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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'clock.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND,

Increase of the Securities in the Issue
Department.
(Pions the Ga:ette of thie Evening.)
At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of December,
1855—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
It baying been represented to her Majesty in Council
by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England,
by a memorial sealed with the seal of the said Governor
and Company, and dated the twenty-sixth day of No-
vember, or e thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, that
certain bankers, in the said memorial named, who,, on
the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-four, were issuing their own bank notes to the ex-
tent of sums amounting, in the aggregate, to the sum of
seven hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and
twenty-three pounds, have ceased to issue their own bank
notes, and the said Governor and Company thereupon
humbly make application to be authorised, under the
provisions of the Act, passed in the seventh and eighth
years of the reign of her Majesty, chapter thirty-
two, entitled "An Act to regulate the issue of
bank notes, and for giving to the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England certain privi-
leges for a limited period," to increase the amount of
securities in the Issue Department of the Bank of Eng-
land, and to extend the issue of their own bank notes to
an amount not exceeding two-thirds of the amount which
the bankers, so ceasing to issue, were authorised to issue
under the provisions of that Act : Now, it is this day
ordered by her Majesty, by and with the advice of her
Privy Council, that the said Governor and Company
shall be, and they are hereby, authorised and empowered
to increase the amount of securities in the Issue Depart-
ment of the Bank of England to the extent of four hun-
dred and seventy-five thousand pounds, beyond the total
sum or value of fourteen million pounds in the said Act
mentioned, and thereupon to issue additional Bank of
England notes Irons the said Issue Department in man•
ner in the said Act mentioned, to the amount of four
hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds.

C. C. GREVILLE.

DESPATCH FROM GEN. WILLIAMS.

(From, the Gazette of this Evening.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 11.
The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from
Major-General Williams, K.C.8., her Majesty'e, Com-
missioner attached to the Turkish Army in Asia, of
which the following is a copy :

ars, ct. 31.
My Lord,—ln my despatch of the 3d inKstantO, in which
I had the honour to detail the movements of the battle
on the heights of Kars, I omitted to slate that the enemy
in his retreat left a tumbril on the field.
I have now great pleasure in stating for your lord-
ship's information that immediately after the battle, his
Excellency the Mushir, in virtue of the authority with
which he is invested by the Sultan, conferred the second
class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie on Lieute-
nant-Colonel Lake for his distinguished services on that
day. On Major Teesdale, Captain Thompson, Mr.
Churchill, and Dr. Saudwith, his Excellency conferred
the third class of that order, to mark his sense of their
conduct and gallantry ; and on Messrs. Zehrab and
Rennison he bestoged the fourth class.
As these decorations were received in view of the
position which their courage and conduct so materially
assisted in defending, I trust that your lordship will
obtain for these officers and gentlemen her Majesty's
gracious permission to accept and wear them.
His Excellency the Mushir has also named Colonel
Lake a General of Brigade in the Turkish army; Major
Teesdale a Lieutenat-Colonel, and C...ptain Thompson
a Major in that army ; and his Excellency assures me
that he has written for the confirmation of these ranks,
so honourably won on the battle-field by the officers in
question.—l have, &c.,

(Sivne.d) W. F. WILLTAINIS.
The Earl of Clarendon, li. G.,

LONDON GAZETTE—{This Evening.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of December,
1855—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

