the endowments, funds, and actual condition of all schools endowed for the purposes of education in Ireland, and the nature and extent of the instruction given in such schools. Downing-Street, November 10, 1854. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Swainson, William Henry Kenny, Frederick Whitaker, John Salmon, Henry William Petre (commonly called the Honourable Henry William Petre), Henry St. Hill, John Yeedon Lloyd, Mathew Richmond, Henry Seymour, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Hook Wilson Bellairs, John Anderson Gilfillan, and Francis Dillon Bell, Esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of New Zealand. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Robert Mooney and Donald Benton, Esqrs., to be Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island; Swaminaden Ederemanesingam, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon; and Henry Lettsom Maclean, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Virgin Islands. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Thomas Donaldson Selby, Esq., to be Chief Clerk of the Colonial Treasury at Hong Kong; and Michael Louisson Levéy, Esq., to be Collector of Customs and Superintendent of the Pilotage of Her Majesty's Settlements in the River Gambia. The Prince of Wales's Council Chamber, The names of those who have been this day nominated by the Council of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to serve the office of Sheriff of the county of Cornwall: William Henry Pole Carew, of East Antony, Esq. Sir William Berkeley Call, of Whiteford, Bart. Thomas Graham Graham, of Penquite, Esq. In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to repeal so much of two Acts, made "in the tenth and fifteenth years of the reign of "His present Majesty, as authorizes the Speaker "of the House of Commons to issue his warrant "to the Clerk of the Crown for making out writs "for the election of Members to serve in Par"liament, in the manner therein mentioned, and "for substituting other provisions for the like 66 purposes:" I do hereby give notice, that the death of Charles Geach, Esq., late a Member serving in this present Parliament for the city of Coventry, hath been certified to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the said city, at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. Given under my hand the 10th day of C. S. LEFEVRE, Speaker. Board of Trade, Whitehall, November 8, 1854. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, inclosing the copy of a Royal Order of the Portuguese Government, prohibiting the importation of foreign goods labelled as of Portuguese manufacture. Board of Trade, Whitehall, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a French Imperial Decree from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, which prohibits, until, the 31st July, 1855, the exportation of wheat and barley from Algeria to foreign countries. Board of Trade, Whitehall, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Marseilles, reporting that the Board of Health in that city have decided, in consequence of the cessation of cholera since the 31st ultimo, to issue clean bills of health. Board of Trade, Whitehall, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Naples, re porting the extension from December, 1854, to June, 1855, of the permission to import into that kingdom, free of duty, wheat, barley, oats, Indian corn, pulse, and flour. By another Decree the exportation of tallow, raw, manufactured, or in barrel, is permitted on payment of a duty of 3 ducats per cantar. War-Office, 10th November, 1854. 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Serjeant-Major James Hayes, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Fletcher, deceased. Dated 10th November, 1854. 3rd Light Dragoons, Lieutenant the Honourable Algernon Thomas Moreton, from half pay of the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Macqueen, who exchanges. Dated 10th November, 1854. 4th Light Dragoons, Cornet Fiennes Wykeham Martin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hartman, promoted by purchase to an Unattached Company. 1854. Dated 10th November, 6th Light Dragoons, Quartermaster Thomas Anderson, from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, without purchase, and Riding Master. Dated 10th November, 1854. 12th Light Dragoons, Assistant-Surgeon Edward Bailey Tuson, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Foaker, deceased. Dated 10th November, 1854. 17th Light Dragoons, Regimental Serjeant-Major Charles James Ffennell to be Quartermaster, vice Yates, appointed to the 11th Light Dragoons. Dated 10th November, 1854. 11th Regiment of Foot, Robert William Kinahan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carr, who retires. Dated 10th November, 1854. 12th Foot, Lieutenant John Reynolds Palmer to be Captain, without purchase, vice Crofton, deceased. Dated 26th August, 1854. Ensign Julius Henry Stirke to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Palmer. Dated 26th August, 1854. 18th Foot, Lieutenant Henry James Stephenson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Bruce, who retires. Dated 10th November, 1854. Ensign Richard Pretyman Bishopp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stephenson. Dated 10th November, 1854. John Shadwell Theobald, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bishopp. Dated 10th November, 1854. 19th Foot, Ensign John Henry Kirke to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice H. L. W. Clarke, who retires. Dated 10th November, 1854. Thomas Bewley Monsell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kirke. Dated 10th November, 1854. 22nd Foot, Captain William Thomas Smith, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Blackall, who exchanges. Dated 12th September, 1854. 26th Foot, Ensign James Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chute, promoted. Dated 10th November, 1854. Henry Augustus Barton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong. Dated 10th November, 1854. 45th Foot, Lieutenant Frederick Robert Grantham to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smyth, whose promotion by purchase, on the 13th |
