difference between the duty to which such manufactures would be liable upon importation and entry for home consumption into the United Kingdom, if the produce of, and imported from, foreign countries, and the duty to which such manufactures would be liable upon importation and entry for home consumption into the United Kingdom, if the produce of, and imported from, a British possession; whereupon the exporter, upon making a declaration before the Lieutenant-Governor, or a magistrate of the island, that the goods, describing the same, are the manufacture of the said island, the Lieutenant-Governor or magistrate shall administer and sign such declaration; and, thereupon, the LieutenantGovernor shall grant a certificate, under his hand, of the proof contained in such declaration, stating the ship in which the goods are exported, and such certificate shall be deemed to be the proper document to be produced at the port of importation, in proof that the goods are the manufacture of the said island:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 10th day of June 1843,

PRESENT,

'The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to

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regulate the trade of the British possessions "abroad," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that no goods should be imported into, nor should any goods, except the produce of the fisheries in British ships, be exported from, any of the British possessions in America by sea, from or to any place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such possessions, excepting to or from the several ports in such possessions called free ports, enumerated or described in the table in the said Act contained; and it was thereby provided that, if His Majesty should deem it expedient to extend the provisions of the said Act to any port or ports not enumerated in the said table, it should be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to extend the provisions of the said Act to such port or ports; and that, from and after the day mentioned in such Order in Council, all the privileges and advantages of the said Act, and all the provisions, penalties, and forfeitures therein contained, subject, nevertheless, to the limitations and restrictions thereinafter provided, should extend, and be deemed and construed to extend, to any such port or ports, respectively, as fully as if the same had been inserted and enumerated in the said table at the time of passing the said Act:

And whereas Her Majesty doth deem it expedient to extend the before-mentioned provisions of the said Act, respecting such free ports, to the port of Dalhousie, on the river Restigouche, in the province of New Brunswick:

Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the said Act of Parliament, and in exercise of the powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council in that behalf vested, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered accordingly, that, from and after the first day of August next, the provisions of the said Act, and of any Act or Acts amending the same, as far as such provisions relate to the free ports respectively mentioned in the said recited Act, shall be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Dalhousie, on the river Restigouche, in the province of New Brunswick; and that, from and after the said first day of August next, all the privileges and advantages by the said recited Act, and by any Act or Acts amending the same, conferred upon the free ports mentioned in the said recited Act, and all the provisions, penalties, and forfeitures in the said Acts contained, subject to the limitations and restrictions therein provided, shall extend to the said port of Dalhousie, as fully and effectually as if such port had been inserted and enumerated in the said table at the time of passing the said recited Act:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 10th day of June 1843,

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 His Majesty to grant to them a charter of incorporation, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any such charter, if he shall think fit, by the advice of His 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 William 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 His Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by His Privy Council, shall be published in the London Gazette one month at least before such petition shall be so considered:

And whereas the inhabitant householders of the borough of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, have presented a petition to Her Majesty in Council, praying a charter of incorporation

he said borough; Her Majesty is this day

pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the same be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of July next :

And Her Majesty is further pleased to order and direct, that all petitions and documents, whether in favour of or against the said charter, shall be lodged, by their respective parties, at the Counciloffice, on or before the seventeenth day of July Wm. L. Bathurst.

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Buckingham-Palace, June 9, 1843.

This day had audience of Her Majesty, the Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Brazil, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign :

To which he was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

Trinity Term.-In the Sixth year of the Reign of Queen Victoria.

Tuesday, the 13th June 1843. This Court will, on Wednesday the 21st day of June instant, and on the following days, namely, Thursday the 22d, Friday the 23d, and Saturday the 24th days of the same month, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business then pending in the New Trial and Special Papers. By the Court. Read in open Court, Saml. Dare, Master.