11. An Act to incorporate the Society of the Craft of Smiths and Hammermen of the Burgh of Aberdeen; to confirm, amend, and regulate the Administration of the Estates and Affairs of the said Society; and for other Purposes relating to the Society.

12. An Act to authorize the Sale of the Leith Exchange Buildings, and the Application of the Price thereof in the Extinction of Debts affecting the same; to distribute and appropriate any Balance that may arise from said Sale; and to wind up the Concern. 13. An Act to enable John Eden Spald

ing Esquire, under the Authority of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland, to raise Money by Sale or upon Security of the Estate of Holm and other Lands in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, for discharging certain Debts and Liabilities of the said John Eden Spalding; and for other Purposes. 14. An Act for the Regulation and Management of the Charity founded by Thomas Howell in or about the Year One thousand five hundred and forty; and for other Purposes.

15. An Act for enabling the Trustees of the Settlement of Cary Charles Elwes Esquire to grant Building and other Leases of Land, and to make Improvements on the settled Estates in the County of Lincoln, and to purchase Waterworks in the Town of Glamford Briggs.

16. An Act for enabling the Trustees of the settled Estates of the Right Honourable Henry John Reuben Earl of Portarlington situate in the County of Dorset to lay out the Monies arising under the Exercise of the Powers of Enfranchisement and Sale and Exchange contained in the Settlement of the same Estates in the Purchase of other Estates in England, Wales, or Ireland, in lieu of being restricted to laying out the same Monies in the Purchase of Estates in England or Wales, as directed by the said Settlement.

17. An Act for the Regulation of the Charity founded by George Jarvis, for the Benefit of the poor Inhabitants of the several Parishes of Stanton-uponWye, Bredwardine, and Letton, all in the County of Hereford; and for other Purposes.

18. An Act for enabling Leases, Sales, and Exchanges to be made of the Family Estates in the County of Southampton of the Reverend Sir John Barker Mill Baronet, and for other Purposes, and to be called "Barker Mill's Estate Act, 1852."

19. An Act for enabling Leases, Sales, and Exchanges to be made of the Family Estates, in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in the County of Southampton, of John Brown Willis Fleming Esquire, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is "Fleming's Estate Act, 1852."

20. An Act to enable the Infant Tenants in Tail of the Estates in the County of York subject to the Will of Thomas Thornhill of Fixby in the said County, Esquire, deceased, to grant Building and other Leases of Parts of the said Estates, and to sell or exchange the same; and for other Purposes.

21. An Act for appointing and incorporating Trustees for the Management of the Boys' and Girls' Hospitals of Aberdeen as One Institution, and for vesting the Estates and Revenues thereof in such Trustees, and for better managing such Estates and Revenues; and for other Purposes connected therewith.

PRIVATE ACT,
Not printed.

22. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Septimus Moore Hawkins Esquire with Harriet Lavinia Hawkins his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

By the QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA R.

WHEREAS by the Act of Parliament, passed in the 10th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George IV., for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, it is enacted that no Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the religious orders, communities, or societies of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows, should exercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits of his order, save within the usual places of worship of the Roman Catholic religion, or in private houses; and whereas it has been represented to us that Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, wearing the habits of their orders, have exercised the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion in highways and places of public resort, with many persons in ceremonial dresses, bearing banners and objects, or symbols, of their worship, in procession, to the great scandal and annoyance of large numbers of our people, and to the manifest danger of the public

peace; and whereas it has been represented to us that such violation of the law has been committed near places of public worship during the time of divine service, and in such a manner as to disturb the congregations assembled therein, we have, therefore, thought it our bounden duty, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, solemnly warning all those whom it may concern, that, whilst we are resolved to protect our Roman Catholic subjects in the undisturbed enjoyment of their legal rights and religious freedom, we are determined to prevent and repress the commission of all such offences as aforesaid, whereby the offenders may draw upon themselves the punishments attending the violation of the laws, and the peace and security of our dominions may be endangered.

Given at our Court at Bucking

ham Palace this 15th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1852, and in the 15th year of our reign.

GOD save the QUEEN! (From the London Gazette, Tuesday, June 15.)

MARK.

In the name of the Most Holy and

Indivisible Trinity.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Prince President of the French Republic, His Majesty the King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, tak ing into consideration that the maintenance of the integrity of the Danish Monarchy, as connected with the general interests of the balance of power in Europe, is of high importance to the preservation of peace, and that an arrangement by which the succession to the whole of the dominions now united under the sceptre of His Majesty the King of Denmark, should devolve upon the male line, to the exclusion of females, would be the best means of securing the integrity of that monarchy, have resolved, at the invitation of His Danish Majesty, to conclude a Treaty, in order to give to the arrangements relating to such order of succession an additional pledge of stability by an act of European acknowledgment.

In consequence, the high contracting parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable

James Howard, Earl of Malmesbury, &c., Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Sieur Lewis Charles Baron de Kübeck, &c., Chargé d'Affaires of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty at the Court of Her Britannic Majesty;

The Prince President of the French Republic, the Sieur Alexander Colonna Count Walewski, &c., Ambassador of the French Republic to Her Britannic Majesty;

His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Sieur Christian Charles Josiah Bunsen, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty;

His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Philip Baron de Brunnow, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty;

His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, the Sieur John Gothard Baron de Rehausen, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty;

And His Majesty the King of Denmark, the Sieur Christian de Bille, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty;

Who, after having communi

RIGHT.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the French Republic, being equally desirous of extending in each country the enjoyment of copyright to works of literature and of the fine arts which may be first published in the other; and Her Britannic Majesty having consented to extend to books, prints, and musical works published in France, that reduction of the duties now levied thereon on importation into the United Kingdom, which she is by law empowered to grant, under certain circumstances, in favour of such works published in foreign countries; Her Britannic Majesty and the President of the French Republic have deemed it expedient to conclude a special Convention for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Constantine Henry, Marquess of Normanby, &c., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic;

And the President of the French Republic, M. Lewis Felix Stephen Turgot, &c., Minister for the Department of Foreign Affairs;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :

Art. I. From and after the date on which, according to the provi

sions of Art. XIV., the present Convention shall come into operation, the authors of works of literature or of art, to whom the laws of either of the two countries do now or may hereafter give the right of property, or copyright, shall be entitled to exercise that right in the territories of the other of such countries for the same term, and to the same extent, as the authors of works of the same nature, if published in such other country, would therein be entitled to exercise such right; so that the republication or piracy in either country, of any work of literature or of art, published in the other, shall be dealt with in the same manner as the republication or piracy of a work of the same nature first published in such other country; and so that such authors in the one country shall have the same remedies before the courts of justice in the other country, and shall enjoy in that other country the same protection against piracy and unauthorized republication, as the law now does or may hereafter grant to authors in that country.

The terms "works of literature or of art," employed at the beginning of this Article, shall be understood to comprise publications of books, of dramatic works, of musical compositions, of drawing, of painting, of sculpture, of engraving, of lithography, and of any other works whatsoever of literature and of the fine arts.

The lawful representatives or assigns of authors, translators, com