Second Captain Thomas Andrew Lumsden Murray to be Captain, vice Beatty. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Second Captain Herbert Newton Penrice to be Captain, vice Hawkins, placed on the Supernumerary List. Dated 20th April, 1856.

Second Captain William Lawtie Morrison to be Captain, vice Gosset, placed on the Supernumerary List. Dated 10th June, 1856. Brevet-Major Anthony Charles Cooke to be Captain, vice Fowke, placed on the Supernumerary List. Dated 14th June, 1856.

Lieutenant George Montague Stopford to be Second Captain, vice Chesney. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Lieutenant Edward Bridge to be Second Captain, vice Murray. Dated 23rd February, 1856. Lieutenant Montagu Stopford Whitmore to be Second Captain, vice Penrice. Dated 29th February, 1856.

Lieutenant Howard Crawford Elphinstone to be Second Captain, vice Morrison. Dated 20th April, 1856.

Lieutenant Charles Edward Cumberland to be Second Captain, vice Cooke. Dated 10th June, 1856.

Lieutenant Henry Reynolds Luard to be Second Captain, vice Clarke, placed on the Supernumerary List. Dated 14th June, 1856.

The dates of the promotion of the undermentioned Officers to be altered as follows, viz. :Lieutenant-Colonel S. Freeth. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. McKerlie. Dated 10th June, 1856.

Captain F. Fowke. Dated 23rd February, 1856. Captain C. R. Binney. Dated 23rd February,

Captain F. H. Rich. Dated 23rd February,

1856.

Second Captain H. R. Pelly. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Second Captain R. M. Parsons. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Second Captain F. Brine.

ruary, 1856.

Dated 23rd Feb

Second Captain A. A'C. Fisher. Dated 23rd February, 1856.

Admiralty, 24th July, 1856.

Corps of Royal Marines.

Second Lieutenant Frederick Spencer Boxer to be First Lieutenant, vice Knight, to half-pay. Second Lieutenant William Godfrey Hale to be First Lieutenant, vice Kirwan, deceased.

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

John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P., to be Vice Lieutenant, Dated 18th July, 1856.

Thomas Barnes, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 18th July, 1856.

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

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Edward Adolphus Ferdinand, Lord Seymour, to be Cornet, vice Miles, promoted. Dated 18th July, 1856.

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

96th Regiment of British Militia for Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty.

Roderick Mackenzie to be Assistant-Surgeon. Dated 11th July, 1856.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Monmouth.

Royal Monmouthshire Militia.

James Browne, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant William Owen, appointed to Her Majesty's 52nd Regiment of the Line. Dated 25th June, 1856.

George Daunt, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Edward James Tyler, appointed to Her Majesty's 5th Regiment of the Line. Dated 25th June, 1856.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 29,
1856.

AT the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

THIS day His Royal Highness George Wil

liam

Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, was, by command of Her Majesty, introduced into the Privy Council by the Right Honourable

Sir George Grey, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (in the absence of the Lord President of the Council), and His Royal Highness took his place at the Board accordingly.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

It is this day ordered, by Her Majesty in Council, that the Parliament be prorogued from Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of July instant, to Tuesday the seventh day of October

next.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon a representation of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint the Reverend Robert Edgar Hughes, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Cambridge, to be one of Her Majesty's Assistant Inspectors of Schools.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the eleventh and

twelfth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to prohibit the importation of sheep, "cattle, or other animals, for the purpose of pre"venting the introduction of contagious or in"fectious disorders," it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to make such regulations for subjecting sheep, cattle. horses, or other animals to quarantine, or for causing the same to be destroyed upon their arrival in this country, or for destroying any hay, straw, fodder, or other article whereby it appears to Her Majesty that infection or contagion may be conveyed, and generally to make such regulations with respect to the importation of sheep, cattle, horses, or other animals as Her Majesty may consider to be necessary in order to prevent the introduction of any contagious or infectious disorder, and also by any further Order or Orders in Council, from time to time, to revoke the whole or any part of such Order or Orders issued, under the authority of the said Act.

And whereas by Order in Council, bearing date the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, issued in pursuance of said Act, Her Majesty was pleased to make certain regulations with respect to the importation of sheep and lambs infected with a certain contagious disease, and whereas it is expedient to revoke the said Order, and to extend the provisions thereof.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and under the authority of the said Act, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said Order in Council, dated the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall, from and after the day of the insertion hereof in the London Gazette, cease and determine.