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London, England, 1859-10-26 00:00:00

FROJI.T.HE GAZETTE Or LAST _NIGHT

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, OCT. 21

Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments of
Windsor Castle will be closed, after Friday next the 28th
instant, -until further orders.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 15.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
David Hay Esq., to be her Majesty's Consi.l at
M aranham.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon..DWilliani Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, now Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at .Rio Janeiro, to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at Athens.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 24.

The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trada and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Christiania,
reporting that the Royal Norwegian Marine Department
has issued a notice, declaring the ports on the coasts of
Tripoli and Syria to be considered intected with the Orien-
tal Plague.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 25.

MEMORANDUM.
The next Competitive Examination of Candidates for ad-
mission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will be
held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Wednesday, the
14th December next, and following days.
The next Competitive Examination of Candidates for ad-
mission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, will be
held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on -Wednesday, the
4th of January next, 1860, and following days.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS- LIEUTENANT.,
County of Cardigan—Ryse Loveden, Esq., Herbert
Vaughan, Esq., Edmund Lloyd, Esq., and Thos. Bousall,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants.
Ist Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—John
Tredwen,- Esq., to be First Lieutenant; Render Pearse,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, 2d Company—William
Thomas Sobey, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Richard
Hicks, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
2d Company of Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—John Solomon
Bickford, Esq., to be Captain •, Thomas Hutchinson to be
Lieutenant ; Walter Pike to be Ensign.
Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers-Ist Company—Chris-
topher Rice Mansel Talbot, Esq., M.P., to bo Captain;
Theodore Mansel Talbot, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; William
Llewellyn, Esq., to be Ensign. 2d Company—Geo. Thos.
Clark, Esq., to be Captain ; William Menelaus, Gent., to
be Lieutenant; George Martin, Gent., to be nsimn. 3d
Company—Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn, Esq., MX?, to be
Captain ; John Crow Richardson, Esq., to be Lieutenant ;
Evan Matthew Richards, Esq., to be Ensign. 4th Company
—Henry Hussey Vivian, Esq., M.P., to be Captain ; Lloyd
Thomas, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Edward Strick, Esq., to
be Ensign. sth Company—John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Esq.,
to be Captain • John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn to be Lieu-
tenant; Wm:Edmonds, Esq., to be Ensign.
Gloucester Rifle Volunteers-2d Company—Wm. Vernon.
Guise, Esq., to be Captain ; John Jones, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; Thomas Aylmer Pearson, Esq., late Captain 43d
Foot, to be Ensign. 3d Company—Captain Thomas Do
Winton, late Royal Artillery, to bo Captain ; James Henry
Dowling, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Richard Tew Smith,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Kent Artillery Volunteers—lst Company—Wm. Glad-
dish, Esq., to be Captain ; George Edward Sharland, Esq.,
to be First Lieutenant; Edward Augustus Hilder, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant.

Norfolk Rifle Volunteers-sth Subdivision—Sir Wil-
loughby Jones, Bart., to be Lieutenant ; RObert Nicholas
Hamond, Esq., to be Ensign. 6th Subdivision— James
Hollway, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Charles Horatio Day
Blyth, Esq., to be Ensign.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—George. Staunton Lynch,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Beechino., promoted;
James Winslowe Tighe, Gent., to be SeconeLieutenant,
vice Mansel, promoted.
• County of Warwick—The Hon. Chas. Grantham Scott,
late Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, to bo Lieutenant-
Colonel Commanding the different Rifle Volunteer Corps
of Warwickshire.

Shropshire Regiment of Militia—lVallace Boyce, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant. -

10th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Joseph
Leigh, Gent., to be Ensign.
Wiltshire Volunteer Rifles—Beverley Robinson, Esq.,
to be Lieutenant of the Ist Company.
2d Company of Northamptonshire Volunteer Rifle
cr Corp
—The Right Hon. Geore William Fermor, Earl of Pora-7
fret, to be Captain.
4th Company of Essex RifleVolunteers—William Gonne,
Esq., to be Lieutenant ; John Bulwer, Esq., to be Ensign.
Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Thomas Open-
shaw Lomax, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Adams, promoted.