PROMOTIONS. Mr. A. M. Monteath to be UnderSecretary to the Government of India in the Home and Financial Departments. Miss Victoria Alexandrina Stuart Wortley to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Mr. Spencer St. John to be ConsulGeneral to the Republic of Hayti. Mr. George Benvenuto Mathew to be Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador. JULY. Sir William Atherton to be AttorneyGeneral. Mr. Roundell Palmer to be SolicitorGeneral. Mr. Thos. Kennedy Lowry, Q.C., to be Crown Prosecutor for the county of Armagh. Mr. E. C. Bayley to be Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Dr. G. Paton to be Director-General of Department. the Post Offices in India. Mr. C. K. Dove to be PostmasterGeneral of the North-Western Provinces. Capt. G. M. Battye to be PostmasterGeneral of Bengal. Mr. R. F. Saunders to be PostmasterGeneral of the Punjaub. Mr. H. B. Thompson, Queen's Advocate, to be a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court, Ceylon. Mr. Richard Francis Morgan to be Queen's Advocate, Ceylon. Mr. Thomas J. Callaghan to administer the Government of Labuan; also to act as Consul-General. Major Robert Stuart to be Consul at Prevesa, Albania. Mr. J. R. Bulwer, of the Norfolk Circuit, to be Recorder of Ipswich. Rear-Admiral Sir F. Grey, K. C.B., to be a Lord of the Admiralty. The Hon. J. R. Drummond to be a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. Mr. Thomas C. Taylor to be Vice-Consul at Abbeokuta. Mr. William Swan Field to be Collector of Customs, Principal Controller of Her Majesty's Customs and Navigation Laws, and Registrar of Shipping for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Sir Frederick E. W. Nicholson, bart., C.B., to be Commodore Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard. Mr. F. Saunders to be Treasurer Commissioner of Stamps, and Member of the Executive Council, Ceylon. Mr. G. Vane to be Principal Collector of Customs for the Island of Ceylon, and Member of the Legislative Council. Sir Richard Bethell (Baron Westbury), to be Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Mr. W. S. Seton Karr to be Member of the Legislative Council for Bengal. Mr. Denis Leaky to be a SurveyorGeneral of Trinidad. Lieut. Hutchinson to be Inspector of Police at the Mauritius. Mr. J. T. Woodroffe to be First Judge of the Court of Small Causes in Calcutta. Captain Morrison, R.E., to be SurveyorGeneral of Mauritius. Mr. John Scott Bushe to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Trinidad. Colonel Tulloh, R.A., to be Director of Ordnance. Mr. Simeon Jacobs to be AttorneyGeneral for the Territories of British Caffraria. Mr. T. J. Hutchinson to be Consul at Rosario, Buenos Ayres. Mr. J. Fitzpatrick to be Judge in British Caffraria. Lieut.-Colonel Clerk, R.A., to be Superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich Arsenal. Capt. G. M. Battye to be Postmaster- Mr. C. B. Trevor to be President at the Board of Examiners, Bengal. Lord H. U. Browne to be a Member of, and Secretary to, the Board of Examiners. Mr. Mutu Coomarasamy to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon. Messrs. Charles Perley and Peter Mitchell to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick. Mr. Robert Chapman to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Vincent. Mr. Thomas Brown to be a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Her Majesty's Settlements on the River Gambier. Sir W. G. Hayter, bart., M.P., Sir W. G. Hylton Jolliffe, bart., M.P., Sir James Clark, bart., Major-Gen. Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.B., and Dr. Hood have been appointed a Council of Supervision for the new Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, in the county of Hants. PROMOTIONS. Colonel William Erskine Baker, Bengal Engineers, to be a Member of the Council of India. Colonel Thomas Townsend Pears, C.B., to be Secretary for Military Correspondence on the Establishment of the Secretary of State for India. Mr. Charles H. J. Cuyler to be ReceiverGeneral of Trinidad. The Earl of Clarendon, K. G., the Earl Devon, Lord Lyttelton, the Hon. Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, bart., the Rev. William Hepworth Thompson, M.A., and Henry Halford Vaughan, esq., M. A., to be H.M.'s Commissioners for inquiring into the revenues and management of the colleges and schools of Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Charterhouse, St. Paul's, Merchant Tailors', Harrow, Rugby, and Shrewsbury. AUGUST. The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bart., to be Secretary of State for War. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bart., to be Secretary of State for Home Affairs. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord De Grey and Ripon to be UnderSecretary of State for the War Department. Mr. T. G. Baring to be Under-Secretary of State for India. Mr. H. Layard to be Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, bart., to be Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Richard Rogers to be Consul at Bussorah. Mr. Juland Danvers to be Government Director of the Indian Railway Companies. Mr. Henry Pering Pellew Crease to be Attorney-General of British Columbia. Mr. James Heard Pulman to be Librarian to the House of Lords. Mr. John David Hay Hill to be Consul in the Island of Réunion. Henry Stanhope Freeman, esq., (now British Vice-Consul at Janina,) to be Her Majesty's Consul at Lagos. Messrs. Richard O'Dwyer, Kenneth McLea, James Shannon Clift, Edward White, and Peter Tessier to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Newfoundland. Sir George Gray, K. C.B., (now Administrator of the Government of the VOL. CIII. Colony of New Zealand,) to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies. Mr. Henry Johnson to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Trinidad. Mr. Philip Edmond Wodehouse, C.B., to be Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Francis Hinks to be Governor of British Guiana. Mr. James Walker, C.B., to be Governor of Barbadoes. The Hon. Arthur Gordon to be Lieut.Governor of New Brunswick. Colonel Gore Browne, C. B., to be Governor of Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land). Sir Dominic Daly to be Governor of South Australia. Mr. J. S. Hampton to be Governor of Western Australia. Mr. Thomas Price to be LieutenantGovernor of Dominica. Mr. Charles Nesbit to be LieutenantGovernor of St. Vincent. Mr. James R. Longden to be President of the Virgin Islands. Mr. R. T. Pennefather to be Auditor and Accountant-General and Comptroller of Revenue for the Island of Ceylon. George Benvenuto Mathew, esq., (now Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador,) to be Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to those Republics. The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., to be a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Mr. J. Stephen, LL.D., to be Revising Barrister for West Somerset. Messrs. T. H. Terrel, A. Hanson, and H. S. Maine to Revise the Lists of Voters for the Metropolitan Boroughs, the City of London, and the County of Middlesex. Capt. Rennie, C. B., to be Controller of Marine Affairs, and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India in the Marine Department. Mr. W. Hackett to be Her Majesty's Advocate for her Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast. SEPTEMBER. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Clerk to be Superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich. L L PROMOTIONS. Mr. J. Wynne to Major Shaw to be Assistant-Superin- of Salmon in England. tendent of the Royal Carriage Depart- be Secretary to the Board. ment, Woolwich. Mr. Redington to be Stipendiary Magistrate for Donegal County. Lieut.-Colonel W. F. Marriott to be Acting Secretary to the Bombay Government in the Military, Marine, and Ecclesiastical Department. Mr. C. E. Bernard to be Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Financial Department. Mr. Evan Montagu Baillie to be Secretary to the Legation at Stuttgardt. Mr. James Considine to be Consul at Mahon. Mr. Edward Herries to be Secretary of Her Majesty's Mission at Lisbon. Mr. H. P. T. Barron to be Secretary of Legation at Brussels. OCTOBER. Mr. David Hector, Advocate, to be Sheriff of Wigton and Kirkcudbright. The Earl of Clarendon, K.G. and G.C.B., to be Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of Prussia, on the occasion of His Majesty's coronation. Mr. Ignatius Kelly to be Crown Solicitor for the county of Mayo, Ireland. Capt. G. B. Malleson, to be Secretary in the Military Finance Department, Government of India. Mr. Attorney-General Van Buren, Messrs. William M'Ewen, Henry Berkeley, and Andrew Munrow to be Provisional Members of Her Majesty's Council. The Duke of Somerset to be LordLieutenant of Devonshire. Dr. Charles A. Anderson, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Malta Hospital. Capt. J. Black to be Political Agent in Cutch. NOVEMBER. The Hon. W. G. C. Eliot to be Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro. The Hon. W. Stuart to be Secretary of Legation at Athens. Viscount Monck to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the