PROMOTIONS.

JANUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

8. The hon. Harriet Anne Curzon, one of the two surviving daughters, and coh. of Cecil, late baron Zouche of Haryngworth, to be baroness Zouche of Haryngworth.

19. Lieut.-gen. sir James Kempt, 81st foot, to be colonel; 81st ditto, majorgen. sir Richard Downes Jackson, royal Staff corps, to be colonel.

Garrisons. Lieut.-gen. sir Wm. Inglis, to be governor of Cork.-Lieutgen. John Sulivan Wood, to be lieut. gov. of Kinsale.

20. Duke of Wellington, K. G. the office of constable of his majesty's Castle of Dover; and Warden and keeper of the Cinque Ports.-John Vaughan, esq. baron of the court of Exchequer, knighted.

Royal Staff Corps. Major Henry Du Vernet, and major Fred. W. Mann, to be lieutenant-colonels.

Unattached.-Brevet lieut.-col. Geo. Dairs Wilson, 4th foot, and major Rob. Wallace, 1st. drag. guards, to be lieut.colonels of infantry.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Cumberland.-Sir James Robt. Geo. Graham, bart. of Netherby, vice John Christian Curwen, esq. dec.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS.

Sir M. Seymour, bart. K.C.B. is appointed commissioner of Portsmouth dock-yard; commissioner Ross (from Malta), to the dock-yard of Plymouth; and commissioner Briggs (from Bermuda) in the Sheerness yard.

Rear-admiral Thomas Baker to supersede sir Robert W. Otway, K.C.B. in the command of our naval force on the coast.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

The right hon. the lord Mayor (Alderman Thompson) to be pres. of Christ's Hospital.

William Helps, esq. to be treasurer o St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Joseph Timm, esq. to be solicitor to the Stamp-office.

FEBRUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Hugh duke of Northumberland, to be lieut.-gen. and gen.-governor of Ireland.

4. Captains and Brevet-majors Rich. Jones and J. E. Jones, to be lieutenantcolonels.--Royal engineers: capt. H. W. Vavasour, to be lieutenant-colonel.

9. Lieutenant-colonel Edw. Purdon, Royal African corps, to be lieut.-col.

11. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby to be lord lieutenant of Carnarvonshire.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Bath.-Earl of Brecknock; majorgen. C. Palmer; one or other of them.

Clifton Dartmouth Hardness.-Arthur Howe Holdsworth, esq. vice sir Hatton Cooper, bart. dec.

East Grinstead.- Viscount Holms. dale, vice the hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, now earl of Liverpool.

Plymouth.-Admiral sir Geo. Cockburn, re-elected.

Whitchurch.-The hon. J. R. Towns

hend.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. M. Turner, to be bishop of Calcutta.

Rev. T. Robinson, to be archdeacon of Madras.

Rev. J. H. Seymour, Preb. in Gloucester Cathedral. Rev. J. James, Preb. of Peterborough.

Rev. C. Webber, Jun. Canon residen

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Mr. Sheriff Copeland, to be alderman of the Ward of Bishopsgate, London.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

23. 63rd foot, lieut.-colonel Holman Custance, to be lieutenant-colonel.

Unattached, major Thomas Perronnet Thompson, 65th foot, to be lieutenantcolonel of infantry.

26. Edwin Barnaby, of Baggravehall, Leicester, esq. colonel, to be one of his majesty's Privy Chamber in Ordi nary.

MARCH.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

14. Royal En. Capt. S. Romilly, to be lieutenant-colonel

16. J. S. Wanley Sawbridge, of Charborough Park, Dorset, esq. and Jane Frances, his wife, to take and use the names of Erle Drax, in addition to that of Sawbridge.

19. 16th Foot, lieutenant-col. Lionel Smith Hook, from the Ceylon regiment, to be lieutenant-colonel.

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Ceylon regiment, lieut.-colonel Henry Bird, 16th foot, to be lieut-col.

