ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, &c. The rev. W. P. Thomas, LL.B. to the prebend or canonry of Holcombe, in Wells cathedral, void by the death of the rev. L. H. Huxton.

The rev. R. H. Barham, rector of Snargate, to be a minor canon of St. Paul's cathedral.

The rev. J. J. Dewe, perpetual curate of Harwich, to the vicarage of Alstonfield, Staffordshire; patron, sir Geo. Crewe, bart.

The rev. J. Roberts, curate of St. Michael's, Derby, to the perpetual curacy of Quordon, Staffordshire.

The rev.-Anderson, B.D. fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge, has been presented to the rectory, by the president and fellows of that society, to the rectory of Hickling, Nottinghamshire, vacated by the death of the rev. J. T. Jordan.

The rev. E. Addison, B.D. fellow of Corpus Christi college, presented by the master and fellows of that society, to the rectory of Landbeach, in Cambridgeshire, vacated by the death of the rev. T. C. Burroughes.

A prebendal stall in Hereford cathedral, and the rectory of Kingsland, in that county, have become vacant by the death of the rev. R. Davies Evans.

Oxford.On the first day of the present term, (Easter) the following degrees of A. M. were conferred.

A. B. Clough, Jesus college; Wm. Herrick, University college; rev. G. Bird, ditto; rev. R. Brodie, St. Edmund's hall: rev. Wm. Wilkinson, Christ church.

The mastership of University college, and a prebendal stall in Gloucester cathedral, are become vacant by the death of the rev. Dr. James Griffith.

Cambridge.-Masters of Arts.-G. J. Pennington, fellow of king's college; J. Escreet, of Trinity college; rev. H. Venn, fellow of Queen's college; rev. W. Walter, of Sidney Sussex col. Bachelors of Arts.-H. Hannington, fellow of King's college; T. Roberts, ditto; R. Oakes, ditto; T. Dixon, of

St. John's; J. T. Fenwick, of ditto; S. Mewburne, of ditto; H. Lloyd, of St. Peter's; J. Thomas, of Corpus Christi; J. W. Wasney, of Catherine hall; G. H. H. Hutchinson, of Caius college; W. H. Daniels, of ditto; and C. Reynolds, and F. Money, of ditto; R. Barker, St. Peter's college; T. Blakeway Bray, Magdalen college.

JUNE.

16. Mr. W. Dundas, to be clerk of the registers and rolls in Scotland; and Peter Robert lord Gwydir, to exercise the office of lord chamberlain of England, until a sufficient deputy shall be nominated by the baroness Willoughby of Eresby, and the marchioness of Cholmondeley, co-heiresses of the said office, and approved of by his majesty, or until his majesty's pleasure shall be farther signified.

22. 4th Dragoons-Captain Walton, to be major.

36th Foot Major Browne, to be major.

44th-Brevet major Guthrie, to be major.

78th-Captain Bethune, to be major. STAFF.-Major Bowles, of the Coldstream foot guards, to be deputy adjutant general to the troops in Jamaica, with the rank of lieut.-colonel.

GARRISONS. Colonel Lloyd, late of the 10th foot, to be governor of the fort, near Fisgard, in Pembrokeshire; and sir J. Owen, bart. M. P. to be governor of Milford Haven.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. June 2. St. Ive's-Sir C. Hawkins, v. J. R. G. Graham, esq.

9. Lymington William Manning, esq. v. G. Finch, esq. Chiltern Hundreds.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Mr. Dent, Cockerham V. Lancashire.

Rev. R. Rice Venables, D.D. Newchurch, R. Radnorshire.

Rev. Thomas Corbett to a minor canonry in Peterborough cathedral.

The hon. and rev. Henry Townshend M.A. to the consolidated RR. of Brome and Oakley, Suffolk.

Rev. J. C. White M.A. Rawreth R. Essex.

Rev. Arthur H. Kenny, D.D. St. Olive's R. Southwark, v. Greene resigned.

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The following Irish and Scotch peers to be peers of the United Kingdom Earl Donoughmore, to be viscount Hutchinson.

Marquis of Lothian to be baron Ker. Marquis of Conyngham to be baron Munster.

Earl of Ormonde to be baron Ormonde.

Earl of Wemyss and March to be baron Wemyss.

Earl of Roden to be baron Clanbrasil. Earl of Kingston to be baron Kingston.

Earl of Longford to be baron Silchester.

The following are raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom, viz. Lord James Murray to be baron Glenlyon.

The right hon. W. W. Pole to be baron Maryborough.

The right hon. John Foster to be baron Oriel.

Sir Wm. Scott to be baron Stowell. Sir T. H. Liddell to be baron Ravensworth.

T. Cholmondeley, esq. to be baron Delamere.

C. W. Forrester, esq. to be baron Forrester.

Lady Mary Gertrude Strutt, to be baroness Rayleigh.

49th Foot Captain Hutchinson from the 64th to be major.

83rd Do.-Major Bunbury from the 49th to be lieut.-colonel.

17. 90th Foot-Brevet lieut.-colonel the hon. H. B. Lygon from the 1st Life Guards to be lieut.-colonel.

Major G. Gorrequer, 18th foot to be a lieut.-colonel.

Captain W. Crokat, 20th foot, to be a major in the army.

19. Brevet to be field-marshalsMarquis of Drogheda K. S. P. and earl Harcourt, G. C. B.

Earl St. Vincent G. C. B. to be an admiral of the fleet.

From sir C. H. Knowles, bart. G. C. B. to Arthur Kempe, esq. to be admirals of the red.

From Thomas Drury, esq. to sir Isaac Coffin, bart. to be admirals of the white.

From sir John Wells, K. C. B. to the hon. Mich. de Courcy, to be admirals of the blue.

Whitehall, July 27. The dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom, granted to--sir E. Kerrison, of Wykehouse; sir H. N. Lumsden, of Auchindoir; T. F. Freemantle, of Swanbourne, esq.; J. D. Astley, of Everleigh, esq.; A. Boswell, of Auchinleck, esq.; R. Shaw, of Bushy park, Dublin, esq.; A. Chichester, of Greencastle; Donegal, esq.; G. Pocock, of Twickenham, esq.; W. G. H. Jolliffe, of Merstham, esq.; R. T. Farquhar, esq. governor of the Mauritius; major T. T. F. E. Drake, of Nutwell court; J. E. E. Wilmot, of Berkswell hall, esq.; R. Dundas, of Beechwood, esq.; colonel C. Smyth, of Nutwood; D. Erskine, of Cambo, esq.; W. Young, of Baleiborough castle, esq.; J. D'Oyley, of Kandy, Ceylon, esq.; D. Smith, of Upper Canada, esq.; A. P. Cooper, of Gadesbridge, esq. surgeon to his majesty's person; T. Phillips, of Middle hill, esq.; J. D. Paul, of Rodborough, esq.; C. Trotter, of West Ville, esq.; C. Scott, of Lytchet Minster, esq.; and G. Blackman, of Harley-street, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, &c. The rev. J. T. Notridge to the consolidated rectories of St. Helena and St. Clement, Ipswich.

The rev. Isham Case, of Bury, to the rectory of Quarrington, Lincolnshire.

The rev. Charles Boyles to the vicarage of Tamerton, vacant by the death of the rev. G. Hawker.

The rev. W. Villers to the vicarage of Chelmarsh, Salop.

A dispensation has passed the great seal, enabling the rev. Thomas Wright, M. A. chaplain to lord Somerville, to hold the consolidated vicarages of Steeple and East Claydon.

The rev. Mr. Wayet, lecturer of Boston, instituted by the bishop of Lincoln to the valuable living of Pinchbeck, near Spalding.

The rev. Dr. Rudge elected Sunday. evening lecturer at St. Sepulchre's, London, in the room of the late rev. Mr. Moore.

The rev. Dr. Hugh Pearson appointed chaplain in ordinary to his majesty's household at Brighton.

