Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

5th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps. Second Lieutenant James Garsden to be First Lieutenant. Dated 24th April, 1862.

Matthew John Rae, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon. Dated 24th April, 1862.

17th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Ensign Thomas Hirst to be Lieutenant. Dated 24th April, 1862.

13th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps. John Bacon Stanley, Esq., to be Captain, and to take rank in the Volunteer Force from the 8th day of June, 1861. Dated 25th April, 1862.

Commission signed by the Commissioners of
Lieutenancy of the County of Fife.
1st Administrative Battalion of Fife Rifle
Volunteers.

Oswald Home Bell to be Surgeon.
April, and 1st and 5th May, 1862.

MEMORANDA.

Dated 29th

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept of the resignation of the Commission held by Oswald Home Bell, Assistant-Surgeon in the 5th Fifeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps; and of the Commission held by Captain Harry Walker in the 2nd Fifeshire Artillery Volunteer Corps.

MEMORANDUM.

Worcestershire Rifle Volunteers.

1st Administrative Battalion.

Adjutant Henry Ridge Wolrige to serve with the rank of Captain from the 13th October, 1860.

MEMORANDA.

2nd Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve of Captain Richard Waite Cox bearing the title of Captain Commandant in this Corps. Dated 25th April, 1862.

London Irish Rifle Volunteer Corps.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held in this Corps by Lieutenant Henry Valentine Edmonds. Dated 3rd May, 1862.

39th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held in this Corps by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Harpur Colvill. Dated 3rd May, 1862.

40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held in this Corps by Captain Arthur Plews. Dated 3rd May, 1862.

Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Lieutenant John Marshall.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Lieutenant John Alexander William Fabie Wilson in the 1st Regiment King's Own Staffordshire Militia. Dated 2nd May, 1862.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1858.
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF PARTS OF ACT &c.,
BY THE BOROUGH OF BEDFORD.

WHEREAS, on the 24th day of April, 1862, the
Council of the corporate borough of Bedford adopt-
ed certain portions of the Local Government Act,
1858, that is to say, Sections 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55 (except the provision in the
last mentioned Section, as to exemption from
rating under Local Acts), 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
75, 76, 77, 78, and 81, and the Form B in the
Schedule to the aforesaid Act; and also certain
portions of the Public Health Act, 1848, that is
to say, Sections 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,
49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,
67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100,
101, 102, 103, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114,
115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126,
127, 128, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139,
140, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, and 152;
and the Schedules C and F in that Act contained,
and also certain Sections of the Local Government
Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861, that is to say,
Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19,
20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, and 31, and
the schedule in that Act contained. And
whereas, notice of the adoption of the hereinbe-
fore recited Sections of the Local Government
Act, 1858, and of the Public Health Act, 1818,
and of the Local Government Act, 1858, Amend-
ment Act, 1861, has been duly given in writing,
to me, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secreta-
ries of State.

Now, therefore, I, as one of Her Majesty's

Principal Secretaries of State, do hereby give notice, that the hereinbefore recited Sections of the Local Government Act, 1858, and of the Public Health Act, 1848, and of the Local Government Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861, have been duly adopted within the said borough of Bedford, and that in accordance with the provisions of such first named Local Government Act, the herein-before recited Sections of the said Acts will, from and after the passing of the aforesaid resolution adopting the herein before recited Sections of such Acts, have the force of law within such borough.

Given under my hand this 8th day of May,

Whitehall, April 14, 1862.

THE following Address of Condolence, on the occasion of the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, which has been transmitted to the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been laid before the Queen by Sir George Grey, and has been received very graciously by Her Majesty:

To the QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.

May it please your Majesty,

WE, the Heritors, Commissioners of Supply, Justices of the Peace, and Lieutenancy of the

county of Sutherland, this day assembled at its annual meeting, humbly desire to approach your Majesty with the expression of our profound sorrow for the deep and irreparable blow which has fallen upon your Majesty, in the demise of His late Royal Highness the Prince Consort.

We loyally and reverently seek to offer to your Majesty our heartfelt condolence in this bereavement, which we are assured is felt by every one of your Majesty's subjects to be not only a personal but also a national misfortune, and we devoutly pray that your Majesty may long be spared to your attached people to rule over them, and to guide the destinies of your Majesty's great and extended Empire.

Signed at Dornoch, this 30th day of April, 1862, in name, and by appointment of this meeting, by

George Dempster, Chairman.

Downing Street, May 12, 1862.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Moseley, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Her Majesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast, and Assessor to the Native Chiefs within the protected territories, near or adjacent to the said Forts and Settlements.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James Richard Holligan, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Clerk of the Council of the Island of Barbados; and Fleetwood Wilson, Esq., to be Auditor-General for said Island of Barbados.

Downing Street, May 13, 1862.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Anthony Musgrave, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent.