condition of other classes of my subjects will have a favourable effect in diminishing those difficulties, and promoting the interests of agriculture.

The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles conferred by a foreign power has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them of my resolution to maintain the rights of my crown, and the independence of the nation, against all encroachment, from whatever quarter it may proceed. I have at the same time expressed my earnest desire and firm determination, under God's blessing, to maintain unimpaired the religious liberty which is so justly prized by the people of this country.

It will be for you to consider the measure which will be laid before you on this subject.

The administration of justice in the several departments of law and equity will, no doubt, receive the serious attention of Parliament; and I feel confident that the measures which may be submitted to you with a view of improving that administration will be discussed with that mature deliberation which important changes in the highest courts of judicature in the kingdom imperatively demand.

A measure will be laid before you providing for the establishment of a system of registration of deeds and instruments relating to the transfer of property. This measure is the result of inquiries which I have caused to be made into the practicability of adopting a system of registration calculated to give security to titles, to diminish the causes of litigation to which they have hitherto been liable, and to reduce the cost of transfers.

To combine the progress of improvement with

the stability of our institutions will, I am confident, be your constant care. We may esteem ourselves fortunate that we can pursue without disturbance the course of calm and peaceable amelioration; and we have every cause to be thankful to Almighty God for the measure of tranquillity and happiness which has been vouchsafed to us.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 3rd day of February 1851,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the first year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend an "Act for the regulation of Municipal Corporations "in England and Wales," it is amongst other things enacted, that if the inhabitant householders of any town or borough in England or Wales shall petition Her Majesty to grant to them a charter of incorporation, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by any such charter, if she shall think fit, by the advice of Her Privy Council, to grant the same, to extend to the inhabitants of any such town or borough within the district to be set forth in such charter, all the powers and provisions of the Act of the fifth and sixth of William the Fourth, cap. 76, for regulating corporations, whether such town or borough be or be not a corporate town or borough, or be or be not named in either of the schedules to the said Act: Provided, nevertheless, that notice of every such petition, and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by Her Privy Council, shall be pub

lished in the London Gazette one month at least before such petition shall be so considered:

And whereas the inhabitant householders of the borough of Blackburne, in the county of Lancaster, have presented a petition to Her Majesty in Council, praying that a charter of incorporation may be granted to the said borough, Her Majesty was this day pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said petition be taken into consideration by a committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Monday, the tenth day of March next.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

Then follow two Orders in Council, dated the 3rd day of February 1851, approving the representation duly prepared by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches

That a particular district should be assigned to the consecrated church of Saint Barnabas, situate in Guildford-road, in the district parish of St. Mark, Kennington, in the county of Surrey, and should be named "The District Chapelry of St. Barnabas, South Kennington."

And also that a particular district should be assigned to the consecrated church of St. Paul, situate at Hasland, in the parish of Chesterfield, and county of Derby, and should be named "The District Chapelry of Hasland."

Buckingham-Palace, February 3, 1851.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon James William Morrison, Esq. late Deputy Master and Worker of the Queen's Mint.

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Buckingham-Palace, February 3, 1851.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Alexander Bannerman, Esq. Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward's Island.

Buckingham-Palace, February 3, 1851.

This day had audience of Her Majesty :

Señor Don José de Marcoleta, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Nicaragua, to deliver his credentials;

To which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel the Honourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H. Master of the Ceremonies.

St. James's-Palace, February 7, 1851. [The following notice should have appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, July 3, 1849.]

St. James's-Palace, July 2, 1849.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable and Reverend Charles Leslie Courtenay to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

Downing-Street, February 7, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Musgrave, Esq. to be First Puisne Judge and Sydney Smith Bell, Esq. to be Second Puisne Judge, of the Supreme Court of the Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope.

War-Office, 7th February 1851.

4th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Robert Sutherland, from 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Mallet, who exchanges. Dated 7th February 1851.

9th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Hugh Mallet, from 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, who exchanges. Dated 7th February 1851.

4th Regiment of Foot, Ensign James Barton, from 65th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harris, dismissed the Service by the sentence of a General Court Martial.

7th February 1851.

Dated

21st Foot, Lieutenant James Vaughan Arthure, from the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Shawe, promoted to Captain, Unattached. Dated 7th February 1851.

23rd Foot, Major-General George

Charles D'Aguilar, C. B. from 58th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, Bart. and G.C.B. deceased. Dated 31st January 1851.

32nd Foot, Lieutenant William Rudman to be Adjutant, vice Garforth, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Dated 13th December 1850. 54th Foot, Ensign Thomas Blakiston Houston, from 67th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Goddard, appointed to 98th Foot. Dated 7th February 1851.

56th Foot, Major William Austin, from half-pay 42nd Foot, to be Major (repaying the difference), vice John Wegg, who exchanges. Dated 7th February 1851.

Captain Soulden Oakeley to be Major, by pur