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SATURDAY.
The Gazette of last night contained the following announcement, under the head of "Thanksgiving for the Harvest."
"At the Court at Buckingham Palace" the 13th day of September 1854. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. "It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the present abundant harvest ; and that such form of prayer and thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-on-Tweed, on Sunday the 1st day of October next.
"And it is hereby further ordered, that her Majesty's Printer do forth- with print a competent number of copies of the said form of prayer and thanksgiving, in order that the same may be forthwith sent round and read in the several churches and chapels of England and Wales, and of the town of Berwick-on-Tweed. C. C. GREVILLB." "At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of September 1854. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
"it is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that all ministers and preachers, as well of the Established Church in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as of the Episcopal communion protected and allowed by an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne, chap. 7, do at some time during the exercise of Divine service, in their churches, congregations, or assemblies, on Sunday the let day of October next, put up prayers and thanksgivings to Almighty God for the present abundant har- vest. C. C. GREVLLLE." In the same Gazette are also the following announcements.
" The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, C.B., now her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah of Persia." "The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appoint- ment of Richard Medea Bromley, Esq., Accountant-General of her Majesty's Navy, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath."
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