The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 25.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Gaetano Scior-
tino, 'Esq., to be Collector of Customs for the Island cf
Malta.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of September,
1857, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Coun-
cil. This day, upon a representation of the Right Hon .
the Lords of the Committee of C .nnc:l on Edna ttion, her
Majesty was pleased to appoint the Rev. Simon J. G.
Fraser, M. A.., of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Rev.
Henry Martyn Capel, B. A.., of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to be two of her Majesty's Assistant Inspectors of
Schools.

COPYRIGHT CONVENTION BET WEEN GREAT
BRITAIN AND SPAIN.

The Gazette contains a copy of a convention between her
Majesty and the Queen of Spain for the establishment f
international copyright. The treaty was signed at Ma-
drid on the 7th of July, and the ratifications exchanged on
the sth inst.

BOARD OF TRADE, WRITEFfALL, SEPT. 29.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations bave received,

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through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, ex-
tending to the 30th June, liSsti, the permission to impost
into Spain free of duty, wheat, flour, barley, maize, and
other grain used for the purposes of food.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 29.
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 Consul at Madrid, enclosing
a copy of a Spanish Royal Order, .fixing,
.as follows, the
duties up, n the importation int) Spain of pitch, tar, and
pine rosin :

Foreign flag
Nat flag. or by land.
reals c. reals. c.

Piteb, common, white, black, or red,
and pine rosin 6 50 14 50
Pitch for c:►ulkin:; ships, or tar (mine-
ral or vezetable)
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL•DEBT.

The Lords Commissioners of her 111,jesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commission ere for the It
of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10 G o. 4,
c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of thelJuitel
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 30th day of
June, 18W, amounted to the stun of three hundred and
eleven thousand one hundred and eleven pounds six shil-
lings and sovenpence;
Tue Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of seventy-seven
thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven pounds sixteen
shillings and sevenpenco, being one-fourth part of the said
surplus of three hundred an I eleven thousa❑d one Iv,-
dred and eleven pounds six shillings and seven pcnoe will
be applied, under the provisions of the said Act, between
the Ist of October, 1857, and the 31st day of December,
1857, to the following purposes, viz.' : --
To bo applied towards the 'Reduction of •
the National Debt £77,777 16 7
And Interest re3eivable on account of

Donations and Bequests, to be applied
to the purchase of Stock

£81,047 19 I

National Debt Office, Sept. 26, 1857.
A. Y. SPEAELMAN, Comptroller-General.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, SEPT. 29.

B REVET.- In cimsequence of the eminent services per-
formed by Colonel Henry Havelock, C. B. in command of
a division of her Majesty's Army engaged active opera-
tions in the Field in India, the Queen has been graciously
pleased to command that he be promoted to the rank of
Alajor-General in the Army, in conformity with the 10th
clause of the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 184,
and that his Commission shall bear date the 30;h of July,
1857.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS
sth Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant Henry
William Sole to be Captain, vice•Brearey, resigned.; Thos.
Mills Beaumont, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Bridges, super-
seded; Henry BAguy, Esq., Adjutant, to serve with the
rank of Capt :in.
Gth Regiment of West York Militia—George Goodwin
Norris, Gent., to be Ensign.
2,1 West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—
The Venerable Charles Musgrave, D.D., .Archdeacon of
Craven, to be Chaplain ; Joshua Thomas Horton, Gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Rayner, resigned.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Duncan Tylden Chis-
holm, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brai,lley promoted; Alfra I
Sinclair Leathatn, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Castle, pro,.
motel • Ensign Jahn Mink Bridges to be Lieutenant,
vice Lowell, promoted.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Adinir dty, Somerset-house, Sept. 28, 1857.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distil-
button of proceeds arising from the Russian brig Greta,
captured en the lat August, 1835, by her Majesty's ship
Berraeouta, will commence on Monday, the 19th October,
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 ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire 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 i 3 to be 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 :
Flag share
Commander 223 410 Seventh class ... 10 8 2
Third class
Fourth class
Fifth class ...... .. 17 6 101 Tenth clais
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED
James Gardiner, cloth manufacturer. York.
Henry Lancaster, ironmaster,
BANKRUPTS.
James Francis Hookham, licensed victualler, Eyre.
street-hill, Leather-lane, Holborn, to surrender Oct. 8, at
eleven, and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Colea an-street-buildings;
Sidney, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Emanuel Passmore, licensed victualler, King-street,
West Smithfield, Oct. 12, and Nov. 10, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official aseignee, Sam-
brook-court ; Marshall, Redcross-square, Cripplegate.
William Glover, innkeeper, Liverpool, Oct. 12 and Nov.
2, at eleven, at the Liver 00l District Court. Merger),
official assignee, Liverpool Evans and Son, Live. pool.
John Hall, tentmaker, Dudley, Worcestershire, Oct. 15,
and 30, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Cour. Christie, official assiLnee, Birmingham ; Coldieott
and Canning, Dudley; Smith, Birmingham.
Benjamin Will mutt, Gabriel, cotton spinner, Stockport,
Oct. 13 and Nov. 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Cooper and
Sons, Manchester.
Charles Hall, poulterer, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
Oct. 13, at two, and Nov. 10, at half-past two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. E ]wards, official assignee, Sam-
brook-court ; King, King-street, Cheapside.
Joseph Harrison, corn chandler, Epsom, Oct. 10 and
Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed-
wards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ; Jacinet, New-
inn.
Frederick Robert Paul B tecke, g'ldetaith and jeweller,
Oxford-street, Oct. 12 and Nov. 10 at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official gueignee, Aldermanbury ;
Chidley, Basinghall-street.
William Freeman, bookseller, Fleet-street, Oct. 9, at
one, and Nov. I', at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Besieghall-street ;
Spicer, Staple-inn.
Richard Batley, timber merchant, Gifford-street, Cale-
donian-road, Oct. 9, at half-past eleven, end Nov. 12, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 8,11. official assignee,
Coleman-street.buildings ; Parker, Rooks, and Parker,
Bedford-row.

• SCOTCH SEQUESTRITIONS.
James Elder, baker, Tarbert, Argyleshire.
Thomas Wilson, grocer, West-p,rt, Dundee.
Henry Cowa;), flax merchant, Ureengairs,
Herriot, Brothers, bat and cap manufacturers, Glasgow.
Samuel Adams, merchant, Arbuthnott.
John Hay, grocer and weaving agent, Perth.

BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention
of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our
Paper headed A Fact for Pby.iologists," in which the
Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send
free to all applicants the Botanic Thinedy for Indigestion,
Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by
Proffssor Web-tor, 'of Philadelphia.
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