the Windward Islands), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Tasmania and its dependencies.

Members returned to serve in the present Parliament:-Borough of Dungannon.-James Dickson, Esq., in the place of Thomas Alexander Dickson, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

Borough of Bandon Bridge.-Richard Lane Allman, Esq., in the place of Percy Brodrick Barnard, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

July 1. Borough of Wallingford.Pandeli Ralli, Esq., in the place of Walter Wren, Esq., whose election has been determined to be void.

Sir - 2. Borough of Gravesend. Sydney Hedley Waterlow, Bart., in the place of Thomas Bevan, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

Lieut.-Col. and Brevet Colonel John Prevost Battersby, half-pay late 60th Foot, now Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum, to be Assistant Director of Military Education, vice Lieut.-Col. C. B. Brackenbury, Royal Artillery, who has resigned that appointment.

Royal Military Asylum.-Major and Brevet Lieut.-Col. Hugh Mackenzie, half-pay late 15th Foot, to be Commandant, vice Brevet Colonel Battersby, appointed Assistant Director of Military Education.

His Excellency Chao Phya Bhanuwongse Maha Kosa Tibodi ti Phraklang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Siam, delivered his credentials, and presented to Her Majesty the Insignia of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant of Siam; and his Excellency Monsieur Challemel-Lacour, Ambassador from the French Republic, delivered his credentials.

George James Evelyn, Esq., to be a member of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Christopher.

3. Henry Rawlins Pippon Schooles, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the colony of British Honduras.

5. David Brown, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.

6. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. County of Bute.-Charles Dalrymple, of Ardencraig, in the place of Thomas Russell, Esq., who, having held a contract entered into for the public service at the time of his election for the said county, was incapable of being elected for the same,

- 8. The President of the Royal Academy, to be an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.

Peter George Fitzgerald, of Valentia, in the county of Kerry, Esq. (commonly called the Knight of Kerry), to be a Baronet of the United Kingdom.

9. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Evesham.-Frederick Lehmann, Esq., in the place of Daniel Rowlinson Ratcliff, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

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- 10. To be an Honorary Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George:His Excellency Chao Phya Bhanuwongse Maha Kosa Tibodi ti Phraklang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Siam.

To be Honorary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Distinguished Order :-Phya Ratna Kosa, First Secretary to the Special Embassy of His Majesty the King of Siam; Prince Prisdang, Second Secretary and Interpreter to the Special Embassy of His Majesty the King of Siam.

Robert James Frecheville, Esq., to be an Inspector of Metalliferous Mines, under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872.

Members returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Plymouth. -Edward George Clarke, Esq., Q.C., in the place of Sir Edward Bates, Bart., whose election was determined to be void.

12. Borough of Tewkesbury. Richard Biddulph Martin, Esq., in the place of William Edwin Price, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

George Maurice O'Rorke, Esq., Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Colony of New Zealand, to be a Knight of the United Kingdom.

13. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Bewdley.-Enoch Baldwin, Esq., in the place of Charles Harrison, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

15. Arthur Algernon Capel, Earl of Essex, Viscount Malden, and Baron Capell, of Hadham, in the county of Hertford, received royal licence and authority that he and his issue may resume the ancient orthography of his family name by using and bearing the surname of Capell, in lieu and in substitution of that of Capel.

- 16. Charles Thomas Maude, Esq., now a Third Secretary, to be a Second Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service.

Charles Alban Buckler, Esq., to be Surrey Herald of Arms Extraordinary.

4th Hussars.-General William Parlby, from the 21st Hussars, to be Colonel, vice General Lord G. A. F. Paget, K.C.B., deceased.

21st Hussars -Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. James William Bosville Macdonald, C.B., to be Colonel, vice General W. Parlby, transferred to the 4th Hussars.

19. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. City of Lichfield.-Theophilus John Levett, Esq., in the place of Richard Dyott, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

- 21. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed.-David Milne Home, Esq., Captain in the Royal Horse Guards, in the place of the Hon. Henry Strutt (now Lord Belper), called up to the House of Peers.

- 24. Captain Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell, of the 79th Highlanders, to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of John Francis Campbell, of Islay, Esq., resigned.

29. Richard Greaves Townley, Esq., to be a Third Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service.

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30. John Pierrepont Edwards, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at New York, to be H.M.'s Consul at New York.

31. Philip Protheroe Smith, Esq., Mayor of Truro; and George Henry Chambers, Esq., Chairman of the London and St. Katherine Docks Company, to be Knights of the United Kingdom.

M. Callimaki Catargi, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Royal Highness the Prince of Roumania, delivered his credentials; and M. J. Marinovitch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Highness the Prince of Servia, delivered his credentials.

