The Gazette

Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace^ April 7, 1879.' . NOTICE is hereby given, that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales willj by command of The Queen, hold a Levee at Sr. James's Palace, …

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, April 3, 1879. The Civil Service Commissioners hereby give notice, that an Open Competitive Examination for situations as Assistant of Excise in the Inland Revenue Department…

Rose, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Knight Commander of Our Most Exalted Order o…

The only roid to RorkeV Drift being already in possession of the enemy, Lieutenant Melville, and the few others who still remained alive, struck across country for the Buffalo River, which it was nece…

(M. 5247.) Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, April 1, 1879. THE Queen has been graciously pleased to confer the Albert Medal of the First Class on? Captain PETER SHARP and JOHN MclNTOSH, A.B., of the…

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, March 31, 1879. In pursuance of the provisions of Her Ma- esty's Order in Council of the 12th February 187G, the Civil Service Commissioners hereby COUNCIL CHAMBER, DUBLIN CA…

thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the Queen and intituled ' The Municipal Corporation Act, 1859 Amendment Act,' it is among other things enacted that on the division of any borough into wards th…

FOREIGN OFFICE, March 20, 1879. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Major Francis Coningsby Hannan Clarke, il.A., to be Her Majesty's Commissioner to take >art in the Demarcation of the F…

FOREIGN OFFICE, March 24, 1879. Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris has transmitted to the Marquis of Salisbury an extract from the French Journal Officiel, containing a Law which re-establishes the dut…

&. It will be observed by Colonel Pearson's lette1* that he counted upon hearing again from me before moving a portion of his force back from Ekowe; as, however, Lieutenant-Colonel Law reports he cann…