Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Monteath, of the Bengal Native Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Massey Wheeler, of the Bengal Native Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles M. Carmichael Smyth, of the Bengal Native Cavalry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Bentham Sandwith, of the Bombay Native Cavalry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Foster Stalker, of the Bombay Native Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Claud Martine Wade, of the Bengal Native Infantry.

Major George Thomson, of the Bengal Engineers. Major Eldred Pottinger, of the Bombay Artillery..

Downing-Street, December 19, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Ogle Carr, Esq. to be Second Puisne Judge of the Island of Ceylon.

Downing-Street, December 19, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Stark, Esq. to be Her Majesty's Advocate in the Island of Ceylon.

St. James's-Palace, December 19, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint John Nightingale, Esq. one of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Wood, retired.

Master of the Horse's-Office, the Queen's-Mews, Pimlico, December 21, 1839.

THE Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable George William Fox Lord Kinnaird to be Master of Her Majesty's Buck Hounds.

Downing-Street, December 23, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry V. Huntley, Esq. Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant Governor of Her Majesty's Settlements on the Gambia.

Whitehall, December 23, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Commander Charles Anstruther Barlow, of the Royal Navy, Her royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross, of the first class, of the National and Military Order of San Fernando, which the Queen Regent of Spain hath been pleased to confer upon him, in testin ony of Her Catholic Majesty's royal approbation of his services in the various actions which took place from the siege of

Bilbao, in June 1835, to the 4th of May 1837; and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto annexed; provided, nevertheless, that Her Majesty's said licence and permission doth not authorize the assumption of any stile, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms:

And also to command, that Her Majesty's said concession and especial mark of Her royal favour be registered, together with the relative documents, in Her Majesty's College of Arms.

Tithe Commission Office, London,
December 23, 1839,

The Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales have appointed Henry Pilkington, Esq. of Barnard's-inn, Barrister at Law, to be an Assistant Tithe Commissioner for especial purposes; and he has been duly sworn in before Chr. Fenwick, Esq. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, as required by the Act, passed in the 6th and 7th William the Fourth, c. 71, intituled "An Act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales."

FROM THE

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

LONDON GAZETTE of DECEMBER 27, 1839.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act for the further regulation of the Duties on Postage, until the 5th day of October 1840," power is given to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by warrant under their hands, to alter, fix, reduce, or remit all or any of the rates of British or Inland or other Postage payable by law on the transmission of Post Letters, and to subject such letters to rates of postage according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such warrant (without reference to the distance or number of miles the same may be conveyed), and to fix and limit the weight of letters to be sent by the Post; and, from time to time, by warrant as aforesaid, to alter or repeal any such altered or reduced rates, and make and establish any new or other rates in lieu thereof; and, from time to time, by warrant as aforesaid, to appoint at what time the rates which may be payable are to be paid, that is to say, whether on posting the letter or on the receipt thereof, or at either of those times, at the option of the sender; and, by the same Act, power is also given to the Lords of the Treasury, by

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warrant under their hands, to suspend, wholly or in part, any Parliamentary or official privilege of sending and receiving Letters by the Post free of postage, or any other franking privilege of any description whatsoever; provided, that all such warrants should be inserted in the London Gazetteten days, at least, before coming into operation, and should, within fourteen days after making the same, be laid before both Houses of Parliament (if then sitting), or otherwise, within fourteen days after Parliament should meet:

And whereas by a warrant, under the hands of three of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, dated the 22d day of November 1839, the said Lords Commissioners did, in exercise of the power or authority for such purpose vested in them by the said Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, fix and limit the scale of weight therein mentioned of letters to be transmitted through the General Post, and they subjected and charged such letters, on and after the 5th day of December then next and now instant, to the rates of postage therein mentioned, and they thereby made the several other orders and regulations respecting the conveyance of letters by the Post therein contained: and they thereby declared, that it should be lawful for the Lords Commissioners, for the time being, of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by warrant under their hands at any time thereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates thereby altered, or the regulations thereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what time the rates that might be payable were to be paid.

Now, we the undersigned (being three of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury), do, in exercise of the power or authority in us for

such