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AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 25th day of June, 1857.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order that whereas an Act has been passed by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Island of Jamaica (No. 4170), "to repeal the fifteenth Victoria, chapter five, and to re-enact the same with amendments," whereby provision is made for protecting the rights of British authors in the said colony, that, so long as the said Act shall remain and continue in force within the said island, all prohibitions in the Copyright Act and Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, or in any other Acts of the Imperial Parliament against the importing into the said island foreign reprints of books first composed, written, printed, or published in the United Kingdom, and entitled to copyright therein, shall be suspended, so far as regards the said island.

Manchester, June 30, 1857.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon James Watts, Esq., of Abney Hall, in the county of Chester, Mayor of Manchester.

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Colonial-Office, Downing-Street,

July 2, 1857.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Robert Longden, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Falkland Islands.

Crown Office, June 2, 1857.

MEMBER returned to serve in the present PARLIAMENT.

County of Banff.

Lachlan Duff Gordon, Esq., of Park, residing at Park House, in the said county, in the room of James, Earl of Fife, who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.

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

Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia.

Lieutenant Josiah Pryce to be Captain, vice Radcliffe, resigned. Dated 20th June, 1857.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 7,
1857.

Buckingham Palace, July 3, 1857. THIS day had audience of Her Majesty; The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, Brother-in-law and only Sister of the Queen of Their Royal Highnesses were attended

Spain.

by Don Juan Tomas Comyn, Chargé d'Affaires of Her Catholic Majesty at this Court;

Also the Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen. His Serene Highness was attended by the Count de Bernstorff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Prussia at the Court of Her Majesty :

To which audiences their Royal and Serene Highnesses were introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

CHAPTER of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

ELECTION and INVESTITURE of EARL GRANVILLE and MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, July 6, 1857. A CHAPTER of the Most Noble Order of the Garter having been summoned for this day, the Knights Companions hereinafter named, in their mantles and collars, assembled in the Green Drawing-Room; viz. :

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquess of Exeter, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Marquess of Salisbury, the Duke of Cleveland, the Earl de Grey, the Marquess Camden, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl Spencer, the Earl Fitzwilliam, the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Fortescue, and Viscount Palmerston, attended by the Officers of the Order: the Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate; the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor; the Honourable and Reverend Gerald Wellesley, Dean

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