discovery ship, has been promoted to the rank of Captain for services performed in search of Sir John Franklin, and for the discovery of the certainty of a North-West Passage. Comm. Inglefield also is promoted to the rank of Captain.

Comms. Nicholas Le Febvre, W. Edmonstone, Lord William Compton, and Henry R. Foote, to be Captains.

Lieuts. A. J. Burton, H. Croft, H. Temple, A. C. Gordon, and F. J. Diggins, to be Commanders.

24. Adm. Sir William Hall Gage to be Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom.

21. Rear-Adm. Sir J. A. Gordon, K.C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red, with seniority of 8th January 1848.

Appointments.—1. Lieut. H. B. Hankey to be Flag-Lieutenant at Ports, mouth.

20. Capt. W. Crispin, additional to the Victoria and Albert yacht.

Capt. Hastings R. Yelverton (1843) to the Arrogant, 47, screw; Capt. Fremantle to the Juno, 26.

22. Lieut. the Hon. Fitzgerald A. Foley to be First Lieutenant of the Victoria and Albert, yacht.

27. Comm. John B. Cragg to the Devonport ordinary; Comm. Matthew S. Nolloth to the Frolic, 16.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Right Rev. W. Tyrrell, D.D. (Bishop of Newcastle, Australia), to the Archbishopric of Sydney, New South Wales. Rev. J. Armstrong, to the Bishopric of Graham's Town.

Rev. J. D. Collis, Honorary Canon of Worcester.

Rev. R. Symes, Canonry in Wells Cathedral.

T. E. C. Leslie, esq., Professorship of Political Economy and Jurisprudence, Queen's College, Belfast.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Frederick Glennie, esq., to be Consul at Mexico.

15. William Thomas Napier Champ, esq., to be Colonial Secretary for Van Dieman's Land.

15. Robert Handyside, esq., to be one of the Lords of Justiciary in Scotland. 16. James Craufurd, esq., to be Solicitor-General for Scotland.

James Hannen, esq., to be agent on the part of Great Britain in the Mixed Commission established under the convention, Feb. 8, 1853, between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the settlement of outstanding claims.

18. The Earl of Seafield elected a Representative Peer of Scotland.

22. The Hon. George S. Stafford Jerningham (now Secretary of Embassy at Paris) to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway.

25. Knighted, Capt. Stephen Bartlett Lakeman, late Commander of Lakeman's Waterkloof Rangers.

26. William Lonsdale, esq., to be Colonial Treasurer for the colony of Victoria.

Henry Cadogan Rothery, esq., M.A. (Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty), to be Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, vice Swabey, resigned.

28. David Mure, esq., advocate, to be Sheriff of Perthshire, vice James Craufurd, esq., Her Majesty's Solicitor-Gene

ral for Scotland.

29. The Right Hon. Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, the Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, Charles Hay Cameron, esq., John M'Pherson M'Leod, esq., John Abra ham Francis Hawkins, esq., Thomas Flower Ellis, esq., and Robert Lowe, esq., to be Commissioners in England, to examine and consider the reform of the Judicial Establishment, Judicial Procedure, and Laws of India.

30. The Hon. Henry George Howard (now Secretary of Legation at Vienna) to be Secretary of Embassy at Paris.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

4. 18th Foot, brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Grattan, C.B., to be Lieut.-Col.; brevet Major C. A. Edwards to be Major.45th Foot, Capt. H. J. Shaw to be Major.

11. 39th Foot, Major W. Munro to be Lieut. Col.; Capt. W. C. Wolfe to be Major.

15. Corps of Royal Engineers, brevet Major B. S. Stehelin to be Lieut-.Col.

NAVY PROMOTIONS.

12. To be Rear-Admiral on the reserved half-pay list, Capt. Percy Grace. -To be Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Capt. Henry Dundas; to be Rear-Admiral of the White, Sir James Stirling; to be Rear-Admiral of the Red, Sir Watkin Owen Pell.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Right Rev. W. Higgin, D.D., to the Bishopric of Derry and Raphoe. Rev. H. Griffin, D.D., Bishopric of Limerick.

Rev. R. W. Barnes, Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Exeter.

Rev. J. Drummond, Honorary Ca nonry in Peterborough Cathedral. Rev. T. Fell, jun., Honorary Canonry in Peterborough Cathedral.

Rev. F. H. Freeth, Honorary Canonry in Collegiate Church of Cumbrae. Rev. E. H. Gifford, Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral.

Ven. Rev. S. Hood (Dean of Argyll and the Isles), Honorary Canonry in Collegiate Church of Cumbrae.

Rev. E. Huxtable, Canonry in Wells Cathedral.

