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PROMOTIONS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES.
WAE•OFFICY
50th Regiment of Foot--Lieutenant-General Sir Richard
England, K.C.8., to be colonel, vice Lieutenant•Ueneral
the Right Hon. Sir George Arthur, Bart., deceased.
tith Regiment of Foot—Lieutenturt-General John Duffy,
C.B. and K.C., from the 28th Foot, to be colonel, vice
General Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.8., deceased.
28th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Henry John
William lientinck to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
John Duffy, C.S. and K.C., removed to the Nth Foot.
8 ith Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Colin Camp
bell, K.C.8., to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-General John
Frederick Ewart, C. 8., deceased.
4tlth Regiment of Foot—Major General John Lysaght
Pennefather, C. 8., to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Richard Egerton, U.S., deceased.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Wil-
liam Henry Lord Burghersh (major, unattached ), having
been promoted, on the 20th September, 1854, to the Brevet
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for distinguished service in the
field, to have that brevet rank converted into substantive
rank, unattached.
Officers holding the rank of Regimental Major, but being
Lieutenant-Colonels by Brevet, shall receive the pay and
allowances of Regimental Lieutenant-Colonels during any
period exceeding one month whilst they may be in com-
mand of their regiments by the übsence of the Lieutenant-
Colonel; which period of command the senior Major and
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel may count towards the three
years required to qualify a Lieutenant-Colonel to be pro-
moted to the rank of Colonel; in accordance with the Royal
Warrant of the 6th October, 1954.

SATURDAY.

The following officers being Colonels in the Army, and
holding in the army under the command of Field-Marshal
Lord Raglan, U.C.8., the rank of Brigadier Generals,
have conducted themselves to her Majesty's satisfactiOn
and rendered distinguished services in the great and
brilliant victories achieved in tne Crimea, her Majesty,
therefore, has been graciously pleased, in pursuance of the
Royal Warrant of the 6th of October, 1e64, to order that
the undermentioned officers, now holding the rank of
Brigadier Generals, be promoted to be Major Generals, and
be placed on the permanent list of General Officers :
Colonels Richard Airey, unattached; James Bucknall
Bucknall Estcourt, unattached ; Henry William Adamm,
C. 8., 49th Foot; Hon. James Yorke Scarlett, sth Dra-
goon Guards; Sir John Campbell, Bart., 38th Foot;
Arthur Wellesley Torrens, unattached; George Buller,
C. 11., Rifle Brigade; William Eyre, C. 8., half-pay 73n1
Foot.

