of the County Court of Dorsetshire, holden at Shaftesbury, shall be in the district of the County Court of Somersetshire, holden at Frome.

The parish of Tunstall and the townships of Dalton and Ireby, now in the district of the County Court of Lancashire, holden at Lancaster, shall be in the district of the County Court of Westmoreland, holden at Kirby Lonsdale.

The parishes of Harlow and Sheering, now in the district of the County Court of Essex, holden at Waltham, shall be in the district of the County Court of Hertfordshire, holden at Bishop Stortford.

The parish of Stockton and the chapelry of Pensax, now in the district of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at Worcester, shall be in the district of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at Tenbury.

The parish of Feckenham, now in the district of the County Court of Warwickshire, holden at Alcester, shall be in the district of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at Redditch.

The parish of Kinver, now in the district of the County Court of Staffordshire, holden at Wolverhampton, shall be in the district of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at Stourbridge.

The parish of Lyneham, now in the district of the County Court of Wiltshire, holden at Swindon, shall be in the district of the County Court of Wiltshire, holden at Calne.

C. C. Greville.

St. James's-Palace, January 27, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend Henry Mildred Birch to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty,

Downing-Street, February 2, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend Samuel W. Steedman to be Colonial Chaplain for the island of Hong Kong.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles Henry Stewart, Esq. to be Deputy Queen's Advocate for the island of Ceylon.

Duchy of Lancaster, January 30, 1852.

The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Thomas Weld Blundell, of Ince Blundell Hall, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.

Whitehall, January 31, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John Reid to the church and parish of Monikie, in the presbytery of Dundee, and county of Forfar, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Thomas McKie, late Minister thereof, to the church and parish of Erskine.

Whitehall, February 2, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Hayward Cox, B.D. to the united rectory and vicarage of Saint Mary's, Tenby, in the county of Pembroke, and diocese of St. David's, void by the death of the Reverend John Hunter Humphreys.

Admiralty, 19th January, 1852.
Corps of Royal Marines.

First Lieutenant William Jenny Pengelley to be
Captain, vice Berney Varlo, deceased.

First Lieutenant George Gardiner Alexander to be Captain, vice Castieau, to half-pay.

Second Lieutenant Archer Croft Critchell to be First Lieutenant, vice Pengelley, promoted. Second Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Pritchard to be First Lieutenant, vice Alexander, promoted.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcester.

The Queen's Own Worcestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.

Lieutenant James Arthur Taylor to be Captain, vice Lord Eastnor, resigned. Dated 22nd January 1852.

Whitehall, January 27, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Frederic Macbean, a Gentleman Commoner of Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, eldest son of William Macbean, Clerk, Rector of Peter Tavy, in the county of Devon, by Frances, his wife, eldest sister and co-heir of John Bell, of Thirsk, in the county of York, Esquire. deceased, Her royal licence and authority, that he and his issue may, in compliance with a direction contained in the last will and testament of his maternal uncle, the said John Bell, Esquire, deceased, take and use the surname of Bell only, in lieu of that of Macbean, and also bear the arms of Bell; such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office, otherwise the said royal licence and permission to be void and of none effect:

And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms.

TREASURY WARRANT.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the regulation of the duties of postage," power is given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time, by warrant under their hands, to alter and fix any of the rates of British postage or inland postage payable by law on the transmission by the post of foreign or colonial letters or newspapers, or of any other printed papers, and to subject the same to rates of postage according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such warrant, and from time to time, by warrant as aforesaid, to alter or repeal any such altered rates, and make and establish any new or other rates in lieu thereof, and from time to time, by warrant as aforesaid, to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable are to be paid; and it is provided that the power thereby given should extend to any increase or reduction or remission of postage:

And whereas it is considered expedient that an alteration should be made in the rates of postage between the United Kingdom and the Argentine Republic in South America:

Now we, the undersigned, being two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exercise of the powers and authorities in us for such purpose vested in and by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, order and direct,

That on every letter, not exceeding half an

ounce in weight, transmitted by the post between any part of the United Kingdom and any port in the Argentine Republic, there shall be charged and taken in lieu of any rates of British postage now payable by law on such respective letters an uniform rate of British postage of one shilling:

And we direct, that on every letter transmitted as is mentioned in this Warrant exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged, taken, and paid progressive and additional rates of postage as follows (that is to say):

On every letter exceeding half an ounce in weight, and not exceeding one ounce in weight, two rates of postage.

On every letter exceeding one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces in weight, four rates of postage.

On every letter exceeding two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces in weight, six rates of postage.

And on every letter exceeding three ounces, and not exceeding four ounces in weight, eight

rates of postage.

And for every ounce in weight above the weight of four ounces, there shall be charged and taken two additional rates of postage, and every fraction of an ounce above the weight of four ounces, shall be charged as one additional ounce; and each progressive and additional rate, chargeable under this clause, shall be estimated and charged at the sum which any such letter would be charged with under this warrant, if not exceeding half an ounce in weight.

And we direct, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any letters sent by private ships.