The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 1.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Thorley King, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Moscow.

WHITEHALL, ISIARmi 23.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, unto the Right Eon. Chas. S. Lefevre, late Speaker
of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Vis-
count. Eversley, f Heckfield, in the county of South-
ampton.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 21.
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 Ambassador at Paris, trans-
mitting copies of two French Imperial Decrees, the first
mating oil of ground nuts free of duty into French ports
as a natural production of Algeria, and the second fixing
the inllowing import duties upon the " undermentioned
articles :
Ginger—Same duties as medicinal roots not specified.
Madder—Roots, dry, in French ships, Bf.; in foreign
ships, 10f.• ground or cut, 20f. per 100 kilos.
Palm, docoa Nut, Illepe an i Touloucouna Oils, if im-
ported in French ships from foreign settlements in the East
Indies, 2f. 50c. per 100 kilos.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 24.
The Lords Coinmissioners of Privy Council for Trade
and Foreign Plantations hereby give notice that, by virtue
of a Treaty concluded on the 14th inst., between Great
Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Hanover, Mecklenburgh
Schwerin, Oldenburgh, the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia,
Sweden and Norway, and the Hanse Towns,/on the one
part, and Denmark on the other part, Denmark has en-
gaged To open the Sound and to discontinue the levying of
the Sound Dues, from and after the first of April next.
Until,lowever, certain engagements of the Treaty to-
wants Denmark shall have ben fulfilled by the contract-
ing parties, it has been agreed that the Danish Govern-
ment shall have the right to maintain a provisional state of
things in the Sound, by taking from vessels passing
through, security for payment of the dues intended to be
abolished, such security to be cancelled and discharged as
soon as the country, by whose vessels it has been given,
shall-haveTulfilled the said engagements.
The owners and masters of British vessels are therefore
apprised that although actual payment of the Sound dues
will not be required, yet until further notice it will be
necessary for them to give security for the amount of such
dues. This may be done by the master sending his papers
either on shore or to the guard ship, accompanied by a
signed declaration, undertaking in case of the nonfulfilment
of the engagements aforesaid, to pay the amount of dues
with which, according to his papers, he may be chargeable
for the vessel and cargo.
The particular attention of masters and owners is re-
quested to this notice, in order that they may not incur
inconvenience or loss by neglecting the required formali-
ties.

Notice is also hereby given, that from and after the Ist
of April the Danish transit duties on all the roads and
canals which connect the North Sea and the Elbe with
the Balttc will be reduced to the uniform rate of 16 skil-
lingo, Danish currency, per 5001bs. Danish, the exemptions
which now exist on some of those roads or canals, in favour
of certain enumerated articles of home or foreign produc-
tion, being extended to all of them.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Rifle Regiment of Icing's Own Staffordshir.e Militia—
Walter Mainwaring Coyney, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Banks Wright, appointed to 1 ith Light Dragoons.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieut. John
Sherlock to be Captain, vice Lawson, resigned.
[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 17th March.]
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—William
Waring Gwillim, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Townsend, ap-
pointed to the Royal Regiment.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

Henry Newman Kettle, grocer, Godalming, Surrey.
William Attewell Wane, grocer, Highworth, Wilts.
BANKRUPTS.
Frank Rennison, merchant, Milk-street, Cheapside, to
surrender April 7, at two, and May 5, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Moss,
Moorgate-street, City.
Edward Clark Lone, oil and drug merchant, Cullum=
street, City, April 2, at two, and May 8, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; King and George, King-street, Cheapside.
Richard England, manufacturer, Wilsden, Bradford,
April 21 and Miy 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Weatherhead and
Barr, Keighley ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
William Popham Davis and James Davis, slate mer-
chants, Cardiff, April 6 and May 5, at eleven, at the Bris-
tol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ;
Lovibond, Bridgewater; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
Robert Collens, hop merchant, High Holborn, April 3,
at half-past two, and April 23, at twelve, at the Court .of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ;
King and George, King:street, Cheapside.
Samuel Atack, builder, Leeds, April 3, and May 1, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official as,
signee, Leeds; Dibb, Atkinson' and Piper, Leeds.
Tilden, Christmas, coal-merchant, Chatham, March 13,
at-half-past eleven, and April 30, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Vasinghall-street ;
Selby, Coleman-street.
Thomas Atkinson, woollen manufacturer, Brearley;
Yorkshire, April 3 and May 1, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ' • Hoiroyde,
Son, and Cronbelm, Leeds; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Edward Gray Brocklehurst, hose manufacturer, Liver-
pool, April 3, and 21 at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Tyrer, Li-
verpool.
George Davy Richardson, ironfounder, Carlisle, March
31, at eleven, and May 8, at twelve, at the Newcastle-
npon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Wright, Carlisle ; Gray, Armstrong,
and Mounsey, Staples-inn, London ; Hoyle, Newcastle-
upon:Tyne. -