The following officers holding the rank of Regimental
Majors, but being Lieutenant-Colonels by Brevet, to have
their Brevet rank converted into substantive rank un-
attached, should they prefer it to remaining with their
regiments, for distinguished service in the field; in accord.
ance with the Royal Warrant of the oth October, 1854 :
Major and Brevet Lieutenant• Colonel Charles Richard
Sackville Lord West, 21st Foot; Major and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sydney Powell, 57th Foot' •
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Wilbraham
7th Foot ; Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred H.
Horaford, Ritie Brigade ; Major and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. Percy E. Herbert, 43rd Foot ; Major and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Charles Barnston
Daubeny, C. 8., 55th Foot; Major and Brevet Lieutcnaut-
Colonel Harry Smyth, 08th Foot.
To be promoted for distinguished service in the field to
the substantive rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, unattached :
Major the Hon. William Lygon Pakenhani, unattached.
To be promoted to the Brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
and the substantive rank of Major, unattached, for dis-
tinguished service in the field : Captain and Brevet
Major the Honourable James William llosville Macdonald,
unattached.
Co be promoted for distinguished service in the field to
the Brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel—Majors Thomas
Westropp McMahon, sth Dragoon Wards ; W. S. Ramsey
Norcott, Rifle Brigade; Robert Jocelyn Straton,77th Foot;
John Ramsay Stuart, 21st Foot; Sir Thomas St. Vincent
Hope Cochrane Troubridge, 7th Foot ; George Dixon,
77th Foot; Richard T. Farren, 47th loot; John George
Champion, 95th Foot; Henry William liunbury, 23rd
Foot ; Henry Hume, 115th Foot; James Brodie Pattullo,
30th Foot; John Thornton Grant, 49th Foot; Alexander
Low, 4th Light Dragoons ; Francis Pym Harding, 22nd
Foot ; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony
Coningham Sterling, unattached, to have the substantive
rank of major unattached, for distinguished service in the
field; Captain and Brevet Major Charles Nasmyth, un-
attached, to have the substantive rank of Major, unattached,
for distinguished service in the field.
To be promoted for distinguished service in the field to
the Brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel—Captain and Brevet
Major Robert Blane, unattached; Captain and Brevet
Major George V. Muuday, 33rd Fort; Captain and Brevet
Major the Hon. Adrian Hope, 60th Rifles ; Captain and
Brevet Major the Hon. Francis Colborne, 15th Foot; Cap-
tain and Brevet Major the Hon. Robert Rollo, 42nd Foot;
Captain and Brevet Major John Stewart Wood, 13th Foot;
Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet Major his Serene
Highness Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe
Weimar, of the Ist (or Grenadier) Foot Guards.
To be promoted for distinguished service in the field to
the Brevet rank of Majors in the army :—Captains John
Agmondisham Veiley Kirkland, 21st Foot; Kenneth
Douglas Mackenzie, 92nd Foot ; James Conolly, unattached;
Alexander Macdonell, Rifle Brigade; Edward Stepford
Claremont, Canadian Rifles; Edward Robert Wethekall,
Scots Fusilier Guards ; Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle
Brigade ; Charles Stuart Glazbrook, 49th Foot ; Thomas
Henry Clifton, 7th Dragoon Guards; Charles John Wood-
ford, Rifle Brigade; William Pitcairn Campbell, 23rd Foot;
William Friend Hopkins, Royal Marines ; Edward Herbert
Maxwell, Stith Foot; Hugh Smith, 3rd Foot; John Alfred
Street, 57th Foot ; John A. Ewart, 93rd Foot; Joseph
Edwin Thackwell, 22nd Foot; Henry Edwin Weare, both
Foot, Julius Richard Glyn, Rifle Brigade ; Edward W. D.
Bell, 23rd Foot; Edmund Gilling Hallowell, 28th Foot;
Thomas Davis, 95th Foot; Cuthbert George Ellison, Ist
or Grenadier Guards ; William Sanky, 47th Foot; Henry
Meade Hamilton, 47th Foot; Edmund Augustus Md.
more, 30th Foot; Hon. Arthur Edward Hardinge, Cold-
stream Guards; William Inglis, 57th Foot; Hon. William
Frederick Scarlett, Scots Fusilier Guards; Robert Is 4. F.
Kingscote, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Augustus H. L. Fez,
Grenadier Guards; Edward Neville, Scots Fusilier Guards ;
Edward Fellows, 12th Light Dragoons; Soame Gambier
Jenyns, 13th Light Dragoons; James Wells Armstrong,
49th Foot; Lawrence Shedwell 19th Foot ; William Morris,
17th Light Dragoons; John Hackett, 77th Foot; Honour-
able Percy Robert Basil Fielding, Coldstream Guards ; Cad-
wallader Adams, 49th Foot ; A. H. P. Stewart WortlJe, Ist
Dragoon Guards ; Hon. Silbert Elliot, Rifle Brigade ;ohn
Wyclyffe Thompson, 10th Light Dragoons; Charles Carew
de Morel, i,7th Foot; Adolphus W. Desert Bnrton, sth
Dragoon Guards; James t)ubbins, 85th Foot; Ludt? rd
Harvey Daniell, 88th Foot; Hon A. Murray Cathcart, 93rd
Foot; Hon. William George Boyle, 21st Foot ; John Hard-
man Burke, 88th Foot; Alastair Mean McDonald, 92. nti
Foot ; Lumley Graham, 41st Foot; Arthur Charles
Scots Fusilier Guards.
The following officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal
Engineers to be promoted for distinguished service :

