at from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 florins, a considerable portion of which is bequeathed to charitable purposes.

Lately. Aged 90, Alexander Maclean, esq., of Ardgour. Ardgour served in the army, and attained the rank of Major in the 8th Light Dragoons. Quitting the service, he became a Captain in the Hopetoun regiment of Fencibles. He afterwards served for several years as Major of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, and was subsequently appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the third regiment of local Militia of the county of Argyle, the command of which he held until the regiment was disbanded.

Lately. At Scutari, Mrs. Willoughby Moore, lady superintendent of the officers' hospital at Scutari. Mrs. Moore was the widow of that gallant soldier, Col. Willoughby Moore, who perished in the Europa, rather than forsake the burning ship so long as any of his men were in it. She went out last summer with a band of nurses to organize and superintend a hospital at Scutari for sick and wounded officers, and the testimony of those who were under her care proves the zeal, the diligence, and the judgment evinced in her sacred mission. A dysentery which lasted three weeks proved fatal, to the deep regret of all around her.

CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

1855.

JANUARY.

17. George Moir, esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty.

25. Edward Bullock Andrews, esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Gold Coast. James Caulfield, esq., to be Treasurer for Ceylon.

30. Lieut.-Col. Justin Sheil, C.B., sometime Envoy Extraordinary to the Shah of Persia, to be Knight Commander of the Bath (civil division).

Major-Gen. H. W. Breton to be Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth.

Capt. John Washington, R.N., to be Hydrographer to the Admiralty.

Viscount Bury to be SuperintendentGeneral of Indian Affairs in Canada, Secretary to the Government, and Private Secretary to the Governor-General.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN

PARLIAMENT.

Ayrshire.-Sir James Ferguson, bart. Maldon.-G. M. W. Peacocke, esq. Norwich.-Sir Samuel Bignold. Sunderland.-Henry Fenwick, esq.

FEBRUARY.

1. Capt. Sir Charles Hotham, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, to be CaptainGeneral, and Governor-in-Chief, over that colony.

3. Sydney Smith Bell, esq., to be First Puisne Judge, and John Watts Ebden, esq., Second Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope.

James Lushington Wildman, esq., to be Secretary, Registrar, and Clerk of the Council for Grenada.

Francis Smith, jun., esq., to be Attorney-General for Van Dieman's Land. 5. Arthur Bigge, esq., barrister-at-law, to be a Police Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for Brighton.

6. General the Right Hon. Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B., to be Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital.

7. Major-Gen. Sir Henry Somerset, K.C.B., to be Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's Forces on the Bombay Establishment, and Second Member of Council at that Presidency.

Elected Knights of the Garter, George, Earl of Carlisle, Francis, Earl of Ellesmere, and George, Earl of Aberdeen, K.T.

10. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord Elcho, and C. S. Fortescue, esq., to be Commissioners of the Treasury.

14. Samuel Morton Peto, of Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk, and of Kensington Palace-gardens, Middlesex, esq., created a Baronet.

Edward Francis Maitland, esq., to be Solicitor-General for Scotland.

E. E. Rushworth, esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Council of Montserrat.

William Henry Doyle, esq., to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Bahama Islands.

Charles Augustus Berkeley, esq., to be a Member of the Council of St. Vincent.

19. Thomas Cleghorn, esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of Argyllshire.

21. James M'Culloch, Charles Brad

9. Arnold Burrowes Kemball, esq., Captain in the East India Company's service, to be Consul-General at Baghdad.

Samuel Gaskell, esq., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, W. G. Campbell, esq., barrister-at-law, Alexander Earle Monteith, esq., Advocate, Sheriff of Fife, and James Coxe, esq., Doctor of Medicine, to be Commissioners for Lunatic Asylums in Scotland.

16. Henry John, Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, bart., Viscount Monck, Viscount Duncan, and the Hon. H. B. W. Brand, to be Commissioners of the Treasury.

17. William Clark Haines, esq., to be Colonial Secretary for Victoria.

William Clark Haines, esq., and Charles Pasley, esq., Captain Roy. Eng., to be non-elective Members of the Legislative Council of Victoria.

