Mauritius, to be Chief Civil Commissioner for the Seychelles Islands.

13. Thomas Kerr, Esq. (late Judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal, Barbados), to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of H.M.'s Settlements in the Falkland Islands and their dependencies; and William James McKinney, Esq., late Postmaster of British Honduras, to be Treasurer of that Colony.

14. John William, Earl of Dalhousie, in the room of Lawrence, Earl of Zetland, resigned; William, Lord Sandhurst, in the room of William, Earl of Listowel, resigned; and Thomas John, Lord Thurlow, in the room of George Henry Charles, Viscount Enfield, resigned-to be Lords in Waiting in Ordinary.

- 18. John Campbell, Earl of Aberdeen, to be Lieutenant of shire of Aberdeen, in the room of Francis Alexander, Earl of Kintore, deceased.

The Rev. Charles Johnson Taylor, M.A., to the rectory of Toppesfield, in the County of Essex and Diocese of St. Albans, void by the resignation of the Rev. Robert Hall Baynes, M.A.

Ralph Charlton Palmer, Esq., to be Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Charles Romilly, Esq., resigned.

Henry Brougham Loch, Esq., C.B., to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

20. Lieut.-Col. Beresford Lovett, C.S.I., to be H.M.'s Consul for the Provinces on the South of the Caspian Sea and the North-East of Persia, to reside at Asterabad.

21. Lieut-Gen. Donald Martin Stewart, K.C.B., and Major-General Frederick Sleigh Roberts, K.C.B., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Rev. William John Butler, M.A., to have the dignity of a Canon in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, void by the death of Rev. Richard Sey

mour.

24. Frederick Holmwood, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Zanzibar, to be H.M.'s Consul for the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar.

30. The Rev. William Barker, M.A., Vicar of St. Mary's, West Cowes, and Hon. Chaplain to the Queen, to be Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty; the Rev. James Fleming, B.D., Canon Residentiary of York, Vicar of St. Michael's, Chester Square, London, and

Hon. Chaplain to the Queen, to be Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty; and the Rev. Edward Capel Cure, M.A., Rector of St. George, Hanover Square, London, to be Hon. Chaplain to Her Majesty.

Oct. 4. Sir Sandford Freeling, K.C.M.G., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and its dependencies.

5. George William Des Vœux, Esq., C.M.G., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Fiji.

11. Right Hon. William Patrick Adam, M.P., to be Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George, at Madras, in the East Indies.

Major Evelyn Baring, R.A., C.S.I., to be an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India, in the room of Sir John Strachey, G.C.S.I., C.I.E.

12. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, K.C.M.G., C B., and Major Evelyn Baring, C.S.I., obtained Royal licence and authority to accept and wear the insignia of the First Class of the Turkish Order of the Medjidieh; and to Auckland Colvin, Esq., Royal licence and authority to accept and wear the insignia of the Second Class of the Turkish Order of Medjidieh, which the Khedive of Egypt, authorised by His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, was pleased to confer upon them, in approbation of their services while actually and entirely employed by the Khedive beyond H.M.'s dominions.

18. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Donald Martin Stewart, G.C.B., to be an Ordinary Member of the Council of the GovernorGeneral of India, in the room of General Sir Edwin Beaumont Johnson, K.C.B., C.I.E.

Charles Dickinson Field, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal, in the place of Sir Louis Stewart Jackson, C.I.E.

23. Neale Porter, Esq., President of the Island of Montserrat, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of that Island; and Etienne Pellereau, Esq., to be Substitute-Procureur and Advocate-General for the Colony of Mauritius.

Esq., C.M.G., Executive Commissioner at the International Exhibition held in Sydney in 1879-80.

To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion of the said Most Distinguished Order: John Davies, Esq., for service rendered at the International Exhibition in 187980, especially in assisting British visi

tors.

27. To be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:Charles John Herries, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.

To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order:-Algernon Edward West, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue; Adam Young, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue.

30. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George --Colonel Richard Thomas Glyn,C.B., and Colonel William Pole Collingwood, for services in the late Zulu War; Captain Claude Bettington, for services in command of "Bettington's Horse" during the late Zulu War; Francis William Rowsell, Esq., C.B., British Member of the Commission appointed by His Highness the Khedive of Egypt for the management of the Daira Lands, for services rendered in connection with the Island of Malta.

Nov. 2. 99th Foot. Lieut.-Gen. Henry James Warre, C.B., to be Colonel, vice General S. Braybrooke, deceased.

3. To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :Virgile Naz, Esq., C.M.G., Member of the Council of Government of Mauritius, for services in connection with that Colony.

4. Henry Michael Jones, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul-General at Christiania, to be H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia, to reside at Philippopolis; Thomas Michell, Esq., C.B., now H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia, to be H.M.'s Consul-General for the Kingdom of Norway, to reside at Christiania; William Ward, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Bremen, to be H.M.'s Consul for the State of Maine, to reside at Portland; Octavus Stokes, Esq., now British ViceConsul at Sulina, to be H.M.'s Consul

for the Free City and Territory of Bre men, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the district of Wilhelmshaven, the province of Hanover, excepting the ports and places on the left bank of the River Elbe, up to and including the Town of Harburg, the Duchy of Brunswick, and the Principalities of Lippe Schaumburg, Lippe Detmold, and Waldeck Pyrmont, to reside at Bremen ; and Hanmer Lewis Dupuis, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Susa, to be H.M.'s Consul at Brindisi.

5. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Lush, Knt., to be one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal.

Charles James Watkin Williams, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel learned in the Law, to be one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice.

9. To be a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India :-His Highness the Nawab of Bahawalpur.

To be Companions :-Sirdar Bakhshi Gunda Singh, of Patiala; the Dewan Ram Jas, of Kuppurtalla.

11. Henry Edward Doyle, Esq., Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and William Macleod, Esq., Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Sigismondo Savona, Esq. (DirectorGeneral of Education), and Adolfo Sciortino, Esq. (Receiver-General), to be Members of the Council of Government of the Island of Malta.

12. 28th Foot.-Lieut.-Gen. Julius Edmund Goodwyn, C.B., to be Colonel, vice General T. Brooke, deceased.

18. Mr. James Craig Loggie ceased to be a Member of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, of which he was made a Companion in 1873, and his name was erased from the register of the Order.

- 22. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George:-Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Edward George Percy Littleton, late Military Secretary to the GovernorGeneral of the Dominion of Canada; and Capt. Henry Hallam Parr, late Military Secretary to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

23. Sir Adriano Dingli, LL.D., G.C.M.G., C.B. (Crown Advocate for the Island of Malta), to be Chief Justice of Malta and President of the Court of Appeal; and Giuseppe Carbone, Esq..

LL.D., to be Crown Advocate in that island.

24. John Frederick Debrot, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Omoa, to be H.M.'s Consul for Omoa and Puerto Cabellos.

- 26. Royal Artillery.-Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Lawrence D'Aguilar, K.C.B., to be Colonel Commandant, vice Lieut.Gen. C. J. Dalton, deceased.

- 27. Joseph Theodore Thibou, Esq., to be an Official Member of the Executive Council of the Island of Nevis so long as he shall hold the office of Registrar and Provost Marshal of that island.

Rev. Stephen Pering Lampen, M.A., Ph.D., to the rectory of Tempsford, in the county of Bedford and diocese of Ely, void by the death of the Rev. William Gifford Cookesley, the last incumbent.

30. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. County of Renfrew.-Alexander Crum, Esq., of Thornliebank, in the county of Renfrew, in the place of Lieut.-Col. William Mure, deceased.

Henry Arrindell Hazell, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Island of St. Vincent.

Dec. 1. The Most Noble Francis Charles Hastings, Duke of Bedford, by letters patent, under Royal Sign Manual, appointed Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, duly invested with the Ensigns thereof, and full power and authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said Most Noble Order.

