The Queen has appointed the Honourable Sir Ralph Abercronby, K.C.B.,
now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary to the King of Sardinia, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands.
The Honourable Thomas Montague Wilde has been appointed Registrar in Bankruptcy, in the room of Mr. Wilmot, resigned.—Globe.
The Lords of the Admiralty have advertised for contracts to convey the Royal mails, fortnightly, between England, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, Singapore, and Hongkong, and every two months between Singapore, Batavia, Swan River or King George's Sound, Adelaide, Port Phillip, and Sydney. These contracts embrace a re- vision of the whole of the mail-service between this country and the Me- diterranean, India, and China ; and are intended to supersede the existing contracts on their expiry in 1852. The Bombay service will remain in the hands of the East India Company, on a separate service between Bombay and Aden. The service to Australia is to be by Batavia and Swan River, and not through Torres Straits : if it be intended to alternate with the service from the Cape of Good Hope, Australia will get a monthly steam- mail The Indian boats are to go at least ten miles an hour ; the Aus- tralian at least eight and a half miles an hour.
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