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PROMOTIONS.

the Ordinary Clerks of Session in Scot land.

13. Coldstream Foot Guards, Capt. J. H. Pringle to be Capt. and Lieut.. Colonel.

3rd Foot, Brevet Col. H. G. Smith to be Lieut.-Colonel.

Royal Military College, Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. W. Prosser, to be Major, and Superintendent of Studies, vice

Proctor.

18. Knighted by patent, Laurence Peel, esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

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Royal Artillery, Major-Gen. E. V. Worsley, to be Colonel Commandant.

20. 1st West India Regiment, Lieut.Gen. Sir H. F. Bouverie, K.C.B. and G.C.M.G. to be Colonel.

Brevet, Capt. A. Waller, 2nd West India Regiment to be Major in the Army.

30. Charlotte Duchess of Norfolk, and Charlotte Viscountess Canning, to be Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to Her Majesty, vice the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Countess of Dal

housie.

The Most Noble the Marquess_of Tweedale, K.T. and C.B., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Madras, and Sir George Arthur, Bart., Governor of the Presidency of Bombay.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Appointment.-Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B., to be Commander-inChief at Plymouth; John London, esq. to be Secretary.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Brighton.-Lord Alfred Hervey. Flintshire.-Sir S. R. Glynne, Bart., duly elected, vice Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn. Thetford.-Sir James Flower, Bart., duly elected, a Committee having determined the double return in his favour

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT. Rev. G. Tomlinson, to be Bishop of Gibraltar.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

John Fisher Miller, esq., to be one of the Deputy Registrars of Her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy.

Sir Gregory Lewin to be Recorder of Doncaster.

W. T. S. Daniel, esq., to be Recorder of Ipswich.

Rev. R. Coates, to be Master of the Chatham and Rochester Proprietary Classical and Mathematical School.

Rev. G. Stoddart, M.A., to be Master of Reigate Endowed School.

JUNE.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Knighted, George Hayter, esq., Member of the Academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Parma, and Venice, Painter of History and Portraits, and Principal Painter in Ordinary to Her Majesty; William Charles Ross, esq., A.R.A., Miniature Painter to Her Majesty; William Allen, esq., President of the Royal Academy of Scotland, and Her Majesty's Limner for Scotland; and, Henry Rowley Bishop, of Albion-street, Hyde Park, esq.

3. The Hon. Clementina Hamilton, to be Maid of Honour in Ordinary to Her Majesty, vice the Hon. S. M. Cavendish.

7. His Excellency Count Mensdorf, invested with the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.

13. Major-Gen. Sir William Maynard Gomm, K.C.B., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Mauritius. 16. Major-Gen. Sir H. R. Sale, K.C.B. to be G.C.B.

17. 60th Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Col. W. T. Cockburn to be Lieut.-Colonel Capt. J. S. Wilford to be Major.

20. George Graham, esq., to be Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.

22. Surgeon-Major Good, of the Scots Fusileer Guards, to Surgeon Extraordinary to H. R. H. Prince Albert.

24. Francis Watts, esq., to be one of the corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.

- Sir Hudson Lowe, G.C.M.G. K.C.B. and Knight of the Prussian Red Eagle of the second class, to accept the Order of the Red Eagle of the first class.

- 4th Light Dragoons, Brevet Lieut.Col. F. D. Daledy to be Lieut.-Col. ; Brevet Major H. Master to be Major.

49th Regiment, Brevet Major G. Pasley to be Major; Brevet Capt. Charles Mortimer, 36th Foot, to be Major.

27. Hugh Calveley Cotton, esq., to

PROMOTIONS.

be Deputy Surveyor-General in the island of Van Diemen's Land; George Aubert, esq., to be Her Majesty's Attorney-General in St. Lucia; Lieut.-Col. Lothian Sheffield Dickson to be Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of the district of Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope; and Henry Rivers, esq., to be Treasurer in the same colony.

29. James Archibald Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council; Charles Duke of Richmond, K.G.; William, Earl of Devon; Henry Thomas, Earl of Chichester; Lord John Russell; the Speaker of the House of Commons; Sir Benj. Brodie, Bart.; Robert Ferguson, esq., M.D.; Major Jebb, Royal Engineers; William Crawford, esq.; and the Rev. Whitworth Russell, to be Commissioners for governing the Pentonville Prison.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Athlone.-Daniel Henry Farrell, esq., declared duly elected, vice Beresford. Ipswich.-The Earl of Desart, and Thomas Gladstone, esq.