Major-Gen. Sir Richard Doherty, knt., Sir Joshua Rowe, knt., C.B., the Right Rev. A. G. Spencer, D.D., James Gayleard, esq., Dowell O'Reilly, esq.,

John Salmon, esq., William Dutton Turner, esq., Edward Jordon, esq., Richard Cusson Burke, esq., James Porteous, esq., George Price, esq., Bryan Edwards, esq., Henry Westmorland, esq., Walter George Stewart, esq., Alexander Barclay, esq., and Richard Hill, esq., to be Members of the Privy Council of Jamaica.

17. Bryan Edwards, Isaac Jackson, Henry Brockett, Hinton East, Benjamin Vickers, and J. J. A. Shakespear, esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of Jamaica.

25. Cornelius Kortright, esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands.

28. The Right Hon. Francis Graham Moon, of Portman-square, Lord Mayor of the City of London, created a Baronet.

John Ball, esq., M.P. for Carlow, to be Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.

1. Lord John Russell sworn one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Knighted, Henry Muggeridge, esq., and Charles Decimus Crossley, esq., Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.

2. James Hudson, esq., C.B., Envoy to the King of Sardinia, to be Knight Commander of the Bath, of the Civil Division.

Viscount Doneraile elected a Representative Peer of Ireland.

3. Charles Henry Darling, esq., Administrator of the Government of Newfoundland, to be Governor and Commander-inChief of that island and its dependencies.

14. Howard Maillard Clifton, esq., M.D., to be a Member of the Council of the Island of Saint Christopher.

John James Hughes, esq., to be a

Member of the Council of the Island of St. Vincent.

14. Colonel Henry Keene Bloomfield to be a Member of the Executive Council of New South Wales.

15. Lord Raglan, G.C.B., and ViceAdm. J. W. D. Dundas, C.B., to accept the Imperial Order of the Medjidie of the First Class.

17. Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B., Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Brown, K.C.B., and Rear-Adm. Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.B., to accept the Imperial Order of the Medjidie of the First Class.

25. The Queen (having been pleased to order letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, revoking the letters patent of the Master-General, Lieutenant-General, and Principal Storekeeper of the Ordnance) has by letters patent vested the Civil Administration of the Army and Ordnance in the hands of Fox, Baron Panmure, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Moses Henry Perley, esq., to be Commissioner under the 1st and 2nd Articles of the Treaty concluded at Washington on the 5th June, 1854, between Her Majesty and the United States of America. 30. Major-Gen. Edward Wells Bell to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Jamaica.

Henry Augustus Tudor, John James Haddock, and Charles Lloyd Pedder, esqs., to be non-elective Members of the Legisla tive Council of the Virgin Islands.

18. Capt. Henry Bird to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Her Majesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast.

Thomas Clow, esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Prince Edward.

To be Jurors for the Paris Universal Exhibition for Fine Arts, Painting, Engraving, and Lithography, Division 2, Class 28, Lord Elcho, Daniel Maclise, esq., R.A., Frederick Tayler, esq., and J. H. Robinson, esq.; for Sculpture, Class 29, R. Westmacott, esq., R.A., and W. Calder Marshall, esq., R.A.; for Architecture, Class 30, Sir Charles Barry, R.A., and Prof. Cockerell, R.A.; for Glass and Pottery, Division 1, Class 18, John Webb, esq.

25. John R. Partelow, esq., to be Auditor-General for New Brunswick.

Thomas Phinn, esq., to be Second Secretary to the Board of Admiralty; and W. Atherton, esq., Q.C., to be Counsel to the Board, vice Phinn.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN
PARLIAMENT.

Aberdeenshire.-Lord Haddo.
Bath.-William Tite, esq.

JULY.

2. Capt. Thomas Edward Laws Moore, R.N., to be Governor and Commander-inChief of the Falkland Islands.

4. Viscount Canning to be GovernorGeneral of India.

Travers Twiss, D.C.L., to be Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford.

