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PROMOTIONS.

Sir Barnes Peacock, knight, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to be Chief Justice of the High Court; and

Sir Charles Robert Mitchel Jackson, knight, and Sir Mordaunt Lawson Wells, knight, Judges of the Supreme Court; and

Henry Thomas Raikes, esq., Charles Binny Trevor, esq., George Lock, esq., Henry Vincent Bayley, esq., and Charles Steer, esq., Judges of the Court of Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, to be Judges of the High Court.

And John Paxton Norman, esq., and Walter Morgan, esq., Barristers-at-Law, and Francis Baring Kemp, esq., Walter Scott Seton Karr, esq., and Louis Stuart Jackson, esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be Judges of the said High Court.

Mr. Anthony Musgrave to be Lieut. Governor of the Island of St. Vincent.

Mr. James Richard Holligan to be Colonial Secretary and Clerk of the Council of the Island of Barbadoes.

Mr. Fleetwood Wilson to be AuditorGeneral of the Island of Barbadoes.

Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, C.B., to be Honorary Equerry to Her Majesty.

Mr. Andrew Archibald Paton, ViceConsul at Lubeck, to be Consul at Ragusa and the Bocca di Cattaro.

Viscount Eversley, Earl of Ducie, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Elcho, Lord Overstone, Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, Mr. Walter Barttelot, Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, bart.; Lieut. General Sir George Angus Wetherall, K.C.B.; Major-General Henry Eyre, Colonel William Montagu Scott M'Murdo, C.B.; Mr. Adam Steuart Gladstone, and Mr. Edward William Venables Vernon Harcourt, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Purpose of Inquiring into the Present Condition of the Volunteer Force in Great Britain.

Mr. T. F. Wetherell to be Secretary to the Commission.

Mr. Serjeant Wheeler to be one of the Judges of the County Court of Lancashire.

Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, K.C.B., to be Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Capt. Galton, R. E., to be Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War.

Mr. Frederick C. Brown to be ViceConsul at Ibraila.

Mr. A. R. Bristow to be Solicitor to the Admiralty.

Mr. Joseph Kay to be Judge of the Salford Hundred Court of Record.

Mr. Randal Callander, now H.M.'s Consul at St. Catherine's, to be H.M.'s Consul at Rhodes.

Messrs. Michael William O'Brien, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, and Frederick Lowten Spinks, of the Inner Temple, London, to be Serjeants-atLaw.

Mr. Edward Geale to be Clerk of the Crown for the City of Dublin.

Mr. R. Ardill to be Crown Solicitor for the Counties of Longford and Cavan.

Mr. W. H. Clarke, LL.D., to be Judicial Commissioner at Rangoon.

Lieut.-Colonel H. Bruce, C.B., to be Inspector-General of Police in India.

Messrs. Isaac Farrington, Robert Grimes Pedder, and Ebenezer Bronstorph, to be Non-Elective Members of the Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands.

JUNE,

Sir Henry Vere Huntley, knight, to be H.M.'s Consul at Santos.

Mr. Watson Vredenburg to be H.M. s Consul at Loanda.

Mr. Watson Vredenburgh to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty in the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission at Loanda, in the Province of Angola, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.

Capt. J. S. Whitty to be Sole Director of Convict Prisons in Ireland.

Mr. E. C. Bayley to be Secretary to the Government of Inlia in the Home Department.

Mr. J. H. Rivett Carnac to be Assistant Secretary to the Chief Commissioner Central Provinces.

Mr. A. K. Forbes to be Puisne Judge of the Sudder Dewanee and Sudder Foujdaree Adawlut.

Mr. C. J. Erskine to be Puisne Judge of the Sudder Dewanee and Sudder Foujdaree Adawlut.

Mr. J. K. Jolly to be a Member of the Legislative Council and Justice of the Peace for the Island of Ceylon.

The Hon. Peter Campbell Scarlett, C.B., to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece.

Mr. Gerald Perry to be Consul at Para and Brazil.

Mr. P. Barrow to be Consul at Nantes.

PROMOTIONS.

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Mr. George Wall to be a Member of the Legislative Council, Ceylon.

The Hon. J. Stanfield Macdonald to be Attorney-General of Canada West.

The Hon. L. V. Sicotte to be AttorneyGeneral of Canada East.

The Hon. Adam Wilson to be SolicitorGeneral of Canada West.

The Hon. J. Abott to be SolicitorGeneral of Canada East.

The Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce to be Extra Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty.

Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott, C.B. to be a Member of the Council of Military Education.

Sir Wm. Gibson Craig, bart., to be Clerk to Her Majesty's Registers and Rolls in Scotland.

Mr. Richard James Corner, Barristerat-Law, to be Chief Justice of the Colony of British Honduras.

Mr. Samuel Swire Plues to be Clerk of the Courts and Keeper of the Records in the Colony of British Honduras.

Mr. R. Percy to be Paid Attaché at Brussels.

Mr. T. Clare Ford to be Paid Attaché at Stuttgard.

Mr. Frederic Hamilton to be Secretary to the Legation at Stockholm.

Mr. Edwin Corbett to be Secretary to the Legation at Frankfort.

Mr. Patrick Joseph Murray to be Inspector of Reformatories in Ireland.

Mr. Edgar Leopold Layard to be Arbitrator to the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission established at the Cape of Good Hope for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.

Mr. Frederick Seymour to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras.

AUGUST.

Mr. Edwin Baldwin Malet to be Paid Attaché at Washington.

Mr. Wm. Brodic to be First Paid Attaché at Rio de Janeiro.

Capt. C. Elliot, C.B., to be Commissioner of the Fourth or Chutteesgurh Division in the Central Provinces.

The Hon. Henry Frederick Spencer Jocelyn to be Page of Honour to Her Majesty.

Mr. Alexander Wilson Moir to be President of the Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands and their Dependencies.

PROMOTIONS.

Messrs. John Hercules Hazell and Wm. Lynch to be Members of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Vincent.

Messrs. William Macintyre and Wm. Stedman to be Members of the Council of Dominica.

Francesco Fiteni, LL.D., to be one of Her Majesty's Judges for the Island of Malta.

Messrs. John Keith Jolly and George Wall to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon.

Mr. Henry John Ball to be Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, Hong Kong.

Mr. Charles May to be Police Magistrate for the Colony of Hong Kong.

Colonel William Crowley Stace, R.E., to be a Member of the Council of the Island of St. Helena.

Mr. Lyon Playfair, C.B., Mr. Thomas Henry Huxley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Francis Maxwell, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to Inquire into the Operation of the Laws relating to Trawling for Herrings on the Coasts of Scotland.

Mr. Brent Spencer Follett, Q.C., to be Registrar of Titles and Conveyances of Real Estates under the late Act.

Mr. Robert Hallett Holt to be Assistant-Registrar of Registry of Lands Office. Mr. E. C. Bayley to be Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.

The Venerable Archdeacon G. M. Gibbs, M.A., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of St. Christopher.

Dr. W. H. Sherwood to be a Member of the Legislative Council to Her Majesty's Settlements on the River Gambia.

Mr. Charles John Boyle to be Chief Commissioner of Railways for the Island of Mauritius.

Captain James G. Mackenzie to be Governor of the Falkland Islands.

sioner of Revenue and Circuit of the Chittagong Division.

Mr. R. J. Corbett to be a Member of the Legislative Council and a Justice of the Peace for Ceylon.

SEPTEMBER.

Mr. Frederick Wm. Mitchell to be Postmaster-General, and Mr. John Simpson to be Assistant Postmaster-General for the Colony of Hong Kong.

Capt. William Loring, C.B., to be Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard.

Mr. James Robert Longden to be President and Senior Member of the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands.

Messrs. Wm. M'Coskry and Mr. Edward Le Gros to be Legislative Councillors of the Settlement of Lagos.

Capt. James George Mackenzie, R. N., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Falkland Islands and their dependencies.

Alexander Graham Dunlop, esq., now First British Vice-Consul at Constantinople, to be H.M.'s Consul in the Island of Crete.

Charles Augustus Hartley, esq., the Civil Engineer employed by the European Commission for the improvement of the navigation of the Danube.

In consequence of the Conversion of the office of Inspector-General of Fortifications into that of Inspector-General of Engineers and Director of Works, the following changes have taken place :Gen. Sir John Burgoyne, C.B., to be Inspector-General of Engineers and Director of Works.

Lieut. Col. F. W. F. D. Jervois, R. E., to be Assistant-Director of Works for For

Dr. Robert Phillimore to be Queen's tifications and Civil Buildings. Advocate.

Archdeacon George Meade Gibbs to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of St. Christopher.

Mr. John Ayliff to be Treasurer for the Colony of Natal.

Dr. William Henry Sherwood to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Her Majesty's Settlements on the River Gambia.

