Minister Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The Duke of Northumberland to be Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland in the room of Earl Grey, who has resigned.

The grant of the Grand Cross of the Bath to Lord Lytton, GovernorGeneral of India, was notified in the Gazette of Jan. 1.

12. Francis Clare Ford, Esq., Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Carlsruhe and Darmstadt; the Hon. Edmund John Monson, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Pesth; and Thomas Woolley, Esq., the Chief Clerk of the Admiralty, to be ordinary members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Order of the Bath. 19. Mr. Edwin Corbett, now Her Majesty's Minister Resident to the Swiss Confederation, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Hellenes; and Henry Percy Anderson, Esq., of the Foreign Office, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Special Embassy to the King of Spain.

Feb. 9. Mr. J. Lowther has accepted the Irish Chief Secretaryship, vacant by the promotion of Sir M. HicksBeach to the Colonial Office.

The Queen has appointed his Grace the Duke of Athole, K.T., to be Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for the county of Perth, in the room of the late Lord Kinnaird.

Major-Gen. the Hon. Frederick Augustus Thesiger, C.B., to be Lieut.Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

16. The Queen has conferred the vacant green Ribands of the Order of the Thistle upon the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Premier Peer of Scotland, and upon the Marquis of Lothian.

The Prince of Wales has directed Letters Patent to be passed under the Seal of the Duchy of Cornwall appointing William Cole Pendarves, Esq., Sheriff of the county of Cornwall.

Mr. Victor Buckley, of the Foreign Office, has been appointed secretary to the Duke of Abercorn's special mission, which is about to proceed to Rome with the Order of the Garter for the King of Italy. General Lord William Paulet, G.C.B., Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B., Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Attaché in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Viscount Newport, M.P., and Lord Claud John Hamilton, M.P., will be attached to the mission.

The Prime Minister has appointed Mr. Charles Lock Eastlake, secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and nephew of the late Sir Charles Eastlake, to be Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery.

March 2. Mr. Francis Clare Ford, C.B., C.M.G., now Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to the Grand Dukes of Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt, to be Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic.

The Earl of Radnor has been appointed Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Wilts, in the room of George William Frederick, Marquis of Ailesbury, deceased.

23. The Hon. Francis John Pakenham, now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Copenhagen, to be Her Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republic of

Chile.

Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson, Esq., C.B., late Lieutenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the most

Honourable Order of the Bath.

James George Ferguson Russell, Esq., now a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Copenhagen.

- 30. William Arthur White, Esq., Her Majesty's Agent and ConsulGeneral at Belgrade, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, a Companion of the raost Honourable Order of the Bath.

April 6. The Hon. William Nassau Jocelyn, now Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople, to be Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to the Grand Dukes of Baden and Hesse Darmstadt; Mr. Rivers Thompson, C.S.I., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be an ordinary member of the Council of the Governor-General of India, in succession to Sir Edward Clive Bayley, K.C.S.I.

20. Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley, K.C.M.G., has been called to the House of Lords as Baron Norton, of Nortonon-the-Moors, Staffordshire. Sir Charles Adderley is the eldest son of Mr. Charles Clement Adderley, of Hams Hall, county Warwick, by Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir Edmund Hartopp, Bart.

May 11. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed

under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Viscount of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Cranbrook, of Hemsted, in the county of Kent.

Sir John Strachey, K.C.S.I., Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India, to be an Extra Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

Edward Baldwin Malet, Esq., C.B., now Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Rome, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople.

Walter Hugh, Baron Polwarth, to be Lieutenant of the County of Selkirk, in the room of Allan Eliott Lockhart, Esq., deceased.

General Sir Arthur Borton, K.C.B., to be Governor and Commander-inChief of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies.

The Queen has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the death of the Right Rev. Father in God Dr. George Augustus Selwyn, late Bishop thereof; and Her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Rev. William Dalrymple Maclagan, M.A., to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Lichfield.

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- 25. Hugh Guion Macdonell, Esq., now Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Rome; and Sir John Walsham, Bart., now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Madrid, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Berlin.

Her Majesty in Council has appointed the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Beaconsfield, the Secretaries of State for the Home and War Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Local Government Board, and Lord George Hamilton (vice-president) to be a Committee of Council on Education.

June 1. Colonel Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley to be Secretary of Embassy at Vienna.

8. The Queen has conferred the Grand Cross of the Bath upon Mr.

Layard, the British Ambassador at Constantinople.

Mr. Montagu Corry and Mr. Philip Currie are appointed Secretaries to Her Majesty's Special Embassy to Berlin. The following are also attached to the Special Embassy :-Mr. Arthur Balfour, M.P., Mr. Algernon Turner, of the Treasury; Hon. F. Bertie, Hon. Eric Barrington Mr. H. Austin Lee, and Mr. Charles Hopwood, of the Foreign Office; and Mr. Le Marchant Gosselin, Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. Mr. Hertslet, C.B., Librarian and Keeper of the Archives of the Foreign Office, will also be attached in that capacity to the Special Embassy.

