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containing so much only of the three as the
legislature has deemed it right to preserve. It also
enables Jews to make declarations in certain cases,
but is expressly declared not to affect any of the
provisions of the Roman Catholic Relief acts. A
fifth act enables either House of Parliament to pass
if they think fit, a resolution enabling a Jew to
take the new oath omitting the concluding words,
And I make this declaration upon the true
faith of a Christain.' A sixth carries into effect
one of the main provisions of a biL which I
mysely had introduced into the houset ►rring the
last Parliament, and have given notices for the
next tension, enabling select committees of the
House of Commons for the future to examine wit-
nesses on oath in matters relating to private
bills—putting both houses, as I have long con-
tended they ought to be on the same footing in this
particular." The rest of this really remarkable
charge we earnestly commend to the examination
of our readers, calculated, as it is throughout, we
believe, to afford them solid information as well as
the liveliest satisfaction in perusal. It reflects
honour upon the learned Recorder that he should
thus laboriously strive to facilitate, for the com-
munity at large, the toil of acquiring an accurate
and complete knowledge of the latest changes
) effected in the laws by which the free people of
these happy islands are governed.

THE NEW ARMY WARRANT AND ITS
CHANGES.

In consequence of the promulgation of the new
Royal warrant, regulating promotion in the higher
ranks of the army, the following important changes
will be immediately gazetted :
Major-Generals J. Home Home, Sir W. B. Clay-
ton, john Spink, Sir James Jackson, K.C.8., R. C.
Mansel, John Drummond, James Freeth, Sir Chas.
O'Donnell, John Leslie, R. B. Coles, E. P. Buckley,
and Sir Richard boherty will be promoted to be