Londonderry Co.-Robert Bateson,

esq.

Lyme Regis.-Thomas Hussey, esq., declared duly elected, vice W. Pinney, esq.

Meath Co.-M. E. Corbally, esq.
Newcastle under Lyme.-J. A.Harris,

esq.

Waterford City-Sir II. W. Barron, Bart., and Thomas Wyse, esq., declared duly elected, vice Christmas and Reade.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. G. Archdall, D.D. Master of Eman. Coll. Camb. to be a Canon of Norwich.

Rev. C. Deede, to be a Preb. of Wells. Rev. J. Horner to be a Preb. of Wells. Rev. W. Gee, to the Archdeaconry of East Cornwall.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Mr. Serjeant Merewether to be Town Clerk of London.

Elliot M'Naghten, esq., to be a Director of the East India Company.

Capt. Donatus O'Brien to be Private Secretary to Sir James Graham, Sec. of State.

The Rev. Richard Harrington, M.A.,

to be Principal of Brazenose College, Oxford.

Wm. Fishburn Donkin, M.A., to be Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford.

Rev. James Butler, M.A. to be Head Master of Burnley School, Yorkshire.

The Rev. John Fletcher to be Master of the King's College School at Nassau, New Providence.

JULY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Unattached, Brevet Lieut.-Col. T. Falls, to be Lieut.-Col.

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Brevet Major R. Hort, 81st Foot, to be Dep. Adj.-Gen. to the Forces in the Leeward and Windward Islands, with the rank of Lieut. Col.

Brevet Col. J. G. Cuyler, Cape Corps, to be Major-Gen.; Major J. C. Chads, 1st West-India Regt., and Brevet Major G. Proctor, 84th Foot, to be Lieut.-Cols.

4. Capt. the Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C.B., K.C.B., to be a naval Aid-deCamp to Her Majesty.

11. Col. Thomas St. Clair, C.B., and K.R.S., to accept the insignia of a kot. Commander of the Order of St. Bento d'Avis, conferred by the Queen of Portugal in testimony of his services during the Peninsular war.

18. The Earl of Dartmouth to be Vice-Lieut. of the county of Stafford.

Lieut.-Col. Justin Shiel, Her Majesty's Secretary of Legation and Chargé d'Affaires in Persia, and kut. of the second class of the Lion and Sun, to accept the first class of the said Order.

Frederick Round Peel, esq., to be Usher of the Order of the Thistle. 19. 79th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Macdonald, K.C.B., to be Col.

20. Rawson William Rawson, esq., to be Civil Secretary to the Governor of Canada; W. F. Coffin, esq., to be one of the Sheriffs for the District of Montreal, in Canada; and James Agnew, esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in the Virgin Islands.

21. Peter-John Fane de Salis, Count de Salis, to accept the insignia, of the third class, of the Red Eagle, which is conferred in approbation of his conduct while in the actual service of his Majesty the King of Prussia, during the insurrection at Neufchatel, in 1831.

PROMOTIONS.

22. 13th Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Col. E. J. Tronson, to be Lieut.-Col.

32nd Foot, Major F. Markam, to be Lieut. Col.; Capt. H. V. Brooke to be Major.

46th Foot, Capt. Arch. Erskine, to be Major.

— 90th Foot, Major C. B. Cumberland to be Lieut. Col.; Brevet Major P. Cheape, to be Major.

Brevet Major-Gen. Sir W. M. Gomm, K.C.B., to have the local rank of Lieut.-Gen. in the Mauritius.

29. Frederick John Trick, esq., (late of the 66th Regt.) to be one of Her Majesty's hon. corps of Gentlemen at Arms.

30. Col. Thomas Phipps Howard, K.H., to wear the supernumerary cross of the Order of Charles 3rd, conferred in testimony of her Catholic Majesty's approbation of his services during the Peninsular war.

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The Bishopric of Barbadoes has been divided into three dioceses :

Rev. Thomas Parry, M.A., lale Fellow of Ball. Coll. Oxford, to be Bishop of Barbadoes; Rev. D. G. Davis, M.A. of Pemb. Coll. Oxford, to be Bishop of Antigua; and Rev. W. P. Austin, M.A., of Exeter Coll. Oxford, to be Bishop of Guiana.