August 2. Members returned to serve in the present Parliament :- Borough of Scarborough.-The Right Hon. John George Dodson, in the place of Sir Harcourt Vanden Bempde Johnstone, Bart., appointed a Steward of H.M.'s manor of Chiltern Hundreds.

Wigtown District of Burghs.-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bart., in the place of Mark John Stewart, Esq., whose election was determined to be void.

mander-in-Chief of the Bahama Is

lands.

5. Augustus Frederick Gore, Esq. (late Lieutenant-Governor of Tobago), to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Vincent.

9. Captain Arthur John Bigge, Royal Artillery, to be Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Assistant Private Secretary to Her Majesty.

Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. City of Liverpool.— Claud John Hamilton, Esq. (commonly called Lord Claud John Hamilton), in the place of John William Ramsay (commonly called Lord Ramsay), now Earl of Dalhousie, called up to the House of Peers as Baron Ramsay.

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11. The Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, G.C.M.G. (now Governor of Fiji and H.M.'s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific Ocean), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies.

12. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :- Lieut.-Col. Falkland George Edgeworth Warren, R.A.; Captain Andrew Gilbert Wauchope; Gerald Fitzgerald, Esq.

Henry Austin, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Bahama Islands.

21. Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, G.C.M.G. (Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of

23. Sir George Cumine Strahan, K.C.M.G., to administer the Government of the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, and to be H.M.'s High Commissioner for South Africa until Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, G.C.M.G., enters upon the duties of the said office.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Henry Lefroy, K.C.M.G., C.B., to administer the Government of the Colony of Tasmania and its dependencies.

- 24. Major the Lord Gifford, V.C., to be Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Western Australia and Senior Member of the Legislative Council of that Colony.

- 27. Henry Farnham Burke, Esq., received by letters patent the office of Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by the promotion of Stephen Isaacson Tucker, Esq., to the office of Somerset Herald.

Sept. 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom for the annexation to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope of certain British Possessions or Territories in the Transkei, known as Tembuland, Emigrant Tambookieland, Bomvanaland, and Galekaland.

- 2. Frederick Napier Broome, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, to be Lieutenant-Governor of that Colony.

Rev. Frederick Walker nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of the parish of Kingswear, in the county of Devon, and diocese of Exeter, void by the death of the Rev. John Smart, B.A.

- 3. Arthur Raby, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Portland, to be H.M.'s Consul for the province of Livonia, to reside at Riga; and Lewis Joel, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Brindisi, to be H.M.'s Consul for the State of Georgia, to reside at Savannah.

Mr. Arthur Powys Vaughan, to be one of H.M.'s Inspectors of Factories and Workshops.

10. Charles George Merewether, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, John Shortt, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Albert Childers Meysey-Thompson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the Borough of Macclesfield,

Arthur Hammond Collins, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Alfred Tristram Lawrence, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Frank Lockwood, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the City of Chester.

John Bridge Aspinall, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, William Robert M'Connell, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Francis William Raikes, Esq., Barrister-atLaw, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the City of Gloucester.

Arthur Charles, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Albert Venn Dicey, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Robert Samuel Wright, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election the City of Canterbury.

James William Bowen, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Richard Henn Collins, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and William Alexander Lindsay, Esq., Barrister-atLaw, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the borough of Boston.

Lewis William Cave, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Hugh Cowie, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Edward Ridley, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the City of Oxford.

William Haworth Holl, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Richard Edward Turner, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Francis Henry Jeune, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the Borough of Sandwich.

Charles Marshall Griffith, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, Henry Mason Bompas, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel, and Charles Crompton, Esq., Barrister-atLaw, to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last Election for the Borough of Knaresborough.

11. J. Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan, Esq., C.M.G. (late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands; and Captain Francis Theophilus Blunt, Inspector of Immigrants in

Mauritius, to be Chief Civil Commissioner for the Seychelles Islands.

13. Thomas Kerr, Esq. (late Judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal, Barbados), to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of H.M.'s Settlements in the Falkland Islands and their dependencies; and William James McKinney, Esq., late Postmaster of British Honduras, to be Treasurer of that Colony. 14. John William, Earl of Dalhousie, in the room of Lawrence, Earl of Zetland, resigned; William, Lord Sandhurst, in the room of William, Earl of Listowel, resigned; and Thomas John, Lord Thurlow, in the room of George Henry Charles, Viscount Enfield, resigned-to be Lords in Waiting in Ordinary.

18. John Campbell, Earl of Aberdeen, to be Lieutenant of shire of Aberdeen, in the room of Francis Alexander, Earl of Kintore, deceased.

The Rev. Charles Johnson Taylor, M.A., to the rectory of Toppesfield, in the County of Essex and Diocese of St. Albans, void by the resignation of the Rev. Robert Hall Baynes, M.A.

Ralph Charlton Palmer, Esq., to be Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Charles Romilly, Esq., resigned.

Henry Brougham Loch, Esq., C.B., to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

20. Lieut.-Col. Beresford Lovett, C.S.I., to be H.M.'s Consul for the Provinces on the South of the Caspian Sea and the North-East of Persia, to reside at Asterabad.

21. Lieut-Gen. Donald Martin Stewart, K.C.B., and Major-General Frederick Sleigh Roberts, K.C.B., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Rev. William John Butler, M.A., to have the dignity of a Canon in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, void by the death of Rev. Richard Sey

Hon. Chaplain to the Queen, to be Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty; and the Rev. Edward Capel Cure, M.A., Rector of St. George, Hanover Square, London, to be Hon. Chaplain to Her Majesty.

Freeling,

Oct. 4. Sir Sandford K.C.M.G., to be Governor and Com. mander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and its dependencies.

5. George William Des Vœux, Esq., C.M.G., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Fiji.

- 11. Right Hon. William Patrick Adam, M.P., to be Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George, at Madras, in the East Indies.

Major Evelyn Baring, R.A., C.S.I., to be an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India, in the room of Sir John Strachey, G.C.S.I., C.I.E.

12. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, K.C.M.G., C B., and Major Evelyn Baring, C.S.I., obtained Royal licence and authority to accept and wear the insignia of the First Class of the Turkish Order of the Medjidieh; and to Auckland Colvin, Esq., Royal licence and authority to accept and wear the insignia of the Second Class of the Turkish Order of Medjidieh, which the Khedive of Egypt, authorised by His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, was pleased to confer upon them, in approbation of their services while actually and entirely employed by the Khedive beyond H.M.'s dominions.

23. Neale Porter, Esq., President of the Island of Montserrat, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of that Island; and Etienne Pellereau, Esq., to be Substitute-Procureur and Advocate-General for the Colony of Mauritius.

--25. To be Ordinary Members of the second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :-Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., for services rendered to the colony of New South Wales, more particularly in connection with the International Exhibition held at Sydney in 1879-80; Patrick Jennings,

Esq., C.M.G., Executive Commissioner at the International Exhibition held in Sydney in 1879-80.

To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion of the said Most Distinguished Order :- John Davies, Esq., for service rendered at the International Exhibition in 187980, especially in assisting British visi

tors.

27. To be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:Charles John Herries, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.

To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order:Algernon Edward West, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue; Adam Young, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue.

30. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George:--Colonel Richard Thomas Glyn,C.B., and Colonel William Pole Collingwood, for services in the late Zulu War; Captain Claude Bettington, for services in command of "Bettington's Horse" during the late Zulu War; Francis William Rowsell, Esq., C.B., British Member of the Commission appointed by His Highness the Khedive of Egypt for the management of the Daira Lands, for services rendered in connection with the Island of Malta.

Lieut.-Gen.

Nov. 2. 99th Foot. Henry James Warre, C.B., to be Colonel, vice General S. Braybrooke, deceased.

- 3. To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :Virgile Naz, Esq., C.M.G., Member of the Council of Government of Mauritius, for services in connection with that Colony.

- 4. Henry Michael Jones, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul-General at Christiania, to be H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia, to reside at Philippopolis; Thomas Michell, Esq., C.B., now H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia, to be H.M.'s Consul-General for the Kingdom of Norway, to reside at Christiania; William Ward, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Bremen, to be H.M.'s Consul for the State of Maine, to reside at Portland; Octavus Stokes, Esq., now British ViceConsul at Sulina, to be H.M.'s Consul

for the Free City and Territory of Bremen, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the district of Wilhelmshaven, the province of Hanover, excepting the ports and places on the left bank of the River Elbe, up to and including the Town of Harburg, the Duchy of Brunswick, and the Principalities of Lippe Schaumburg, Lippe Detmold, and Waldeck Pyrmont, to reside at Bremen ; and Hanmer Lewis Dupuis, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Susa, to be H.M.'s Consul at Brindisi.

5. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Lush, Knt., to be one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal.

Charles James Watkin Williams, Esq., one of H.M.'s Counsel learned in the Law, to be one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice.

9: To be a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India :-His Highness the Nawab of Bahawulpur.

To be Companions :-Sirdar Bakhshi Gunda Singh, of Patiala; the Dewan Ram Jas, of Kuppurtalla.

11. Henry Edward Doyle, Esq., Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and William Macleod, Esq., Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Sigismondo Savona, Esq. (DirectorGeneral of Education), and Adolfo Sciortino, Esq. (Receiver-General), to be Members of the Council of Government of the Island of Malta.