4 JULY 1840, Page 8

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Last night's Gazette announces that the Earl of .Aboyne has been appointed one of the Lords in Waiting on the Queen, in the room of Viscount Falkland, resigned; that Mr. Charles D. Day has been ap- pointed Solicitor-General in Lower Canada ; Mr. Charles Warner, So- licitor-General in Trinidad ; Mr. Robert Bernard, Advocate-General and Crown Solicitor in South Australia.

It is also announced that the honour of knighthood has been con-

ferred on Messrs. William Stephenson Clark, JoshuaWalmesley, William Lowthrop, John Westley Williams, and Thomas Potter, the Mayors respectively of York, Liverpool, Hull, Portsmouth, and Manchester. Dr. Jacob Adolphus, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals in Ja• maica, Dr. Alexander Mackenzie Downie, physician to the late Land- gravine of Hesse Hombourg, and Mr. John Hare of Springfield in Somersetshire, have also been knighted.

Edward Dowling, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and of the Northern Circuit, is appointed legal adviser of the Governor-General of Canada, and silted for New York by the British Queen on Wednesday last.— Standgrd.