Majesty's reign, doth hereby declare, that a treaty The Queen has also been pleased to appoint has been concluded and is now subsisting between Lieutenant Douglas Gatton, R. E. to be Secretary Her Majesty and His Imperial and Royal High- to the said Commission. ness the Grand Duke of Tuscany : And the Right Honourable the Lords Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Downing-Street, September 10, 1847. Wm. L. Bathurst. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, Bart. Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honour- able Order of the Bath (having the local rank Crown-Office, September 10, 1847. of Lieutenant General at the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, with its The Peers of Scotland, elected and chosen to territories and dependencies), to be Governor and sit and vote in the House of Peers in the Par- Commander in Chief in and over the said,settle- liament of the United Kingdom summoned to ment, with its territories and dependencies, and to be be holden at Westminster the 21st day of Sep- Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settling tember 1847, are and adjustment of the aifairs of the territories adjacent or contiguous to the eastern and north The Marquis of Tweeddale, eastern frontier of the said settlement. The Earl of Morton, The Earl of Home, The Earl of Airlie, The Earl of Leven and Melville, War-0ffi.ee, 10th September 1847. The Earl of Selkirk, The Earl of Orkney, 4th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Thomas Hutton, The Earl of Seafield, from 15th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mont- Viscount of Strathallan, gomery, who exchanges. Dated 10th Sep- The Lord Gray, tember 1847. The Lord Saltoun, The Lord Sinclair, 6th Regiment of Foot, .Captain William Frederick The Lord Elphinstone, Viscount Chewton, from 3d West India The Lord Colville of Culross, Regiment, to be Captain, vice Ogilby, who The Lord Rollo, and exchanges. Dated 10th September 1847. The Lord Polwarth. 15th Foot, Lieutenant Conrad Montgomery, from 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hutton, who exchanges. Dated 10th September Crown-Office, September 9, 1847. 1847. MEMBERS returned to serve in the PAR- 62d Foot, Serjeant Major Thomas Boyd to be LIAMENT summoned to be holden at "West- Quartermaster, vice William Guy, who retires minster, on Tuesday the 21st day of Sep- on half-pay. Dated 10th September 1847. tember 1847." 67th Foot, Captain Donald Campbell, from half- pay 94th Foot, to be Captain, repaying the County of Carnarvon. difference, vice Deverell, promoted. Dated The Honourable Edward Gordon Douglas 10th September 1847. Pennant, of Penrhyn-castle, in the said county. Lieutenant William Hayter Hussey to be Captain, by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires. Borough of Carnarvon. Dated 10th September 1847. Ensign Robert Blakeney to be Lieutenant, by WijQiam Bulkeley Hughes, of Plasloch, in the purchase, vice Hussey. Dated 10th September county of Anglesea, Esq. 1847. Gentleman Cadet Vivian Arthur Webber, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blakeney. Dated 10th Sep- Whitehall, September 8, 1847. tember 1847. Gentleman Cadet John Terence Nicolls O'Brien, The Queen has been pleased to appoint the from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, Right Honourable Lord "Wrottesley; Professor without purchase, vice Anderson, appointed Robert Willis, M.A.; Captain Henry James, Adjutant. Dated llth September 1847. R.E.; George Rennie, Esq.; William Cubitt, Esq.; and Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq. to be Her 3d West India Regiment, Captain David Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into the FitzRoy Ogilby, from 6th Foot, to be Captain, conditions to be observed by engineers in the vice the Viscount Chewton, who exchanges. application of iron in railway structures. Dated 10th September 1847.