" grand and petty jurors of the county of War"wick as shall be needed for the execution of the "said several commissions; and that all proceedings " and orders necessary for the execution of the "said several commissions at Warwick and "Coventry, respectively, shall be of the same "force as if the same had been had and taken "under the several like commissions heretofore "issued for the county of Warwick; provided, "that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of "the city of Coventry shall allow the use of Saint "Mary's Hall, within the said city, for holding 66 any of the said sittings therein, when and so " often as the same shall be needed by the said "judges and commissioners:" it is, therefore, ordered by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, that the judges of assize and nisi prius, and others named in Her Majesty's commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, shall hold their sittings within the said city of Coventry for the said city, and for the Atherstone and Coleshill divisions of the hundred of Hemlingford, and the Risby and Rugby divisions of the hundred of Knighton : And the the Right Honourable Sir James Graham, Bart. one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. C. Greville. Foreign-Office, January 23, 1843. It is hereby notified, that Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a copy of a dispatch, addressed to their Lordships by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, dated the 8th of December last, stating, that, in consequence of information which he had received from Her Majesty's Consular Agents in Central America, he had raised the blockade of the port of San Juan de Nicaragua. Foreign-Office, January 24, 1843. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint George Frere, jun. Esq. to be Commissioner, and Frederick Richard Surtees, Esq. to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty, and James Robert Mac Leay, Esq. to be Secretary or Registrar, to the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission to be established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the Treaty concluded at Lisbon, on the 3d of July 1842, between Great Britain and Portugal, for the suppression of the slave trade. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint David Turnbull, Esq. to be Commissioner, and James Fitzjames, Esq. to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty, and Sydney John James, Esq. to be Secretary or Registrar, to the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission to be established at Jamaica, under the same Treaty. Whitehall, January 21, 1843. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom unto Captain Edward Belcher, of the Royal Navy. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. 23d January 1843. This Court will, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday the 1st, 2d, and 4th days of February, and on Tuesday the 7th day of February, and the four days next following, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business in the Crown Paper, in the Special Paper, and in the New Trial Paper, and in giving judgment in cases that may then be pending. By the Court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Hilary Term.-Sixth Victoria. Tuesday, January 24, 1843. This Court will, on Monday the 6th day of February next, and on Tuesday the 7th, on Wednesday the 8th, on Thursday the 9th, on Friday the 10th, and on Saturday the 11th days of the same month, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business pending in the New Trial and Special Papers. By the Court. Read in open Court, January 24, 1843, Stepn. Richards. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 27, 1843. Lord Chamberlain's Office, January 27, 1843. ORDERS for the Court's going into Mourning, on Sunday next the 29th instant, for Her late Royal Highness the Duchess Dowager of Schleswick-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Augustenbourg, mother of Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and great grand daughter of King George the Second, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The Court to change the Mourning, on Sunday the 5th of February next, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black -ribbons. The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And, on Sunday the 12th of February next, the Court to go out of Mourning. At the Court at Windsor, the 4th day of January 1843, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Order of Her Majesty, made, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, on the seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, for regulating, within the colonies of British Guiana, Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Mauritius, respectively, the relative rights and duties of masters and servants, it is, amongst other things, ordered, "that no contract of service shall be of any force or effect, within any of the colonies aforesaid, unless the same shall be made within the limits and upon the land of the colony in which the same is to be performed; and it is thereby further ordered, that no written contract of service shall be in force, within any of the said colonies, unless it shall be signed with the name, or, in case of illiterate persons, with the mark of each of the contracting parties, in the presence of a stipendiary magistrate, nor unless such stipendiary magistrate shall subscribe the written contract, in attestation of the fact that it was entered into by the parties voluntarily, and with a clear understanding of its meaning and effect :" And whereas it is desirable, that the said recited provisions of the said Order in Council should be modified in manner hereinafter mentioned, in reference to the case of labourers, of African birth or descent, emigrating to the colonies aforesaid, from places, the inhabitants of which may reasonably be presumed to be so far cognizant of the |