THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 20, 1862. 2615 gas within the townships of Heckmondwike and Captain John Washington has served the time Liversedge, in the parish of Birstal, in the West required to qualify him for promotion to the Riding of county of York; and for other purposes. Active List of Flag Officers. The Lords of the An Act to amend some of the provisions of the Admiralty, however, considering that it would be Deed of Settlement of " The British Plate-Glass for the advantage of Her Majesty's Service that Company," and to confirm a lease granted by, and this Officer should continue to hold his present to confer further powers upon, that Company. appointment of Hydrographer to the Admiralty, An Act for rendering" valid certain letters have, by his own desire, and with the sanction patent granted to Thomas Webb, of Tutbury, in of an Order in Council, promoted. Captain John the county of Derby, Cotton Spinner, and James Washington to be a Rear-Admiral .on.the Reserved Craig, .of the same place, Manager. List. Captain Edward Pellew Halsted has therefore been promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. War Office, Pall Matt, The undermentioned Officers on the retired list 20th May, 1862. to have the rank and title expressed against their MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT. names, under the Order in Council of 7th May, 1858: To be Deputy Superintendents of Stores. Retired Vice-Admiral Bertie Cornelius Cator to Assistant Superintendent of Stores T. A. G. be Retired Admiral. Satchwell. Dated 7th May, 1862. Assistant Superintendent of Stores F. A. Gallet- Retired Rear-Admirals ley. Dated 7th May, 1862. ; Abraham Crawford, Assistant Superintendent of Stores G. Sandes. Russell Henry Manners, Dated 7th May, 1862. James Thome, to be Retired Vice-Admirals. And the following Retired Captains have been Admiralty, 19th May, 1862. promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the 1st The following Promotions, dated the 12th of of September, 1846, but without increase of pay: April last, consequent on the death, oh the llth of April, of Admiral of the White Sir Edward Henry Stroud, Chetham Strode, K.C.B., have this day. taken William Hext, place: William Haydon, William Benjamin Suckling, Admiral of the Blue Sir Phipps Hornby, G.C.B., William Gordon, . to be Admiral of the White. Thomas Sanders, Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Fairfax Moresby, Douglas Cox, K.C.B., to be Admiral of the Blue. Edwin Ludlow Rich, Vice-Admiral of the White the Honourable Henry Evan Nepean, John Rous to be VicerAdmiral of the -Red* George Vernon Jackson, Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir. Charles Howe Charles Colville. Frankland, Fremantle, K.C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the William George Hyndmah Whisb, White. Edward Reeves Philip Mainwaring, Rear-Admirals . . Thomas Fraser, - Peter Richards, Francis Deane Hutcheson, Henry "Gossett, Charles Basden, John Furneaux, Henry Edward Coffin, Jodrell Leigh, ^Francis Vere Cotton, Joseph O'Brien, ' Charles Smith, on the Reserved List, to be Vice-Admirals on the Francis Harding, Reserved List. John Williams Aldridge, William Allen, Rear-Admiral of the Red Henry Smith, C.B., to John Baker Porter Hay be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White John McDougall to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue George Elliot to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Admiralty, 19th May, 1862. Captains Rear-Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington, K.CJ3., Joseph Gape, having been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Mark John Currie, Greenwich Hospital, by patent dated the 17th William Burdett Dobson, instant, his name has been removed to a Reserved William Turner, List, to consist of the Flag Officers holding appoint- Frederick Moore Boultbee, ments in Greenwich Hospital; and the following Joseph Sherer, K.H., promotions, consequent on his removal, have this Edmund Yonge, day taken place: The Honourable Edward Thornton Wode- Rear-Admiral of the White Michael Quin to be house, Rear-Admiral of the Red. William Langford Castle, Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sidney. Colpoys James Beckford Lewis Hay, Dacres, C.B., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. The Honourable Edward Alfred John Captains the Honourable Keith Stewart, C.B., Harris, and George William Charles ,Lydiard to be William Ward Percival Johnson, Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List. Digby Marsh, : Captain George Goldsmith, C.B., 'to be Rear- . to be Rear-Admirals .on the Reserved List. Admiral of the Blue. A 2