and for the Free Cities of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck, and Sir James Meek, Knight, late Comptroller of the Victualling and Transport Services in the Admiralty, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order. Admiralty, 26th February 1851. Corps of Royal Marines. Colonel Second Commandant Abraham Henry Gordon to be Colonel Commandant, vice Fergusson, retired on full pay. Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Mitchell to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice Gordon, promoted. Captain and Brevet Major Charles Fegen to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Mitchell, promoted. First Lieutenant Andrew John Buckingham Hambly to be Captain, vice Fegen, promoted. Second Lieutenant George Le Hurdy Burlton to be First Lieutenant, vice Hambly, promoted. Admiralty, 3rd March 1851. First Lieutenant William Ramsay Searle to be Second Lieutenant Embule Dery sh Thelwall to be First Lieutenant, vice Searle, promoted. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Theodore Walsh to be Cornet, vice Adams, promoted. Dated 1st March 1851. Vincent Wood to be Cornet, vice Lucas, promoted. Dated 1st March 1851. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 7, Whitehall, February 22, 1851. THE Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Arthur Baron de Freyne, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron de Freyne, of Coolavin, in the county of Sligo, with remainders, in default of such heirs male, to his brothers, John French, Clerk, Charles French, Esq. and Fitzstephen French, Esq. severally and successively, and to the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten. Foreign-Office, March 6, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Longlands Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar for His Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. N. Christian Mathiasen as Consul at Gibraltar for His Majesty the King of Denmark. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. William Henry Tilstone as Consul in Canada for Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph Jesse as Consul at Montreal for His Majesty the King of the Belgians. Crown-Office, March 7, 1851. MEMBER returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT. Borough of Harwich. Henry Thoby Prinsep, of Little Holland House, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. in the room of the Right Honourable Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Baronet, who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. War-Office, 7th March 1851. 2nd Dragoon Guards, Lieutenant David Henry Howell, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hibbert, appointed to the 1st Foot. Dated 7th March 1851. 15th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Henry Howard Barber, from the 1st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Howell, appointed to the 2nd Dragoon Guards. Dated 7th March 1851. 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards, Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable H. 1851. H Hugh Manvers Percy, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice John Dixon, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign and Lieutenant James Evelyn, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Percy. Dated 7th March 1851. 1st Foot, Lieutenant Leycester Hibbert, from the 2nd Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Barber, appointed to the 15th Light Dragoons. Dated 7th March 1851. 5th Foot, Captain William Robert Lyon Bennett, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Felix Ashpitel, who exchanges. Dated 7th March 1851. Lieutenant Ferdinand William L'Estrange, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bennett, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. 7th Foot, Lieutenant the Honourable William Monck to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign Richard Williams Thomas, from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Monck. Dated 7th March 1851. Lieutenant Thomas Beckwith Speedy to be Adjutant, vice Monck, promoted. Dated 7th March 1851. 18th Foot, Ensign George Augustus Elliot to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farrer, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. 34th Foot, Lieutenant Mawdistly Gaussen Best to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir George Douglas, Bart. who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign Arthur Trevor Leake Chapman to be Lieutenant, by purchase and Adjutant, vice Best, promoted. Dated 7th March 1851. 48th Foot, Lieutenant Samuel John Maclurcan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Adam, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign Frederick John Castle to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maclurcan. Dated 7th March 1851. 57th Foot, Lieutenant Robert Abraham Logan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ashton, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign Gerrard John Forsyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Logan. Dated 7th March 1851. 74th Foot, Lieutenant John Jago to be Captain, by purchase, vice William Cunninghame Bruce, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign Philip Philpot to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jago. Dated 7th March 1851. 81st Foot, Major Henry Farrant to be LieutenantColonel, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires. Dated 7th March 1851. Captain the Honourable Robert Alexander George Dalzell to be Major, by purchase, vice Farrant. Dated 7th March 1851. Lieutenant Francis Lepper to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dalzell. Dated 7th March 1851. Ensign William Egerton Todd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lepper. Dated 7th March 1851. 91st Foot, Lieutenant William Richard Annesley, from the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cole, promoted to an Unattached Company. Dated 7th March 1851. 1st West India Regiment, Lieutenant Edmund Bagenall, from half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ross, pro |