Railway, two improved or additional lines of railway, and to alter, amend, enlarge, and repeal the Acts relating to the said undertaking.

An Act to enable the Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction Railway Company to make a branch railway, and to explain and amend the Acts relating to the said railway, and for other purposes.

An Act for altering and amending the Dundee Harbour Acts, and for more effectually maintaining, improving, and extending the harbour of Dundee, and for other purposes connected therewith.

An Act for more effectually supplying with water the town of Bolton, and several townships adjacent thereto, in the county of Lancaster.

An Act for enabling the Commissioners for paving and sewering the town of Liverpool more effectually to water the streets of the said town, and to provide water for extinguishing fires therein.

An Act for appointing trustees for the creditors of the burgh of Paisley, and other purposes relating to the financial affairs of the said burgh.

An Act to incorporate the Directors of Milne's Free School, in the town of Fochabers, and for the better government thereof.

An Act for better paving, lighting, cleansing, and improving the town and borough of Northampton. An Act for amending several Acts relating to Londonderry-bridge.

An Act to extend the term, and to alter and enlarge the powers and provisions, of the Acts for erecting, improving, regulating, and maintaining the ferries and passages across the river Tay, in the counties of Fife and Forfar; and for establishing a floating-bridge or bridges over the said river, with proper landing-places and approaches thereto.

An Act for draining, embanking, and improving

the fen lands and low grounds within the parishes, hamlets, townships, or places of Bardney, Southrow otherwise Southry, Tupholme, Buchnall, Horsington, Stixwould, Edlington, and Thimbleby, in the county of Lincoln.

An Act to improve, repair, and maintain the road from Inchbelly-bridge to Glasgow, and to make and maintain certain branch roads therefrom.

An Act for more effectually repairing, improving, and maintaining the roads and bridges in the county of Sutherland, and further regulating the statute labour in the said county; and for repairing, improving, and maintaining a certain portion of road in the county of Ross.

And four private Acts.

Duchy of Cornwall, August 1, 1843.

Her Majesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Privy Seal of the Prince of Wales, granting to the Most Noble Hugh Duke and Earl of Northumberland, the office of Constable of the Castle of Launceston, in the county of Cornwall.

Whitehall, July 31, 1843.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John Hope to the church and parish of Dunscore, in the presbytery and county of Dumfries, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Robert Brydon, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend Alexander Macnab to the church and

parish of Kilchoman, in the presbytery of Isla and Jura, and county of Argyll, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Alexander Cameron, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend Alexander Webster to the church at Quarff, in the united parishes of Bressa Burra and Quarff, in the presbytery of Lerwick and stewartry of Orkney and Zetland, vacant in consequence of the Reverend James Gardner, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend Henry Beatson to the church and parish of Small Isles, in the presbytery of Skye and county of Inverness, vacant in consequence of the Reverend John Swanson, late Minister thereof, having ceased to be a Minister of the Church of Scotland

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of AUGUST 4,

1843.

India-Board, August 2, 1843.

THE following dispatches have been this day received at the East India House:

Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. to the

Governor-General.

Camp, Hyderabad, April 17, 1843.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inclose to your Lordship, the reports, made by officers commanding regiments, of remarkable actions performed by individuals under their command, in the battle fought on the 24th March.

Also the report of Captain Thomas, of the 8th native infantry, of the preparations made by him for the defence of the entrenchments at the residency, to attack which the enemy had detached 5000 men to Hooseerie, a village hard by, but subsequently he recalled this force to his main body at Dubba. It is right that I should state how much importance attached to the defence of the entrenchments, which, there was every reason to believe, would be attacked, as also the town of Hyderabad. These two garrisons diminished my force by 1079 men and two pieces of cannon; and

I have to express my sense of the good arrangements and zeal of Major Reid and Captain Thomas, the officers whom (greatly against their own wishes) I ordered to remain in command of these two garrisons. I have, &c.

C. J. NAPIER.

The great pressure of business prevented my sooner having forwarded these reports.

Captain A. Thomas, Commanding Entrenched Camp, to Lieutenant H. J. Pelly, Acting-Assistant-Adjutant-General, Sinde Field Force.

SIR,

Camp, Hyderabad, April 8, 1843.

I HAVE the honour to transmit, for the information of Major-General Sir Charles J. Napier, K.C.B. Governor of Sinde, that, on the departure of the force on the morning of the 24th of March, my first care was to assign posts to the officers and men under my command, which was done in the following manner to Lieutenant Steward, of the 16th grenadiers Bengal native infantry, was confided the defence of the left flank of the breast work; to Lieutenant Bosanquet, of the same regiment, the right flank; and Lieutenant Pruen, Bombay artillery, and myself took charge of the front and reserve. The two guns left with me were most judiciously placed, en barbette, by Lieutenant Pruen, so that, in case of attack, they would have swept the whole of the works in front and one entire flank. Two parties of sepoys, consisting of fifty men each, were formed as a reserve, and posted fifty paces on each side of the abattis, leading into the residency compound. The remaining sepoys were placed round the works, at