FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 15, St. James's-Palace, July 13, 1836. THIS day had audience of His Majesty, General Count Sebastiani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the King of the French, to take leave for a short time; and Andrew Stephenson, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, to deliver his credentials: To which they were respectively introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies. Whitehall, July 14, 1836. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for presenting the Reverend Francis Hodgson, A. M. to the Archdeaconry of Derby, void by the promotion of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Samuel Butler to the See of Lichfield and Coventry. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 19, Lord Chamberlain's-Office, July 19, 1836. NOTICE is hereby given, that His Majesty's next Levee will be held at St. James's-Palace, on Wednesday the 27th instant, instead of Wednesday the 20th instant. At the Court at St. James's, the 13th day of July 1836, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the third and fourth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for the general regulation of the "Customs," it is, among other things, enacted, that goods of places within the limits of the East India Company's charter shall be imported only into such ports of the United Kingdom as shall be approved of by the Lords of the Treasury, and declared by an Order in Council to be fit and proper for such importation: And whereas the port of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, has been approved of by the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury for that purpose; His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Coun Council, is thereupon pleased to declare, and it is hereby declared, that the said port of Plymouth is fit and proper for the importation of goods from places within the limits of the East India Company's charter: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Wm. L. Bathurst. Westminster, July 14, 1836. This day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorised by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seal, signed by His Majesty, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; and the Conimons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to An Act to repeal so much of two Acts of the ninth and tenth years of King George the Fourth, as directs the period of execution and the prison discipline of persons convicted of the crime of murder. An Act to amend an Act, passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, for the better administration of 1836 D d jus justice, at the holding of petty sessions by justices of the peace, in Ireland. An Act to amend an Act of His late Majesty King George the Second, for the encouragement of building of chapels of ease, in Ireland. An Act to amend and regulate the law of Scotland, as to erasures in instruments of sasine and of resignation ad remanentiam. An Act for the regulation of Benefit Building 'Societies. An Act to enable the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company to sue and be sued in the name of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the Directors of the said Company, and for other purposes. An Act for the amendment of three several Acts, passed in the sixth, tenth, and forty-seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty George the Third, for the recovery of small debts within the hundreds of Blackheath, of Bromley, and Beckenham, of Rokesley, otherwise Ruxley, and of Litt'e and Lessness, in the county of Kent, and within the hundred of Wallington, in the county of Surrey, and to extend the powers thereof. An Act to enable the London and Croydon Railway Company to provide a station and other works, in the parish of Saint Olave, in the borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, and to amend the Act relating to the said railway. An Act for making and maintaining a railway from Preston to Longridge, in the county palatine of Lancaster. An Act for further improving the road between London and Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury. And six private Acts. Queen's Queen's-House, St. James's-Palace, July 15, 1836. This day Andrew Stevenson, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, had his first audience of Her Majesty: To which he was introduced by Earl Howe, Her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 22, Foreign-Office, July 21, 1836. A DISPATCH, of which the following is an extract, has been transmitted to Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B. His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by the Right Honourable Henry Ellis, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary at the Court of Persia: MY LORD, (Extract.) Teheran, May 6, 1836. I HAVE the honour to forward to your Lordship a Persian copy and translation of a Proclamation or Royal Order, issued by His Majesty the Shah, which places the trade of British subjects with Persia on the same footing, with respect to duties, as Dd 2 that |