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PROMOTIONS.

16. Thomas Pemberton Leigh, esq., to be Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; James Robert Gardiner, esq., to be Secretary and Clerk of the Council to his Royal Highness, and Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Cornwall; Edward White, esq., to be Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall; and the Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot to be Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales.

17. Frederick John Earl of Ripon to be Her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India.

18. Field Marshal His Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G. to be Governor and Constable of Her Majesty's Castle of Windsor.

19. Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Patrick Stuart to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of Malta and its dependencies. Col. Francis Burgess, esq., to be Chief Police Magistrate in Van Diemen's Land.

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23. Commander G. T. Gordon, R.N., to accept the Cross of San Fernando, conferred by the late Queen Regent of Spain, in approbation of his services from June 1835 to May 1837.

30. Coldstream Guards, brevet Col. C. A. F. Bentinck to be Major; Lieut. and Capt. J. C. Clitherow to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col.

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48th Foot, Major William Bruce, from balf-pay unattached, to be Major. 61st Foot, Major Henry Burnside to be Lieut. Col.; Capt. R. N. Verner to be Major.

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Unattached, to be Lieut.-Cole, brevet Col. James Freeth, from a halfpay Major Royal Staff Corps.

To be Majors, brevet Lieut.-Col. C. H. Smith, from half-pay Captain. 40th Foot; brevet Major A. A. O'Reilly, from half pay Captain 21st Light Dragoons.

Brevet, Major William Bruce, of the 48th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col.

31. Field Marshal H. R. H. Prince Albert, K.G. to be the First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath, and Acting Great Master of the said Most Hon. Order.

H.R.H. Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, K.G., to be Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James's Park.

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19th Foot, Gen. Sir W. M. Pea

21st Foot, Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir Fred. Adam, G.C.B. and G.C.M.G. to be Colonel.

-46th Foot, Gen. John Earl of Stair, to be Colonel.

48th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. George Middlemore, to be Colonel.

57th, Foot, Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.B., to be Colonel.

76th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Arbuthnot, K.C.B., to be Colonel.

92nd Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm. Macbean, K.C.B., to be Colonel.

97th Foot, Major-Gen. Sir C. J. Napier, K.C.B. to be Colonel.

NAVAL PROMOTION.

T. Buil and Edward C. Senhouse to be Commanders,

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Salisbury.-Ambrose Hussey, esq. Suffolk East.-Lord Rendlesham.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT,

Rev. C. Lyne to be Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral,

The Hon, and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay to be Chaplain to the Queen.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Sir William Heygate, Bart., to be Chamberlain of London.

J. G. Newton Alleyn, esq., to be War den of Dulwich College.

JUNE.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

10. James Earl of Dalhousie, Sir Edward Ryan, Knt. and Thomas Pemberton Leigh, esq., sworn of the Privy Council.

The Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, and, in his absence, James Earl of Dalhousie, to be President of the Committee of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations.

Royal Perthshire Militia, Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Bart., to be Major. 13. Wilts Militia, the Hon. F. H. P. Methuen to be Major.

PROMOTIONS.

Cavalry, Sir John Hope, Bart., to be Lieut.-Colonel Commandant; the Earl of Morton to be Lieut.-Colonel; George Wauchope, esq., to be Major.

14. The Marquess of Bute and the Earl of Mansfield elected Knights of the Thistle.

16. 32nd Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Buchan, K.C.B., to be Colonel.

36th Foot, Capt. Charles Trollope to be Major.

89th Foot, Major A. S. H. Aplin to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Major Robert Lewis to be Major.

95th Foot, Lieut. Gen. G. G. L'Estrange, C.B. to be Colonel.

Unattached, Major Robert Mullen from 1st Foot, to be Lieut. Col.; brevet Major Oliver D. Ainsworth, from 51st Foot to be Major.

19. Worcestershire Militia, Lieut.Colonel Thomas Henry Bund to be Colonel; Major Josiah Patrick to be Lieut.-Colonel; Capt. John Cox to be Major.

