The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of Y ESTERDAY.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

At the Court of Windsor, the 25th day of November,
1853, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Coun-
cil. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that
the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the
29th day of _November instant, be further prorogued to
Tuesday the third day of January, •
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 28.
It is hereby notified that the Earl of Clarendon, her
Majesty's Principal Seeretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
has received from Monsieur Charles Baudin, First Secre-
tary to the French Embassy (in the absence of the Am-
bassador), a note, dated the 23d inst., stating that the
Minister of Marine has announced to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs that, in conformity with the orders of his
Imperial Majesty, Captain Baudin, the Commander-in-
Chief of the French naval forces on the west coast of Africa,
has declared that part of the coast which extends from the
left bank of the Grand Lahou to the right bank of the
river Assinee to be iu a state of blockade ; that the force
at the disposal of Captain Baudin will render this blockade
effective, and that it was to be carried into execution from
the 25th of September last.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 26.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Lons-
dale, Esq., to be Colonial Treasurer for the Colony of
Victoria.

tier Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Edward
Stephens, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council
of the Colony of South Australia.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 2G.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal for appointing Henry
Cadogan Rotheiy, Esq., M.A., Registrar of the High
Court of Admiralty of England, to be Registrar of her
Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, the room
of Henry Birchfield. Swabey, Esq., resigned.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint David Mure,
Esquire, Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriff-
dom of Perth, in the room of James Craufurd, Esquire,
her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland.
WHITEHALL, NOT. 29.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Sir John Romilly, Knt., Master of the Rolls of her Ma-
jesty's High Court of Chancery ; the Right Hon. Sir John
Jervis, Knt., Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com-
mon Pleas ; the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, Knt. ;
Charles Hay Cameron, Esq. ; John M`Pherson M`Leod,
Esq. ; John Abraham Francis Hawkins, Esq. ; Thomas
Flower Ellis, Esq. ; and Robert Lowe, Esq.—to be her
Majesty's Commissioners in England to examine and con-
sider the reform of the Judicial Establishments, Judicial
Procedure, and Laws of India.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 29.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Henry
Lempriere to be Captain, vice Warburton, retired on full
pay ; First Lieutenant Henry Heyman to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Lempriere ; Second Lieutenant William Carey
to be First Lieutenant, vice Heyman, Nov. 29.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenant John
Mervin Cutliffe Drake, with temporary rank, to be Second
Lieutenant, with permanent rank, Dec. 17.

COMMISSION SIGNED RY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Deane John Hoare, Gent., to bo Lieute-
nant, vice Duff, resigned, Nov. 11.
Royal Brecknock Rifle Regiment of Militia—William
Robert Brereton, Esq., late Captain in the 70th Infantry,
to be Captain, Nov. 25.
East Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Major
Deedes to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant ; Cap-
tain Sir Ed .yard Cholmely Dering, Ba. t., to be Major,
vice Dee ;es, promoted, Nov. 20; Lieut. Charles Manners
Lushington, Nov. 20 ; Lieut. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth,
vice Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, Bart., resigned, Nov. 21; Cornet
Philip Oxendon Papillon, Nov. 22 ; Matthew Bell, Esq.,
Nov. 23, to be Captains.—Cornet Francis Colville
Hyde, vice Farman, deceased, Nov. 20 ; William Oxen-
den Hammond, Gent., vice D'Aeth, promoted, Nov. 21 ;
Thomas Henry Mackay, Gent, Nov. 22 ; Edward Leigh
Pemberton, Gent., vice Lushington, promoted, Nov. 23 ;
Charles Pemberton Carter, Gent, Nov. 24, to be Lieuten•
ants—Edward Twopeny, the younger, Gent., vice Hyde,
promoted, Nov. 20 ; John Featherston Briscoe, Gent.,
vice Papillon, promoted, Nov. 22, to be Cornets—James
Beatie, Gent., vice Sicard, resigned, Nov. 20, to be
Surgeon.