The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17 1855

92d Foot —For Lieutenant Maunsel Meehan to be Adju-
tant, vice Campbell, promoted, in the Gazette of Aug. 10,
read Lieutenant Maunsell Mecham, Sze.
94th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Wm. St. John to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires ; Ensign J. R.
Rolls to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice St. John.
95th Foot—Brevet-Major Vincent Wing to be Major,
without puachase, vice Heyland, whose Brevet rank has
been converted into Substantive rank, under the Royal
warrant of Oct. 6 ; Lieutenant Edmund Davidson Smith
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Wing ; Ensign Jno.
Henry Waterfall to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Smith.
97th Foot-- The second christian name of Ensign Parker,
appointed on the 19rh June last, is Piryer, and not Wager
as previously stated.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign C. W. Cragg to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Boileau, died of his wounds; Ensign
R. B. Booth to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Cragg, whose promotion on the 3d August, 1855, has been
cancelled.

let West India Regiment—James Moffitt, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Robertson, promoted.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant G. M. Par-
sons to be Lieutenant,. without purchase, vice Annesley,
promoted in the 18th Foot ; Orby Montgomery Hunter to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Meaden, promoted.
Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieut. W. H. Sharpe to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Claremont,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
Saint Helena Regiment—Allan Joshua Kentish, Gent.,
to be Ensign,by purchase, vice Barnes, promoted.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALIONS.— To be Lieutenant.
Colonels—Brevet-Colonel Peter Farquharson, haif-pay,
Unattached; Brevet-Colonel John Grattan, C. 8., half-
pay, 18th Foot; Brevet-Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, Ist
W est India Regiment.
STAFF.--Brevet-Major Joseph Edward Addison, half-
pay, 97th Foot, to be Assistant Quartermaster-General at
Head Quarters, vice Colonel Enoch, deceased, 14th July.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon George McCulloch, M.D., from the sth Dragoon
Guarns, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice
Warren, appointed to the 50th Foot; Acting Assistant-
Surgeon Patrick Bilgour to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces, vice Gloss, promoted.
To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons—Edwin Wilson, Gent.;
William Ringrose Gore, M.D. ; James Kelly, Gent. ;
Thomas John Tucker, Gent.; Edward Nason, Gent.;
Samuel Fuller, Gent. ; Thomas Henderson Somerville,
Gent. ; James Francis Deakin, M.D. ; Claudius Ed ward Le
Febure,Gent.; Hector Ferguson, Gent. Peter WEI in ail, Gent.
Joseph Tqomas Mitchell, Gent ; Samuel Black Roe, Gent. •,
David Knox, M.D. ; Francis John Shortt, Gent. ; Lloyd
Herbert, Gent.

The appointment of James Denholm, Gent., to be Act-
ing Assistant-Surgeon has been cancelled from the 12th
July, 1855, he having resigned the appointment.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 10th August, 1855.
For Eneas Macintosh Macpherson, Gent., to ba Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Class. Read, Surgeon Eneas Mac-
intosh Macpherson, formerly of the 54th Foot, has been
restored to the service, and appointed Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class, from the 10th August, 1855.

BREVET.
TO BE COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Wilbraham, half-pay Un-
attached.

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Borton, C. 8., of the 9th
Foot.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL pr THE ARMY.
Major Patrick Leonard M`Dougall, half-pay, Royal
Canadian Rifle regiment.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain John G. Rogers Alpin, 28th Foot.
Captain Arthur Tremayne, 13th Dragoons.
Captain Francis Topping Atcherley, 30th Foot.
Lieutenant and Captain George Lord Bingham, Cold-
stream Guards.
Lieutenant and Baptain John Augustus Conolly, Cold-
stream Guards.
Captain Montague Hamilton Dowbiggin, 4th Foot.
Captain Archibald C. Snodgrass' 38th Foot.
Captain Patrick Robertson, 4th Foot.
Captain Claude Thomas Bourchier, Rifle Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Dupuis, of the Royal
Artillery to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal
Warrant (Ordnance) Nov." 3.
Colonel John Edward Dupuis, of the Royal Artillery,
to have the local rank of Brigadier-General in Turkey.
The undermentioned officers, having - completed three
years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to
be Colonels in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of the
6th October :
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Valians, 40th Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Adams, C. 8., 28th Foot.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilian James Western,
retired full-pay, 64th Foot, to be Colonel in the Army,
the rank being honorary only.
Brevet-Major Charles Robert Shuckburgh, retired full-
pay, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieatenant-Colonel
in the Army, the rank being honorary only.
Brevet-Major James Richardson, retired full-pay. Staff
Officer of Pensionera, to be Lieutenant• Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
UisT.NAurrraenElo.--Brevet-Major John..Hardman Burka,
of the 88th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted.into
.Substantiye Rank, Unattached, under the Royal Warrant
of the 6th October.
Mxuon.t7num.—Major-General Henry Charles Bristow,
on half-pay, as a Major of 38th Foot, has been permitted
to retire from the Army by the sale of a Majority in 60th
Foot, from 17th August.
TURKISH CONTINGENT. - Captain Frederick John
Goldsmid, of the 37th,Foot of Madras Native Infantry,
to have the local rank of Major in Turkey, while serving
with theiTurkishContingent.__

• BREVET.
The undermentioned Gentlemen having been selected
for service in the. Irregular Cavalry, under the command
of Major-General Beatson, to have local rank in Turkey,
while so employed :
To have the rank of Captain.—William de Norman,
Esq. (attached to the Artillery); Lieutenant Richard
Francis Burton, 18th Regiment Bombay Native In-
fantry.