23. Henry Frowd Seagram, esq., Commander R.N., Lieut.-Governor of Her Majesty's settlements in the Gambia, to be Governor and Commander-inChief over the said settlements.

Richard Clement Moody, esq., Lieut. Roy. Eng. Lieut.-Governor of the Falkland Islands, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief over the said islands.

- Henry Morgan, esq., to be Coroner for the city and territory of Gibraltar. 23. Gen. Charles William Marquess of Londonderry, G.C.B., to be Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards.

10th Dragoons, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B. Lygon to be Colonel.

13th Foot, brevet Major H. Havelock to be Major.

29th Foot, Lieut.-Col. C. C. Taylor to be Lieut.-Colonel.

27. Capt. and brevet Lieut.-Col. Charles Townley, of late Brit. Aux. Legion, to accept the supernumerary cross of Charles III., the cross 1st class of San Fernando, and cross of Isabella the Catholic, conferred for his services during the late civil war in Spain.

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Crofton Moore Vandeleur, esq., to be Colonel of the Clare Militia.

Unattached, brevet Lieut.-Col. Charles Diggle, from Roy. Mil. College to be Major.

Brevet, Captains Thomas Walker,

and Patrick Maitland, 51st Foot; to be Majors in the Army.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Very Rev. Dr. Vignoles, to the Deanery of Ossory.

Rev. H. U. Tighe to be Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin.

JULY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Major-Gen. Sir Charles James Napier, K.C.B. to be G.C.B. To be Companions of the Bath, Lieut.-Cols. John L. Pennefather, 22nd Foot; John Poole, 22nd Foot; Philip M'Pherson, 17th Foot; Majors F. D. George, 22nd Foot, Thomas S. Conway, 22nd Foot. Also the following Officers in the East India Company's Service, Col. William Pattie, 9th Bengal Cavalry; Lieut.-Cols. A. T. Reid, 12th Bombay Native Infantry; Charles Waddington, Bombay Engineers; Maurice Stack, 3rd Bombay Cavalry; Willian Wyllie, 21st Bombay Native Infantry; Walter J. Browne, 8th Bombay Native Infantry; P. F. Storey, 9th Bengal Cavalry; Alex. Woodburn, 25th Bombay Native (Infantry; John Lloyd, Bombay Artillery; James Outram, 23rd Bombay_Native Infantry; and J. T. Leslie, Bombay Artillery: Majors Charles H. Delamain, 3rd Bombay Cavalry; Mich. F. Willoughby, Bombay Artillery; W. T. Whitlie, Bombay Artillery; G. Fisher, 12th Bombay Native Infantry; John Jackson, 25th Bombay Native Infantry; Auchmuty Tucker, 9th Bengal Cavalry; S.J. Stevens, 21st Bombay Native Infantry; Edward Green, 21st Bombay Navy Infantry; W. G. B. Blenkins, 6th Bombay Native Infantry, Brevet.

To be Lieut.-Cols. in the Army, Majors John Poole, 22nd Foot, and Philip M'Pherson, 17th Foot.

To be Majors in the Army, Capts. F. D. George, 22nd Foot, and T. S. Conway, 22nd Foot.

To be Aid-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Col. in the Army in the East Indies, Lieut.-Col. William Pattle, 9th Bengal Cavalry.

To be Lieut.-Cols. in the Army in the East Indies, Majors A. T. Reid, C. Waddington, Maurice Stack, William

PROMOTIONS.
Alex. Woodburn, John Lloyd, James
Outram, and J. T. Leslie.

To be Majors in the Army in the East Indies, Capts. C. H. Delamain, M. F. Willoughby, W. T. Whitlie, Geo. Fisher, F. N. B. Tucker, John Jackson, Auchmuty Tucker, S. J. Stevens, Edw. Green, and W. B. G. Blenkins.

7. William Musgrave, esq., to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Capt. T. Butler, to be Capt. 51st Foot, and Brevet Major in the Army (the latter commission dated 10th Jan. 1837.)

