due and regular transmission of letters by the post we further direct, that it shall be lawful for any officer of the Post Office in the United Kingdom to delay the transmission of any packet posted or forwarded by the post under the provisions of this Warrant, either for the space of twenty-four hours from the time at which (or at his option until the despatch of the mail next after that by which) the same ought otherwise to have been forwarded by him. And we further direct, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall be construed to interfere with or affect the transmission by the post of printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, or of printed votes and proceedings of the Colonial Legislatures, nor of printed papers or other printed publications which are allowed to pass by the post under the newspaper privilege. And we further order and direct, that if any packet sent, or tendered, or delivered, in order to be sent by the post, under the provisions of this present Warrant, shall contain any paper or thing besides a printed book, printed magazine, printed review, or printed pamphlet, and the binding thereof, or shall have any writing or marks upon the same, or upon the cover or envelope thereof, except the name and address of the person to whom it is forwarded; and also as to any such packet sent from any department or office, in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty, which shall keep a postage account with the General Post-office in London, except the words "on Her Majesty's service" and the name of the department or public office from which the same shall be forwarded, with the name of any public officer employed in or belonging to any such department or office, who may be authorised to affix his name to letters and packets sent by the or post, as a certificate that they are on the public service, or shall not be open at the ends or sides, or shall in length or breadth, or width, or depth exceed the dimensions of two feet or twenty-four inches, or shall contain more than one printed book, or printed magazine, or printed review, or printed pamphlet, or shall contain any printed book, printed magazine, printed review, printed pamphlet, the several sheets, or parts of which, when more than one, shall not be sewed or bound together; or if the postage of any such packet posted in the United Kingdom shall not be duly and properly prepaid by British stamps when posted (any such packet sent from any department or office in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty, which shall keep a postage account with the General Post-office in London, and the postage thereof shall be charged in such account, only excepted) or if the postage of any such packet posted in New Brunswick, shall not be duly and properly prepaid in money, or by colonial stamps when posted, the same shall and may be detained and opened at any place in the United Kingdom, and at the option of the PostmasterGeneral, shall be either returned or given up to the sender thereof, or be given up to the person to whom it shall be addressed, or be forwarded to the place of its destination; and any such packet on being so returned, given up, or forwarded, shall be chargeable with the like amount of postage to which it would have been liable as a letter. And we further direct, that nothing herein contained should be construed to extend to any packets sent through any foreign country to which a transit rate of postage would be payable thereon, nor to any packets sent by private ships. And we further order and direct, that the term "by the post," used in this Warrant, shall, as to the sea conveyance, include the conveyance by packet-boat, and that the several other terms and expressions used in this Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all respects as they would have had if inserted in the said Act, passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty. And we further direct that this Warrant shall come into operation on the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Frovided, lastly, and we do hereby declare and direct, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the time being, of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any two of them, by Warrant under their hands, at any time hereafter to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby fixed or altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof, and from time to time to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable are to be paid. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 31st day of December, 1853. Alfred Hervey. By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the 54th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, chapter 159, intituled "An Act for the better regulation of the several ports, harbours, roadsteads, sounds, channels, bays, and navigable rivers in the United Kingdom, and of His Majesty's docks, dock yards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, and stores therein, and for repealing several Acts passed for that purpose," it is enacted (among other things) that no person or persons shall take any ballast or shingle from the shores or banks, or any portion of the shores or banks, of any port, harbour, or haven of this kingdom, from which the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being shall find it necessary for the protection of such port, harbour, or haven, or the works thereof, by order, under their hands or the hand of their Secretary, and published in the London Gazette, shall prohibit the taking or removing of such shingle or ballast upon pain of forfeiting for every such offence the sum of Ten Pounds. And whereas we, as Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, have found it necessary for the protection of the port of Portsmouth, in the county of Southampton, and of certain shores and banks thereof, to prohibit the taking or removing of any ballast or shingle from the shores or banks of the said port, or any part thereof, between high and low watermark, between Hill Head and Lee Point. And we do therefore hereby order, that no person or persons shall take or remove any ballast or shingle, between high and low water mark, from the shores or banks, or any portion of the shores or banks, of the said port, between Hill Head and Lee Point aforesaid. Given under our hands this 28th day of Decem- Two of the Commissioners for executing the FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 6, 1854 Declarations exchanged between the Governments of Great Britain and of the Roman States, for securing National Treatment to the Vessels and Commerce of the one Country in the Ports of the other. Declaration. THE Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of Tuscany, having received from His Eminence the Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State to His Holiness Pope Pius IX, the assurance that no other or higher duties or charges are levied in the ports of the Papal States on British vessels than are payable on national vessels, nor on goods imported or exported in British vessels than are payable on the like goods imported or exported in national vessels, has received the commands of Her Majesty to declare : 1. That no duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouse, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of the Government, public functionaries, corporations, or establishments of whatever kind, shall be imposed in British ports upon Papal vessels, from whatever port or place arriving, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on |