the Headships of Colleges in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as may enable the respective colleges, if they shall think fit, to sell, or themselves to purchase, the advowsons of such benefices, and to invest the proceeds in proper securities, with provisions for the payment of the interest and annual profits thereof, to the respective heads of colleges for the time being; and that, upon the completion of the said arrangements, respectively, the existing incumbents of such benefices, respectively, shall be at liberty, upon resigning the same, to receive the interest and annual profits of the proceeds arising from such sales, respectively;" and whereas by an Act, passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An "Act for confirming the annexation of the Rectory "of Elingham, in the county of Norfolk, to the "Mastership of Magdalene College, in the Univer"sity of Cambridge," the said rectory of Elingham, in the county of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich, was annexed to the Mastership of Magdalene College, in the University of Cambridge, and is now held by the present Master thereof, the Honourable and Reverend George Neville Grenville, according to the provisions of the same Act, and it is expedient that the said rectory should be disposed of, according to the provisions of the said first recited Act:

"We, therefore, recommend and propose, with the consent of the Master and Fellows of the said College, testified by their having sealed this scheme with their common seal, and also with the consent of the Right Honourable Richard Griffin Lord Braybrooke, as Visitor of the said College, and of the said George Neville Grenville, testified by their having respectively signed and sealed this scheme, that the advowson of, and perpetual

right of presentation to, the said rectory of Elingham shall be severed and disannexed from the said Mastership; and that the said advowson and right of presentation, together with all endowments, rights, privileges, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, may and shall be sold and conveyed to such person or persons, or body corporate, in such manner, and subject to such conditions, and for such price or sum of money, as shall be determined upon and approved by us; but not for a less price or sum of money than shall be approved by the Visitor and Master of the said College for the time being; and that, upon the completion of such sale, the said George Neville Grenville, or his successor, Master of the said College, shall be at liberty to resign the said rectory of Elingham, and, upon the said rectory becoming vacant, the said Master, and his successors in the said Mastership, shall thenceforth become entitled to receive the interest and annual profits of the proceeds arising from such sale:

"And we further recommend and propose, that the moneys arising from such sale shall be paid to us, and shall be invested in such manner as shall be approved by us, with the consent of the said Visitor and Master, or their successors, for the benefit of the Master of the said College for the time being:

"And we further recommend and propose, that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing other measures relating to the matters to which this scheme applies, in conformity with the provisions of the said Act."

And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Majesty in Council; now, therefore, Her

Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to order and direct that the same and every part thereof shall be effectual in law immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been published in the London Gazette, pursuant to the said Act; and Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct, that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrars of the dioceses of Norwich and of Ely respectively.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

Buckingham-Palace, February 24, 1843.

This day the Baron de Hügel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Wurtemberg, had audience of Her Majesty, upon his return to this Court after a temporary absence:

To which he was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies.

Whitehall, February 28, 1843.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Duke of Montrose to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Stirling, in the room of George Lord Abercromby, deceased.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 3,
1843.

Foreign-Office, March 2, 1843.

A DISPATCH has been received from the Honourable John D. Bligh, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Hanover, reporting, that the Marriage between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Hanover and Her Serene Highness the Princess Mary of Saxe Altenburg was celebrated in the Chapel of the Palace at Hanover, at seven o'clock, on the evening of the 18th of February last.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 24th day of February 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fiftyninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act to carry "into effect a Convention of Commerce concluded "between His Majesty and the United States of "America, and a Treaty with the Prince Regent "of Portugal," divers provisions were made respecting the duties payable, and the bounties and

allowances to be granted, upon the importation and exportation of goods, wares, and merchandize into or from the United Kingdom, in vessels of the United States, and in Portuguese vessels; and also respecting the duties and charges payable upon vessels of the United States, and upon Portuguese vessels; and likewise respecting the repayment of certain corporations, bodies politic and corporate, and sundry other persons, of the amount of the sums of money of which they would be deprived by means of the Act now in recital:

And whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An "Act to amend the laws of the Customs," after reciting as herein before is recited, and also that, subsequently to the enactment of the herein before recited Act, Her Majesty and Her royal predecessors had made and concluded, with divers foreign powers, treaties containing provisions similar to those recited in the said recited Act; and that doubts had arisen whether, according to the true construction thereof, the said recited Act did apply and extend to the trade and shipping of such other foreign powers; and that it was expedient that such doubts should be removed, it is thereby enacted and declared, that, from and after the ratification of any treaty theretofore made by Her Majesty or any of Her royal predecessors, subsequently to the enactment of the said recited Act, or of any treaty which might thereafter be made by Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, with any such foreign power, in which treaty had been or should be contained provisions similar to those contained in the said recited Act, all and every the provisions, clauses, matters, and things in the said recited Act contained, did and should apply and extend to the trade and shipping