PROMOTIONS. assisted the Sergeant-Major and a private MENTS. of the 13th Dragoons (Malone) to carry ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERthat officer off the field. This took place on the 25th of October, 1854, after the charge at the battle of Balaklava, in which Farrell's horse was killed under him. Lieutenant George Symons, Military Train, 5th Battalion (late Sergeant, Royal Artillery).-Date of act of bravery, 6th June, 1855. For conspicuous gallantry on the 6th June, 1855, in having volunteered to unmask the embrasures of a five-gun battery in the advanced right attack, and, when so employed under a terrific fire, which the enemy commenced immediately on the opening of the first embrasure, and increased on the unmasking of each additional one, in having overcome the great difficulty of uncovering the last, by boldly mounting the parapet and throwing down the sandbags, when a shell from the enemy burst and wounded him severely. Ensign and Adjutant James Craig, Military Train, 3rd Battalion (late Sergeant, Scots Fusilier Guards.) Date of act of bravery, September 6, 1855. For having volunteered, and personally collected other volunteers, to go out under a heavy fire of grape and small arms on the night of the 6th of September, 1855, when in the right advanced sap in front of the Redan, to look for Captain Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards, who was supposed to be wounded. Sergeant Craig brought in, with the assistance of a drummer, the body of that officer, whom he found dead-in the performance of which act he was wounded. Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Henry Thomas Sylvester, 23rd Regiment. -Date of act of bravery, Septem8, 1855. For going out on the 8th of September, 1855, under a heavy fire, in front of the fifth parallel, right attack, to a spot near the Redan, where Lieutenant and Adjutant Dyneley was lying mortally wounded, and for dressing his wounds in that dangerous and exposed situation. N.B.This officer was mentioned in General Sir James Simpson's despatch of the 18th of September, 1855, for his courage in going to the front, under a heavy fire, to assist the wounded. JANUARY. Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton to be an Hon. Canon of Peterborough. Rev. J. Guthrie to be a Residentiary Canon of Salisbury. Rev. R. Sorsbie to be a Minor Canon of Rochester. Archdeacon FitzGerald, D.D., to be Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Rev. C. A. Swainson to be a Pre bendary of Chichester. MAY. PROMOTIONS. of the Melbourne Grammar School, Australia. Rev. H. M. Capel to be one of Her Majesty's Assistant-Inspectors of Schools. Rev. G. Pope to be Mathematical Master of Norwich School. Rev. C. Williams to be Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. Rev. Andrew Wilson to the Professorship of Human History at Gnoll College, Glamorganshire. Rev. C. B. Woollaston to the Professorship of Mechanics at Gnoll College, Glamorganshire. OCTOBER. Rev. J. P. Clayton to be Head Master of the Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth at East Retford, Notts. Rev. J. D. Glennie, jun., to be one of Her Majesty's Assistant-Inspectors of Schools. Rev. Robert Temple to be one of Her Majesty's Assistant-Inspectors of Schools. H. W. Acland, M.D., to be Regius Professor of Physic, Oxford. The Right Rev. Benjamin Cronyn, D.D., to be Bishop of the new See of Huron, Canada. NOVEMBER. Rev. J. Cooke to be Master of the Grammar School, Sudbury, Suffolk. Rev. P. J. F. Gantillon to be Master of the Grammar School, and C. of St. John's, Leicester. Dr. James Ogston to be Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Marischal College, Aberdeen. Rev. F. Temple, Chaplain to the Queen, te be Head Master of Rugby School. THE GENERAL ELECTION. LIST of the MEMBERS returned from the respective Counties, Cities, Towns, and Boroughs, to serve in the Seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Writs returnable on the 30th April, 1857; with the unsuccessful Candidates, and the state of the Poll where the Election was contested. ** The names of the unsuccessful Candidates are printed in Italics. Aberdeen, City: Col. William Henry Anglesea :-Sir Richard B. W. Bulkeley, bart. Antrim, County:-Thos. Hy. Pakenham, 4666; George Macartney, 4341; Hamilton O'Hara, 1532. Argyleshire:-Alex. Struthers Finlay. Armagh, County:-Sir William Verner, bart.; Maxwell Charles Close. Armagh, City:--Stearne Ball Miller, 175; Joshua W. M. Bond, 162. Arundel, Sussex :-Rt. Hon. Lord Edward Ashburton:-George Moffat. Aylesbury:-Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Banbury:-Henry William Tancred, 216; Barnstaple:-Sir William Aug. Fraser, Bath:-Sir Arthur H. Elton, bart., 1243; William Tite, 1200; Arthur Edwin Way, 1197. Beaumaris, Dist.:-Comprising Beau maris, Amlwch, Holyhead, and Llangefni. Hon. Wm. Owen Stanley. Bedford, Borough:-Samuel Whitbread, 452; Thomas Barnard, 435; William Stuart, 375; Edward Tyrrel Smith, 179. Bedfordshire:-Fras. Charles Hastings Hugh Mac-Calmont Bodmin-Hon. John Cranch W. Vivian, 244; James Wyld, 190; William Mitchell, M.D., 169; J. Harvey Lewis, 31. E E 418 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1857. Boston:-Herbert Ingram, William Hen. Bradford-Henry Wickham Wickham; Bridport:-Thomas Alexander Mitchell, Brighton: Sir George Richard Pechell, Bury St. Edmund's :-Earl Jermyn, 344; Caithness-shire :-George Traill. Cambridgeshire:-Edward Ball, 2780; Cardiff, Dist.-Comprising Cardiff, Cow- Cardigan, Dist.--Comprising Cardigan, Carlisle-William Nicholson Hodgson, Carlow, Borough: John Alexander, Davies; David Jones. Pennant. Carrickfergus :-William Cary Dobbs, Cavan, County : Hon. James Pierce Maxwell, 3164: Hon. Hugh Annesley, 2666; O'Reilly Dease, 1409. Chatham:-Sir John M. Frederick Smith, 672; W. G. Romaine, 643. Cheltenham:-Capt. Francis W. F. H. Berkeley. Cheshire, North-William Tatton Eger- Cheshire, South :-Sir Philip De M. G. - John Abel Smith; Lord Clare, County:-Lord Francis Conyng- Clitheroe-John Turner Hopwood. Coleraine, County:-John Boyd. |