BREVET.
ROTAL ARTILLERT.—To be Lientenant•Colonel M the
Army—Captain and Brevet Major John Miller Adye.
To he illaiors in the Army—Captains David Williatu
Paynter, Edwin Wodehouse, George Ashley Maude, Wil•
ham Swinton, Charles Lawrence D'Aguilar, John James

DECEMBER 16, 1.854.

Brandling, John Turner, John Richard Anderson, John
Charles William Fortescue, Charles Henry Morris.
Second Captains Edward Bruce Hamley, Samuel Enderby
Gordon, Hon. Edward Thomas Gage, Dixon Edward
Hoste, Henry Peel Yates, James Farrell Pennycuick.
ROYAL. ENGINEERS —To be Lieutenant Colonel in the
Army—Captain and lirevet•Major Richard Tyldeh.
To be Majors in the Army—Captains John William
Gordan, Frederick Edward Chapman. Second Captain
John Williamson Lowell.

RoyAi. ARTILLERY.—GENERAL 04DED, DATED Nov. :10.—
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the following
promotions in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, viz :—First
Lieutenant William I)algairns Guille to be Secood Captain
—Second Lieutenant Noel Hamlyn Heins to be First
Lieutenant—First Lieutenant Charles Edward Oldershaw
to be Second Captain—Second Lieutenant Os said Carr
to be First Lieutenant—Lieutenant-Colonel William Bates
Ingilhy to be Colonel—Captain and Brevet Major Edward
Walter Croften, to be Lieutenant-Colonel—Second Captain
Joseph Clarke Childs to be Captain—First Lieutenant
Noel G. S. Turner to be Second Captain—Second Lieute-
nant Henry W. Briscoe to be First Lieutenant—Second
Captain George Vanderhayden Johnson to be Captain—
First Lieutenant Augustus Young Earle to be Second Cap-
tain—Second Lieutenant William Gore Martin to be First
Lieutenant—Second Captain Adolphus Frederick Connell
to he Captain—First Lieutenant Hon. Leonard Addington
to be Second Captain—Second Lieutenant Philip Henry
Sandilands, to be First Lieutenant—Lieutenant-Colonel F.
Dunlop is removed to the 12th battalion, on lieutenant-
ealoners pay, and Lieutenant-Colonel Crofton is posted to
the '2nd battalion on major's pay.

COMMISSIONS FOR MERITORIOUS
SERGEANTS.
A WAR-OFFICE memorandum was issued on Tuesday,
declaring her Majesty's pleasure that, in recognition
of the meritorious services of non-commissioned
officers in the field, Lord Raglan was to select and
name for promotion to a cornetcy or ensigncy one
Sergeant out of each regiment of cavalry, of the three
brigades of Foot Guards, and of every regiment of
infantry of the line. The commissions will bear date
on the sth of November. The memorandum also
directs the commanding officers to select one sergeant
in each regiment of cavalry and infantry, and of each
battalion of the Foot Guards, and of' the rifle brigade
serving in the East, in the Crimea, or elsewhere, for
the grant of an annuity not exceeding 20/. per
annum. One sergeant, two corporals, and four pri-
vates out of each cavalry regiment, and one sergeant,
four corporals, and ten privates from each infantry
regiment, brigade of rifles, or battalions of Guards,
are now to be selected by the commanding officers
to receive a medal and a gratuity of, for a sergeant,
15/. ; a corporal, 10/. ; and a private, Si. The gra-
tuity to be placed in the regimental savings' bank,
there w remain in deposit at interest until his dis-
charge from service.