Crown-Office, April 14, 1851.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Aylesbury.

Richard Bethell, Esquire, in the room of Frederic Calvert, Esq. whose election has been declared void.

War-Office, 15th April 1851.

37th Regiment of Foot, Major-General William Smelt, C.B. from the 62nd Foot, to be Colonel, vice General the Honourable Sir Alexander Duff, deceased. Dated 11th April 1851. 50th Foot, Major-General William Francis Bentinck Loftus to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, K.C.B. deceased. Dated 11th April 1851.

62nd Foot, Major-General Thomas Lightfoot, C.B. to be Colonel, vice Major-General William Smelt, C.B. appointed to the 37th Foot. Dated 11th April 1851.

77th Foot, Major-General George Brown, C.B. to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, C.B. deceased. Dated 11th April

1851.

COMMISSARIAT.

To be Deputy Assistant Commissaries-General. Commissariat Clerk Edward Wellington Bell. Dated 28th November 1849.

Commissariat Clerk Alexander William Turner. Dated 19th January 1850.

Office of Ordnance, 14th April 1851.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Captain William Wallace D'Arley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hennis, retired on full-pay. Dated 4th April 1851.

Second Captain John Russel Domvile to be Captain, vice D'Arley. Dated 4th April 1851. First Lieutenant Charles George Arbuthnot to be Second Captain, vice Domvile. Dated 4th April 1851.

Second Lieutenant William Smyth Maynard Wolfe to be First Lieutenant, vice Arbuthnot. Dated 4th April 1851.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln.

Royal North Lincoln Militia.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Tomline to be Colonel, vice Viscount Alford, deceased. Dated 29th March 1851.

The Honourable Charles Henry Egerton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Tomline, promoted. Dated 29th March 1851.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
West Riding of the County of York, and of the
City and County of the City of York.

Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of West Riding
Yeomanry Cavalry.

Charles Marmaduke Middleton to be Cornet, vice
Blayds, promoted. Dated 9th April 1851.

Whitehall, April 9, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John Maude, of Moor-House, near Wakefield, in the county of York, Esquire, in the Commission of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for the said county, Her royal licence and authority that John Rycroft, a Minor, may take and henceforth use the surname of Maude, instead of that of Rycroft: 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.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of APRIL 18,
1851.

AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 14th day of April 1851,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the pay"ment of salaries and allowances to British "Consuls at Foreign Ports, and the disbursements "at such ports for certain publick purposes," it is amongst other things enacted "that it shall and "may be lawful for all Consuls-General and "Consuls appointed by His Majesty, and resident "within the dominions of any Sovereign or any

"Foreign State or Power in amity with His "Majesty to accept, take, and receive the several "fees particularly mentioned in the tables to this "said Act annexed, for and in respect or on account of the several matters and things and "official acts and deeds particularly mentioned in "the said schedules; and that it shall and may be "lawful for His Majesty, by any order or orders "to be by him made, by and with the advice of "His Privy Council, from time to time, as "occasion may require, to increase or diminish or wholly to abolish all or any of the fees aforesaid, "and to establish and authorize the payment of any greater or smaller or new or additional fees or fee, for or in respect of the several matters and things mentioned in the said schedules or any of “them, or for or in respect of any other matters or things or matter or thing to be by any such "Consul-General or Consul done or performed in "the execution of such his office;"

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And whereas such Consuls-General and Consuls have under the provisions of the said Act levied fees on certificates as to the shipment and discharge and desertion of British seamen at Foreign Ports;

And whereas it is expedient to alter the said fees; now therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, and in execution of the powers in Her Majesty in Council in that behalf vested, it is hereby ordered by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, that whenever a British Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul shall be called upon by masters of merchant ships to give his sanction in writing as to the shipment or discharge of seamen, or his certificate as to the desertion of seamen, it shall be lawful for such ConsulGeneral, Consul, or Vice-Consul to demand, recover, and receive from all masters or other

chief officers or commanders of any ship or vessel belonging to any of Her Majesty's subjects the sum of two shillings for each seaman whose shipment or discharge shall have been so sanctioned, or whose desertion shall have been so certified; and that it shall not be lawful for such ConsulGeneral, Consul, or Vice-Consul to levy a larger fee for this service.

And the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 14th day of April 1851,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the seventh and eighth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act for amending an Act passed in the "fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty, "intituled An Act for the better administration "❝of justice in His Majesty's Privy Council, and "to extend its jurisdiction and powers," it was amongst other things provided that it should be competent for Her Majesty, by an Order or Orders, to be from time to time for that purpose made, with the advice of Her Privy Council, to provide for the admission of any appeal or appeals to Her Majesty in Council from any judgments, sentences, decrees, or orders of any Court of justice within any British colony or possession abroad, although such Court shall not be a Court of errors or a Court of appeal within such colony or posses