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MARRIAGES.

of the late James Charlton, esq., of Hexham, Northumberland.

3. At St. Mary's, Paddington, William Cheeswright, esq., to Caroline, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Sturgis.

5. At Windsor-street, Edinburgh, John Deykin Hitchcock, esq., to Jemima, daughter of the late Sir James Campbell, of Ardkinlass.

6. At Hanslope, the Rev. Augustus Pyne, B.A., formerly of Caius College, Cambridge, to Louisa Rosa, youngest daughter of W. Watts, esq., of Hanslope Park, Bucks.

At Narborough, Norfolk, James Bury, eldest son of James Capel, esq., of Fitzroy-square, to Georgina, third daughter of Charles Fassett Burnett, esq., of Narborough Hall and Park Crescent.

At Paris, at the British Embassy, the Rev. William Francklin, to Pene lope Maria, daughter of W. Atkins Bowyer, esq., of the Manor Estate, Clapham, Surrey.

10. At Trinity Church, Bridgewater, James Spencer Northcote, esq., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, second son of George Barons Northcote, esq., of Somerset Court, Somerset, to Susanna Spencer Ruscombe, daughter of Joseph Ruscombe Poole, esq., of Bridgewater.

At the Cathedral, Canterbury, the Rev. Frederick, R. A. Glover, M.A., Rector of Charlton in Dover, to Anne, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Starr, esq., of the Precincts, Canterbury.

13. At All Souls' Church, Sir Charles Des Voeux, Bart., to Lady Cecilia Paulet, daughter of the Marquis of Winchester.

At Leamington, Commander Gordon Gallie Macdonald, R.N., to Maria, surviving daughter of the Rev. William Oddie, M.A., formerly Fellow of Mag dalen College, Oxford, and widow of the late William Gray, esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

-At Mary's Creeting, Suffolk, W. Cunningham Douglas, esq., late Capt. 17th Lancers, to Lydia Louisa, daughter of Major-Gen. Charles Turner.

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gate, Thomas Carew, esq., third son of the late Sir Henry Carew, Bart., to Charlotte, fourth daughter of Sir William Curtis, Bart.

At Rothley, Leicestershire, the Rev. William John Conybeare, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, to Eliza Rose, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Rose, Vicar of Rothley.

15. At Duffield, in the co. of Derby, John Meynell, esq., of Tapton Grove, eldest son of Godfrey Meynell, esq., of Langly, to Sarah Brooks, only surviving child of the late William Brooks Johnson, esq., M.B., of Coxbench, in the same county.

At Donagheady Church, Henry Poore Cox, esq., eldest son of William Cox, esq., of Oxford-terrace, Hyde Park, to Augusta Frederica, second daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, of Earlsgift, in the county of Tyrone.

21. At Great Hallingbury, William, eldest son of the Hon. John Hay Forbes, of Medwyn, to Mary Anne, second daughter of the late John Archer Houblon, esq., of Hallingbury-place, Essex, and Welford, Berks.

27. At St. Mary's Paddington, Sm. Rawlins, esq., of Moseley, Worcestershire, to Catherine Anne, daughter of Stuart Donaldson, esq., of Upper Hyde Park-street.

PROMOTIONS.

1841.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

9. Capt. Atkins Hamerton, of the Hon. E. I. Company's Service, to be Her Majesty's Consul in the dominions of the Imaum of Muscat.

20. Hon. Alex. Lord Ashburton; the Right Hon. John Nicholl, Judge Advocate-Gen.; George Carr Glynn, esq.; and John Shaw Lefevre, esq.,

PROMOTIONS.

to be Commissioners to conduct a strict investigation, with a view to as certain in what manner Exchequer Bills have been made out and issued since the remodelling of the Exchequer by the Act of Parliament passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, and to point out whether any and what defects are to be found in the existing system, and what additional checks or regulations can be established, with a view to guard in future against the forgery of Exchequer Bills, or against the fraudulent or unauthorised issue of them.

27. Royal Art., Capt. and BrevetMajor P. D. Stewart, to be Lieut. Col. 28. 2nd Foot, Brevet-Major G. D. J. Raitt to be Major.

Brevet, Lieut.-Col. G. Macdonald (Gov. of Sierra Leone), to have the local rank of Col. on the western coast of Africa; Capt. H. J. Sharp, 86th Foot, to be Major in the army.

31. 1st Foot Guards, Capt. the Hon. F. G. Hood to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col.; 88th Foot, Major O. Phibbs to be Lieut.Col.; 94th Foot, Major H. R. Milan to be Lieut.-Col.

To be Lieut.-Cols. in the army, Brevet-Majors G. D. Hall, half-pay Royal Staff Corps; C. Head, half-pay Unatt.; T. W. O. M'Niven, half-pay Unatt.; S. D. Pritchard, half-pay Unatt.; E. H.D. E. Napier, 46th Foot; E. Harvey, 14th Light Dragoons.

