hereby declare that the offenders to the contrary shall not only incur Her Majesty's just displeasure, but be proceeded against for such their contempt and offences according to the utmost severity of law.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

This Gazette also contains two Orders in Council, dated the 3rd day of February 1851, approving the schemes prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England

For constituting four separate districts for spiritual purposes out of the parishes of Leeds and Hunslet, in the county of York, and in the diocese of Ripon, to be respectively named "The District of Burmantofts," "The District of Pottery Field," "The District of New Wortley," and "The District of Brewery Field," describing the boundaries of each of the said districts, and assigning in perpetuity the patronage and right of nomination of the minister or perpetual curate of the said district or new parish of Burmantofts to the trustees of a certain fund bequeathed by Mrs. Jane Mathewman, of Harrogate, in the county of York, Widow, lately deceased, to be applied towards promoting in the borough of Leeds Divine worship, according to the Liturgy and usages of the United Church of England and Ireland.

For augmenting the income of the Archdeaconry of Worcester, and for abolishing peculiar and exempt jurisdictions in the diocese of Wor

cester.

Also three Orders in Council, dated the 7th day of December 1850, directing, in conformity to the report of the General Board of Health, that

the Public Health Act, 1848, except the section numbered 50 in the copies printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force throughout the following places:

The township of Altrincham, in the parish of Lowdon, in the county of Chester;

The township of Broughton, in the county of Lancaster;

The township of Rushholme, in the county palatine of Lancaster;

That each of such places shall be and constitute a district for the purposes of the Public Health Act; that Local Boards of Health shall be elected therein; and containing such further directions and regulations for the election of such Local Boards as are applicable to each of the said districts.

Foreign-Office, February 15, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Meinhard Robinow as Consul at Glasgow for the Free Hanseatic City of Lubeck.

Downing-Street, February 18, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lemuel Allan Wilmot, Esq. to be a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of New Brunswick, and John Ambrose Street, Esq. to be Her Majesty's Attorney-General for that Province.

Crown-Office.

MEMBERS returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.

February 15th 1851.

Borough of Pontefract.

The Honourable Beilby Richard Lawley, of Escrick-park, in the county of York, in the room of Sir Samuel Martin, Knt. who has accepted the office of one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer.

February 17th.

Burghs of Linlithgow, Lanark, Falkirk, Airdrie, and Hamilton.

James Baird, Esq. in the room of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham Pelham Clinton, commonly called Earl of Lincoln, now Duke of Newcastle, summoned to the Upper House of Parliament.

February 18th.

County of Nottingham,

Southern Division.

William Hodgson Barrow, Esq. in the room of Robert Bromley, Esq. deceased.

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.

Edmund Blayds to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel
James Brown, resigned. Dated 8th February

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

Southern Regiment of Notts Yeomanry Cavalry. Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, Esq. commonly called Viscount Newark, to be Captain, vice Robert Bromley, Esq. deceased.

James Thomas Wightman, Gent. (now Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars), to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain.

Sherwood Rangers.

Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon, Esq. to be Captain, vice Lord William Pelham Clinton, deceased.

Charles Thorold, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Jonathan Alderson, Gent. deceased. George Gordon, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Charles Thorold, Gent. deceased.

Exchequer Bills.

Office of Her Majesty's Paymaster-General,
Whitehall, February 17, 1851.

The Exchequer Bills, dated in the month of June 1849,

(per Act 12 Victoria, cap. 20, £17,786,700, anno 1849,)

with the interest due thereon, will be paid off on the 13th March 1851, when the interest will cease.

Such bills will be received at this office daily, from half past ten till three o'clock, until the 6th day of March 1851, inclusive.

Printed forms, containing instructions for the preparation of the lists, and the arrangement of the bills, may be obtained on application at this Office.

The bearers must endorse each bill with their

usual signatures, and they must insert their names and addresses in each list; and where the names of holders are inserted in the bills, the indorsements of such holders must also be obtained previously to their lists and bills being left for examination.

New bills, bearing interest at the rate of one penny halfpenny by the day, upon every one hundred pounds, and dated the said 13th day of March 1851, may be obtained in payment of the principal of the whole, or part, of the Exchequer Bills issued under the Act above mentioned, on the claimants specifying, in their lists, the amount of new bills required by them.

The new bills, together with the interest on the bills left, on or before the said 6th day of March, for exchange, will be issued on the 14th day of March 1851; the bearers must attend at this Office to sign receipts for the payment of principal and interest.

Payment, in money, may be obtained at this Office for any of the said Exchequer Bills, previously to the said 13th day of March 1851, upon the claimants leaving the bills for examination one day prior to that on which such payment is desired.

N.B.-All Exchequer Bills, dated prior to March 1850, have been previously advertised to be paid off.

Naval Department, Board of Trade,
February 1, 1851.

Notice is hereby given, that the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have, in order to give time for providing Medicines and Medicaments according to the new scale issued by them under the 64th section of the Mercantile Marine Act, and published in the London Gazette