riners Royal Benevolent Society, and to enable them better to carry into effect their charitable Designs.

lxxiv. An Act to extend the Wolverhampton Waterworks, and to amend the Act relating thereto.

lxxv. An Act for better supplying with Water the Borough of Salford, and for the further Improvement of the said Borough.

lxxvi. An Act to extend the Powers of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Company for the Purchase of Lands and Completion of Works on Part of their Railway; and for other Purposes. lxxvii. An Act for extending and amend

ing the Acts for regulating and improving the Borough of Newcastle-uponTyne.

lxxviii. An Act for enabling the Aberdeen Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and to alter their Station and the Levels of their Railway at and near Aberdeen; for repealing 66 The Great

North of Scotland Railway Act, 1847;" for altering, amending, and extending the Acts relating to the Aberdeen Railway; and for other Purposes. lxxix. An Act for repealing an Act relating to the Borough of Bradford in the County of York, and for better paving, lighting, watching, draining, and otherwise improving the said Borough, and for the better Regulation and Management thereof.

lxxx. An Act to extend the Time limited by the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act, 1847, for purchasing Lands and constructing the Works authorized by such Act, and for other Purposes. lxxxi. An Act for continuing the Term of the Cromford and Newhaven Turnpike Road Act, and for other Purposes. lxxxii. An Act for confirming an Agreement for the Sale of the Freehold and Leasehold Hereditaments and Premises, Works, Property, Gear, and Fixtures, of the Poplar Gaslight Company, to the Commercial Gas Company, and for the Dissolution of the Poplar Gaslight Company.

lxxxiii. An Act to enlarge the Powers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and to amend the Acts relating to their Undertakings. lxxxiv. An Act for continuing the Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Trust for a limited Period, for the Purpose of paying off the Mortgage Debt.

lxxxv. An Act for repairing the road leading from a certain Point in the Ken

nington Road in the Parish of Saint Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey to Highgate in the County of Sussex, and thence to Witchcross in the same County, and several other Roads therein mentioned.

lxxxvi. An Act for forming and regulating the British Electric Telegraph Company, and to enable the said Company to work certain Letters Patent.

lxxxvii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Rockdale, through Bamford and Birtle, to Bury, and several other Roads therein mentioned, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

lxxxviii. An Act to enable the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company to make certain Deviations in the Line of their Railway, and for other purposes.

lxxxix. An Act for extending and amending the Powers of the Timber Preserving Company's Acts; and to enable the Company to buy, improve, and sell Substances to be preserved, and to work Mills and Machinery.

xc. An Act for continuing the Term of "The Birmingham and Pershore Turnpike Road Act," and for other Purposes.

xci. An Act for constructing a Bridge across the River Clyde, opposite to South Portland Street, Laurieston, Glasgow.

xcii. An Act to amend "The Gorbals Gravitation Water Company Act, 1846," to authorize the Extension of the Works, and the Construction of new Works to supply the Town or Royal Burgh of Rutherglen and other Places with Water.

xciii. An Act for better paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise regulating and improving the City and Township of Peterborough in the Liberty of Peterborough in the County of Northampton, and for establishing a Cemetery therein.

xciv. An Act to make better Provision for raising Funds to complete the Railway and Dock Undertakings of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, and for other Purposes. xev. An Act to authorize certain Alterations in the Line of the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, and for other Purposes.

xcvi. An Act for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise improving the Township of Bilston in the County

of Stafford, and for establishing a Local Board of Health in that Township; and also for better supplying with Water and Gas the said Township of Bilston, and for constructing Cemeteries there, and for purchasing, improving, maintaining, and regulating the Market and Market Place therein, and for other Purposes. xcvii. An Act for the Dissolution of the East of Fife Railway Company, and for the Abandonment of the Railway. xcviii. An Act to enable the West Corn

wall Railway Company to make a Deviation in and a Branch Railway from their authorized Line of Railway, and for other Purposes.

xcix. An Act to enable the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Company to sell or lease their Railway to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.

