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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. Edward Oirdlestone, M.A., to the Vicarage of St
Nicholas with St. Leonard, Bristol.
The Rev. J. It. Freeing, AA., to the Incumbency of South
Burcombe, Wiltshire.

VAC AN C I ES.
The Rectory of Brington, near Northampton ; worth 6001. a
a year ; in the gift of Earl Spencer.
The Rectory of Whelton, near Daventry ; worth 4001. a year I
in private patronage
The Vicarage of Selston, near Idanstield ; worth 1301. a year'
in the gift of Sir A. Dixie, Bart.
The Vicarage of Boughton, Norfolk; worth 1001. a year ; in
the gift of the Bishop of Norwich.
The Rectory of Neen Solars, near Tenbury ; worth 4001. a
year; in the gift of the Provost of Worcester College, Oxford.
The Incumbency of Cwmyoy, near Abergaveuny ; worth 1001.
a year; in the gift of Mr. John Morgan.
The Rectory of Kirkbride, near Urgton, Cumberland ; worth
31.01. a year; in private patronage.
The Vicarage of Deane, Lancashire; worth 2001. a year; In
the gift of the Lord Chancellor.
The Rectory of Lianyalymdwy, Cerium
year ; in the gift of the Bishop of Bangor.
The Incumbency of Rassenthvraite, Cumberland; worth 2501.
a year; in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle.

; worth 501)1.

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WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 10.
BREVET.
The undermentioned officers to be promoted to the rank
of Colonel, in accordance with the Royal Warrant of the
6th Oct., 1854 :
Lieut.- Colonels James Hope Grant and Charles Henry
Ellice; Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Edmund Richard
Jeffreys to have his brevet converted into substantive rank
unattached; Lieut.-Colonels Richard John Stodherd,
Alexander Gordon, Cowper Rose.
The undermentioned officers on the retired full-pay list
of the Royal Engineers to have the honorary rank of
Colonel, in consequence of the officers who stood next
below them having been promoted
Lieut.-Colonels Thomas Coryndon Luxmore. William
Faris, Thomas Here ; Lieutenant Robert Cadell, of the
Madras Artillery, employed on a particular service in
Turkey, to hate the local rank of Captain while so em-
ployed.
The undermentioned promotion to take place, consequent
on the death of General Robert James Latter, of the East
India Company's service, on the 25th February :
To be General in the East Indies--Lieutenant-General
Augustus Andrews.
Colonel William Fergusson Beatson, of the East
India Company's army, employed on a particular ser-
vice in Turkey, to have the local rank of Major-
General while so employßombayNative
Captain Frederick Kane, of
the 15th Regiment of lnfantry, to have
the local rank of Major in the Army in the East Indies.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com-
pany's Service, who retired upon full-pay previously to the
introduction of the new system of promotion, to be ad-
vanced to a step of brevet rank in the East Indies, in order
to place them in as favourable a position as those officers
of their rank, who may hereafter retire under that system,
the rank in both cases being only honorary ; their com-
missions bear date the 28th November, 1854 :
To be Colonel in the East Indies—Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Waters Baldock.
To be Lieut.-Colonels in the East Indies—Majors John
Robson Wornnm, John Bartleman, John Ranken, Williams
Brown.
To be Majors in the East Indies--Captains Archibald
Chisholm, Thomas Reid James, John French, Edward B.
Stevenson, James R. Lumley, Charles R. Mackensie, Peter
E. Warburton.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com-
pany's Service, retired upon full-pay, to have rank in the
East Indies as follows ; their commissions bear date
March 16, 1855 :
To be Colonels in the East Indies--Lieut.-Colonels
Wm. F. Grant, Win. Rawlins, Geo. S. Wilkinson, Paul W.

Willis.
To be Lient.-Coloneis in the East Indies—Majors
Patrick T. French, Samuel R. liagshawe, John S. G.
Ryley, William Edwards, Charles Wollaston, Archibald
Park, Henry John M`George, Charles Gordon.

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ADMIRALTY, FEB. 22.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
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H. Gardner to the Driver.
ni. Arthur Hay to the Excellent; Charles 1:1'