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86th Foot, Lieut -Col. B. V. Derinzy, from 11th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col. St. Helena Reg., Major H. Simmonds, from the 61st Foot, to be Lieut.Col.; Brevet-Major J. Thoreau, from 37th Foot, to be Major.

Brevet Capt. H. E. O'Dell, of the St. Helena Reg., to be Major. 15. George Earl of Beverley to be Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard.

George Earl of Beverley, the Right Hon. James Lewis Knight Bruce, and the Right Hon. James Wigram, sworn of the Privy Council.

17. Alfred Cheeke, esq., to be Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales.

20. The 54th Reg. to bear upon its colours and appointments, in addition to the distinctions which it has previously obtained, the word “Marabout." in commemoration of the gallantry evinced by the regiment at the assault and capture of that fort, in Egypt, on the 21st August, 1801.

Lieut. Joseph Clayton Jennyns, 15th Hussars, to accept the cross of the first class, of the Order of San Fernando, conferred by the Queen of Spain, in approbation of his conduct in several actions while serving in the British Auxiliary Legion.

21. Susan, Countess of Dalhousie to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty, vice Mary Countess of Sandwich.

28. Alexander Lord Ashburton to proceed on an extraordinary and special mission to the United States of America.

- John Macpherson Brackenbury, esq. jun., to be her Majesty's Consul in the province of Andalusia.

Mr. James Milligan to be Consul in London, and Mr. Alfred Fox, Consul at Falmouth, for the Republic of Venezuela.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Commander William W. P. Johnson (late of Winchester), to the rank of Capt.; Lieut. J. H. Murray (flag Lieut. to Sir H. Digby), to the rank of Com. mander.

PROMOTIONS.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. N. Davies, to be a Prebendary of St. David's.

Rev. C. Drury, Prebendary of Hereford.

Rev. E. Melvill, Prebendary of St. David's.

Rev. J. Venables, Prebendary of Sa

rum.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

F. N. Rogers, esq., to be Deputy Judge Advocate General.

Rev. T. Hughes, to be Head Master of Woodbridge Grammar School.

FEBRUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry sworn of the Privy Council, and sworn Keeper of the Privy Scal, vice the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The Marquess of Salisbury sworn, Lord Lieut. of Middlesex; and the Marquess of Exeter Lord Lieut. of Northamptonshire.

3. Alaister Mackenzie, esq., to be Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Philip, in the colony of New South Wales.

Thomas Shirley Warner, esq., to be Provost Marshal General of Dominica.

7. George White, esq., Cul. in the Portuguese army, to accept the insignia of the Tower and Sword, conferred by Don John the 6th, for his conduct in the Peninsular War.

14. Knighted, by letters patent, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, of Bombay, esq.

Hercules J. Robertson, esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of Renfrewshire.

23. Admirals, the Hon. Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Barlow, and Sir Henry Digby, to be G.C.B.; Lieut. Col. Hugh Henry Rose to be C.B.

William Snagg, esq., to be Solicitor.-Gen. in the Island of Grenada.

24. Lieut.-Col. Hugh Massey Wheler, C.B., 48th Bengal N. I. to accept the insignia of the second class of the Order of the Dooranée empire.

25. Mr. Alexander Thom, Consul at

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PROMOTIONS.

Deputy Registrar in the district of Port Philip, New South Wales.

39th Foot, Brevet Major E. W. Bray, from 31st Foot, to be Major.

Brevet Major C. A. Bayley, Commandant of the Island of Gozo, to have the local rank of Lieut.-Col. in the Mediterranean.

11. Sir William Molesworth, Bart., to be Sheriff of Cornwall.

40th Foot, Capt. J. Stopford, to be Major.

Brevet Major F. Farrent, Capt. 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, to have the local rank of Lieut.-Col. in Persia.

16. The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine to be Governor of Jamaica.

22. Royal Art., Major Gen. Alexander Watson, to be Col. Commandant.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

In Compliment to the King of Prussia; Commander John Washington, of the Sheerwater (when he has served his time), to the rank of Captain. Lieuts. Thomas Mitchell, of Formidable, and Hugh Berners, Lightning, to be Commanders.

In consequence of the visit of Her Majesty to Portsmouth, Commanders Blow, Black Eagle; Hay, Queen; and Woodthorpe, Alfred, to be Captains. Lieuts. Blair, St. Vincent; Thomas, Royal George yacht; Græme, Queen; G. J. Hirtzel, Alfred, to be Command

ers.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Clitheroe.-Edward Cardwell, esq. on petition, vice Wilson.

Lewes.-Hon. Henry Fitzroy, on pe. tition, vice Harford.

Salop, South.-Viscount Newport.
Sunderland.-Viscount Howick.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Lord Wharncliffe, to be Governor of the Charter House.

Sir John Herschel to be Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Henry Selfe, esq., to be Recorder of Newbury.

Charles Barry, esq., elected a Royal Academician.

Mr. Kippist (late Assistant) elected Librarian to the Linnean Society.

APRIL.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Major-Gen. W. F. P. Napier to be Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Douglas.

