Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed John
Richard Corballis, Esq., LL.D., to be one of the Commissioners of Chari- table Donations and Bequests for Ireland, in the room of the Right Ho- nourable Anthony Richard Blake, resigned.
Notice is given to the officers and company of the Queen's sloop Ferret, who were actually on board and entitled to share in the proceeds arising from the capture of the .Aventura, on the 28th September 1844, that the distribution thereof will be made on the 29th instant, at No. 14 Great George Street, Westminster.
The Gazette contains a Treasury warrant altering divers rates of Foreign and Colonial postage.
To all the usual trading-ports of the Cape of Good Hope and Eastward of that Cape, including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and between any of the ports enu- merated, except between Australia and New Zealand, a uniform rate of ls. be charged, on letters not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight [the weight allowed in the succeeding paragraphs']. The rate to the Eastern coast of the Isthmus of Panama is to be Is.; to the Western coast of Panama or the Western coast of America, 28.
To Heligoland (except on the letters of soldiers and sailors, which are already lower,) 6d.
British and Colonial papers between British Colonies, without passing through the United Kingdom, to be free; except that ld. may be allowed as a gratuity to the master of the vessel conveying them.
Newspapers, British, Foreign, or Colonial, passing between British or Colonial and Foreign ports, and through the British post, to pay 2d.; if not through the British post, ld.
Such papers passing between places in British North American or British West Indian Colonies, to pay a uniform inland rate of id. Each supplement to be charged as a separate newspaper, whether enclosed separately or not. Belgian newspapers may be sent from Belgium through the United Kingdom to any Colonies, at a uniform rate of British postage of ld. each. No newspaper, price-current, or commercial list, shall be conveyed by the post an der the regulations of this warrant, unless the same shall be sent without a covet, or in a cover open at the sides, and unless there be no writing or mark upon it except the name and address of the person to whom sent.
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