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PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Jan. 11. The Hon. William Stuart, Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburgh, to be Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic.

15. Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, C.B. (late Governor and Commander-inChief of the Island of Vancouver and its dependencies), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the West Africa Settlements.

18. Captain Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr, R.N., to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of Rear-Admiral Sir William Hoste, resigned.

28. The Right Hon. William Tatton, Baron Egerton, to be Her Majesty's Lieutenant for the county of Chester.

30. The honour of Knighthood conferred upon Charles Wheatstone, Esq., F.R.S.

Feb. 8. Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn, Knight, to be a Judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John Rolt, Knight, resigned.

24. The Right Hon. Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia, to be Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the North German Confederation.

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25. James Hannen, Serjeant-atLaw, to be one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench.

The dignity of a Baronet conferred on William Jenner, Esq., M.D., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

29. The honour of Knighthood conferred on William Baliol Brett, Esq., M.P., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General.

The Right Hon. Benjamin Dis

raeli, the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, the Hon. Gerard James Noel, Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, and Henry Whitmore, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

March 5. Sir William Page Wood, Knight, a Vice-Chancellor, to be a Judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, in the room of the Right Honourable Hugh M'Calmont, Baron Cairns, resigned.

9. Francis Knollys, Esq., to be one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of Captain Robert Tench Bedford, R.N., deceased.

Horace Rumbold, Esq., now Secretary of Her Majesty's Legation at Berne, to be Secretary of Her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg; and Algernon Bertram Mitford, Esq., to be a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service; William Doria, Esq., now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Stockholm, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon; the Hon. Francis John Pakenham, now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Stockholm; and Robert Thomas Charles Middleton, Esq., Secretary to Her Majesty's late Legation at Mexico, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Berne.

11. George Markham Giffard, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, to be a Vice-Chancellor, in the room of Sir William Page Wood, resigned.

24. The Rev. John Edward Kempe, Rector of St. James's, Westminster, and Honorary Chaplain to Her Majesty, to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty; and the Hon. and Rev. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Wigan, Lancashire, to be an Honorary Chaplain to Her Majesty.

March 31. Sir W. Page Wood, and Sir C. J. Selwyn, to be members of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

April 3. The Most Noble Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, to be Her Majesty's Lieutenant for the county of Buckingham.

11. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto the following persons, and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten :

The Right Hon. Sir John Trollope, Bart., by the name, style, and title of Baron Kesteven, of Casewick, in the county of Lincoln.

Sir John Benn Walsh, Bart., by the name, style, and title of Baron Ormathwaite, of Ormathwaite, in the county of Cumberland.

Sir Brook William Bridges, Bart., by the name, style, and title of Baron Fitzwalter, of Woodham Walter, in the county of Essex.

William O'Neill, Clerk, by the name, style, and title of Baron O'Neill, of Shanes Castle, in the county of Antrim.

- 23. The Right Hon. John Baron Romilly; the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole; George Markham Giffard, Esq., a Vice-Chancellor; Edward Howes, Esq.; Arthur Hobhouse, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel; Jacob Waley, Henry Thring, Edward Parker Wolstenholme, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law; John Young and William James Farrer, Esqrs., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into the operation of the Land Transfer Act, and also into the present condition of the Registry of Deeds for the County of Middlesex.

May 1. The Hon. and Ven. Charles Amyand Harris, M.A. (Archdeacon of Wilts), to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the See of Gibraltar.

2. The Right Hon. George, Earl of Haddington, to be Her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

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tices of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench.

The honour of Knighthood conferred on the Right Hon. William Carroll, M.D., Lord Mayor of Dublin.

May 23. At the Court of Balmoral, Her Majesty, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, was graciously pleased by letters patent under her Royal sign manual and the great seal of the Order, bearing date this day, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations usually observed in regard to installation, and to give and grant unto John Winston, Duke of Marlborough, Knight of the said most noble Order, and duly invested with the ensigns thereof, full power and authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said most noble Order of the Garter, in as full and ample a manner as if he had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

June 16. The Hon. Lionel Sackville Sackville West, now Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris.

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22. Edward Dwyer, Esq., to be a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

23. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, K.G., from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.

26. Her Majesty issued a Commission under her royal sign manual to inquire into the present state of military education in this country. The Commissioners, Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Eustace Cecil, Lieutenant-General Lord de Ros, Lord Northbrook, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Russell, Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, the Rev. Henry Montagu Butler, D.D., the Rev. William Charles Lake, M.A., BrigadierGeneral John Henry Lefroy, Colonel Edmund Haythorne, and LieutenantColonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney, required to report any recommendations they may have to make as to alterations in the system of military education, and in the constitution of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Lieu

tenant John Wallace Hozier appointed Secretary.

