The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 29.

It is hereby notified that the Right Honourable the Earl
of Clarendon, K.G.' her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affa;.3 hos received from the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty an officiil communica-
tion addressed to them by Capt.in Baillie, R.N., late
Senior Officer of her Majesty's White Sea Squadron, an-
nouncing the raising, by t'ie Allied Squadrons, on and
from the 9',,h October last, of the Blockade of the Russian
ports and places in the White Sea, the establishment of
which Blockade was notified in the London Gazette of the
17th July last.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 28..
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The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Glen,
Esq., to be Receiver-General for the Island of Newfound-
land.

WAR OFFICE, Nov. 30.

2d Regiment ef Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Major H.
Briscoe to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel P. Le Peer Trench, who retires ; Lieutenant C.
S. Hutchinson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Briscoe ;
Cornet G. H. Allfrey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hutchinson ; Walter Colquhoun Grant, Gent.' to be Cor-
net, without purchase, vice Chadwick, promoted.
Ist Dragoons—Lieut. Robt. Clarke, from the Antrim
Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
' Gratrex appointed to the 13th Light Dragoons.
Royal Artillery—The appointment of Lieut. Alexander
Doull, dated 24th of September, 1855, has been cancelled ;
Lieut. George Kepple Taylor, on the Supernumerary List,
to be Second Captsin ; Lieut. Richard Oldfield to be
Second Captain, vice P. F. Miller, deceased.
The dates of promotion of the undermentioned officers
to be altered as follows :—Second Captain F. Carey to 10th
October, 1855 ; Second Captain EL Heberden to 18th Octo-
ber, 1855 ; Second Captain T. C. Molony to 27th October,
1855.
Grenadier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant George A.
Ferguson to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Hon. R. R. Best, who retires.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain William
Henry Reeve to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase, vice Burton, who retires; Frederick Charles
Buller, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Ives, who retires.
2d Regiment of Foot—Heber Reeve Tucker, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gape, appointed to the
3d Foot.
3d Foot—Ensign L. E. Lewis to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Peachey, died of his wounds. To be En-
signs, without purchase —Ensign G. T. Gape, from the 2d
Foot, vice Greg, promoted ; Deputy-Assistant-Commissary
Win. Kerr, from the Field Train Department, vice Mor-
ley, promoted • Ensign Charles Dudley Henry Mann
Clarke, from the West Norfolk Militia, vice Lewis.
6th Foot—Serjeant-Major William Wastle, to be Ensign
without purchase.
18th Foot—Lieutenant E. H. Wilton, to be Adjutant,
vice Jex-Blake, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
21st Foot—Major Honourable W. Stuart Knox, from a
Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice Hobbs, who exchanges;
Ensign Robert Crossman to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Image promoted ; Charles Clitherow Gore, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Green, promoted.
22d Foot— Thomas Roworth Parr, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ellis, promoted.
23d Foot—Lieutenant C. S. Millett to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Bruce, promoted. To be Lieutenants,
without purchase—Ensign Edwin Utterton, vice Holden,
died of his wounds ; Ensign W. D. Bloxsome, vice Beck,
died of his wounds ; Ensign G. W. H. Bussell, vice Utter-
ton, whose promotion, without purchase, on 16th October,
has been cancelled; Ensign Arthur Hill, vice Bloxsome,
whose promotion, without purchase, on 16th October, has
been cancelled. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieu-
tenant Charles Jacquet, from the sth Middlesex Militia,
vice Bussell ; Allan Graham, Gent., vice Hill.
25th Foot —Ensign Gerald Fitzgerald, from the Kerry
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mitchell, ap-
pointed to the 29th ioot.
28th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Lyndon Bell to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Dennie, who retires upon full
pay ' • Ensign William Collum to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Bell. To be Ensigns, without purchase—
Ensign C. If. Newbatt, from the 76th Foot, vice Weer-
mack, promoted ; Captain Edward Brett, from the West
Essex Militia, vice Collura.
29th Foot—Ensign Thomas Stanley Mitchell, from the
25th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase.
32d Foot—Evelyn Charles Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Harmer, promoted.
33d Foot—Edward Tanner, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Crosse, promoted.
34th Foot—Lieutenant John Byron to be Adjutant, vice
Chapman, promoted.
36th Foot—Lieutenant J. A. Brockman to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Rotten, deceased ; Ensign C. Hodg-
son to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Brockman ;
Richard Lloyd Hawkes, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Hodgson.
