PROMOTIONS. 10. Viscount Clifden, to be Lord of the Bedchamber to H. R.H. Prince Albert. 18. Marquis of Normanby, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of the French; Viscount Ponsonby, G. C. B., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Austria. 19. Knighted by letters-patent, Alfred Stephen, esq., Chief Justice of New South Wales. 25. Oliver Byrne, esq., to be Surveyor for Her Majesty's Settlements in the Falkland Islands. 26. John, Earl of Stair, to be Keeper of Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland. 29. Edward Strutt, esq., to be one of the Commissioners of Railways, and also President of the said Commissioners. Private Secretaries.-R. J. Mackintosh, esq., to Lord Morpeth; Mr. Hobhouse, to Sir J. C. Hobhouse; Thomas Poole Ward, esq, to the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson; W. Torrens M'Cullagh, esq., to Mr. Labouchere. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 7. 4th Light Dragoons, brevet Col. J. Vandeleur, from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieutenant-Colonel W. Parlby, who exchanges. Coldstream Guards, Lieutenant and Captain J. Forbes, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel.-6th Foot, Major J. Crofton, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain J. T. Griffiths, to be Major.-19th Foot, Captain H. Calley, to be Major. -39th Foot, brevet Major M. G. Nixon, to be Major. 14. 1st Foot Guards, Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. James Lindsay, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel.-1st Foot, General the Right Hon. Sir James Kempt, G. C. B., to be Colonel.-2nd Foot, Major-General Lord Saltoun, K. C.B., to be Colonel.-55th Foot, Lieutenant-General John Wardlaw, to be Colonel. Unattached, Captain James St. John Munro, from 60th Foot, to be Major. Brevet Major John Grattan, 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. 25. 79th Foot, Captain J. Ferguson, to be Major-Unattached, brevet Major T. C. Smith, from 27th Foot, to be Major. 26. Royal Artillery, Major-Generals J. W. Tobin and R. S. Brough, to be Colonels Commandant. 28. 7th Dragoons, Captain Arthur Shirley, to be Major-3rd Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Charles T. Van Straubenzee, from the 13th Foot, to be Major, vice Major A. A. T. Cunynghame, who exchanges.- Brevet Capt. Edward Francis Elliot, 11th Foot, to be Major in the Army. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. To be Captains.-G. E. Patey, P. Justice, E. J. Carpenter, H. Broadhead, H. Smith, A. L. Montgomery, and Reginald Yorke. To be Commanders.-W. Morris (b), H. G. Morris, J. H. Cockburn, F. T. B. Hankey, C. F. A. Shadwell, and George Williams. Appointments.-Commanders, G. E. Davis, to the Bull dog steamer; E. S. Sotheby, to the Racehorse, 18; J. T. Caldwell, to the Agincourt, 72; G. H. Wood, to the Hound, 6; L. S. Tindal (1841), to the Grecian, 16; W. N. Fowell, to the Cherokee steam-sloop. Captain Houston Stewart, C. B., to be acting superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard. MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. J. F. Dimock, to be a minor Canon of Southwell, Rev. R. W. Ford, to be an hon. Canon of Gloucester. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. J. J. Murphy, esq., Q. C., to be a Master in Chancery, in Ireland. Rev. J. Robertson, M. A., to be Head Master of Bishop's College, Bristol. SEPTEMBER. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. 2. Knighted by patent, David Pollock, esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay. 16. The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, to be Captain-General and Governor-inChief of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Island of Prince Ed PROMOTIONS. ward. The Right Hon. Sir J. R. G. Graham, Bart., to be one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart., resigned. The Right Hon. Sir. G. Grey, Bart., being one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to be an Ecclesiastical Commissioner for England. -Knighted by patent, Edward Pine Coffin, esq., Commissary-General of Her Majesty's Forces. 25. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Edward Grey, Knt., to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica.William Reid, esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers, &c., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago, and St. Lucia. Charles Elliot, esq., Captain R. N., to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of the Bermudas or Somers Islands. Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G. C.B., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope.-Hospital Staff, John Hall, M. D., to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. 29. The Hon. G. Grey, Captain R.N., to be Captain of the port of Gibraltar. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 8. 