and fifty-four, it was directed that burials should be discontinued from and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the burial-ground of the Independent Chapel, LUDLOW, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that interment be discontinued in that part of the said Independent Burial-ground which is within five yards of the school-room, which has been previously buried in ; that no grave in the said burial-ground be less than five feet deep, that one body only be buried in each grave, and that no grave be re-opened.

And whereas, by an Order in Council of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in the churchyard of St. Michael's, SHREWSBURY from and after the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and such time has since been extended to the thirty-first day of December in the same year, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that burials be discontinued from and after the said thirty-first of December instant, in the said churchyard, except in now existing vaults and walled graves, in which each coffin shall be embedded in powdered charcoal, and separately entombed in an air-tight manner.

And whereas, by an Order in Council of the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in the churchyard and in the new burial-ground of St. Mary, SWANSEA, and in the churchyard of St. John-juxta-Swansea, from and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred

and fifty-five, and such time has since been extended to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that burials be wholly discontinued from and after the said first day of January, in the said churchyards and new burial-ground, except in such now existing vaults and walled graves as are more than three yards distant from any dwelling-house, which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, and in which each coffin shall be embedded in powdered charcoal, and separately entombed in an air-tight manner.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1856.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order, that the representations of the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (as set forth in this Gazette), that burials should be forthwith discontinued in the vaults underneath St. James's Church, CLAPHAM, in the vaults underneath the Wesleyan Chapel, Great Queen-street, in the parish of ST. GILES-IN-THEFIELDS, and in the vaults under the church of ST. GEORGE BLOOMSBURY.

Also BRISTOL, HOLY TRINITY.-On and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Bristol, except in vaults and walled graves in which each coffin shall be embedded in powdered charcoal and separately entombed in an airtight manner, and except in graves not

less than five feet deep which can be opened without the exposure of remains, one body only to be buried in each grave, and no grave to be reopened except to inter another member of the same family. BIRMINGHAM.-On and after the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the churchyards or cemeteries of St. Philips, St. Martin's, St. Paul's and St. Mary's, Birmingham, except in now existing vaults and walled graves, which can be opened without the disturbance of soil which has been buried in, and in which each coffin shall be embedded in powdered charcoal and separately entombed in an airtight manner. LLANSAMLET, GLAMORGANSHIRE.-Forthwith in the old part of the Llansamlet Churchyard, except in now existing vaults and walled graves, in which each coffin shall be embedded in charcoal, and separately entombed in an airtight manner, and in the new part, except in vaults and walled graves used with the above precautions, and in other graves not less than five feet deep, which can be opened without the exposure of remains. LEIG, LANCASHIRE.-In St. George's Churchyard, Tyldesley, in the parish of Leigh, and in the Lady Huntingdon Chapel and Wesleyan Chapel Burial-grounds, both in the township of Tyldesley, except so far as is compatible with the following regulations; every coffin buried in a vault or walled grave to be embedded in powdered charcoal and separately entombed in an air-tight manner, and no earthen grave to be reopened within fourteen years of the previous interment, except to bury another member of the same family, in which case a layer of earth eighteen inches thick shall be left above the previously interred coffin; no coffin to be less than four feet below the surface. Wholly in the

churchyard and Baptist Burial-ground of Atherton, in the parish of Leigh, on and after the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. WORKSOP.

Forthwith in the Parish Church, also, with the exception of now existing vaults and walled graves which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, and in which each coffin shall be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal, four inches thick, and be separately entombed in an airtight manner, in the ancient part of the churchyard, and in the burial-ground of Potter-street Chapel, and that in the new part of the churchyard, with the exception of vaults and family graves, only one body be buried in each grave. LENTON, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. —- Forthwith in the parish church of Lenton, and in the Episcopal Chapel, Hysongreen, also, with the exception of now existing vaults and walled graves, which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, and in which each coffin shall be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal, four inches thick, and be separately entombed in an airtight manner, in Old Lenton Churchyard, in New Lenton Churchyard, within three yards of the church, in the burial-ground of the Episcopal Chapel, Hyson-green, within three yards. of the chapel, and in the New Methodist Chapel Burial-ground, Hyson-green; and that in New Lenton Churchyard and in the burial-ground of the Episcopal Chapel, with the exception of vaults and family graves, only one body be buried in a grave, and, with the same exception, no grave be reopened. TREVETHIN, MONMOUTHSHIRE. Forthwith in the church of Abersychan, otherwise Talywain. Also in the Upper Trosant Chapelyard, in the Sardis

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Chapelyard in Garuddyfaith, except in graves never previously opened, one body only to be buried in each, and in the Abersychan Churchyard, the English Baptist and Pisgah Burialgrounds, with the above exceptions, and except in family graves not less than five feet deep which can be opened without the exposure of remains. FISHGUARD.-On and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven, in the parish churchyard of Fishguard, and in the Baptist Burial-ground, except in graves not less than five feet deep which can be opened without the exposure of remains.

should be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on the twelfth day of February

next.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1856.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order that the petitions of the Town Councils of the boroughs of Wakefield, in the county of York, and New Windsor, in the county of Berks (as set forth in this Gazette), praying that powers may be vested in them for providing requisite places of burial for the inhabitants of the said boroughs, under the provisions of the Act of the 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 134, be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on the sixth day of February next.

War-Department, January 1, 1857.

THE Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of His Royal