Tole Surgeon of the Second Class.—Algernon C. W.
Norton, Esq.
To be Veterinary Surgeons, attached to the Horse Ar.
tillery.—.T. K. Lord, Gent. ; G. G. Nixon, Gant.

BREVET.
The undermentioned Officers and Gentlemen having been
selected for service in the Force, under the command of
Major-Gm3eralßeatson, to have a step of local rank in Tur-
key, while so employed :
To be Majors—Captain Godfrey. Rhodes, 94th Foot ;
Charles Thomas Wemyss, Esq., late Captain 17th Foot ;
Edward Shelley, Esq., late Captain, 16th Lancers.
To be Captains—John Cos, Esq., late Lieutenant, 2d
West India Regiment; Edward James Money, Esq., late
Lieutenant, East India Compsny's Service.
IXOSPITAL• STAFF.—Titio appointment of Dr. F. H. Brett
as an Acting Staff-Surgeon of the First Claes, with Local
Rank in Turkey, has been cancelled from the Ist July.
BRITISH FOREIGN LEGION.-In the Gazette of the 10th
August for Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John
Francis Pamer, So., read Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel John Francis Power.
:MEMORANDUM.—The christian name of Colonel Hudson,
Military Agent to the Italian Legion, is Joseph, and not
James, as stated in the Gazette of the 10th inst.
ROYAL CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—In the Gate of the 10th
inst; for Serjeant-Major James Ferrier, to be Quartermas-
ter, read Serjeant-Major James Farrier.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal Berka Militia—Captain Rowland Bentinck Codd,
late 17th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Lynch, resigned.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment
of Militia—Nicholas Wrixon, Esq., late Captain in her
Majesty's 21st Regiment, to be Paymaster, from June 11,
1855, vice Patterson, appointed to the Rifle Brigade.
COMMISSIONSSIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Rowland Hugh. Cotton, Gent., to be Ensign.
Leicestershire Regiment of Militia—James W. Minchin,
Esq., late Captain in the 62d Regiment of Foot, to be
Caßtain Theobald F. Langstaff, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon.

Ifess,Thaithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment
of Riffe"Militia—Lieutenant Chas. Munro to be Captain,
vice Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, resigned; Godfrey Went.
worth Davidson; Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Charles
Munro, promoted ; Ensign .George S. Smith to be Lieute-
nant, vice Win. Houston, resigned.
East Suffolk Militia, 'Artillery Corps—Second Lieute-
nant John Nathaniel Gower to be First Lieutenant, vice
Daniel, transferred to the 18th Foot.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Ensign Edward
Sackville Smith to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Charles
Grant promoted ; Edward Arthur Robinson, Gent., to be
Gent.,
Ens gni'—vig A
e lfr PeaeheY, resigned ; Frederick Peto,
r.o be Ensied gn, vice Alfred Beuwell Letts, resigned ;
John Thomas', Henry Butt, Gent.; to be Ensign, vice
Graham Gilmour, .resigned; Augustus Bolle de Lasalle,
Gent., to be. Ensign, vice Frederick Blanker]; resigned.

ADMIRALTY, .A.11(4. 13.
.NAVAL PIt,IZE MONEY.
Notice is hereby given ,ta the °facers and crew of her
Majesty's ship, tribune and to all other persons interested
therein that; In the advertisement published in the Lou., don Gazette of the 20th and 24th July, 1855, giving notice
of preparations making for the intended distribution of
certain Russion vessels, -five in number, captured by her
Majesty's ship, Tribune, one of such vessels the " Fenix "
or "Ph(nnix,' was wrongly describs:l as having been cap-
tured on the 13th, instead of the 12th April, 1654, which
last mentioned is the correct date of capture.

DEPARTMENT OF THE ACCOUNTANT-GE ICER A L
- OF. THE NAVY, ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET
.HOUSE; Auu. 16.
Notice is hereby given to all,persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making, for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian schooner Gob-
ruder, captured on the 29th April, 1854, by her Majesty's
ships Amphion and:Cruiser.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against- the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit the particulars of Any such demand to
the Registrar of, the High C-ourt of Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that officer, and paid underthe sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.
Agents and all other persons holding,powers of attorney,
prize orderß, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
I)elenging to any captor, are reqnested; with aslittle
belay as possible,, to transmit- the same, accompanied
De the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the
ut of the "Accountant-General of the NaYy,
, Lo
""2"-ItY. Somerset House."
-the
-'-'" notice will be given, by fatuie advertiseinents in
Oct4ette of the date proposed for the com-
rneneemet4l distribution dat the same time the
amount of _au • •
will be annOlim4lBlriduars shere in the. respective dasses

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DEPARTMENT OR THE A.CCt
OF THE NAVY NTANT-GENERAt
HousE, AUG. 16, 1855 A O,
DMIRALTY, SOMERSET
Notice II hereby given, to all
tut' reraons interested t4eroin,
prep:l,44 0;5 4r. LIG 11184ing for the iztmlciad distil. „ rt.

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heater, from the 87th Foot, to be Major, vice O'Brien,
who exchanges.
80th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Alfred Hoyte to
Assistant-Surgeon.
87th Foot—Major B. O'Brien, from the 77th Foot, to be
Major, vice Hon. A. G. C. Chichester, who exchanges.
88th Foot—Ensign G. S. Watson to be Lieutenant
without purchase ; Ensign Edgar E. Austin to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase; Colour.Serjeant Patrick Dwyer
to be Ensign, without purchase; Henry Mant Gilby, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Watson.
90th Foot—Lieutenant W. B. Perase to be Captain, by
purchase, vice G'Gorman, who retires ; Ensign J. S. A.
Herford to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, whose
promotion by purchase on Ist Dec., 1854, has been can-
celled ; Ensign A. A. Moultrie to be Lieutenant, by par-
ukase, vice Perase.