And we direct, that the several rates last aforesaid shall be payable, whether the sea conveyance be by packet boat or private ship.

And we further direct, that the PostmasterGeneral may cause the postage on any such printed newspapers, printed prices current, commercial lists, and printed courses of exchange, as are hereinbefore made liable to any rate of postage (if posted in the United Kingdom or any of the British colonies), to be paid on the same being put into the post office.

And we further direct, that printed periodical publications (not being strictly newspapers, and not bearing British newspaper stamps), and printed Parliamentary proceedings (but not including the proceedings of any colonial legislatures, or periodical works published in the colonies, or French publications, addressed to foreign countries or any of Her Majesty's colonies), may be sent by the post between any part of the United Kingdom and any part of France or Algeria, according to the regulations and rates hereinafter mentioned (that is to say):

For every such publication or Parliamentary proceeding, not exceeding two ounces in weight, one penny each.

Above two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces, six pence each.

Above three ounces, and not exceeding four ounces, eight pence each.

And for every additional ounce in weight above the weight of four ounces. up to, but not exceeding, sixteen ounces, there shall be charged and paid an additional rate of two pence.

And every fraction of such additional ounce shall be charged as a full ounce.

And we direct, that no such printed periodical publications, or printed Parliamentary proceedings

as aforesaid, as shall exceed sixteen ounces in weight, shall be forwarded by the post, and that the rates last aforesaid shall be payable whether the sea conveyance be by packet boat or private ship.

And we further direct, that the PostmasterGeneral may cause the postage on any such printed periodical publications and Parliamentary proceedings (if posted in the United Kingdom) to be paid on the same being put into the post office.

And we further direct, that all such printed newspapers, prices current, commercial lists, courses of exchange, periodical publications, and Parliamentary proceedings, as shall be sent by the post under this warrant, shall be forwarded under, and subject to, all such conditions, regulations, restrictions, examinations, and penalties, as by the said recited Act are directed, in respect of printed newspapers and proceedings in Parliament sent by the post.

And we further direct, that nothing contained in this warrant shall be deemed or construed to annul, prejudice, or affect any of the exemptions and privileges granted in the said recited Act, or by an Act made and passed in the first year of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the management of the Post Office;" and that all such exemptions and privileges shall remain in full force.

And we further direct, that the term "by the post," whenever used in this warrant, shall, as to the sea conveyance, include the conveyance by packet boat or private ship, British as well as Foreign, except where the contrary is expressed; and that the terms and expressions used in this warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all other respects as they would have had if inserted in the said recited Act. H h

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And we further direct, that this warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of June 1843.

Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, for the time being, of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time hereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable are to be paid.

Whitehall, Treasury-chambers, the 9th day of May 1843.

JOHN YOUNG.

ALEXR. PRINGLE.

J. MILNES GASKELL.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 23,
1843.

Whitehall, May 23, 1843.

AN Address to the Queen from the General Assemby of the Church of Scotland, acknowledging, with profound respect, Her Majesty's most gracious Letter, together with the royal donation of two thousand pounds, having been transmitted by the Marquess of Bute, Her Majesty's Commissioner, to the Right Honourable Sir James Robert

George Graham, Bart. one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has been by him presented to the Queen; which Address Her Majesty was pleased to receive very graciously.

Buckingham-Palace, May 18, 1843.

LIST of Addresses of congratulation, transmitted for presentation to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the occasion of the Birth of a Princess, and presented to His Royal Highness by the Right Honourable the Marquess of Exeter: From the Noblemen, Deputy Lieutenants, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace of the county of Kincardine; the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the county of Stirling; the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the city of Edinburgh; the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the city of Aberdeen; the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Banff, in Scotland; the Principal and Professors of the University of Edinburgh; the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Kingston-uponThames, Surrey; and the Commissioners of Margate, for themselves and the other Inhabitants.

Whitehall, May 23, 1843.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Commander George-Thomas Gordon, of the Royal Navy, Her royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross of the National and Military Order of San Fernando, which Her Catholic Majesty Maria-Christina, late Queen Regent of Spain, was pleased to confer upon him, in testimony of Her Catholic Majesty's approbation of that Officer's services in the various actions which took place from the siege of Bilbao, in June 1835, to the 4th of May 1837; and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto annexed; provided, nevertheless, that Her Majesty's said licence and permission doth not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms:

And also to command, that Her Majesty's said concession and especial mark of Her royal favour be registered, together with the relative documents, in Her Majesty's College of Arms.

March 6, 1843.

The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Francis Harding Gell, of Lewes, in the county of Sussex, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgements of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Sussex.