25 OCTOBER 1845, Page 9

Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed 'William

Winniett, Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant-Governor of her Majesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast; and Henry Duncan Dodgin, Esq., to be Inspector-General of Police for the Island of Barbadoes.

Her Majesty has granted a pension of 2001. a year, from the Civil List, to Mr. James David Forbes, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edin- burgh —Morning Herald.