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London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 16.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing
the Right Honourable Henry John, Viscount Palmerston,
G.C.B. ; the Right Honourable Sir George Cornewall
Lewis, Bart. ; Charles Stanley, Viscount Mooch ; Adam
Duncan Haldane, Esq. (commonly called Viscount Dun-
can); and the Honourable Henry Bouverie William
Brand ;—to be Commissioners for executing the offices of
Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, and, Lord
High Treasurer of Ireland;
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 17.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Clark
Haines, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Colony of
Victoria.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Clark Haines, Esq., and Charles Pasley, Esq., Captain,
R.E., to be non-elective members of the Legislative
Council of the colony of Victoria.
Her Maje,ty has also been pleased to appoint Major-
General Sir Richard Doherty, Knt. ; Sir Joshua Rowe,
Kut., C.B. ; the Right Rev. Aubrey George Spencer,
D.D. ; James Gayleard, Esq. ; Dowell O'Reilly, Esq. ;
John Salmon, E,q. ; Wm. Dutton Turner, Esq. ; Edward
Jordon, Esq. ; Richard Cusson Burke, Esq. ; James Por-
teous, 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.
Her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint 3ryan
Edwards, Isaac Jackson, Henry Brockttt, Hinton East,
Benjamin Vickers, and John Joseph Arthur Shakespear,
Esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of
Jamaica.

CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 16.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARMA-

MENT.

County of Cavan—Robert Burrowes, of Stradone-
house, in the said county of Cavan, Esquire, in the room
of the Right, Honourable Sir John Youbg, Baronet, who
has ace pted the office of Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 17.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
sp Ltch from her MAjesty's Consul-General at Venice,
enclosing a translation of a Notice to Mariners, issued by
the Central Maritime Government of Trieste, copy of
which is subjoined.
(Copy.)

(Translation.)
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
TRIESTE, March 6.
At the entrance of the small mouth of Falconers (the
iight-bawl eltle on entering) a beacon has been placed,
to show the poiition of the hull of a Greek vessel, sunk
therein 18il. This beacon consists of four piles, placed
vertically, above one of which is a staff, sixteen feet high,
bearing circular signals of two feet in diameter, painted
half white and half black.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 17.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Kijesty's Consul at Bahia, inclosing
a translation of a noti:o descriptive of a new lighthouse on
the Morro do S. Paulo, near that port, copy of which is
subjoined.
(Copy.) (Translation.)
Captain of the Port's Office.
In compliance with orders from the Provincial Govern-
ment is made public, by the Captain of the Port, for the
information of navigators, the following description of the
lighthouse of the Morro of S. Paulo. which will begin to
be lighted on the 3,1 of next May, as also observations on
the port of the said Marro and the adjacent coast comprised
between it and this city.
Bahia and Captain of the Port's Office, 9th March, 1855.
(Signed) DIOGO IGNACIO TAVARES,
Commodore, Captain of the Port.
OF THE PORT AND LIGHTHOUSE OF THE MORRO DE

S. PAULO.
The lighthouse of the Morro de S. Paulo is built on the
top of a hill or cape of the same name, at the entrance of
port, in latitude 13d 21m 40. south, long. Grsv. weAt
38d 51rn 48s. The tower will be painted white, and the
balcony has an elevation of 80 English feet above
the hill, and 276 above the surface of the sea, and will be
seen, by day, in fine weather, at 30 miles' distance. This
lighthouse (the bast on the coast of Brazil), on Fresnell's
principle of refraction and of the first order, has,. in the
space of a minute, blight light for 15 seconds, foll6wed by
an eclipse of 45 seconls. The light, in clear weather, is
seen from the quarter deck of a vessel at 20 miles' distance
and from the Tops at 28. Whatever may be the distance,
it has always a strong and very bright light, and is distin-
guished from the lighthouse at the bar of Bahia by the
time of its eclipses, by the greater brightness of its light,
and by its colour, which is always brilliant, whereas that
of S. Aatonio has three different phases, each followed by
an eclipse.

