1.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE GROSS PUBLIC INCOME OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, In the Year ended the 31st day of December, 1865, and of the actual Issues or Payments within the same period, exclusive of the sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments for Local Works, &c.

19,649,000 00

9,636,000 0 0 Terminable Annuities

3,364,000 0 0 Interest of Exchequer Bonds

7,603,000 0 0 Interest of Exchequer Bills

£

8. d.

£ s. d.

4,250,000 0 0

26,316,731 17 9

825,000 0 0

Army Navy

14,319,449 19 1

10,449,788 1 4

131,578 0 0

Miscellaneous Civil Services

Salaries, &c. of Revenue Departments. Packet Service

Scheldt Toll Redemption (second moiety)

687,301 6 2 472,634 00

37,721,439 15 9

2,673,478 7 6

174,598 16 1

Total Ordinary Expenditure £65,948,265 4 10

Expenses of Fortifications provided for by Money raised per Acts 26 and 27 Vict. c. 80, and 27 and 28 Vict. c. 109

Remaining in the Exchequer on the 31st day of December, 1864; the amount of Money raised by additions to the Funded or Unfunded Debt, and the amount applied towards the redemption of Funded or Paying off Unfunded debt in the Year ended the 31st day of December, 1865; the total amount of advances and December, 1865. Repayments on account of Local Works, &c., in the same period, with the difference accruing thereon; and the Balances in the Exchequer on the 31st day of

6,580,922 14 6

Issued to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, to be applied to the Redemption of Debt,

£ s. d.

England #5,388,193 3 10
At the Bank of
Ireland

...

Exchequer Bonds (Series L.) per Act 27 & 28 Vict. c. 74, dated 18th March, 1865 (payable 18th March, 1869) Excess of Income over Total Expenditure in the Year ended 31st December, 1865

VIZ.:

Sinking Fund, per Act 10 Geo. 4, c. 27. 2,639,405 2 3 Interest on Donations and Bequests

Exchequer Bills paid off in Money (in-
cluding £399,200 Bills paid in for
Revenue)

460,000 0 0 Advances for the Purchase of Bullion, and
for Local Works, &c., per various Acts
(including £500,000 for Lancashire
Distress)

600,000 0 0 2,688,213 2 8

Less-Repayments on account of ditto Excess of Advances over Repayments At the Bank of quer on the 31st De-Balances in the Exche-England cember, 1865.

27,650 9 11

+4,736,456 6 1

At the Bank of Ireland

1,061,773 0 10

Jan. 20. The Right Hon. Edward Berkeley, Baron Portman, to be Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon, and Rider and Master Forester of Dartmoor, in the room of the Duke of Newcastle, deceased.

Feb. 7. Montague Edward Smith, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, to be one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, on the resignation of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Knt.

Feb. 10. General H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., K.S.I., to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Feb. 28. The Right Hon. William Nathaniel Massey, to be an Ordinary Member of the Council of the GovernorGeneral of India.

March 1. The Hon. Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, K.C.B., H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.

March 7. Hugh William Hoyles, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Island of Newfoundland.

Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knt., to be, Governor and Commander-inChief of the Island of Ceylon and its dependencies.

Major-Gen. George Hutt, C.B., to be Secretary and Registrar to the Commissioners for the Government of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.

March 17. The Right Hon. Frederic, Baron Chelmsford; the Right Hon. Richard Southwell Bourke (commonly called Lord Naas); the Right Hon. Robert Vernon, Baron Lyveden; the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Right Hon. William Monsell; the Right Hon. John Inglis,

:

H.M.'s Justice Clerk in Scotland; the Right Hon. Thomas O'Haghan, one of the Justices of H.M.'s Court of Common Pleas in Ireland; the Right Hon. Sir James Plaisted Wilde, Knt., Judge of H.M.'s Court of Probate; Sir William Page Wood, Knt., a Vice-Chancellor; Sir Rouudell Palmer, Knt., H.M.'s AttorneyGeneral; Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Knt.; George Young, Esq., H.M.'s Solicitor-General for Scotland; Travers Twiss, Esq., D.C.L., one of H.M.'s Counsel and Alexander Murray Dunlop, Esq., to be H.M.'s Commissioners to inquire into and report upon the state and operation of the various laws now in force, in the different parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with respect to the constitution and proof of the contract of marriage, and the registration and other means of procuring evidence thereof, and also into the state and operation of the laws of the United Kingdom in relation to the marriages of European British subjects in India and in the Colonies; and also into the state and operation of such of the laws of the United Kingdom, as relate to the marriages of British subjects in foreign countries.

The Right Hon. Richard Bickerton Pemell, Lord Lyons, and the Right Hon. Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Knt., to be Members of H.M.'s Most Hon. Privy Council.

March 24. David Livingstone, Esq., D.C.L., lately H.M.'s Consul at Quillimane, to be H.M.'s Consul in the territories of all African Kings and Chiefs in the interior of Africa, not subject to the authority of the King of Portugal, or of the King of Abyssinia, or of the Viceroy of Egypt.

April 8. General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B., to be Constable of the Tower of London, in the room of FieldMarshal Stapleton, Viscount Combermere,

deceased; and General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B., to be Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, in the room of Field-Marshal Stapleton, Viscount Combermere, deceased.

April 11. Sir Richard Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B.; now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and also Chief Superintendent of British Trade, in China; Sir Harry Smith Parkes, K.C.B., now H.M.'s Consul at Shanghai, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan; and Charles Alexander Winchester, Esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Kanagawa, to be H.M.'s Consul at Shanghai.

Lieut. Arthur Balfour Haig, R.E., to be Equerry in attendance upon H.R.H. Prince Alfred.

May 5. Sir Edmund Hornby, Knt., late Judge of the Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople, to be Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan.

May 12. The Right Hon. Robert Montgomery, Lord Belhaven, K.T., to be H.M.'s High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

May 18. The honour of Knighthood conferred upon Montague Edward Smith, Esq., one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas; and on John Thwaites, Esq., Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

June 27. The Right Rev. Henry, Lord Bishop of Worcester, to be Clerk of the Closet in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of the Right Rev. John, Lord Bishop of Chester, deceased.

June 30. James Spence, Esq., M.D., Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, to be Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty in Scotland, in the room of Dr. David M'Lagan, deceased.

The Hon. Mrs. Arthur Hardinge, to be Bedchamber Woman to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, vice the Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce, resigned.

The Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce, to be Extra Bedchamber Woman to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales.

July 4. Falconer Atlee, Esq., Attaché, Registrar, and Librarian to H.M.'s Embassy, to be also Her Majesty's Consul at Paris.

Joseph Needham, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Island of Vancouver.

Robert Ker, Esq., to be Auditor-General for the Colony of British Columbia.

July 7. The Rev. George Protheroe, to be one of the Honorary Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

At the Court at Windsor. Present,

the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right Hon. Robert Monsey, Lord Cranworth: whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was, by Her Majesty's command, administered to his Lordship, and he took his place at the Board accordingly.

July 11. Congé d'élire ordered to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Chester to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the Death of Dr. John Graham; the Rev. Wm. Jacobson, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, recommended to the said Dean and Chapter, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Chester.

Miss Mary Louisa Lascelles, to be one of H.M.'s Maids of Honour in Ordinary, in the room of the Hon. Emma Elizabeth Lascelles, resigned.

August 10. The Right Hon. Lord Lyons, G.C.B., to be H.M.'s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte; Edward Thornton, Esq., C.B., now H.M.'s Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil; the Hon. Richard Edwardes, now H.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires and ConsulGeneral to the United States of Venezuela, to be H.M.'s Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic; George Fagan, Esq., now H.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires and ConsulGeneral to the Republic of the Equator, to be H.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires and ConsulGeneral to the United States of Venezuela; the Hon. Francis John Pakenham, now Secretary to H.M.'s Legation at Buenos Ayres, to be Secretary to H.M.'s Legation at Rio Janeiro; and Francis Clare Ford, Esq., now Secretary to H.M.'s Legation in Japan, to be Secretary to H.M.'s Legation at Buenos Ayres.

