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MARCH.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Charles John, Viscount Canning, Alexander Milne, esq., and the Hon. Charles Alexander Gore, to be Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. Richard Stevens, esq. (now Vice-Consul at Samsoon), to be Consul at Tabreez; Benjamin Barrie, esq. (now Consular Assistant at Madrid), to be Consul at Alicante.

3. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, K. C. H., to be a Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, vice Duncombe.

5. Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, C. B., to be Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert, vice Anson; General Sir G. Anson, to be Extra Groom of the Bedchamber; Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, Grenadier Guards, to be Equerry, vice Wylde; Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Equerry, vice Bowater.

9. Captain Charles Hotham, R. N., to be K. C. B.

10. Lieutenant-General Earl Cathcart,

K. C. B., to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and of the island of Prince Edward, and GovernorGeneral of all Her Majesty's Provinces on the continent of North America, and of the island of Prince Edward.

11. Hon. S. T. Carnegie, and Ralph Neville, esq., to be Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.

18. Charles John, Viscount Canning, sworn of the Privy Council.

19. The Right Hon. Charles John, Viscount Canning, to be an additional Fine Arts Commissioner.

28. Theophilus Shepstone, esq., to be Diplomatic Agent to the native tribes residing within the district of Natal, in South Africa.-John Maclean, esq., Captain in the Army, to be Diplomatic Agent to the T'Slamble, Congo, and Fingo tribes, on the eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope.

30. Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Right Hon. John C. Herries, and Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Eng., to be Commissioners for investigating and reporting upon the various railway projects of which the termini are proposed to

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be established within or in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis.

Lord Lyttelton to be Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

13. 7th Dragoon Guards, Major-Gen. Sir George Scovell, K. C. B., to be Colonel; 7th Dragoons, Major General Sir William Tuyll, to be Colonel.-13th Foot, Major General Sir W. M. Gomm, K. C.B., to be Colonel.

20. Staff, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, John Bloomfield Gough, of the 3rd Light Dragoons, to be Quartermaster-General to the Queen's Forces in the East Indies. Brevet Captain John St. Leger, 2nd West India Regiment, and Captain Thomas Hurdle, Royal Marines, to be Majors in the Army.

27. 61st Foot, Captain J. B. Thomas, to be Major.-Brevet, Captain C. Randall, 1st Foot Guards, to be Major in the army; Captain T. F. Tait, of 2nd Bengal European Regiment, to be Major in the army in the East Indies.

31. 9th Foot, to be LieutenantColonels, Major G. L. Davis, Major C. Barnwell; to be Majors, brevet Major C. Douglas, brevet Major M. Smith.

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NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

To be retired Commander-. W. Les

Appointments. Captains Sir T. Herbert, K. C. B. (1822), to the Raleigh; R. B. Watson (1842), to the Brilliant. Commanders J. C. Pitman (1842), to the Childers; E. Crouch (1843), to the Devastation.

With reference to the successful engagement at Punta Obligado, by the combined English and French Naval Forces, the following naval promotions have taken place, dated the 18th Nov. 1845, the day of the action, viz. -To be Captain, Commander B. J. Sullivan; to be Commanders, Acting Commander E. A. Inglefield, Lieutenant R. J. T. Levinge, C. F. Doyle, Lieutenant A. C. Key.

MEMBERS RETurned to ParLIAMENT.

Bridport.-Alexander D. R. W. Baillie Cochrane, esq. (re-elected.) Gloucestershire. (East.)-Marquis of Worcester.

Mayo Co. Joseph Myles M'Donnell, esq.

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1. Viscount Canning, to be one of her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into and considering the most effectual means of improving the metropolis, and of providing increased facilities of communication within the same.

2. To be Companions of the Bath:Col. Thomas Reed, 62nd Foot, Col. the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, 62nd Foot, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Ryan, 50th Foot, Peter John Petit, 50th Foot, Marcus Barr, 29th Foot, Thomas Bunbury, 80th Foot, John Byrne, 31st Foot, Charles Barnwell, 9th Foot, Robert Blucher Wood, 80th Foot, James Spence, 31st Foot, and Capt. James Hope, commanding her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand; also the under-mentioned officers in the service of the East India Company,-Major-Gen. Walter Raleigh Gilbert, to be K. C. B., and Lieut.-Cols. David Harriott, James Parsons, J. S. H. Weston, W. J. Gairdner, William Burlton, William Garden, Patrick Grant, James Stuart, Richard Benson, George Brooke, George Hicks, William Mactier, William Geddes, George Gladwin Denniss, and Edward Huthwaite, of the Bengal army, to be Companions of the said Most Hon. Military Order.

7. Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G. C. B., Governor-General of India, created Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of King's Newton, county of Derby; General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces in the East Indies, created Baron Gough, of Chinkeangfoo, in China, and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej, in the East Indies.

Major-Gen. Sir Henry George Smith, K.C. B., to be G. C. B.; Norman William Macdonald, esq., to be Captain

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General and Governor-in-Chief of Sierra
Leone.

John Thomas Graves, of the Inner Temple, esq., Barrister-at-law, to be an Assistant-Commissioner of Poor-Laws; John Ball, of Dublin, esq., Barrister-atlaw, to be an Assistant-Commissioner of Poor-Laws for six months from the 2nd day of April, to carry the provisions of the Irish Poor act into execution.

9. Major-Gen. Sir Henry Geo. Wakelyn Smith, of Aliwaul, on the Sutlej, G.C.B., created a Baronet.

16. Ambrose Poynter esq., Architect, of Park Street, Westminster, and John Shaw, esq., Architect and Surveyor of Christ's Hospital, to be Official Referees of Metropolitan Buildings.

18. Francis Martin, esq. (Norroy), to be Clarenceux king of arms; James Pulman, esq. (Richmond herald), to be Nor

roy.

23. The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Aberdeen.

24. Matthew Charles Howard Gibbon, esq., to be of Richmond Herald; Alexander Stewart, esq., to be Master of the Rolls for the province of Nova Scotia.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

2. Royal Regiment of Artillery: to be Colonel Commandant, Major-Gen. Hon. W. H. Gardiner; to be Colonels, Lieut.Colonel G. Cobbe, Lieut. -Colonel A. H. Mercer; to be Lieut.-Colonels, brevet Majors P. Sandilands, B. Willis, B. H. V. Arbuckle, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel T. G. Higgins, brevet Major T. F. Strangways. Royal Engineers: to be Colonel Commandant, Major-General Sir George Whitmore, K.C. H.; to be Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Grayton, K. H., Lieutenant-Colonel R. Thomson; to be Lieutenant-Colonels, brevet Majors, P. Cole, E. Matson, J. C. Victor, C. Grierson, T. E. Fenwick, L. A. Hall, P. Hule.

3. Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant and Captain F. W. Hamilton, to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel.-Unattached, Capt. H. W. Paget, from 56th Regiment, to be Major.-Brevet, to be Majors in the army, Captain G. Rawlinson, 1st West India Regiment, Captain J. V. Fletcher, 14th Foot, Captain W. Dungan, 10th Light Dragoons. -10th Light Dragoons: Major J. C. Wallington, to be LieutenantColonel without purchase; to be Majors without purchase, Captain H. F. Bonham,

