The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-07 00:00:00

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

Mr. BRADY moved for leave to bring in a bill for
the registration of qualified practitioners, and for amend-
ing the law relating to the practice of medicine in Great
Britain and Ireland.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, FEB. 4.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alex ander
Stuart Logan, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire
or Sheriffdom-of Forfar.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 4.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
William Anderson to the Church and parish of Denny, in
the presbytery and county of Stirling, vacant by the trans-
portation of the Reverend Colin McCulloch, late Minister
thereof, to the char ge and office of First Minister of the
church and parish of Montrose.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 4.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen, report-
ing tha promulgation of a law, by which the Customs'
Duty on all materials and tools imported for the purpose
of being employed in works for bringing water into towns,
lighting them by gas, and improving their drainage, will
be reduced to 5 per cent. ad valorem, whenever the duties
levied on such materials by the tariff shall exceed that rate.

CROWN-OFFICE, F. 7.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Brecknock—John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins,
of Pennoyre, in the county of Brecknock, Esquire, in the
room of Charles Rodney Morgan, Esq., deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 7.

17th Light Dragoons—Major-General Sir James Max-
well Wallace to be Colonel, vice Major-General Thomas
William Taylor, C. 8., deceased, Jan. 28.
16th Regiment of Foot.—Major-General Thomas Erskine
Napier, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice General William Carr,
Viscount Bereford, G.C.8., deceased, Jan. 28.
60th Regiment of Foot.—Lieutenant-General Viscount,
Gough, G.C.B , to be Colonel in Chief, vice General Vis-
count Beresford, deceased, Jan. 28.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. FEB. 6.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet•Colonel William
Brereton to be Colonel, vice Gore Browne, deceased ; Cap-
tain John McCoy to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brereton ;
Second Captain Henry Clerk to be Captain, vice McCoy ;
First Lieutenant George Sidney Robertson to be Second
Captain, vice Clerk ; Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to
be First Lieutenant, vice Robertson, Jan. 24.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 3.
The following additional promotions, dated the 21st
January, have taken place on the Re,erved List, conse-
quent on the removal of Admiral James Carthew to that
list, with a pension :—Vice-Admiral Francis Temple, on
the Reserved Half-pay List, to be Admiral on the same
list; Vice-Admiral Henry Gordon, on the Reserved Half-
pay List, to be Admiral on the same list.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS

Durham—John Robert Mowbray, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Feb. 3.

North Durham Regiment of Militia of the County of
Durham—George Pearson Wilkinson, Esq., to be Captain,
Jan. 24 ; William Jonathan De 'Pledge, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, Feb. 3.

Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia Assistant-Surgeon
John James Ireland to be Surgeon, vice Henry Thomas
Titley Palmer, resigned, Feb. 4.

Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Henry Somers Morgan
Clifford, Gent., to bo Ensign.

Hampshire Militia Artillery—Ensign Frederick Brodie,
late of the East Middlesex Militia, to be First Lieutenant,
Jan. 27 ; Richard Clay, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant,
Jan. 30.