The rev. Walter Gee. B. D. fellow and tutor of Sidney Sussex college, to the rectory of Week, St. Mary, Cornwall, void by the death of the rev. Edward Baynes.

Oxford.-Winchester college.-The annual election was held July 10th, when the members were addressed in a Latin oration by Mr. H. Fowle. On the following day the medals were adjudged as follows:

Mr. T. R. Mackay, "Bonus civis sua a publicis commodis non secernit," Latin prose; gold medal.

Mr. C. R. Sewell," Liberty restored to Greece by the Roman Senate;" English verse; gold medal.

Mr. P. Hall," Oratio Scipionis in Hispania ad milites seditiosos, a Livio;" silver medal.

Mr. J. L. Elliott, "Characters of

Demosthenes and Scipio ;"" and Lord Bolingbroke;" silver medal.

The whole number of degrees in act term were:-D.D. four; D. M. two; B. D. six; M. A. fifty two; B. A. eighty four; Matriculations, eighty-one.

Cambridge. July 3.-The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on the following gentlemen, viz. the dean of Rochester; the rev. George D'Oyly, rector of Lambeth; the rev. G. Wood Lloyd, master of Appleby school.

Honorary Masters of Arts.-The rev. J. T. Barrett, of St. Peter's college; the hon. C. W. J. Kerr; the hon. A. L. Melvill, and sir Francis Lynch Blosse, bart.

AUGUST.

3. War-Office, 1st Life GuardsMajor Cavendish, from the 9th Dragoons, to be major and lieut.-colonel. 1st Foot Major Godwin, to be lieut.-colonel, and captain M'Coy to be major.

Sir S. F. Whittingham to be quartermaster-general in the East Indies.

Sir J. Lyon to be lieut.-governor of Portsmouth, and sir C. Halkett to be lieut.-governor of Jersey.

7. C. W. Dance, esq. major and lieut.-colonel of 2nd life guards, knighted.

1st Life Guards-Hon. H. B. Lygon, to be lieut.-colonel.

9th Foot Major-general T. O'Loghlin, to be lieut.-colonel.

14. GARRISONS.-Colonel sir J. Colborne, K. C. B. to be lieut.-govenor of Guernsey.

25. 4th Dragoons-Captain Norcliffe to be major.

9th-Captain Campbell to be major. 13th-Col. Hawker, to be lieut.-col. 1st Foot guards-Colonel the hon. H. G. P. Townshend to be lieutenantcolonel ;

Lieut.-colonel West to be first major;
Lieut.-colonel Hanbury to be second

major;

And lieut.-colonel Jones to be third

Lieut.-colonel Clitherow to be first

major;

Stowell.

The rev. William Smyth, to the vicarage of South Elkington, Lincoln

The rev. Charles Spencer, vicar of Bishop-Stortford, to be domestic chaplain to the marquess of Aylesbury.

The rev. J. Scobell, B.A. of Baliol college, Oxford, instituted to the rectory of All Saints, Lewes, by the bishop of Chichester.

The rev. John Nelson Clerk, A.B. instituted to the rectory and parish church of Winterton, with the chapel of East Somerton, Norfolk.

The rev. J. Jefferson, archdeacon of Colchester. has been collated by the bishop of London, to the vicarage of Witham, in Essex, void by the death of the rev. A. Downes, resident upon that benefice upwards of 40 years.

The rev. Edward Ballman, rector of Helmingham, and Pitaugh, Suffolk, appointed chaplain to the countess of Dysart.

The rev. D. F. Pryce, D.D. to the perpetual curacy of Ashfield, with Thorpe, Suffolk.

The archbishop of Canterbury has been pleased to institute the rev. W. Horne, M.A. of Gore court, formerly fellow of St. Mary Magdalen college, Oxford, to the rectory of Otham, in Kent.

His majesty has presented the rev. Robert Crockett, M.A. to the rectory of Nelston, Alias Nayleston, in the county of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, vacant by the death of the rev. Lambton Lorraine.

