An Act to carry into effect a convention, between Her Majesty and the King of the French, concerning the fisheries in the seas between the British islands and France.

An Act for improving the law of evidence.

An Act for consolidating and amending several of the laws relating to attorneys and solicitors practising in England and Wales.

An Act to enable parties to sue out and prosecute writs of error, in certain cases, upon the proceedings on writs of mandamus.

An Act to enlarge the provisions of an Act for preventing frauds upon creditors by secret warrants of attorney to confess judgment.

An Act for regulating hackney and stage carriages in and near London.

An Act to amend the laws relating to the copyright of designs.

An Act to amend the law respecting the duties of coroners.

An Act for regulating theatres.

An Act to continue, until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and fortyfour, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, certain turnpike Acts.

An Act for establising an office for the benefit of coal whippers of the port of London; and for staying certain actions in respect of fitters' certificates.

An Act for the completion of a parochial church in the parish of Saint Michael's, in the city of Limerick, and for securing the nomination of a perpetual curate thereto.

An Act for extending to Scotland and Ireland, the power of the Lord High Chancellor to grant commissions to enable persons to take and receive affidavits, and for amending the law relating to commissions for the examination of witnesses.

An Act to amend and continue for two years, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the laws in Ireland relative to the registering of arms, and the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder, and ammunition.

An Act to make further provision in respect of grand jury presentments in counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland.

An Act for the more equal applotment of certain rates in the county of the city of Dublin and county of Dublin, respectively.

An Act to make better provision for the appointment of a deputy for the chairman of the sessions of the peace in the county of Dublin, and to provide for the taking of an oath by the said chairman or deputy; and to amend an Act, of the first year of Her present Majesty, to amend the law for the recovery of small debts by civil bill in Ireland.

An Act for the further regulation of the offices of Chief and Second Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.

An Act for maintaining the railway called the Belfast and Cavehill Railway, and for reviving and extending some of the powers of the Acts relating thereto.

An Act to incorporate the persons having claims upon the Lagan navigation in Ireland, and to provide for the future management and improvement of the said navigation.

An Act for the improvement of the burgh of Anderston, in the county of Lanark, for regulating the police thereof, and of certain lands adjacent; and for other purposes relating thereto.

An Act for making and maintaining a reser

voir at Deerhope or Fairliehope, on the river North Esk, in the counties of Edinburgh and Peebles; and for other purposes relating thereto.

An Act to enable the Glasgow Marine Insurance Company to sue and be sued, and for other purposes relating to the said Company.

An Act for more effectually repairing certain roads in the parishes of Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas, Deptford, and for making several new roads connected therewith, all in the counties of Surrey and Kent.

And three private Acts.

MEMORANDUM.

In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An "Act to repeal so much of two Acts, made in "the tenth and fifteenth years of the reign of "His present Majesty, as authorizes the Speaker "of the House of Commons to issue his warrants "to the Clerk of the Crown for making out "writs for the election of Members to serve in

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The Speaker of the said House of Commons has appointed the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart.; Thomas Greene, Esq.; William Ord, Esq.; Robert Palmer, Esq.; Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Esq.; Edward Strutt, Esq.; and Thomas William Bramston, Esq. being Members of the House of Commons, or any one or more of them, to issue warrants to the Clerk of the Crown in cases in the said Act specified.

Buckingham-Palace, August 23, 1843.

This day had audience of Her Majesty, the Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Bavaria, upon leave of absence, pro tempore; and the Chevalier Araujo Ribeiro, upon a special mission from the Emperor of Brazil, to deliver his credentials :

To which audiences they were introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies.

Foreign-Office, August 16, 1843.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Rice Crowe, Esq. late Her Majesty's Consul at Hammerfest, to be Her Majesty's Consul General in Norway.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint William Miller, Esq. to be Her Majesty's Consul General in the Sandwich Islands, the Friendly Islands, the Society Islands, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint William Mure, Esq. to be Her Majesty's Consul at New Orleans.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint James Baker, Esq. late Her Majesty's Consul at Riga, to be Her Majesty's Consul at Corunna.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Bunbury Clinton Wynyard, Esq. to be Her Majesty's Consul at Riga.

Whitehall, August 24, 1843.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Reid to the church and parish of Marytown, in the presbytery of Brechin and county of Forfar, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Andrew Fergusson, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend James M'Master to the church and parish of Barr, in the presbytery and county of Ayr, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Ebenezer Bradshaw Wallace, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend Alexander Moorhead Ferguson to the church and parish of Muckhart, in the presbytery of Auchterarder and county of Perth, vacant in consequence of the Reverend James Thomson, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend William Ritchie to the church and parish of Longforgan, in the presbytery of Dundee and county of Perth, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Robert J. Walker, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend George Arklay to the church and parish of Inverkeilor, in the presbytery of Arbroath and county of Forfar, vacant in consequence of the Reverend John Laird, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.