with fish; and also on steamers carrying passengers to and from Heligoland, Föhr, Norderney, such vessels, however, in case of entering inner harbours, to pay harbour dues in conformity with regulation of 8th December, 1843. Abolition of import duty on cotton, woollen and half woollen yarn, flax, and other articles inserted in paragraph 3 of the Customs Regulations, and in list of articles not liable to duty, annexed to that paragraph; on passenger's baggage if accompanied by owner, and not exceeding value of 100 marks banco, exclusive of wearing apparel; and on articles imported in parcels not exceeding the value of 20 marks banco. Goods will be allowed to remain in transit for a period of nine months, and the transit dues are reduced to Is. 8d. per cent. for the first three months, and to a like amount for a further similar period; the value of such goods, the prices of which are not quoted on 'Change, or otherwise notified, to be calculated according to cost price, with addition of freight and charges. Board of Trade, Whitehall, 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 Stockholm, reporting that the Swedish Government have issued a Proclamation, extending, during the present year, the free admission on the following articles imported into Sweden to the present year: Grain of all kinds, ground or unground. Rice or paddy. Potatoes and potato flour. Animals of every description. Pork and fish, salted, preserved, dried, or smoked, except anchovies, sardines, and tuncy. Tallow. The import duties during the next year upon the undermentioned articles to be as follows: Groats, unless made from corn, 1s. banco. Oils, not being classed as apothecaries' drugs, or otherwise specified, 6 R. T. Stearine, 1s. 4 R. T. Candles, tallow or palm, stearine or margarin, per Swedish lb., is. War-Department, Pall-Mall, 6th January, 1857. 6th Regiment of Dragoons, Lieutenant Henry Timson to be Captain, by purchase, vicePuxley, who retires. Dated 6th January, 1857. Captain Richard Henry Currie, from half-pay 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Timson, placed upon half-pay. Dated 6th January, 1857. Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hynde King, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice BrevetColonel S. Brownrigg, C.B., who exchanges. Dated 6th January, 1857. 5th Regiment of Foot, Ensign Edwin Fell Haig to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ross, pro moted by purchase to an Unattached Company. Dated 6th January, 1857. George Alexander Shegog, Gent., to be Ensign, ` by purchase, vice Haig. Dated 6th January, 1857. 24th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon Richard Wolseley, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clarke, appointed to the Staff. Dated 6th January, 1857. 27th Foot, Captain Herman Stapylton to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Durnford, deceased. Dated 9th October, 1856. Lieutenant John David Downing to be Captain, without purchase, vice Stapylton. Dated 9th October, 1856. Ensign Robert Lloyd to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Downing. Dated 9th October, 1856. Gentleman Cadet Laurence William Desborough, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lloyd. Dated 6th January, 1857. 32nd Foot, Lieutenant James Dugald Thomson to be Adjutant, vice Rudman, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Dated 6th November, 1856. 41st Foot, Major Henry W. Meredith, from halfpay, Unattached, to be Major, vice R. O. F. Steward, who exchanges. Dated 6th January, 1857. 43rd Foot, Assistant-Surgeon John Duffin from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon vice Croker, resigned. Dated 6th January, 1857. 44th Foot, Lieutenant George Lilly Mellish has been permitted to resign his Commission. Dated 6th January, 1857. 74th Foot, John Henry Tuke, Esq., Paymaster of Detachments on the Coast of Africa, to be Paymaster, vice Dunbar, deceased. Dated 6th January, 1857. 77th Foot, Lieutenant and Adjutant W. S. Le Feuvre has been permitted to resign his Commission. Dated 6th January, 1857. 81st Foot, Ensign Frederick Schlotel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Frank Browne, who retires. Dated 6th January, 1857. 87th Foot, Lieutenant Colmer Lynch to be Adjutant, vice Gibson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Dated 6th January, 1857. 2nd West India Regiment, Henry Albert Pratt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry John Barker, whose appointment on the 1st August, 1856, has been cancelled. Dated 6th January, 1857. Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Joseph Albert Denton, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hervey, promoted. Dated 6th January, 1857. HOSPITAL STAFF. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Jean Valleton De Boissiere to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. Dated 12th June, 1855. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Claudius Edward Le Febure, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Reid, resigned. Dated 30th July, 1855. Assistant-Surgeon Frederick Clarke, from the 24th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wolseley, appointed to the 24th Foot. Dated 6th January, 1857. Assistant Staff-Surgeon Charles Benjamin Mosse has been permitted to resign his Commission. Dated 6th January, 1857. UNATTACHED. Lieutenant Albert Ernest Ross, from the 5th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase. Dated 6th January, 1857. BREVET. Major-General Sir James Frederick Love, K.C.B., to have the temporary rank of LieutenantGeneral while in the command of a Division of the Army in Great Britain. Dated 6th January, 1857. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Going, retired fullpay, 1st Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Dated 6th January, 1857. MEMORANDUM. Captain Hugh Fergusson Kennedy, upon halfpay Unattached, has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to become a Settler in Canada. Dated 6th January, 1857. Admiralty, 3rd January, 1857. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Henry Way Commission signed by the Queen. Royal Perthshire Rifle Militia. Alexander Geddes, Gent., to be Quartermaster. Dated 20th December, 1856. |