from the Lord Great Chamber-
lain, except
Peers,
Peers' eldest sons,
Foreign Ministers and their Attaches,
Judges, and other assistants summoned by writ.
No person to be admitted at the Victoria Tower entrance
without a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain, except
the officials connected with the ceremony, or the procession,
who are to be directed to that entrance.
Servants attending the Lords with their robes, to be di-
rected to the Bishops' entrance Ind staircase.
Doors to be opened at 12 o'clo3k„
WILLOI MIRY DB ERESSY, G.C.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN, 24.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to !ppeint Charles Christopher
Baynes, Esq., one of her Majasty's Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Wi,e, resigned.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEZ 1.

The Right Hon. the Lord; 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 Consul at Rio de Janeiro, enclosing a copy of a
new Brazilian tariff and of tie Customs' regulations re •
lating to it, which can be inspeted at the office of the Board
of Trade, Whitehall.
An Imperial Brazilian dome' of the 3d November last,
promulgating the tariff, enacts that, until the end of the
financial year 1862-63, additional duties of five per cent.,
ad valorem, shall be levied oa all articles, with a few ex-
ceptions, imported into Brazil and cleared for consumption.
On the greater portion of the excepted articles additional
duties of two per cent., ad valorem, will be charged.
Certain specified articles, when imported into Abuquer-
que, will enjoy an abatement 1 20 per cent on the amount
of import and additional duties, until the end of the finan-
cial year 1865-66, after which date this privilege will be
gradually abolished.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

6th Lancashire or Ist Manchester Rifle Volunteer Corps
—William Hartshorn, Esq., b be Adjutant, from the 21st
of December, 1860.

3d Battahm Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers—Hugh
Kennedy, Esq., late Brevet-Major Royal Marine Light
Infantry, to be Adjutant, from the 10th of December, 1860.
2d Battalion of Devon Rifle Volunteers—Frederick Wil-
liam Lane to be Adjutant from the 17th December, 1860.