Captain J. Tritton, from 3rd Light Dragoons. 8th Foot, Major J. Longfield, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Capt. E. H. Greathed, to be Major.-24th Foot, Major J. Stoyte, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain R Marsh, to be Major.-32nd Foot, Major J. T. Hill, to be LieutenantColonel; brevet Major G. Browne, to be Major.-Brevet, to be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the army, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. T. Ashburnham, 62nd Foot, LieutenantColonel C. C. Taylor, 29th Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Cureton, 16th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant-Colonel M. White, 3rd Light Dragoons.-To be LieutenantColonels in the army: Major J. W. Nunn, 80th Foot; Major W. T. Shortt, 62nd Foot; Major G. Congreve, 29th Foot; Major C. W. M. Balders, 3rd Light Dragoons. To be Majors in the army: Capt. J. Tritton, 3rd Light Dragoons; Captain J. R. B. Hale, 3rd Light Dragoons; Captain C. F. Havelock, 9th Foot; Captain A. Borton, 9th Foot; Captain A. St. George A. Stepney, 29th Foot; Captain the Hon. C. R. S. West, 21st Foot; Captain J. Garvock, 31st Foot; Captain E. Lugard, 31st Foot; Captain S. Fisher, 3rd Light Dragoons.-To be Aides-de- Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the army in the East Indies Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Wheeler, 48th Bengal Native Infantry; LieutenantColonel J. McLaren, 16th Grenadier Bengal Native Infantry. To be LieutenantColonels in the army in the East Indies : Majors H. Sibbald, 41st Native Infantry; L. S. Bird, 24th Native Infantry; Major W. Alexander, 5th Light Cavalry; W. H. Wake, 44th Native Infantry; D. Birrell, 1st European Regiment; H. R. Osborn, 54 h Native Infantry; R. Codrington, 49th Native Infantry; T. Polwhele, 42nd Native Infantry; I. H. Handscomb, 26th Native Infantry; P. Grant, 59th Native Infantry; R. J. H. Birch, 17th Native Infantry; F. Brind, Horse Artillery; G. Campbell, Horse Artillery; P. Innes, 14th Native Infantry; J. G. W. Curtis, 37th Native Infantry.-To be Majors in the army in the East Indies: Captains P. O'Hanlan, 1st Light Cavalry; S. Nash, 4th Light Cavalry; R. Houghton, 63rd Native Infantry; H. Garbett, Artillery; Captain J. L. Taylor, 26th Light Infantry; E. F. Day, Artillery; W. B. Thomson, 67th Native Infantry; R. Horsford, Artillery; R. Napier, Engineers; F. W. Anson, 18th Native Infantry; J. R.

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Pond, 1st European Light Infantry; C. E. Mills, Artillery; G. Johnston, 46th Native Infantry; G. Carr, 21st Native Infantry; C. J. F. Burnett, 2nd European Regiment; P. Hay, 54th Native Infantry; W. B. Holmes, 12th Native Infantry; Æneas J. Mackay, 16th Native Infantry; R. T. Sandeman, 33rd Native Infantry; G. Short, 45th Native Infantry; H. Palmer, 48th Native Infantry; D. Pott, 47th Native Infantry; G. H. Swinley, Artillery; A. Macdougall, 73rd Native Infantry; A. M. Becher, 61st Native Infantry; J. F. Egerton, Artillery; J. Christie, 3rd Light Cavalry.

6. 73rd Foot, Major-General Sir John Grey, K.C.B., to be Colonel.-Colonel Sir H. G. Smith, K.C.B., on half-pay Unattached, to have the local rank of Major-General in the East Indies.-Col. C. R. Cureton, 16th Light Dragoons, to be Adjutant-General to the Queen's Forces serving in the East Indies.

14. 12th Foot, Major S. F. Glover, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain J. M. Perceval, to be Major.-20th Foot, Major F. Horn, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, brevet Major C. Smith, to be Major.-23rd Foot, Major R. P. Holmes, to be LieutenantColonel, Captain J. Enoch, to be Major. -24th Foot, Captain H. W. Harris, to be Major.-42nd Foot, brevet LieutenantColonel J. Macdougall, to be LieutenantColonel; Brevet Major D. Frazer, to be Major.-45th Foot, Major A. Erskine, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain Charles Hind, to be Major. -59th Foot, Captain H. H. Graham, to be Major.-71st Foot, Major W. Denny, to be LieutenantColonel; Captain A. R. L'Estrange, to be Major.-91st Foot, Major J. F. G. Cambell, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain D. Forbes, to be Major.-97th Foot, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel N. L. Darrah, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain the Hon. H. R. Handcock, to be Major.Rifle Brigade, Major H. F. Beckwith, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain C. D. Egerton, to be Major.-3rd West India Regiment, Major C. H. Doyle, from 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.

18. 95th Foot, Major J. R. Raines, to be Major; brevet Captain Frederick White, to be Major.

28. 10th Dragoons, Major H. F. Bonham, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.--8th Foot, General Sir Gordon Drummond, G. C.B., to be Colonel; Captain F. S. Holmes, to be Major.-15th Foot, General Sir Phineas Riall, to be Colonel.-24th Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Brookes, to be

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Clark, esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Secretary to the said Commission.

