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The names of those who were nominated for Sheriffs by the
Lords of the Council at the Court of Exchequer on the
morrow of St. Martin, in the seventh year of the reign of
King William the Fourth, and in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Bernmensittec—Williatn Henry Whitbread, of Southill,
Esq. ; William Hugh Wade Geary, of Buslimead Priory,
Esq. ; and John Mackay, of Ravensden' Esq.
BERK SIM E. —James Wheble, of Woodley Lodge, Esq. ;
Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley, of Bucklebury House,
Esq. ; and Robert Gco. Throckmorton, of Buckland House,
Esq.
BL CKS. —John Nemhard Hibbert, of Chatfont St. Petre,
Esq. ; John Chester, of Chicherley, Esq. ; and Benjamin
Way, of Denham, Esq.
CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE.---Thomas MOCIIOCIC, of
Little Abingdon, Esq. ; Edward Humphreys Greene, of
Hinxton, Esq. ; and John Dobede, of Soham, Esq.
CUMBERLAND. —Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, of Armathwaite,
Bart. ; John Dixon of Knells, Esq. ; and Thomas Hartley,
of Gillfoot. Esq.
CHESHIRE.--Charles Peter Shackerley, of Somerford, Esq. ;
George Cornwall Leigh, of High Leigh, Esq. ; and
Thomas Hibbert, of Birtles, Esq.
CORNWALL—John Bassett, of Trehidy, Esq. ; Thomas
James Agar Robartes, of Lanhydrock, Esq. ; and William
Henry Pole Carew, of East Anthony, Esq.
DERBYSHIRE.—George Moore, of Appleby Hall) Esq. ; Ed-
ward Anthony Holden of Aston-on-Trent, Esq. ; and
Broughton Benjamin thede Pegge Burnell, of Beauchief
Abbey, Esq.
DEVONSHIRE.--William Roope Ebert, of Bouringsleigh, Esq. ;
Augustus Saltun Willett, of Tapley, Esq. ; and Sir Ails
thong Buller, of Pound, Knight.—
DORSETSIIIRE. —James Chamness Eyler, of Heffienton Lodge,
Esq.; Richard Briasley Sheridan, of Frampton, Esq.; and
Wyndham Godden, of Over Compton, Esq.
Deettau.—Anthony Wilkinson, of Coxhoc Hall, Esq.; Sir
Robert Johnson Eden, of Windleston, Bart.; and Sir Wm.
Chaytor, of Witton Castle4Bart.
ESSEK. —Jonathan Bullock, of Faulkbourne Hall, Esq.; Wm.
Colton, of Wallwood in Leyton, Esq.; and Christopher
Thomas Tower, of Weald Hall, Esq.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Henry Norwood Try, of Leckhampton
Court, Esq. ; Purnell Bransby Purnell, of Stancomb-Park,
Esq.; and Edward Sampson, of lienbury, Esq.
HEREFORDSHIRE. —James Phillips, of Bringwyn, Esq.; Thos.
Monnington, of Sarnesfield, Esq.; and John Holden Mat-
thews, of Hereford, Esq.
HERTFORDSHIRE—George Procter, of Benington, Esq.; the
Hon. George Frederick Hotham, of Hertingfordbury ; and
Claude George Thornton, of Tewin, Esq.
KENT.—Francis Bradley, of Gore Court, Esq.; George
Warde Norman, of Bromley, Esq.; and Sir Joseph Henry
Hawley, of Leybourne Grange, Bart.
LeicesTeestinds. —Sir Arthur Grey Heselrigge, of Noseley
Hall, Bart.; Thomas Frewin Turner, of Cold Overton,
Esq.; and Sir Edmund Cradock Hartopp, of Gumley, Bart.
LINCOLNSHIRE. —Sir Thomas Whichcote, of Aswarby, Bart. ;
Sir Cullen Eardley Smith, of Nettleton, Bart. ; and George
Fischi Heneage, of Stainton Hall, Esq.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.—PhiIip Jones, of Lanarth Court, Esq. ;
John Etherington Welch Rolle, of The Hendre, Esq. ; and
Calthurst Bateman, of Pertholey, Esq.
NORFOLE..—Jack Petre, of Westwick Hall, Esq. ; Sir James
Flower, of Eccles, Bart.; and Robert Fellowes, of Shottis-
ham Park, Esq.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—WiIIiam Willis, of Astrop, Esq. ; John
Reddall, of Darlington, Esq. ; and William Drayson, of
Floore, Esq.
NORTHUMBERLAND.—WiIIiam John Charlton, of Hesleyside,
Esq. ; John Davidson, of Ridley Hall, Esq. ; and William
Lawson, of Linghirst, Esq.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—WiIIiam Tayler, of Ratcliffe-on-Trent,
Esq. ; Robert Ramsden, of Carlton-in-Lindrick, Esq. ;
and James Lee, of West Retford, Esq.
OXFORDSHIRE.—PhiIIip Thomas Herbert Wykham, of Ty-
throp, Esq. ; John Lechmere, of Steeple Aston, Esq. ; and
Samuel Fortnam, of Sandford, Esq.
RUT!. AND. —John Stokes, of Caldicot, Esq. ; Matthew Lax-
ton, of Greetham, Esq. ; and Henry Heathcote, of North
Luffingham, Esq.
SitßOPSlllßE.—Benjamin Flounders, of Culmington, Esq. ;
Thomas Henry Hope, of Netley Hall, Esq. ; and Philip
Morris, of The Hurst, Esq.
SOHERSETSIIIRE.—AIexander Adair, of Heatherton Park,
Esq. ; Robert Phippen, of Badg worth Court, Esq'; and
Thomas Henry Ernst, of Westcombe, Esq.
STAFFORDSIII RE. —Thomas Higgins Burn, of Loynton Hall,
Esq. ; Wm. Moore, of Wychdon Lodge, Esq.; and Geo.
Thomas Whitgrave, of Moseley Court, Esq.
COUNTY or SOUTHAMPTON.--The Hon. Wm. Henry Ash.
a'Court Holmes, of Westover ; Andrew Robert Drummond,
of Cadlands, Southampton, Esq. ; and Geo. Henry Ward,
of Northward Park, Esq.
SUFFOLK. —Thos. Halifax, the elder, of Shimpling, Esq. ;
Arthur John Brook, of Horningsheath, Esq. ; and Sir H.
Parker, of Long Melford, Bart.
SURREY. —Thos. Challenor Bisse Challenor, of Poxhales,
Esq. ; Thos. 'ticock, of King's Wood Warren, Esq. ; and
Samuel Paynter, of Richmond, Esq.
Sussex.—George Henry MalcombWagner, of Hertmoneeaux,
Esq. ; John Davies Gilbert, of Eastbourne, Esq. ; and
George Palmer, of Tonbridge Wells, Esq.
Waewlexsular..—John W. Boughton Leigh, of Brownsoever
Hall, Esq. ; Henry Cadwallader Adams, of Ansty, Esq. ;
and Sir G. Phillips, of Weston, Bart.
WILTSHIRE. Sir Frederick Hutchison Harvey Bathurst, of
Clarendon Park, Bart. ; John Christian Boode, of Luck..
num, Esq. ; and Francis T. Egerton, of Roche Court, Esq.
WORCUSTERSHIRE. —Wilson Aylesbury Roberts, of Bewdley,
Esq. ; Robert Berkeley, of Spitchley, Esq. ; and William
Congreve Russell, of King's Heath, Esq.
YORKSHIRE.—Sir Robert Frankland, of Thirkleby, Bart. ;
Mark Milbank, of Thorp Perron, Esq. ; and William Rookes
Crompton Stanfield, of Esholt, Esq.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 12, 1836.
Dispatches, dated the 30th of August and 6th of September last,
have been received by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., his Majes-
ty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Mr.
Pakenham, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, and Mr. O'Gor-
man, his Majesty's Consul-General, in Mexico, containing decrees,
of which the following are translations :
( Translation. )
Government of the District.
EDICT.

