26 SEPTEMBER 1846, Page 12

Last night's Gazette notifies the following important Colonial appoint- ments—

Sir Charles Edward Grey, Knight, to be Governor-in-chief of Jamaica. Lieutenant-Colonel William Reid, C.B., Governor-General of Barbados and its dependent Islands. Captain Charles Elliot, RN., Governor of the Bermudas. The Right Honourable Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., K.G.C.B., Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

The great Protectionist dinner to the Duke of Richmond and Lord George Bentinck, which was announced some days ago, took place yes- terday at Chelmsford. The scene of the festivities was the Shire-hall. Covers were laid for three hundred, and all the places were filled. The Duke of Richmond was prevented by illness from attending; and the honours therefore concentrated themselves on Lord George Bentinck. The speeches were more uninteresting than is common even at Protec- tionist meetings—trite and tedious to the last degree. About the middle of the proceedings, a commotion began, which finally ended in a regular up- roar. The cause of dissatisfaction seemed to be a general desire for a little bolder ontspeaking on the " Malt-tax," and the too copious indul- gence on the part of Lord George and Mr. Newdegate in statistics of wea- risome minuteness.