It appears from the Gazette of last night that the
new Board of Com- missioners of Railways is now complete: the members of the Board are the Right Honourable Edward Strutt, the Right Honourable Granville George Earl Granville, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan, Knight, and Cap- tain Henry Rowland Brandreth, R. E. The Board Will enter upon its .duties on Monday the 9th instant.
The Commissioners appointed by the Committee of Council on Educa- tion to inquire into the state of Education in Wales are—k R. W. Lingen, Esq., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; Henry Vaughan Johnson, Esq.; and-J. C. Symons, Esq., barrister-at-law. Each is assisted by a gentleman having a geed knowledge of the Welsh language. . The Times states that the long-expected brevet is to appear on Monday. The Marquis of Anglesea, Sir George Nugent, and General T. Grosvenor, are to receive the rank of Field-Marshal; Sir Peregrine Maitland, the Marquis of Tweeddale, Sir Charles Napier, Sir Edward Bowater, and Sir Frederick Trench, are among those named for promotion.
The Portsmouth correspondent of the Times makes this statement-
" An order is down from the Admiralty for the reduction of the complements of all men-of-war, taking fifty men from first. rates, and from all others in pro- portion to their class; and also taking away one lieutenant from each ship. It is said this measure is to enable the Board to commission more ships: but there appears to be about as much reason in that idea as in the showman's, who com- menced his exhibition by saying, he'd put out the candles to show more light.' " The Augsburg Gazette states that a postal convention was concluded on the 19th October, at London, between the Governments of England and Prussia.
The Berlin Journals report that the Earl of Westmoreland, English Ambassador at the Prussian Court, is dangerously ill.
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