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

WHITEHALL, Nov. 5,

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Henry Went-
worth 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 Tanis has abandoned the Government
monopoly of the Oil Presses in that country, and that the
export duty upon oil has been Axed 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. G.
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 Chargé 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. G.
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 milimetres, or more.
Square bars measuring 22 milimetres or more on each
few,.

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 in 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-going vessels, whether sailing or steam, on payment of
10 per cent. on the value, is prolonged until the 17th
October, 1858.
DECREE No. 2.—The undermentioned articles will be
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-named 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, &c., under the provisions of this decree are 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 a period not exceeding six
months, the articles manufactured from metals admitted
under the present decree, no deduction for difference of
weight being sllowed.

In none of above cases will metals be permitted to be
imported, or the articles manufactured from them to be
exported, otherwise than through the established entra-
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, accordingly as
they may be despatched by land or by sea.