July 7. The honour of Knighthood conferred on Thomas Tilson, Esq., of Clapham Park.

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Jocelyn, now a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.

July 25. The dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto William Ernest, Baron Feversham, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Helmsley, of Helmsley, in the North Riding of the county of York, and Earl of Feversham, of Ryedale, in the North Riding of the county of York.

-31. Joseph Stone Williams, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Island of St. Helena.

Aug. 8. The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto George Etienne Cartier, of the city of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, Esq., Minister of Militia in the Privy Council of the Dominion of Canada, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

21. General his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, K.G., K.T., G.C.B., K.P., G.C.S.I., to be Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade, vice Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B., G.C.H., deceased.

24. Sir William Baliol Brett, Serjeant-at-Law, to be an additional Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas.

Major-General Edward Lechmere Russell, Bombay Army, Political Resident at Aden, to a be Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India; and Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, C.B., Bombay Staff Corps, Chief Commissioner in Sindh, and lately Political Resident at Aden, to be an Extra Knight Commander of the said Order.

Major James Augustus Grant, C.B., Bengal Staff Corps, to be a Companion of the said Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

25. George Hayes, Serjeant-at-Law, to bean additional Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench.

Anthony Cleasby, Serjeant-at-Law, to be an additional Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer.

- 29. The dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto the following gentlemen:-Andrew Fairbairn, of Woodsley-house, Leeds, in the West Riding of the County of York, Esq., Mayor of Leeds; Frederick Arrow, of Pilgrim's Hall, in the County of Essex, Esq., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, London; Edward

William Watkin, of Northenden, in the county Palatine of Chester, Esq.

Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B; Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres, K.C.B.; Rear-Admiral George Henry Seymour, C.B.; Rear-Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay; and the Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging.

Sept. 2. John Richard Quain, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, to be Her Majesty's Attorney-General of the county palatine of Durham, vacant by the death of Stephen Temple, Esq.

-7. James Bacon, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, in the room of Edward Goulburn, Serjeant-at-Law, deceased.

- 9. The Rev. Hugh McNeile, D.D., the Deanery of Her Majesty's Cathedral Church of Ripon, void by the death of William Goode, D.D.

10. Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine, Knight, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Western Australia and its dependencies.

16. Richard Baggallay, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to be Her Majesty's Solicitor-General.

Oct. 1. Major-General Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy, C.B., to be LieutenantGovernor of the Island of Jersey, in the room of Lieutenant-General Burke Cuppage, whose period of service has expired. - 9. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, K.C.B., to be a member of the Council of India.

- 29. Harry Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, Esq., now a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, and employed in Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Berne.

Nov. 9. The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto Charles Mills, of Hillingdon Court, and Camelford House, Park Lane, both in the County of Middlesex, Esq., late a Member of the Council of India, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto Robert Bateson Harvey, of Langley Park, in the County of Bucking

ham, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

Nov. 11. The Rev. William Weldon Champneys, Master of Arts, Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, to be Dean of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, the same being void by the death of Dr. Henry Edward John Howard, late Dean thereof; the Queen has been pleased to grant unto Francis Kynvett Leighton, Doctor in Divinity, the place and dignity of a Canon of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, the same being void by the death of the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, late Canon thereof.

18. The Right Hon. Sir John Young, Bart., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., late Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New South Wales, to be an extra member of the civil division of the first class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted to the undermentioned gentlemen and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten :

Francis Arthur Knox-Gore, of Belleek Manor, in the county of Mayo, Esq., Her Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Sligo.

Smith Child, of Newfield and of Stallington, in the County of Stafford, and of Dunlosset, Islay, in the County of Argyll, Esq.

Robert John Harvey Harvey, of Crown Point, in the parish of Trowse, in the County of Norfolk, Esq.

James Walker, of Sand Hutton, in the North Riding of the County of York, and of Beachampton, in the County of Buckingham, Esq.

26. The Queen has been pleased to order a congé d'élire to pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church of Canterbury to elect an Archbishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Dr. Charles Thomas Longley, late Archbishop thereof; and Her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Father in God, Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait, now Bishop of London, to be by them elected Archbishop of the said see of Canterbury.

28. Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Viscountess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto Mary Anne, wife of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, of Hughenden Manor, in the County of Buckingham, by the name,

style, and title of Viscountess Beaconsfield, of Beaconsfield, in the County of Buckingham, and at her decease the dignity of a Viscount of the said United Kingdom to the heirs male of her body lawfully begotten.

Dec. 1. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto Edward Anthony John, Viscount Gormanston, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Gormanston, of Whitewood, in the County of Meath.