lieutenant-generals.
The undermentioned Colonels will become Major
Generals viz., B. F. Dalton Wilson, S. B. Boit.
lean, late 22d Regiment ; Hon. G. F. Upton,
Coldstream Guards; Hon. A. A. Dalzell, late
48th Regiment ; T. Simson. Pratt, half-pay
26th Regiment ; Orlando Felix, W. N. Hutchinson,
late Grenadier Guards • H. F. Lockyer, 97th Regi-
ment ; Simcoe Baynes, late Malta Fencibles ; M. C.
Johnstone, 87th Fusileers ; F. Meade, W. F. Forster
(Deputy Adjutant-General), F. Johnston, Albert
Goldsmid, E. Macarthur, C.B. (commanding the
troops in Australia), D. H. Macdowall, J. P. Hely,
C. R. Bowers, J. Arnaud, F. Towers, Sir Robert
Garrett, half-pay, 46th Regiment ;R. Connop, T.
M. Williams, W. NeVean, A. H. Trevor, Inspecting,
Field Officer of Dublin Recruiting District ; R. W.
Brett, W. H. Dutton, the Earl of Albemarle,
G. T. Colomb, the Marquis of Conyngham, Sir
Sydney Cotton, K.C.8.,' 10th Regiment ; Maurice
Barlow, late 14th Regiment ; J. N. Jackson, 99th
Regiment ; Botel Trydell, 83d Regiment ; J. Clark,
Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum ; R. W.
E
Brough, half-pay, 2d Regiment ;E.H. D. Napier,
E. Harvey, J. It. Young, half-pay, sth Fusileers ;
J. Michel, C. 8., late 6th Regiment ; R. P. Douglas,
Inspector-General of Militia ; C. Craufurd Hay,
Commandant of the School' of Musketry at Hythe;
W. L. Dames, 37th Regiment ; C. Warren, C. 8.,
half-pay, 55th Regiment ' • G. A. Malcolm, C. 8.,
and R. H. Wynyard, C. 8., 58th Regiment.
Several of these officers not having qualified them-
selves by six years' service in the rank of regimental
field-officer will only receive the honorary position
of Major-General with the half-pay of their last
regimental rank. Together with the Generals now
on the list in a similar position they will be formed
into another list separate from that of the effective
and the supernumerary Generals.
The new supernumerary list of Generals will con-
sist of Major-Generals C. Windham, C. 8., Sir John
Inglis, K.C.8., Sir James Hope Grant, K.C.8., Sir
W. R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Sir T. H. Franks, K.C.8.,
and Sir Edward Lugard, K.C.B. All these
officers have been promoted out of their turn
for distinguished services in the field. They will
remain on the supernumerary list until such time
as they would become Major-Generals by seniority,
when they will be transferred to the establishment
as vacancies occur. They retain all the pay and
advantages arising from their earlier promotion for
distinguished service, without impeding the pro-
motion of their seniors, as was the case under the
1 warrant of 1854.
The following Lieut.-Colonels, who attained that
rank prior to the 20th of June, 1854, when the
warrant of that year was made to take effect, will
be promoted to the rank of full Colonel. These
officers, along with many others now on the Colonels'
list, have been " jumped over," in consequence of
the qualifying clauses of the warrant of 1854, which
gave every Lieut.-Colonel the rank of Colonel im-
mediately on his completing three years' command
of a regiment or three years spent in certain staff
situations. The list will now be re-arranged, so that
all the Lieut.-Colonels commissioned as such prior to
June 20, 1854, will stand on the Colonels' list in the
same relative position occupied by them as Lieu-
tenant-Colonels before that date. This will be
done by special brevet, dated November 28, 1854,
after which the " jumping over " system com-
menced. Besides the replacement of the Colonels
since promoted, the following, who are still Lieu-
tenant-Colonels' will be made Colonels of Nov. 28,
1854—viz., R. Vassall, W. H. Adams, A. Hous-
toun, J. De Lacy, R. Chetwode, J. P. Westropp,
G. M. Reeves, 99th Regiment, R. H. Lowth, 86th
Regt.; E. C. Fletcher, half-pay 3d Dragoon Guards;
B. Daveney, Ist Regt.; E. Bagott ; J. Patience,
65th Regt. ; J. Scargill, R. Lewis, S. Tryon, 0. D.
Ainsworth ; T. Ogilvy, 2d Life Guards ; J. A.
Udny, Irish Staff; G. Swann ; G. W. Fordyce-
Buchan, late Scots Fusilier Guards ; J. H. G. Dal-
rymple, Scots Fusilier Guards ; A. Horne, 13th
Regt. • J. Armstrong, Cape Mounted Rifles ; E. A.
Holdich, C. 8., 20th Regt. ; W. D. Palton, 74th
Highlanders; W. B. Ainslie, C.B. ; S. T. Christie,
80th Regt. ; W. M. Wood, Coldstream Guards ; H.
P. de Bathe, Scots Fusilier Guards ; and R. San-
ders C.B. half-pay 19th Regt.
The following 26 Majors will also (though pro-
bably not at once) be promoted to be Lieut.-Colonel
in succession to the same number of effective
Colonels appointed. Major-Generals on the establish-
ment—viz., Majors T. Lillie, Ceylon Rifles ; M. G.
Adams, G. F. Murray, 65th Regiment; T. Byrne,
10th Regiment; E. Moore, 11th Regiment; R. M.
Best, 10th:Regiment ; Fitzwilliam Walker, Cana-
dian Rifles ' • R. Pitcairn, Donald Stewart, G. P.
Hume, 15th Regiment ; E. 0. Broadley,. 0. Lloyd,
Ormsby, H. C. Brewster, 76th Regiment ; C.
Beamish, 35th Regiment; H. Gahan, St. Helena
Regiment ; Collingwood Fenwick, 76th Regiment ;
G. Munro, R. 14. Harris, F. P. Nott, J. Ross
Wheeler, 29th Regiment; A. T. Allan, 81st Regi-
ment ; Thomas Ross, 73d Regiment ; B. Harrison,
13th Hussars ; Albert Watson, F. J. Phillott, and
Wyndham Bewes, 73d Regiment.
The above does not include the promotions in
the Ordnance Corps, which will also be affected
somewhat by the warrant. It will serve to show,
however, the considerable changes created in the
higher ranks among the officers of the Cavalry,
Guards, and Line. Several staff appointments will
be at once rendered vacant, among which we may
mention those of Inspector of Militia, Commandant
at Hythe, Inspecting field-officer in Dublin, Com-
mandant of Royal Military Asylum, and Assistant-
Adjutant-General in Scotland ; besides which, pro-
motions without purchase will go through all ranks
in the Coldstream Guards, 10th, 37th, 58th, 83rd,
87th, and 99th Regiments.

A telegram from London, printed in the Debats
of yesterday states that the Duke of Malakhoff has received
an invitation to Windsor, and that the Duchess of Main-
khoff will be presented to the Queen by the Countess of
Malmesbury.
His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister and the Countess Platen have returned to the
residence of the legation, from Sweden, after an absence of
three months.
The Mayor of Melbourne left Morley's Hotel on
the 23d inst. jor Dublin. We understand that he will re-
turn to town about the 2d Nov.
Mr. Edward Litton, Senior Master of the Court
of Chancery, Mr. Henry Daley, and Mr. William Seton, of
the Treasury-office, London, the commissioners appointed to
inquire into the nature and extent of the duties of the several
officers of the Court of Chancery, and the fees or emolu-
ments payable to them, and as to whether any and what
alterations should be made therein, held their first sitting in
the chamber of the Lord Chancellor's secretary, Four Courts,
at Dublin, on Friday. A large number of the officials of the
Court of Chancery were present. The inquiry is to be con-
ducted with closed doors.

We (John o' Groat Journal) regret that our
burgh member, Lord John Hay, has, since the close of the
parliamentary session, continued in a very precarious state
of health, and that during the recess he has been debarred
by his physician from taking any active part in public
affairs. Hopes of his speedy recovery, are, however, now
entertained.

In the general business of the port of London
during the past week there has been considerable activity.
The number of ships reported inward was 358, including
57 with corn, grain, flour, &c. The number cleared out-
ward was 119, including 19 in ballast. Of those now on
the berth loading outward 56 are for the Australian colonies,
three for China, five for Vancouver's Island, and one for
San Francisco. The exports tp China still continue light .