Rev. J. P. Keigwin, Honorary Canonry in Collegiate Church of Cumbrae.

Rev. G. C. White, Honorary Canonry in Collegiate Church of Cumbrae.

Rev. H. M. Mapleton, Honorary Canonry in Collegiate Church of Cumbrae.

Rev. H. H. Westmore, Minor Canonry in Manchester Cathedral.

Rev. T. Protheroe, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

6. Rear-Adm. Sir William Edward Parry, knt., to be Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.

7. Hercules James Robertson, esq., advocate, to be one of the Lords of Session in Scotland.

8. Robert Campbell, esq. (now Consul at Dunkirk), to be Consul at Rhodes and the other Turkish Islands in the Archipelago. Niven Kerr, esq. (now Consul at Rhodes), to be Consul at Dunkirk.

9. Major-Gen. Henry Godwin, C.B., Brig. Gen. Scudamore Winde Steel, C.B., of the Madras Army, and Commodore George Robert Lambert, R.N., to be Knights Commanders of the Bath; and Lieut.-Col. Edward Alan Holdich, 80th Foot, Capt. John Walter Tarleton, R.N., and Capt. Charles Fred. Shadwell, R.N., to be Companions of the said Order; Lieut.-Col. James Colley Tudor, Bengal Fusiliers, Lieut.-Col Hugh Fraser, Bengal Engineers, and Capt. Henry Blosse Lynch, of the Indian Navy, to be extra Companions of the same.

Lieut. Col. Archibald Bogle, of the Bengal Establishment, Civil Commissioner in the Tenasserim and Martaban Provinces, knighted by patent.

13. Niven Moore, esq., now Consul at Beyrout, to be Consul-General in Syria.

22. Robert Macfarlane, esq., advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire of Renfrew.

23. The Hon. Henry Elliot, now Secretary of Legation at the Hague, to be Secretary of Legation at Vienna.

24. John Bowring, esq., now Consul at Canton, to be Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.

27. Joseph Burnley Hume, esq., barrister-at-law, John Simon, esq., and John Frederic Bateman, esq., to be Commissioners for inquiring into the causes which have led to and aggravated the late outbreak of Cholera at Newcastleupon-Tyne, Gateshead, and Tynemouth.

Mr. Temple, Mr. Edward James, Mr. Grove, and Mr. Montague Smith, to be Queen's Counsel.

John J. Dyer, esq., to be Chief Clerk of the Admiralty.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

2. 53rd Foot, Capt. John M'Neill Walter to be Major.

7. Royal Engineers, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles W. Pasley, K.C.B., to be Colonel Commandant.

9. 20th Foot, Major-Gen. Henry Godwin, C.B., to be Colonel.-Brevet, Col. Sir John Cheape, K.C.B., of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to be an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty. To be Lieut.-Colonels in the Army: Majors Francis Wigston, 18th Foot, A. C. Errington, 51st Foot, C. A. Edwards, 18th Foot, and A. T. Rice, 51st Foot. To be Majors in the Army: Capt. A. N. Campbell, 18th Foot, and Capt. W. T. Bruce, 18th Foot.-To be Lieut.-Colonels in the Army in the East Indies: Majors Joseph Turton, Bengal Art., John Welchman, 10th Bengal N. I., William Hill, 1st Madras Fusiliers, J. G. Neill, 1st Madras Fusiliers, J. C. Boulderson, 35th Madras N. Inf., Hugh Fraser, Bengal Eng., G. C. Armstrong, 47th Bengal N. Inf., Henry Cotton, 67th Bengal N. Inf., and C. S. Reid, Bengal Art.-To be Majors in the Army in the East Indies: Captains W. A. J. Mayhew, 8th Bengal N. Inf., S. G. C. Renaud, 1st Madras Fusiliers, Grant Allan, 3rd Madras N. Inf., A. R. Dallas, 1st Madras N. Inf., W. F. Nuthall, 18th Bengal N. Inf., and Albert Fytche, 70th Bengal N. Inf.

13. Coldstream Foot Guards, Lieut. and Capt. William Mark Wood to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, vice Paget. -48th Foot, Lieut. Col. Henry McMa nus, Inspecting Field Officer of the Militia in the Ionian Islands, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice brevet Col. Hon. A. Dalzell, who exchanges; Major Benjamin Riky to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice McManus; Capt. Andrew Green to be Major.

16. Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B. (now serving as a Lieut.-General at the Cape of Good Hope), to be Adjutant-General to the Forces, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Brown, K.C.B., resigned.--27th Foot, Lieut. Col. Edward St. Maur, from 51st Foot, to be Lieut. Colonel.-30th Foot, Major W. F. Hoey to be Lieut-Colonel ; Capt. J. B. Patullo to be Major.-46th Foot, Capt. David Fyffe to be Major.

