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London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

WHITEHALL. MAY 6,

The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be passed
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, for summoning Charles Bennet, Esq.
(commonly called Lord Ossulston), to the House of Peers,
by the style and title of Baron Ossulston, of Ossulston, in
the county of Middlesex.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 6.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-
General Sir William John Codrington, K.C.8., to be Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the City and
Garrison of Gibralter.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
F. Hopkins as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for the United
States of America.
DOWNING. STREET, MAY 4.
The Queen has been placed to appoint W. J. Jeffrey,
Esq., to be Assistant-Receiver-General, D. Broadhead,
Esq., to be Stipendiary Magistrate, and G. L. Tucker, Esq.,
to be Commissary of Taxation, for the Colony of British
Guiana.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Vene-
rable Archdeacon Poore and Nathaniel Hart, Esq., to be
Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of St.
Christopher.

THE VICTORLI CROSS.

(From the Gazette of this evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 6.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the under-mentioned Officer of her Majesty's Army, whose
claim to the same has been submittted for• her Majesty's
approval, on account of an act of braverypexformed by him
in the Crimea, during the late War, as recorded against
his name, viz.:—

Major Frederick Miller, Royal Artillery—For having, at
the battle of Inkerman, personally attacked three Russians,
and with the gunners of his Division of the Battery pre-
vented the Russians from doing mischief to the guns which
they had surrounded. Part of a regiment of English in-
fantry had previously► retired through the Battery in front
of this body of Russians.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to confirm the grant of
the decoration of the "Victoria Cross to the undermentioned
officer of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, which de-
coration has been provisionally conferred upon him by the
Commander-in-Chief in India, for distinguished gallantry
displayed by him in that country. when serving under his
immediate command, as recorded against his name, viz. :
Lieutenant Thomas Adair Butler, lst Bengal European
Fusiliers—" Of which success the skirmishers on the other
side of the river were subsequently apprised by Lieutenant
Butler, of the Bengal Fusiliers, who swam across the
Goomtee, and climbing the parapet, remained in that posi-
tion for a considerable time, under a heavy fire of musketry,
until the work was occupied." (Extract of Lieutenant-
General Sir James Outram's memorandum of operations
carried on under his command at the siege of Lucknow,
published in the Governor-General's "Gazette Extraor-
dinary, of the sth April, 1858, and republished in General
Orders by the Commander-in-Chief in India, on the 27th
of December, 1858.)

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN
THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette.)
CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 3.

Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, on the 31st day of May,

1859 :
City of Lincoln—Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorpe, of
Canwick, Lincolnshire ; George Fieschi Heneage, of
Hainton, Lincolnshire, Esq.
Borough of Andover—William Cubitt, of Penton Lodge,
in the county of Southampton, Esq. ; the Honourable
Dudley Francis Fortescu ,e of Grosvenor-square, London.
Borough of Huntingdon—The Right Honourable Major-
General Jonathan Peel, one of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State ; Thomas Baring, of Norman Court,

in the county of Southampton, Esq.
County of Buckingham—Caledon George Du Pre, of
Wilton-park, Beaconsfield, Esq. ; the Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli, of Hughendon Manor ; the Honour-
able William George Cavendish, of Latimer.
County of Dorset—The Hon. Wm. Henry Berkeley Port-
man, of Bryanstono, Dorsetshire ; Henry Gerard Sturt,
of Critchill, Dorsetshire, Esq. ; Henry Ker Seymor, of
Hanford, Dorsetshire, Esq.
County of Forfar—Adam Haldane Duncan, commonly
called Viscount Duncan.
Town of Dundee—Sir John Ogilvy, Bart., of Inverquharity.
Combined Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross—William
Patrick Adam, Esq.
Burghs of Wigton, Now Galloway, Stranraer and Whit-
horn—Sir William Dunbar, of Mockrum, Bart.
Burghs of Dysart, Kirkaldy, Kinghorn, and Burntisland
—Robert Ferguson, of Raith, Esq.
County of Inverness—Henry James Baillie, of Letterfin.
lay, Esq.
County of Lanark—Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, of
Crawford, Baronet.
City of Glasgow—Walter Buchanan, merchant, Glasgow;
Robert Dalglish, manufacturer, Glasgow.
City of New Sarum—Lieut.-General Edward Pery Buck-
ley, of New Hall, Wiltshire ; Matthew Henry Marsh,
Esq., of Rambridge House, in the county of Southam to
County of Caithness—George Trail, Esq., of Ratter. P 11.
County of Northumberland.—Eastern Division—The Hon.
of Castle Howard,
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Charles Wentworth George Howar:tt,rdal
Yorkshire; William Marshall, of p
Hall, West-
moreland, Esq. Western Division—Henri Lowther of
Whitehavon Castle, Cumberland Es
ham, of Cockermouth Castle, Culbericia. '
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County of Cambridge—The Hon. Eliot" Thmas-. Yorke
Edward Ball, Esq. ; Henry John Ade
Town and Port of Hastings—Frederick North,, 81Hastings
Lodge, Sussex, Esq. ; Harly George Vane, commonly
called Lord Harry George Vane, of Battle Abbey, as H t -
ings.
County of Chester.—Northern Division—George Cornwall
Legh, of High Legh, Cheshire, Esq • Wilbraham Eger-
ton, of Tatton, Cheshire, Esq.
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Philip de Malpas Southern, Division—Sir
Grey_ Egerton, of Oulton-park, Che-
shire, Baronet; John Tollemache, of Peckforton Castle,
Cheshire, Esq.
Borough of Bedford—Samuel Whitbread, Esq. ; William
Stuart the younger, Esq.
Borough of Helston.—John Jope Rogers, Esq.
County of Rutland—The Honourable Gerard James Noel ;
the Honourable Gilbert Henry Heathcote.
Borough of Ripon—John Greenwood, of Swarcliffe Hall,
Yorkshire, Esq. ; John Ashley Warre, of Lowndes-
square, Middlesex, Esq.
County of Worcester. Easterrt Division—John Hodgetts
Hodgetts Foley, Esq. ; the Honourable Frederick Henry
William Gough Calthorpe. Western Division—Henry
Lygon, commonly called Viscount Elmley ; Frederick
Winn Knight, Esq.
County of Hertford—The Right Honourable Sir Edward
George Earle Lytton Buiwer Lytton, Bart., one of her