c. An Act to carry into effect Arrangements made between the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and the Trus tees of the Birkenhead Docks; to amend the Acts relating to the said Docks, and to extend the Time for Completion of Works, and for other Purposes.

ci. An Act for the Extension and better Regulation and Management of the Markets and Slaughter-houses in the City of Glasgow.

cii. An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of "The Westminster Improvement Act, 1845," and "The Westminster Improvement Act, 1847," to extend the Time for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, and for other Purposes.

ciii. An Act for continuing the Term of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making a Turnpike Road from Saint John's Chapel in the Parish of Saint Marylebone to the North-east End of Ballard's Lane, abutting upon the North Road in the Parish of Finchley, with a Branch therefrom, in the County of Middlesex, for the Purpose of paying off the Debt now due on the said Roads, and for providing for the future Management thereof.

civ. An Act for better constituting the

District Church of St. Michael, Chester Square, in the County of Middlesex. cv. An Act to give Effect to certain Securities upon the Rates authorized to be levied under the Wolverhampton Improvement Act.

cvi. An Act for incorporating "The Class A. Shareholders of the St. Andrew's and Quebec Railroad Company," and conferring on them certain Powers. cvii. An Act for facilitating the Erection of a Church to be called "St. Gabriel's” in the District Parish of St. Peter Pimlico in the County of Middlesex, and for other Purposes.

cviii. An Act for better improving the Borough of Belfast.

cix. An Act to alter and amend the Acts relating to the Navigation of the River Lee in the Counties of Hertford, Essex, and Middlesex; and to enable the Trustees further to improve the Navigation and to dispose of the surplus Water; and for other Purposes.

cx. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, and to confer additional Powers upon the same Company and upon certain other Companies, and for other Purposes.

cxi. An Act to enable the Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Company to alter and improve their Harbour and construct additional Works; and for amending an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, called "The Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Act, 1847."

cxii. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Westminster Bridge to build a temporary Bridge across the River Thames from Bridge Street in the City of Westminster to the opposite Shore in the County of Surrey.

PRIVATE ACTS,

Printed by the Queen's Printer, and whereof the Printed Copies may be given in Evidence.

1.

A

N Act for the Management of the Allotments made to the Freemen of Nottingham by virtue of certain Acts for inclosing Lands in the Parish of St. Mary in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.

2. An Act to authorize the granting of Building and Improvement Leases of the settled Estates of Elizabeth Lydia Brig stocke, situate in the Town of Ryde in the Isle of Wight.

3. An Act to authorize the Purchase by the Prussian Minister of a Residence in England for the Use of the Prussian Legation, and to regulate the future holding of the same.

4. An Act to authorize the Sale of certain Real Estates situate at Hoddesdon in the County of Hertford, and in the Parish of Saint James Westminster in the County of Middlesex, and in Tottenham Court Road in the said County of Middlesex, which belonged to the late Renè Briand deceased. 5. An Act for authorizing certain Agreements between the Chancellor and Council of Her Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster and Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood Baronet to be carried into effect; and for other Purposes.

6. An Act for confirming and carrying into effect an Exchange heretofore made or attempted to be made between the Right Honourable George late Earl of Shrewsbury and John Grace of Whitby in the County of Chester, deceased.

7. An Act for confirming certain Leases granted by the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospital of Edward late King of England the Sixth, of St. Thomas the Apostle, commonly called St. Thomas's Hospital, and for enabling them to grant Building and other Leases of their Estates.

8. An Act for carrying into effect a Contract for the Sale of Messuages and Lands situate in the Parish of Barford in the County of Warwick belonging to the Rectory of the same Parish, and for vesting in Trustees certain Cottages and Lands situate in the Parish of Barford aforesaid, being Part of the Real Estate devised by the Will of Jane Mills Widow, deceased, upon trust to complete a Contract for the Sale thereof.

9. An Act for creating Powers of Sale in the Freehold and Copyhold Estates comprised in the Marriage Settlement of William Bernard Harcourt, deceased, with Elizabeth Georgiana Harriet his Wife.