Capt. Ardagh, R.E., QuartermasterGeneral's Department, has also been attached to the suite of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury.

The Gazette announces that the Queen has directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Mr. Thomas Elder, member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of South Australia; Salvatore Naudi, Doctor of Laws, Judge of the Court of Appeal of Malta; and Mr. Edward Eyre Williams, late Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria.

Sir Charles du Cane, K.C.M.G., late Governor of Tasmania, Chairman of Her Majesty's Board of Customs.

22. General Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame, K.C.B., to be Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

-13. The Most Noble Harry George, Duke of Cleveland, K.G.; the Right Hon. William Reginald, Earl of Devon; George Henry Cavendish, Esq., commonly called Lord George Henry Cavendish; the Right Hon. William, Viscount Midleton; the Right Rev. Father in God, William Connor, Bishop of Peterborough; the Right Rev. Father in God, James Russell, Bishop of Ely; the Right Hon. Sir William Milbourne James, Kt., Lord Justice of Appeal; Sir William Henry Stephenson, K.C.B.; the Ven. Edwin Palmer Clerk, M.A., Archdeacon of Oxford; George Cubitt, Esq.; the

Rev. George Venables; and Francis Henry Denne, Esq., Barrister-at-law, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to enquire into the law and existing practice as to the sale, exchange, and resignation of ecclesiastical benefices, and to recommend remedies for abuses, if any are found to exist.

Edward Stanley Hope, Esq., Barrister-at-law, to be Secretary to the Commission.

Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., to be the Administrator of the Island of Cyprus, under the style of Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Commander-in-chief of the same Island.

The Right Hon. James, Baron Moncreiff, Lord Justice Clerk and President of the Second Division of the Court of Session in Scotland; the Right Hon. Alexander Hugh, Baron Balfour of Burleigh; Sir James Watson, Knight; John Ramsay, Esq.; James Alexander Campbell, Esq., LL.D.; Peter Guthrie Tait, Esq., D.Sc., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; and James Donaldson, Esq., LL.D., Rector of the Royal High School of Edinburgh, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners under the provisions of "The Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act, 1878"; and George Gillespie, Esq., Advocate, to be Secretary to the aforesaid Commissioners under the provisions of the said Act.

Colonel Charles Edward Mansfield, now Her Majesty's Agent and ConsulGeneral at Bucharest, to be Her Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia.

The Rev. S. S. Stewart Perowne, to the Deanery of Peterborough.

27. Mr. Henry Thoby Prinsep, of the Bengal Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed Mr. Edward Wingfield to the Assistant UnderSecretaryship in the Colonial Office, vacated by the retirement of Mr. W. R. Malcolm.

Aug. 3. Lord Tenterden, UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Knight Commander of the Bath, Civil Division; and the honour of knighthood has been conferred on Mr. Edward Hertslet, C.B., F.R.G.S., Librarian of the Foreign Office and Keeper of the Archives, who recently accompanied Her Majesty's Special Embassy to Berlin. The Queen has further conferred on General Sir John Lintorn Simmons, K.C.B., R.E., the Grand Cross of the

17. Mr. George Hugh Wyndham, C.B., now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Madrid; Mr. Augustus Henry Mounsey, now Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Yedo, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Athens; Mr. Dudley Edward Saurin, now a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon; and Mr. John Gordon Kennedy, now a Second Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Yedo.

Sir H. Drummond Wolff, M.P., Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Captain A. B. Haig, R.E., Companion of the same Order.

Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., a Member of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.

24. John Douglas, Esq., C.M.G., (Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements), to be Colonial Secretary and Lieut.-Governor of the Island of Ceylon.

The Queen has granted the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Jacob Dirk Barry, Esq., Recorder of the High Court of the Province of Griqualand West.

- 31. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Colin, Baron Blackburn, one of Her Majesty's Lords of Appeal in Ordinary; the Right Hon. Charles Robert Barry, one of the Judges of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Ireland; Sir Robert Lush, Knt., one of the Judges of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice; and Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C., K.C.S.I., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into and consider the provisions of a draft code relating to indictable offences prepared for the purpose of being submitted to Parliament during the ensuing session, and to report thereon, and to suggest such alterations and amendments in the existing law as to indictable offences and the procedure

relating thereto as may seem desirable and expedient; and Hugh Cowie, Esq., Barrister-at-law, to be Secretary to the Commission.

Sept. 7. J. Elijah Blunt, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Adrianople, to be an ordinary member of the Civil Division of the third class, or Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath,

14. The King of Siam an honorary G.C.M.G.; Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji, G.C.M.G.; Col. Home Her Majesty's Commissioner for the delimitation of the frontiers of Bulgaria under Article II. of the Treaty of Berlin.

Robert Bunch, Esq., now Her Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia, to be Her Majesty's Minister Resident to the United States of Venezuela; and William Macpherson, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Seville, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Madrid.

Mr. Thomas William Saunders, of the Western Circuit, Recorder of Bath, who was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1837, has been appointed a metropolitan police magistrate to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Knox's resignation.

