be diminished by only retiring one in two vacancies until it shall be reduced to 100.

3rd. By observing the rule of promotion, as it is now in force, of promoting one in three vacancies, except in special and individual cases, until the number is reduced to 350.

While my Lords have recommended the abandonment of the system of brevet promotion in future, they are nevertheless desirous of meeting the claims of old Officers who have served long and well, and who seek their promotion rather as a reward for past services, than in the expectation of further employment. To meet these claims equitably, and at the same time not to fill the Active List with Officers who cannot long continue fit for service, their Lordships will promote by selection 50 Commanders to the rank of Captains. These Officers will be placed on reserved Half-pay. Of these 50, 20 will be selected in the present year, and 10 in each succeeding year, until the number reaches 50, when the vacancies only will be filled up.

COMMANDERS.

The number of Commanders on the Active List will be reduced to a number not permanently exceeding 450, and the reduction will be effected thus :

1st. By selecting 50 Commanders to be Captains, as above specified.

2nd. By increasing to 100 the List of Commanders promoted to the rank of Retired Captain under the Order in Council of 1840, and keeping such Retirement open until the number of Commanders on the Active List is reduced to 450.

3rd. By placing on Reserved Half-pay all Commanders who have not served afloat, or in the 1851.

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Packet or Revenue Service, within 20 years, or who are physically incapable of service; and by continuing from time to time to remove such officers from the Active List to Reserved Halfpay. Officers, who may be thus placed on Reserved Half-pay, will be allowed to retain all the advantages they now enjoy of rising in pay or rank, or of receiving the Greenwich Out-Pension.

4th. The system of promoting by brevet will be abandoned. 50 Lieutenants, however, will be promoted by selection to the rank of Commander, to be placed on Reserved Half-pay, in the same manner as specified in the case of Commanders promoted to be Captains.

5th. By observing the rule of promotion of one in three vacancies (except in special and individual cases), as now in force, until the number on the Active List shall be reduced to 450.

LIEUTENANTS.

The number of Lieutenants on the Active List will be reduced to a number not permanently exceeding 1200, viz:

1st. By the promotion of 50 Lieutenants by selection, as above stated.

2nd. By placing on the Reserved Half-pay List all Lieutenants who have not served afloat, or in the Packet or Revenue Service, within 20 years, and all such as are physically unable to serve; and by removing, from time to time, such Officers from the Active to the Reserved Half-pay List, reserving to them, as in the case of Commanders, all the advantages they now enjoy of rising in pay or rank, or of receiving the Greenwich OutPension.

3rd. By keeping up the rule of promoting one Officer in three vacancies (except in special and

individual cases), till the number of Lieutenants on the Active List shall be reduced to 1200.

4th. No promotion of Mates to be Lieutenants will hereafter be made by brevet; but whereas, in case of War, or of emergency, Her Majesty may be pleased, by Her Order in Council, to call such Officers from the Reserved List into Active Service, Her Majesty has been pleased to approve that such Officers, as may be so employed, shall be in all respects entitled to the pay and emoluments of their respective ranks on the Active List.

By command of their Lordships,

J. PARKER.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Lancashire Hussars.

Lieutenant Frederick Sewallis Gerard to be Captain, vice William Ince Anderton, retired. Dated 21st June 1851.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 1,
1851.

Whitehall, June 28, 1851.

THE Queen has been pleased to grant the office of Solicitor-General for Scotland to George Deas, Esq. Advocate, in the room of John Cowan, Esq. appointed a Lord of Session.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Thomas Mackenzie, Esq. Advocate, to be Sheriff of the shires or sheriffdom of Ross and Cromarty, in the room of George Deas, Esq. Advocate.

Whitehall, June 30, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Purdie Dickson to the church and parish of Cameron, in the presbytery of St. Andrews, and county of Fife, vacant by the resignation of the Reverend Doctor William Brown.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend James Somers to the church and parish of Barry, in the presbytery of Aberbrothock, and county of Forfar, vacant by the deposition of Mr. William Simpson, late Minister there.

Whitehall, July 1, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Reverend George Evezard to the perpetual curacy of Saint James's Chapel, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, the same being void by the death of the Reverend Stewart William Hanna.

Crown-Office, June 28, 1851.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Greenwich.

David Salomons, of Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-park, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. and Alderman of the city of London, in the room of Edward George Barnard, Esq. deceased.

Office of Ordnance, 30th June 1851.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants. Christopher Charles Teesdale, vice Parkin, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

James Lyons, vice Johnston, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Charles Edward Torriano, vice Field, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

John Tatton Butler Brown, vice Bradshaw, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Charles James Tyler, vice J. M. Campbell, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

George Joseph Smart, vice French, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Robert William Gregory Leonard, vice Sir W. Johnson, Bart. promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Henry Noel Eden, vice Seymour, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Alexander Walter Armstrong Ogilvie, vice F. Miller, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851. Robert Henry Newbolt, vice Haig, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Thomas Mahon, vice Owen, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Charles Edward Stirling, vice Milman, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

William Carey, vice Boyle, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Corps of Royal Engineers.

Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants. Charles Nassau Martin, vice Clarke, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.

Francis Edward Pratt, vice Bainbrigge, promoted. Dated 18th June 1851.