23. 60th Foot, Major C. H. Spence to be Lieut.-Colonel; Capt. the Hon. H. L. Powys to be Major.-63rd Foot,

Major E. S. T. Swyny to be Lieut.Colonel; Capt. Patrick Lindesay to be Major.--Staff, Lieut.-Col. A. C. V. Pole, from 63rd Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting District, vice Lieut.-Col. J. Stoyte, who exchanges.

30. 4th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Bell, K.C.B., from 95th Regt., to be Colonel.--20th Foot, Major-Gen. Nathaniel Thorn, C.B., to be Colonel.95th Foot, Major-Gen. Sir Francis Cockburn to be Colonel.-14th Light Dragoons, brevet Major William Wilmer to be Major.-20th Foot, Capt. F. C. Evelegh to be Major.-34th Foot, Lieut.-Col. C. F. Maxwell, from 82nd Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel.-68th Foot, Major Henry Smyth to be Lieut.-Colonel; Capt. H. G. Wynne to be Major.

82nd Foot, Lieut.-Col. Nicholas R. Brown, from 34th Foot, to be LieutColonel.-87th Foot, Capt. Alexander Murray to be Major.-Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Major Lord Mark Kerr, from 20th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel.

NAVY PROMOTIONS.

5. Capt. the Hon. Montagu Stopford to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.-Retired Capt. William Hotham, K.H., to be retired Rear-Admiral on the terms proposed 1st of September, 1846.

Appointments.-5. Rear-Adm. Arthur Fanshawe, C.B., Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, to succeed Sir George Seymour, K.C.B., in the Command-in-Chief in the West Indies. -Rear Adm. William Fanshawe Martin to succeed Rear-Adm. Fanshawe as Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.

19. Capt. R. L. Warren to the Cressy, 80, screw-steamship.

21. Comm. John W. Domville to the Cressy.

22. Capt. Thomas S. Brock, additional to the Britannia, 120.

28. Capt. John Shepherd (1840) to the Fisgard, flag ship, for service as Commodore Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard.-Capt. George Ramsay to the Euryalus, 50, screw steam-frigate. -Capt. Sir Fred. W. E. Nicolson, bart., to the Pique, 40.-Capt. A. P. Ryder to the Dauntless, 24, screw steam-frigate.-Capt. Charles Graham, C.B., to be Naval Aide-de-camp to the Queen.

To be Captains: George A. Bedford, James N. Strange, James Stoddart, and George A. Seymour.

THE BRIDGEWATER CASE. IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

August 19, 1853.

EGERTON, Appellant; BROWNLOW. AND OTHERS, Respondents. THE leading facts of this very remarkable case, which arose out of the extraordinary provisions of the will of the last Earl of Bridgewater, and involved the diversion of estates valued at 70,000l. per annum from the sons of the last possessor and the natural heir of the testator, have been sufficiently set forth in the "LAW CASES" of the volume of the ANNUAL REGIS TER for the year 1851.

It is there recorded that the cause was argued with great ability before the present Lord Chancellor, then one of the Vice-Chancellors, who, in giving judgment, stated that the only questions were, first, whether the conditions of the will by which Lord Alford and his heirs would become vested of the estates in fee were conditions precedent or subsequent; and, secondly, whether the conditions were or were not impossible, or contrary to public policy: and his Lordship was clearly of opinion that the conditions were conditions precedent, and not having been complied with, that the estates passed over to the next substituted heir of entail; and his Lordship thought that, in consequence, it

was not necessary to enter into the question whether the conditions were contrary to public policy or otherwise.

An appeal against this decision was brought to the House of Lords, the court of last appeal; that august tribunal, constituted, as to its operative part, of those lawyers and jurisprudents who have achieved, by the wisdom of a wellproven legal life, those dignities which place them among the hereditary legislators and councillors of the realm; and whose judicial decisions, based upon the experience of the bar and the bench, are sanctioned by those hereditary peers, whose position places them, as a body, above all temptations to unjust judgment.

The result of the appeal to this tribunal upon the present occasion was most remarkable. Upon ordinary appeals, whatever may be the result, the decision, however unexpected, is seldom in direct conflict with those of the ordinary tribunals. In the Bridgewater Case, the House of Lords took an entirely independent view of the case, and gave a decision not only directly reversing that of a most able and conscientious Judge, but in utter conflict with the opinions of the ancient and constitutional assessors of their Lordships' House, the Judges of the land.

The case having been most carefully argued before the House of