PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Jan. 3. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Charles Ross to be Her Majesty's Consul-General for the Province of Fars, and the coasts and islands of the Persian Gulf within the dominions of Servia. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Cunningham Scott, C.B., half-pay, late 42nd Royal Highlanders, to be one of H.M.'s Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Major Philip Limborch Tillbrook, promoted. Captain his Royal Higness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., K.T., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., Personal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, promoted to the rank of RearAdmiral in Her Majesty's Fleet, such promotion being in addition to the established numbers of the list until the date arrives on which his Royal Highness would have been entitled to the same by seniority. 4. Captains Henry Hamilton Beamish, C.B., Henry Duncan Grant, C.B., Michael Culme Seymour, to be Naval Aides-de-Camp to the Queen. - 6. Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell Douglas, M.A., to the Rectory of All Souls, Marylebone, by the Queen. William Kirby Green, Esq., to be H.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires for Montenegro, and Consul-General for the Vilayet of Scutari. 7. Royal Artillery. Lieut.-General John Henry Francklyn, C.B., to be Colonel-Commandant. 9. William Henry Marsh, Esq. (late Auditor-General of Mauritius), to be Colonial Secretary and AuditorGeneral of the Colony of Hongkong. 10. Robert Baxter Llewelyn, Esq., to be Commissioner for the Turks and Caicos Islands. 14. 14th Regiment of Foot.Gen. Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford, G.C.B., from the 79th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Gen. James Webber Smith, C.B., deceased. 79th Regiment of Foot.-Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Douglas, G.C.B., to be Colonel, vice Gen. Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford, G.C.B., transferred to the 14th Foot. Capt. and Lieut.-Col. Frederick William Edward Forestier Walker, C.B., Scots Guards, Military Secretary (temporary) to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope, to be Colonel. 15. Arthur Francis Gresham Leveson-Gower, Esq., to be a Third Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service. 16. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, K.C.S.I., Q.C., to be one of the Justices of H.M.'s High Court of Justice. 18. James Herman de Ricci (late Substitute Procureur and AdvocateGeneral of Mauritius) to be Chief Justice of the Bahama Islands. 23. County of Norfolk, Northern Division.-Edward Birkbeck, Esq., member returned to serve in the present Parliament, vice Colonel James Duff, deceased. 24. General the Marquis of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain of H.M.'s Household, to be G.C.B. William James Watson to be ViceConsul at Sebastopol. Frank Wooldridge to be Consul on the Sea of Azoff, to reside at Taganrog. 29. To be an Hon. Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George: His Highness the Somdetch Chao Phya Surawongse, formerly Regent of the Kingdom of Siam. to be H.M.'s Consul for the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to reside at Bosnia Serai; and Charles A. Brophy, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Bourgas. 29. Thomas Michell, Esq., C.B., to be H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia. His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn to be Ranger of Epping Forest. 31. Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G. (late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria and its dependencies), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Mauritius and its dependencies. April 1. Captain Samuel Anderson, R.E., C.M.G., to be H.M.'s Commissioner to mark out the boundaries of the Principality of Servia, in accordance with the limits specified in the 36th Article of the Treaty of Berlin. Albert Medals of the first class conferred upon Captain Peter Sharp and John M'Intosh, A.B., of the "Anastasia Clark," of Ardrossan, for distinguished bravery at sea (rescuing crew of a burning ship, November 20, 1878.) 2. William Henry Wrench, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Constantinople. 7. John Collett, Esq., to be Director of Navy Contracts in the place of Francis W. Rowsell, Esq., C.B., retired. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. County of Longford.-Justin M'Carthy, Esq., in place of Myles W. O'Reilly, appointed Assistant Commissioner of Intermediate Education in Ireland. 12. The Rev. Thompson Thackeray, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Kilmeston-with-Beauworth, in the county of Southampton and diocese of Winchester. Arthur Robert Sawyer, Esq., Ithel Treharne Rees, Esq., to be Inspectors of Coal and other Mines. 16. Rev. Robert Hall Baynes, M.A., to the Rectory of Toppesfield, in the county of Essex and diocese of St. Albans, void by the death of the Rev. James Sherren Brewer. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Cockermouth.-William Fletcher, Esq., of Brigham-hill, Cumberland, in the place of Isaac Fletcher, Esq., deceased. 23. Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Charles Arthur Turner, Esq., C.I.E., Chief Justice of H.M.'s High Court of Judicature at Madras. [1879. Captain John Donald Hamill Stewart, and Captain Harry Cooper, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consuls in Anatolia. 25. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. County of Cumberland. Eastern Division. George James Howard, Esq., of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, in the place of the Hon. Charles Wentworth George Howard, deceased. 26. Gainsford Bruce, Esq., Barrister-at-law, to be H.M.'s SolicitorGeneral of the County Palatine of Durham, vacant by the death of Joseph Kay, Esq. Rev. William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History in the Uni versity of Oxford, to be Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in London, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Joseph Barber Lightfoot to the See of Durham. 28. Rev. Thomas James Rowsell, M.A., Vicar of St. Stephen, Paddington, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty, to be one of the Deputy Clerks of the Closet to Her Majesty, in the room of the Rev. Joseph Barber Lightfoot, D.D., now Lord Bishop of Durham, resigned. 29. Lieut.-Col. the Hon. George Patrick Hyde Villiers, and Lieutenant Herbert Charles Chermside, to be H.M.'s Vice-Consuls in Anatolia. Mr. Gainsford Bruce, of the NorthEastern Circuit, to be Solicitor-General of the County Palatine of Durham. Mr. F. Mead has been appointed Counsel to the Treasury at the Middlesex Sessions, in place of Mr. Montagu Williams, who has succeeded Mr. Douglas Straight as junior counsel to the Treasury at the Central Criminal Court. May 3. The Right Hon. Sir Angustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, G.C.B. (commonly called Lord Augustus Loftus), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies. Major-Gen. A. B. Nelson to be Lieut.Governor of the Island of Guernsey. Lieutenant Henry E. O'Neill, R.N to be Consul at Mozambique. 5. Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., canon of Peterborough, Regis Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, and Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, to be one of the Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty, and t Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D., D.C.L., Cano of Worcester, Principal of King's Co lege, London, and Honorary Chaplai to the Queen, to be one of the Cha lains in Ordinary to Her Majesty. to t 6. The Earl of Rosslyn H.M.'s High Commissioner to the Ge ral Assembly of the Church of Scotland. of 7. William Henry, Earl Mount Edgcumbe, to be Lord Chamberlain of H.M.'s Household, in the room of Francis Hugh George, Marquis of Hertford, G.C.B., resigned. Brooke Pakenham Bridges Taylor, Esq., of the Foreign Office, to be an Acting Third Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service while employed abroad. 9. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. City of Canterbury. Robert Peter Laurie, Esq., in the place of Lewis Ashurst Majendie, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Rev. Alfred Henry Williams, M.A., rector of Alcester, Warwickshire, to be one of the Honorary Chaplains to Her Majesty. 10. Royal Artillery.-Lieut.-Gen. Henry Sebastian Rowan, C.B., to be Colonel Commandant, vice General Sir Francis Warde, K.C.B., on the Retired List, deceased. 15. Rev. William Harrison, M.A., Honorary Canon of St. Alban's, Chaplain to H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, and Rector of Great Birch, Essex, to be one of the Honorary Chaplains to Her Majesty, and the Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, M.A., Vicar of St. James's, Holloway, to be one of the Honorary Chaplains to Her Majesty. 16. Richard Henry Adrestrup Dyett, Esq., to be a member of the Executive Council of the Island of Dominica. 17. The Right Honourable William Henry, Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, and Sir Robert Lush, Knight, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Charles William Lloyd Bulpett, Esq., B.A., Trinity College, Oxford; James Henry Davies, Esq., M.A., Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Claude Hume Campbell Guinness, Esq., M.A., New College, Oxford; Rashleigh HoltWhite, Esq., B.A., Oriel College, Oxford; Frederick Barnes Lott, Esq., B.A., Christ Church, Oxford; Joseph Wilson, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, to be six of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. 19. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. County of Clare.-James Patrick O'Gorman Mahon (commonly called The O'Gorman Mahon), in the place of Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, Bart., who has accepted the office of Attorney-General for the Colony of Victoria. Thomas Michell, Esq., C.B., H.M.'s Consul-General in Eastern Roumelia, Colony. 