21. Lieutenant-general sir Henry Fane, G.C.B. to be Master-surveyor and surveyor-general of the Ordnance.

Unattached, major James Holmes Schoedde, 60th foot, to be lieutenantcolonel of infantry.

Brevet. lieut.-general George earl of Dalhousie, G. C. B., to have the local rank of general in the East Indies only; colonel James Butler, Royal Invalid Artillery, to be major-general; majorgeneral James Butler, to be lieut.-gen.

Colonel sir George Scovell, K.C.B. of the royal Waggon Train, to be lieutenant-governor of the royal Military College.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

4. James Dewar, esq. chief justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay, knighted.

8. Right hon. Robert Gordon, ambassador to the sublime Ottoman Porte.

13. Life Guards, capt. Hugh W. Barton, to be major and lieutenant-colonel. 27. 53rd Regiment, lieut.-col. James

Bath.-The earl of Brecknock. Carlisle.--Sir W. Scott, bart. vice sir George Graham, bart.

Corfe Castle.-P. J. Miles, of Leighcourt, Somerset, esq. vice N. W. Peach,

esq.

Edinburghshire.-Sir George Clerk, of Penicuick, bart. re-elected.

Launceston.-sir J. W. Gordon, bart.
Marlborough,-T. H. Sutton Buck-

major hon. H. R. Molyneux, to be lieut.colonel.

29. W. R. Cosway, esq. of Bilsington. Kent; captain J. Franklin, R. N.; W. Seymour, esq.; W. Campbell, esq.; captain W. E. Parry, R. N.; and W. Anglin Scarlett, esq. chief justice of Jamaica, knighted.

Unattached, major John Townsend, 14th dragoons, to be lieutenant-colonel of infantry,

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Colchester-Richard Sanderson, of Upper Harley-street, esq. vice sir G. H. Smyth, esq.

Sandwich.-General sir H. Fane, vice sir E. W. C. R. Owen.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Lieut.-colonel sir Wm. Young, bart. to be a director of the East India Com. pany.

R. Pollen, esq. barrister-at-law, to be. one of the six clerks in Chancery.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. T. Gaisford, Preb. in Durham Cathedral.

Rev. E. B. Sparke, Preb. in Ely Cathedral.

Rev. E. Thorp, Preb. in Durham Cathedral.

MAY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

8. Major-general sir James Carmichael Smyth, bart. to be governor and commander-in-chief of the Bahama

Islands.

11. Edward A. W. Drummond Hay, esq. to be consul-general in Morocco.

18. War-office.-14th light dragoons, major John Townshend to be lieut.-col. -30th foot, lieut.-general sir Thomas Bradford, 94th foot to be colonel.-94th foot, major-gen. sir John Keane, to be colonel.

22. 90th foot, lieut.-col. lord George W. Russell, to be lieutenant-colonel.

Unattached.-Major W. Bush, 99th foot, to be lieut. col. of infantry.

Major Standish O'Grady, 24th foot, to be lieutenant-colonel of infantry.

Brevet.-Major-general sir T. Sydney Beckwith, K. Č. B. to be lieut.-gen. in the East Indies only, sir T. Beckwith having been appointed commander-inchief of the company's forces at Bombay.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Shire of Ayr.-W. Blair, esq. of Blair. East Looe.-H. Thomas Hope, esq. of Dutchess-street, London. Horsham Earl of Surry,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. G. Hodson, archdeacon of Stafford and canon residentiary of Litchfield Cathedral.

Rev. T. S. Smyth, Preb. in Exeter Cathedral.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Right hon. James Ochoncar lord Forbes to be high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of Scotland,

JUNE.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS.

4. Right hon. sir W. Draper Best, knt. to be baron Wynford, of Wynford Eagle, county Dorset.

Col. Fred. Wm. Trench to be storekeeper of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom.

The earl of Rosslyn to be a member of the privy council, and keeper of the privy seal.

Right hon. sir Nicholas Conyngham Tyndal to be lord chief justice of the court of Common Pleas, and sworn of the privy council.

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, esq. appointed solicitor-general, and knighted.

