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, BULLETINS. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 4, 1859. Windsor Castle, December 30, 1858, 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, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Com- (8.) Board of Trade, Whitehall, 1859. B 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 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. December, 1858. Dated 28th 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 Decem ber, 1858. Walter Hackett, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lloyd, Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia First Lieutenant John Clervaux Chaytor to be Thomas Augustus Forbes Leith, Gent., to be 1858. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the 2nd Royal Lanarkshire Militia. Alexander Tait, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Ensign Henry Peter Murphy to be Lieutenant, |