The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

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

DACREE No. I.L.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
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 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, incept those
which are obviously manufactured from round bar iron.
Wrought iron, except such is of mere than 2 millimetres
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 ♦aloe, is prolonged until the 17th
October, 1858. _ _

Dueniz 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 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 entrc-
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 eiJher
under the general transit regulations, or under Articles 61
and 62 of the Law of the 21st April, 1818, accordingly 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
Hogge Allen, deceased ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Johß Graham Smith has been permitted to retire from
the service by the sale of his Commission.
Ist Dragoon Guards.—Constantine McDougall Moorsom,
Gent., to be 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 Redman, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase.
lst Dragoons.— Cornet Edward Francis Weaver, from the
7th Dragoon Guards, to be. Cornet, vice Tucker, ap-
pointed to the 17th Light Dragoons.
3d 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 Carps, to be Lieutenant, vice
MlLoughlin, 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.
Scots Fusilier Guards —Ensign and Lieutenant Sussex V.
Stephenson to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lien-
tenant and Captain Honourable Roger Mostyn, who has
resigned that appointment ; the appointment of Acting
Quartermaster William Smith to be Qtartermaster, vice
Jones, resigned, to be dated sth September, 1856, and
not 16th October, 1857, as previously stated.
4th Regiment of Foot—Ensign C. R. Darrant, 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 August, 1857, instead of 4th September,
1857, but such antedate is not. to carry back pay.
7th Foot—CaptaintoWLlliam Vivash Maakelyne, from half-
pay 20th Foot, Cirtairr, vice Brevet-Major Hib-
bert, whose Brevet has been converted into Sub-
stantive Rank, ander th
Octo-
ber, 1854 ; Lieutenant the Royal Warrant of 6th Octo-
the 84th Foot, t 'no Ca t • lam
M'Geachy Keats, from
mnvithout purchase; Ensign
Joseph Smith, from 4 Military Train, to be Ensign
and Adjutant.
Bth Foot—Serjeant-Major Edward Emer
purchasr) Tea the 96th
Foot, to be Ensign, without
eyajT.liiitldeirtant
The transfer of Ensign Thomas Stanley
the 89th Foot, as notified in the Occzette of the 23d O'rcotrlO-
ber, 1857, has been cancelled.
9th Foot—Lientenant Arthur F. Bingham Wright. to be
Adjutant ; Quartermaster James Parrott Axrowsmith,
from half-pay of the late 3d Rite Regiment, British
Italian Legion, to be Quartermaster.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Halahan to be Captain,
-rice Greensill, deceased ; Ensign
without purchase,
without pureb.a.3,
John Johnstone to be Lieutamant,

vice Ilalinan

Foot—Assistant29tli Surgeon
fro►n tho Stuff to E) Assist

mu Langford 'Farmer,
rj001:1, vice McGregor,

-promoted oo t... , --
33d Foot— Christopher Rawes Dun__ , _
sign, by Pn•rchaee, vice Coxon, promoted.
37th Foot—Servant-Major William Hodskinsou to bo
Ensign, Without purchase, vice Groeme, promoted ;
Assistant-Surgeon
_ , William Samuel Chapman,
staff, to be Awilista t_S vice —1 ing promoted
o urgeon, ./4 OD* , from the
en the Staff.
The promotion of the under-mentioned officers in sac-
elialiOa to Lieutenant; Bageuall and Birkett, k lied in

to be Eu