525 on the map or plan hereunto annexed, and thereon Foreign-Office, February 21, 1852.- coloured red: The Queen has been graciously pleased to " Your Majesty's said Commissioners beg appoint John Julius Collings Westwood, now leave further to represent, that it also appears British Vice-Consul at Rio de Janeiro, to be Her to them to be expedient that banns of matri- Majesty's Consul at that Port. mony should be published, and that mar- riages, baptisms, churchings, and burials shoulc The Queen has also been graciously pleased to be solemnized or. performed in the said church o: appoint Bonamy Mansell Power, Esq. to be Her Saint Thomas, Wigan, and that all the fees to Majesty's Consul at Paraiba. arise therefrom should be paid and belong to the incumbent of such church for the time being. Master of the Horse's Office, February 16,1852. " That ' the consent of the Right Reverend John, Bishop of the said diocese of Chester, has The Queen has been graciously pleased to . been obtained thereto, as required by the appoint George Gordon Macpherson, Esq. to be Acts and sections hereinbefore mentioned, in Page of Honour to Her Majesty, vice Forbes. testimony whereof he has signed and sealed this representation. Downing-Street, February 23, 1852. " Your Majesty's said Commissioners therefore humbly pray that your Majesty wiH be graciously The Queen has been graciously pleased to give pleased to take the premises into your royal con- orders for the appointment of the Right Honour- sideration, and to make such Order in respect able Lord Broughton to be an Ordinary Member thereto as to your Majesty in your royal wisdom of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights shall seem meet." Grand Cross of the Most Honourable ,—of Lord Howden, Her Majesty's En- voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Her Majesty, having taken the said representa- to the Queen of Spain, to be an Ordinary Mem- tion, together with the map or plan thereunto ber of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or annexed, into consideration, was pleased, by and Knights Commanders of the said Most Honour- with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve able Order,—of Major-General John Owen, C.B. thereof, and to order, as. it is hereby ordered, late Deputy Adjutant-General of the Royal that the proposed assignment be accordingly made; Marines, to be an Ordinary Member of the Mili- and the recommendations of the said' Commis- tary Division of the Second Class, or Knights sioners, in respect of the publication of banns, Commanders of the said Most Honourable Order, and the solemnization of marriages, baptisms, —and of "William Miller, Esquire, Commissary- churchings, and burials, and the fees arising General to the Forces, to be an Ordinary Member therefrom, be carried into effect, agreeably to the of the Military Division of the Third Class, or provisions of the. said Acts; and Her Majesty, Companions of the said Most Honourable Order. by and with the like advice, is pleased to direct that this Order be forthwith enrolled Her Majesty has further been pleased to ap- pursuant to the said Acts, and registered by the point Richard Graves MacDonnell, Esquire, C.B. Registrar of the diocese of Chester. now Governor and Commandev-in-Chief in and Wm. L. Bathurst. over Her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Vincent; Morris Power, Esquire, to be Lieutenant- Gover- Buckingham-Palace, February 20,1852. nor of the Island of St. Lucia; Henry Cart- wright, Esquire, to be Superintendent of the This day had audience of Her Majesty: Penal Settlement in British Guiana; John Monsieur de Bille, Envoy Extraordinary and Palmer, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Treasurer Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of for the Island of Dominica; and Henry Robson, , to deliver his credentials; Esquire, to be Collector of Customs for Her To which he was introduced by Earl Granville, Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia. Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H. Master of Whitehall, February 23, 1852. the Ceremonies. The Queen has been pleased to nominate, constitute, and appoint Cosmo Innes, Esq., Ad- vocate, to be one of the Ordinary Clerks of Foreign-Office, February 12, 1852. Session in Scotland, in the room of Thomas The Queen has been graciously pleased to Thomson, Esq. resigned. appoint Arthur Charles Magenis, Esq. now Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation, to be Her Majesty's Envoy Ex- Whitehall, February 23, 1852. traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the The Queen has been pleased to 'appoint King of Wurtemberg. Benjamin Robert Bell, Esq. Advocate, to be The Queen has also been graciously pleased to Sheriff of the shires or sheriffdoms of Elgin and appoint Andrew Buchanan, Esq. now Secretary tfairn, in the room of Cosmo Innes, Esq. resigned. to Her Majesty's Legation at St. Petersburgh, to be Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation. Crown-Office, February 24, 1852. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to MEMBER returned to serve in this present appoint Philip Griffith, Esq. how Secretary to PARLIAMENT. Her Majesty's Legation at , to be Secretary County of Kent. to Her Majesty's Legation at Washington. Eastern Division. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to sir Brook William Bridges, of Goodnestone appoint Augustus Paget, Esq. now First Paid Park, Bart, in the room of John Pemberton Attache" to Her Majesty's Embassy at , to be Plumptre, Esq. who has accepted the office of Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Athens. Steward of Her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. A 2