609 Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Renfrew. County of Salop. Renfrewshire Regiment of . North .Salopian Regiment of Cavalry. Lieutenant David Macduff Latham to be Captain. Sir Henry Hop&jrDdwardes, Bart., to be Cornet, Dated 13th February, 1855. vice Mytton,- resigned. Dated 12th February, James Anderson, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Dated 1855. 14th February, 1855. Ensign William Cunninghams to be Lieutenant. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Dated 15th February, 1855. County Palatine of Chester. Bobert Burrell, Gent., to be Ensign. Dated 14th February, 1855. Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. John James Scott, Gent., to be Ensign. Dated Francis Massey, Gent., to be Lieutenan^ vice 15th February, 1855. Potts, promoted. Dated 10th February, 1855. John Bell, Doctor of Medicine, to be Assistant- Surgeon. Dated 13th February, 1855. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the 2nd Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry. Tower Hamlets. Lieutenant Levi to be Captain, vice Clode, King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. resigned. Thomas Berington, Esq., to be Captain, vice Thomson, who retires. Philip Morton Pitt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Whitehall, February 13, 1855. Hunt, who retires. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Serjeant-Major Wellington White, late of the Reverend Charles Wellington Johnson, of Great 50th Queen's Own Regiment, to be Ensign, Torrington, in the county of Devon, and of ••- vice Jackson, who retires. Halsdon House, in the parish of Dolton, in the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower said county, her'royal licence and authority that Hamlets Militia. he and his issue may, in order to testify his grate- ful and affectionate respect for the memory of his Serjeant-Major James Davern to be Ensign. o maternal uncle, John Henry Furse, late of Halsdon Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the House aforesaid, Esquire, deceased, take, and County of Berwick. henceforth use, the surname of Furse, instead of that of Johnson. Haddington, Berwick^ Linlithgow, and Peebles And also to command that the said royal con- Regiment of Militia Artillery. cession and declaration be recorded in Her John Stewart, late Serjeant-Major of the 92nd Majesty's College of Arms; otherwise to be void Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant. Dated and of none effect. 8th February, 1855. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of tJtt TREASURY WARRANT. County of . WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth 2nd Regiment of King's Own Militia. year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, Bart., to be " An Act for the regulation of the duties of Lieutenant, vice Buller, resigned. Dated 12th postage," power is given to the Commissioners of February, 1855. Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time, by Warrant, under their hands, to alter and fix any [The following Appointment is substituted for of the rates of British or Inland postage, payable that which appeared in the Gazette of the 2nd by law, on the transmission by the post of foreign January, 1855.] or colonial letters, and to subject the same to rates Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the of postage according to the weight thereof. County .Palatine 0/" Lancaster. And whereas further powers are given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by an 4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Act, passed in the eleventh year of the reign of Her Royal Lancashire Militia. present Majesty, intituled "An Act for giving fur- John George .Pitt, Genl., to be Ensign, vice ther facilities for the transmission of letters by , promoted. Dated 29th December, 1854. post, and for the regulating the duties of postage thereon, and for other purposes relating to the [The following Appointment is substituted for post office." that which appeared in the Gazette of the 26th And whereas it is expedient to alter the rates of January, 1855.] postage on the letters hereinafter mentioned. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Now we, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's County of Suffolk. Treasury, in exercise of the powers vested in us West Suffolk Regiment of Militia. in and by the said before-mentioned Acts, or Augustus Richard Trimmer, Gent., to be Ensign. either of them, and of all other powers enabling Dated 10th January, 1855. us in this behalf, do, by this Warrant (under the hands of two of us the said Commissioners by the [This Article is substituted for that which ap- authority of the Statute in that case made and peared in the Gazette of the 30th January last.] provided), order and direct, that .on every letter not exceeding one quarter of an ounce in weight, Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the posted in the United Kingdom, addressed to Mer-; County of Selkirk. sina, Alexandretta, Latakia, Tripoli-(in Syria), or Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirk Regiment of Jaffa, or posted at Mersina, Alexandretta, Lata- Militia. kia, Tripoli (in Syria), or Jaffa, addressed to the William Jerdan, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice United Kingdom, and transmitted by the post • Rutherfurd, appointed to Ceylon Rifles. between any place in the United .Kingdom and 610 Mefsina, Alexandretta, Latakia, Tripoli Qin Syria), Wlritehatt, February 5, 1855. or Jaffa, vi& France (the sea conveyance in the The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, Knt., Mediterranean being by French packet-boats),' Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of there shall be charged, taken, .and paid, in lieu of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed any rates of postage now payable by law on such Edwin Boxall, of Brighton, in the county of respective letters, an uniform British rate of Sussex, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual postage of t\vo pence. Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of And we direct that on every letter, transmitted deeds to be executed by married women, under as is hereinbefore mentioned, exceeding a quarter the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re- of an ounce in weight there shall be charged, coveries,' and for the substitution of .more simple taken, and paid, in lieu of any rates of postage modes of assurance, in and for the county of now payable by law on such respective letters, Sussex. progressive and additional rates of postage as fol- lows (that is to say): NOTICE. On every letter exceeding a quarter of an ounce County Court? Registry, No. 2, New Street, in weight, and not exceeding half an ounce, Spring Gardens. in weight, two rates of postage. ! '*'"' REDUCTION OF FEES. On every letter exceeding half an ounce in; weight, and not exceeding three-quarters of THE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's an ounce in weight, three rates of postage, j Treasury have been pleased to order that the fol- On every letter exceeding three-quarters of an lowing reduced fees should be taken for Searches, ounce in weight, and not exceeding one &c., namely: ounce in weight, four rates of postage. Table of Fees. And for every quarter of an ounce in weight s. d. above the weight of one ounce, there shall be For every search for a judgment or peti- charged and taken one additional rate of postage, tion for protection made at the Registry 0 6 and every fraction of a quarter of an ounce above For forty searches, to be made within two the weight of one ounce, shall be charged as an months (to be paid in advance) . . .10 0 additional quarter of an ounce, and each pro- For every certificate of search, obtained gressive and additional rate chargeable under this either through the Clerk of the Court or clause shall be estimated and charged at the sum by a letter to the Registrar 20 which any such letter would be charged with For having the record of any judgment * under the provisions hereinbefore contained, if removed from the register (to be paid to not exceeding one quarter of an ounce in weight. the Clerk of the Court} ...... 1 6 And we do further order and direct that no- The registry of county courts' judgments was thing herein contained, shall be construed in any- established to afford to traders a ready means of wise to annul, prejudice, or affect, any of the ascertaining the solvency of parties, and to enable exemptions and privileges granted by the said executors and administrators to. discover what recited Act, passed in the fourth year of the reign judgment debts they are bound to satisfy. of Her present Majesty, nor to annul, prejudice, In the registry can be found the name, address, or affect, any of the privileges which seamen and and occupation of every party against whom a soldiers employed in Her Majesty's service, and judgment has been recorded since March, 1847, seamen and soldiers employed in the service of the in any of the county courts throughout England East India Company, now by law enjoy, of send- and Wales, for £10 and upwards, and which ing and receiving by the post, letters not exceeding remains unsatisfied at the time the search is made. half an ounce in weight, subject to the regulations and restrictions in respect of the same, nor to INSOLVENCY. annul, prejudice, or affect, any privileges under Also the name, last addi'ess, and occupation of which printed newspapers, or other printed every party who has applied for protection from papers, are now allowed to pass by the post, or to his creditors to any of the county courts since repeal, alter, or affect, the provisions of a certain June, 1854. Warrant, under the hands of two of the Commis- sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, bearing date the 17th day of May, 1854, as to certain letters NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. transmitted by the post, between the United Department of the Accountant-General Kingdom and any port or place in Turkey, or the of the Navy, Admiralty; Somerset Black Sea. ffouse, February 12, 1855. And. we do further order and direct, that the NOTICE is hereby given to all persons inter- several terms and expressions used in this War- ested therein, that preparations are now making rant, shall be construed to have the like meaning for the intended distribution of proceeds arising in all respects, as they would have had if inserted from the Russian vessel Aland, captured on the in the said Act, passed in the fourth year of the loth April, 1854, by Her Majesty's ship James reign of Her present Majesty. Watt, and the ship-of-war Austerlitz, belonging Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the direct that it shall be lawful for the Commis- French. sioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Agents or other persons having any just and Treasury, or any two of them, by Warrant under legal demand, unliquidated, against the said pro- their hands, at any time hereafter to alter any of ceeds are required to transmit the particulars of the regulations hereby made, and to make and any such demand to the Registrar of the High establish any new or other regulations in lieu Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may thereof. be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the four- and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the teenth day of February, one thousand said Court. eight hundred and fifty-five. Agents and all other persons holding.powers of Alfred Hervey. attorney, prize orders, assignments or other instru- Elcho, ments* by virtue of which they may be legally