47th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Samuel A. Cusack has
been permitted to resign his commission.
49th Foot —Lieutenant C. Fitz Gerald to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Hopkins, whose promotion, with-
out purchase, on 2d Oct., has been cancelled ; Ensign It.
H. Spratt to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fitz-
gerald ; Charles Bruce Knight Alleyne, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Crossman, promoted.
50th Foot—Captain G. P. Drought, from the 92d Foot,
to be Captain, vice Macfarlane, who exchanges.
60th Foot—Ensign T. R. Parr, from the 22d Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase. The name of Ensign Austin
is Frederick, and not Frederick Piercy, as previously
stated.
61st Foot—Lieutenant C. R. Richardson to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Powys, deceased; Ensign William
Dowler to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Richard-
son ; Samuel Bucknall Elkington, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Dowler, promoted.
63d Foot—Alexander Finder, Gant., to be Ensign, by
purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Fraser, promoted.
67th Foot—Captain Nelson Fleming Suckling from half-
pay unattached, to be Captain, vice Pilsworth, who ex-
changes ; Lieutenant Daniel Thompson, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Suckling, who retires; Ensign A. F. Ro-
bertson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thompson ;
Assistant-Staff Surgeon Alexander Clark Ross, M.D., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Manifold, promoted on the
Staff.
69th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Edward Gains,
from the 55th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hyde,
promoted on the Staff.
72d Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Donald Munro to be
Quartermaster, vice M`Donald, died of his wounds.
76th Foot—Lieutenant William Winn, from the Ist
Durham Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Newbatt, appointed to the 28th Foot.
79th Foot—Lieutenant James Sinclair, from the Edin-
burgh Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
85th Foot—Lieut. R. C. Glyn to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Knox, promoted in a divisional battalion; En-
sign W. Galbraith to be Lieutenant, Francis Arthur
Thomas, Gent., vice Galbraith; Chester Doughty, Gent.,
vice Reeves, promoted.
87th Foot—Lieut. the Honourable D'Aroy Godolphin
Osborne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robertson, pro-
moted. To be Lieutenants, by purchase —Ensign Robert
Lampen, vice Osborne ; Ensign John Rawson Simpson,
vice Graham, who retires.
90th Foot—Major Thomas Smith, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Major, paying the difference, vice Duncan
Campbell, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; Lieut.
A. G. Daubeny to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Major Smith, whose Brevet Rank has been con-
verted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant
of 6th Oct., 1851 ; Ensign C. D. Barwell to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Da,ubeny ; Ensign Wm. Rennie,
from the 731 Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase •
and Adjutant, vice Daubeny promoted; Ensign and
Quartermaster Annesloy Eyre, from the Galway Militia,
to be Ensigns.without,purehase, vice Barron.
92d Foot—Captain R. li. Alacfarlane, from the 50th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Drought, who exchangen
Second Lieutenant E. S. Tritton, from the 87th Foot, tu
be Lieutenant, without purchase.
95th Foot—Lieutenant William Hill to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Taylor, who retires ; Ensign C. E. Fisher
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill ; Lewis Cubitt,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Paske. For Ensign
C. E. Fisher to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Garrard,
promoted, dated 9th November, 1855, which appeared in
the Gazette of 9th instant, read Ensign H. G. Paske to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Garrard, promoted.
97th Foot—Major Isaac Moore to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase; Captain Fowler Burton to be Major,
without pnrchase, vice Moore (not to carry back pay)
Lieutenant Robert Children Whitehead to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Burton ; Ensign T. W. Sheppard
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Whitehead.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign 11. M. Moorsom to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Carey, deceased; Ensign William
Johnson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bo-
rough, deceased ; Albert Divett Rickman, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Murdoch, promoted ; Cornelius
Davenport Broadbent, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice. Moorsom. The surname of the Ensign pro-
moted to a Lieutenantcy in the Gazette of the 23d inst., is
Austin and not Austen, as previously stated. The Chris-
tian names of Ensign Somerset are Aylmer Howard Tynto
Henry.
let West Indialtegitnent—Captain Charles Henry Knox,
from half pay Unatteched, to be Captain, vice Hamilton,
who exchanges; Lieutenant J. S. Macauley to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Knox, who retires.
2d West India Regiment—Edward Dudding Lye, Gent.,