12. William Whaley Billyard, esq., to be Chairman of Quarter Sessions, acting as Civil and Criminal Judge for North Australia.

The Rev. Augustus William Han

son, to be Chaplain for Her Majesty's

forts and settlements on the Gold Coast.

21. Brevet Major Thomas Forsyth Tait, of the East India Company's 2nd European Regiment, to be C. B.-Horatio Granville Stewart Murray, a minor, of Broughton, county Wigton, only child of the late Captain Horatio Stewart, only son of Lieutenant-General Hon. Sir William Stewart, G. C. B., second son of John, Earl of Galloway, to have the designation of "Murray of Broughton," and bear the arms of that family quarterly with Stewart, in compliance with a deed of entail executed by James Murray, esq., of Broughton, Jan. 18, 1797.

23. Sir George Baillie Hamilton, K.C.H. (now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Berlin), to be Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Henry Francis Howard, esq. (now Secretary of Legation at the Hague), to be Secretary of Legation at Berlin.The Hon. H. G. Howard (now first paid Attaché at Paris), to be Secretary of Legation at the Hague.

25. George Barney, esq., late Lieut.Colonel in the Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Governor of North Australia, and to administer the government of that colony, under the style and title of Superintendent thereof.

- John Stephen Hampton, esq., Surgeon in the Navy, to be ComptrollerGeneral of Convicts for the island of

Van Diemen's Land.

27. The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray (now Secretary of Legation of Naples), to be Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt; Lord Napier, (now first paid Attaché at Constantinople), to be Secretary of Legation at Naples.

29. Thomas Frederick Elliott, Charles Alexander Wood, and Frederick Rogers, esqrs., to be Commissioners for superintending the sale and settlement of the waste lands of the Crown in the British colonies, and the conveyance of Emigrants thither.

Surgeon Major William J. Judd, of the Scots' Fusilier Guards, to be Surgeon in Ordinary to H. R. H. Prince Albert. VOL. LXXXVIII.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

1. 50th Foot, Capt. G. F. F. Boughey, to be Major.-74th Foot, Major W. W. Crawley, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Captain A. F. Ansell, to be Major. - Brevet Captain W. H. Hare, 12th Light Dragoons, to be Major in the Army.

7. Royal Engineers, Major-General F. R. Thackeray, C. B., to be Colonel Commandant.

8. Coldstream Guards, Major and Col. C. A. Shawe, to be Lieut. - Colonel; Captain and brevet Colonel T. Chaplin, to be Major; Lieutenant and Captain Lord Frederick Paulet, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel. - 29th Foot, Major G. Congreve, to be Lieutenantbe Major. Colonel; Captain A. T. Hemphill, to

12. Royal Artillery, Captain and brevet Major J. H. Freer, to be LieutenantColonel.

19. 23rd Foot, Captain F. Granville, to be Major.-47th Foot, Captain_W. O'Grady Haly, to be Major.-69th Foot, Captain Sir E. S. Thomas, Bart., to be Major.-Brevet, Major A. Richardson, 23rd Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army; Captain H. M. St. Vincent Rose, 25th Foot, to be Major in the Amry.

22. 85th Foot, Captain George Tennant, to be Major.-Unattached, Major Manley Power, from 85th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Brevet, Brevet Major Patrick Campbell, 95th Foot, to be LieuMajors in the Army, Captains W. F. tenant-Colonel in the Army. To be Williams, Royal Artillery; J. F. A. Symonds, Royal Engineers; H. G. Dickson, Royal Artillery; the Hon. R. Ross, Royal Artillery; Collingwood C. H. Spencer, Royal Artillery; and Patrick Campbell, 95th Foot.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

To be Commanders.-F. A. Campbell, James Cannon, W. Pretyman, and R. W. Twiss.

Appointments. Captains, G. Mowbray (1812), of Victory, to Greenwich Hospital, vice John Pasco, resigned and appointed to Victory, 104; J. Kingcome (1838), to Belleisle, 20; Sir B. W. Walker, K. C.B. (1838), to_Constance, 50; Owen Stanley, to the Rattlesnake, 2; J. B. Maxwell, to the Dido, 20; Woodford John Williams, to Avenger steam frigate.

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