Crown-Office, August 8, 1851.

The name of the Peer of Scotland chosen to represent the peerage of Scotland in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of James Andrew John Lawrence Charles, Viscount Strathallan, deceased:

Lord Colville, of Culross.

Westminster, August 7, 1851.

This day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorized by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seul, signed by Her Majesty, for declaring Her Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; and the Commons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to

An Act to provide for the better distribution, support, and management of medical charities in Ireland; and to amend an Act of the eleventh year of Her Majesty, to provide for the execution of the laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland.

An Act to continue certain temporary provi sions relating to the collection of grand jury cess in Ireland; and also to provide for the due annexation of an isolated district, formerly of the county of Dublin, to a barony of the county of Wicklow, 1851. 2 C

for the purposes of grand jury cess, and other purposes.

An Act to regulate certain proceedings in relation to the elections of representative peers for Scotland.

An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the twelfth year of King George the Third, relating to the making, keeping, and carriage of gunpowder, as exempts therefrom certain gunpowder magazines and stores near Liverpool, and to make certain temporary provisions with regard to the said magazines and stores.

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the erection and endowment of churches and chapels and perpetual curacies in Ireland.

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to ecclesiastical residences in Ireland.

An Act to repeal certain statutes relating to the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland.

An Act to amend an Act of the eleventh and twelfth years of Her Majesty, relating to poor rate poundage and the valuation of ecclesiastical property in Ireland; and to provide for the renewal of leases of lands disappropriated from bishoprics.

An Act for rebuilding the bridge over the River Ness at the town of Inverness, and improving the approaches thereto; and for amending the Acts relating to Highland roads and bridges.

An Act to continue an Act of the twelfth year of Her present Majesty, to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals.

An Act to alter certain duties of Customs, and to enable the Treasury to regulate the mode of keeping the account between the Receiver General of Customs and the Bank of England.

An Act to repeal the Act for constituting Commissioners of Railways.

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the regulation of steam navigation, and to the boats and lights to be carried by sea-going vessels.

An Act for the settlement of the boundaries between the provinces of Canada and New Brunswick.

An Act to amend and continue the Metropolitan Sewers Act.

An Act to amend the Church Building Acts.

An Act for confirming a certain provisional order of the General Board of Health for applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to the borough of Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk.

An Act to extinguish the right of the Crown to deer in the New Forest, and to give compensation in lieu thereof; and for other purposes relating to the said forest.

An Act to improve the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery, and in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

An Act to define and amend the mineral customs of certain parts of the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, part of the possessions of Her Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster; to make provision for the better administration of justice in the Barmote Courts therein; and to improve the practice and proceedings of the said Courts.

An Act for amending the several Acts for the regulation of attornies and solicitors.

An Act to alter and amend an Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain lands in New Zealand.

An Act to continue and amend an Act for establishing an office for the benefit of the coalwhippers of the port of London.

An Act to amend the Metropolitan Interment Act, 1850, and to authorize the advance of public money to a limited amount for the purposes of the said Act.

An Act to authorize the application of advances (cut of money now authorized to be advanced for the improvement of landed property) to facilitate emigration from certain distressed districts of Scotland.

An Act to regulate the affairs of certain settlements established by the New Zealand Company in New Zealand.

An Act further to amend an Act of the sixth year of King William the Fourth, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the constabulary force in Ireland.

An Act to amend the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850.

An Act for confirming certain provisional orders of the General Board of Health.

An Act to alter and extend the powers of an Act of the ninth and tenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to form a Royal Park in Battersea-fields, in the county of Surrey."

An Act for transferring the duties of paving, lighting, watering, and cleansing parts of the Crown Estate, in the district of the Regent's-park, and certain streets and places in Westminster, from the Commissioners acting under several Acts of Their late Majesties King George the Fourth and King William the Fourth, to the parishes; and for transferring the jurisdiction of the said Commissioners over certain other places in Westminster, to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings; and for other pur

poses.

An Act to authorize the removal from India of insane persons charged with offences, and to give better effect to inquisitions of lunacy taken in India.

An Act to simplify the forms of appointments to certain offices, and the manner of passing grants under the Great Seal.

An Act for the better collection of fines, penalties, issues, amerciaments, and forfeited recognizances in Ireland.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to certain offences and other matters as to which justices of the peace exercise summary jurisdiction in Ireland.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts regulating the proceedings at petty sessions, and the duties of justices of the peace out of quarter sessions, in Ireland.

An Act to alter and amend certain provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, so far as relates to Ireland.

An Act to amend the law of evidence.

An Act for further improving the administration of criminal justice, in England and Wales.

An Act to authorize the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company to abandon the Crickheath and Wem branches, to construct a station at Birkenhead, to enter into arrangements with other Companies, and for other purposes.

An Act for amending and extending the provisions of the Act for the improvement of the town of Saint Helens, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for other purposes.

An Act for repairing the road from Sheffield, in the county of York, to the Marple Bridge Road, in the parish of Glossop, in the county of Derby, and the branch to Mortimer's road, in the parish of Hathersage, in the said county of Derby.