4th London Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Lieutenant Robert Ebsworth in the above Corps. Dated 18th February, 1863.

MEMORANDA.

2nd Administrative Battalion Kent Rifle
Volunteers.

Adjutant Edward Ogle Streatfeild to serve with the rank of Captain. Dated 13th February, 1863.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Lieutenant Edward Ogle Streatfeild in the 23rd Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.

23rd Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Ensign Richard David Turner to be Lieutenant, vice Streatfeild, resigned, and appointed Adjutant. Dated 14th February, 1863.

Edmund Meade Waldo, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Turner, promoted. Dated 14th February,

1863.

MEMORANDUM.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commissions held respectively by Captains Byam Martin Davies, Edward Carrier Smith Tompson, and Osborne William Tancock in the Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.

Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps. Lieutenant Wilfred Joseph Cripps to be Captain, vice Stanhope, resigned. Dated 17th February, 1863.

Lieutenant Edward Russell Bernard to be Captain, vice Davies, resigned. Dated 17th February, 1863. Serjeant-Major Fitzwilliam Wentworth AtkinsBowyer to be Captain, vice Tompson, resigned. Dated 17th February, 1863.

Ensign Richard Arthur Henry Mitchell to be Lieutenant, vice Cripps, promoted. Dated 17th February, 1863.

Dated

Ensign James Douglas Clephane Wickham to be. Lieutenant, vice Bernard, promoted. 17th February, 1863.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Argyll.

11th Argyllshire (Mid Lorn) Rifle Volunteers. Francis Yeoman, Gent., to be Ensign, vice William Forbes, resigned. Dated 14th February, 1863.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.

4th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Ensign Alfred Coles to be Captain, vice Syms, resigned. Dated 4th February, 1863.

MEMORANDUM.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of Captain Coles bearing the title of Captain-Commandant of this Corps.

MEMORANDA.

6th Aberdeenshire Artillery Volunteer Corps.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Second Lieutenant Thomas Blaikie. Dated 10th February, 1863.

3rd Company of Leicestershire Rifle Volunteers.

The Queen has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Captain Edward Henry Maior Clarke in the above Corps.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Captain Thomas Fraser Duff in the 1st Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. Dated 9th February, 1863.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1858.

Notice is given in this Gazette by the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that the fourth and fifth sections of the Local Government Act, 1858, has been duly adopted within the district of Fenton, Staffordshire.-Dated the 20th day of February, 1863.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 24, 1863.

Buckingham Palace, February 16, 1863. HIS Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to make the following appointment in His Household:

To be Honorary Physician :

Henry Wentworth Acland, Esq., M.D.

Buckingham Palace, February 21, 1863.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Claudius F. Du Pasquier, Esq., F.R.C.S., M.S.A., to be Surgeon Apothecary to his Household.

Downing Street, February 21, 1863.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William James Maxwell, Esq., to be Collector of Customs for Her Majesty's Settlement of Lagos.

Crown Office, February 23, 1863.
MEMBER returned to serve in the present
PARLIAMENT.

City of Chichester.

John Abel Smith, of Belgrave-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Humphry William Freeland, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.

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Board of Trade, Whitehall,

February 23, 1863.

THE Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Major Stokes, enclosing the following translation of certain Regulations which have been issued by the European Commission of the Danube, relative to the discharge of ballast in the waters of that river and in the Sulina roads; these Regulations being supplementary to that of the 29th April, 1858.

ART. 1.-Vessels are peremptorily forbidden to discharge their ballast either in the bed of the river or in the Sulina roadstead. They are equally forbidden to discharge ballast in the sea near the roadstead where the depth is less than 10 fathoms.

The discharge of ballast on shore above the port of Sulina, may only take place at such points along the river bank as shall be decided on by the Inspector-General of Navigation,-of which public notice will be given.

Ballast so discharged must be so far removed from the river that the foot of its slope shall be at least 20 feet distant from the natural river bank.

ART. 2.-Every infraction of the provisions of the Regulation of 29th April, 1858, and of those of the preceding Article shall be punished by a fine of from 10 to 50 Dutch ducats. The fine shall be of 100 ducats for a repetition of the offence during the same voyage.

ART. 3.-The Captain of the Port of Sulina will inflict fines incurred for infractions committed in the Port of Sulina, on the roadstead, or in its neighbourhood. Fines incurred for infractions committed in the river between Isaktcha and the