Rev. Francis Russell Nixon, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College Oxford, to be the first Bishop of Van Diemen's Land.

Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, to be a Prebendary of Exeter.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. T. Edwards, to be Head Math.

Master of the Free Gram. School Blackburn.

Rev. C. Sangster, to be Head Master of Rochester and Chatham Class, and Math. Inst.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

AUGUST.

2. 83rd Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Col. B. Trydell to be Lieut.-Col.; Brevet Col. Swinburne to be Major.

Brevet Col. G. A. Wetherall, 1st Foot, and Lieut.-Col. Standish Viscount Guillamore, to be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen.

4. Charles George Young, esq., York Herald, to be Garter Principal King of Arms.

5. Edward Howard Gibbon, esq., Mowbray Herald Extraordinary, to be York Herald.

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Rifle Brigade, Capt. J. A. Henderson to be Major.

Unattached, Major W. T. Hunt, from 85th Foot, to be Lieut. Col.

- Staff, Major E. C. Archer, half-pay Unattached, to be Dep. QuartermasterGen. in the Leeward and Windward Islands with the rank of Lieut.-Col. in the army.

6. Royal Art., Brevet Major Matthew Louis to be Lieut.-Col.

11. Sir John Benn Walsh, Bart., to be Lord-Lieut. of the co. of Radnor. Rev. John Antony Cramer, D,D., to be Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.

Col. William Chalmers, C.B. to accept the Commander's star of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, conferred by the King of Hanover in approbation of his services with Hanoverian troops in the Peninsula.

15. Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington to be Commander-in-Chief of all Her Majesty's Land Forces in the United Kingdom.

17. Archibald William Earl of Eglinton to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Ayr, vice the Earl of Glasgow, res.

19. Fergus James Graham, esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul at Bayonne. Robert Falconer Corbett, esq., to be Consul at Maranham,

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PROMOTIONS.

William Kennedy, esq., to be

Consul at Galveston.

Thomas Ussher, esq., (some time British Vice-Consul at Port-au-Prince), to be Consul in Hati.

22. Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, K.C.B, Capt. R.N. and Admiral in the Turkish Navy, to accept the cross of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece, for his services at Modon and Patras in 1828; also the insignia of the Iron Crown of Austria of the 2nd class, St. Anne of Russia of the 2nd class, and the Red Eagle of Prussia of the 2nd class, for his services in the late war in Syria.

Lieut.-Col. Hen. Webster, K.T.S., to accept the Order of St. Bento d'Avis, and of William of the Netherlands, conferred by the Queen of Portugal and King of the Netherlands, in approbation of his services during the Peninsu lar war and at Waterloo.

26. The 13th Light Infantry to as sume the title of the 13th, or Prince Albert's Regt. of Light Infantry, and to bear on its colours and appointments a mural crown, superscribed" Jellalabad," as a memorial of the fortitude, perseverance, and enterprise evinced by that regiment, and the several corps which served during the blockade of Jellala bad; also to receive and wear a silver medal, which has been directed by the Governor-Gen. of India to be distributed to every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private, European and Native, who belonged to the garrison of Jellalabad on the 7th of April, 1842, such medal to bear on one side a mural crown, superscribed" Jellalabad," and on the other side, 7th April, 1842.

27. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Charles George Young, esq., Garter Principal King-at-Arms; to invest him with the gold chain and badge, and to deliver to him the sceptre of the office of Garter.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Archibald Tait, M.A., to be Head Master of Rugby School.

Rev. Henry Atkinson, B.A., to be Head Master of Drax Grammar School.

Rev. T. W. Richards, B.A., to be Math. Master of Oundle Grammar School.

Rev. John Davidson, to be Master of St. John's Hospita), Barnard's Castle.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Belfast.-David R. Ross, esq., and James Emerson Tennent, esq.

Hampshire.-Lord Chas. Wellesley. Ipswich. John N. Gladstone, esq., and Sackville Lane Fox, esq.

Nottingham.-John Walter, esq. Southampton.-Humphrey St. John Mildmay, esq., and George William Hope, esq.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

SEPTEMBER.

3. Gen. Rowland Baron Hill, G.C.B., created Visct. Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke, co. Salop; with remainder, in default of his issue male, to his neph. Sir Rowland Hill, Bart.

