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London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

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WkR-OFFICE, JAN. 0.
7th Royal Fuailiers—Lieutenant-General Sir George
Brown, 1i.C.8., to be Colonel.
36th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General William
Henry Scott to be Colonel.
77th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant•General George
Leigh Goldie, C. 8., to be Colonel.
66th Regiment of Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
William Gordon, Bart., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase; llrevet•Major George Maxwell to be Major,
without purchase; Lieutenant John Walker to be Captain,
without purchase ; Ensign Richard Thomas Hughes to be
Lieutenant, without purchase.

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RHAVIT.
Brevet Colonel John Heneege Grubbe, on retired full
pay of the 66th Foot, to be Major-General in the Army, the
rank being only honorary.
In consequence of the death of Lieutenant-General Sir
Henry Goldfinch, and the retirement upon full pay of
Major-Generals Calder and M. C. Dixon, a vacancy having
occurred upon the effective hat of general officers of the
Royal Engineers, Colonel Tb.ornas Blanchard to be pro-
moted to be Major-General.

The following officers of the Royal Engineers, who have
been permitted to retire upon full pay, to receive a step of
houoniry brevet rank, via.:
To be Major-Genersla.—Colonel William Henry Slade,

Colonel Janies Conway Victor.
WAR-OFFICE, Jan. 12.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Cruarda—Steff-Sureeon James
Pritchard Moline to be Surgeon.
2nd Dragoons—Jones Brainier Dunbar, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase.
9th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Jobn Harry Ker lutes
to be Surgeon.
11th Light Dragoons—Cornet Charles Ley King to be
Lieutenant; Henry Fraser Dimplele, Gent., to be Curuet,
without purchase; Robert Arthur Brooke, Gent., to be
Cornet.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieuteuant W. J. P. Watson to
be Captain; Cornet George Heblethwayt Lutton Boynton
to be Lieutenant.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain George
Robert Fitzßoy to be Lieutenaut. end Captain, without
purchase; Lieutenant James Alfred Coalfield to be Lieu-
tenant and c a.ptelu.
let Foot—Lieutenant John Aleeander Chrystie to be
Captain. To be Lieutenaute without purehube--Eusigus
Albert Seagrim, F. J. Ponsonby Hill, Sherlock V. Willis,
Duncan C. Brock, James Creagb, Joseph H. Fawcett.
6th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase--En-
signs F. Hedworth Williamson, A Bower St. Cleir,
/nun Connell. Ensign John Joseph Grinlinton to be En-
sign. To be Ensigns—John Wolaeley Fetheraton-Baugh,
Gent , John Clarence Boyce, Gent.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Li. W. Wallace Carpenter to be
Captain. Tu be Lieutenants without puruhese—Enaignit
James Francis klickie, Napier D. Rubinson, Edgar John
Disney, Honourable Edward FitzClareuce. To be Eesigns
—James Kennedy M'Adam, Gent., John Emilius Elea,
Gent.
9th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs Thomas Taylor, Charles James Burton, Monies
Reliant. William Augustus Elinhirst, Greet., to be Ensign-
11th Foot—Assistant-Surgeou Peter Divorty, M. 8., to
be Assistant-Surgeon.
13th Foot--Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomas Hoban to
be Ensign, without purchase.
14th Foot—Assistant-Sugeou William Kelnian Chal-
mers, M.D., to be Surgeon.
17th Foot—To be Lieutenant without purchase—E9-
