The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

DEVONPORT ELECTION.

Alter an exciting and hard-fought battle two
liberal's have been returned for Devonport, in the room of
the two conservative members lately unseated on petition.
Early in the day the conservative candidates, Mr. Abbott
and Mr. Raikes, took the lead, and maintained their ma-
jority until about 1 o'clock, by which time the liberal can-
didates, Lord Eliot and Mr. Chambers, began to gain upon
them. The following was the liberal return at 1 o'clock :
Abbott
Raikes
Chambers 997
Eliot 995
At two o'clock, it is stated, fifty friends of the Permis-
sive Bill came up and voted in a body, and at half-peat
two the following return was published :
Eliot ......
Chambers
Abbott ...
Raikes . .
The following were the numbers at the
CLOSI OP TH3 POLL.
Eliot
Chambers 1275
Raikes
Abbott 1221
Majority for Lord Eliot, 58 ; for Chambers, 54.

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(FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.)
At the Court at Windsor, the 19th day of May :
Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
her consent to a contract of matrimony between her Royal
Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Eliza-
beth, of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Francis Paul
Charles Louis Alexander, Prince of Teck ; which consent
her Majesty has caused to be signified under the great seal.
At the Court at Windsor, the 19th day of May :
Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, on a repre-
sentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee
of Council on Education, to appoint the Rev. Henry Giles
Alington, M.A., of Magdalen College, Oxford, to be one
of her Majesty's inspectors of schools.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 27.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Henry Grant, Esq., to be
her Majesty's consul at Brindisi.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 21. The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. James William Musson as
consul for the Bermuda Islands for the Free Hanseatic
City of firemen.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 19.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint the Hon. John Henry Thomas Manners
Sutton (now Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
island of Trinidad and its dependencies) to be governor
and commander-in-chief of the colony of Victoria. Her
Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William Cleaver
iFrancis Robinson, Esq. (now President and senior member
of the Executive Council of the island of Montserrat), to
be governor and commander-in-chief of her Majesty's set-
tlements in the Falkland Islands and their dependencies.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 21.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Petrus Johannes Denyssen and James
Coleman Fitzpatrick, Esqrs., to be puisne judges of the
Supreme Court of the colony of the Cape of Goal Hope;
and Simeon Jacobs, Esq., to be solicitor-general for that
colony.

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