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commissions under our signet and sign manual; but that
in the event of the death, absence, resignation, bodily
or mental incapacity, or suspension from office by the
said Governor-in-Chief of any such Lieutenant-Gover-
nor, it shall be competent to the said Governor-in Chief,
and he is hereby authorised and empowered, upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of such last-
mentioned vacancy, by a commission under the public
seal of the general government of New Zealand, in oar
name and on our behalf, to constitute and appoint any
proper person to be the Lieutenant-Governor of such
province until our pleasure be known.
XXII. And we do hereby declare our pleasure to be,
that the Lieutenant-Governor for the time being of each
of the said provinces (whether so appointed by such a
direct commission from us as aforesaid, or by such a
commission as aforesaid from the Governor-in-Chief of
New Zealand) shall have, exercise, and enjoy all powers,
privileges, and authorities, hereby or by the said in-
structions hereinbefore mentioned, or otherwise howso
ever vested in the Governor for the time being of any
such province, save only that the temporary and provi.
sional administration of the office of Governor-in-Chief
of New Zealand, on any such vacancy by death, absence,
or incapacity as aforesaid, shall pass to and become vested
in the Governor of the province of New Munster, in
preference to the Lieutenant-Governor of the province of
New Ulster, and in the Lieutenant-Governor of the pro-
vince of New Ulster, in preference to the Lieutenant-
Governor of the province of New Munster; and that such
provisional administration of the said office of Governor-
in-Chief of New Zealand shall, on any such vacancy, by
death, absence, or incapacity, as aforesaid, pass to and
become vested in such chief military officer as aforesaid,
in preference to any Lieutenant-Governor who may hold
the office of Lieutenant-Governor not in virtue of a com-
mission issued directly by us, but in virtue of a commis-
sion so issued as aforesaid in our name and behalf by
any such Governor-in-Chief.
XXIII. And we do further reserve to ourselves full
power and authority, in our discretion, to appoint one
and the same person to occupy at the same time the said
several offices of Governor-in-Chief and Governor of
each of the said respective provinces, or any two of those
offices, and in our discretion to appoint one and the same
person to occupy at the same time both of the said
offices of Lieutenant-Governor of the said respective
provinces.

XXIV. And whereas it is by the said recited Act
further provided, that it shall be lawful for us from time
to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or, if
necessary, to repeal, any such letters patent or instruc-
tions as therein mentioned—now, we do hereby reserve
to ourselves, our heirs, and successors, full power and
authority from time to time to amend, and for that pur-
pose to add to, or, if necessary, to repeal, these presents
and the said instructions hereinbefore mentioned.

,XXV. And we do hereby further declare our will and
pleasure to be that these presents shall not take effect
or come into operation in the said islands of New
Zealand until the same shall have been published and
made known to the inhabitants of the said islands, by a
proclamation to be for that purpose issued by the person
commissioned by us to be Governor-in-Chief for the
`ime being of the said islands.
In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters
o be made patent.
Witness ourself, at Westminster, this 23d day of
December, in the 10th year of our reign.

DUTCH AND HAMBURGH MAILS.
ST. PETERt3BURGH, DEC. 12.—0 n Saturday night his
Majesty the Emperor set out for Warsaw, and returned
to St. Petersburgh yesterday morning.
THORN, DEC. 15.—While nothing of political influ-
ence is passing on this side of the frontiers, the accounts
from Poland are very melancholy. Domiciliary visits
and arrests still continue, and well-informed persons
affirm that the number of persons imprisoned in con-
sequence of the attempted revolution amounts to 300,
many of whom, after a vexatious inquisitorial proceed-
ing, have been banished to Siberia, and others hanged
in the citadel of Warsaw the noblemen, finding
themselves suspected by the Government, and be-
lieving that their ruin is intended and the
more so, because the late "Half measures
relative to the emancipation of the peasants seem to
threaten their property and their personal safety. It has
frequently happened that the peasants sciideavour to
realise by violence the,promises which have been made
by the Government to grant them landed property, and
,
attack the estates of their lords, who, on- their part,
complain that the GOvernment dogs not sufficiently
protect them against the violence of the peasants. Under
these circumstances,, it is easily accounted for that a re-
port that a part of' Poland, from Pluk, will be added.
to Prussia, has arisen in Poland, and is now even ex-
pressed as a wish in. many quarters as likely to be ful-
filled. Travellers are treated with more '"civility than
hitherto by the Cuttore-house olificers,; however, every
traveller, whether a foreigner or a native of Poland, is
obliged to sign a =paper in the Polish, German, and
French languages, in which he declares that he has no
letters, books, notes, &c., with him, otherwise he is to be
punished with all the rigour of the law.
With respect to the organization of the schools in
Poland, we learn that there are to be only four gymnasia
in all Poland.rin connexion with which there are to be
establishments where all the scholars aro to be boarded
and lodged, and that they will be secured against any
sinister influence.
POSEN, DEC. 16.—The latest news that we have to
communicate is, that, for some days past, a report has
been spread among the Poles here that the abolition of
the kingdom of Poland was to take place on the 13th of
January next year (the Russian New Year's-day) is ad-
journed by a later resolution sine die. On the
other hand, a Berlin correspondent of the Bremen
Gazette writes on the 20th of this month—" The
fate of the kingdom of Poland is decided, and it the
accounts received here are correct, even the name of
Poland will be obliterated at the beginning of the new
year
(From the Office of the Hamburgh and Altana Telegraph.)
HAMBURGH, DEC. 22, P.M.—The Elbe up here is still
traversed with ice• boats, but it is expected to break up
very shortly. The harbour is cleared of ice, and com•
munication with the vessels is carried on by means of

barges.
At Blankenese masses of ice collected together thi.
morning. At Schalau also, and lower down, consider-
able masses are collecting.
GLUCRSTADT, DEC. 22.—The ice is dispersing more
and more. The large flakes of ice are breaking up.
HAMBURGH, DEC. 25.—There is much floating ice at
Schalau and Blankenese, yet the boat Wilbelmina, which
left Altona yesterday, arrived safely in the evening at
Schalau.

GLIICHSTADT, DEC. 25.—The ice is rather increasing
in the channel, yet the Fredericka Johanna, Captain
Dewall, from Newcastle, arrived in the harbour yester-
day. The whole outer harbour is free from ice.