signs H. Adolphus 11. Versturme, Frederick Archibald
Macreight. William Henry Parker, Gaut., to be Ensign.
loth Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
sigu Jacob Francis Bryant, Welter Blake Burke, 'Dumas
Durand Baker, and William Kemp. To be Asostent-
Sugeon—Acting-Aseistamt-eurgeon Andrew Semple.
19th loot—tusigia Thome, Thompson to be Lieut.,
without purchase; George I'orbee, Gene, to be Ensign.
20th Foot—Lieut. William Henry M'Netill to be Cap-
tain without purchase ; Ensign Vv'elliegton Mitchell to be
Lieut., without purchase. To be Eusipa—Heary Wor-
maid Mason, Gent., William Young, Gent.
21st Foot—Brevet Al ejur Johu Henry Cooke to be Cap:
ton ; Lieut. F. It. E. Burnside to be captaie, without pur-
chase. To be Lieuts. without purchase--hoeirpie Janus
Gregorie M`Donald Tulloch, Thomas /alnico, Mweintrey
Fowler, Stanislas li. B. St. Clare, T. bluebell Ii U .14y,
Thomas Coakley. To be Ensigns—Thomas Herons Green,
Gent., Robert O'Halloran clay, Gent. •
2Srd Foot—Ensign Charles Grantley Campbell Norton,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Boscawen Trevor
Uridith, Gent., to be Ensign.
24th Foot—Captain Charles Frederick Gibson $o be Car
taro ; Lieut. Hilliion Douglas Hall Baillie, to be Captain ;
Ensign John kleury Arrant to be Lieutenant.
28th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase--
E. S. R. Smyth, John Godfrey Day, Francis lirodigif=
Alfred Steward, Frederick A. Ilagenis. To be Ensign—
Alexander Lyon Emerson, Gent.
30th Foot—Captain Thomas Stevenson to be Captain.
To be Lieutenants without purchase--Ensigns top
J. H. Tolcher, George Phipps Prevost.
33rd Fout—Lieut. W. IL. Parry to be Captain. To be
Lieutenants without purchase—Lieut.Julin Trent; Ensigns
Charles Whateley Willis, Arthur Edward Augustus Ellis,
lion. Raymond H. De Montmorency.
34th Foot—Tymeen Sowley Holroyd, Gent., to be Ensign.
39th Foot—Lieut. E. Beauchamp Matinsell to he Cap-
Lain, without purchase; Willem Henry Palmer, Gent., to
be Ensign.
40th Foot—Ensign Charles Francis Brooke to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase.
41st Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Lieut.
William Henry Gardner Cornwall ; Combo Lewis Fur-
longe, Gent. To be Ensign—Stanley Robert Robineue
Smith, Gent.
42d Foot—Lieut. John Drysdale to be Captain, witholle
purchase.
44th Foot—Lieut. Win. Fletcher to be Captain, withone
purchase.
47th Foot—Eneign Edward Croker to be Lieutenant,
without purchase; Charles Van Reuen Conway-Gun/ye,
Bent., to be Ensign, without purchase.
49th Foot—Lieut. John Thomas Cook to be Ensign,
without purchase.
60th k oot--Lieut. Roderick Maingy Murchison to be
Captain, without purchase; Ensign Thomas Denote Lee
to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
56th Foot—Assistanteleurgeon Wiliam Deoble to be
Surgeon.
60th Foot—Captain Edward Parker to be Captain.
63rd Foot.--Ensign B. A. Y. lienyou to be Lieutenant,
without purchase ; Alfred Grey, Gent., to be Ensign, With-
out purchase; George Wallington Clutterbuck, Gent., in
be Ensign, without purchase.
66th Foot—Assistant Surgeon Thornton Marshall to bO
Surgeon.
71st Foot—Lieut. R. C. W. Stuart to be Captain, with-
out pun-hese. To be Enaign--Artbur kindersley Blair,

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peon John Grabham.
13rd Foot—Hugh Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign.
81st Foot—Ensign Robert Vi'olseley O'Dell to be En-

sign.
88th Foot--Caleb Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign.
89th Foot—To be Assistant•Surgeons—Acting Assistant.
Surgeons Julius Wiles and Wm. Carden Roe.
92nd Foot—Sergeant•Major James George to be Quarter

