The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-18 00:00:00

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 16, 1846.
It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has
received from Mr. Southern, her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires at Lisbon, a dispatch, inclosing a note addressed
to him by Marshal Saldanha, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs of her Most Faithful Majesty, announcing
the establishment of an effective blockade of the river
Douro, together with a copy of the decree declaring the
said blockade. Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires also
transmits a note from Marshal Saldanha, annonncing that
positive instructions have been given to the ships of
war establishing the blockade, to allow Britisk ships of war
to enter the port unmolested, and not to prevent the deli-
very, and reception there, of the mails conveying the cor-
respondence, or the landing of passengers, or even the de-
parture of British subjects who may wish to embark in the
packets.

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At the Court at Windsor, the 14th day of November,
1846,—Present, the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in
Council.—Her Majesty having been pleased to ap•
point the Right Honourable George Augustus Earl
Cowper to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum
of the county of Kent, his Lordship this day took the oaths
appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of alle-
giance and supremacy.
WHITEHALL, Nev. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Admiral Sir
David Gould, G.C.8., the office or place of Vice-Admiral of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
Lieutenant of the Admiralty thereof, and also Lieutenant of
the Navies and Seas of the said United Kingdom, in the
room of Admiral Sir George Martin, G.C.8., promoted to the
rank of Admiral of the Fleet.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 9, 1846.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint the
six Officers under-named to be Naval Aides-de-Camp to her
Majesty :
Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 13.,
Captain the Honourable George Alfred Crofton,
Captain Sir George Rose Sartorius,
Captain Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8.,
Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
Captain Sir George Augustus Westphal,
vice
Captain Henry Hope, C. 13.
Captain Sir S. John B. Pechell, Bart. C. B. K. C. H.
Captain Phipps Hornby, C. B.
Captain Sir Francis Augustus Collier, C. B. K. C. H.
Captain Sir Charles Napier, K. C. B. and
Capt. the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Fellow,
C.B. K.C. H.
promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral.
And her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to ap-
point Captain Lord Adolphus l!itzclarence, d.C.H., to be an
Extra Naval Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 9.
Doctor Gilbert King, M.D. Deputy Inspector of Naval
Hospitals and Fleets, to be Inspector of Naval Hospitals and
Fleets.
John Mortimer, Esq,, and,
Henry Parkin, Esq.
Retired Deputy Inspectors of Naval Hospitals and Fleets, to
be Retired Inspectors of Naval Hospitals and Fleets
Doctor James Veitch, M.D.,
Mr. William Colvin, and
Doctor James Scote(B), M.D.,
Surgeons Royal Navy, to be Retired Deputy Inspectors of
Naval Hospitals and I'leets.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 9.
Corps of Royal Marines.
Colonel and Second Commandant 'Thompson Aslett to be
Colonel Commandant, vice Jones, promoted, to be Major-
General in the Army.
Colonel and Second Commandant Edward Smith Mercer to
be Colonel Commandant, vice Beatty promotee to be
Major-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Fergusson, to be Colonel and
Second Commandant, vice Aslett, promoted
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Swale to be Colonel and Se-
cond Commandant, vice Mercer, promoted.
Captain and Brevet Major John Wilson to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Fergusson, promoted.
Captain Robert Mercer to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Swale,
promoted.
First Lieutenant John Hawkins Gascoigne to be Captain,
vice Wilson, promoted.
First Lieutenant John Urquhart to be Captain, vice Mercer,
promoted.
Second Lieutenant Thomas Carstairs Gray to be First Lieu-
• tenant, vice Gascoigne, promoted.
Second Lieutenant William Godfrey Rayson Masters to be
First Lieutenant, vice Urquhart, promoted.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 16.
The name of Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, has
been added, under special circumstances represented by him,
to the list of Captains of the Royal Navy who have accepted
the rank of Retired Rear Admiral of her Majesty's Fleet.
And with reference to the announcement in the London
Gazette of the 2d October last, respecting the admission of
Officers now residing abroad to the retired list, the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to fix
the 15th of December next, as the day on which the list will
be finally closed.