Lord Chamberlain's Office, March 16, 1861.

IN consequence of the melancholy event of the death of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent, Mother of Her Majesty The Queen, notice is hereby given, that the Drawing Room announced for the 21st instant will not take place.

Lord Chamberlain's Office, March 16, 1361. NOTICE is hereby given, that the State Apartments of Windsor Castle are closed to the public.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 19,

1861.

St. James's Palace, March 13, 1861. THE Queen was this day pleased to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon Colonel George Everest, C.B., and F.R.S., on the Retired List of the Bengal Artillery, formerly Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, and Surveyor General of India.

St. James's Palace, March 13, 1861.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon Colley Harman Scotland, Esquire, Chief Justice of Madras.

(430.)

Board of Trade, Whitehall,
March 18, 1861.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received,

from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting that from the 1st April next, vessels engaged in the coasting trade of Sweden will be exempted from the obligation to take a crown pilot up to the first station on their arrival from sea, and if they take such pilot, will be subject to one-fourth only of the customary pilotage rates.

War-Office, Pall-Mall,

19th March, 1861. 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Cornet Thomas Armstrong Gough to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grews, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

6th Dragoons, Lieutenant George M. Billington to be Captain, by purchase, vice Joseph Thomas Wetherall, who retires. Dated 19th March,

1861.

Cornet Henry Albert Reade Revell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Honourable Edward Roden Bourke, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Frederick Wise, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Cornet William Ward Bennitt to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Bourke, promoted. Dated 27th December, 1860.

8th Light Dragoons, John Gaspard Le Marchant, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Clarke, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

15th Light Dragoons, Captain Horace Trower to be Major, by purchase, vice Henry Lee, promoted by purchase to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Lieutenant Phineas Bury to be Captain, by purchase, vice Trower. Dated 19th March, 1861. Cornet Hugh Humphrys to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bury. Dated 19th March,

1861.

16th Light Dragoons. The surname of the Cornet appointed on 12th March, 1861, is Maillard, not Mallard, as stated in the Gazette of 12th instant.

18th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Henry Maxwell Howard from the 4th Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hicks, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Royal Artillery, Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Maclean from the 42nd Foot, to be AssistantSurgeon, vice McMunn, promoted on the Staff. Dated 19th March, 1861.

6th Regiment of Foot, Ensign Alexander Courtenay Hall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edmund Hall, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.

John Vincent Rigg, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fitz Geral, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

9th Foot, Francis William Brathwaite Gattey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Leigton, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

10th Foot, Major Harvey Wellesley Pole Welman, from the 86th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Mordesley Best, who exchanges. Dated 19th March, 1861. 11th Foot, Lieutenant David Baker Gabb, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Paget John Bourke, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Ensign Roper Dacre Tyler to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gabb. Dated 19th March, 1861.

John Hely, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ferdinand Russell, appointed to the 49th Foot. Dated 19th March, 1861.

12th Foot, Ensign Alfred Handcock, from the Royal Dublin City Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dunlevie, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

William Henry Brooke Peters, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice MacDonnell, promoted. Dated 20th March, 1861.

13th Foot. The surname of the Ensign appointed on 22nd ultimo, is Ievers not Jevers, as stated in the Gazette of 22nd February, 1861.

15th Foot, Ensign John Joseph Grier to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maunsell, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

17th Foot, James Stuart Thornton Duesbery, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice William Villett Rolleston, promoted in 2nd West India Regiment. Dated 19th March, 1861.

18th Foot, Loftus Corbet Singleton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Marsland, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

20th Foot, Arthur Joseph Stourton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elliott, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

22nd Foot, Haworth Peel Massy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parry, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

29th Foot, Charles Edward Pinckney Simpson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice William Graham Arnold, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.

30th Foot, James Alexander McMahon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brownlow, promoted. Dated 19th March, 1861.

35th Foot, Edward Douglas Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Laws, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.

36th Foot, Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Charles Butler to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel James Nugent, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Lieutenant Horace Edward Willett to be Captain. by purchase, vice Butler. Dated 19th March, 1861.

Ensign Christopher Spurgeon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Willett. Dated 19th March, 1861.

42nd Foot, Lieutenant Edward Arthur Elgin to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Fraser, about to retire from the service. Dated 20th February, 1861.

46th Foot, Staff Assistant-Surgeon Matthew James Edward Fagan, M.D., to be AssistantSurgeon, vice Meane, promoted on the Staff. Dated 19th March, 1861.

48th Foot, Major John Guise Rogers Aplin to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Benjamin Riky, deceased. Dated 23rd November, 1860.

Captain James Mancor to be Major, without purchase, vice Aplin. Dated 23rd November, 1860.

Lieutenant Edward Feneran to be Captain, without purchase, vice Mancor. Dated 23rd November, 1860.

Ensign Pulteney Edward Bowlby to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Feneran. Dated 23rd November, 1860.

49th Foot, Ensign Ferdinand Russell, from 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Robert Emslie Henry, who retires. Dated 19th March, 1861.