Legion of Honour, and not the Fifth Class, as stated in the Supplement to the London Gazette, of Friday, the 1st instant. Foreign-Office, May 7, 1857. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. M. W. Pitcher as Consul at Geelong for the Free Hanseatic city of Hamburgh. Board of Trade, Whitehall, 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 Decree, issued by the French Government, opening the Port of Rouen to the importation of Spun Cotton. Board of Trade, Whitehall, 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 Minister at St. Petersburgh, enclosing a communication from the Russian Government, stating, with reference to the notification of that Government published in the London Gazette of the 24th of April last, that the certificates required in that notification will not be demanded from vessels proceeding from ports in the Baltic, the North Sea, Holland, Great Britain (except Gibraltar, and Malta), and the French ports in the Channel and on the Atlantic, unless laden with Egyptian cotton. Commissions signed by the Queen. 76th or Inverness-shire, &c., Highland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. John Sharp, Gent., to be Quartermaster. Dated 23rd August, 1856. William Donaldson, Gent., to be Adjutant, vice Goldie, resigned. Dated 28th March, 1857. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dumbarton. Walter Buchanan, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Pembroke. Royal Pembrokeshire Artillery Corps Militia. Owen Tucker Edwardes, Esq, to be Captain, vice Stokes, resigned. Dated 1st May, 1857. FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 8, Council-Office, Whitehall, May 6, 1857. WHEREAS the Commissioners appointed for the purposes of the Act of the 17th and 18th Vict., cap. 81, intituled "An Act to make "further provision for the good government and "extension of the University of Oxford, of the "Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint "Mary, Winchester," have made the following ORDINANCE, dated the 19th day of February, 1857, in relation to MERTON COLLEGE, otherwise called the HOUSE or COLLEGE of SCHOLARS of MERTON, in the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD; and whereas the said Ordinance has been submitted to the said College, and to the Visitor thereof, and has not been objected to by two-thirds of the Governing Body of the said College, and the said Ordinance has been this day laid before Her Majesty in Council, the same is published in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act; AND NOTICE is hereby given, that it is lawful for the bodies or persons mentioned in the 35th section of that Act, within one month after this publication, to petition Her Majesty in Council against the approbation of the said Ordinance, or of any part thereof. Wm. L. Bathurst. ORDINANCE framed by the Commissioners appointed for the Purposes of the Statute 17th and 18th Vict. c. 81, in relation to MERTON COLLEGE, otherwise called the HOUSE or COLLEGE of SCHOLARS of MERTON, in the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD. WE, the Commissioners appointed for the purposes of an Act passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to make fur"ther Provision for the good Government and Ex"tension of the University of Oxford, of the "Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint Mary, Winchester," do, in execution of the powers given to us by the said Act, ordain as follows in relation to Merton College, otherwise called the House or College of Scholars of Merton, in the said University :2 T 1857. 1. The election of the Warden of the said College shall be vested in such Fellows of the College present at the time of election as shall have completed two years from the day of their admission as actual Fellows. As soon as it shall have become known that a vacancy has occurred in the office of Warden, the Sub-Warden, or in his absence the Senior Fellow in residence, shall convene a meeting of such Fellows as shall then be residing in the College. Such meeting shall appoint a day and hour for the election of a Warden, and the Sub-Warden, or the Senior Fellow in residence, as the case may be, shall convene a meeting of the electors for that day and hour. The day of election shall be not less than twenty nor more than sixty days from the day on which the occurrence of the vacancy shall have become known. The electors shall choose the person (being otherwise duly qualified according to the Statutes of the College in force for the time being), who in their judgment shall be most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education. The votes of the electors shall be openly taken, and that person in whose favour the greatest number of votes shall have been given, shall be declared elected. If the votes shall be equal, the Sub-Warden, or in his absence the Senior Fellow present, shall give an additional casting vote. Such election being made, the Sub-Warden or Senior Fellow present at the election, as the case may be, shall forthwith communicate to the Visitor the name of the person elected; and the Visitor shall confirm the election, unless it shall appear to him that such person is not duly qualified according to the Statutes in force for the time being, or is unfit for the office. If the Visitor shall refuse to confirm the election he shall notify such refusal to the Sub-Warden, or the Senior Fellow present at the election, as the case may be; and the Fellows qualified as aforesaid shall, within ten days of such notification by the Visitor, proceed in manner and form aforesaid to elect three persons whom they shall consider duly qualified for the office; and the Sub-Warden, or in his absence the Senior Fellow present at the last-mentioned election, shall thereupon communicate to the Visitor the names of the persons so elected, of whom the Visitor shall nominate one, being fit and qualified as aforesaid, to be Warden of the College. 2. The Warden shall be required to reside in the College seven calendar months at least in each year, whereof six weeks at least shall be in each Term, Easter and Trinity Terms being for this purpose considered as one Term: Provided, that in case of the Warden's sickness, or for any other urgent cause, it shall be lawful for the Visitor to dispense with the Warden's residence for such a period as may seem to the Visitor to be required by the necessities of the case. 3. The Warden and Fellows may at any time hereafter, if they shall think fit, commute the emoluments of the Wardenship, wholly or partially, for a stipend or annual sum of money payable in any other manner out of the revenues of the College, or for a certain proportion of the said revenues; and may fix the time at which such commutation shall take effect, and may also from time to time regulate, increase, or diminish the Warden's emoluments, whether cominuted or uncommuted, as they shall think proper: Provided, that no exercise of this power shall affect the person then being Warden without his consent: Provided also, that the Visitor, upon the petition of the Warden or of any one or more of the Fellows, may disallow any such commutation, regulation, increase, or diminution, if he shall think fit. 4. If at any time it shall appear that the Warden has become permanently incapable of per |