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.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Buckinghamshire.-Hon. W. E. Fitz

maurice.

Meath Co.-Matt. E. Corbally, esq. Newcastle under Lyme,-John C. Colquhoun, esq., declared duly elected, vice Harris.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Promotions.- Commander Thos. O. Knox, to be Capt.

Lieuts. Christopher Claxton, T. L. Gooch, and James A. Stevens, to be Commanders.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

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.

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.

30th Foot, Brevet Major J. Procter, to be Major. 85th Foot, Brevet Major M. Power, to be Major.

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

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 assume 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 of fice 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 Commissioners 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

The Very Rev. Thos. Turton, D.D., (Dean of Peterborough), to be Dean of Westminster.

Ven. Archdeacon J. M. Stevens, to be a Canon of Exeter.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

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 Edu. cation 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.

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.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

In the Royal George Yacht, in consequence of Her Majesty's visit to Scotland:

To be Captain, Frederick Wood (1838).

To be Commander, Lieut. J. T. Paulson (1822).

To be Lieutenants, James S. Davison and Edw. A. Inglefield.

To be Commanders,-Lieuts. Joseph C. Gill, Lord William Compton, Hugh Dunlop, H. Budd, P. H. Somerville (1840), late of the Persian; G. T. M. Purvis (1823), of the Cambrian: II. F. Seagram, late of the Termagant; Chas. E. Tennant (1832), Flag Lieut. to Sir W. Parker.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Irish Law Appointments.-Right Hon. Francis Blackburne to be Master of the Rolls; J. D. Jackson, esq., a Justice of the Common Pleas; Thos. B. Cusack Smith, esq., to be Solicitor-General, vice Jackson, since Attorney-General, vice Blackburne; Mr. Serjeant Greene to be Solicitor-General; Edw. Litton, esq., M.P.. to be a Master in Chancery.

Mr. Alderman Humphery to be Lord Mayor of London.

Mr. Alderman Hooper and Jeremiah Pilcher, esqrs., to be Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.

Rev. W. Pedder, to be Vice-principal of the Wells Diocesan Theological Col. lege.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. H. Newland, D.D., to be Dean of Ferns.

Rev. O. Davys, to be Archdeacon of Peterborough.

Hon. and Rev. C. Lawson, to be Archdeacon of Barbadoes.

Rev. Alexander Ross, to be Archdeaon of Ross.

Rev. D. Aitchison, to be Archdeacon of the Isles, Scotland.

Very Rev. G. Gordon, D.D., Canon Residentiary of Lincoln.

Rev. C. Davys, Prebendary of Peterborough.

To be Honorary Prebendaries of Exeter, The Rev. G. Hole, Rector of Chumleigh; the Rev. G. Cornish, Vicar of Penwyn; the Rev. P. Johnson, Rector of Wemworthy; the Rev. C. Ayre, Vicar of Tywardreath; the Rev. J. Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter; and the Rev. R. Laney, of St. Andrew's, Plymouth.

Rev. H. Whitby, to be a Prebendary of Killaloe.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. 92nd Foot, Brevet-Major G. E. Thorold to be Major.

Brevet. To be Lieut.-Colonels, Major James Macdougall, 43rd Foot; Major P. Hill, 53rd Foot; Major D. Hay, 6th Drag. Guards; Major W. L. Dames, 66th Foot.

To be Majors, Capt. H. R.Wright, Royal Art.; Capt. T. Canch, Fort Major at Edinburgh; Capt. F. Wollaston, 14th Drag.; Capt. John Douglas, 79th Foot.

7. Col. Berkeley Drummond, Scots' Fusileer Guards, to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in ordinary to Her Majesty, vice Gen. the Hon. Sir William Lumley, G.C.B., who is appointed an extra Groom in Waiting.

8. 26th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Robert Ellice to be Colonel.

Robert Baldwin, esq., to be Attorney-General and James Edw. Small, esq., to be Solicitor-General of Upper Canada.

Unatt., Major Lord A. Lennox, from the 71st, to be Lieut.-Col.

3rd Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, First Major J. W. Patten to be Col.; Second Major Sir J. Gerard, bart, to be Lieut. Col.

24. Col. John Le Couteur, to be Vis count of the Isle of Jersey.

28. Knighted by patent, Jasper Atkinson, of Portman-square, Middlesex,

inquiring into the employment of women and children in agriculture.

30. The Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., H. T. Hope, esq., H. Gally Knight, esq., Alexander Milne, esq., the Hon. Charles Gore, Sir Robert Smirke, knt., and Charles Barry, esq., to be 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: Trenham Walshman Phillipps, esq., to be Secretary to the commission.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Joseph Stock, esq., to be Her Majesty's first Serjeant-at-law in Ireland; Richard Benson Warren, esq., second Serjeant; and Richard Keatinge, esq., Q.C., third Serjeant.

Mr. Alfred Dowling appointed Serjeant-at-Law.

Sir John Pirie to be President of St. Thomas's Hospital, vice Sir John Cowan, deceased.

John Musgrove, esq., elected Alderman of Bread-street Ward.

Rev. J. D. Glennie, to be Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Rev. W. J. Conybeare, to be Principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution,

Rev. C. Esther, to be Head Master of the Grammar School, of Kirby Ravensworth, Yorkshire.

Rev. Richard Garvey, to be Princpal of the Proprietary School, Wakefield.

Edw. Dyer Green, esq., of Queen's Coll. Cambridge, to be Master of Langport School, Somerset.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. To be Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath, Vice-Adm. Sir William Parker, Major-Gens. Sir Henry Pottinger, George Pollock, and William Nott.

The dignity of a Baronet of he United Kingdom conferred upon Lieut.Gen. Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.B.

5. Giocomo Pantaleone Bruno, esq., to be Judge in Malta.

Antonio Micallef, esq., to be Crown Advocate in Malta.

Augustin Norbert Morin, esq., to be Commissioner of Crown Lands in Canada.

6. Belford Hinton Wilson, esq. (Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Peru) to be Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Venezuela; William Pitt Adams, esq. (Sec. of Legation to the Mexican Republic) to be Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Peru; Percy William Doyle, esq. (First Attaché of Embassy to the Ottoman Porte) to be Secretary of Legation to the Mexican Republic; and Anthony Barclay, esq., to be Consul in the State of New York.

Alfred Austin, esq., barrister-atlaw, to be an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner, for thirty days, for inquiring into the employment of women and chil dren in agriculture.

13. 81st Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir M. C. O'Connell, to be Col.

Brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir H. Floyd, Bart., Unatt. to be Col.; Capt. G. F. Paschal, 70th Foot, to be Major.

15. Henry Halford Vaughan, esq., barrister-at-law, to act as an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner, for thirty days, for inquiring specially in the employ ment of women and children in agricul