The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH IG.

This day had audience of her Majesty;
Senor Don Luis Gonzalez Bravo, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Queen of Spain to
deliver his credentials :
To which audience he was introduced by the Right
Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and con-
ducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward
Cust, K. C. H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Melia( 14.
Th• Queen has been pleased to appoint Dr. Robert
Ferguson to be Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ernest
Suffert as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, for his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Brazil.
Tho Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Toribio Lambarri as Consul at Hong Kong for the Repub-
lic of Chile.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINI 17.
The Right Honourable 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 Minister at Madrid,
transmitting copy of a Spanish Royal Order annulling the
provisions of the Royal Order of the 26th January and 7th
February last, permitting the free importation into Spain
of foreign rice, which will henceforth be charged at the
rate of duty laid down in the existing tariff.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 17.
BREVET.—Major-General the Hon. Thomas Ashburn-
ham, C. 8., to have the local and temporary rank of Lieu-
tenant-General, while employed upon a particular service.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of the Marquis of
Ailesbury, appointed one of her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp
for the service of her Yeomanry Force, are George Wil-
liam Frederick, and not Charles Bruce, as stated in the
Gazette of the 13th inst.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN*.
Galloway Rifle Regiment of Militia—John Underwood
Gent., to be Quartermaster.
West 6'uffolk Regiment of Militia--Williana Hall, Gent.,
to be Quartermaster.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—S.
Cap-
tain and Adjutant East York Militia, to be Adjutant, vice
Whitehead, who has resigned. F. Jacson, late

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Simon Fitzherbert
Jacson, Adjutant, to serve with the rank of Captain.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—William
Waring Gwillim, Gent., to bo Ensign, vice Roberts, ap-
pointed to the Royal Regiment.
Fifeshire Militia Artillery—Brinsley de Courcy Nixon,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.

[This article is substituted for that which appeared in the
Gazette of 20th January last.]
Warwickshire Militia-2d Regiment—Ensign Matthew
William Furness to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant A.
Keir Lowndes, deceased.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 4.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Hope Mit-
chell, of Tarporley, in the county palatine of Chester, Gen-
tleman, to be a Commissioner to administer oaths in the
High Court of Chancery in England.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 11.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick William
Tweed, of Horncastlo, in the county of Lincoln, Gentle.
man, to be a Commissioner to administer oaths in the High
Court of Chancery in England.
WHITEHALL, Xsitar! 10.
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The Right Honourable Sir Alexander Edmund Cock-
burn, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of
Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Charles
Burton Daveney, of the city of Norwich, Gentleman, to be
ono of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds to bo executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recove-
ries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of as-
surance, in and for the city of Norwich and county of the
same city, also in and for the county of Norfolk.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Acconntant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, March 16, 1857.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian sloop Emma
Helena, captured on the 15th May, 1855, and the proceeds
arising from a quantity of grain taken out of six Russian
launches, by her Majesty's ship Basilisk, will commence
on Thursday, the 2d April, 1857, in the Prize Branch of
the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of
any captor, serving in the above•named ship, are re-
quested to present the same a'.; this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desit e to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or
Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to
intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prize Busi-
ness, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in which
letter his own place of residence is to bo precisely stated,
as well as the place of the nearest Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be convenient
to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in
each class :

EMMA HELENA.
Flag share
Commander 2 5 8 Seventh class ... 0 2 1
Third class
Fourth class
0 6 2 I Ninth class
Fifth class 0 3 6 I Tenth class

RIISSIA.N
Flag share
Commander 3 7 5
Third class
Fourth class 0 9 3
Fifth class 0 5 2

.HUNCHES.

Sixth class £o 4 8
Seventh class 0 3 2
Eighth class 0 1 6
Ninth class
Tenth class