Brevet Major Charles Bertie Symons to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Nevett, deceased. Dated 22nd December 1850.

Second Captain Ashley Maude to be Captain, vice Symons. Dated 22nd December 1850. First Lieutenant Walter Ferguson Lock to be Second Captain, vice Maude. Dated 22nd

December 1850.

Second Lieutenant Richard Oldfield to be First Lieutenant, vice Lock. Dated 22nd December 1850.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland.

Sir Edward Haggerston, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 14th February 1851.

[This appointment is substituted for the one which appeared in the Gazette of 18th instant.]

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham.

Sherwood Rangers.

George Gordon, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Charles Thorold, Gent. promoted.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Southampton.

North Hants Militia.

Thomas Best, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated 13th February 1851.

TREASURY WARRANT.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the regulation of the duties of postage," the Postmaster-General is authorized to charge on all letters conveyed by packet-boats between one part of Her Majesty's dominions and another part of the same dominions, and between Her Majesty's dominions and foreign parts where post communications shall be established, such rates of postage as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by warrant under their hands, shall from time to time direct.

Now we, the undersigned, being two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exercise of the power and authority in us for such purpose vested in and by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, direct, that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted by British packet-boats between Sierra Leone and the Cape of Good Hope, the Cape de Verd Islands, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Portugal, or Madeira, or between the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape de Verd Islands, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Portugal, or Madeira, (without in any case passing through the United Kingdom,) there shall be charged and paid, in lieu of any rates of postage now payable thereon, a rate of postage of one shilling.

And we further direct that on every letter transmitted as is mentioned in this warrant, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and paid progressive and additional rates of postage as follows (that is to say),

On every letter exceeding half an ounce in weight,

and not exceeding one ounce in weight, two rates of postage.

On every letter exceeding one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces in weight, four rates of postage.

On every letter exceeding two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces in weight, six rates of postage.

And on every letter exceeding three ounces, and not exceeding four ounces in weight, eight

rates of postage.

And for every ounce in weight above the weight of four ounces, there shall be charged and taken two additional rates of postage; and every fraction of an ounce above the weight of four ounces shall be charged as one additional ounce, and each progressive and additional rate chargeable under this clause, shall be estimated and charged at the sum of one shilling.

And we further direct that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to annul, prejudice, or affect any of the exemptions and privileges granted by the said recited Act, or by any other Acts of Parliament relating to the Postoffice, or by any Treasury Warrant issued under any of such Acts, and that all such exemptions and privileges shall remain in full force.

And we further direct that the terms and expressions used in this Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all respects as they would have had if inserted in the said Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty.

Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any two of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time

hereafter to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby fixed or the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 21st day of February 1851.

H. Rich.

R. M. Bellew.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 28, 1851.

St. James's-Palace, February 25, 1851.

THE Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint the undermentioned Gentlemen to Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms:

Adolphus George Finch Cotton, Esq. vice Lane, retired.

Charles James Cox, Esq. vice Ewart, Esq. retired.

St. James's-Palace, February 26, 1851.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon John Thomas Briggs, Esq. Accountant-General of the Navy.

Whitehall, February 27, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Norman McLeod to the church and barony parish of Glasgow, in the presbytery of Glasgow, and county of Lanark, void by the death of Dr. William Black, late Minister thereof.

Crown-Office, February 28, 1851.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.

County of Glamorgan.

Sir George Tyler, of Cottrel, in the county of Glamorgan, in the room of Edwin Richard Wyndham Quin, commonly called Viscount Adare, now Earl of Dunraven, who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

War-Office, 28th February 1851.

4th Regiment of Light Dragoons, AssistantSurgeon Hampden Hugh Massey, M.D. from 31st Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Reid, deceased. Dated 28th February 1851.

1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards, Colour-Sergeant John Atkinson to be Quartermaster, vice Richard France, who retires upon half-pay. Dated 28th February 1851.

31st Foot, Thomas Johnston Atkinson, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Massey, appointed to 4th Light Dragoons. Dated 28th February

1851.

43rd Foot, Captain Henry Skipwith to be Major, by purchase, vice Bruere, who retires. Dated 28th February 1851.

Lieutenant James Abercromby Dick to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sanford, who retires. Dated 28th February 1851.

Lieutenant Richard Henry Weyland to be Captain, by purchase, vice Skipwith.

ruary 1851.

Dated 28th Feb-.