10. An Act for establishing a School for Orphans of Freemen of the City of London.

11. An Act to authorize the Trustees of ⚫ certain Estates called the Chandos Estates, settled by a Deed dated the Third Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight on the Most Noble Richard Plantagenet Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and his Issue, to lay out the Monies produced by Sales of Parts of the same Estates in the Purchase of the Family Estates of the said Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

called the Buckingham Estates, notwithstanding certain Family Charges thereon, either with an Indemnity against such Charges, to be approved by the Court of Chancery, or with a proportionate Deduction from the Purchase Money; to extend the Powers of re-investing a Part of the same Monies; and to authorize the granting of Building Leases of Parts of the first-mentioned Estates; and for other Purposes.

12. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Sir John Lowther Johnstone Baronet, deceased, to grant Building and Repairing Leases for Ninety-nine Years of the Estate devised by the said Will situate in the Boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and in the Parish of Radipole in the County of Dorset; and for other Purposes. 13. An Act for giving Effect to a Compromise relating to the Estate of the Right Honourable George Alan Viscount Midleton, deceased, and, with a view thereto, for vesting the Estates in England and Ireland late of the said Viscount Midleton in Trustees; and for other Purposes.

14. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Thanet deceased to raise Money upon the Security of his Estates, for the Repair and Improvement of the Buildings thereon.

15. An Act to enable the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Effingham and others to grant Building, Mining, and other Leases of certain Freehold Estates in the Townships of Rotherham and Kimberworth in the County of York, devised by the Will of the Right Honourable Richard late Earl of Effingham; and for other Purposes.

16. An Act for authorizing the Sale of Estates in the County of York devised by the Will of Sir Henry Maghul Mervin Vavasour Baronet, deceased; and for other Purposes.

17. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Will of William Mellish Esquire, deceased, to invest a Portion of the Funds subject to the Trusts of the Will of the said William Mellish in the Purchase of the Family Estates in Ireland of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Glengall.

18. An Act to enlarge and consolidate

the Provisions of Two Acts of Parliament relating to the Estates of John Bowes late Earl of Strathmore.

PRIVATE ACTS,
Not printed.

19. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of John Bernard Hartley Esquire with Harriet Say Hartley his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

20. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Thomas Cobbe Esquire with Azelie Anne Cobbe his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 21. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Lieutenant-Colonel Proby Thomas Cautley and Frances (his now Wife), and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

22. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of William Chippindall with Mary Anne Chippindall his now Wife, and to en

able him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

23. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of the Reverend Edward Quenby Ashby with Elizabeth Sophia his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

24. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham Pelham Clinton, commonly called Earl of Lincoln, with the Honourable Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Pelham Clinton, commonly called Countess of Lincoln, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

25. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Georgina Hall with Henry Foley Hall her now Husband, and to enable the said Georgina Hall to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

STATE

PAPERS.

Britain and Ireland, and the Republic of Liberia, being desirous to conclude a Treaty of Peace and Friendship, and to regulate thereby the commercial intercourse between the dominions and subjects of Her Majesty and the territories and citizens of the Republic; Her Majesty has for this purpose named as her Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

The Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Her Britannic Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations; And the Republic of Liberia having, by resolutions of the Legislature, bearing date the 4th of February, 1848, authorized and

lic, to conclude such treaty on behalf of the Republic;

The Plenipotentiaries of Her Majesty, and the said President of the Republic, after having communicated to each other their respective powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:

Art. I. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors, and the Republic of Liberia, and between their respective subjects and citizens.

Art. II.-There shall be reciprocal freedom of commerce between the British dominions and the Republic of Liberia. The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty may reside in, and trade to, any part of the territories of the Republic to which any other foreigners are or shall be admitted. They shall enjoy full protection for their persons and properties; they shall be allowed to buy from and to sell to whom they like, without being restrained or prejudiced by any monopoly, contract, or exclusive