5th Dragoon Guards, Major W. H. Archer, from 14th Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice Major J. W. King, who exchanges. Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. George Augustus Frederick Liddell, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel. - Brevet Captain Sir Arthur Brooke de Capell Brooke, 27th Foot, and Captain James Straker, 3rd West India Regiment, to be Majors in the army. 11. Rifle Brigade, Capt. A. J. Lawrence, to be Major. - Unattached, Major W. Sullivan, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. 18. Staff, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel H. Havelock, of 53rd Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-General to Her Majesty's Forces serving at Bombay. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. To be Captains.-S. L. Stokes, Arthur Forbes. To be Commanders.-J. Macdougall, C. L. Hockin. Appointments.-Captain Sir T. Bourchier, K. C. B., to be Superintendent of Chatham Dock-yard; Captain Sir J. G. Sinclair, Bart., to be additional Captain 13. John Ball, of Dublin, esq., Barrister-at-law, to be an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. 15. Henry Edward Sharpe, esq., to be Chief Justice for the Island of St. Vincent; John Sealy, esq., to be AttorneyGeneral of Barbados. 20. John Pascoe Grenfell, esq., a RearAdmiral in the Brazilian Navy, to be Consul-General in the United Kingdom for the Emperor of Brazil. 27. The Right Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.B., Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, to be Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settling and adjustment of the affairs of the territories adjacent or contiguous to the eastern and north-eastern frontier of the said settlement; and Richard Woosnam, esq., to be secretary to such High Commissioner. 30. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas PROMOTIONS. Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, sworn of the Privy Council. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 2. 1st or Grenadier Guards, Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ord Honyman, Bart., to be Major, with the rank of Colonel in the Army; Lieutenant and Captain Henry Cartwright, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel.-Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieutenant and Captain Frederick Brandreth, to be Captain and LieutenantColonel. Capt. J. C. Burmester, Royal Engineers, to be Major in the Army.Captain W. F. Grant, 63rd Bengal Native Infantry, to be Major in the Army in the East Indies. 9. 10th Foot, Major George Dobson Young, from 31st Foot, to be Major, vice Major George Staunton, who exchanges. 20. Captain L. Coker, of the 29th Foot, to be Major in the Army.-To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army: Major G. V. Creagh, 81st Foot; brevet Major J. H. Bainbrigge, Fort Major at Guernsey; Major S. E. Goodman, 27th Foot. To be Majors in the Army: Capt. W. H. Hennis, Royal Artillery; Captain R. M. Mundy, Royal Artillery. 27. Captain W. T. Harrison, of the 3rd West India Regiment, to be Major in the Army. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. To be Captain.-W. Sheppard (retired list). To be Commander.-W. Robson. Appointments-Captains, A. Milne, to be Flag-Captain to Admiral Sir C. Ogle, and to command the St. Vincent, 120; Owen Stanley, to the Rattlesnake, 2, for surveying service; T. V. Anson, to the Eurydice, 22; Stephen Lushington, to the Vengeance, 84. Commanders.-H. Goold (1830), to the Ocean, 80; E. W. G. West, to the Andromeda, 44; A. P. Ryder (additional) to the Tartarus, surveying steam vessel; Robert Tryon, to the Mutine, 12. 31. Naval Retirements.-The Gazette contains the names of fifty Captains, R.N., appointed to the rank of retired Rear-Admiral; ninety-four Captains who have accepted the retirement of their rank at 17. per diem, and thirty-two the same at 188. per diem.-Captains John SimpJohn Bowker, George Mowbray, and Alexander Barclay Branch, K. H., to be Captains of Greenwich Hospital. son, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Dr. T. V. Short (Bishop of Sodor and Man), to be Bishop of St. Asaph. of Durham. Rev. T. Chevallier, to be Hon. Canon Rev. R. Grey, to be an Hon. Canon of Durham. Rev. J. Hall, to be an Hon. Canon of Bristol. Rev. E. T. Vaughan and Rev. W. Wales, to be Hon. Canons of Peterborough. CIVIL PREFERMENT. James Campbell, esq., to be Assistant Secretary to the Post Office. NOVEMBER. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Trinidad, to be Governor and Com3. Lord Harris, Lieut.-Governor of mander-in-Chief in and over that Island. 4. The Right Hon. Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, Knt., and Captain Henry Rowland Brandreth, Royal Engineers, to be three of the Commissioners of Railways, under the provisions of the act 9 and 10 Vict. c. 105, to begin to act on the 9th of Nov. 5. James Simms, esq., to be Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland; and Edward Mortimer Archibald, esq., to be Attorney-General for that Island.-Charles Douglass Stewart, esq., to be Solicitor-General for the Island of St. Vincent.-Richard Hayward, esq., to be Colonial Surveyor and Engineer for Sierra Leone. 10. Henry Luke Smith Dillon, of Lytchet Matravers, co. Dorset, esq., in compliance with the will of William Trenchard, esq., of that place, to take the name of Trenchard after Dillon, and bear the arms of Trenchard quarterly.George Kitson, esq., to be one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. 14. Earl Cowper, to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Kent. 24. William à Beckett and Roger Therry, esqrs., to be Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; Alfred Cheeke, esq., to be Commissioner of the Court of Requests; and Thomas Callaghan, esq., to be PROMOTIONS. Crown Prosecutor in the Court of Quarter Sessions, in that colony. William George Knox, esq., to be Puisne Judge for the Island of Trinidad. J. Hooper Dawson, esq., to be Chief Clerk and Registrar of the Supreme Court, and Clerk of the Central Circuit Court of the Island of Newfoundland. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 3. 13th Foot, Major A. A. T. Cunynghame, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Brevet; Major A. P. S. Wilkinson, to be Major. 6. 2nd Dragoons, Major St. Vincent W. Ricketts, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain H. D. Griffith, to be Major.66th Foot, Captain Sir W. Gordon, Bart., to be Major.-Brevet Captain W. H. L. D. Cuddy, of the 55th Foot, to be Major in the Army.. Unattached, Brevet Major G. T. Parke, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Major. 9. THE BREVET. This Gazette contained a Brevet, appointing General Sir George Nugent, Bart. and G. C.B., General Thomas Grosvenor, and General the Marquis of Anglesey, K. G. and G. C. B., to be Field-Marshals in the Army; thirteen Lieutenant-Generals, to be Generals; twenty-nine Major-Generals, to be Lieutenant-Generals; eighty-one Colonels, to be Major-Generals; seventy-four Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Colonels; fifty Majors, to be Lieutenant-Colonels; and one hundred and twenty-two Captains, to be Majors. Also the names of eight Major-Generals of the Royal Artillery, to be LieutenantGenerals in the Army; fourteen Colonels, to be Major-Generals; fourteen Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Colonels; and twenty-eight Captains, to be Majors.-In the Royal Engineers, seven Major-Generals, to be Lieutenant-Generals in the Army; six Colonels, to be Major-Generals; five Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Colonels; and thirteen Captains, to be Majors. In the Royal Marines, seven Colonels, to be Major-Generals, in the Army; one Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel; and eighteen Captains, to be Majors. In the East India Company's Forces, to take rank by brevet in her Majesty's army in the East Indies only, thirty-five Major-Generals, to be Lieutenant-Generals; nineteen Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Colonels; and two hundred and fortyfive Captains, to be Majors. 1st Life Guards, Major and LieutenantColonel John Hall, to be LieutenantColonel and Colonel; brevet Major Richard Parker, to be Major and Lieutenant-Colonel.-3rd Light Dragoons, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Lockwood, C. B., to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain J. W. Yerbury, to be Major.Coldstream Guards, brevet Colonel C. A. F. Bentinck, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; brevet Colonel H. J. W. Bentinck, to be Major; Lieutenant and Captain Robert Vansittart, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel.-5th Foot, Major D. E. Johnson, to be LieutenantColonel; Captain John Spence, to be Major.-67th Foot, Major Edward Basil Brooke, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; brevet Major T. J. Adair, to be Major.78th Foot, Major Jonathan Forbes, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; brevet Major R. J. P. Vassall, to be Major.-92nd Foot, Major J. A. Forbes, to be LieutenantColonel; brevet Major Mark Kerr Atberley, to be Major.-93rd Foot, Major James Brown, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain W. D. Davenport, to be Major. -2nd West India Regiment, Major James Allen, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Captain John James Peck, to be Major. Royal Marines, Colonel and second Commandants Thompson Aslett and E. S. Mercer, to be Colonels Commandant; Lieutenant-Colonels William Fergusson and Richard Swale, to be Colonels and Second Commandants; Captain and brevet Major John Wilson and Captain Robert Mercer, to be Lieutenant-Colonels. 