FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of APRIL 28, Buckingham-Palace, April 27, 1843. AN Address from the Members of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, on the occasion of the Birth of the Prince of Wales, having been transmitted for presentation to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, was presented by the Marquess of Exeter accordingly; which Address His Royal Highness was pleased to receive very graciously. Crown-Office, April 28, 1843. MEMBER returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT. County of Suffolk. The Right Honourable Frederick Lord Rendlesham, in the room of Sir Charles Broke Vere, deceased. April 28, 1843. NOTICE-MONEY WEIGHTS. WHEREAS by a Proclamation of His late Majesty George the Fourth, bearing date the sixth February one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, it was ordained that every gold sovereign not weighing less than 5dwts. 2grs. and every gold half sovereign not weighing less than 2dwts. 13 grs. should pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom; and it being provided by the Act 14th Geo. III. cap. 92, that the weights to be made use of in weighing the said gold moneys shall be tried and compared at the Mint, with certain standard duplicate weights computed and derived from the troy pound; and whereas there has been found to exist some slight irregularity in the weights now in use which have, at different periods, been issued from the Mint, and it is desirable, for preserving the gold coin in its full current value, and for a right understanding of Her Majesty's subjects in their dealings, that this irregularity should be effectually corrected: Notice is hereby given, that the Master of the Mint has been authorized to cause new weights to be prepared, having a new impression or stamp as described below, and that it is intended that such new weights shall be exchanged at the Mint, after the twenty-ninth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for the old weights, free of any charge to the parties, provided the weights brought to the Mint for exchange are identified by the stamp, and are not reduced by wear below the weight at which they were originally issued. Description of the New Weights. The sovereign weight bears on the obverse the portrait of Her Majesty, with the words " Royal Mint," and the date of the year, in indented letters, upon a raised border. On the reverse are stamped the figures, 5dwts. 24grs. surrounded by the words "Curt. Weight Sovereign," in indented letters. same The half sovereign weight bears the impression on the obverse as the sovereign weight, and has on the reverse the figures 2dwts. 13 grs. with the words "Curt. Weight Half Sovereign," in indented letters. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Easter Term, in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. This Court will, on Tuesday the 16th day of May next, and on Wednesday the 17th and on Thursday the 18th days of the same month, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business pending in the Special Paper. Dated the 28th day of April 1843. By the Court. Read in open Court, April 28, 1843, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 2, COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Easter Term, 1843.-6th Victoria. THIS Court will, on Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th of May, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business now pending in the New Trial Paper, and in giving judgment in pending cases. By the Court. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 5, IN pursuance of an Act, in the sixth year of Her Majesty's reign, for better preserving the navigation of the river Mersey, the Commissioners authorised by the said Act hereby give notice to all whom it may concern, that they have appointed Captain George Evans, of the Royal Navy, to be the Acting Conservator of the river Mersey, vice Captain Robert Fitzroy, R. N. apppointed Governor of New Zealand; and that communications, in compliance with the said Act, are to be addressed to him, at No. 2, Whitehall-place, London. Haddington. G. C. H. Somerset. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 9, India-Board, May 8, 1843. THE following notifications, published by the Governor-General of India, have been this day received at the East India House: NOTIFICATION, By the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India. Palace of Agra, March 5, 1843. THE Governor-General had earnestly hoped that the new provisions, to which various acts in contravention of their existing engagements, and various indications of hostility had compelled him to require the assent of the Ameers of Sinde, would have been carried into full effect, as they had been agreed to by their Highnesses, without a recurrence to arms. This hope has been disappointed. The Ameers having signed the new treaty proposed to them on the 14th of February, attacked on the following day with a large force the residence of the British Commissioner. In this treacherous attack they were repulsed. On the 17th Major-General Sir Charles Napier gained a |