of the ratifications of the Convention), should forthwith transmit the particulars of the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or to Her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Brazil, together with the requisite evidence in support thereof, for the purpose of being submitted to the Commissioners.

Notice is also hereby given, that, in conformity with the following stipulation of the third Article of the Convention :

"Every claim shall be presented to the Commission within twelve months from the day of its first meeting, unless in any case where reasons for delay shall be established to the satisfaction of the Commission, or of the Arbitrator or Umpire in the event of the Commissioners differing in opinion thereupon; and then, and in any such case, the period for presenting the claim may be extended to any time not exceeding six months longer;"

Every claim which may not be presented to the Commission before the 10th of March, 1860, will be inadmissible, unless reasons for delay be established to the satisfaction of the Commissioners, or of the Arbitrator or Umpire; and that every claim which shall not be presented to the Commissioners before the 10th of September, 1860, will, in conformity with the fifth article of the Convention, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.

Foreign Office, April 8, 1859.

Foreign-Office, April 6, 1859.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Horace Young, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul for the provinces of Biscay and Guipuscoa and of Old Castile, to reside at Bilbao.

Foreign Office, April 8, 1859.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Emil Oesterley, as Consul at Calcutta ; of Mr. Carl Schultze, as Consul at Singapore; and of Mr. John Anderson as Consul at Peterhead, for His Majesty the King of Hanover.

Whitehall, April 7, 1859.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John Watt to the church and parish of Strathdon, in the presbytery of Alford, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of the Reverend Robert Meiklejohn.

War-Office, Pall-Mall,

8th April, 1859. 1st Regiment of Life Guards, Lieutenant the Honourable Robert W. Grosvenor to be Captain, by purchase, vice de Winton, who retires. Dated 8th April, 1859. Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant the Honourable William Henry J. North to be Lieutenant, by purchase vice Grosvenor. Dated 8th April, 1859. 1st Dragoon Guards, Riding-Master George Rayment, from the 15th Light Dragoons to be Riding-Master, vice Noake, who exchanges. Dated 8th April, 1859.

7th Dragoon Guards, Lieutenant John Richards Welstead to be Captain, by purchase, vice Costello, who retires. Dated 8th April, 1859. Cornet Robert Stewart Cleland to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Welstead. Dated 8th April,

1859.

15th Light Dragoons, Riding-Master Maillard Noake, from the 1st Dragoon Guards, to be Riding-Master, vice Rayment, who exchanges. Dated 8th April, 1859.

Royal Artillery.

To be Second Captains.

Lieutenant Henry Thornhill. Dated 1st April,

1859.

Lieutenant Arthur Thornton Gratwicke Pearse. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant Thomas Priaulx Carey. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant William Francis Walker. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley.

1st April, 1859.

Dated

1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant Thomas Henry Pitt, on the Seconded List. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant Frederick Lee Hopkinson Lyon. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Lieutenant Algernon Purling Joy has been allowed to resign his Commission. Dated 31st January, 1859.

The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants, viz. :

Joseph Sladen. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Samuel Pasfield Oliver. Dated 1st April, 1859. Charles Smith Harvey. Dated 1st April, 1859. Robert Henderson Robertson. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Arthur John Cullen. Dated 1st April, 1859. Joseph Thomas Maher Loughman. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Orlebar Frederic Layton. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Charles Frederick Dixon. Dated 1st April, 1859. Robert Berkeley Butt. Dated 1st April, 1859. William Macaulay Glasgow, Dated 1st April,

1859.

To be Riding-Master.

Serjeant-Major William Donald. Dated 1st April, 1859.

Royal Engineers.

The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants, with temporary rank, viz.:

John Charles Ardagh. Dated 1st April, 1859. James Jameson Robertson. Dated 1st April,

1859.

William Emmerson Peck. Dated 1st April,

1859.

Edmund Stephens. Dated 1st April, 1859. Christopher Josiah Russell. Dated 1st April,

1859.

John Mabbott Morgan. Dated 1st April, 1859. 10th Regiment of Foot, Quartermaster James Darker, from the 23rd Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice O'Donnell, who exchanges. Dated 26th January, 1859.

12th Foot, Lieutenant Gilbert de Lacy Lacy to be Instructor of Musketry. Dated 28th March, 1859. Assistant-Surgeon Joseph William Carter Neynoe Murphy, from the Staff, to be AssistantSurgeon. Dated 1st March, 1859.

13th Foot, Ensign William Moffett to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Turville, deceased. Dated 30th January, 1859.

The appointment of Cornet John Landrey from half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps to be Quartermaster, as stated in the Gazette of 5th February, 1858, has been cancelled.

Lieutenant John Landrey, from half-pay Unattached, to be Quartermaster. Dated 5th February, 1858.

14th Foot. The appointment of Cornet James Spry, from half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps to be Quartermaster, as stated in the Gazette of 31st December, 1857, has been cancelled.

Lieutenant James Spry, from half-pay Unattached, to be Quartermaster. Dated 31st December,

1857. 17th Foot. The appointment of Cornet James Falkner, from half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps, to be Quartermaster, as stated in the Gazette of 26th March, 1858, has been cancelled. Lieutenant James Falkner, from half-pay Unattached, to be Quartermaster. Dated 26th March, 1858.

18th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon Hunter Alexander Coghlan, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon. Dated 1st March, 1859.

20th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon Hammerton Crump, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant Surgeon. Dated 1st March, 1859.

21st Foot, Assistant-Surgeon Edwin Granville Ley, M.D., from the Staff, to be AssistantSurgeon. Dated 1st March, 1859.

22nd Foot, Captain William Theodore Hickman, from the 50th Foot, to be Captain, vice Ellis, who exchanges. Dated 8th April, 1859.

23rd Foot, Quartermaster Michael O'Donnell, from the 10th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Darker, who exchanges. Dated 26th January, 1859. 29th Foot, Captain Somerset M. Clarke, from the 93rd Foot, to be Captain, vice Levinge, who exchanges. Dated 2nd February, 1859.