polling place or polling places for the county, riding, parts, or division of the county within which such place or places is or are situate, to declare that any place or places mentioned in the said petition shall be a polling place or polling places for that county, riding, parts, or division; and that the justices of the peace for such county, riding, parts, or division, in quarter sessions or some special sessions assembled, as mentioned in the Act, passed in the third year of the reign of His said late Majesty, intituled "An Act to settle " and determine the divisions of counties and the "limits of cities and boroughs in England and "Wales, in so far as respects the election of "Members to serve in Parliament," shall, conformably to the said last-mentioned Act, divide such county, riding, parts, or division into convenient polling districts, and assign one of such districts to each polling place:

And whereas the justices of the peace for the southern division of the county of Derby, in quarter sessions assembled, at Derby, in the said county, on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, have presented a petition to Her Majesty in Council, representing that the number of polling places within the southern division of the said county is insufficient, and praying that the town of Matlock may be a polling place for the said division:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, having taken the said petition into consideration, doth, pursuant to the said first-mentioned Act, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, declare, order, and direct, that the said place named in the said petition, namely, the town of Matlock, shall be a polling place for the southern division of the county of Derby; and further, that the justices of the peace for the said county, assembled in quarter

sessions or some special sessions, as in the said Act secondly above mentioned is mentioned, shall, conformably to that Act, divide the said southern division into convenient polling districts, and assign one of such districts to each polling place. C. C. Greville.

Then follow three Orders in Council, dated the 7th day of March 1851, approving the represen→ tations made by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches

To unite and consolidate certain contiguous portions of the parishes of Winkfield, Old Windsor, and Sunninghill, all in the county of Berks, and diocese of Oxford, and to form the same into one consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes, for the consecrated church of St. Peter, situate at Cranbourne, in the said parish of Winkfield, to be called "The Consolidated Chapelry of Cranbourne," and vesting the right of presentation and appointment of incumbent or perpetual curate to serve the said church, in Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, and his successors, bishops of the said diocese of Oxford, for ever.

To unite and consolidate certain contiguous portions of the parishes of Fletching and Horsted Keynes, in the county of Sussex, and diocese of Chichester, to form one consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes, for the consecrated church of the Holy Trinity, situate at Dane Hill, in the said parish of Fletching, to be called "The Consolidated Chapelry of Dane Hill," and vesting the right of presentation and appointment of an incumbent or perpetual curate to serve the said church, in George Augustus Frederick Charles, Earl of Sheffield, his heirs and assigns, for ever. Assigning a particular district to the conse

crated church of Saint Bartholomew, situate at West Pinchbeck, in the parish of Pinchbeck, in the county and diocese of Lincoln, to be called "The District Chapelry of West Pinchbeck."

Foreign-Office, March 8, 1851.

It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received Despatches from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Guatemala, dated respectively the 5th of November and the 2nd of December last, inclosing two letters from Commander Hayes, of Her Majesty's ship "Champion," which had arrived off the coast of the State of Salvador by order of Rear-Admiral Hornby, Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in the Pacific, stating in the first, that he had placed an embargo on all traffic in the port of "The Union," and declaring in the second, the entire coast of Salvador to be in a state of blockade.

Foreign-Office, March 7, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Watson Bain as Consul in New Zealand for the King of the Hawiian Islands.

Downing-Street, March 11, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Barrow, Esq. to be Chief Clerk in the office of Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Island of Mauritius.

Whitehall, March 8, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Grigor Stewart to the church at Kinloch Likart or Kinloch Linchart, in the parish of Coutin, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and shire of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Duncan Simon Mackenzie, late Minister there, to the church and parish of Gairloch.

Whitehall, February 24, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John Grey, of Dilston, in the county of Northumberland, Esquire, and Thomas Scott, of Beal, in the said county, Esquire, Trustees and Guardians on behalf of George Darling, a Minor, Her Royal licence and authority that he the said George Darling may, in compliance with a clause contained in the last will and testament of his maternal great uncle, Matthew Culley, late of Fowberry Tower, in the said county of Northumberland, Esquire, deceased, take and henceforth use the surname of Culley, instead of that of Darling:

And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Whitehall, March 7, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend William Roby, of the Altons, Ashbyde-la-Zouch, in the county of Leicester, M.A. eldest son and heir of the Reverend John Roby, M.A. late Rector of Congestone, in the said county, deceased, Her royal licence and authority that he and his issue may, in compliance with a

clause contained in the last will and testament of his uncle, Thomas Roby-Burgin, late of Shardlow, in the county of Derby, Esq. deceased, take and henceforth use the surname of Burgin, in addition to and after that of Roby:

And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby.

Edward Sacheverel Chandos Pole, junr. Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 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 Holbeach, in the county of Lincoln, and to all others whom it may concern, dated the 28th day of February 1851, directing that the whole of the Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to prevent the holding of vestry or other meetings in churches, and for regulating the appointment of vestry clerks," shall forthwith be applied to and be put in force within the said parish; and that every person appointed to the office of vestry clerk in the said parish shall give a bond in the penal sum of one hundred pounds for the due and faithful performance of the duties of the office.

And a similar Order to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor and Vestrymen of the parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist, in the city of Westminster, and all others whom it may concern, dated the 5th day of March 1851, directing that so much of the Act