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London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

LOND(iNs SATURDAY .ENT,}4-,NING, FEBRUARY '14,, 1857.

Froth the London. Gizette of- Last Night

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 10.

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Tho Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph
Andrew 13lr.ckwell, Esq., now British Vice• Consul at
Lubeck, to be her Majesty's Consul at Stettin.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 13.

The Queen has been pleased to preeent the Rev. James
Gunn to the church and parish of Uig, in the presbytery
of Lewis, and county of Ross, vacant by the death of the
Rev. David Watson late minister thereof.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 13.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent' to be
pas;el under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing
Rear-Admiral Peter Richards, C. 8., to be one of the Com-
missioners of Greenwich Hospital.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 13.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Greenwich—Lieutenant-General Sir William
John Codiington, B.C. of Eaton-square, in the county
orMiddlesex, in the room of Peter Bolt,. Esq., who has
accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of
Hem pholthe.
Borough of Newport.—Robert William Kennard, of
Upper Thames-street, in the city of London, Esq., in the
room of William Biggs; 'Esq., who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
Town of Southampton.—Thomas Matthias Weguelin,
of Goldings,. near Hertford, Esq., in the rpom of Sir
Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, ChieMstice of the
Common Pleas.

Town of Kingston-npon-Hull.--James Clay, of Mon-
tague-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the
room of Sir William Henry Watson, one of the arons of
the Court of Exchequer.
County of Dumfries.—Jehn James Hope Johnstone,
Esq. of Annandale, in the room of the Right Honourable
Archibald William Douglas, commonly called Viscount
Drumlaiirig, now Marquis of Queensberry, a Peer of Great
Britain.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 12.
The Right Ron. the Lords of the Contrnittee of Privy
Council:for Tride and Plantations Jiave received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
ipatch from her Majesty's Minister at Vienna, stating
that a COnvention has been signed between Austria and
Liechtenstein and the States of the Zollverein, parties to
the Convention of July 30, 1838, for the assimilation of
the curren y throughout Germany ; the Act to come into
force on tho Ist of May next.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 13.
3d Regiment of Foot—Major-General Nicholas Wocle-
house to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Natha-
niel Thorn, K.C.8., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 13.
Royal Engineers—Second Captain Charles Pasley, on
the Supernumerary. List, to be Captain ;• Second Captain
and Brevet-Major John Stokes, to be Captain, vice Cow-
per, accidentally killed at Canton ; Lieutenant, James
Grantham to be Second Captain, vice Stokes.

BREVET.
Lieutenant-General William Greenshields Povier, C.B.
of the Royal Artillery, to be General, vice Walker, deceased,'
Major-Gene:al George Cobbe, to be Lieutenan‘General,
vice Power.

Major-General John Edward Dupuis, C. 8., Supernu-
merary, to be placed on the Fixed Establishment.
In consequence of Lieutenant;-General Power's promo-
tion, the undermentioned Officer on the retired full-pay
list of the Royal Artillery, to be General, in accordance
with the Royal Warrant of Nov. 3, 1851, Lieut.-General
Power having stood next below him at the time of his re-
tirement ;
Lieut.-General James Irving, late Royal Irish Artillery,
to be General.

CODIRISSIONg SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT,
County of Forfar—W. F. L. Carnegie, Esq., to be
Vice-Lieutenant.

Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—W, W.
Buller to be Lieutenant, vice Bishop, resigned ; A. W. K.
Falconer to be Cornet, vice Buller, promoted.
2d Regiment of Devon Militia—E. Lopes to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Studdy, appointed to 32d Foot'; C. Wol-
ston to be Ensign, vice Lopes, promoted.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
John Robinson Pedder, Esq., to be Captain, vice De Traf-
for 1, resigned ; Ensign Robert Blackmore the younger to,
be Lieutenant, vice Pedder, promoted.
Northumberland Light Infantry Militia—John William
Green to be Lieutenant.
Prince of Wales' Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia--'
Lieut. Robert Walkinshaw Young to be Captain, vied
Stewart, resigned; Ensign Henry Dunlop to be Lieutenant;
vice Young, promoted; Robt. Somerville, Gent.' to be
Ensign, vile Dunlop, promoted.

'NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Feb. 12.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein;
that preparatiOns are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian brig Ida, caps
tined on the 17th April, 1854, by her Majesty's ships Gor-
gon, Caesar, Magicienne, Amphion, Edinburgh, Leopard;
St. Jean d'Acre, Dragon, Cressy, Duke of Wellington;
Arrogant, Imperieuse, Princess Royal, and Royal George ;
the Russian sloop Emma Helena, captured on the 15th
May, 1555, and a quantity of grain taken out of six Russian
launches, on the 16th May, 1855, by her Majesty's shij
Basilisr.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de}
mend, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are tequired
to transmit the , particulars of any such demand to the
registrar of the nigh Court of Admiralty, in order that
,the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that
officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the
said ourt.
Al;ente and all other persons holding pewers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, are requested, with as little delay as pos-
sible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, ftr
the Week ending on Saturday the 7th day of Feb., 1857.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issue 1 23,767,500

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 9,292,500
Silver bu11i0n........ -

.123,767,500

Dated the 12th day of February,

BANKING DE;
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ...... .......... 3,514,949
Public deposit r (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,554,253 i
Other "deposits ...... 9,596,808
Soren Day an other
111115.... 788,171

235,007,181

heted the 12th day of February;