Island of Prince Edward, and Governor-General of the Provinces on the continent of North America and of the Island of Prince Edward. The Hon. Macnamara Dix to be Colonial Secretary and Registrar of the Colony of St. Lucia. Mr. Joseph Goodsir to be Treasurer of the Colony of St. Lucia. Mr. Frederick Henry Crowe to be Consul at Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Bagshawe, Q.C., to be County Court Judge of Circuit No. 31 (Cardigan, Carmarthen, Pembroke, &c.) Mr. E. C. Bayley to be Extra Judicial Commissioner of Oude. Messrs. Robert Wilson and Charles George Pantin to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Trinidad. Dr. Charles Caulfield to be Bishop of Nassau. Mr. John Small to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong. Mr. William Charles Whitman to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Nova Scotia. Dr. Robert Adams to be Surgeon-inOrdinary to Her Majesty in Ireland. Mr. Joseph W. Bateman to be Secretary to the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Edward Poste, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, to be an Examiner of the Committee of Council on Education. Mr. Thomas D. O'Barrell to be Crown Prosecutor for the county of Galway. David Mason, esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Jamaica. Sir James Hope, K. C.B., Rear Admiral of the White Squadron of H.M.'s Fleet, Lord Hanover to be Lord-Lieutenant of Commander-in-Chief of H. M.'s ships and Monmouthshire. Mr. Robert Rawlinson, C.E., to be Chief Inspector, Local Government Act Office. Mr. William Joshua Ffennell, and Mr. Frederick Elen to be Inspectors of Fisheries for three years, under the Act to amend the Laws relating to Fisheries vessels on the East India and China station, permitted to accept and wear the insignia of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour of the Second Class, conferred on him in approbation of his distinguished services before the enemy during the recent combined operations of British and French forces against China. PROMOTIONS. DECEMBER. Lord Canning to be Ranger of Greenwich Park. Mr. James Syme to be Surgeon inOrdinary to Her Majesty in Scotland. The Marquess of Ailsa to be LordLieutenant of the shire and county of Ayr. Mr. W. M. Hindmarsh to be AttorneyGeneral for the County Palatine of Durham. Mr. J. Mellor, Q.C., to be Justice of the Queen's Bench, Mr. William Ritchie to be a Legal Member of the Supreme Council of Calcutta. The Lord Mayor of London, Major General Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.B., Mr. John Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Captain Douglas Gatton, R.E., Commander Edward Burstal, R. N., Secretary of the River Thames Conservancy Board, Mr. Henry Arthur Hunt, Surveyor of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and Mr. John Robinson Maclean, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to examine plans for embanking the Surrey side of the River Thames within the metropolis. Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, Sir William Erle, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Sir Edward Ryan, Mr. Robert Lowe, Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, Sir James Shaw Willes, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. John Macpherson Macleod, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for preparing a body of substantive laws for India, and for considering and reporting on such other matters in relation to the reform of the laws of India, as may be referred to the said Commissioners by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India. The Right Hon. Sir John Romilly, knt., Master of the Rolls; the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland; the Right Hon. James Henry Monaghan, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland; the Right Hon. Abraham. Brewster; the Right Hon. Joseph Napier; Sir William Page Wood, knight, a Vice-Chancellor; Sir James Shaw Willes, knight, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in England; Henry George Hughes, esq., one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland; Sir William Atherton, knt., H.M.'s Attorney-General; the Right Hon. Thomas O'Hagan, H. M.'s Attorney General for Ireland; Sir Roundell Palmer, knt., H.M.'s Solicitor-General; James Anthony Lawson, esq., H. M.'s SolicitorGeneral for Ireland; Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, knt.; George Markham Gifford, esq., one of H. M.'s Counsel; Robt. Bayley Follet, esq., and Richard John Theodore Orpen, esq., to be H.M.'s Commissioners to inquire into the