Last night's Gazette notifies that the Queen has appointed Mr.
Henry Home Drummond, and Sir George M'Pherson Grant, Baronet, to be mem- bers of the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland.
The annual contract for supplying beef and pork for the Navy was de- clared at Somerset House yesterday; and, according to the Morning Chronicle, the following were the parties to whom and the quantities in which the contract was given-- " Mr. E. M'Swiney, 2,000 tierces of beef at 61. 10s. 8d., and 10,000 pork at 61. 14s, 5d.; Messrs. Nisbett, 3,000 tierces beef at 61. 9s. 10d.; and 800 pork at 6/. 13s.; Mr. Edwards, 1,500 beef at 6/. 5s.; Barclay and Friend, 900 beef and 1,000 pork; Read and Grove, 1,000 pork at 61. 10s. 9d.; Mr. Benjamin Horton, 300 tierces beef at 61. 2s., and 1,200 pork at 61. 38.; and Mr. Lea, 800 tierces of beef."
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