Her Majesty having been pleased to deliver the cus-
tody of the Privy Seal to the Right Hon. Dudley, Earl
of Harrowby, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was
this day administered to hi-n, and his lordship took his
place at the board accordingly.
At the Court at Windsor Castle, Dec. 7.
Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to deliver
the custody of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lan-
caster to the Right lion. Matthew Talbot Baines, the oath
of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was this clay, by
her Majesty's command, administered to him accordingly.
ST. JAMES'S PAL.A.CE, DEC. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Mrs.
Alexander Gordon to ho ono of the Bedchamber Women
in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon.
Amelia Murray, resigned.
FOREIGN OFFICE, NOV. 22.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Thos.
Joseph Hutchinson, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul in the
Territories on the Western Coast of Africa, comprised
within the Bight of Biafra, and lying between Cape For-
rno,m, and Cape St. John, to ho also her Majesty's Consul at
Fernando Po.
The Gazette of this evening contains a notice fur the elec-
tion of a temporal peer of Ireland, in the room of the late
Viscount De Vesci.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 11.
BREVET.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Parker Campbell, C. 8., 90th
Regiment, to be promoted to the rank of Colonel in the
Army, for his distinguished Service in the Field.
To be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of
Colonel in the Army :—Brevet-Lientenant-C-lonel Wm.
Montagu Scott M`Mur.lo, Director-General of the Land
Transport Corps ; Brevet-Lieuteaant-Colonel Edward
Robert Wetherall, Scots _Pushier Guards.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue John Coode, K.C.8., has been
appoitted to receive a pension of 17)0/. a year, as provided
for in her Majesty's Order in Council of Juno '25, 1851,
vacant by the decease of Admiral James Carthew ; and
the name of Vice-Admiral John Coode has been removed
to the Reserved Half-pay List accordingly ; and, in cense-
(nonce of this removal, the following promotions, dated
the 30th ult., have taken place :
Rear-Admiral of the Red Alexander Renton Sharpe,
C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White William Walpole, to be
Rear-Adn-iral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.8.,
to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
the Bl
CAPta
ue in Charles Graham, C. L'., to be Rear-Admiral of
Retired Captain John Wilson (B), to be Retired R
Admiral, on the terms proposed in tho LondonGazette aear-
of
let September, 1846, without increase of pay
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11.*
With reference to the despatch from Admiral Sir Ed-
mund Lyons, which appeared in the Supplement to the
London Gazette on the ith inst., reporting the destruction
of the enemy's resources in the Ohiesk-Liman, the fol-
lowing additional promotions have taken place, dated the
7th inst.:--
Mr. George D. Perry to the rank of Master.
Mr. Richard Verey confirmed to the rank of Gunner,
and advanced to the second class.
The medal and gratuity for conspicuous gallantry have
been granted to the undermentioned men : _
Peter Ilanlan, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Curlew, Si.,
(dangerously wounded).
David Parry, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Cracker, 51.
Thomas Kerr, Gunner, R.M.A., her Majesty's ship Ve-
suvius, 5/.
[Erratum in Gazette Extraordinary cf Sept. 22 :
30th Foot—For Lieut. C. J. Moorsosn,
read severely wounded. slightly wounded,
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Lieutenant and Acting Quartermaster George Copeland
to be Paymaster, vice PuUSsin, resigned ; John Tibbles,
Gent., to be Quartermaster, vice Copeland, resigned.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—J
Prosser, late of the 4th Royal Middlesex Militia, to beames Ad-
jutant, vice Captain Peter Macdonald, removed to Turkish
Contingent Force.
CONIMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
soteglineut of Royal London Militia—George Barnes Efob-
n,F"Klv.late 72d Bengal Native Infantry, to be
Captain, ice© Henryll.ny John II lie resigned ; Robert Wel-
liren,,J,otnoesi;,3 Eesq.. late of her Majesty's 84th Regi-
Atfred Cbich aptain, vice William Robertson, resigned;
ley Plowden Esq., Captain 50th Bengal Na.tive Infantry, te be Captain, vice Henry Martyrs Kennard,
Na-
retired ; Ensign Arth
Lieutenant, vice charlier Cluanaing Thomas Barrow to be
Ensign Edgar .wainwriß Mackinnon non Wal isley, promoted ;
Henry 31ar+yn icemliriahop to be Lieutenant, vice
Obbard to be Lieuter'net,oted ; Ensign Edward
signed ; Ensign Frederick PettO b4eke
Lieutenant, Henry
James,viCe Wri el
liam Bunco Greenfield, resigned .
Gant. to be Ensign, vice E(lwani saa,Zl.:Bl Cunningham,
to 'Llepmith, pro-
moted; Alexander Renwick, Gent,
vice
Arthur Curnrnine• Thomas Barrow, prornoted!sli Henry Garland, °Gent., to be Ensign, vice ~.garuttis
Wright Bishop, promoted. '4l Wain.
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire M t'a—Ej„ar
Gardner,
tha., to be Ensign.
2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia —Ensign Pre.
derick Rhodes Hazen to ho Lieutenant ; Henry Marston,
Gen et., and Perre Goodchap, Gent., to be Ensign,
Lut. Wynn De Cerjat, vice Acheson, resigned, to be
Captain.
CitY of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery
Tait, Gent
John 11acdou-
,to be Second Lieutenant, vie© gall, promoted ; Will' Edward Wingate, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant vice William Cameron Geddes, aP-
pointed to en Ensigncy in the 96th Regiment.
Gth Regitnentco Hickinbothaßoyal Lancashire Militia—Capt. John
pointed Lieut..ch:mbers to he Major, vice Mathias, ap-
Lancaster's own nedi of the :;(.1 Regiment of the Duke of
Captain, vice, chatut,liittiroLraie,utet.d.Henry Mawdsley to be
Royal vice,
les—Ensign Samuel Thomas Ccr-
rie to be IdentenantY, vi cholla, promoted.
Royal l'erthshirebl ilitia—
D. Mackay, Gent.,
to be Ensign ; Matthew Jas. Cameron, Gent., to be En-
sign.
2d Regiment of Rin's Own Staffordsi
Joseph Pargeter Brinclley, Gent., to b • "r° Milit'ia-
-3leehani, resigned. 0 Lieutenant, vice
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—vv,„ Cecil Penn,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Eaßt York Regiment of Militia—Wm. liandco,chk-dloicrle-
dleton, Gent., to be Ensign in augmentation;
Theodore
Francis Haskell, Gent., to be Ensign in augmentation ;
Zames M'Creery, Gent., to be Ensign in agumentation.