moted to an Unattached Company. Dated 7th March 1851.

Cape Mounted Riflemen, Ensign George Lloyd Studdert to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lavers, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851.

UNATTACHED.

Lieutenant the Honourable Edward Sidney Plunkett, from the 95th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. Dated 7th March 1851. Lieutenant Archibald Rutherford, from the 76th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. Dated 7th March 1851.

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Abbott, C.B. late of Bengal Engineers, (Lieutenant-Governor of the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe,) to have the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army while so employed. Dated 7th March 1851.

MEMORANDUM.

The Commission of Lieutenant William West Turner, as Adjutant of the 15th Foot, has been ante-dated to the 26th August 1850.

Office of Ordnance, 5th March 1851.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Second Captain John Farnaby Cator to be Captain, vice Low, retired on full-pay. Dated 22nd February 1851.

First Lieutenant John Fraser Lodington Baddeley to be Second Captain, vice Cator. Dated 22nd February 1851.

Second Lieutenant Herbert Mark Garrett Purvis to be First Lieutenant, vice Baddeley. 22nd February 1851.

Admiralty, 4th March 1851.

Corps of Royal Marines.

Dated

Gentleman Cadet John Blackwood Colwell to be Second Lieutenant.

ERRATA.

The Commissions of Captain R. S. Searle and First Lieutenant E. D. Thelwall are dated 28th February, instead of 3rd March, 1851.

This Gazette also contains an Order from the Poor Law Board, to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Epping, in the county of Essex, and to all others whom it may concern, dated the 25th day of February 1851, directing that the Act of Parliament of the 13th and 14th Victoria, cap. 57, sect. 7, and intituled "An Act to prevent the holding of vestry and other meetings in churches, and for regulating the appointment of vestry clerks," shall, so far as relates to the appointment of a vestry clerk, be applied to and be put in force within the said parish of Epping.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 11,

1851.

Buckingham-Palace, March 7, 1851.

THIS day the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the city of Dublin, waited upon Her Majesty to present the following Address; which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to

receive on the Throne:

To the QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble, loyal, and dutiful Address of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin.

May it please your Majesty,

WE, your Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects, representatives of the citizens of Dublin in Corporate Council, having learned with alarm that it is the intention of your Majesty's Ministers to submit to Parliament a measure for the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant, approach your Majesty to implore, at the foot of the Throne, that your Majesty will be pleased to avert from us a measure, destructive of the property of the inhabitants of your loyal city of Dublin, and prejudicial to the interests of the entire country.

We feel that the abolition of the office would lead to the rapid decay and ruin of property

created under its influence, but there are other grounds on which we object to this measure.

The Vice-Regal office is coeval with and continuous from the introduction of the English Monarchy into Ireland, as evidenced for centuries by the appointments of successive Chief Governors of Ireland by your Royal predecessors, and to our days by your Most Gracious Majesty, so that the office of a resident Chief Governor of Ireland forms part of the constitution under which we live.

We prize the institution of the office of Lord Lieutenant because it has been the connecting link between the Crown and the people of Ireland. Under it have the arts and sciences been fostered, civilization has progressed, and social improvements been advanced; moreover, the representative of Majesty once removed, no guarantee would then remain as to the judicious exercise of the executive authority in Ireland. The advantage of a residence among and personal communion with our people would be lost, while that wholesome public opinion which has been found so useful in a free country would be weakened and destroyed. Reiterating our unabated loyal and devoted attachment to your Majesty's Throne and Government,

We implore of your Majesty not to permit an interference with your Majesty's prerogative in the constitutional appointment of a Viceroy, or allow that office to be abolished in the reign of a sovereign who has ever manifested a deep interest for the welfare of Ireland, and the existence of which has been respected and continued by your Majesty's Royal predecessors, but rather let us indulge the hope that at some future period you may be graciously pleased to appoint one of the Royal Princes as your representative in Ireland, and

thus unite more closely with your Royal family a people devotedly attached to your Majesty's Throne.

William Ford, Town Clerk.

To which Address Her Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious Answer:

"I receive with much gratification your expressions of loyal and devoted attachment to my Throne and Government.

"I gladly assure you of my warm and unabated interest in all that concerns the happiness and prosperity of my people in Ireland, and you may rely upon my giving full consideration to their wishes and feelings on a subject deeply involving the welfare of that part of the United Kingdom.”

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 7th day of March 1851,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for rendering more easy the taking the "poll at county elections," it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, from time to time, on petition from the justices of any county, riding, parts, or division in England or Wales, in quarter sessions assembled, representing, that the number of polling places for such county, riding, parts, or division is insufficient, and praying that the place or places mentioned in the said petition may be a