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Butler, Nephew, and Co., London and Oporto; as far
as regards C. and A. Butler.—R. and R. Butler and Co..
Loam), merchants; as far as regards C. Butler.—Reed
and Fuller, Clapham, drapers.—Kevan and Higgins, Liver-
pool, letterpress printers.—W. Lakin and W. J. Ridley,
Birmingham, straw bonnet tracufacturers.—Roberts and
Yates,
.Birstal, Yorkshire, manufacturing chen.ists ; as
far as, regards J: Yates.—J. Sharp, W. Farrar, and D.
Moss; -Ossett, Yorkshire, rag grinders.—W. and G. Ste-
venson, Mansfield Wood-house, Nottinghamshire, joiners.
—T. Gibbs and J. Annaball, Canterbury, horsedealers.—
King and Hurman, Bridgewater, surgeons.—Hill and
Bain, Golden-lane, packing case. makers.—R. Bevan, J.
Smith, and R. Tomkinson, Liverpool, salt merchants ; as
far as regards R. Tomkinson.—J. G. Lyle and Co., Char-
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, upholsterers. Holds wot th
and Co„ Halifax, wire drawers ; as fari as regards G
Holdsworth.—E. Riley and S. Yates, Foulridge, Lanca-
shire, or elsewhere, mordant makers— J. and W. Pope,
Folkestone, bailders.—R. and W. E. Davis, Chepstow,
drapers.—J. Godwin and E. Barclay, Park-place, Chelsea,
paperhanging manufacturers.—W., T. and H. Duckworth,
West Smithfield, cattle salesmen.—J. Williams and Co.,
Kinver, Staffordshire, ironworkers ; as far as regards the
executors of the will of J. Warden.—The Moderator Boat
Company, Newport, Monmouthshire, carriers. —W.
Ewington and J. M. Pollard, Ipswich, solicitors.—Potter
and Smith, Middlesborough, Yorkshire, builders.—Lan-
caiter, Cookney, and Co., Portland Iron Works, Ayrshire,
coal mastsrr.—Porteons, Turnbull, and Co., Musselburgh,
hair cloth manufacturers. .
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.

13. Brett, St. George's-street, Ratcliff-highway, and
High-street, Poplar, boot manufacturer—first div. of 34d.,
any Wednesday, at Mr. Whitmore's, Basinghall-street.
H. Herick, Epsom, licensed victualler—first div. of
ls. 5i d., any Wednesday, at Mr. Whitmore's, Basinghall-
street. '

E. and S. Benson Mansfield-street, Portland-place,
hotel keepers—second div. of 5d., any Thursday, at Mr.
Stanfield's, Basinghall-street.

J. S: T‘'veen, Ware IWestmill, Hertfordshire, miller—
first div. of 3d., any Thursday, at Mr. Stanfeld's, Basing-
halt-street.

S. Barnes, Oldham, machine maker—first dir. of 4s. 6id.,
any Tuesday, at Mr. Hernaman's, Manchester.
W. Clayton, Langcliffe, W. Clayton, Lostock, and W.
Wilson, Preston, bankers—sixth div. of sid. ; further div.
of lid. on the separate estate of W. Clayton; first div. of
203. on the separate estate of W. Wilson, any Tuesday, at
Mr. Hernaman's, Manchester.
G. Barton, Manchester, copper roller manufacturer—
first div. of is. 9id., on Tuesday, the 7th of April, or any
subsequent Tuesday, at Mr. Fraser's, Manchester.
B. Holmes and C. J. M. Lewis, Birmingham ' boot-
makers—first div. of Os. ; first div. of 30. on the se-
parate estate of B. Holmes, any Friday, at Mr. Whitmore's,
Birmingham. •

J. Clay; South Shields, ale merchant—first div. of 81,
any Saturday, at Mr. Baker's, Nowcastle-upon-Tyne.

DIVIDENDS.
April 16, 1. Unwin, Poland-street, Oxford-street, buil-
der—April 23, E. Pollack, Fieldgate-street, sugar refiner
April 15, J. Seddon, Liverpool, marble mason—S. C. Fox,
Liverpool, wine merchant.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
April 17, W. Edwards, High-street, Wapping, alo mer-
chant—April 16, E. Fairhead, Creasing, Essex, cattle
dealer—April 15, C. Humphrey, Baker-stroet, Portman-
square, bookseller--April 23, J. Arlis3, Plymouth, currier
—April 17, J. Lall, Liverpool, contractor—April 16, P.
Porter, Liverpool, cotton broker—C• H. Clayton, Liver-
pool, hosier—April 20, J. Fell, Liverpool, wholesale tea
dealer--April 16, J. Venables, A. Mann, and H. Graaett,
Burslem, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturers.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. and R. Dun, tinplate w'orkers, Glasgow.
John Barr, engineer, Glasgow.
Thomas Simpson, baker, Grangemouth

The post office carriage which left Paris for Calais on
Friday night, ou the Northern Railway, caught fire by
eothe accident and waa burnt. The mails
were saved,
and no injury we Sp3talued by
.tho clerks, r

LOSS'OF THE SHIP LORD GEORGE BEN-
TINCK-ITORRIBLE SUFFEREN GS OF
THE SURVIVORS.

By the arrival of her Majesty's corvette Electra
at Portsmouth, from the Falkland Islands, we learn
of the lamentable toss of the Bri ish ship Lord
George Bentinck, Captain Irving, outward bound
to San Francisco, from Shields, which foundered
on the 22d of last November, in lat. 41 S , long. 04.
W., her master, two seamen, and the steward, _
perishing in the sinking ship. The survivors, 16
in number, who escaped in the boat, endured the
most frightful sufferings before they were rescued.
The:r account of the loss of the ship is as follows :
—About two o'clock on the morning of the catas-
trophe it was blowing a heavy gale of wind, in the
c aurae of which the ship made heavy lists. Mr.
Whiteman, the second mate, who had charge of
the watch on decir, having some misgivings, went
below, and aroused the captain, and give him to
understand that it was very black weather, and
looked worse to windward. Mr. Whiteman took
in sail, but suddenly finding the ship was sinking
fast, endeavoured to cut away the masts, but in
consequence of the carpenter's tools being under
water, they could not accomplish this. •Mr. Wil-
liams, the first mate, and Mr. Whiteman, with
fourteen of the crew, took to the boat, and were
ordered by Captain Lying to go round the stern ;
but the plug being out of the boat, and baying vo
oars, they could not obey his orders, and the boat
drifted away from the ship. It was about halt
past two o'clock when this occurred, and in about
three or four minutes afterwards they saw the ship,
f 'under, and those on board going down in her..
By means of the midship thwart they managed to
keep the boat before the wind, and continued that:
course until the 24th, when the weather mode-
rated. By means of the bottom boards of the:
boat, they constructed small paddles, and made
for the north-west, considering they were making
the ne :rest land, which, as near as they could gueFel
bore distant 400 miles, steering by stars by
and the sun by day. On the third day fell in with
a part of the poop of the ship, and found a piece of
lead piping about five inches long, which was shared
in .16 parts for their mutual support. They ala°
found a piece of pork, about four inches square,
and immediately turned their attention to contriv-
ing a fishing-line and hook, which they formed out
of a few spun yarns and a small copper nail. 1
failed, however; several birds neared the bait, but
they did not touch it. On the fifth day they were
all too much exhausted to paddle. They endea-
voured to make sail with their oilskin coats, still
keeping watch and watch, and baling and steering
continually. The first mate resigned himself to
.
the care of his companions, feelitag, himself dying,
as he supposed, from the effects of drinking a Vat!:
tity of silt water, and fearing that he m;ght
overboard. On the sixth day it was proposed that
lots should be d. awn to sacrifice one of their num-
ber in order to save the rest, which was stronglY,
objected to by Mr. Williams, who still entertained
hopes for the morrow ; which hopes were realised
in the appearance of a vessel beariig down 111)1211
them on the morning of the seventh day, havil
descried their signals of distress, an old red flannel
shirt, attached to a paddle. The vessel proved t°
be the brig Cuba, of London, Capt. Gray, who ler,
mediately rescued them from their perilous sitnai
don, and whose kindness and generosity, they fee
anxious to acknowledge, from the prompt attention
received at his band, in providing them with Neu
and clothing, and dressing their wounds. Owing
to the smallness of the vessel the supply of water
and provisions was limited. Capt. Gray bore opi
and put them on shore at Stanley Harbour,
land Islands, where they were received by the Beg:,
lisp governor, who attended to their wants,' and
eventually provided them with a passage to Engla°or -on board her Majesty's ship Electra. The n'o
of those who perished in the sinking ship were
Capt. Irving, David Seivenwright, steward; Jobe
Myers and Abel Smith, seamen.