Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Linlithgow. I

The Right Honourable David Stuart, Earl of Buchan, to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 1st December, 1857.

Captain Thomas A. Hog the younger to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 1st December,

1857.

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

East Kent Regiment of Militia.

Assistant-Surgeon William Kaylet Curtis to be Surgeon, vice Sicard, resigned.

Dated 27th

November, 1857.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.

King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. Edward Houlditch, Esq., to be Captain, vice Pounden, resigned.

Ensign Elijah Littlewood to be Lieutenant. Robert Ormiston Hayes, Esq., M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clarke, resigned.

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

Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia.

Robert William May Wetherell, Gent., to be Ensign, vice William Watson Wood, resigned. Dated 28th November, 1857.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester.

2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia. Ensign William Albany Fetherston Haugh to be Lieutenant, vice Cuming, promoted. Dated 30th November, 1857.

Ensign Robert Warren to be Lieutenant, vice Yeo, resigned. Dated 30th November, 1857.. Thomas Henry Williams, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Hamilton, resigned. Dated 30th Novem ber, 1857.

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

Worcestershire Regiment of Militia.

Edward Hoste Hickman, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Paulet, resigned.

Ernest Peel, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Castle, resigned.

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

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Captain Frederick Loftus Dashwood to be Adjutant, vice Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, promoted. Dated 2nd December, 1857.

Home Office, December 5, 1857.

The Leeds Reformatory School at Adel, near Leeds, in the West Riding of York, has been cer tified by the Secretary of State as fit to be a Reformatory School, under the provisions of the statute 17 and 18 Vict., c. 86.

Reigate Union.-Foreign of Reigate.

An order from the Poor Law Board to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the part of the parish of Reigate termed the foreign of Reigate, in the county of Surrey, and to all others whom it may concern, dated the 26th_of November, 1857, directs that so much of the Act 13th and 14th Vict., cap. 57, as relates to the providing of a room for the purpose of holding vestry and other meetings for the transaction of any business of, or relating to, that part of the said parish of Reigate termed the foreign of Reigate, shall forthwith be applied to and be put in force within the said foreign of Reigate.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of December 11,

1857.

AT the Court at Windsor, the 16th day of November, 1857.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to "amend the Burial Acts," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order made by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, on the representation of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from time to time to establish such regulations as to Her Majesty may seem proper for the protection of the public health, and for the maintenance of public decency, in

respect of all burials in common graves in any cemeteries named in Schedule (B.) to the Act fifteenth and sixteenth Victoria, chapter eightyfive, and in respect of the like burials in any cemetery established under the authority of any Local Act of Parliament; and every such Order in Council shall be published in the London Gazette; and all persons having the care of such cemeteries and burial-grounds and places shall conform to and obey such regulations; and any such person who shall violate or wilfully neglect to observe any such regulations shall, on summary conviction thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds: Provided always, that no such representation shall be made in relation to any cemetery or burialground until ten days' previous notice in writing of the intention to make such representation shall have been given to the person, or one of the persons, having the controul or care of such cemetery or burial-ground.

And whereas the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, after ten days' previous notice of his intention to make such representation having been given to the trustees of SAINT JAMES'S CEMETERY, LIVERPOOL, has made a representation stating that he is of opinion that, for the protection of the public health, and the maintenance of public decency, the Regulations for Burial-grounds (omitting that numbered III) be established in respect of all burials in common graves in the said cemetery;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty having taken the said representation into consideration, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Regulations for Burial-grounds, provided under the Burial Acts, and annexed to this Order (omitting

that numbered III), be accordingly established in respect of all burials in common graves in Saint James's Cemetery, Liverpool, above mentioned.

C. C. Greville.

St. James's Palace, December 8, 1857.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby to be Comptroller of Accounts in the Lord Chamberlain's Department, and Extra Gentleman Usher to Her Majesty.

Downing Street, December 8, 1857.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Henry Pinder, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Long Island, and George Ross, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Abaco, in the Bahama Islands; Thomas Owen, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools in the Island of Antigua; Robert Bradshaw, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone during the absence of the Queen's Advocate; and Thomas Chown, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia.

Crown Office, December 10, 1857. MEMBERS returned to serve in the present PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Thetford.

Alexander Hugh Baring, of Buckenham, in the county of Norfolk, Esq., in the room of the Honourable Francis Baring, who has accepted

the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.