1.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE GROSS PUBLIC INCOME OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

In the Year ended the 31st day of December, 1866, and of the actual Issues or Payments within the same period, exclusive of the sums applied to the
Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments for Local Works, &c.

Customs

INCOME.

s. d.

EXPENDITURE.

£ 21,915,000 0 0 Interest and Management of the Per20,616,000 00 manent Debt

406,618 15 0

£ s. d.

731,449 14 6

827,500 0 0

254,324 17 3

Allowance out of Profits of Issue received from the Bank of England,

per Act 24 Vict., c. 3

Miscellaneous Receipts, including Im

132,498 10 11

2,253,444 8 4

SUPPLY SERVICES:

New Zealand War

Miscellaneous Civil Services

Salaries, Superannuations, &c., of Cus-
toms and Inland Revenue

Ditto ditto Post Office

Total Revenue £68,785,662 1 4

Total Ordinary Expenditure £66,884,769 18 1

Expenses of Fortifications provided for by Money raised per
Acts 27 & 28 Vict. c. 109

Deduct-Amount applied in redemption of Deficiency Bills

932,000 0 0

Exchequer Bills (dated 11th June, 1861), exchanged for new Bills

Revenue)

Advances for the Purchase of Bullion, and for Local Works, &c. (including £200,000 for Lancashire Distress) 600,000 0 0 Advances for New Courts of Justice, &c.

Exchequer Bonds (Series M.) per Act 28 & 29 Vict. c. 29, dated 27th March, 1866 (payable 27th March, 1868) Exchequer Bills, dated 11th June, 1866, issued per Act 24 Vict. c. 5 (in exchange for Bills dated 11th June, 1861). Ditto ditto ditto (to replace, in part, Bills dated 11th June, 1861, paid off in Money) Repayments on account of Advances for the Purchase of Bullion, and for Local Works, &c. Repayments on account of Advances for New Courts of Justice, &c.

Excess of Income over Total Expenditure in the Year ended 31st December, 1866

Jan. 2. Major-Gen. Sir Henry Knight Storks, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; Russell Gurney, Esq., Q.C., Recorder of the City of London and John Blosset Maule, Esq., barrister-at-law, Recorder of Leeds, to be H.M.'s Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring respecting certain disturbances in Jamaica, and the measures taken in the course of their suppression; and Charles Saville Roundell, Esq., Barrister-at-law, to be secretary to the said Commissioners.

5. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

9. Robert Burnett David Morier, Esq., Secretary to H.M's Legation at Athens, and Louis Mallet, Esq., to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

10. The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted to the undermentioned gentlemen, and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotton, viz.:Edward Manningham-Buller, Esq., of Dilhorn-hall, co. Stafford; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, K.C.B., of Belgravesquare, Middlesex, Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; William Fergusson, Esq., of Spittlehaugh, co. Pebbles, and of George-street, Hanover-square, one of H.M.'s Surgeons Extraordinary.

19. Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, K.C.B., now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Bavaria, to be H.M.'s Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia.

Sir Henry Francis Howard, K.C.B., now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Bavaria.

Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, K.C.B., to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover.

23. The Duke of Somerset, K.G.; Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick William Grey, G.C.B.; Rear-Admiral Charles Eden, C.B.; Rear-Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe, C.B.; Rear-Admiral the Hon. James Robert Drummond, C. B.; and Henry Fenwick, Esq., M.P., to be H.M.'s Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging.

26. The Right Hon. George Joachim Göschen to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

30. Captain his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, R.N., K.C.B., to be a G.C.B. of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath; and his Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenbourg, to be an Honorary K.C.B.

The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto James Young Simpson, of Strathavon, Linlithgow, M.D., one of H.M.'s Physicians in Scotland, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Dominic John Corrigan, of Cappagh and Inniscorrig, co. Dublin, M.D., one of H.M.'s Physicians in ordinary in Ireland, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

The Right Hon. Lord Napier, K.T., to be Governor of Madras.

Feb. 3. The Rev. Charles Frederick Johnstone, of Balliol College, Oxford, B.A., to be one of H.M.'s Inspectors of Schools.

5. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Eden, Esq.; Wallace Houstoun, Esq., Rear-Admiral in H.M.'s Navy; and James Paterson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be the Special Com

missioners for English Fisheries under the Salmon Fishery Act, 1865.

16. The Marquis of Hartington sworn a member of the Privy Council, and appointed Secretary of State for War.

Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., appointed Attorney-General of Gibraltar.

20. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bart., created Viscount Halifax, in the peerage of Great Britain.

Sir H. B. E. Frere, K.C.B., Sir R. Montgomery, K.C.B., and General Sir W. R. Mansfield, K.C.B., appointed Knights of the Star of India.

21. Francis Grant, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, in the room of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, deceased, the Very Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, to be Trustees for the formation of a gallery of the portraits of persons eminent in British history.

23. H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, to be Captain in H.M.'s fleet.

27. H.M. Leopold II., King of the Belgians, appointed a Knight of the Garter.

John Smale, Esq., appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong.

The dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to David Monro, Esq., Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Colony of New Zealand.

The Right Hon. George William Fox, Lord Kinnaird, K.T., to be Lieut. and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Perth, in the room of Thomas Robert, Earl of Kinnoull, deceased.

March 3. Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Charles Grey, one of H.M.'s Equerries in Ordinary, and Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, K.C.B., to be Joint Keepers of H.M.'s Privy Purse, in the room of Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, K.C.B., deceased.

Major Sir John Clayton Cowell, of the Royal Engineers, K.C.B., to be Master of H.M.'s Household, vice Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, K.C.B., resigned.

