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London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

ARTICIII VII.

The present convention shall ;be ratified, and the rati.
fications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.
In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentaries have
signed the present convention,
Done at London, the Ist day of February, in the year
of our Lord 1855. and have affixed thereto
the seals of their arms.

(L.S.) A. WALEWSICI.
(L.S,) CLARENDON.

THE LONDON GAZETTE op LAST NIGHT,

FOREIGN-OFFICE MARcH 5.

L. Vanden Bergh as Consul at Portsouth for the King
The Queen has been pleased to
of the Belgians. approve of Mr. Arnoldm

WHITEHALL, MARCH 3.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing the Right
Honourable Robert Vernon Smith to be her Majesty's
Commissioner for the Affairs of India.
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 6.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARMA
MENT.

Borough of Halifax—The Right Honourable Sir Charles
Wood, Bart., First Commissioner of the Admiralty.
City of London—The Right Honourable Joh' Russell
(commonly called Lord John Russell), one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State.
Borough of Northampton.— The Right Honourable
Robert Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Control
for the affairs of India.
Borough of Radnor.—The Right Honourable Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, Bart., Chancellor and Under Treasurer
of the Exchequer.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 5.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary if State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Jassy, trans-
mitting a Notice published by the Government of the
Principality of Moldavia, authorising the admission of all
vessels with their cargoes to Free Pratique on their arrival,
in the absence of contagious malady, under the observance
of certain prescribed forms.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 6.
BREVET.

Lieutenant Charles Vaughan Arbuckle, of the Bengal
Artillery, to have the local rank of Captain in Turkey, while
employed on a particular service in that country, March 6

December, 1854,
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Jan. 27.
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COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
itoss, Gent,,
Sussex Regiment of Militia—Richard Rodd Robinson,
(late x
Esq., to be Paymaster from the
Blolwthie,DEsci.
Dec. 11.
Warwickshire Regiment—Captain
to ll: et Paymaster,Royal Lanarkshire
vice Stevenson,M i
Clune, late sth Regiment, to be Paymaster,
of
30. William
2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlese
52d Light Infantry), from the Sligo
Militia—Martinus Van Kirkwyk
Militia, to Cap-
tainbe
Adjutant, vice Colvill, appointed Governor of Coldbath.
fields Prison, Feb. 7.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS,
County Palatine of Lancaster—Bryan Paget Gregson,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 1.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
, John Scott, Gent. to be Ensign, March 1.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Thomas
Arthur Bellew, Esq., late Captain 34th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice Roskell, resigned, Jan. :1„
Gth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—James Ash-
ton, jun., Gent., to La Lieutenant, Roger Forrest, Gent.,
to no Ensign, March 1; Joseph Richard Hamilton, Gent.,
to be Ensign, March 2 ; William Singleton, Gent., to be
Ensign, March 3.
County of Pembroke—Nicholas John Dunn' Esq„ to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; William Walters, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, March 1.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—William George Neilson, Gent., to be En-
sign ; John Beaumont, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Robert Macnee, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Dickson; John Edward Wright
Hussey, Gent., to be Ensign) vice Naismitb, resigned,
Feb. 21.
[The following appointments in Ist Royal Lanarkshire
Militia, are substituted for those which appeared in former
Gazettes.]
On 22d December, 1854—Ensign Andrew Tennent to be
Lintell4lo, viol, Douglas, Accootocia Not T. 94 WA