At alesser distance than 12 miles the eclipses are not
total, the bright light is followed by a faint one, in place
of the eclipses, which become more notable as the distance
increases; those who observe perfect eclipses may consider
themselves more than twelve miles off. At tile point
of the compasS 46 deg. N.E. true, at a distance of
thirty miles is the lighthouse of the bar at Bahia.
From the Morro towards the north, a bay bordered
with rocks is formed, and the western point of the
island of Itaparica with the main land forms the bar of
Jaguaripe, to which the existing hydrographical charts
improperly ,gave the name of Barra False, the same being
a small inlet of the island to the east of that bar, formed
by the point of Aratuba and another which is further to
the north, which at a distance of more than 14 miles
has a similar configuration to the point of S. Antonio,
appearing like the latter to detach itself from the land
which lies to the westward of it. Even in the day-
time these places ought not to be approached nearer by
vessels at a less depth of water than II fathoms; if they
have no pilot on beard. Those which sight from the south
the lighthouse of the Morro of S. Paulo, and wish to re-
main in sight of, Bahia. nntht nos tn Dn..% to
west of the line N.B.—S.W. true, of the lighthouse,
as long as they are to the soath of Itaparica. and for
greater caution ought to sound and veer the ship
to the south as soon as they find eleven fathoms
in depth, by which they will avoid nearing the
shoals and rocks of the point of Caixa, Pregos,
Barra Easa, and others, which on the eastern side
encircle that island, which at night are so much more to be
feared when the strong sea winds drive the waters into the
bay; besides which, in some places at 10 fathoms, the
depth diminishes rapidly. If, on finding a lesser depth
than 11 fathoms, it appears the vessel is not -to the
N.E. of the line N.W.—S. W. of the lighthouses, it
must be understood that there is a defect in the com-
passes, and never hesitate to tack to the South, the
sounding being on the northern tack the truest indi-
cation of danger. At a distance of 13 to 14 miles from
the point of S. Antonio, the, lighthouse of the bar of
Bahia, begins to be seen a faint light, showing distinctly
its different colours at about a distance of 6 miles. The
.entrances of the port of the Morro is open for vessels of
all descriptions, taking notice that at a mile to the west-
ward of the Fort suns a shoal up the river line, and
whose depth goes gradually diminishing on the si,lepf the
shoal,engtb e andnai
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run out into the sea for 180 fathoms, more or less,
ith a depth of 8 fathoms in some places near them.
However, against these care must be taken in the
t
night-time by those who are tacking in to fetch the anchor-
age. By day the breakers on these ridges of rock are very
visible. Two miles distant from the shore of the M-nro of
S. Paulo, and from thence towards the south, with the
lighthouse in sight, is an open'passage for any kind of ves-
sel ; and those that wish to enter the port by it can come
near the hill by the northern side as far as the depth of
the soundings will allow, and the open anchorage begins at
the point of the Fort up to a mile inward. A pilot ought
to be taken by those who wish to ascend the river, where
there is a sheltered anchorage for a squadron.
Bahia, March 3, 1855.
(Signed)
HERMENEGELDO ANTONIO BARBOLL D'ALlf EIDA

Commander,

A correct copy.
The Secretary of the Province.
(Signed) L. M. A. F. M. BAREETO.
A correct copy.
The Secretary of the Captaincy of the Port.
(Signed) JOZE DA. ROCHA GALVAO.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 16.
Ordnance Medical Department—Acting Assistant-Sur-
geon Randolph Webb to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fasson,
promoted, March 23.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
George Tennant, Esq., and Charles Edward Mousley,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants of the County of Stafford,
March 26.

Queen'; Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Cornet Jahn Villiers Stuart Townshend
to be Lieutenant, vice Webster, resigned; Samuel Charles
Roby, Gent., to bo Cornet, vice Townshend, promoted,
March 27.
Derby and Chaddesden Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—
Lieutenant John Gilbert Crompton to be Captain, vice
Wilmot resigned, April 12.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—Robt.
to be Captain, vice Charles Flehlaka Candy,
Pipon,whly real tElirEith Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia.—Ensign Hamlet William Millett the younger to
be Lieutenant, vice Gardner,' gazetted to the 7th Foot,
April 14.
Royal Montgomery Rifles.—Second Lieutenant Herbert
En-
sign, viceeg
itoehnnte
Abercrombieos
Owen Johnes to be Lieutenant, vice Brown, appointed to the 7th Fusiliers ; James Sebastian Gill, Gent., to ho
'ft h
C promoted,u,pkeroGf Aprilent.,l 6t. Lancaster'so
b e OwnEs
Ensign,
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Aprila— Charles

3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieutenant John Edward Orrell to be Captain, April 13 ;
Lieutenant Frederick Silvester to be Captain, April 14 ;
Lieutenant Frederick Townley Parker to be Captain, April
16; Ensign James Ormsby to be Lieutenant, April 13;
Ensign John Sidgreives to be Lieutenant, April 14 ; En-
sign Charles Goring Minnitt to be Lieutenant, April 16.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia
—Hi my Han-
cox, Esq., M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon ; Wm. Henry
Ogden, Gent., to be Ensign, April 13.
Artillery Corps, Royal Lancashire Militia—Second
Lieutenant and Acting Quartermaster Christopher Myers
Dawes to be First Lieutenant, March 12 ; Sir Robert Bar-
clay, Bart.' to be Second Lieutenant, March 13 ; William
Edmund Adams, Esq., Acting Paymaster, to serve with
the rank of Captain, March
Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Hosken
France, Gent., late Lieutenant in the 77th Regiment, to
be Lieutenant, April 5; ,loseph Morley Dennis, Gent. to
be Ensign, March 30. ,
2d Regiment or Royal Cheshire Militia—Ensign James
Taylor be Lieutenant, April 10.
City of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery Militia—First
Lieutenant Wiliam Nathaniel Fraser to be Captain, vice
Captain John Orr, resigned ; Second Lieutenant Thomas
Alexander Hill to be First Lieutenant, vice Fraser, pro-
moted, 4pril 12.
North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles ,Chas. Chi-
chester to be Lieutenant, vice Priaulx, promoted ; Chas.
E. Radclyffe to be Cornet, vice Chichester, promoted,
March 7.
Galloway Rifles—Ensign Artriur Nugent Dunbar, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice the Lord Viscount Garlies, pro-
moted, April 2.
Tho Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--r
Henry Potts, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Massey, re-
signed, March 30.
Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia—Lord Henry
Gordon to be Captain ; Thomas Jones, Esq., to .be Cap-
; Henry Lunistleu, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; Thoo.
Hens y E vans, Esq., late Captain 4th Madras Light Cavalry,
to be Captain, Feb. 27.
Boss, C4itl2BB; Sutherland, and Cronaarty Regiment of