AND

OTHER STATE INTELLIGENCE

FOR THE YEAR 1859.

IN TWO PARTS.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON GAZETTE.

BY T. L. BEHAN,

SUPERINTENDENT.

PART I.-JANUARY TO JUNE.

PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS,

LONDON GAZETTE OFFICE, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

10-26-08

BULLETINS.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 4,

1859.

Windsor Castle, December 30, 1858.

THE

HE Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Mordaunt Lawson Wells, Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta.

(1976.)

Board of Trade, Whitehall,
January 3, 1859.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Com. mittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux, announcing that all vessels arriving at the port of Pauillac, at the mouth of the river Gironde, are required to hoist a yellow flag, which is to be kept flying until the vessel has been reported to the sanitary authority of the port.

(8.)

Board of Trade, Whitehall,
January 3, 1859.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations

have received information from Her Majesty's Consul-General in Cuba, that the Port of Tarza, on the south side of the Island of Cuba, has been opened to foreign commerce.

Commission signed by the Queen. Northumberland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.

Joseph Jones, Gent., to be Quartermaster, from 5th November, 1858. Dated 19th November, 1858.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Inverness.

Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander Edward Fraser, Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 28th December, 1858.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland.

Northumberland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.

Michael Dodd, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice George Dodd, deceased. Dated 28th December, 1858.

RESIGNATION.

Lieutenant Richard Close, resigned 30th September, 1855.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.

Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia.

Ensign Windham Francis Phillips to be Lieutenant, vice Constable, resigned. Dated 29th December, 1858.

Henry Frank Otté Golding, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Crowder, promoted. Dated 29th December, 1858.

Walter Hackett, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lloyd, promoted. Dated 29th December, 1858.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan.

Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia. John Brabazon Kemeys Tynte, Gent., to be Ensign. Dated 21st December, 1858.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Forfar.

Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia
Artillery.

First Lieutenant John Clervaux Chaytor to be
Captain, vice Barclay, resigned. Dated 25th
December, 1858.

Thomas Augustus Forbes Leith, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 25th December, 1858.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lanark.

2nd Royal Lanarkshire Militia.

Alexander Tait, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Dunlop, resigned. Dated 31st December, 1858.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham.

Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia.

Ensign Henry Peter Murphy to be Lieutenant, vice Stanhope, promoted. Dated 31st December, 1858.