It has been, and ever will be, my earnest desire to administer the Government of that country in a spirit of strict justice and impartiality, and to co-operate with Parliament in effecting such amendments of existing laws as may tend to improve the social condition and to develope the natural resources of Ireland.

From a sincere conviction that the legislative union is not less essential to the attainment of these objects than to the strength and stability of the empire, it is my firm determination, with your support, and under the blessing of Divine Providence, to maintain inviolate that great bond of connection between the two countries.

I have forborne from requiring any additional powers for the counteraction of designs hostile to the concord and welfare of my dominions, as well from my unwillingness to distrust the efficacy of the ordinary law, as from my reliance on the good sense and patriotism of my people, and on the solemn declarations of Parliament in support of the legislative union.

I feel assured that those of my faithful subjects who have influence and authority in Ireland will discourage to the utmost of their power a system of pernicious agitation, which disturbs the industry and retards the improvement of that country, and excites feelings of mutual distrust and animosity between different classes of my people.

Then the Lord Chancellor, by her Majesty's command, said:

My Lords, and Gentlemen,

It is Her Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday the nineteenth day of October, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the nineteenth day of October next.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 23d day of August 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order of His late Majesty King George the Fourth in Council, bearing date the sixteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, His said Majesty, with the advice of His Privy Council, did declare and grant, that it should be lawful for French ships to import into the British possessions on the western coast of Africa, and into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and into the island of Ceylon, and into His Majesty's settlements in the island of New Holland, and into the island of Van Dieman's Land, and into the several islands and territories dependent upon and belonging to the several settlements or colonies aforesaid, from the dominions of His Most Christian Majesty, such goods being the produce of those dominions as are mentioned and enumerated in an Order in Council, bearing date the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and which is recited in the Order now in recital; and by the said Order now in recital, His said late Majesty, by the advice of His Privy Council, was pleased to declare and grant, that it should and might be lawful for ships of or belonging to any kingdom or state within the limits of the East India Company's charter, to import from the dominions to which they respectively belong, goods, the produce of such dominions, into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and into the island of Ceylon, and into the island of Mauritius, and into

His Majesty's settlements in the island of New Holland, and in the island of Van Dieman's Land, and into the several islands and territories dependent upon and belonging to the several settlements or colonies aforesaid, and to export goods from such several settlements or colonies, or their respective dependencies, to be carried into any foreign country whatever :

And whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the trade "of British possessions abroad," and which is hereinafter referred to as, the "British Possessions "Act," after reciting that, by the law of navigation, foreign ships are permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad, from the countries to which they belong, goods, the produce of those countries, and to export goods from such possessions, to be carried into any foreign country whatever; and that it is expedient that such permission should be subject to certain conditions, it is enacted, that the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to ships of those countries, which, having colonial possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships, or which, not having colonial possessions, shall place the commerce and navigation of the country and of its possessions abroad upon the footing of the most favoured nation, unless His Majesty, by His Order in Council, shall, in any case, deem it expedient to grant the whole or any part of such privileges to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country:

And whereas, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, Her Majesty, having acquired

the sovereignty of a great portion of the islands of New Zealand, was pleased to place the same under the Government of New South Wales:

And whereas, on the twentieth November one thousand eight hundred and forty, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the power in Her vested by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the second and third years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to continue, until the thirty"first of December one thousand eight hundred " and forty-one, and to the end of the then next "session of Parliament, and to extend the pro"visions of an Act to provide for the administra"tion of justice in New South Wales and Van "Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual go"vernment thereof, and for other purposes relating "thereto," was pleased, by letters patent under the great seal of the United Kingdom, to erect the islands of New Zealand into a distinct and separate colony :

And whereas inasmuch as the colony of New Zealand is not expressly mentioned in the said recited Order in Council of the fifteenth July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and is not dependent or belonging to any of the settlements or colonies in the said Order and hereinbefore mentioned, doubts are entertained whether the privileges granted to French ships and to ships of India, by the said recited Order, extend to the colony of New Zealand; and Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth accordingly deem it expedient to make such Order as hereinafter is expressed :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in Her vested by the said " British Possessions Act," doth declare and grant, that French ships, and ships of

or belonging to any kingdom or state within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, shall have such and the like privileges of trading with the said colony of New Zealand as such ships are respectively entitled to under authority of the said recited Order, with reference to the colonies, settlements, and islands named and described on the said recited Order as hereinbefore is mentioned:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. Greville.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 23d day of August 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the laws for the regulation of "the trade of the British possessions abroad," it was enacted, that there should be raised, levied, collected, and paid to Her Majesty the several duties of customs, as the same are respectively set forth in figures in the table of duties thereinafter contained, upon goods, wares, and merchandize, not being the growth, production, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any of the British possessions in America, or of the Mauritius, or of any of the British possessions within the limits of the East India Company's charter, or the produce of any of the British fisheries imported or brought