The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

TUESDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 27, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities
of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Lord
Francis Egerton, and the heirs male of his body law-
fully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Vis-
count Brackley, of Brackley, in the county of North-
ampton, and Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere, in the
county of Salop.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland to the following gentlemen, and the re-
spective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten,
viz. :—The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, of
Harpton-court, in the county of Radnor; John Somer-
set Pakington, of Westwood-park in the county
Worcester, Esq. ; John Gladstone, of Fasque and
Balfour, in the county of Kincardine, Esq. ;
James Weir Hogg, of Upper Grosvenor-street, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq. ; William Feilden, of Fenis-
cowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.; Wil-
liam Verner, of Verner's-bridge, in the county of Ar-
magh, and of Inismagh, in the county of Tyrone, E,q. ;
and Sir Moses Montefiore, of East Cliff-lodge, in the
Isle of Thanet, and county of Kent, Knight.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto William
Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton Douglas, Esq.
(commonly called Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale),
the office of Knight Marishall of Scotland, in the room
of William George Earl of Erroll, deceased.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Brownrigge Collisson, 8.A., to the vicarage of Saint
Michael, in the city of Coventry and diocese of Wor-
cester, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Simson.
The Queen has been pleased to :present the Reverend
Duncan Campbell to the church and parish of North
Knapdale, in the presbytery of Inverary and county of
Argyll, vacant by the death of the Reverend Donald
M'Lachlan, late minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John M'lvor to the church and parish of Small Isles,
in the presbytery of Skye and country of Inverness,
vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Henry Beat-
son, late minister thereof, to the ehurch and parish of
Barra.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 27.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint IVlajor-Gen,
Sir Patrick Ross, K.G.C. St. M. and St. G., to be Go,
vernor of St. Helena.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Thomas Denison, Esq., Captain in the Corps of Royal
Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's
Land.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Hon.
F. W. A. Bruce to be Lieut.-Governor of Newfoundland.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Murrell
Robinson Robinson, Esq., to be Second Assistant Sur-
veyor for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Daniel
H. 0. Gordon, Esq., to be Chief Justice for the Virgin
Islands.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Sin-
clair Bryan, Esq., to be Treasurer for the said Islands.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following
officers, in her 'Majesty's service, and in the service of the
East India Company, to be Companions of the Most Hon.
Military Order of the Bath :
Lieut.-Col. H. S. Phillips, 53d Foot.
Lieut.-Col. T. H. Franks, 10th Foot.
Lieut -Col. G. L. Davis, 9th Foot; and
Lieut.-Col. J. R. Smyth, 16th Lancers.
Lieut.-Col. C. Godby, 36th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. C. D. Wilkinson, 63d Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.• Col. R. A. Stedman, Ist Bengal Cavalry.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. N. Penny, 69th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. J. A. Thompson, 59th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. H. J. Wood, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-CoL J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light Infantry.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. H. M. Lawrence, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.• Col. F. Abbott, Bengal Engineers.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. S. Laurenson, Bengal Artillery; and
Major H. Forster, Commanding the Shekawattee Brigade.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Pedro
Degola y Ravara, as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major
A. W. Hope to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sandilands, -re-
tired on full pay; Second Captain W. B. Young to be Cap-
tain, vice Hope ; First Lieut. E. V. Rodwell, to be Second
Captain, vice Young; Second Lieut. J. L. Bolton to be First
Lieutenant, vice Rodwell, June 23
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel E. Matson,
to be Assistant Adjutant- General, June 15.

Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Brevet Major J.
Lynn, Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant, vice Whitmore, pro-
moted, June 18.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 27.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First-Lieutenant R. M. Laffan
to be Secoud-Captain, vice Ford, deceased; Second-Lieu-
tenant J. IL Smith to be First-Lieutenant, vice Laffan,
May 1.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JArNE 29.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Colonel W. G. Power
to be Colonel, vice Trelawney, deceased, May 4 ; Brevet
Major J. L. Smith to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Power;
Brevet Major W. H. Askwith to be Captain, vice Smith;
First Lieutenant S. D. Broughton to be Second Captain, vice
Askwith ; Second Lieutenant J. R. Lugg to be First
Lieutenant, vice Broughton, June 23.
The dates of promotion of the under-mentioned Officers
have been altered as follows, viz.:--
Lieut.-Colonel A. W. Hope, May 4, 1846 ; Captain W. B.
Young, Nlay 4, I 846; Second Captain W. Swinton, May 4,
1841; Lieut. W, N. Hardy, May 4, 1846; Second:Captain
E. W. Rodwell, May 26. 1846; Lieut. J. L. Bolton, May 26,
1846.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 23.
Corps of Royal Marines—Sergeant-Major W. Ruston to be
Quartermaster.
Commission by the Lord Lieuten3nt of the West Riding of
Yorkshire.
First Regiment of West York Mids.—J. 8. B. Wham-