12. Frederick Beckford Long, esq., to be Registrar, and the Hon. Edward Cecil Curzon, Chief Clerk and Deputy Registrar, under the provisions of the act, intituled "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws, relating to the Copyright of Designs for ornamenting articles of manufacture."

Edward Scard, esq., to be Apothecary to the Duke of Cambridge's Household at Kew.

21. The Right Hon. H. Ellis, to proceed on an Extraordinary and Special Mission to Brazil.

Capt. Robert Fitzroy, R.N., to be the Acting Conservator of the river Mersey.

22. James Hook, esq. (in the room of M. L. Melville, esq., promoted,) to be Her Majesty's Cominissioners of Arbitration in the Mixed British and Foreign Courts of Commission, established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaties for Suppression of the slave-trade.

24. The Earl of Wilton to proceed as Envoy Extraordinary on a special Mission for the purpose of investing the King of Saxony with the ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

30. James Walker, esq., to be Secretary and Clerk of the Council, and Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer, in Barbadoes; Joseph Arthur Allen, esq., to be Treasurer of the Island of Trinidad; Francis Philip Bedingfield, esq., to be Treasurer of the Island of Dominica; John Montagu, esq., to be Secretary to Government at the Cape of

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The Duke of Buccleuch to be High Steward of Westminster, vice Lord Sidmouth, resigned.

Edinburgh University.-Dr. Alison, to be Professor of Practical Medicine, vice Dr. Home, resigned; Dr. Henderson to be Professor of Pathology, vice Dr. Thomson, resigned.

The Rev. John Earle, B.A., to be Head Master of the School for the Education of the Sons of the Clergy of the Established Church in Ireland, opened at Lucan.

Rev. T. Elmore, to be Vice-Principal of the National Society's Training College at Chelsea, Middlesex.

Rev. D. R. Godfrey, M.A., to be Head Master of Devonpt. Propr. School. Rev. R. P. Jones, B.A., to be Head Master of Denbigh Grammar School.

Rev. W. W. Willan, to be Vice-Principal of the Huddersfield Collegiate School.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

OCTOBER.

1. Rutherford Alcock and Jn. Bacot, esqrs., to be Inspectors of Anatomy in England and Wales; and Andrew Wood, Doctor in Medicine to be Inspector of Anatomy in Scotland.

3. Seymour Tremenheere, esq., Barrister-at-law, and one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, to be an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, for the period of thirty days, from the said 3rd day of October instant, for the purpose

of inquiring specially into the mode in which education, and particularly religious instruction, has been hitherto afforded to the pauper children of the parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex.

4. Gen. Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, Knt., to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of Gibraltar, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Brevet, Major Robert Pattisson, 13th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col.

To be Majors: Captains Henry Lavelock, A. P. S. Wilkinson, Hamlet Wade, and James H. Fenwick, all of the 13th Foot.

To be Aid-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Col. in the army in the East Indies only, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Monteath, 35th Bengal Infantry.

To have the local rank of Major in Affghanistan, Lieut. George Hall M'Gregor, Bengal Artillery.

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Major Hen. Havelock, 13th Foot; Brevet Majors James Fraser, 11th Bengal Light Cavalry; Augustus Abbott, Bengal Artillery; C. E. T. Oldfield, 5th Bengal Light Cavalry; 34th Madras Native Infantry, and Geo. Hall M'Gre gor, Bengal Artillery, to be Companions of the Bath.

21. John Balguy, esq., Q.C.; Ebenezer Ludlow and Edward Goulburn, Serjeants-at-Law; Walker Skirrow, esq., Q.C.; Henry John Stephen Serjeant-atLaw; Nathaniel Ellison, Martin John West, Edmund Robert Daniell, William Thomas Jemmett, Charles Phillips, Montague Baker Bere, and Richard Stevenson, esqrs., Barristers-at-Law, to be Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of fiats in bankruptcy in the country.

26. Duncan M'Neill, esq., to be Her Majesty's Solicitor-Advocate for Scotland.

31. James Matthias Gilbertson, esq., to be one of Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms.

The Duke of Wellington, as Commander-in-Chief, has appointed Colonel Hon. G. Anson, Lieut.-Col. the Marquess of Douro, Cornet the Earl of March, and Cornet the Marquess of Worcester, as his Grace's Aids-deCamp.

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