5. The following promotions in the Order of the Bath are in recognition of services during the war.

To be Knights Grand Cross: Lieut.Gen. Sir George Brown, K.C.B., ViceAdm. James W. D. Dundas, C.B., Lieut.Gens. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.B., Sir Richard England, K.C.B., Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., and Rear-Adm. Sir Edmund Lyons, bart., G.C.B. (Civil Division).

To be Knights Commanders: Lieut.Gens. the Earl of Lucan, Henry J. W. Bentinck, John L. Pennefather, C.B., Rear-Adms. Houston Stewart, C.B., James H. Plumridge, Maj.-Gens. the Earl of Cardigan, William John Codrington, Richard Airey, the Hon. James Y. Scarlett, Harry D. Jones, R. Eng., Arthur W. Torrens,

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George Buller, C.B., William Eyre, C.B., Richard J. Dacres, Roy. Art., Rear-Adms. the Hon. Montagu Stopford, Henry D. Chads, C.B., Michael Seymour, Henry Byam Martin, C.B., and Capt. Stephen Lushington, R.N.; and one hundred and forty-six officers to be Companions.

For

The following officers would have been recommended for the honours of the first, second, and third classes of the Order, had they survived:-For the First Class, Lieut.Gen. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B. the Second Class, Rear-Adms. Lowry Corry, Edward Boxer, C.B., Maj.-Gens. Estcourt, Sir John Campbell, bart., Brig.Gens. Tylden, Roy. Eng., Adams, 49th Foot, Goldie, 57th Foot, and Strangways, Commanding Royal Artillery. For the Third Class: Colonel the Hon. Francis Grosvenor Hood, Gren. Gds., Lieut.-Col. Charles Francis Seymour, Scots Fus. Gds., Lieut.-Col. Exham S. T. Swyney, 63rd Regt., Major Thomas Norcliffe Dalton, 49th Regt.

Her Majesty has further nominated to be Knights Grand Cross:-Admirals Sir Graham Eden Hamond, bart., K.C.B., Sir James Alex. Gordon, K.C.B., Generals Sir James M'Donell, K.C.B., and Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, K.C.B.

To be Knights Commanders: -Admiral Frederick W. Lord Aylmer, C.B., General Edward Nicolls, R.M., Lieut.-Gen. James Fergusson, C.B., Lieut.-Gen. Thomas W. Brotherton, C.B., Vice-Adm. Henry Hope, C.B., Vice-Adm. John Henry Cood, C.B., Rear-Adm. Maurice F. F. Berkeley, C.B., and Rear-Adm. Fairfax Moresby, C.B.

To be a Companion: William Rae, esq., M.D., Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.

9. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, M.P., to be a juror for Sculpture, and Joseph Locke, M.P., to be a juror for Civil Engineering at the Paris Universal Exhibition.

14. Robert Garraway Mac Hugh, esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of St. Lucia.

Anselm F. Comeau, esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia. 21. Sir William Molesworth, bart., sworn one of the Secretaries of State (Colonial Department).

Sir William H. Maule, Justice of the Common Pleas, sworn of the Privy Council.

26. Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Fergusson, K.C.B., to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of Gibraltar.

27. Major-Gen. James Simpson to be Lieutenant-General in the Army, and to have the local rank of General in the Crimea and in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The Right Hon. Sir John Young, Lord High Commissioner in the Ionian Islands, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; and George Fergusson Bowen, esq., Secretary of the Lord High Commissioner, to be a Companion of the same.

Henry Bliss, of Brandon Park, Suffolk, and Berkeley House, Hyde Park-square, esq. (in compliance with the will of his uncle, Edward Bliss of Brandon Park, esq.), to take the name and arms of Bliss only; and to accept the dignity of a Baron of Portugal, by the title of Baron de Bliss, conferred by Don Fernando, Regent of Portugal.

To be Queen's Counsel: William Bovill, esq., P. A. Pickering, esq., James J. Wilde, esq., W. Overend, esq., and C. S. Whitmore, esq.

To be Queen's Counsel in Ireland: Thomas de Moleyns, esq., Joshua Clark, esq., and Daniel Sherlock, esq.