October 5. Major-Gen. Lothian Nicholson, C.B., R.E., to be Lieut.Governor of the Island of Jersey, in the room of Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott, K.C.B., whose period of service has expired.

Major Charles William Wilson, C.B., R.E., to be Her Majesty's Commissioner to mark out the boundaries of the Principality of Servia, in accordance with the limits specified in the 36th Article of the Treaty of Berlin.

12. Mr. Francis Ottiwell Adams, Secretary of the Embassy at Paris, and Mr. Hussey Vivian, the Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, Companions of the Bath.

Major Robert W. T. Gordon, Her Majesty's Commissioner to mark out the boundaries of Eastern Roumelia, in accordance with the limits specified in the 14th Article of the Treaty of Berlin.

19. Mr. John Saville Lumley, the British Minister at Brussels, Knight Commander of the Bath.

Lieut.-Gen. Ponsonby to be Keeper of Her Majesty's Privy Purse; and Lieut.-Colonel Pickard, to be AssistantKeeper of the Privy Purse and Assistant Private Secretary to Her Majesty.

The Prince of Wales has appointed General Sir W. Knollys, K.C.B., Re

ceiver-General of the Duchy of Corn

wall.

John Carr, Esq., jun., to be Chief Magistrate for Her Majesty's Settlement on the Gambia.

26. William Gifford

Palgrave,

Esq., now Her Majesty's Consul in the Philippine Islands, to be Her Majesty's Consul-General in the Principality of Bulgaria, to reside in the capital thereof; and Richard Reade, Esq., now Her Majesty's Consul at Roustchouk, to be Her Majesty's Consul for the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to reside at Philadelphia.

Nov. 2. The Queen has made the following promotion in and appointments to the Order of St. Michael and St. George, for services rendered to the Colonies, as Colonial Commissioners and otherwise, in connection with the representation of British Colonial products at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878:

To be an Ordinary Member of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Order-Sir John Rose, Bart., K.C.M.G., Executive Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada and member of the Finance Committee.

To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Order-Francis Philip Cunliffe Owen, Esq., C.B., Secretary to the British Commissioners.

To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, Esq., President of the Executive Committee for the Dominion of Canada, and late Minister of Agriculture and Statistics, and Commissioner of Patents for the Dominion; Edward Combes, Esq., Executive Commissioner for the Colony of New South Wales; James Joseph Casey, Esq., President of the Victoria Commission, Executive Commissioner at Paris for the Colony of Victoria; Thomas Coltrin Keefer, Esq., C.E., Executive Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada; Josiah Boothby, Esq., Permanent Under-Secretary, South Australia, Executive Commissioner for the Colony of South Australia; John Spencer Bridges Todd, Esq., Executive Commissioner for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; Arthur Hodgson, Esq., Executive Commissioner for the Colony of Queensland; and George Collins Levey, Esq., Secretary to the Victoria Commission and Acting Commissioner in charge of Victorian Exhibits.

Majesty's Consul at Erzeroum, to be Her Majesty's Consul at Jeddah.

Mr. Thomas Mitchell, formerly Her Majesty's Consul-General at St. Petersburg, to be Her Majesty's Consul at Tiflis.

23. Sir Richard Wallace to be a Knight Commander of the Bath. Mr. Alexander Condie Stephen to be a Third Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service.

Mr. Francis Henry Bacon, of the Chancery Bar, has been appointed to the Judgeship of the Bloomsbury County Court, vacant by the death of Mr. George Russell. Mr. Bacon was

called to the Bar in 1856.

Dec. 14. The Queen has approved the following appointments :-Sir George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., now Governor of Victoria, to be Governor of Mauritius, on the retirement of Sir Arthur P. Phayre, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., C.B.; the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., now Governor of New Zealand, to be Governor of Victoria; and Sir Hercules Robinson, G.C.M.G., now Governor of New South Wales, to be Governor of New Zealand.

21. Lord Chelmsford has been made a K.C.B.; and Col. Glyn, of the

24th; Col. Bellairs, unattached; Col. Elgee, R.A.; Col. Palmer, 90th; Col. Lanyon, 2nd West India Regt.; Col. Walker, Scots Guards; Col. Lambert, 88th; Col. Degacher, 24th; and Deputy Surg. Gen. Woolfryes, have been appointed C.B.'s.

The Queen has granted the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom to the Right Hon. Sir Andrew Buchanan, G.C.B.

28. The Queen has granted the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom to Mr. Alfred Sandison, Oriental Second Secretary at her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople.

John Hicks Graves, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Navigators' Islands; Gerald Raoul Perry, Esq., now Her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Réunion, to be Her Majesty's Consul for the ports and places in the Province of Andalusia, to reside at Cadiz; Commander William Berjew Pauli, R.N., now Her Majesty's Consul at Cadiz, to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Philippine Islands, to reside at Manilla; and Adolphus Arthur Annesley, Esq., now Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Hiago and Osaka, to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Réunion.