constitution of the Irish Law Courts, with a view to reduce costs to suitors and the expenditure of the public money, and to assimilate, so far as may be practicable, the administration of justice in England and Ireland. Mr. Serjeant Hayes, of the Midland Circuit, to be Recorder of Leicester. Sir John Thomas, knt., to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Island of Barbadoes. Messrs. David Cowie and Peter Carnth to be Members of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Vincent. Mr. Thomas Begg to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Trinidad. Messrs. Andrew Munro, William McEwen, Henry Berkeley, and George Brooks Van Buren, to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Grenada. Brevet-Colonel William Munro, C B., to be a Member of the Council of the Bermudas, or Somers Islands. Messrs. William Douglas Hall Baillie, Daniel Pollen, John Charles Watts Russell, Andrew Hamilton Russell, and Henry Sewell, to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New Zealand. Major-General John Fitzmaurice, K.H., to be Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Royal Body Guard. Dr. Francis Hawkins to be Physicianin-Ordinary to Her Majesty's Household. Mr. G. R. Perry to be Her Majesty's Consul in French Guiana. Mr. Frank R. D. Hay to be Consul at Cairo. Mr. St. Vincent Lloyd to be Consul at Syra. Mr. R. Wilkinson to be Vice-Consul at Poti. Mr. Theophilus Bennett Hoskyns Abrahall to be Bankruptcy Commissioner of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District. Mr. Alexander Graham Dunlop to be first Vice-Consul, Constantinople. Mr. Henry Philip Roche to be a Regis trar of the Court of Bankruptcy. PROMOTIONS. Mr. De Moleyns to be Chairman of the county of Kilkenny. Mr. D. R. Kane to be Chairman of the county of Cork. Mr. West to be Chairman of the county of Leitrim. Sir Croker Barrington to be Crown Solicitor of Limerick. Colonel Francis Seymour, C. B., recently one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, to be Extra Groom in Waiting to Her Majesty. Colonel the Lord James Charles Plantagenet Murray, Extra Groom in Waiting to Her Majesty, to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of General Sir Edward Bowater, deceased. Thomas Price, esq., to be Lieut.Governor of the Island of Dominica. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. JANUARY. Rev. Henry Philpott, D.D., Master of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, Canon of Norwich, and Chaplain to the Prince Consort, to be Lord Bishop of Worcester. Rev. H. R. Hall, Rector of Bolden, Durham, to be Honorary Canon in York Cathedral. Rev. H. R. Neville, P. C. of Great Yarmouth, to be an Honorary Canon in the Cathedral Church of Norwich. Rev. W. North to be Archdeacon of Cardigan and Prebendary of Llandyfriog, in the diocese of St. David's. Rev. E. Prest, Master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham, to be an Honorary Canon in the Cathedral Church of Durham. FEBRUARY. Rev. H. Powell Ffoulkes, Rector of Llandyssil, to be Archdeacon of Montgomery, and to be a Canon in the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph. Rev. F. Lear, Rector of Bishopston, Wilts, to be Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum, and Prebendary of Bricklesworth, annexed to the Chancellorship. Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, Rector of St. Matthew, Friday-street, to be a Minor Canon (10th) in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London. Rev. J. Barber Lightfoot, Fellow and Tutor of Cambridge College, Cambridge, to be Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. MARCH. Rev. J. Godfrey Day to be Dean of Ardfred and Aghadoe, Ireland. Rev. James Fraser to be Prebendary of Bishopstone, in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. Rev. H. P. Wright, Chaplain to the Forces, to be Archdeacon of British Columbia. Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., to be Dean of Exeter. APRIL. Rev. E. Duncan Rhodes to be Prebendary of Wedmore the Second in Wells Cathedral. ΜΑΥ. Rev. Frederick Gell, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Bishop of London, to be Bishop of Madras. Rev. E. Garfit to be unendowed Prebend or Canon of Marston St. Lawrence, founded in Lincoln Cathedral. JULY. Rev. Charles J. Ellicott, Professor of Divinity in King's College, London, to be Dean of Exeter. Rev. J. Cooper, Vicar of Kendal, Westmoreland, to be an Honorary Canon in the Cathedral Church of Carlisle. Rev. J. Fletcher to be a Canon in the Cathedral Church of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. |