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London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

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WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to make the following ap-
pointments, under the provisions of the act 20 and 21 Vic.,
esp. 71, fur the regulation of the care and treatment of
lunatics, and for the provision, maintenance, and regula-
tion of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, namely ;—Unpaaid
Commissioner and Chairman of the General Board of Com,
miasioners in Lunacy for Scotland—Wm. Hugh Elliot,
Esq., (commonly called Viscount Melgund). Paid Com-
nussioners—James Coxe, Esq., M.D. and William Francis
Browne, Esq., M.D. Secretary—William Forbes, Esq.
The Queen has also been pleased, under the provisions
of the above-mentioned act, to appoint, by Warrant under
the hand of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State—Sir Alexander
Charles Gibson Maitland, Bart., and George Young, Esq.,
Sheriff of the county of Inverness, to be unpaid Commis-
sioners of the General Board of Commiseieners in Funacy
for Scotland.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Kinloch,
Zsq., to be Inspector, under the Act of 20 and 21 Viet.,
cap. 72, to render more effectual the Police in counties and
burghs in Scotland.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
W. Francis Cowper to be President of the General Board
of Health.
WHITEHILL, SEPT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Campbell to the church and parish of Balmerino, in the
presbytery of Cupar, and ceunty of Fife, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Thompson.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John Barnett to the church at Shieldbag, in the parish of
Applecross, in the presbytery of Lechcarron, and county of
Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Roderick
Nicholson to the church and parish of Applecross.
REPRESENTATION OF OLDHAM.
By virtue of an act, passed in the 24th year of the reign
of his Majesty King George the Third, itititnled, " An
set to repeal so much of two acts made in the 10th and
15th yeazs of the reign of his present Majesty, as autho-
rises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out writs
for the election of members to serve in Parliament, in the
manner therein mentioned, and for substituting other pro-
visions for the like purposes :"
I do hereby give notice, that the death of James Platt,
sq., late a member serving in this present Parliament for
the borough of Oldham, hath been certified to me in writ-
ing, under the hands of two members serving in this pre-
sent Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the elect •
big of a member to serve in this present Parliament for the
said borough of Oldham, at the end of 14 days after the
insertion of this notice in the London Gazette.
Given under my hand this 17th day of September,
1857.

JOHN EVELYN DENISON, Speaker.
BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee o
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received
through the Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, increasing the
quantity of salt permitted to be taken on board vessels for
the fisheries in Yarmouth Roads, and on the coasts of
France, from 90 kilos. to 100 kilos. per ton measurement.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 25.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Tra e and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from Her Majesty's. Agent and Consul-
General in Tanis, reporting that the Duty of Ili per cent.
ad valorem, lately levied upon the importation of Pulse
into that Regency, has been withdrawn.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 25.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant John Joseph
Corrigan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Saral, whose
promotion from the 9th Light Dragoons on the 25th
August, 1857, has been cancelled.
7th Light Dragoons—The commission of Captain Sir Wm.
Russell, Bart., to be Major, without purchase, to bear
date 13th instead of 14th August, 1857, as previously
stated.
Bth Light Dragoons—John Mathew Biddle, Gent., to be
_ Cornet, without purchase, vice Hanbury, promoted ;
Sergeant Thomas Richards, from the 16th Light Dra-
goons, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Haymes,
promoted.
11th Light Dragoons—Riding-Master R. R. Harrison
Dangate is permitted to resign his commission.
'Military Train—Lieutenant James Powell to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Penton, appointed to the Bth
Light Dragoons. To be Lieutenants, without purchase
Ensign Frederic Bond, vice Powell ; Ensign John Bruen
Rutledge, vice Caldwell, appointed to the 7th Dragoon
Guards:
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Phillip
Dares Margesson to be Captain, vice P. F. G. Scott, de-
' ceased ; Brevet-Major WW. Henry Randolph Simpson,
from the Sapeinumerery List, to be Second Capt., vice
Margesson ; Captain Frederick Alexander Campbell, on
the Supernumerary List, to be Lieut.-Col. ; Capt. Henry
Philip Goodenough to b Lieutenant-Cal., vice Thomas,
retired upon half-pay ; Second Captain James Frederick
D'Arley Street to be Captain, vice Goodenough ; Second
Captain George Kepple Taylor, from the Supernumerary
List, to be Second Captain, vice Street ; Second Captain
Archibald Motteux Calvert to be Captain, vice Brevet-
Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. W. Fortescue, promoted to be
31 +kn. Unattachee, nn ler the 13th clause of the Royal
Warrant of 3.i November, 1854; Lieutenant George
Sisson Harward to be Second Captain, vice Calvert ;
Lieutenant William Frederick Moore has been permitted
to resign his commission.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John
Paynter, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Viscount Kirkwall, who retires; Ensign and Lieu-
tenant George W. Knox to bo Lieutenant and C gatain,
by.purchase, vice Robert Farquhar Shaw Stewart, who
retiree ; Robert Alfred Cunliffe, Gent., to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vie() Paynter; Gerard
Smith, Gent., to be Ensign aad Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Knox.
2d Regiment of Foot—Ensign Alexander Robert A. Boyd,
from the 92d Foot, to be Eiv.ign, vice Gray, whose trans-
fer from the 97th Foot cancelled ; Robert Hamilton
Simpson, Esq., late Paymaster, British Italian Legion,
to bo Paymaster.
14th Foot—Capt. I.Vm. Heywood, from half pay 14th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Dwyer,
whose Brevet rank has been converted into substantive
rank, under the Royal Warrant, 6th Oct., 1854.
18th Foot—Captain W. ()Tryon Taylor, from half-pay 18th
Feet, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Cormick,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ;
Lieut. G. 11. Pocklington to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Borrow, promoted ; Ensign Hugh Shaw to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Pocklington ;
Sergeant-Major Thomas Watt to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Shaw.
20th Foot—The surname of the Captain restored to full-

pay on the 30th July, 1857, in the Gazette of the 7th ult.
is Meares, and not Mears, as therein stated.
22d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Pym Harding, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Boileau,
who exchanges; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. B. Harvey,
from half-pay 38th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieu--
Colonel Francis Pym Harding, whose Brevet Rank has
been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal
Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854; Captain Sir G. A. Robinson,
Bart., to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col.
Harvey, who retires ; Lieut. Boner Millett Deane, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Sir G. A. Robinson.
27th Foot—FrederickAlexander Campbell, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Venour, deceased.
_a
2 tla Foot—Ensign William Seaton is permitted to resign
commission.
44th Fcct—Heury Garland Matthews, Gent., to be Ensign,
by porch:Lae, vice Salis, promoted.
47th Foot—Renry William Marshall, Gent., to be Ensign,
without ptrchase, vice Thomas Bailie Thomson, for
whose services her Majesty has no further occasion.
60th Foot—Assiatabnit;trneoine:eohn Mathew Biddle is per-
mitted to resign
60th Foot—The Commission of Ensign John Mahony to
bear date 25th, and not 26th, - .
August, 1857, as previ-
ously stated.
67th Foot—Charles Henry Blaclaley Turner, Gent., to be
Ensign. without purchase, Loftusv-ceßeade, who
resigns.
75th Foot -Bentinck L. Cumberland, Gent.,
to
be Ensign,
without purchase,
vice Pym, promoted.
79th Foot—The surname of the Captain, restored to
full
pay on the 7th Aug. last, in the Gazette of that date, is
Harrison, and not Harrison, as therein stated.
94th Foot--Assistant-Surgeon John
appointedfrom. the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice x itsgesaw.
to the Staff.
92th Foot - Percival Herbert Dobbs, Gant., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Bratt, promoted.
2d West India legiment —Assistant-StFgeon Edward
Joseph Crane, frow tho Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Clutterbuck, appointed to the Staff.
St. Helena Regiment—Lieut. John H. Prenderville, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Mare-
chanx, deceased ; Ensign Adolphus W. Campbell to be
Lieutermnt, without purchase, vice Prenderville; En-
sign James W. Mitchell to b 3 Lieuterant, without pur-
chase,vice Campbell, whose promotion 03 the 28th Aug.,
1857, is cancelled.
DEPOT. BBATTALION.
Quartermaster William Goldby, from half-pay, British
Swiss Legion, to be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Walker,
appointed to the 60th Foot.
UNATTACHED.

Brevet-Lientenant-Coronel FganciiPym Harding, 22d
Foot, to have his Brevet R-ink converted into Substantive
Rink, under the Royal Warrant of 6th, Oct., 1854.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Tyrrell
Matthias Lyrne, let Foot, to be Major, without pur-
chase.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles
Furteacue, of the Royal Artillery, to have the