Chevalier Giovanni Durando, Lieutenant-General. Chevalier Ardingo Trotti, Lieutenant-General. To be Companions. MM. Adolphe, Comte de Monet, General of Division. Henri Adolphe Danner, Colonel, 95th Regiment of the Line Eugène Barral, Lieutenant-Colonel of Artil- Henri Alexandre Arthur, Vicomte Bertrand, Alexis Lugeol, Capitaine de Vaisseau. seau, Ferdinand Anne-Duportal, Capitaine de Guillaume Lucien Émile Larrieu, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Antoine Marie Ferdinand Maussion de Candé, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Philippe Victor Touchard, Capitaine de Vais seau. Louis Marie Auguste Warnier de Wailly, Augustin Dupouy, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Charles Marius Albert de Dompierre d'Hor- Pierre Lescure, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Eugène Louis Hugues Méquet, Capitaine Louis Léon Théodore Dufour de Montlouis, Henri Marie Huchet de Cintré, Capitaine Oswald Ginoux de la Coche, Capitaine de Marie Jules Dupré, Capitaine de Frégate Jean Antoine Thomas Reybaud, Lieutenant- Philippe Xavier Pélissier, Lieutenant-Colonel Edme Pierre Chevillotte, Chef de Bataillon d'Artillerie de Marine. Count Augusto Pettiti, Colonel d'Etat Major, Chef d'Etat Major. Chevalier Alessandro de la Rovere, Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery and Intendant- Chevalier Giuseppe Govone, Major d'Etat Major, and The Marquis Orazio Di Negro, Capitano di Vascello of the 1st Class. Foreign-Office, December 1, 1856. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George Skelton, Esq., to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty in the several Courts of Mixed Commission, established at Sierra Leone, under Treaties with Foreign Powers for the suppression of the Slave Trade. Foreign-Office, December 31, 1856. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert Bogle as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for the Republic of New Granada. Board of Trade, Whitehall, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Leipzig, stating, with reference to a Treaty recently concluded between the Zollverein and the free city of Bremen, that the suspension of the Weser tolls, provided for by a separate Convention annexed to that Treaty, will take place from the 1st January, 1857. Admiralty, 24th December, 1856. Gentleman Cadet William Henry Nantes to be Gentleman Cadet Matthew Henry Farquharson to be Second Lieutenant. Gentleman Cadet Martin Hogge to be Second Lieutenant. Gentleman Cadet Joseph Philips to be Second Lieutenant. Gentleman Cadet Charles Robert Ricketts to be Second Lieutenant. Gentleman Cadet Duncan George Pitcher to be Second Lieutenant. Gentleman Cadet Charles James Kinsman to be Second Lieutenant. Commission signed by the Queen. 1st Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. Robert Knights, Esq., to be Quartermaster from the 1st of December, 1856, vice Kinna, resigned. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex. 5th or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. Henry Milward Nash, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Harris, appointed to the Cape Mounted Rifles. Dated 15th December, 1856. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Warwick. Warwickshire Militia. 1st Regiment. William Hull, Esq., to be Captain, vice Captain Robert Borthwick, resigned. Dated 26th December, 1856. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berwick. Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peebles Regiment of Militia Artillery. Second Lieutenant Robert Haynes Lovell to be First Lieutenant, vice Stewart, appointed Quartermaster. Dated 29th December, 1856. Ensign Robert Hanson Coldwell, late of the 5th Regiment of West York Militia, exchanged into the 2nd Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia, and was promoted to a Lieutenancy in that Regiment on the 22nd day of May, 1856. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 6, 1857. Admiralty, January 5, 1857. THE following Despatches have been received from Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K C. B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the East India and China Station : No. 103. SIR, OPERATIONS AT CANTON. Niger, at Canton, November 14, 1856. IN the sixth paragraph of my general letter, No. 91, of the 15th ultimo, I alluded to the Chinese authorities having a few days previously forcibly seized the native crew of a lorcha, under English colours, and that I had demanded redress. 2. I have now the honour to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that on tho 8th of October the lorcha Arrow, with a colonial register from the Governor of Hong Kong, was boarded, whilst at anchor at Canton, by a Chinese officer and a party of soldiers, who, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the master, an Englishman, seized 12 of her crew, bound and carried them away, and hauled down the British flag. Her Majesty's Consul afterwards remonstrated with the officer who had seized the men, but without effect. 3. This outrage was immediately brought to the notice of the Imperial High Commissioner by Mr. |