Star.
London, England, 1826-12-27 00:00:00

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Major Hon. Edward Cud, from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant
Colonel of Infantry, by purchase.
To he Maj,,rs of Infantry, by purchase—Captain Robert Carlisle
Pollock, Irom the 90th Foot ; Captain Aubrey William beau-
clerk, from the 99th Foot.
To be Captain of Infantry, by purchase—Lieutenant John Edmund
Wylde Browne, frtini the 6th Dragoon Guards.
To be Lieutenants of infantry, by purchase—Ensign Henry Ed-
ward Bebrille, from the 95th Foot; Cornet William Van, from
the 16th Light Dragoons.

The undermentioned Officers have been allowed to dispose of
their eoremassioni:

• Lieutenant Colonel John Gray Ross, Retired List Ist Royal Ye..
terse Battalion ; Major Frrit.t Baton Linsingen, half pay 3d
Hussars King'. German Legion; Lieutenant Charles Munro,
half pay 45th Fuot ; Lieutenant John Warnetord Armstrong,
half pay 84;h Foot.
The Christian names of Ensign Bulwer, who exchanged upon
half pay from the 58th Foot, on the '7th July last, are Edward
George Lytton.
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Commi►siun signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Lanark.
James Farie the lo Inger, F.sg. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
CollllllllSiolls segued by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Devon.

. John Kennaway, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant ; George Barons
Nortbcote, Esq. to be ditto; Bethel Lyons Walrond, Esq. to be
ditto; John King, Esq. to be ditto; Henry Richard Rowe, Esq.
to be ditto ; Alesatider Hamilton Hamilton, EN. [3 be ditto;
Edward Lloyd Sanders, EN. to be ditto; Ztchary Hammer
Drake, F.sq. to be ditto ; 1 hennas Neville, Esq. to be ditto.
Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Baldwin Fulford, the
younger, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Barton, resigned; Joseph
Gattey, Gent. to be ditto; Augustus Stowey, Gent. to be Cor-
net, vice Gattey, promoted ; Cudrington Parr, Gent. to be ditto.
Fast Devon Legion Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas Hardwicke,Esq.
to be Captain, vice Simcoe, resigned ; William Kennaway, Gent.
to be Lieutenant, vice Leigh, resigned ; Thomas Wentworth
Gould, to be ditto, vice Hardwicke, promoted ; Joseph Barnes
Sanders, Gent. to be Cornet; Thomas Gabriel, Gent. to be
Veterinary Surgeon, vice Helmore, deceased.
East Dt,911 Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Richard Walter, Gent.
to be Lieutenant, vice Sparks, resigned ; George Harbin, Gent.
to be Cornet, vice Walter, promoted.
South Hams Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—John Line Tem-
pler, Esq to be Captain; Edmund Posey Lyon, ti.r yr. Gent.
to be Lietrets nt, vice Templer, promoted; Wiivam 1 boniae
Lear, Gent. to be do. vice Tonkin, resigned.

This is the anniversary of the Nslry Office being
founded in 1614, and th tiarai Post Office being e tab-
lisl.ed, 1660 ; evtlth of Di. Hugh Blair, 1800 ; as Jo
Warns Svuo.cott, 1814.

AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.

VIIOM 'THII ♦TACYCIMI 2IITUNO, ItiCtlTeD THIS MOILWINII.

Though the eventi that are passing in Portugal seem to afford a
favourable opportunity for stock-jobbing, -it •cannot fail to be ob.
carved that the excitability of our Exchange must have much dimi-
nished within these few years, if we compare the fluctuations pro-
duced now by the events in Portugal with acme which similar
events occasioned five years ago. Let us recollect the Austrian
campaign against Naples, which presented much fewer chances of
unfavourable consequences than the armed intervention of Great
Mita* in the prevent internal dissensions in Portugal, by which, it
cannot be denied, that the fl Imes of war may be kindled in the
Peninsula, not to speak of the farther consequences to the political
world in general, which may be the result.
On the other hand it must be remembered, that of all the coun-
tries of Europe, Great Britain perhaps, more than any other, needs
the preservation of peace, as well to heal the wounds which it has
sustained in its finances by more than 20 years war, as to give time
to conjure the storms of internal discord, especially in Ireland,
whence we may infer, that there is little reason to apprehend that it
will tale any steps that can endanger the general tranquillity--
Similar motives appear to guide the political conduct of France ;
and as the able statesmen who now direct the affairs of the principal
States, have frequently succeeded in effecting an amicable solution
of equally difficult problems, it may perhaps be presumed that these
speculators who now display the greatest uneasiness, do not very
seriously entertain the opinion which is the apparent basis of their
operations.