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London, England, 1854-10-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON' GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 2.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spa.tch from her Majesty's Consul at Elsinore, inclosing a
notice (a translation of which is subjoined) relative to an
intended change in the Lightship on the Copperground off
Lmso
(Copy.)

(Translation.)
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Instead of the temporary Lightship, which was placed
on the Copperground off Lmso Island on the 24th Septem-
ber last year, a Lightship with three masts, a stronger
light on each mast, and a ball on each mast head, will be
placed on that shoal about the end of next month.
The light on the fore and =inmost mast will be shown
28 feet, and that on the midship 40 feet, above the level of
the water.
This preliminary notice is hereby given, and further
particulars will be made public when the new lightship
shows her light for the first time.
Marine Boerd, the 4th Sept.miber, 1851.
(Sighed) STEEN BILLE.
SUENSON.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 2.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Chris-
tiania, inclosing a translation of a public notice respecting
a sea mark, lately erected to indicate the channel leading
to Tromsoe, through the Malangen Fiord.
(Copy.) (Translation.)
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Herewith is made known, that in the Island of Hekkin-
gen, at the entrance of the channel leading to Tromsoo,
through the klalangen Fiord, is erected a day mark, in the
form of a wall, the breadth of which at the base is 24 feet,
and at the top 16 feet, and the height 32 feet.
The mark is painted of a light colour, and exhibits its
greatest front directly towards the in-sailing, or in a N.W.
direction according to true compass.
Long., east of Greenwich, 17 dog. 51 min. ; lat. N.
69 deg. 36 min. ; height above high water, 300 Norwegian
feet, and visible 8 to 12 miles.
The Royal Norwegian Marine Department, Christiania,
20th September, 1851.

(Signed) PETERSEN.
RCEDER.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 29.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant Oliver
Robert Stokes to be Second Captain, vice Mytton, de-
ceased ; Second Lieutenant Robert Loftus Tottenham to
be First Lieutenant, vice Stokes, Sept. 21.

MEMORANDUM.
The dates of promotion of the undermentioned Officers
have been altered as follows, viz :—Second Captain H. A.
Thrupp and First Lieutenant A. H. C. Hamilton, to 19th
July ; Second Captain E. C. Mainwaring and First Lieu-
tenant E. C. Cuthbert, to 3d August; Second Captain A.
Gordon and First Lieutenant P. Jackson, to 4th August;
Second Captain W. I. Williams and First Lieutenant I.
Tucker to 24th August •, Second Captain C. F. Young and
First Lieutenant B. F. Schreiber, to 13th September.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenant John
Major Henniker to be First Lieutenant, vice St. Jolpi,
deceased, Sept. 22.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

Courity of Inverness—The Right Hon. Godfrey William
Wentworth Bosville Macdonald, Baron Macdonald ; the
Right Hon. Alexander Fraser, Baron Saltoun ; the Right
Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P. ; James Evan Bodine, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenants, Sept. 11.
Fifeshire Regiment of Militia —John Balfour, Esq., one
of the Deputy Lieutenants of the shire of Fife and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the Fife Militia, to be Vice-Lieutenant
of the said county, Sept. 2.
Argyll and Bute Regiment of Militia—The Most Noble
the Marquis of Breadalbane to be Colonel, Sept. 18.
Leicester Militia—William Henry Chapman, Esq., to
be Captain; George Turville, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
Sept. 15.
Clmbriclgeihire Militia—Francis Boynton Cowper, Esq.,
to be Captain, Sept. 1.
East York Regiment of Militia—George Hibbart Mar-
shall, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Raines, resigned,
Sept 20.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Major Alan
Frederick Cathcart, commonly called Lord Greenock, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Healey, resigned, Sept. 25 ;
Captain Robert Coiling to be Major, vice Lord Greenock,
promoted, Sept. 26 ; Lieutenant John Wind Coates to be
Captain, vice Coiling; promoted, Sept. 27 ; Second Lieu-
tenant John Edward Buckle to be Lieutenant, vice Coates,
promoted, Sept. 28.
2d Devon Regiment of Militia—Charles George Clarke
to be Lieutenant, Aug. 13; John Camden Goodridge to be
Captain, vice Palk, resigned ; Henry Godfrey to be Lieu-
tenant • John Gore Hawkins to bo Ensign, Aug. 14 ;
Frank 2Hodgkinson to be Lieutenant, vice Templer, re-
signed, Sept. 25.
Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion—
William Henry Kitson to be Second Lieutenant ; Thomas
Pearson to be First Lieutenant, July 30; John Philip
Frost Palmer Haines to be Second Lieutenant, July 31.