14. 1st Foot Guards, Brevet Col. C. F. R. Lascelles to be Major; Brevet Col. Thomas Drake to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col.; Lieut. and Capt. C. W. Ridley to be Capt. and Lieut. Col.

1st Foot, Lieut -Col. R. Mullen to be Lieut.-Col.: Brevet Major George Bell to be Major.

55th Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Col. Norman Maclean to be Major.

86th Foot, Lieut.-Col. A. S. H. Aplin, from 89th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col. vice Lieut.-Col. J. W. Bouverie, who exchanges.

Brevet Col. G. A. Wetherall, 1st Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-Gen. of the Forces in Canada, vice Lieut.-Col. Eden, appointed Assistant AdjutantGen. in North Britain.

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High Steward of Plymouth, vice the Duke of Sussex.

John Goldwyer Andrews, esq., elected President; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. and Samuel Cooper, esq., Vice-Presidents of the College of Surgeons.

Rev. Dr. Booth, to be Vice-Principal of and Professor of Mathematics in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution.

Rev. Robert Phelps, to be Master of Sidney Sussex Collge.

Rev. G. F. Simpson, to be Rector of the Public College of Canada to be established at Montreal.

AUGUST.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. The Duke of Northumberland, to be Constable of the Castle of Launceston. 2. Sir John S. Richardson, Bart. to be Secretary to the Order of the Thistle.

3. The 41st Regiment of Foot to bear on its regimental or second colours, and likewise on its appointments the word "Candahar," and the figures "1842," in commemoration of the gallant conduct of that Regiment in the action fought in the cantonments at Candahar in Affghanistan on the 29th May 1842.

7. Louisa, widow of Charles Bellamy, esq., sister of Viscount Kenmure, to have the same title, place, pre-eminence and precedence, as if her father, Adam Gordon, esq. had succeeded to the said title of Viscount Kenmure.

9. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, William Miles, esq., to be Col.; James Benet, esq., to be Lieut.Col.

10. Sir Thomas Gage, of Hengrave Hall, and Coldham Hall, Suffolk, Bart., in compliance with the last will and testament of his late uncle, J. Gage Rokewood, esq., to take the surname of Rokewood before that of Gage, and to bear the arms of Rokewood quarterly in the second quarter with those of Gage.

John Townsend, of Lower Grosvenor-street, and of Chatteris, co. Cambridge, esq., to discontinue the surname of Townsend, and to take the surnames of Dunn Gardner, and to bear and use the arms of Dunn and Gardner quarterly.

12th Foot, Major John Patten, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. Sterling Freeman Glover, to be Major.

31st Foot, Brevet Major John

H. R. H. Prince Albert, to be Lord Byrne to be Major.

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Royal Artillery, Capt. and Brevet Major J. Whitty, to be Lieut.-Col.

42nd Foot, Major D. A. Cameron, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. C. Dunsmure, to be Major.

65th Foot, to be Deputy-Adj.-Gen. in Jamaica.

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Lieut. Col. P. S. Pratt, 26th Foot, to be Dep.-Adj.-Gen. at Madras.

Unattached Brevet-Lieut.-Col. W. Turnor, from half-pay, Major Unattached, to be Lieut.-Col.

To be Majors, Brevet Lieut.-Col. C. Grant, from half-pay, Capt. 23rd Foot.

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Brevet-Major O. Pilling, from half-pay, Capt. Portuguese Service.

11. Royal Artillery, Capt. and Brevet Major H. L. Sweeting, to be Lieut.-Col. 12. 56th Foot, Capt. E. W. Passy, to be Major.

65th Foot, Brevet-Major E. Sanders, to be Lieut.-Col. in the Army in the East Indies.

Capt. J. Griffin, of the 24th Bengal Native Infantry, to be Major in the Army in the East Indies.

20. Field Marshal his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to be Capt.-Gen. and Col. of the Artillery Company.

27. Major-Gen. Sir Charles Felix Smith, and Major-Gen. Richard England, to be Knights Commanders of the Bath.

Lieut.-Cols. Gore Browne and Joseph Simmons, 41st Foot.

