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London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, J ULY 30, 1856.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the'2Bth
day of July, 1856, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Ma-
jesty in Council. This day his Royal Highness George
William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge, Knight
of the most Noble Order of the Garter, was, by command
of her Majesty, introduced into the Privy Council by the
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart, one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State (in the absence of the Lord
President of the Council), and his Royal Highness took his
place at the Board accordingly.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th
day !-)f 'July. 1856, present—the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered, by her Majesty
in Council, that the Parliament be prorogued from Tues-
day the twenty-ninth day of July inst., to Tuesday the
eleventh day of October next.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, tho 28th
day of July, 1850, present—the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was thii day
pleased, upon, a -representation of the Right Honourable
the Lords Committee of Council on Education, to appoint
the Rev. Robert Edgar Hughes, M.A., Fellow and Tutor
of Magdalen College, Cambridge, to be one of her Majesty's
Assistant Inspectors of Schools.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 28.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Dorset—Henry Gerard Sturt, of Critchell, in
the said county., Esq., in the room of the Right Honour-
able;-George Bankes, deceased.
WAR DE L'ARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 29.

sth Regimentof DragoonGnards—Lieut.

Robert Je,

antes
Montgomery to be Captain, without purchase,vice EMU,
whose Bove, Rank has beol_converted into Substantiver
ttuill*Underilie Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward E. Lawrence,
from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, without
purchase, vice Fife, appointed tathe 10th Light Dragoons;
Assistant-Surgeon John 'Harrison Robotham, front] the
Staff,-i.to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Llowelyn, protnoted
oti the Stag:
lith Light Dragoons—Edward E. Lawrence, Genti, to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Brooke, promoted.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Ralph Shelton bond
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lennox, who retires ;
Cornet R. Rintoul to be Lieutenant, by purchase, I vice
Bond ; Erasmus Gower, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Itintoul.
6th Regiment, of Foot—Ensign R. Bolton to be iien-
tenant, by purchase, vice Grogan, who retires ; Ikving
Sterling. Allfrey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Bolton.
36th Foot-L--Ensign Thomas Scarlett to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Mahon, deceased.
69th Foot--Captaia 'Charles Newton Biggs' front the
82d Foot, to be Captain, vice the Hon. Alfred Bury; who
exchanges.

72d Foot—Lieutenant John Thomas Campbell to be
Captain; by purchase, vice Atkinson, who retires.
81st Foot --Ensign F. K. Fitzßoy, from the 54th root,
to be Ensign, without purchase.
82d Foot—Captain the Hon. Alfred Bury, from the
69th Foot, to be Captain, vice Biggs, who exchanges,
UNATTACHED.
Brevet-Major Alexander James Hardy Elliot, sth iDra-
goon Guards, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Sub-
stantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1851.
Erratum in the Gazette of 221 July.
For,22d Foot.—Captain H. G. Bowden to be Instritctor
of Mrisketry, read Depot Battalion—Captain H. G. Bow-
den, 22d Foot, to be Captain Instructor of Musketry.
Erratum in the Gazette of 25th July.
PoYalEngineers—The surname of the Captain appointed
to a:lYiefitenant-Colonelcy is Hamley, and not Hawley.
BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.
The following Officers to be permitted to resign their
Commissions :-
2.1 Light Infantryy-L-Ensign Victor Julius. —Lieutenant
Paul Reimer.
3d Light Infantry—Lieut. Wilhelm Strecher. '
ADMIRALTY., JULY 29.
Vice-Admiral of the,Blne Petet John Douglas has ibeen
appointed to receive a pension of 1501. a-year, as provided,
for in her Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June, 1851,
vacant by the decPase.of Admiral Henry Richard Glynn,
add the ,naine of Vi4a-Admiral Peter John Douglas has
been removed to the Reserved Half-pay List accordidgly ;
and, ininOnsequence of this removal, the following prumo-
tions, dated the 21st inst., have taken place :
Rear-Admiral of the Red Robert Wauohope to. be Vice-
Admireaßiftlee Blue. _ _ _

Rear-Admfral of the White the Hon. Henry John R 011.3
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red..
Rear-Admiral of the Blue George William Conway
Courtenay to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain John Miligan Laws and. Captain Sir Barton
Macnamara; to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List.

Captain Right Hon. the Lord George Paula, C. 8., to
be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.

Captain Joseph Harrison, on the Retired List, has also
been promoted to be a retired Rear-Admiral on the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of Sept. 1, 1846, without
increase of pay.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.'
2d (Light Infantry) Regiment of King's Own Stafbrd-
shire Militia—Eyre Trench John Richard Nugent, Esq.,
to be Adjutant, vice Gardiner; resigned.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the-Quarterly Return of the Registrar-General.)
This return comprises the births and deaths registered by
2,196 registrars in all the districts of England during the
spring quarter that ended on June 30, 1856; and the mar-
riages in 12,18Ochurches or chapels, about 3,754 registered
places of worship unconnected with the Established Church,
and 628 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter
that ended on March 31st, 1856.
The marriage rate, which was low, is now slightly above
the average rate ; the birth rate is high, and the death rate
is low, so that the state of the population, in the light of
these returns, is favourable.

MARRIAGES.
66,776 persons were married in the three months of
January, February, and March. The annual rate in the
quarter was 707 marriages to every 100,000 of the popula-
tion ; while the rate in the winter of 1835 was 631 (or less
by 1-10th), and the average rate of the preceding winter
quarters was 704. The marriages (33,388) were more by
4 527 than the marriages (29,131) in the winter quarter of
1853; and the increase is a sure indication of the pro-
sperity of the country. The increase of marriages is ob-
served in every division. The excess in the numbers in
Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Hull is probably due to the
return of our gallant seamen from the Black *la and the
Baltic.

• BIRTHS.
-
173,234 boys and girls were born alive and registered in
the spring quarter that ended on the last day of June,
giving an increase of 7,954 children on the numbers of the
corresponding quarter of 1855. It is the spring quarter in
which the greatest number of births generally occurs ; and
this number is the highest that has ever been returned in
England. The number of registered births rose from
136,911 in the spring quarter of 1844 to 173,204 in the last
spring quarter.