27. The undermentioned officers of the Forces of the Dominion of Canada to be Honorary Aides-de-Camp. to Her Majesty :-Lieut.-Colonel Casimir S. Gzowski, Staff Officer to Engineer Force in Canada, and Colonel John Dyde, C.M.G., late Commandant of Volunteers, Montreal. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. City of Limerick. -Daniel FitzGerald Gabbett, Esq., of Cahirconlish House, county of Limerick, in the place of Isaac Butt, Esq., deceased. 28. Stephen Stanley Parker, Richard Watson Hardey, and Lockier Clare Burges, Esqs., to be members of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Western Australia. 31. Colonel Robert Biddulph, C.B., to be H.M.'s High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Cyprus. Sir Francis Richard Sandford, Knt., C.B., Secretary to the Committee of Council on Education; Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen, Esq., C.B., Permanent Secretary of the Treasury; and John Lambert, Esq., C.B., Secretary to the Commissioners of the Local Government Board, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knight Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. June 6. Alexander Joseph of Battenberg, Prince-Elect of Bulgaria, to be an Honorary Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets on the Retired List, Henry Jones Domville, C.B., M.D., to be Hon. Surgeon to Her Majesty, vice Dr. Mackay, deceased. 11. Honourable Louis George Greville to be a Third Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service. 14. Francis Clare Ford, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil; and Ronald Ferguson Thomson, Esq., to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia, and also to be H.M.'s ConsulGeneral at Teheran. 18. John Worrell Carrington, John Glasgow Grant, and Allan Belfield, Esqs., to be members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbados. 20. William Gifford Palgrave, Esq., to be H.M.'s Agent and ConsulGeneral in the Principality of Bulgaria. 21. Audley Charles Gostling, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul-General at Buda-Pesth, with jurisdiction in all the territories belonging to the kingdom of Hungary. 23. Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood, C.B., V.C., and Commissary General Edward Strickland, C.B., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; and Colonel Charles Knight Pearson to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion of the said Most Honourable Order; and Thomas Backhouse Sandwith, Esq., H.M.'s Consul for the Island of Crete, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companion of the said Order. George Dennis, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Smyrna; Alexander Patrick Cameron, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul for the Island of Java, to reside at Batavia; George Louis Faber, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Fiume; Frederick Richard James Calvert, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Adrianople; and Edmund Calvert, Esq., to be H.M.'s Vice-Consul for the Island of Rhodes. Cospatrick Alexander Home, Esq. (commonly called Lord Dunglass), to be Lieutenant of the Shire of Berwick, in the room of James Henry Robert, Duke of Roxburghe, deceased. Rev. James Butter, M.A., to the Vicarage of St. Michael, in the City of Coventry and diocese of Worcester, void by the cession of the Rev. Robert Hall Baynes, M.A., the last incumbent. Thomas Fellowes Reade, Esq., to be H.M.'s Agent and Consul-General in the Regency of Tunis. 26. Sir John Mellor, Knight, sworn of H.M.'s Most Honourable Privy Council. Major-Gen. Henry Edward Landor, Royal Artillery, C.S.I., F.R.S., to be a Knight Bachelor. Lieut. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, to be one of H.M.'s Vice-Consuls in Anatolia. 28. Lord George Francis Montagu, to be a Third Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service. July 3. Thomas Risely Griffiths, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Treasurer for H.M.'s Settlement of Sierra Leone. 8. Rev. William Crawford Bromehead, M.A., to be Chaplain in Ordinary to H.M.'s Household at Kensington Palace, vice the Rev. William Thomas Bullock, M.A., deceased. 17th Foot.-Lieut.-General Richard William Penn, Earl Howe, C.B., from the 94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General William Raikes Faber, C.B., deceased. 94th Foot.-Lieut.-General John Thornton Grant, C.B., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Richard William Penn, Earl Howe, C.B., transferred to the 17th Foot. 12. Captain William Everett, to be H.M.'s Vice-Consul at Erzeroum, and Captain Emilius Clayton, to be H.M.'s Vice-Consul at Van. Captain Fredk. William Richards, to be Naval Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty. 15. Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal, nominating the Rev. William Walsham Howe, M.A., rector of Whittington, in the County of Salop, and Honorary Canon of the Cathedral Church of Saint Asaph, to be Bishop Suffragan of the See of Bedford. Frederic Walter Kerr, Esq., to be Page of Honour to Her Majesty, vice the Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, resigned. Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Col. Sir Francis Worgan Festing, K.C.M.G., C. B., of the Royal Marine Artillery, to be one of H.M.'s Marine Aides-de-Camp. 16. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament.-City of Glasgow. Charles Tennant, Esq., of the Glen, in the county of Peebles, in the place of Alexander Whitelaw, Esq., deceased. Charles Rawden Maclean, Esq., to be a member of the Executive Council of the Island of St. Lucia. - 17. Charles Chastenet, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Island of St. Lucia. 18. Major Samuel Barrett Miles, to be H.M.'s Consul-General at Bagdad; Captain Charles Bean Euan Smith, C.S.I., to be H.M.'s Consul at Muscat ; and Patrick James Craigie Robertson, Esq., to be H.M.'s Consul at Bussorah. 19. Major Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, C.S.I., Bengal Staff Corps, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; and Alfred Comyns Lyall, Esq., to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division 23. Charles Boyd Robertson, Esq., of the Foreign Office, to be an Acting Second Secretary in H.M.'s Diplomatic Service while employed abroad. 25. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viz.: Lieutenant-General Donald Martin Stewart, C.B. Lieut.-General Sir Samuel James Browne, K.C.S.I., C.B., V.C. Lieut.-General Frederick Francis Maude, C.B., V.C. Major-General Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph, R.A., C.B. Major-General Frederick Roberts, R.A., C.B., V.C. Sleigh Colonel and Local Major-General Peter Stark Lumsden, C.B., C.S.I. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order, viz. :-Colonel and Local Brigadier-General Alexander Hugh Cobbe, 1st Battalion 17th Foot. Colonel Samuel Alexander Madden, 51st Regiment. Colonel Richard Hieram Sankey, Royal Engineers. Colonel Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, C.S.I., C.I.E., Bengal Staff Corps. Colonel Francis Barry Drew, 2nd Battalion 8th Foot. Lieut.-Colonel Æneas Perkins, Royal Engineers. Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Hadden Lindsay, Royal Artillery. Lieut.-Colonel John Henry Porter Malcolmson, Bombay Staff Corps. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Howell Jenkins, Bengal Staff Corps. Deputy Sur.-General John Gibbons, Army Medical Department. 25. Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, to be H.M.'s Consul for the Provinces of Asterabad, Ghilan, and Mazanderan, to reside at Asterabad. 26. Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, Esq., to be H.M.'s Vice-Consul at Bucharest. 29. To be an Honorary Knight Grand Commander-His Highness Mir Khodabad Khan of Khelat. To be an Extra Knight Grand Commander-General Sir Frederick Paul Haines, G.C.B., C.I.E., Commander-inChief of Her Majesty's Forces in the East Indies. To be a Knight Grand Commander -His Highness the Rajah of Nabha. To be Knights Commanders :Robert Eyles Egerton, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Bengal Civil Service, Lieut.Governor of the Punjab. Lieut.-Col Owen Tudor Burne, C.S.I., C.I.E., Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Officee. Colonel George Pomeroy Colley, C.B., C.M.G., 2nd Regiment, Private Secretary to the Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India. Major Robert Groves Sandeman, C.S.I., Bengal Staff Corps, Agent to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Beloochistan. The Nawab Gholam Hussun Khan Alazia Khan Bahadur, C.S.I. To be Companions:-Robert Anstruther Dalyell, Esq., Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. James Braithwaite Peile, Esq., Bombay Civil Service, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers. The Maharaja Istendro Mohun Tagore, additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India for making laws and regulations. Sirdar Bikrama Sing of Kuppurtalla. The Maharaja Pertab Singh Bahadur. Sahibzada Obed Ulla Khan. Lieut.-Colonel William Garrow Waterfield, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner of Peshawur. Lepel Henry Griffin, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab. Lieut.-Colonel James Browne, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers. 29. Member returned to serve in the present Parliament. Borough of Ennis.--James Lysaght Finigan, Esq., in the place of William Stackpoole, Esq., deceased. Walter Eugène de Souza, Esq., of Calcutta, to be a Knight Bachelor. 31. To be an Honorary Member of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George-His Excellency Riaz Pasha, late Egyptian Minister of the Interior. To be Honorary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order:-Count Alexander Bartholomew Stephen Pisani, late of H.M.'s Embassy |