8. Joseph Tucker Crawford, esq. (now Consul at Tampico) to be Consul-General in the island of Cuba.

Frederick Chatfield, esq. (now Consul in the Republic of Central America), to be Consul-General in the same Republic.

Ewen C. Mackintosh, esq., acting British Consul at Mexico, to be consul at that city.

Francis Gifford, esq., British ViceConsul at Vera Cruz, to be Consul at that port.

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Eustace Barron, esq., Vice-Consul at San Blas, to be Consul at that port. William Glass, esq., to be Consul at Tampico.

11. The King of Saxony was declared a Knight of the Garter; and Henry Duke of Beaufort, Richard Plantagenet Duke of Buckingham, James Brownlow Marquess of Salisbury, and Henry Duke of Cleveland were elected and invested Knights of the same Most Noble Order.

Royal Artillery, Brevet Major Rich. C. Molesworth to be Lieut.-Colonel.

13. The Right Hon. John Pirie, of Camberwell, co. Surrey, Lord Mayor of London, created a Baronet.

Knighted, James Campbell, esq., Lord Provost of Glasgow; Henry Thomas de la Beche, esq., F.R.S., Director of the Ordnance Geological Survey of Britain, and of the Museum of Economic Geology, Department of Woods, &c.; Wm. Drysdale, of Pittuchar, co. Fife, esq.; and Major George Gunn Munro, of the Rosshire Militia, and of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty.

George Philip Lee, esq. to be Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, vice Sir Edwin Pearson.

14. John Ashford, esq. to be one of Her Majesty's Hon. corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.

15. Brevet Major-General George, Marquess of Tweedale, K.T., to have the local rank of Lieut.-General, in the Presidency of Madras.

16. H. R. H. Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha to be Lord Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of

PROMOTIONS.

the Duchy in the counties of Cornwall and Devon.

The 32nd Foot to bear upon its colours and appointments, in addition to the distinctions heretofore granted, the word "Corunna," in commemoration of the gallantry displayed by the regi ment at that place on the 16th Jan. 1809. 18. George Raymond, esq. to be one of Her Majesty's Hon. corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Sams, retired.

20. Royal Artillery, Brevet Lieut.Col. Francis Rawdon Chesney to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Major William Bell to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Major G. B. Fraser to be Lieut.-Colonel.

23. The Rev. Charles Atmore Ogilvie, M.A. to be Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, and the Rev. Robert Hussey, B.D., to be Regius Professor in Ecclesiastical History, in the University of Oxford.

25. John Marquess of Bute to be High Commissioner to the Gen. Assem. bly of the Church of Scotland.

Francis Merewether, esq. to be Immigration Agent in the territory of New South Wales; J. D. Pinnock, esq. to be Dep. Registrar in the district of Port Philip, New South Wales.

Edward Howard Gibbon, esq. to be Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary.

26. Scots Fusileer Guards, Field Marshal H. R. H. Prince Albert, K. G. from 11th Light Dragoons, to be Colonel.

11th Light Dragoons, Lieut.Gen. Sir A. B. Clifton, K.C.B. to be Colonel.

- 17th Light Dragoons, Col. H. R. H. Prince George of Cambridge, K.G. to be Colonel.

20th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. S. Barns, K.C.B. to be Colonel.

40th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir A.Woodford, K.C.B. G.C.M.G. to be Colonel.

Rifle Brigade, Lieut.-Gen. Sir D. L. Gilmour, K.C.B., to be Colonel Commandant of a Battalion.

27. The Duke of Marlborough to be Lord Lieutenant, and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Oxford; and the Marquess of Londonderry to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county Palatine of Durham.

29. Ceylon Rifle Regiment.-Major James Anderson to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Major Auchmuty Montresor to be Major.

Brevet Captain T. A. Girling, 91st Foot, to be Major.

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esq.

Wakefield.-The Hon. Wm. S. Lascelles duly elected, vice Holdsworth.

Weymouth.-Ralph Bernal, esq., and Wm. D. Christie, esq., duly elected, vice Visct. Villiers and Hope.

Wigan.-Charles Standish, esq., duly clected, vice Crosse.

[The election of F. Villiers, esq., and D. O. Dyce Sombre, esq. for Sudbury, was declared void, and the borough recommended to be disfranchised.]

[The election of Rigby Wason, esq., and George Rennie, esq. for Ipswich, was declared void, and the issue of a new Writ suspended on account of the bribery at their election.]

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. W. F. Raymond, to be Archdeacon of Northumberland.

Rev. T. S. Bowstead, to be a Prebend. of Lichfield.

Rev. H. F. Gray to be a Prebend. of Wells.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. N. Germon, to be Head Master of Manchester Free Grammar School. Rev. J. Woolley, to be Head Master of the Cathedral School at Hereford.

Rev. J. Walker to be Master of Clipstone School, Northampton.

MAY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Knighted, Cresswell Cresswell, esq., one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.

10. P. R. Marillier, esq., to be Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of the district of Somerset, Cape of Good Hope.

11. John Russell, esq., to be one of

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