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London, England, 1852-01-07 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Jan 6.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 1, 1852.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Lord Augustus Loftus, now Paid Attaché to her Ma-
i,sty's Legation at Stuttgardt, to be Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at that Court.
Tho Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
George Frt derick Herman, Esq.. now British Vice-
Consul at Bengazi, to be her Majesty's Consul at
Tripoli.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 2.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.8., one
of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has ap-
pointed the undernamed gentlemen to be Inspectors of
Coal Mines in Great Britain—Thomas Wynne, Esq.;
William Lancaster, Eq.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain James
Drummond Teller to be Adjutant, vice Maude, promoted.
March 9; Second Captain Disney Frederick Russel to
be Adjutant, vice Domvile, promoted, April 16; Second
Captain John Fraser Ludington Baddeley to be Adju-
tant, vice Wodehouse, promoted, April 29, 1851.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain Conolly
M'Causland to be Captain, vice Huworth, retired on full
pay; First Lieutenant Millington Henry Synge to be
Second Captain, vico M`Causland; Second Lieutenant
Henry Sandeman to be First Lieutenant, vice Synge,
Dec. 20, 1851 ; Second Lieutenant Gerald Graham,
with temporary rank, to be Second Lieutenant, with per-
manent rank, .June 19, 1850.

Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Second Captain
Harry St. George Ord, of the Royal Engineers, to bo
Adjutant, vice Fanshawo, who resigns the Adjutancy
only, Jan. 1.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 30.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Edward
Congreve Langley Durnford to be Second Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet Edward Gladstone to be Second
Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Ussher Lee Morris to be
Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Joseph George
Shanks to be Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet
Arthur Charles Joshua Mc Meekam to be Second Lieu•
tenant; Gentleman Cadet George Frederick Walker to
be Second Lieutenant.

Warwickshire Regiment of Militia—The Lord Lieu-
tenant has cancelled the commission of Philip Tranter,
Gent., to be Surgeon, dated April 25, 1851.

PORT OF PENZANCE.

We, the undersigned Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, do hereby, under the authority of an Act,
passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 9th
and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen
Victoria, intituled " An Act to amend the laws relat-
ing to the Customs," appoint the following place within
the port of Penzance, to be a legal quay for the lading
and unlading of goods, and do hereby declare the extent
of such quay to be as follows ; that is to say : all that
open place, called the New or Northern Quay, situate
at the harbour of Penzance, and extending, in a
northerly direction from the entrance of the said har-
bour towards the West Cornwall Railway terminus,
thirteen hundred feet.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, this 31st day of De-
cember, 1851. _

(Signed) H. Ricu. C. WOOD.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th
Geo. IV., c. 27, sec. 1 that the actual surplus revenue
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year
ended the 10th day of October, 1851, amounted to
the sum of two million nine hundred and seventy-
❑ino thousand and eleven pounds eleven shillings and six-
pence; the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of seven
hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred and
fifty-two pounds seventeen shillings and tenpence, being
one-fourth part of the said surplus of two million nine
hundred and seventy-nine thousand and eleven pounds
eleven shillings and sixpence will be applied, under the
provisions of the said Act, between the 7th day of
January, 1852, and the sth day of April, 1852, to the
following purposes; viz.:
To be applied to the purchase of Stock £744,752 17 10
Add Interest receivable on account of
Donations and Bequests to be ap-
plied to the purchase of Stock ..

3,877 11 10