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the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine:

The chapelry of Tanfield and the townships of Collierley and Kyo, now in the district of the County Court of Durham, holden at Durham, shall be in the district of the County Court of Durham, holden at Shotley Bridge;

The parishes of Tivetshall St. Mary, Tivetshall St. Margaret, and Dickleburgh, now in the District of the County Court of Suffolk, holden at Eye, shall be in the district of the County Court of Norfolk, holden at Harleston;

The Ecclesiastical District of Widnes Dock, now in the district of the County Court of Cheshire, holden at Runcorn, shall be in the district of the County Court of Lancashire, holden at St. Helens.

The township of Morton Grange, now in the district of the County Court of Durham, holden at Seaham Harbour, shall be in the district of the County Court of Durham, holden at Durham,

The parish of West Wickham, now in the district of the County Court of Essex, holden at Saffron Walden, shall be in the district of the County Court of Suffolk, holden at Haverhill.

The chapelry of Kentmere, now in the district of the County Court of Westmoreland, holden at Kirkby Kendal, shall be in the district of the County Court of Westmoreland, holden at Ambleside.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of January, 1859.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve of the bye-laws submitted by the Corporation of the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the

Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull, for altering the rates of pilotage in respect of steam vessels, within the limits therein stated, according to the schedule set forth in this Gazette.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of
January, 1859.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order upon the representation of the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that no new burial-ground shall be opened in any of the undermentioned parishes without the previous approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that burials in the said parishes shall be discontinued with the following modifications, from and after the twenty-fourth of January instant (except as is herein otherwise directed), as follows; viz. :PITTINGTON, DURHAM.-In the parish church of Pittington, Durham; and from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the Churchyard, except in family graves which are free from remains, and not less than five feet deep. SALISBURY.--In the Roman Catholic Burial Ground of St. Osmund, in the parish of St. Martin, Salisbury, except for the burial of the widowers, widows, parents and children of those already buried in now existing vaults and walled graves, in which each coffin shall be embedded in charcoal, and separately entombed in an airtight manner, and in family graves not less than five feet deep, which can be opened without the exposure of human remains. FLETCHING, SUSSEX.-Underneath the parish church of Fletching, Sussex; and from and after the first day of January, one

thousand eight hundred and ifty-nine, in the Churchyard, with the exception of now existing vaults and brick graves, which can be opened without the disturbance of soil that has been already buried in, and in which each coffin shall be separately entombed in an air-tight manner, and of now existing family earthen graves, in which no body be interred without a covering of four feet of earth, measuring from the top of the coffin to the ordinary level of the ground, and in which the only bodies to be buried shall be those of widowers and widows of persons already interred therein, and also with the exception of reserved grave spaces. KIRBY MISPERTON. In the church of Kirby Misperton; and on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the Churchyard, except in vaults and walled graves, in which each coffin shall be entombed in an air-tight manner, and in other graves not less than five feet deep, which can be opened without the disturbance of remains. WELSH BICKNOR, HEREFORD.-In the church of Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire. NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE.-In the Welsh Baptist and Ebenezer Burial-grounds, Newport, except for members of the families of those already buried therein respectively, no grave to be less than five feet deep, nor opened unless free from water and remains to that depth.

HOLMFIRTH, KIRKBURTON.-In Holy Trinity Church, Holmfirth, in the parish of Kirkburton, also in theesleyan Chapel Burial-ground, Hadedge, within three yards of the day school; and from and after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in Holmfirth Churchyard.

Also OTLEY, YORKSHIRE.-In the parish church of Otley, in the county of York, and in the

burial-ground of Salem Chapel, within three
yards of the day-school: and that, from and
after the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty (with the exception of
vaults and brick graves which were in existence
on the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, and which can be
opened without disturbing soil that has been
already buried in, and in which each coffin shall
be separately entombed in brick or stone work
properly cemented), in the Parish Churchyard.
DARRINGTON, YORKSHIRE. - In the parish
church of Darrington, in the county of York.
DEVIZES.-In the several churches and chapels
within the parish of Devizes; and also in the
churchyards of Saint John, and Saint Mary,
and in the Independent, the Old Baptist, the
New Baptist, the Wesleyan, and Salem Burial-
grounds, except so far as may be in accordance
with the following regulations; that no coffin
be buried within one foot of any other coffin,
or less than four feet below the surface of the
ground, unless in a vault or walled grave, in
which each coffin shall be embedded in char-
coal and separately entombed in an airtight
manner; also, that no new grave be dug within
three yards of any dwelling.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of
January, 1859.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order that the time for the discontinuance of burials in the churchyards and burial-grounds undermentioned be postponed as follows, viz.:

In the churchyard of St. John, BACUP, in the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and in the

Ebenezer and Irwell Terrace Chapel Burialgrounds, in that consolidated chapelry, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the present churchyard of BOWER CHALK, Wilts, from the first of December last to this eleventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine; in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, in the Independent Chapelyard, in the Inghamite Burial-ground, and in the Wesleyan and Baptist Burial-grounds, all in COLNE, in Whalley, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the churchyard of the parish of EGHAM, Surrey, from the first of January to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the churchyard of the parish of GILLINGHAM, Kent, from the first of January to the fifteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the churchyard of HEXHAM, from the first of January to the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the new part of the parish churchyard of LYMINGTON, from the first of January to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the churchyard of MALTBY, Yorkshire, from the first of February to the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in Christ Church Burial-ground, Every-street, Ancoats, in MANCHESTER, from the thirty-first of December last, to the thirtyfirst of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, on condition that all the regulations prescribed by certain Orders in Council of the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and twenty-second of October, one thousand eight hundred and fiftysix, in reference to this burial-ground, be strictly

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