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therefore, by and with the advice of Our Privy
Council, and by this Our Royal Proclamation,
do order and direct that, from and after the
date hereof, all Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Nitrate
of Soda, and Brimstone, shall be, and the same
are, hereby prohibited either to be exported
from the United Kingdom or carried coast-
wise.

Given at Our Court, at Windsor, this
thirtieth day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thonsand eight hundred
and sixty-one, and in the twenty-fifth
year of Our reign.

GOD save the QUEEN.

A T the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of
November, 1861,

PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

W HEREAS it has appeared expedient
and necessary to Her Majesty, by and
with the advice of Her Privy Council, to pro-
hibit the Articles hereinafter mentioned to be
exported or carried coastwise from the Islands
of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and
the Isle of Man respectively, except as herein-
after provided, Her Majesty is therefore
pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy
Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that
from and after the publication of this Order in
the said Islands respectively, the following
articles, namely,

Gunpowder,
Saltpetre,
Nitrate of Soda, and
Brimstone,

shall be and the same are hereby prohibited to
be exported or carried coastwise from the said
Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and
Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except
with the license of the Lieutenant-Governor or
⚫ther Officer administering the Government of
such Islands respectively, for that purpose first
had and obtained.

And the Lieutenant-Governors of Her Ma-
jesty's Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney
and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively for
the time being, are to give the necessary direc-
tions herein as to them may appertain.

ARTHUR HELPS.

(Circular.)

Downing-street,
21st December, 1861.

SIR, I have the honour to acquaint you
that it was on the 18th instant ordered by the
Lords of Her Majesty's Council, that in the
Morning and Evening Prayers, in the Litany,
and in all other parts of the Public Service, as
well in the occasional offices as in the Book of
Common Prayer where the Royal Family is
appointed to be particularly prayed for, the
words "The Prince Consort" be omitted.

I have, therefore, to desire that you make

the necessary communication to the Lord
Bishop of New Zealand in order that his Lord-
ship may give instructions that such Form of
Worship be observed in all Churches and
Chapels of the United Church of England and
Ireland within his Diocese.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey.

(Circular.)

Downing-street,
17th January, 1862.

SIR, I have the honor to acquaint you that
it was on the 6th instant ordered by Her Ma-
jesty in Council that in all Prayers, Litanies,
and Collects, for the Royal Family, the words
"Albert Edward Prince of Wales" be inserted
instead of the words "Albert Prince of Wales."

I have, therefore, to desire that you make
the necessary communication to the Lords
Bishops of the different Dioceses within your
government, in order that their Lordships may
give instructions that such form of worship be
observed in all Churches and Chapels of the
United Church of England and Ireland within
their respective Dioceses.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey.

(Circular.)

Downing-street,
22nd January, 1862.

SIR,-In my Despatch of the 26th ultimo,
No. 117, I informed you of the apprehensions
entertained by Her Mejesty's Government that
this country might be involved in a War with
the United States of America; I am glad to
be able to inform you that the question which
threatened this calamitous consequence has been
amicably settled.

The alarm, however, which has been felt
will not have been wholly useless, if it shall
have impressed on Colonial Governments the
necessity of prompt and effectual preparations
against contingencies which, though happily no
longer imminent, can never, in the present dis-
turbed state of the world, be regarded as im-
possible.

I have, &c,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey.

(Circular.)

January 16th, 1862.

SIR,You are aware of the determination of
Her Majesty's Government to maintain the
strictest neutrality in the hostilities which are
now being carried on between the United and
Confederate States of North America. In
order to cause that Neutrality to be effectually
respected throughout the Queen's Dominions,
Her Majesty has directed (in accordance with
a long-established European practice) that no
Ship of War, Privateer, or other Armed Vessel