10. Lieut.-gen. lord R. E. H. Somerset to be lieut.-gen. of the ordnance of the United Kingdom.

Sir James Welwood Moncrieff, bart. to be one of the lords of justiciary in Scotland.

22. Earl of Ashburnham, to be a knight of the Garter.

24. Right hon. Robert viscount Melville, K. T.; right hon. sir Geo. Cockburn, G. C. B.; sir H. Hotham, K.C.B.; sir Geo. Clerk, bart.; and visc. Castlereagh; to be commissioners for executing the office of the high admiral of the United Kingdom.

24. Adam Rolland, esq. to be clerk of the king's processes in Scotland.-John Tait, esq. to be sheriff-depute of the shires of Clackmanan, and Kinross.

25. 73rd foot, major-general sir Fred. Adam K. C. B. to be colonel.

Garrisons. Gen. Thomas lord Lynedoch, G. C. B. to be governor of Dumbarton-castle.

Royal engineers, captain George Graydon, to be lieut.-col.

30. William Pennell, esq. to be con

Cork.-Gerard Callaghan, esq. vice

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Aldeburgh.-Spencer Horsey Kilderbee, of Great Glenham, Suffolk, esq. Cambridge Town.-Col. Frederic W. Trench, re-elected.

Cambridge. University.-W. Cavendish, esq.

Tralee.-Robert Vernon Smith, of Savile-row, Middlesex, esq. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.-Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, knt. reelected.

Wexford. Sir Robert Wigram, knt.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. H. T. Payne, archd. of Carmarthen, with the Preb. of Llanrian annexed.

Rev. J. Lupton, a minor canon of St. Paul's Cath. and of Westminster Abbey.

JULY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

30. Henry Unwin Addington, esq. to be Envoy Extraordinary to the Catholic king.-George W. Chad, esq. to be minister Plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort. W. Turner, esq. to be envoy extraordinary to the Republic at Colombia.--George Hamilton Seymour, esq. to be secretary to his majesty's embassy to the Ottoman Porte.-lord Albert Conyngham, to be secretary to his majesty's Legation at Berlin.-The hon. J. Duncan Bligh, to be secretary to his majesty's legation at Florence.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Lieutenant-colonel Rowan and Mr. Mayne have been appointed to the two new offices under the Metropolitan Police Act; and John Wray, esq., to be receiver under the act.

R. Smith, esq. of Buckden, and R. Swan, esq. of Lincoln, to be principal registrars of the Diocese and Constitu

tional Court of Lincoln.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Corfe Castle.—George Bankes, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Richard Bagot, D. D. to be bishop of Oxford.

AUGUST.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. William Gregson, esq. to be writer of the London Gazette.

3. 13th ditto, Brevet lieut.-col. sir R. Moubray, to be major.

7. Lord Granville C. H. Somerset; R. Gordon, esq. M. P.; lord R. Sey. mour; lord Ashley; hon. C. W.W. Wynn; sir George Henry Rose; hon. Frederic Gough Calthorpe; W. Ward, esq. M.P.; Francis Baring, esq. M. P.; George Byng, esq. M. P.; Charles N. Pallmer, esq. M. P.; Thomas Barrett Lennard, esq. M. P.; Charles Ross, esq. M. P.; sir G. F. Hampson, bart.; hon. B. Bouverie; colonel J. Clitherow; Drs. Turner, Bright, Southey, Drever, and Hume, to be commissioners for licensing and visiting all houses within the cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles thereof, for the reception of lunatics.

10. 11th dragoons, capt. J. R. Rotton, to be major.-13th foot, captain J. Johnson, to be major.—34th ditto, lieut.col. C. R. Fox, to be lieut.-col.-53:d ditto, capt. T. Butler, to be major.

12. Lord Albert Conyngham, secre tary to his majesty's Legation at Berlin, knighted.

25. 17th foot, lieut.-col. John Austin, to be lieut.-col.-44th foot, major R. Macdonald to be lieut.-col.-2nd West India reg. lieut.-col. F. Cockburn to be lieutenant-colonel. and capt. hon. J. Montague to be capt. and lieut.-col.17th foot, major H. Despard, to be lieut.-col.

