21 AUGUST 1841, Page 11

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

The Whig paying-off goes on, but the batch of Baronetcies is not yet forthcoming.

Last night's Gazette announces several minor appointments. Lord Sydenhain is made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; Com- mander Henry Vere Huntley, R. N., is appointed Governor of Prince Edward Island; Lieutenant Wood, Royal Engineers, is gazetted as Governor of the Falkland Islands ; Mr. Zachary Macaulay is appointed Registrar of the Court of First Instance in Mauritius; Captain Charles Elliot R.N. (the Chinese Superintendent ?) is Consul-General in Texas; Colonel Hugh Rose, Consul-General in Syria ; Mr. John Laurence Stoddart, Consul at Alexandria ; and several other small Colonial and Consular places are bestowed.