Mr. Swinburne Ward to be Civil Commissioner and Collector of Taxes for the Leychelles Islands.

Mr. A. Money, C.B., to be Commis

Capt. Edward Belfield, R.E., to be Assistant-Director of Works for Barrack Buildings.

Capt. Martindale, R.E., to be Director of the Barrack Department.

Messrs. Charles McGarel, Charles Cave, Henry Bruce, and Thomas Daniel Hill to be Her Majesty's Commissioners in England for Raising, &c., a Loan of 500,0007. for Immigration Purposes for British Guiana.

Dr. Travers Twiss to be AdvocateGeneral to the Admiralty.

OCTOBER.

PROMOTIONS.

The Earl of Harrowby to be Lord Lieu tenant of Staffordshire.

Messrs. Wm. Joshua Ffennel, Frederick Eden, and James Leslie to be Commissioners under an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled 66 'An Act to Regulate and Amend the Law respecting the Salmon Fisheries in Scotland."

Mr. Ronald Ferguson Thomson to be Oriental Secretary to the Legation at the Persian Court.

Mr. Wm. Rowland Pyne to be Colonial Secretary for the Falkland Islands.

Mr. Johnstone to be Chairman of the County of Down.

Mr. John Leahy to be Chairman of the West Riding of the County of Cork.

Mr. Nicholls to be Judge of the County Court Circuit No. 21, Birmingham, &c. Baboo Sumbhoonath Pundit to be Judge of the High Court of Calcutta.

Major B. P. Lloyd to be Commissioner of the Jhansi Division.

NOVEMBER.

Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C.B., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia.

Sir John Ralph Milbank, bart., to be Minister at the Hague.

Lord Augustus Loftus to be Minister at Munich.

Mr. George Frere to be Her Majesty's Judge; Mr. Edgar Leopold Layard to be Arbitrator, and Wm. Tasker Smith to be

Mr. D. R. Pigot to be Chairman of Secretary or Registrar in the Mixed Court Louth.

Col. Edward Stopford Claremont, C. B., to be one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey to be Unpaid Attaché at St. Petersburg.

The Hon. Wm. Stuart to be Secretary of Legation at Washington.

Mr. Horace Rumbold to be Secretary of Legation at Athens.

Major Samuel Blackell to be Governor of Sierra Leone.

Mr. John Charles White to be Police Magistrate for the Colony of Hong Kong. Major-General Frederick W. Hamilton, C.B., to be Vice-President of the Council of Military Education.

Mr. H. Newton, C.S., to be a Justice of the High Court of Bombay.

Mr. R. H. Pinhey, C.S., to be Registrar of the High Court of Bombay.

Capt. E. C. S. Williams, R.E., to be Under Secretary to the Government of India, in the Public Works Department.

Lieut. -Colonel H. Rivers to be Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Public Works Department.

John Robert Kenyon, esq., of the Middle Temple, London; Thomas Southgate, esq., of Gray's-inn, in the county of Middlesex; and Arthur Hobhouse, esq., of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex, to be of H.M.'s Counsel learned in the Law. Mr. Edward Mortimer Archibald to be Her Majesty's Judge.

Mr. Wm. Dudley Ryder to be Her Majesty's Arbitrator in the Mixed Court established at New York under the Treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.

established at the Cape of Good Hope.

Mr. George Sketton to be Her Majesty's Judge, and Mr. Wm. Smith to be Secretary or Registrar in the Mixed Court established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaty with the United States of America for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.

Mr. George Battersley to be Judge of the Consistorial Court, Dublin.

Mr. Wm. Hall to be Consul at Guatemala.

Mr. Dominic Ellis Colnaghi to be Consul in the Island of Corsica.

Mr. W. H. Ashurst to be Solicitor to the Post Office.

Mr. J. G. Teed, Q. C., to be Judge of the County Court Circuit 17 (Lincoln, Boston, &c.)

Sir Charles Trevelyan, K.C.B., to be Finance Minister of India.

Mr. Melville to be Commissioner of Umritsur.

Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton to be Commissioner of Delhi.

Mr. W. Ford to be Commissioner of Mooltan.

Mr. John J. Mayo to be RegistrarGeneral of Seamen.

Mr. Robert Wm. Peacock to be Assistant-Solicitor to the Post Office.

Mr. Edward Francis Maitland to be a Judge of the Court of Sessions.

Mr. George Young to be SolicitorGeneral for Scotland.

Mr. William French to be a Resident Magistrate for the County of Clare.

Mr. R. J. Corbet to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon.

