all or any merchant ship or vessel being the property of any subject of Her Majesty.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 3rd day of July, 1854.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the report of the General Board of Health, dated the 8th day of June, 1854 (as set forth in this Gazette), and to order and direct that "The Public Health Act, 1848," and every part thereof, except the section numbered 50 in the copies printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force within the township of Garston, in the parish of Childwall, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 3rd day of July, 1854.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the report of the General Board of Health, dated the 13th day of June, 1854 (as set forth in this Gazette), and to order and direct that "The Public Health Act, 1848," and every part thereof, except the section numbered 50 in the copies printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force within the township of Houghton-le-Spring, in the county of Durham.

AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 3rd day of July, 1854.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the report from the General Board of Health, dated the 26th day of June, 1854 (as set forth in this Gazette), and to order and direct that "The Public Health Act, 1848," and every part thereof, except the section numbered 50 in the copies of that Act printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force within the hamlets of Barton, Eccles, Winton, and Monton, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

Whitehall, July 5, 1854.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, nominating, presenting, and appointing the Honourable and Reverend Horatio Powys, M.A., to the Bishoprick of the Isle of Man and Sodor, void by the translation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Robert John, Lord Auckland, to the see of Bath and Wells.

Whitehall, July 7, 1854.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Donald Mackay to the Church of Stoer or Rhuistore, in the parish of Assint, and presbytery of Dornoch, and shire of Sutherland, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Donald Masson, late Minister thereof, to the Gaelic Church in Edinburgh.

[Extract from the DUBLIN GAZETTE of 4th July, 1854.]

Crown and Hanaper Office, Dublin.

In pursuance of an Act, passed in the fortieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to regulate the mode by "which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and "the Commons to serve in the Parliament of the "United Kingdom, on the part of Ireland, shall be "summoned and returned to the said Parliament," I do hereby give notice, that the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Bantry has been chosen by a majority of votes to be the Peer to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of Hayes St. Leger Viscount Doneraile, deceased.-Dated the 1st day of July, 1854.

C. Fitz-Simon,

Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper

Westminster, July 3, 1854.

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 Seal, 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 for granting certain additional rates and duties of Excise.

An Act to alter and amend certain duties of Customs.

An Act to assimilate the law and practice existing in cases of high treason in Ireland to the law and practice existing in cases of high treason in England.

An Act to consolidate and extend the powers of the Accrington Gas and Waterworks Company, and to enable them the better to supply with gas and water the townships and places of Old Accrington, New Accrington, Church, Lower Booths, and Huncoat, in the parish of Whalley, and the extra-parochial place of Henheads, all in the county of Lancaster, and to sell or lease their undertaking to the Local Board of Health for the district of Accrington, and for other purposes.

An Act to establish a general cemetery for the borough of Doncaster, and for other purposes.

An Act to extend the powers of the Commissioners of Sewers for the levels of Havering, Dagenham, and other places, and to enable them to construct sewers in the parishes of West Ham, East Ham, and North Woolwich.

An Act for maintaining the turnpike-road from Greenhead, through Haltwhistle, Hexham, and Corbridge, to the military-road near Shildon Bar, and the branch road from Corbridge to Heddonon-the-Wall, all in the county of Northumberland.

An Act to create a further term in the Trowbridge roads; to add other roads to the trust; to amend and extend the Act relating to the said roads; and for other purposes.

An Act to enable the Furness Railway Company to raise a further sum of money, and for the amendment of the Acts relating to the said company.

An Act to make provision with respect to water supply and police for Shipley, Baildon, and

Windhill, in the West Riding of the county of York.

An Act to incorporate "The Kingston-uponThames Gas Company," and to enable them to light with gas the parishes of Kingston, Long Ditton, and Thames Ditton, in the county of Surrey.

An Act for enabling the Blyth and Tyne Railway Company to construct railways to Tynemouth and the Longhirst Station of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, in the county of Northumberland, and for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to such company.

An Act to enable the North London Railway Company, to construct a station or depôt near to the new Metropolitan Cattle Market, to raise additional capital, and for other purposes.

An Act to repeal an Act for inclosing the Marsh in the township of Newport, in the county of Salop, and to vest the same and other property in Trustees for paving, draining, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town of Newport, and for other purposes.

An Act to amend "The Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement Act, 1852," and to provide additional funds for carrying out certain of the improvements authorised by such Act.

An Act for regulating and improving the town of Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, and providing a supply of gas and water thereto, and for other purposes.

An Act to repeal an Act passed in the n'nth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for more effectually constituting and regulating the Court of Record within the borough of Manchester, and for extending the jurisdiction of the said Court," and to extend the powers and jurisdiction of the said Court, and to 3 Q

1854.