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WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.
• erHE COURT of TRECTORS of the WEST
-I- INDIA DOCK COMPANY, hereby give notice, that an
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL COURT will be held, pursuant
to the directions of the Ad of Parliament, at the West India
Dock House, No. 8, Billiter-square, on TUZSDAY, the 9th day of
January next, at One o'Clock in the afternoon, at, which Meet-
ing a DIVIDEND will be declared for the half-year ending the
.31st instant. By order of the Court,
H. LONGLANDS, Secretary.
West India Dock-house, Dec. 19, 1826.
N.B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely.

' NAVAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY.
if‘T. OTicE is hereby given, that the next QUAR-
TERLY MEETING will be holden at the THATCHED
HOUSE TAVERN, St. James's street, on MONDAY, the Bth
Januar); 1827.
London, 27th Dec. 1827.

SAMUEL HANCOCK, Soc.

TRINITY HOUSE, London, November 16,
1826.—Whereas, by virtue of an Act passed in the Third
year of his Majesty's reign, the Corporation of Trinity House Of
Deptford
,Strond are authorized and empowered, upon requisi-
tion, or with consent of his Majesty, his heirs, and successors,
or his or their most Honourable Privy Council, from time. to
time, to reduce. relinquish, or abolish, alter or modify, all or
any, or either of the Rates, Prices, Dues or Duties, or Toils,
payable to them, or any part or parts thereof;' and are further
.authorized, at any time or times thereafter, to revise or re-esta-
blish the same in manner as in the said Act is more particularly
set forth

In pursuance of this authority, the said Corporation have pro-
pto REDUCE the TOLLS payable for the LIGHTS on {he
RPN ISLANDS ; and their said proposition having received
his Majesty's Royal assent and confirmation, .
Notice is hereby given, that on and from the let January next
the Rates hitherto payable for the Lights on the Fern Islands will
'ease, and the undermentioned Rates will be collected in lieu
thereof, viz.:—

Present Rate to
cease on the 31st
Dee. 1826.

Future Rate to
commence on the
Ist Jan. 1827.

British Vessels
Ea.reir Vessels privileged
in re!p!et:,of Charges

lid. per Ton.
11-d. per Ton.

id: per Ten.
id. per Teti.

as British Vessels.
Foreign Vessels not so
privileged
The above-mentioned Duties are payable once only for. the
-whole voyage out and home, but a single passage subjects vessels
to payment .of the full duty.
. British vessels and Foreign vessels entitled to the privilege of
reciprocity, in respect of charges, are exempt froin- toll. when na-
vigated wholly in ballast.

3d. per Ton.

1 id. per Ton.

By command of the Corporation,
J. HERBERT, Sec.

VINTRY WARD.
A T a numerous and respectable MEETING of
-I- A- the friends of Mr. Sheriff WINCHESTER, held at the
King's Head Queen-street, the 28th Dec., 1826,
Mr. Deputy WHITBY in the Chair,
It was revolved,
That at a Wardmote held on the 2d of November last, and from
- thence continued by Adjournment to the 4th day of the came
month, HENRY WINCHESTER, Esq. was elected Alderman
.of this Ward, and finally returned as such to the Court of Alder-
' /men by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
That EdWard Archer Wilde,.Esq. one of the unsuccessful Can-
. didatee upon that occasion, has since petitioned the Court of
Aldermen upon a. point of Law, in consequence of an informality
• permitted by the presiding Officer, and the Court of. Aldermen
has deemed it necessary, on that ground, to declare the said Elec-
tion void.
That a Precept will be issued by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, for a new Election, oil TUESDAY, the Qd of JAN. NEXT.
That this Meeting considers itself deeply pledged to support
Mr. Sheriff Winchester, who has so firmly resisted the various
attempts which have been made to defeat him, but more !milieu-
_ lady, for his manly conduct in opposing a mere legal- objection,
and one which involves no principle by which it could he urged,
that the majority he had obtained, could or would be diminished
by any new Election.
That. this Meeting will, .by every means in its -power, en-
deavour to place Mr. Sheriff Winchester again at the Head of the
Poll, and for this purposeit calls upon his Friends to use their
best exertions to procure as early an Attendance to Vote as possible.
This Meeting does hope, that it cannot be accused of presump-
- rip% ,iu making this Appeal to its Brother Freemen, when it is
considered that Mr. Sheriff Winchester obtained a Majority, first,
by Showof Hands ; secondly, at the termination of the Poll ; and
lastly, after a labourious Scrutiny, demanded by his Adversary.
THOMAS WHITBY, Chairman.