master.
93rd Foot—Captain James Montagu Brown to be Cap-
tain; Lieut. James Spratt to be Captain, without pur-
chase.
94th Faot—Ensign William Edmondes Harness to be
Lieutenant; John Marryot Aytoun, Gent., to be Ensign.
Nth Foot—John Joseph Bacon, Gent., to be Ensign ;
Lieut. William Braybrooke to be Adjutant; Assistant-
Surgeon Francis Smith to be Surgeon.
STAFF. - Brevet Lieutenant• Colonel Edward A. G.
Muller, to be Major of a Depot Battalion.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
To be Deputy-Inspectors-General of Hospitals—Staff-
Surgeon of the First Class Robert Battersby, Staff-Surgeon
of the First Class Thomas Alexander.
To be Staff-Surgeons of the First Class—Surgeon George
Taylor, M D., Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Fox, M.D., Surgeon Robert Joynt Gordon Grant, Surgeon
William Denny. •
To be Staff-Surgeons of the Second Class—Surgeon
William Barrett, M. 8., Assistant-Surgeon Alexander
Smith, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon Henry Fowle Smith,
M D., Assistant-Surgeon William Holmes Jephson, M.D.,
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Frederick Wall, Surgeon Robert
Keating Prendergast.
To be Assistant-Surgeon—Acting Assistant• Surgeon
Henry Walter Bellew.
To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons.--John Horsley White,
Gent., Archibald Weir, Gent., Stephen Henry Dickerson,
Gent., Gharles Beaufoy, Gent., George M`Gusty Carolan„
Gent., Francis Bowen, Gent., Patrick Heron Watson, M.D.,
Grederick Graham, Gent., Herbert Chalmers Miles, Gent.
George Jones, Gent., John Henry Gilborne, Gent., Peter
Joseph Hoey, Gent., David Benjamin Hines, Gent., Henry
Lloyd Randell, Gent., Harvey John Philpot, John George
Faught, Gent., Clement Williams, Gent., Henry Joseph
French, Gent., George Redford, Gent., Henry Browne
Fisher, Gent., John Masters, Gent., Harvey Rowe, Gent.,
William Daniel Michell, Gent., Smith Dickson, M.D.,
Robert Hancorne, Gent., Arthur David White, Gent.,
Walter Clegg, Gent.

BREVET.

To be Lieutenant Colonels in the Army.—Brevet Majors
John Henry Cooke, Thomas Stevenson, Edward Paiker.
To be Majors in the Army—Captains Thomas Steven-
son, Edward Parker, Charles Fredezick Gibson, John
Gore.

The undermentioned officers who had retired upon full-
pay of the Royal Marines previously to her Majesty's
Order in Council of the 13th September, 1E.54, to be pro-
moted to a step of brevet rank, in order to place them in
as favourable a position as those of their rank who may
hereafter obtain retirement under the provisions of the
said Order in Council, viz. :

To be Colonels in the Army—Lieutenant•Colonels Ed-
mund Hearle, John McArthur, William Clendon.

To be Lientenant•Colonels in the Army—Brevet Majors
Joseph Williams, Thomas Lemon, Julius Fleming, Tho-
mas Scott, James Fynmore, William M'Kinnon, Francis
Smith Hamilton, Charles Cartwright Williamson, Charles
William Pearce.

To be Majors in the Army—Captains Thomas Hurdle,
Gilbert Langdon, Richard J. F. Crowther, Joshua S Sayer,
.Thomas Carr Steward, John Hay, Wm. Stephens Klapp-
man, John Wilson, John Humby, Thomas Waters, George
Thomas Welchman, John George Richardson, John Evan
Jones, Robert Webb, William Ford, John Hewett, George
Bownell Pepyat, William Henry Devon, Hugh Brown, Geo.
Pattoun, David Galloway, Thomas Rees Thomas, Jervis
Cooke, James Shute. John Tudor Tucker, William Davis,
James Thomas Cracknell, Henry James, John Brutton,
John Richard Musesll, Richard William Pascoe, Richard
Searle, Henry Smith, Peter John James Dnsantoy, Thos.
Park, George Griffin, James Dowman, Charles Clarke,
John Law, Edmund Nepean, Valentine Beadon, Joshua
Edlesion, Robert Wright, William Gordon, Edward Apple-
ton, Caleb Barnes, Peter Martin M'Kellar, John Miller,
Charles Miller, Pitcairn Onslow.

PARIS under Julius Ciesar covered a space of 15 hectares
23 area (the hectare is nearly 24 English acres); under
Julian, of 38 hectares 79 ares ; under Charles V., of 250
hectares 87 ares ; under Louis IV., of 1,103 hectares 91
ares ; and at present it is, within the fortifications, 25,755
hectares and 80 area, which is more than half the depart-
ment of the Seine.