Unattached. Brevet lieut.-colonel C. Holland Hastings to be lieut.-col.Brevet lieut.-col. Matthias Everard, from the 13th foot, to be lieut.-col.-Brevet col. George W. Phipps to be major-gen. in the army.

To be lieut.-colonels of infantry by purchase, majors T. Reed, 53rd foot; and B. J. Smith, 11th dragoons.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. County of Clare.-Daniel O'Connell, of Derinane-abbey, co. Kerry, esq.

County of Down.-Visc. Castlereagh. County of Wicklow.-R. Howard, of Bushy-park.

SEPTEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

16. John Hayes, esq. commodore E. I. C.; R. H. Cunliffe, esq. lieut.col. commandant E. I. C.; Jeremiah Bryant, esq. lieut.-col. E. I. C. knighted. lieut.-col. T. N. Harris to be Brigade major on the staff of major-gen. sir Colin Campbell, at Portsmouth.

-H. J. Shepherd, esq. son of sir Samuel Shepherd, a commissioner of bankrupts, and counsel to the Admiralty, has been appointed by the lord chancellor clerk of the Custodies, vacant by the death of lord Thurlow.

The right hon. Richard earl of Glengall, a representative peer for Ireland.

24. Marquis Conyngham to be governor, captain, constable and lieutenant of Windsor Castle vice earl of Harrington.

War-office-1st Life guards, gen. Stapleton viscount Combermere, G.Č.B, to be colonel vice general the earl of Harrington, dec.-3rd light dragoons. major-gen. lord George Tho. Beresford. to be colonel.-24th foot, major-gen, sir James Lyon, to be col.-97th foot major-gen. hon. R. W. O'Callaghan, to be colonel.

Garrisons.-Lieut.-general sir G. Murray, to be governor of fort George. 30. Dublin.-Charles Scudamore of Wimpole-street, London, M. D. F. R. S. knighted.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. H. Dampier, to a Preb. in Ely Cathedral.

OCTOBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

5. 49th foot, gen. sir Gordon Drummond, to be col.-71st foot, major-gen. sir Colin Halkett, to be col.-95th foot, major-gen. sir Arch. Campbell, to be colonel.

12. The right hon. sir Brook Taylor, sworn of his majesty's privy council.

26. 30th foot, major J. Powell, to be lieut.-col. - 54th foot, lieut.-col. F. L. Nott, and lieut.-col. A. Kelly, to VOL. LXXI.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Royal Artillery, captain and brevet major T. A. Brandreth, to be lieut.-col. Royal engineers, captain A. Fraser, to be lieutenant-colonel.

17. John McDonald, esq. lieut.-col. E. I. C. and envoy-extraordinary, to the Shah of Persia, knighted by patent.

21. Earl Amherst and earl Howe to be lords of his majesty's bed-chamber.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Eye.--P. Chas. Sidney, esq. vice sir Miles Nightingall, dec.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. J. Hoare, archdeacon of Winchester.

Rev. E. Berens, Preb. in Salisbury Cathedral.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

7. Right hon. Stratford Canning, and right hon. Robert Gordon, ambassador to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, to be G. C. B.

14. 1st dragoons.-Lieut.-gen. lord R. E. H. Somerset, 17th light dragoons, to be col. vice gen. Garth, dec. - 17th light dragoons.: major gen. sir J. Elley, to be col. 66th foot, lieut.-gen. sir W. Anson, to be col.-Ceylon reg. ; lieut.col. Charles Arch. Macalister, to be lieut.-col.

17th. 63rd foot, lieut.-col. Francis Battersby, to be lieut.-col.-83rd ditto: col.-Unattached: major A. Hope Patmajor hon. Henry Dundas, to be lieut.tison, 97th foot, to be lieut.-col. of infantry.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

W. Bolland, esq., to be a baron of the Exchequer.

David Pollock, esq., to be recorder of
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