. .
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-At
the MONTHLY MEETING of the COMMITTEE, held

at the Society's House, in Salisbury-square, on the I 1 th of De-
cember
The Right Hon. Admiral Lord GAMBIER, G.C.B. President
of the Society, in the Chair;
It was Resolved, on the motion of the Right Hon. CHARLES
GRANT, M.P. one of the Vice-Presidents, seconded by the Trea-
surer, JOHN THORNTON, Esq.—To make the Annual Grant of
One Thousand Pounds for the year 1826, to Bishop's College,
Calcutta ; and the Committee of the Society's Auxiliary in Cal-
cutta was requested to apply, that Grant, and such a portion of
former Grante, as might not have been appropriated, and might
be requisite for the purpose, in founding two Theorogical Scholar-
ships in the said College, for the education of Missionaries—such
Scholarships to bear the name of Bishop Heber'e Church Mis-
sicinary Scholarships"—the Committee being desirous thereby to
give a permanent testimony Of the highestregard cherished by the
Society for the memory of Bishop Heber.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee, held at Freemasons'
Tavern, at Twelve o'Clock, on the 15th of December inst., the
Right Hon. the President in the Chair, the said Resolution was
Confirmed.
At an Open Meeting of the Committee, convened for One
• .o'Cloek of the same day, in order to consider in what manner it
might be proper to notice the lamented death of the late Lord
Bishop of Calcutta, the following Minutes and Resolutions were
adopted 1—
The Committee being anxious to record their deep feelings of
regret and grief, occasioned by the death of the late Bishop of
Calcutta,
On the Motion of the'Rev. T. T. THossasost, M.A. Chaplain of.
the Hon. East India Company, on the. Bengal Establishment ;
seconded by the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, M.P. ;
- • It was Resolved—That while this Committee would bow with:
submission' to the will of Almighty God, they cannot but deeply_
deplore'the loss which this Society, and the Christian Church at
large,' have sustained by the death of the late Right Rev. Reginald
Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta ; and, whilst they contemplate
with gratitude to the " Giver of all Goodness," the strong faith,
ardent zeal, unaffected humility, universal love, and incessant
labours of this distinevished Prelate, terminating only with his
life, they feel themselVes peculiarly bound to commemorate his
attachment to the cause of Missions, and more especially his wise
end parental superintendence of the Missionaries of this Society,
labouring within his Diocese, by whom, they trust, no less than
by themselves, that he will ever be remembered as a bright ex-
ample of those graces which most eminently adorn a Christian
Prelate.
It appearing to this Committee that this establishment of the
English Episcopacy in India has been attended with the moat
beneficial consequencee, in reference to both Europeans and Na-
tives, but that its increasing cares will press too heavily on any
one Prelate,
43"'t
,Motion of Sir ROBT. HARRY Noels, Bart., seconded by
It vas
Colonel SANDYS,
vs
to
toexpre;s43MS, 0 lved unanimously--That while the Committee beg
acknowled behalf of the Society, their respectful and grateful
gmeats to his Majesty's Government, and to the Court
of Directors of
thei Hon. the East India Company, for the sup-
port which they have given to the establishment of Episcopacy in
India,stocheiyetleinsitfeorthperirhum.ble requests with those of the ven. e-
Table
Christian KnowledgeMatmg the Gospel, and for Promoting
prelates,as
inq be the appointment of such a number. ef
of th competent to the discharge of the weighty and
increased dutiese Eplecopate in India.
A Memorial, grounded on the foregoing Reeolution, having
been reed, on the Motion of Lieut.-Col. Plum, seconded by the
TRRASURER,
It was Resolved—That the Memorial which his been read be
"Proved ; and that a copy thereof he presented to the Right Hon.
the Earl of Liverpool, First Lord Commissioner of hie Majesty's
Treasury ; to the Righit Hon. C; W. Wynn, President of the
Board of Controul ; and to the Chairman of the Court of Direc-
tors of the Hon. the East India Company.
By order of the Commiteke, • •
EDWARD BICKERSTETII,
THOMAS WOODROOFFE, ) Secretaries. 4
Chureh Missionary House, Dec. 20, 1826.