Richard Couch, Esq., now a Judge of the High Court at Bombay, to be Chief Justice of the said Court; Sir Charles Sargent, Knt., to be a Judge of the High Court at Bombay; William Markby, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be a Judge of the High Court at Calcutta ; and Charles Collett, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court at Madras.

Walter Morgan, Esq. now a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal, to be Chief Justice of the High Court for the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort Wil

liam; and Alexander Ross, Esq., William Edwards, Esq., William Roberts, Esq., and Francis Boyle Pearson, Esq., all of the Bengal Civil Service, and Charles Arthur Turner, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Judges of the said High Court for the North-Western Provinces.

9. Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell as Treasurer, and the Hon. Eliot Yorke and Lieut. Arthur Balfour Haig, R.E., as Equerries to H.R.H. Prince Alfred.

Frederick Dundas, Esq., of Papdale, in the shire of Orkney, Lieut. and Sheriff Principal of the shires of Orkney and Zetland, in the room of the Hon. John Charles Dundas, deceased.

16. Right Hon. William Monsell, to be President of the Board of Trade.

20. Arthur Hobhouse, Esq., Q.C., to be Third Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.

23. The honour of Knighthood conferred upon Francis Grant, Esq. President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

27. The Rev. Benjamin Morgan Cowie, B.D., one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, to be an Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

Helène Eleonore Charlotte Auguste, Vicountess Walden, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in the room of Mary Gertrude, Countess De Grey and Ripon, resigned.

April 6. Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, K.C.B., to be ReceiverGen. of the Duchy of Cornwall.

10. Abraham Carlton Cumberbatch, Esq., late Consul-Gen. at Constantinople, to be a C.B. (Civil Division),

James

Assistant-Commissary-General Bailey to be a C.B. (Military Division).

The Duke of Somerset, K.G., Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, G.C.B., ViceAdmiral C. Eden, C.B., Rear-Admiral E. G. Fanshawe, C.B., Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C.B., and Lord John Hay, to be Lords of the Admiralty.

17. George Buckley Mathew, Esq., C.B., now Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of South America, to be Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic.

May 1. Letters patent under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom to the following noblemen, and the heirs male of their respective bodies lawfully begotten-viz.: James, Earl of Caithness, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Scotland, by the name, style, and title of Baron Barrogill, of Barrogill Castle, in the county of Caithness; Thomas, Baron Clermont, in that part of the said United Kingdom

called Ireland, by the name, style, and title of Baron Clermont, of Clermont-park, in the county of Louth; and William Meredyth, Baron Athlumney, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland, by the name, style, the title of Baron Meredyth, of Dollardstown, in the county of Meath.

8. The Hon. Otho Augustus Fitzgerald (commonly called Lord Otho Fitzgerald) to be Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Right Hon. William Coutts Keppel (commonly called Viscount Bury), resigned.

The Right Hon. George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, to be one of the Lords-in-Waiting in ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of George, Lord Rivers, deceased.

The Hon. Frederick William Stopford to be Page of Honour to Her Majesty, vice Henry John Loftus, Esq.

The Right Hon. Robert Montgomery, Lord Belhaven, K.T., to be H.M.'s High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

10. Richard Edmund St. Lawrence, Earl of Cork and Orrery, and Clarence Edward Paget (commonly called Lord Clarence Paget) were, by H.M.'s command, sworn of H.M.'s Most Hon. Privy Council.

19. At the Court at Windsor, Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare her consent to a contract of matrimony between Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, Prince of Teck; which consent Her Majesty has caused to be signified under the Great Seal.

19. The Hon. John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton (now Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Trinidad and its dependencies) to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria.

William Cleaver Francis Robinson, Esq. (now President and Senior Member of the Executive Council of the Island of Montserrat), to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of H.M.'s settlements in the Falkland Island and their dependencies.

21. Petrus Johannes Denyssen and James Coleman Fitzpatrick, Esqs., to be Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; and Simeon Jacobs, Esq. to be SolicitorGeneral for that Colony.

25. H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, K.G., K.T., to be Earl of Ulster, Earl of Kent, and Duke of Edinburgh. 29. Lord Wodehouse to be Earl of Kimberley.

William Smythe, Esq., to be one of the

Board of Supervision for Relief of the Poor in Scotland, vice Henry Home Drummond, Esq., resigned.

The Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce, to be a Bedchamber Woman in Ordinary to Her Majesty, vice Lady Charlotte Copley, resigned.

Lady Charlotte Copley to be an Extra Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty.

June 2. The Right Hon. John, Earl Russell, K.G., the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, John Bonham Carter, Esq., William Patrick Adam, Esq., and John Esmonde, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

11. The Right Hon. Otho Augustus Fitzgerald (commonly called Lord Otho Fitzgerald), the Right Hon. Edmund Hammond, and the Right Hon. Russell Gurney, were, by H.M.'s command, sworn of H.M.'s Most Hon. Privy Council.

The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Edwin Richard Windham, Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland, K.P., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Kenry, of Kenry, in the county of Limerick.

The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, C.B., now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark; and Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, K.C.B., now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Portugal.

Victor de Magnus, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul-General at Berlin.

John Savile Lumley, Esq., now Secretary to H.M.'s Embassy at St. Petersburg, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony.

18. The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom unto Thomas Watson, of Henrietta-street, Cavendish - square, in the parish of St. Marylebone, and county of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and one of H.M.'s Physicians Extraordinary, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

Viscount Hamilton to be a Lord of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, vice the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, appointed an Extra Lord of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness.