4534 THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 15, 1876.

An Act to grant further powers to the South Chaplain's' Department, The Reverend William Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company. Minto Roberts, B.A., to be Chaplain of the An Act for supplying with water the boroughs Fourth Class, from the 27th January, 1876, of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesborough, and such antedate not to carry back allowances. other places adjoining or near thereto ; and for ' other purposes. An Act to enable the Wye Valley Railway India Office, l±th August, 1876. Company to construct new railways and other works ; and for other purposes. HER Majesty has been pleased to approve of An Act to incorporate a Company for the the Admission of the undermentioned Officer to establishment, maintenance, and regulation of a the Bombay Staff Corps :— market on the south side of the city of Dublin, Captain John McKnight Hartigan, from the Half - and for facilitating the approach thereto by the pay List. Dated 20th July, 1875. •alteration, diversion, and widening of existing streets adjoining or near thereto ; and for other India Office, 14th August, 1876. purposes. HER 'Majesty has been pleased to approve of An Act to empowor the North Dublin Street the following promotions amongst the Officers of Tramways Company to construct new tramways ; the Staff Corps, and of Her Majesty's Indian and for other purposes. Military Forces, made by the Governments in An Act for enabling the mayor, aldermen, and India: — burgesses of the borough of Halifax to construct BREVET new works in ex'oasion of their waterworks, and for extending their limits of water supply, and for To be Colonels. authorizing them to extend their gas works ; and Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles for other purposes. Stanley Gough, C.B., V.C., Bengal Cavalry. Dated 28th November, 1875. Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley de Burgh Edwardes, (H. 6032.) Bombay Infantry. Dated 4th Fehruary, 1876. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Jenkins, Bengal Board of Trade (Harbour Department), Cavalry. Dated 20th February, 1876. Whitehall Gardens, August 15, 1876. THE Board of Trade have received through To be Lieutenant-Colonels. the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy Major John Boyd jSaunders,. Bengal Cavalry. of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Charge* Dated 20th December, 1875. d'Affaires at Madrid, stating that in future the Major Stephen William Ogilvie Stevens, Bombay same pilotage dues will be charged on British Cavalry. Dated 31st January, 1876. vessels at Havanna as are at present levied upon Spanish- vessels. To be Major. (H. 6067.) Captain Albert Purcell Currie, Bombay Cavalry. Dated 4th March, 1876. Board of Trade (Harbour Department), Whitehall Gardens, Avgust 15r 1876. Captain Augustus Frederick Curtis, Madras THE Board of Trade have received through Cavalry, to be Major, in succession to General the Secretary of State for foreign. Affairs A. Dick, Bengal Infantry, deceased. Dated a copy of a Telegram from Her Majesty's Acting • 26th November,'1875. Consul-General at Alexandria,' stating that all Captain John Shakespear Irvine, Bengal Cavalry, arrivals from the Persian Gulf are admitted to to be Major, in succession to General Sir H. free pratique. G. A. Taylor, Madras Infantry, deceased. Dated 10th February, 1876. Admiralty, llth August, 1876. SUBSTANTIVE PROMOTIONS. Navigating Lieutenant' Benjamin S. Jackson has BENGAL STAFF CORPS. been promoted to the rank of Staff Commander To be Lieutenant-Colonels. in Her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of the Major Henry Twisden Forbes. Dated,llth De- 9th instant. cember, 1875. Admiralty, 12th. August, 1876. Major Frank Barnard Foote. Dated llth De- cember, 1875. The following appointment has been made in Major Henry Thomas Oldfield. Dated llth De-. the Corjjs of Royal Marines, viz.:— cember, 1875. Captain and Brevet Colonel Sir Francis Worgan Major Henry Lionel Charles Bernard. Dated Festing, K.C.M.G., C.B., Royal Marine Artil- 11th December, 1875. lery, to be Assistant Adjutant-General, vice Major William Alexander Garden. Dated llth Colonel Charles William Adair, C.B., A.D.C., December, 1875. appointed Commandant of the Portsmouth Major Thomas Buttanshaw. Dated 12th Decem- Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry. Dated ber, 1875. 9th August, 1876. Major William Gordon. Dated 12th December, 1875. Major Henry Vincent Mathias. Dated 20th De- War Office, Pall Mall, cember, 1875. 15th. August, 1876. Major William Jackson. Dated 20th December, Ordnance Store Department, Deputy Commissary 1875. G-erald Edward March to be Commissary, vice Major William Playfair. Dated 20th December, Mansel Octavius Miller, deceased. Dated 30th 1875. July, 1876. Major (Brevet-Colonel) Thomas Gilbert Kennedy. Deputy Commissary-General William Henry Dated 24th December, 1875. Parkyn to retired pay, from the 24th August, Major Charles William Robert Chester. Dated 1876, he having attained the prescribed age. 20th February, 1876.