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Jan. 5. A supplement to the London Gazette of January 4 contained the following interesting notification :

INDIA OFFICE, Jan. 1.

The Queen has been graciously pleased, by an instrument under Her Royal Sign Manual, of which the following is a copy, to institute and create an Order of Distinction, to be styled and designated "The Imperial Order of the Crown of India," and to make certain rules and regulations as therein set forth.

VICTORIA, R. & I.

Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India.

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting :-Whereas we have resolved to commemorate the assumption of our Imperial title of Empress of India by the institution of an Order of Distinction to be enjoyed by the Princesses of our Royal House and the wives or other female relatives of Indian Princes and others to be by us selected, upon whom we shall from time to time think fit to confer the same, agreeably to the rules and regulations hereinafter declared: Now, know ye, that for the purpose of carrying this, our resolution, into effect, we have instituted, constituted, and created, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors do institute, constitute, and create an Order of Distinction to be known and have for ever hereafter the name, style, and designation of "The Imperial Order of the Crown of India," and we are graciously pleased to make, ordain, and establish the following rules and ordinances for the

government of the same, and which shall from henceforth be inviolably observed and kept :

Firstly. That the Order of Distinction shall be styled and designated "The Imperial Order of the Crown of India," and that the first day of January in every year shall henceforth be taken and deemed to be the anniversary of the institution of the said Order.

Secondly. That we, our heirs and successors, Kings and Queens Regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperors and Empresses of India, shall be Sovereigns of this Order.

Thirdly. That it shall be competent for the Sovereign of this Order to confer the decoration thereof upon such Princesses of our Royal and Imperial House, being of more than eighteen years of age, as we, our heirs and successors, shall think fit.

Fourthly. That it shall be competent for the Sovereign of this Order to confer the decoration thereof upon the wives or other female relatives of such Princes in our Indian Empire, and upon such other Indian ladies, as we, our heirs and successors, shall from time to time think fit.

Fifthly. That it shall be competent for the Sovereign of this Order to confer the decoration thereof upon the wives or other female relatives of any of the persons who have held, now hold, or may hereafter hold the high offices of Viceroy and Governor-General of India, Governors of Madras or Bombay, or of Principal Secretary of State for India.

Sixthly. (Description and representation of Insignia.)

Seventhly. That the said Order may be conferred by personal investiture

with the insignia, upon such Princesses and other members as we, our heirs and successors, may be pleased to admit thereto; but it shall be lawful for us, our heirs and successors, to direct the transmission of the decoration of the Order to any member with notification of her appointment under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign.

Eighthly. That the names of those upon whom we, our heirs and successors, may be pleased to confer this Order shall be entered upon a register to be kept under the direction of our Principal Secretary of State for India, in which the names of the Royal Princesses and other members admitted into the Order shall be enrolled, with the dates of their respective admissions, and a duplicate thereof shall also be kept in the Foreign Department of our Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

Lastly. We reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, interpreting, or dispensing with these regulations, or any portion thereof, by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the Order.

Given at our Court of Osborne, under our Sign Manual, this 31st day of December, in the 41st year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord 1877.

By Her Majesty's Command,

SALISBURY.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to confer the decoration of the said Imperial Order of the Crown of India upon

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

Her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess of Germany (Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland).

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Hesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland).

Her Royal Highness Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (Princess Helena of Great Britain and Ireland).

Her Royal Highness Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorne).

Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice.

Her Royal and Imperial Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh (Grand Duchess of Russia).

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Princess Augusta of Cambridge).

[The Royal signature now appears, we believe, for the first time publicly, not simply as "Victoria R." but as "Victoria R. and I."-i.e., "Regina et Imperatrix," though we are given to understand that it has been in use for a year in the signing of military and other commissions which relate to, or may have to run in, India.]

The Right Hon. Sir Henry George Elliot, G.C.B., now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Austria; and the Right Hon. Austen Henry Layard, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Spain, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and

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 begot ten, 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.

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.

29. Mr. William Fraser McDonnell, V.C., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal.

July 6. Mr. George Hugh Wyndham, Her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Athens, the dignity of a Companion of the Civil Division 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.

Her

Colonel Charles Edward Mansfield, now Her Majesty's Agent and ConsulGeneral at Bucharest, to be 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