Rupert Alfred Kettle, Esq. of Merridale, Wolverhampton; Louis Stewart Jackson, Esq., C.I.E., late a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal; Watkin Williams, Esq., one of the Judges of H.M.'s Supreme Court of Judicature; and Lieut.-Col. Gustavus Hume, Lieutenant of H.M.'s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, received the honour of Knighthood.

John Duke, Baron Coleridge, to be Lord Chief Justice of England.

Members returned to serve in the present Parliament :-Combined Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross.John Blair Balfour, Esq., Solicitor

General for Scotland, in the place of the Right Hon. William Patrick Adam, appointed to the office of Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George, at Madras.

- 2. County of Carnarvon.-William Rathbone, Esq., merchant and shipowner, in the place of Charles James Watkins Williams, Esq., appointed to the office of one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice.

4. Charles Colmore Grant, Esq., recognised a legal claimant to the title of Baron de Longueüil, of Longueuil, in the Province of Quebec, Canada. This title was conferred upon his ancestor, Charles de Moyne, by letters patent of Nobility signed by King Louis XIV. in the year 1700.

- 9. Sirdar Dewa Singh, Prime Minister of His Highness the Maharajah of Patiala, to be a Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

- 15. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Reading.-George John Shaw-Lefevre, Esq., First Commissioner of H.M.'s Works and Public Buildings.

16. Marmaduke, Lord Herries, to be Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of the County of York, in the room of Beilby Richard, Lord Wenlock, deceased.

Loftus Thomas Monro, Esq., M.A., late Scholar of Queen's College, Cambridge, to be one of H.M.'s Inspectors of Schools.

Walter Watson Hughes, Esq., and Edward Baines, Esq., received the honour of Knighthood.

George John Shaw-Lefevre, Esq., M.P., was by Her Majesty's command sworn of H.M.'s Most Honourable Privy Council.

17. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Kendal.-James Cropper, Esq., in the place of John Whitwell, Esq., deceased.

27. Richard Redgrave, Esq., R.A., late of the Science and Art Department, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Chancellor of the Ex

chequer.

Lord Chancellor Lord President of the Council

Coun- }

Lord Privy Seal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Stafford H.

Northcote, Bart., M.P.

Earl Cairns.

Duke of Richmond, K.G..
Duke of Northumberland.
Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.

Secretary of State for In-Viscount Cranbrook.

dia.

Rt. Hon. Richard Assheton Cross, M.P.

stone, M.P.

Lord Selborne.

Earl Spencer, K.G.
Duke of Argyll, K.T.
Earl Granville, K.G.
Marquess of Hartington,
M.P.

Sir W. Vernon-Harcourt,

M.P.

M.P.

Chief Secretary for Ireland} See below.

Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster.
Postmaster-General .

President of the Local Go-
vernment Board
President of the Board of
Trade

See below.

Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P.

Rt. Hon. John Bright, M.P.

ners, M.P..

See below.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Rt. Hon. Lieut.-Col. Thomas

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President of the Local Go-Rt. Hon. George Sclater

vernment Board

Booth, M.P..

Civil Lord of the Admi
ralty
Financial Secretary to the
War Office
Financial Secretary to the
Treasury
Patronage Secretary to the
Treasury

Lords of the Treasury

Sir H. Selwin - Ibbetson, J Bart., M.P.

Sir W. Hart-Dyke, Bart.,

M.P.

Rowland Winn, M.P.
Sir J. D. Elphinstone, Bart.,
M.P.

Viscount Crichton, M.P.

Secretary to the Local Go-T. J. Salt, M.P.

vernment Board.

Comptroller of the House

hold. Attorney-General. Solicitor-General

Surveyor-General of Ord

Lord O'Hagan.

M.P.

M.P.

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Secretary to the Board Trade

of

Paymaster-General
Treasurer of the Household
Vice-Chamberlain.

Capt. Commanding the Body
Guard.
Capt. Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms

Lords of the Admiralty

Mistress of the Robes Governor-General of India Chairman of Ways and Means.

Marquess of Ripon, K.G.
Rt. Hon. Dr. Lyon Playfair,
M.P.