Board of Trade, Whitehall, January 16, 1854. 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 Brussels, enclosing copies of two Laws which have received the Royal sanction, of which the subjoined are translations: the first authorizing the Government to regulate temporarily the Import Duties on Coal, with a Decree, consequent thereon, suppressing those duties; and the second regulating the terms of importation and exportation of certain Articles of Food. LAW authorizing the Government to regulate temporarily the Import Duties on Coal. Art. I. The Government is authorized to reduce, to suspend entirely, and to reimpose the import duties on coal. Art. II. The powers conferred by the preceding Article shall cease on 31st December, 1854, unless previously renewed; and, in case of non-renewal, the General Tariff shall come again into force at that date. Art. III. The measures taken to carry out the present Law shall be submitted within one month after their date to the approval of the Chambers, if sitting, and if not sitting, in the course of their next session. Given at Laeken, 31st December, 1853. By the King. The Minister of State, Governor of Brabant, temporarily in charge of the Department of Finances, LIEDTS. DECREE suppressing the Import Duties on Coals, founded upon the above Law. Considering the Law of this day's date (see above), authorising the Government to reduce, to suspend entirely, and to reimpose the import duties on coal: On the proposition of our Minister of Finance, Sole Article. Until further orders, the import duties on coal are abolished. Our Minister of Finance is charged with the execution of the present Decree. Given at Laeken 31st December, 1853. LEOPOLD. By the King. The Minister of State, LIEDTS. (Copy.) Art. I. The provisions of the Royal Decree of 28th August, 1853, are approved. The following articles are admitted duty free until 31st July, 1854 : Wheat, Spelt (cleaned and uncleaned), Meslin, Rye, Indian Corn, Barley, Malt, Buckwheat, Oats, Peas, Lentils, Kidney Beans, Horse Beans, Vetches, Groats, Pearl Barley, Flour and Meal of all kinds, Bran, Starch (fécules), Bread, Biscuit, Macaroni, Semolina, Vermicelli, Gingerbread, Rice, Smoked Hams, Bulls, Oxen, Cows, Steers, Heifers, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, Pigs. The following articles may also be imported free until 31st December, 1854: Bacon, and all kinds of meat not enumerated in the Tariff. The provisions of paragraph 2 are applicable to every vessel, Belgian or foreign, whose clearance papers shall prove that her cargo of grain, or other provisions comprised in the above paragraph, was completed, and that she sailed from a foreign port, before 31st July, 1854. Art. II. The provisions of the Royal Decree of 13th October, 1853, are approved. The exportation of the following articles is prohibited until 31st July, 1854 :— Potatoes and potato starch, Lentils, Peas, Beans (kidney). Art. III. If circumstances permit, the Government has power, before the 31st July, 1854, to rescind Art. II. Art. IV. The present law shall come into operation on the day after its publication. Given at Laeken, 31st December, 1853. LEOPOLD. By the King. Minister of the Interior. The Minister of State, Governor of LIEDTS. Admiralty, 12th January, 1854. The following promotions have this day taken place consequent on the decease, on the 11th instant, of Rear-Admiral of the Red Thomas Gordon Falcon : Rear-Admiral of the White William Bowen Captain Right Honourable Charles Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, to be Rear-Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay List. Captain Henry Ducie Chads, C.B., to be RearAdmiral of the Blue. The following Captains, on the Retired List, have also been promoted to be Retired RearAdmirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of 1st September, 1846, without increase of pay: Captain John Skekel. Captain George Ourry Lempriere. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia. George Freeman Thomas, Gent., to be Ensign. Dated 31st December, 1853. Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia. James Hayes Sadler, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 5th January, 1854. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 4th Regiment of Royal Lancashire (Light Infantry) Militia. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 20, 1854. Whitehall, January 18, 1854. THE Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Right Honourable Joseph Napier; Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Knt., Her Majesty's Attorney-General; Sir Richard Bethell, Knt., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General; Thomas Emerson Headlam, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel; Vincent Scully, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel; Robert Lowe, Esq., Barrister-atLaw; William David Lewis, Esq., Barrister-atLaw; Henry Drummond, Esq.; John Evelyn Denison, Esq.; Robert Wilson, Esq.; and William Strickland Cookson, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for considering the subject of the registration of title with reference to the sale and transfer of land. 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 Chargé d'Affaires at Lima, enclosing a translation of a Decree of the Peruvian Government, by which vessels, laden with Guano at the Chincha Islands, are no longer compelled to touch at Callao, of which the following is a Copy: |