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Witness our hands this twenty-fourth of Dec., 1855.
ARGYLL,
Her Majesty's Postmaster-General.
H. BEAND,
DvscAN,
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury.

TREASURY WARRANT.
Whereas, by an Act, passed in the fourth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, intitled " An Act for the re-
gulation of the duties of postage," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury from time to time, and at any time after the passing
of that Act, by warrant under their hands, to alter and fix
any of the rates of British postage or inland postage,
payable by law on the transmission by the post of foreign
or colonial letters or newspapers, or of any other printeA
papers, and to subject the same to rates of postage ac-
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be contained in such warrant.

LONDON

is Evening.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 28th day of
December, 1855, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council.
The Lords of the Council, having taken into considera•
tion their Lordships' Order of the 20th day of September,
1155, whreby the officers of her Majesty's Customs were
ordered to prevent the exportation of chlorate of potass
to any place, in Europe, north of Dunkirk, or in the Me-
diterranean Sea, east of Malta, are hereby pleased to re-
scind the same. and their lordship's are likewise pleased
herebylto rescind so much of their lordships' order of the
Ist Nov., 1855, as prohibited the export of chlorate of
potass to all foreign countries.
Whereof the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, and the Commissioners of Customs, and .11
other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice
and govern themselves accordingly,

C. C. GREVILLH

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 31.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Honourable Peter Campbell Scarlett, C. 8., now Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at Florence, to be her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of
Brazil.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BT LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
of itoB9, Caithness, gutberland, and Cromarty Regiment
Rifle Militia—Ensign James Stewart to be Lieutenant,
vice Patrick Mac Lean, promoted.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Ensign Percy Kirk to be Lieutenant, vice Potts, resigned.
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia--Ensign Henry
Burrowes to be Lieutenant, vice Adams, resigned.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Thomas
Acres Ogle, late Ensign in the 7th Regiment of Royal
Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign.
Queen's Regiment of Edinburgh County Militia.—Ed-
win Augustus Windsor, Gent , to be Ensign, vice Sin-
clair, promoted.
2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—Lientenant
William James Sharp to be Captain, vice Chadwick, re-
signed.
The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Fri lay, Dec. 211:-
Ist Rifle Regiment Royal Cornwall Rangers.—Ensign
George Grenville Fortescue to be Lieutenant.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
John Parker Marsh, wool broker and banker, Bishops.
gate-street, City.

BANKRUPTS.
William Elmsam, ironstone master, Hayford and Rug-
brook, Northamptonshire, to surrender Jan. 11, at one,
and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lawrance,
Flews, and Boyer, Old Jewry.
George Wagner, auctioneer, Bernard-street, Russell-
square, Jan. 8, at half-past one, and Feb. 12, at half past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 6tansfeld, official
assignee ; Tucker, Clement's-lane, City.
James Harrison, commission agent, City, Jan. 9, at two,
and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Park-
inson, official assignee, Argyll-street ; Parrott, Colville,
and May, Macclesfield.
Leonard Laidman, law stationer, Chancery-lane, Jan.
10, at half-past twelve, and Feb.l4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings; Philpot and Greenhill, Gracechurch-
street.

Joseph Nokes, glass cutter, Lower Hospital-street, Bir-
mingham, Jan. 14, and 6th Feb. at half.past ten, at, the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Smith, Birmingham ; East, Eirmingham.
William Seager White, chemist, Handsworth, Stafford-
shire, Jan. 14 and Feb. 6, at half-past ten, at the Birnaing-
barn District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Robinson, Birmingham.
Rowland Hill Blacker, mantle manufacturer, Ludgate-
street, City, Jan. 11 at eleven, and Feb. 8 at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings ; Mardon and Prichard, London.
William Higgins, paper manufacturer, Hawley Mills,
near Dartford, Kent, and 5 and 6, St. Paul's Churchyard,
City, Jan. 11, at two, and Feb. 15, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Spicer, Staple-inn, Holborn.
Isaac Firth, victualler, Manchester, Jan. 11 and Feb.
1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Flerna.
man, official assignee, Manchester; Potter and Wood,
Manchester.

Baxter Barker, innkeeper, York, Jan. 17, and Feb. 15,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official
assignee, Leeds ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
George Taylor, silk manufacturer, Derby, Jan. 15, and
Feb. 12, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dictrict
Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Crowder
and Maynard, London; Dunnicliff, Derby; Motteram
and Knight, Birmingham.

SCOTCH .
Copland sad Brickmann, shipSEQTJESTRA.TIONS brokers, Dundee.
Peter Stab°, ironmonger, Glaggow.
Maxwell Miller, coppersmith, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCF
Am5terdam............ 11 16%
Ditto, three months 11 194
Rotterdam •• •• •• •• •• •• 11 19%
Antwerp • • •• • • • • • • • • • • 25 474
Brussels •• .• •• •• •• •• •• 25 47%
Flamburgh •• •• •• •• •• •• 13 9%
Alton& •• •• se •• •• •• •• ea
• 25 30
Ditto, three months .. 25 70
Marseilles ............. 25 1/234
“ourdeanz .• •
Frankfort-on Malone .• 119;7;,
Berlin
Vienna •..... 11 10
Trieste•• •••• •••• •• .• .• I i
Petersburg 3.54
Madrid •• •••• • • 11, I• •• 49.!•;
Cadiz .• . ...... • ..... 493 i
Barcelona .... .•

:ANGE.—Tins DAY.

Gibraltar •• •• •• • •
Leghorn •• •• .. • 3O 15
Genoa
Milan .• •. •• •• •• •••• ••
Venice ........ • •
Naples .. • • ....
Palermo ••• . • . • • I 3:04
Messina ... • .. 133 y,
Lisbon ..
Oporto .............. •• 63';,s
Rio Janeiro ..... .•• ...•
Buenos Ayres •...
New York, 60 days' sight
Philadelphia • • ....
PRICES or 111CLIJON, TEX OZ.
I Foreign Gold in Bari £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin
Mexican Dollars
New Dollars
Silver in bra

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