August 23. Major John Clayton Cowell, C.B., Governor to H.R.H. Prince Alfred, and Major Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, V.C., Governor of H.R.H. Prince Arthur, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Sept. 19. The Rev. Robert Payne Smith, M.A., to have the office and place of Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, together with the place and dignity of a Canon of the Cathedral Church of Christ, in the said University, properly belonging to the Regius Professor of Divinity in the said University, void by the promotion of

Dr. William Jacobson, to the See of Chester.

Sept. 22. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the city and garrison of Gibraltar.

William Henry Doyle, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Bahama Islands.

Sept. 29. The Right Hon. John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, the Right Hon. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil (commonly called Viscount Cranborne), the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Lyon Playfair, Clare Sewell Read, Henry Bence Jones, M.D., Richard Quain, M.Ď., Edmund Alexander Parkes, John Robinson M'Clean, Thomas Wormald, Robert Ceely, and Charles Spooner, to be H.M.'s Commissioners for investigating the origin and nature of the Cattle Plague, the mode of treatment best adapted for the cure of the affected animals, and the regulations proper to be adopted for preventing the spread of the said disorder.

Oct. 20. Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Fenwick Williams of Kars, Bart., K.C.B., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Knt. and C.B., to be Governor and Commanderin-Chief of the Colony of Hong-Kong and its dependencies.

Oct. 31. The Most Hon. George Charles, Marquis Camden, K.G., to be H.M.'s Lieutenant of the county of Brecon.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.B., to be Quartermaster-General, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B., appointed Governor and Commander-inChief at Gibraltar.

George Buckley Mathew, Esq., C.B., now H.M.'s Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Central America, to be H.M.'s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia.

Nov. 2. Robert Lush, Esq., one of H.M.'s Serjeants-at-Law, to be a Justice of H.M.'s Court of Queen's Bench.

Nov. 6. The Right Hon. George William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to be one of H.M.'s Principal Secretaries of State.

Letters Patent, under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. John, Earl Russell, K.G., the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull Hugessen, Esq., Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Luke White, and William Patrick Adam, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

Nov. 14. The Right Hon. Thomas Crosbie William, Lord Dacre, to be H.M.'s Lieutenant of the county of Essex.

Thomas Ewing Winslow, Esq., to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy.

Nov. 17. Sir Carlo Arthur Henry Rumbold, Bart., to be President and Senior Member of the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands.

Lord Augustus W. F. Loftus, now H.M.'s Minister at Munich, to be H.M.'s Ambassador at Berlin, in succession to Lord Napier.

Sir Henry Francis Howard, Minister to Hanover, Brunswick, and Oldenburg, to be H.M.'s Minister at Munich.

Nov. 21. The Right Hon. Henry Austin Bruce, to be Second Church Estates Commissioner, in the room of the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, resigned.

Nov. 24. The honour of Knighthood conferred upon Robert Lush, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, one of the Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench; Edward Hilditch, Esq., M.D., Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; and John Campbell Lees, Esq., late Chief Justice of the Bahamas.

Nov. 28. The Right Hon. Sir James William Colvile, to be a Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, resigned.

The Right Hon. William Hutt, VicePresident of the Board of Trade, to be an Extra Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath.

Nov. 29. The Right Hon. George Joachim Göschen, by Her Majesty's command, to be a Member of H.M.'s Most Honourable Privy Council.

Dec. 1. The Right Hon. George Joachim Göschen, to be Vice-President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations.

Dec. 19. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto the Right Hon. Sir John Romilly, Knt., Master or Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chancery, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Romilly, of Barry, in the county of Glamorgan.

The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted unto the Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron North