The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, APRIL 6.

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 t, the Argentine
Confederation, enclosing copy of the following decree re-
cently issued by the Argentine Government, explanatory
of a decree issued by that Government on the 19th July
last, and which appeared in the London Gazette of Oct. 6,
1856 :--

1. The capes to which the law of July 19th refers aro
those of Santa Math and San Antonio, at the entrance of
the River Plate.

2. The trade carried on by the Cordillera of the Andes
comes within Article 2 of• the Law, and will continuo to
pay simply the ordinary duty.
3. The said Article 2 of the Law does not forbid vessels
cominy, from outside the capes, bound for the ports of the
Confederation, to touch at the intermediate ports of the
River Plate.

4. The sail vessels can bring cargo for the ports of the
RiVerPlate and for othersof the Confederation, without the
fact of their doing so, or of the discharge of the part des-
tined for them, involving the merchandise directed to the
ports of the Confederation in the payment of differential
duties.

5. Also merchandise coming from outside the capes
which, having been directed to the posts of the River Plato,
has been sent on, either all or in part, to those of the Con-
federation without having been discharged or transhipped
in the former ports, will be considered as coming under
Article 2 of the Law.

6. As a general rule all merchandise introduced into
the Confederation in vessels which have touched at inter-
mediate ports inside the capes, shall be subject to the dif-
ferential duties, if the parties interested do not clearly
prove that they are included in Articles 3,4, or 5 of the
present decree.
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7. To facilitate the fulfilment of the preceding Article,
the Argentine Commercial Agent at Buenos Ayres, and
the Consul-General at Monte Video, shall he authorised,
in the cases mentioned in the said Articles 3,4, and 5, at
the request of the parties interested to deliver proper cer-
tificates, having previously taken all necessary steps fur
the full verification of the fact which they certify.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of
'tbe National that there was no surplus of actual
ravenne on the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland for the year ended to 31st
December, 1856,
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice that no sum will be
_applied by-
the,m on account of the Sinking. Fund, under the provi-
sions of the act 10 Geo. IV., cap. 27, between the Ist day
of April and the 30th day of June, 1857.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General.
National Debt Oflilee,i4th April, 1857.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 7.
Military Tiain—Colonel William M. S. M'Murdo, from
Director-General of the Land Transport Corps, to be
Colonel-Commandant.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry—William
Fermor Ramsay, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Lyon, retired.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own
Frederick George Whitehead, Esq., late Captain in the
42d Highlanders, to be Captain from the 20th day of
February last, vice Archibald James Campbell, resigned.