27 JUNE 1846, Page 12

The Gazette of yesterday notifies the following appointments—James Macaulay Higginson,

Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in--chief of the Islands of An- tigua, Montserrat and Barbuda, St. Christopher, Nevis, Anguilla, the Virgin Islands, and Dominica; Major-General Sir John Harvey to be Lieutenant vernor of the Province of Nova Scotia: Charles Phillips, Esq., barrister-at-law, to be one of the Commissioners for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, in the room of David Pollock, Esq., appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Ccurt of Judicature at Bombay.

Notice of prize-money is given to the' officers and company of her Majesty's sloop Albatross, for a brigantine, name unknown, supposed to be the Piedad, seized on the 7th October 1894.

The Gazette contains the official despatches relating to the destruction of Ka. witi's pals in New Zealand, on the 11th January. Several of the officers have been promoted.