Also the rev. Charles Richard Sumner, M.A. to the vicarage of St. Helen, in Abingdon, and the chapels of Radley and Drayton, Bucks, and the diocese of Salisbury, vacant by the death of the rev. Lawrence Canniford.

SEPTEMBER.

17. His majesty in council declaring his intention of going out of the kingdom for a short time, nominated the following to be lords justices for the administration of the government: The duke of York. the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, the lord president, the lord privy seal, the master of the horse, the duke of Wellington, the marquis of Winchester, the marquis of Cholmondeley,

3rd Foot-Major Wall to be major. 33rd ditto Major Fogarty to be major.

35th ditto-Major Sutherland to be major.

29. Their excellencies the lords justices met at the council chamber, Whitehall, on the 26th instant, and opened their commission; when they were pleased to appoint W. Hamilton, Henry Goulbourn, and H. Hobhouse, esqrs. secretaries to the lords justices. Major-general Askew knighted.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Sept. 18. County of Louth.-The right hon. Thomas Henry Skeffington, of Oriel temple, county of Louth, vice right hon. John Foster, now baron Oriel.

Queen's County-Sir Charles Henry Coote, of Ballyfyn, Queen's County, bart. vice right hon. W. W. Pole, now lord Maryborough.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, &C. The rev. D. H. Saunders, to the living of Amblestone, in Pembrokeshire, by the archbishop of Canterbury.

The rev. Thomas D'Eye Betts, clerk, B.A.instituted to the rectory and parish church of Colney, Norfolk, on the presentation of Jehoshaphat Postle, esq. of Colney-hall.

The rev. Robert Crockett, M.A. of Brasennose college, Oxford, to the rectory of Nailston-cum-Normanton, Leicestershire.

The rev. James Edwards, to the rectory of Lanmadoc, Glamorganshire. The rev. Thomas Mills, A. B. of Christ church, Oxford, to the rectory of Stutton, Suffolk

The rev. Edward Combe, to the rectories of Earnshill and Donyatt, Somerset.

The rev. L. J. Boor, to be master of the Free Grammar school, at Bodinin. The rev. John Jacob, to the head mastership of the Dock classical and mathematical school, at Plymouth dock.

The archbishop of Canterbury has collated the rev. George Randale, M.A. and student of Christ church, Oxford, to the vicarage of Eastry with Worth, near Sandwich, Kent.

The rev. John Latey, to the rectory of Rede, Suffolk.

The rev. Henry De Foe Baker, M.A. to the vicarage of Greetham, in the county of Rutland.

The lord chancellor has presented the rev. John Singleton to the rectory of Sutterby, near Spilsey, Lincolnshire,

The rev. William Vernor to succeed to the prebend of north Newbald, in the county of York, vacant by the death of the rev. C. Wheeler.

OCTOBER.

20. Royal Artillery-Lieut.-general and colonel sir E. Howarth, K. C.B. to be colonel commandant; brevet colonel and lieut -colonel Pritchard to be colonel; brevet lieut. colonel and major Webbe Tobin, to be lieut.colonel; and brevet major and captain Brome to be major.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Oct. 9. Shaftesbury.-R. Leycester, jun. esq. v. hon. E. Harbord, now lord Suffield.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, &C.

The rev. T. Erskine, A. M. son of J. F. Erskine, esq. of Mar, and chaplain to the right hon. lord Abercromby, instituted to the vicarage of Beighton, in the county of Derby, vacant by the death of the rev. Richard Morton, on the presentation of the right hon. earl Manvers.

The rev. Henry Wray Whinfield, to the rectory of Battlesdon-cum-Potgrove, Northamptonshire.

The rev. Charles Mackie, M. A. to the rectory of Quarley.

The rev. B. Crutwell, LL.B. to the rectory of Sparksnall, Suffolk.

The rev. L. Brown, B. A. to the rectory of Thorrington, Suffolk.

The rev. W. Cockburn, to the rectory of Tilbridge, Devon.