The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

WHITEHALL, Nov. 16.

The Queen has been pleated to gnat the office of Soli
eitor•Oenerai for Scotland to James Craufutil, Eq., Ad-
♦ocate.

CROWN OFFICE, Nov. 17.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE 114 THIS PRESENT

City of New Sarum.joTiicneral Edward Pert'
Buckley, of New Hall, in the county of Wilts, Esquire, in
the room of Checks Baring Wall, Esq., deceased.

Nov. 18.

The name of the Peer chosen to represent the Peerage of
Sootland, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of Ale:ander
George L ird Salmon, deceased: The Earl of Seafield.

WAR OFFICE, Nov. 18.
2nd Regiment of Life Guards.—Edward Stratton Fits.
herding* Berkeley, Gent., to be cornet end sub-lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice oward, who retires.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.—Janies Baker, Gent.,
to be cornet, by porches*, vice Hare, whose retirement
we. annotneed in the Gazette of the bth August, 1853.
Ist Dragoons.—William Henry Cutler, Gent., to be cornet,
by putchcse, vice Reilmoyne, appointed to the 14th Light
Dragoons.
14th Light Dragoons.—Cornet Robert Chadwick to be

lieutenant, by porches*, vice Aothorp, promoted, by pur-
chase, to an Unattached Company ; Cornet Leonard
Bede:eyrie, from the lit Dragoons to be cornet, vice
Chadwick.
17th Regiment of Foot.—Ensign Frederick Windham
Lakin to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Williams, who
retires; William Scott, gent., to be ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lukin.
41st Foot—Lieutenant and Adjutant Robert Cary Bar-
nard to be captain, by purchase, vice Eggiaton, who
retites.
50:h Foot.—William Wensley Bond, Gent., to be ensign,
by purchase, vice Boileau, appointed to the Rifle
Brigade.
68th Foot.—Ensign William Whitmore, to be lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Sykes, deceased; Gentleman
Cadet Andrew Smythe Montague Browne, from the
Royal Military College, to be ensign, without pinches*,
vice Whitmore.
87th Fl

Joseph Noble Beasley, from the
2nd West India Regiment, to be lieutenant, vim Elliot,
who exchanges.
95th Foot.—Lieutenant John Neptune Sargent to be cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Rogers, who retires upon
tall pay ; Ensign and Adjutant George Brown to have
the rank of lieutenant; Ensign Robert Garrard to be
lieutenant, without puichase, rum Sargent; Gentleman
Cadet Francis George Cocksedge Protuirt, from the
Rlyal Military College, to be ensign, withcut purchase,
vice Garrard.

RiierFgaie:—Second Liestenaat James Rowlee, to be

first liertenant, by purchase, vice Waddington, who retires;
Ensign CharlesA
A. Penrhyn Boileau, from the 50th Foot,
to be second lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bowles.
2nd West India Regiment.—First Lieutenant John Elliott,
from the 87th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Beasley, who
exchanges.
3rd West India Regiment.—Alfred Augustus Richardson,
Gent., to be ensign, without purchase, vies Pringle,
deceased.
Gold Coast Corps.—Ayimer S•rangford Craig, Gent., to be
ensign, without purchase, vice Jan, deceased.
Ustarracaln.—Lieutenent Richard Pretysnan Apthorp,
from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be captain, by purchase ;
Lieutenant and Adjutant John Mullin, from the 4th
Dragoon Guards, to be captain, without purchase, vice
Shields, who's promotion on :he 10th June, 1853, has
been cancelled.
STAl7.—Peter Divorty, M.A., to be assistant-
surgeon to the Forces, vice McWharrie, promoted.
lIIIMOILIIDA.—Tbe promotion of Lieutenant Thomas
Shields, from Adjutant of a Recruiting District, to an
Unattached Company, without purchase, as stated in the
GaOede of 10th June, 1853, has been cancelled. The
proper designation of the ensign appointed to the 42nd
Foot, on the 4th November, 1853, is Malcolm Drummond
Viscount Forth. Captain Price Clark, upon half pay
unattached, has been permitted to retire from the Army,
by the sale of hie commission, be being about to become
a settler in Canada.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 15.
Royal &glottal of Artillery.—Seeond Captain Robert
1 albot to be captain, vice F Wodehouse, deceased ; First
Lieutenant Gaspard Le Merchant Tapper to be second
captain, vice Talbot ; Second Lieutenant Thomas
Mahon to be first lieutenant, vice Tupper ; Second
Lieutenant Charles Edward Stirling to be first lieute-
nant, vice the Hon. G. V. A. Mira, deceased.
Corps of Royal Enpitmers.—Brevet-Major Benjamin Spicer
Sub elin to be lieutenant-colonel, vice I'hillpotts, de-
. ceased ; Second Lieutenant Alfred George Goodall, with
temporary rank, to be second lieutenant, with permanent
rank.

NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS.
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James Curtis Somerville, Esq., Williams Stradlirg, Esq.,
Richard Thomas Combs, Esq.

I.ILILITIAt

The following eommissTonTha;iibeen signed :
Major Coke, to be lieutenant-colonel, vice Leacroft, re-
signed, in the Derbyshire Militia.
John William Whit*, auk, to be captain in t►e Ist Regi-
ment of Warwickshire Militia.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINE
DEPARTMENT, Nov. 16.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Privy Council
for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a &spate%
from her Majesty's Minister at Copenageu, ittelosmg a
Notice to Marinen issued by the Innish government, a
translation of which to subjoined, relative to the placing of
a new buoy ou the Reef of Friedericksort.—By order,
JAMES BOOTH.