12 APRIL 1851, Page 9

Last night's Gazette formally notifies the promotion of Mr. Rutherfurd

to be a Lord of Session, and the promotion of Mr. James Moncreiffi the Solicitor-General, to be Lord-Advocate.

Major-General Smelt, of the Sixty-second Regiment, gets the vacant Coloneley of the Thirty-seventh ; and is succeeded by Major-General Lightfoot. Major-General Loftus is made Colonel of the Fiftieth Regi- ment, and Idajor-General Brown is made Colonel of the Seventy- seventh.

The Postmaster-General reminds the public of the great advantage of street-door letterboxes ; and particularly solicits the universal adoption of them before the let of May, with a view to facilitate the distribution of the correspondence which will be then swelled by the arrivals drawn hither to the Exhibition.