but so that for all the purposes of this present Warrant, the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, shall be deemed and considered to be comprehended within the term or expression of "the United Kingdom," and Honduras and the Ionian Islands within the term or expression of "British Dominions or Colonies," wherever such terms or expressions shall be found or used in this present Warrant; and that the word Post," wherever used in this Warrant, shall extend to and include as well any General, as any Twopenny or Penny or Convention Post.

Provided lastly, and we hereby declare, that it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners, for the time being, of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by Warrant under their hands, at any time hereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable, are to be paid.

As witness our hands this 27th day of December 1839.

MELBOURNE.
F. BARING.

THOS. WYSE.

Whitehall, December 30, 1839.

THE Queen has been pleased to order a congé d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Lichfield to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Doctor Samuel Butler, late Bishop thereof; and Her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter, the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor James Bowstead, now, Bishop of Sodor and Man, to be by them elected Bishop of the said see of Lichfield.

ABERCROMBY, the Right Honourable James, the dignity
of a Baron of the United Kingdom granted to, 165,

Acts received the Royal Assent, 83, 103, 125, 163, 171, 184,
194, 197, 216, 221, 235, 242, 262, 264,

Adam, Vice Admiral Sir Charles, K. C. B. a Commissioner for
executing the office of High Admiral of the United
Kingdom, 72; Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire
.. of Kinross, 106.) 12.

Addresses to the Queen, from the Mayor and Corporation of
Great Yarmouth, 6; from the Corporation of the borough
act of Kidderminster, 63; from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c.
of the city of London, with Her Majesty's Answer to the
same, 87; from the Colonists of Mauritius, 132; from the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1551cgma
Admiralty, rules, orders, and regulations for the preservation
of Her Majesty's moorings in Plymouth Sound, and in the
harbour of Catwater, 76; copy of a letter from Captain
Smith, of Her Majesty's ship Volage, dated Aden Back Bay,
22d of January 1839, detaling his proceedings against a
tribe of Arabs on the island of Seerah, 96. gel Jes
Alava, General, Envoy Extraordinary from the Queen of
Spain, his audience of Her Majesty, 244.

Allen, the Reverend John, M. A. Inspector of Schools to be
aided by public grants, 364,

Anderson, Sir Alexander, Knt. to accept and wear the insignia
of a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Bento
d'Avis, 359

Anson,

Anson, the Reverend Frederick, A. M. Dean of Chester, 144.
Aspinall, the Reverend James, Rector of Althorpe, 169.
Assizes, days and places appointed for holding the,-Lent, 67;
Summer, 200; for the principality of Wales and county
palatine of Chester, 71, 203.

Aston, Arthur, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary, &c. to the Queen
of Spain, 189.

Auckland, the Right Honourable George Lord, G. C. B. the
dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom granted
unto, 366.

B.

Back, Captain George, R. N. Knighthood, 80.

Bainbrigge, Captain John Hankey, Fort-Major and Adjutant
of Guernsey, 326.

Ball, Francis Leeson, Esq. Secretary to Her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Buenos Ayres, 141.

Bankrupts and Insolvent Debtors, Commissioners appointed
for inquiring into the state of the laws relating to, 349.
Baring, the Right Hon. Francis Thornhill, a Privy Councillor,

241; Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer,
245; one of the Commissioners for executing the offices of
>Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High
Treasurer of Ireland, 262, 313.

Colonels the ab

Bartow, Commander Charles Anstruther, to accept and wear
the cross, of the first class, of the Order of San Fernando,
9 370.
Bath, the following Officers appointed Companions of the
Order of the, Colonel James Frederick Love, Lieutenant-
Henry Dundas, Jolin Eden, and
Charles Cyril
106; Rear-Admirals Sir Charles
Bullen, Knt. and Sir Samuel Warren, Knt. Knights Com-
manders, and Captains Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knt.
Samuel Hood Inglefield, William Bowles, and Hyde Parker,
Companions, 118; Lieutenant-General James Watson,`a
Knight Commander, 204; Lieutenant-General Sir John
Keane, a Knight Grand Cross, 234; Admiral Sir William
Bayntun, a Knight Grand Cross, 285; Rear-Admiral
↑ Samuel Pym and Major-General Sir John Boscawen Savage,
Knt. Knights Commanders, and Captain J. W. D. Dundas,
a Companion, ibid; Colonels Thomas Willshire, Joseph
Thackwell, and Robert Henry Sale, Knights Commanders,
35 Lieutenant-Colonels John Scott, William Persse, William
Croker, and Ronald Macdonald, Companions, 368;
:band the
following Officers, in the service of the East India Company,
to be Companions, viz. Lieutenant-Colonels Abraham Ro-
berts, Thomas Stevenson, Thomas Monteath, Hugh Massey

Wheeler, Charles M. Carmichael Smyth, Bentham Sand-
with, Foster Stalker, and Claud Martine Wade, Majors
George Thomson and Eldred Pottinger, ibid.

Bayntun, Admiral Sir Henry William, K. C. B. a Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 285..

Belhaven, Robert Montgomery Lord, High Commissioner to
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 133.
Bingham, the Honourable Richard, Secretary to Her Majesty's
Legation at the Court of Sardinia, 141.

Bjornstjerna, Count, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of
Sweden and Norway, his audience of the Queen, 215.
Bloomfield, the Honourable J. A. D., Secretary to Her Ma-
jesty's Embassy at Saint Petersburgh, 189.

Board of Green Cloth-regulations to be observed by car.
riages going to Her Majesty's Drawing-Rooms, 107, 114,
129, 151, 180; the Earl of Errol, K. T. G. C. H. appointed-
Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household, 325.

Borgo, Count Pozzo di, Ambassador Extraordinary from the
Emperor of all the Russias, his audience of the Queen, 187.
Bowles, Captain William, Companion of the Order of the
Bath, 118.

Bowstead, the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor James,
recommended to the see of Lichfield, 385.

Breadalbane, the Marchioness of, one of the Ladies of the
Bedchamber to the Queen, 5.

John Marquess of, Lieutenant and Sheriff
Principal of the shire of Argyil. 348.

Brown, the Reverend William, Minister of Half Morton, 110.
Brownlow, the Right Honourable Charles, the dignity of a
Baron granted to, 136.

Buckingham Palace, Court at-Sheriffs appointed by Her
Majesty in Council for the year 1839, 40; Order in Council
directing the assizes and sessions under the commission of
gaol delivery for the county of Montgomery, to be holden in
the Spring at Welshpool, and in the Summer at Newtown,
43; Order in Council transferring certain lands from the
Archbishop of York to the Bishop of Ripon, 50; the Ho-
nourable Thomas Dundas appointed Lord Lieutenant and
Custos Rotulorum of the north riding of the county of
York, 59; Order in Council appointing the towns of
Garstang, Kirkham, Chorley, Blackburn, and Whalley,
polling places for the northern division of the county of
Lancaster, ibid; Order in Council appointing Llanerchymedd
an additional polling place for the county of Anglesey, 61;
Order in Council ratifying a scheme of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for placing certain parishes, in the county
of Huntingdon, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely
and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 119; Order in Council

appointing