PROMOTIONS.

Mr. Antonio Mathé to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of British Honduras.

Mr. D. W. Gibbs and the Rev. C. A. Newsome to be Members of the Council of the Island of Granada.

Mr. Thomas Berkeley Hardtman, the Ven. Archdeacon George Meade Gibbs, M.A., and Mr. Joseph Henry Boon, M.A., to be Members of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Christopher.

Messrs. J. A. Iles and G. W. Daniell to be Members of the Executive Council of the Island of Nevis.

The Duke of Argyll to be Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire.

Mr. Wm. Lowther to be Secretary to the Embassy at Berlin.

The following gentlemen, late paid attachés
at the places undermentioned, to be
Second Secretaries in Her Majesty's
Diplomatic Service :-

Mr. Wm. John Dickson, Teheran; Mr.
Lionel Moore, Constantinople; Mr. Odo
Wm. Leopold Russell, Rome; the Hon.
Francis John Pakenham, Copenhagen;
Mr. Henry Philip Fenton, Turin; Lord
Hubert de Burgh Canning, Turin; Mr.
Edward Robert Lytton, Vienna; the Hon.
George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Paris;
Mr. George Strachey, the Hague; Mr.
Robert Thomas Charles Middleton, Ma-
drid; Mr. Wm. Brodie, Rio de Janerio ;
Mr. Hy. Lockwood, Stockholm; Mr.
Francis Clare Ford, Stuttgardt; Mr.
Gwalter Borranskill Congreve Lonsdale,
Munich Mr. Robert Burnett David
Morier, Berlin; Mr. Sydney Locock, St.
Petersburg; Mr. Robert Percy Ffrench,
Brussels; Lord Schomburg Henry Kerr,
Frankfort; the Hon. Wm. Nassau Jocelyn,
Berlin; Mr. Gerard Francis Ottiwell
Adams, Paris; Mr. Ernest Clay, Paris;
Mr. Hugh Guion Macdonell, Constantino-
ple; Mr. Alexander Bower St. Clair,
Vienna; Mr. Thomas Clement Cobbold,
Lisbon; Mr. Robert Grant Watson, Tehe-
ran; Mr. Frederick Robert St. John,
Pekin; the Hon. Henry Wodehouse, Con-
stantinople; Mr. Eric Robert Townsend
Farquhar, Buenos Ayres; the Hon. Luke
Gerald Dillon, Vienna; the Hon. Francis
Richard Plunkett, St. Petersburg; Mr.
John Walsham, Mexico; Mr. Edward
Baldwin Malet, Washington; Mr. Horace
James Johnston, Mexico; Mr. Hugh
Fraser, Guatemala.

Mr. W. R. Drake to be Treasurer of the Lancashire County Court. VOL. CIV.

Mr. A. R. Clark to be Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick.

Mr. William Ivory to be Sheriff of Inverness.

Mr. A. B. Shand to be Sheriff of Kincardine.

Mr. Henry Astbury Leveson to be Colonial Secretary for Her Majesty's Settlement of Lagos.

Mr. Cæsar Henry Hawkins to be Serjeant-Surgeon to Her Majesty.

Mr. James Moncrief Arnott to be Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Majesty.

Mr. Richard Quain to be Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Majesty.

Mr. James Finn to be Consul at the Dardanelles.

Mr. Noel Temple to be Consul at Jerusalemi.

Captain Alfred P. Ryder, R.N., to be Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Mr. Joshua Clarke, Q. C., to be Chairman of the Quarter Session, Cavan.

DECEMBER.

The following appointments have been made by the Prince of Wales in his Household -

Earl Spencer to be Groom of the Stole to His Royal Highness.

The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lord Alfred Hervey to be Lords of the Bedchamber.

Lieut.-General Knollys to be Comptroller and Treasurer.

The Hon. Robert Henry Meade and Mr. Charles Lindley Wood to be Grooms of the Bedchamber.

Major Teesdale, C.B., Captain G. H. Grey, and Lieut. -Colonel Keppel to be Equerries.

Mr. Herbert W. Fisher to be Private Secretary to His Royal Highness.

Mr. Gustave Barthélemy Colin to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon.

Mr. Henry Byerley Thomson to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon.

Mr. Richard F. Morgan to be Her Ma-
jesty's Advocate for the Island of Ceylon.
Mr. Churchill to be Consul-General at
Beyrout.

Mr. Dalzell to be Consul at Jassy.
Mr. Eldridge to be Consul at Erzeroum.

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