2 OCTOBER 1847, Page 7

Last night's Gazette announces the following appointments—

Commander Charles Fitzgerald, R.N., to be Governor and Commander-in-chief of Western Australia.

Richard Graves M`Donnell, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-chief at the Gambia.

Richard More O'Ferrall, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-chief of Malta. Captain Henry D. Warden, of the Cape Mounted Rifles, to be British Resident among the tribes on the North-eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope. The same Gazette publishes the order for the thanksgiving on account of the abundant harvest, to be observed in England, Wales, and Scotland, on the 17th instant.