Andrew Clarke, Esq.

William Henry Fancourt Mitchell, Esq.
William Henry Wright, Esq.

James Graham, Esq.

William Highett, Esq.

Dr. Andrew Aldcorn.

Edward Stone Parker, Esq., and
Andrew Halley Knight, Esq.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Lieutenant William Langdon, R.N., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the colony of Van Diemen's Land.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint David C. Smith, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Whitehall, January 9, 1854.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Honourable and Reverend Arthur Douglas to the Rectory of Curry Mallet, in the county of Somerset, and diocese of Bath and Wells, the same being void by the death of the Reverend John Hayden Cardew.

Board of Trade, Whitehall,

Marine Department, January 6, 1854. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of the 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 Madrid, transmitting copy of a Notice issued by the Spanish Government (a translation of which is subjoined), announcing the impracticability of exhibiting a light from the new light-house on the "Isla Plana,"

or "Tabarca," from the period originally intended, and made known in the "Notice to Mariners" published in the Gazette of the 7th October last.

(Translation.)

(Copy.)

Hydrographical Office.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Light-house of the Isla Plana, or Tabarca,
(Mediterranean).

IN fulfilment of a Royal Order, communicated to this office through the Ministry of Marine, the subjoined Notice, which has been transmitted to the aforesaid Ministry by the Department of Public Works, is hereby published for the purpose of making a rectification relative to the period at which the light-house on the Isla Plana, or Tabarca, was to commence to be lighted, according to the Notice to Mariners which was published in the Madrid Gazette of the 24th of September last. "Most Excellent Sir,-It not being possible, on account of especial circumstances, to begin lighting the light-house of the Isla Tabarca, on "the day which had been fixed for that purpose, "I hereby inform your Excellency of this circum"stance by the Queen's command, in order that you may cause the project Notice thereabout to "be published by the Hydrographical Office." Madrid, 20th December, 1853.

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(Signed) JORGE LASSO DE LA VEGA.

Admiralty, 7th January, 1854.
Corps of Royal Marines.

Gentleman Cadet Hollis Henry Nott to be Second

Lieutenant.

Commissions 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 Brookes, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Prevost, resigned. Dated 3rd January, 1854. Charles Hawkins Fisher, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Miller, promoted. Dated 3rd January, 1854.

Whitehall, January 6, 1854.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Eccles Shorrock Ashton, of Low Hill House, in the township of Over Darwen, in the parish of Blackburn, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gentleman, Her Royal licence and authority that he and his issue may, in compliance with an injunction contained in a codicil annexed to the last will and testament of his late uncle, Eccles Shorrock, of Over Darwen aforesaid, deceased, henceforth take and use the surname of Shorrock only, instead of that of Ashton:

And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in the College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Then follow two provisional orders, signed by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, dated the 7th day of January, 1854, authorizing the trustees of the Little Bowden and Rockingham-road

and

Hinderton and Birkenhead-road

to reduce the rate of interest now payable on the several mortgage debts (as set forth in this Gazette) pursuant to the Act 14 and 15 Vict. c. 38.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 13,

1854.

AT the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The Merchant Shipping Law Amendment "Act, 1853," it was enacted, that upon the erection of any new Lighthouse, Her Majesty might, by Order in Council, fix such toll in respect thereof to be paid by the Master or Owner of every ship which should pass the same, or derive benefit therefrom, as Her Majesty might deem reasonable, and might from time to time alter the amount thereof;

And whereas a certain lighthouse has been placed by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in the harbour of Loch Ryan, on the south side of the basin of the Clyde, and a certain toll in respect thereof upon vessels arriving at or departing from any port within Loch Ryan was sanctioned by Order in Council, dated the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six;

And whereas the said Commissioners are about to erect and light another light on the Island of Devaar, on the north side of the said basin ;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in Her by the said recited Act, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to direct :

That the toll payable in respect of the said light in Loch Ryan, by virtue of the said Order in Council, of the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, shall remain as fixed by that Order; and that upon the erection and lighting of the said light upon the Island of Devaar, there shall be paid in respect thereof for every vessel belonging to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the same not belonging to Her Majesty, or being navigated wholly in ballast), and for every foreign vessel which by any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, Convention, or Treaty, shall be privileged to enter the ports of the United Kingdom upon paying the same duties of tonnage as are paid by British vessels, the same not being navigated wholly in ballast, which shall pass or derive benefit from the said last-mentioned lighthouse, that is, which shall arrive at or depart from any port or place in the Bay or Loch of Campbeltown, if the burthen of the same shall not exceed fifty tons, sixpence, and if the same shall exceed fifty tons, for each additional fifty tons, or part of fifty tons, sixpence.

And in respect of the said lights on Devaar and in Loch Ryan, there shall be paid by every vessel before described, and under the exemptions aforesaid, which shall navigate on a distinct voyage within the great basin of the Clyde, bounded by a line drawn from the point of Corsewall to Glenarm, in Ireland, on the south-east; and from another line, drawn from the Mull of Kintyre to Fairhead, in Ireland, on the north-west; and on all other sides by the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, surrounding the said basin, a similar rate of 1854.

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