16. Royal Artillery, to be Colonels, brevet Colonels J. S. Bastard, T. Gore Browne, Duncan Grant, H. A. Scott, Thomas Dyneley, Lieutenant-Colonels H. C. Russell, Samuel Rudyerd, brevet Colonel William Cator, and LieutenantColonel C. C. Dansey; to be Lieutenant-Colonels, brevet Majors Charles Otway, W. C. Anderson, Reynolds Palmer, J. R. Hornsby, R. S. Armstrong, Mark Evans, G. T. Rowland, LieutenantColonels J. N. Colquhoun, A. R. Harrison, and H. R. Wright.-Royal Engineers, to be Colonels, brevet Colonels Sir J. M. F. Smith, Rice Jones, Thomas Moody, John Oldfield, and M. C. Dixon; to be Lieutenant-Colonels, brevet Majors C. J. Selwyn, W. M. Gossett, Daniel Bolton, F. W. Whinyates, and A. W. Robe. 20. Major-General Sir C. W. Thornton, to be General; five more Colo PROMOTIONS. nels to be Major-Generals; six Lieutenant-Colonels to be Colonels; and twenty-four Captains to be Majors (with commissions bearing date Nov. 9). 26. Royal Marines, brevet LieutenantColonel S. B. Ellis, C. B., to be Lieutenant-Colonel. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. 4. Captain Frederick Jennings Thomas, to be a retired Rear-Admiral. 5. Commander Francis Wm. Austen, to be promoted to the rank of Captain, when he shall have served the required period at sea to qualify him for that rank, for his services on the River Plate. Admiral of the Red, Sir George Martin, G. C. B., G. C., St. M. & G., to be Admiral of the Fleet; four Admirals of the White, to be Admirals of the Red; six Admirals of the Blue, to be Admirals of the White; four Vice-Admirals of the Red, to be Admirals of the Blue; nine Vice-Admirals of the White, to be ViceAdmirals of the Red; fourteen Vice-Admirals of the Blue, to be Vice- Admirals of the White; fourteen Rear-Admirals of the Red, to be Vice-Admirals of the Blue; twenty Rear-Admirals of the White, to be Rear-Admirals of the Red; seventeen Rear-Admirals of the Blue, to be RearAdmirals of the White; twenty Captains, to be Rear-Admirals of the Blue; fortyfour Commanders, to be Captains; eighty Lieutenants, to be Commanders; twenty Mates, to be Lieutenants; twenty Second Masters, to be Masters; twenty AssistantSurgeons, to be Surgeons; twenty Clerks, to be Paymasters and Pursers. To be Naval Aides-de-Camp to her Majesty, Captains Maurice F. F. Berkeley, C.B., the Hon. G. A. Crofton, Sir George R. Sartorius, Arthur Fanshawe, C. B., Lord John Hay, C.B., and Sir George A. Westphal; and Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G. C.H., to be an Extra Naval Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty. Doctor Gilbert King, M.D. (Deputy Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets), to be Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets; John Mortimer, esq., and Henry Parkin, esq. (retired Deputy Inspectors of Naval Hospitals and Fleets), to be retired Inspectors of Naval Hospitals and Fleets; Doctor James Veitch, M.D., Mr. William Colvin, and Doctor James Scott (B), M.D., Surgeons Royal Navy, to be retired Deputy Inspectors of Naval Hospitals and Fleets. 11. Commander Richard Burridge, R. N., to be Captain.-Lieutenants E. H. B. Proctor and L. B. Mackinnon, to the rank of Commander Royal Navy, for their services during the recent operations in the Parana. 16. Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, C. B., to be retired Rear-Admiral. 17. Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G. C. B., to be Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. 20. Vice-Admiral Sir H. Heathcote, Knt., to be Admiral; Rear-Admiral Charles Carter, to be Vice-Admiral; Captain John Thompson (A), to be retired Rear-Admiral. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. D. J. Eyre, to be Sub-Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. Hon. and Rev. R. Cust, to be Prebendary of Lincoln. Rev. J. Cotterill, to be an hon. Canon of Norwich. Rev. J. Garbett, to be an hon. Canon of Worcester. Rev. R. Seymour, to be an hon. Canon of Worcester. Rev. W. Walter, to be an hon. Canon of Lincoln. Rev. J. Watts, to be Prebendary of Salisbury. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. William Thompson, B. A., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Dr. Walshe, to be Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College, London. George Russell Clerk, esq., to be Governor of the Presidency of Bombay. DECEMBER. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. 5. Herbert Townshend Bowen, esq., to be Solicitor-General for Trinidad. 10. Lord Howard de Walden and Seaford, G. C. B. (now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Portugal), to be her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Belgians; Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G. C. H. (now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Belgians), to be Envoy Extraordinary and |