Jose Gomez de la Cortina, Citizen, Colonel of the Battalion of
Commerce, and Governor of the District.
The following decree has been communicated to me by tho Se-
cretary of War and Marine.
" His Excellency the President ad interim, of the Mexican Re-
public has been pleased to address to me the following decree :
" The President, ad interim, of the Mexican Republic to the in-
habitants thereof, know ye, that the General Congress has decreed
as follows :

While the negociatiens pending with her Majesty the Queen
Regent of Spain for the recognition of the independence of this
country are being definitively arranged, hostilities with that nation
are suspended ; and the Government is hereby empowered to re-
gulate its dispositions with respect to commerce, without exceeding
the basis of reciprocity"
(Signed) MIGUEL VALENTINE, President.
ATENOGENES CASTIRELLO, Secretary.
RAFAEL DE AIONTALVO, Secretary.
Wherefore I command, &c.
" Mexico, August 27, 1836.
(Signed) JOSE JUSTO CORRO.
" To Don Jose Maria Tornel."
And I communicate it to you for your information, ecc.
(Signed) TORNEL.
To the Governor of the District.
And, that all may know it, I order that it be published by edict
in this capital and throughout the district, being placarded in the
accustomed places, and distributed to those charged with the obser-
vance of it

Given in Mexico, this 29th day of August, 1836.
(Signed) JOSE GOMEZ DE LA CORTINA.

(Translation.)
Department of Finance.
Section I.

His Excellency the President, ad interim, of the Republic, has
been -pleased to address to this Department the decree which follows :
."Ihe President, ad interim, of the Mexican Republic to the in-
habitants thereof, makes known that the General Congress has de-
creed the following :
6' Art. 1. The tonnage duty, which the law of the 16th of Nov.
1827 imposes upon foreign vessels, when once paid by them at the
port of delivery, neither ought to be, nor ought to have been, ex.
acted from them in any other port to which they may proceed, and
may have proceeded, for any purposes permitted by the laws.
" Art. 2. Neither shall said impost be exacted from distressed
vessels which may be driven involuntarily into any port of the Re-
public, 'provided always that the fact is satisfactorily proved."
( Signed) MIGVEL VALENTIN, President.
JOSE R. MALO, Secretary.
ATENOGENES CASTILLERO, Secretary.
Wherefore, I order, &c.
" Mexico, August 31, 1836.
(Signed) JOSE JUSTO CORRO."
And, for the due observance of the preceding law,his Excellency the
President ad interim, orders that, with respect to the vessels which
may be circumstanced as mentioned in the first article thereof, the
authorities of the respective maritime custom-houses forthwith pro-
ceed either to cancel the bonds exacted by them from the parties
concerned, for the payment of the duty in question, or to refund to
the said parties what they may have recovered from them, making
the proper entries of the same, and informing the Supreme Go-
vernment in the manner pointed out by the superior orders upon
the matter.

communicate the above decree to you for your information and
guidance.
God and liberty.
Mexico, August 31, 1836.
(Signed) J. DE LA PUENTE.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, OCT. 26.
The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has appointed
Sir George Ballingall Surgeon in Ordinary to the King in Scotland.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.
Surrey Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—G. Bray, Esq.,
formerly Captain in the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Adjutant, vice
Lowson, deceased ; J. Beardmore, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice
Francis, promoted, Nov. .5,