The Rev. Robert Gregory to be a Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, void by the promotion of the Rev. William Weldon Champneys to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield.

The Rev. William Bright, M.A., to be Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, in the room of the Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel, promoted to the Deanery of St. Paul's in London.

2. Henry Lowther, Esq., to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, in the room of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale, resigned.

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4. The names of the Peers elected and chosen to sit and vote in the House of Peers in the ensuing Parliament of the United Kingdom: The Marquis of Tweeddale, the Earl of Morton, the Earl of Home, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Lauderdale, the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Leven and Melville, the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl of Orkney, Viscount Strathallan, the Lord Saltoun, the Lord Sinclair, the Lord Elphinstone, the Lord Blantyre, the Lord Colville of Culross.

9. John Bright, Esq., Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Esq., Austen Henry Layard, Esq., and William Edward Forster, Esq., sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

Her Majesty in Council delivered the Great Seal to the Right Hon. Sir William Page Wood, Knight, whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was by Her Majesty's command administered to him, and he took his place at the Board accordingly.

The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto the Right Hon. Sir William Page Wood, Knight, Chancellor, of that part of the said United Kingdom called Great Britain, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Hatherley, of Down Hatherley, in the County of Gloucester.

The honour of Knighthood conferred on Anthony Cleasby, one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, Richard Baggallay, Esq., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, Louis Mallett, Esq., C.B., Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Trade, and George Hayes, Esq., one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench.

Dec. 15. The Right Hon. George Joachim Goschen, to be Poor Law Commissioner for England.

16. The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone; the Right Hon. Robert Lowe; James Stansfeld, jun., Esq.; the

Most Hon. Henry Charles Keith, Marquis of Lansdowne; William Patrick Adam, Esq.; and the Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian, to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

Sir William Snagg, Knt., to be Chief Justice for the Colony of British Guiana. Sydney Smith Bell, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; and Charles Thomas Smith, Esq., to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of that colony.

HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS AND CHIEF OFFICERS OF STATE.

THE CABINET.

First Lord of the Treasury, Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone.

Lord High Chancellor, Right Hon. Lord
Hatherley.

Lord President of the Council, Right
Hon. Earl de Grey and Ripon.
Lord Privy Seal, Right Hon. Earl of
Kimberley.

Secretary of State, Home Department,
Right Hon. Henry Austin Bruce.
Secretary of State, Foreign Department,
Right Hon. Earl of Clarendon.
Secretary of State, Colonial Department,
Right Hon. Earl Granville.
Secretary of State, War Department,
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.
Secretary of State Indian Department,
His Grace Duke of Argyll.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon.
Robert Lowe.

First Lord of the Admiralty, Right
Hon. H. C. E. Childers.

President of the Board of Trade, Right
Hon. John Bright.

Chief Secretary for Ireland, Right Hon.
Chichester Fortescue.
Postmaster-General, Right Hon. Marquis
of Hartington.

President of Poor Law Board, Right
Hon. G. Joachim Goschen.

Commander-in-Chief, Field-Marshal His Royal Highness Duke of Cambridge. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Right Hon. Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye.

Works and Public Buildings, Austen Henry Layard, Esq.

Vice-President of Committee of Council of Education, William E. Forster, Esq.

Third Lord of the Treasury, James Stansfeld, Esq.

Junior Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury,
W. P. Adam, Esq., Capt. Hon. J.
Vivian, Marquis of Lansdowne.

Joint Secretaries to the Treasury, George
Glyn, Esq., A. S. Ayrton, Esq.
Judge Advocate-General and Judge
Marshal, Right Hon. Sir Colman
O'Loghlen.

Junior Lords of the Admiralty, Vice

Admiral Sir S. C. Dacres, Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Robinson, Lord John Hay, George O. Trevelyan, Esq. Under Secretary of State, Home Depart

ment, E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Esq. Under Secretary of State, Foreign Department, A. J. Otway, Esq.

Under Secretary of State, Colonial Department, Right Hon. William Monsell. Under Secretary of State, War Department, Lord Northbrook.

Under Secretary of State, Indian Department, M. E. Grant Duff, Esq. Attorney-General, Sir Robert Porrett Collier.

Solicitor-General, Sir John Duke Coleridge.

Viceroy of India, the Earl of Mayo. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl Spen

cer,

K.G.

Master of the Mint, T. Graham, Esq.
Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk.
Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord Wil-
loughby D'Eresby.

Lord Chamberlain of the Household,
Viscount Sydney.

Lord Steward of the Household, Earl of Bessborough.

Master of the Horse, Marquis of Ailesbury.

Master of the Buckhounds, Earl of Cork.

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