the said parish shall levy the amount mentioned in every such notice and requirement, according to the exigency thereof, and shall for that purpose make an equal pound rate upon the parishioners of the said parish of such amount in the pound or the annual value of the property rateable, as will in their judgment be sufficient to raise the sum specified in such notice and requisition; and that such vestry shall pay to the treasurer of the trustees the amount mentioned in the notice or requisition, within the time or respective times specified for that purpose; and that the said vestry shall, at the time of making any such payment, deliver, with the money, a note in writing, under their seal, or the hand of their Vestry Clerk, specifying the amount so paid, which note shall be kept as a voucher for the rest of that particular amount, and the receipt of the treasurer of the trustees, or of any proper officer or person of, or belonging to, any bank into which such money is so paid, specifying the amount paid to him by the vestry, shall be a sufficient discharge to the overseers for such amount.

And Her Majesty is further pleased to direct, that this order shall remain in force for one year from the date hereof, and no longer.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve and ratify the schemes duly prepared (as set forth in this Gazette) by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England

For authorizing the sale of certain property formerly belonging to the Bishop of Exeter, and now vested in the said Commissioners.

For authorizing the sale of certain property formerly belonging to the twelfth canonry in the cathedral church of Durham, and now vested in the said Commissioners.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the representations made (as set forth in this Gazette) by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches

Assigning particular districts

To the consecrated church of the Holy Trinity, situate at Rhos-y-Gwalio, in the parish of Llanfar, in the county of Merioneth, and diocese of Saint Asaph, to be named "The District Chapelry of Rhos-y-Gwalia."

To the consecrated church of Saint Matthias, situate in the parish of Saint George, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, and diocese of Worcester, to be named "The District Chapelry of Saint Matthias, Birmingham."

Board of Green Cloth, July 25, 1856.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Valentine Augustus Browne, commonly called Viscount Castlerosse, to be Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Right Honourable Archibald William Douglas, commonly called Viscount Drumlanrig, resigned.

Downing-Street, August 1, 1856.

The Queen has been pleased to constitute so much of the present diocese of the Bishoprick of New Zealand as comprises all that portion of the

middle Island of New Zealand which lies to the southward of a geographical line drawn across the said middle Island, at the northern boundary of the territory set apart for the Canterbury settlement under the provisions of the Act 13 and 14 Victoria, cap. 70; together with the southern Island of New Zealand, and the Auckland Islands, and all adjacent islands lying to the southward of the 43rd degree 5 minutes of south latitude, into a separate and distinct diocese, to be called "The Bishoprick of Christchurch," and to appoint the. Reverend Henry John Chitty Harper, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the said diocese.

Whitehall, August 2, 1856.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend Gilbert Frankland Lewis, M.A., the place and dignity of a Canon of the cathedral church of Worcester, the same being void by the death of the Honourable and Reverend James Somers Cocks, late Canon thereof.

Foreign-Office, August 4, 1856.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James R. Smith, junior, as Consul at Londonderry, for the United States of America.

Board of Trade, Whitehall,
August 4, 1856.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy

of the following French Imperial Decree, relative to the importation of certain descriptions of iron.

Art. I. In conformity with the regulations of the ordinance of 28 May, 1843, sheet iron, iron corners, and other articles of iron intended to be employed in the construction of iron ships and boilers for steam engines, will continue to be admitted free of duty, on condition of an engagement by the importers to re-export, within six months, manufactured articles of the nature of those described above, of a weight equal to the weight of the materials admitted to the privilege of the temporary free import.

Art. II. Such sheet iron, iron corners, &c., cannot be imported, and iron ships and boilers cannot be re-exported, except through established warehousing ports (entrepôts réels), and through the offices on the frontier open to transit trade.

Art. III. -All deficiencies will give rise to the application of the penalties imposed by the Art. 3. of the law of the 5th July, 1836.

All discovered deficiencies arising from waste in the manufacture may, however, be considered as involving the payment of the duty attaching to the raw material.

Art. IV. The regulations of the before-recited ordinance of 1843, which are not re-enacted by the present decree, are abolished.

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

Charles James Palmer, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu

tenant.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County Palatine of Durham.
John Richard Westgarth Hildyard, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 30th July, 1856.

Durham Artillery Regiment of Militia.

First Lieutenant Edward Featherstonhaugh to be Captain, vice Stobart, resigned. Dated 30th July, 1856.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dorset.

Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel the Lord Rivers to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, vice the Earl of Ilchester, resigned. Dated 25th July, 1856. Captain the Lord Digby to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice the Lord Rivers, promoted. Dated 26th July, 1856.

Lieutenant John Clavell Mansel to be Captain, vice the Lord Digby, promoted. Dated 26th July, 1856.

Cornet James George John Templer to be Lieutenant, vice Mansel, promoted. Dated 26th July, 1856.

Anthony, Lord Ashley, to be Cornet, vice Templer, promoted. Dated 26th July, 1856.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol.

Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. William Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hunt, promoted. Dated 30th July, 1856.