Majors A. P. S. Wilkinson and Hamlet Wade, 13th Light Infantry.

Major Geo. Hogarth, 26th Foot, and Lieut.-Col. George Huish, 26th Bengal Native Infantry, to be Companions of the said Order.

29. 64th Foot, Capt. J. Duberley, to be Major.

Brevet Capt. C. Moore, 32nd Foot, to be Major.

2nd Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, T. T. Bernard, esq., to be Lieut.-Col.; G. Lucas, esq., to be Major.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

To be Captains, James Vashor Baker, Charles Keele.

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MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Argyleshire-Duncan M'Neill, esq., Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland.

OCTOBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

7. The Right Hon. Thomas Frank

PROMOTIONS.

William Cripps, esq., to be Commissioners for inquiring into the present state of the laws as administered in South Wales which regulate the turnpike roads; and also into the circumstances which have led to the recent acts of violence and outrage in certain districts in that country.

George Kettilby Rickards, esq., to be Secretary to the said Commission.

10. Elizabeth, Marchioness of Douro, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in ordinary to Her Majesty in the room of Charlotte, Duchess of Norfolk, resigned.

Charlotte, Duchess of Norfolk, to be extra Lady of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty.

12. Royal Artillery, Major-Gen. Sir T. Downham, K.C.H., to be Col. Commandant.

20. 91st Foot, Capt. J. F. G. Campbell, to be Major.

Brevet Capt. James Burke, 77th Foot, to be Major in the Army.

30. Knighted, James Wythe, esq., M.D., in attendance on His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

London-James Pattison, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Right Rev. Aubrey G. Spencer, Bishop of Newfoundland, to the Bishopric of Jamaica and the Bahama Isles.

Rev. T. Rushton, to be Archdeacon of Manchester.

Rev. T. Dale, to be Canon of St. Paul's.

Col., J. W. Freshfield, esq. to be Major of the Artillery Company of London.

6. Jas. Walker, esq., Advocate, to be one of the Ordinary Clerks of Session in Scotland, vice George Bell. esq., deceased; Adam Urquhart, esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the shire of Wigton.

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Earl Delawarr, and Elizabeth, Countess of Delawarr, his wife (she being sister and coheir of John Frederick Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset), to take the surname of Sackville before West, and quarter the Arms of Sackville in the second quarter.

10. Arthur Aston, esq., late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain, to be a Grand Cross of the Bath; Edmund Norcott, esq., Commander R.N, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief over Her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia; Wm. H. Batt, esq., to be Rector of the University of Malta.

14. Richard Pakenham, esq. (now Minister Plenipotentiary to the Mexican Republic), to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Henry Lytton Bulwer, esq. (now Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris), to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain; Lord Wm. Hervey to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris.

15. Alex. Wood, esq. (one of the Lords of Session in Scotland), to be one of the Lords of Justiciary in Scotland, vice Alexander Maconochie, esq., resigned; Patrick Robertson, esq. (Dean of Faculty), to be one of the Lords of Session in Scotland, vice Alexander Maconochie, esq., resigned.

17. 23rd Foot, Brevet Major Wm. Rev. T. Coates, to be Prebendary of Cockett, to be Major; 49th Foot, MaYork.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Mr. Alderman Magnay, to be Lord Mayor of London.

William Hughes Hughes, esq., to be Alderman of Bread-street Ward.

Thomas Challis, esq., elected Alderman of Cripplegate Ward.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Chas. E. Cox, esq. to be Lieut.

jor Gilbert Pasley, to be Lieut.-Col., Major W. R. Faber, to be Major; Unattached Major Thos. Matheson, from the 23rd Foot, to be Lieut.-Col.

18. William, Earl of Devon, Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, Bart., Geo. Alexander Hamilton, esq., Thos. Nicholas Redington, esq., and John Wynne, esq., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland.

23. Knighted by patent, Anthony Perier, esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Brest.

24. Chas. Bankhead, esq. (Secretary

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