3683 tion, and to order that the same be taken into Vice- of the Blue Sir Phipps Hornby, consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her K.C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on the Rear-Admiral Villiers Francis Hatton, on the tenth day of November next. Reserved List, to be a Vice-Admiral on the And Her Majesty is further pleased to direct Reserved List. that this Order be forthwith published in the Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Augustus "William London Gazette; and that copies thereof be James Clifford, Bart., C.B., to be Vice-Admiral affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of, of the Blue. or on some conspicuous places within, the parishes Rear-Admiral of the "White Sir James Stirling, affected by such representation, one month before Knt., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. the srvid tenth day of November. Rear- Alexander Thomas Wm. L. Bathurst. Emeric Vidal to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Henry Algernon Eliot, Captain James Wigston, Captain George Frederic RJTCS, C.B., to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List. Foreign Office, September 21, 1855. Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, Knt., C.B., to be The Queen has been graciously pleased to Rear-Admiral of the Blue. appoint Thomas Joseph Hutchinson, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po. The following Captains on the Retired List have also been promoted to be Retired Rear-Ad- mirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of 1st September, 1846, without increase of pay : War Office, 5th October, 1855. Captain Philip Parker King. Captain Courtenay Edmund William Boyle. BREVET. Captain Rowland Mainwaring. Major-General Sir William Eyre, K.C.B., to have Captain John Wyatt Watling. the local rank of Lieutenant-General in Turkey. Captain Richard Pridham. Dated 5th October, 1855. Captain John Lyons. Colonel Robert Garrett, of the 46th Foot, Briga- Captain Philip Westphal. dier-General in Turkey, to have the local rank Captain Edward Sparshott, K,H. of Major-General in Turkey. Dated 5th Oc- Captain William Blight. tober, 1855. Captain George Woollcombe. Colonel Frederick Horn, of the 20th Foot, to have the local rank of Brigadier-General in Turkey Dated 5th October, 1855. Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel His Serene High- Commission signed by the Queen. ness Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe Weimar, of the 1 st or Grenadier Regiment o: East York Regiment of Militia. Foot Guards, to be one of Her-Majesty's A.ides- Captain Richard William Cradock, late 17th Regi- de-Camp, with the rank of Colonel in the Army. ment of Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Baines, Dated 5th October, 1855. resigned. Dated 2 1 st July, 1855.

Commissions signed by the Vice Lieutenant of the East Riding of the County of York, and the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull. Admiralty, 28th September, 1855. East York Regiment of Militia. First Lieutenant Thomas William JohivMcDougal, Reserved Half-pay List of the Royal Marines, Joseph Bolland, Gent., to be Ensign, vice and now Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Cap- Richardson, promoted. Dated 2nd October tain Unattached, on Reserved Half-pay. 1855. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine o 2nd or North Durham Regiment of Militia. Admiralty, 4th October, 1855. Theobald Fetherstonhaugh LangKtaff, Esq., Assist- Admiral of the White the Honourable George ant-Surgeon of the Leicester Militia, to be' Elliot, C.B., has been appointed to receive a Surgeon, vice Tyler, who retires. Dated 29th. pension of £150 a-year, as provided for in Her September, 1855. . Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June, 1851, vacant by the decease of Admiral John Giffard ; Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the and the name of Admiral the Honourable George County of Stafford; Elliot, C.B., has been removed to the Reserved Half-pay List accordingly ; and, in consequence 1st Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia. of this removal, the following promotions, dated Arthur FitzGerald, Gent., to be Ensign. Dated the 27th ultimo, have taken place : 12th September, 1855. Admiral of the Blue Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.B., K.C.H., to be Admiral of the White. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir John Louis, Bart., County of Wigtown. to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Edward Chetham The Galloway Rifles. Strode, K.C.B., K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of Arthur Graham Hay, Esquire, to be Ensign. the Re.l Dated 26th September, 1855, A2