The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 23.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain George
Edward.,Tirade to be Civ;l Commissioner and Collector of
Taxes for the Seychelles Islands, dependencies of the Island
of Mauritius.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 24.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain John Digby
Murray, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice
Brevet Major Abraham Bolton, who exchanges • Lieu-
tenant Adolphus William Desart Burton to be Captain by
purchase, Tice Murray, who retires ; Cornet Henry Hugh
McNeil° to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burton ;
Cornet Richard G. Bomford Bolton, from the Ist Dragoon
Guards, to be Cornet, `ice McNeile, Dec. 24.
2d Dragoons—Captain Wm. Boyd, from the 87th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Robertson, who exchanges, Dec. 24.
11th Light Dragoons—Brevet Major John Douglas, to
be Major, by purchase, vice Jones, promoted in 3d West
India Regiment; Lieutenant Arthur Brisco, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Douglas, Dec. 24.
7th Regiment of Foot—Captain Reginald Yonge Ship-
ley, from the 55th Foot, to be Captain, vice Verner, who
exchanges, Dec. 24.
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10th Tor-at—Ensign Henry Henderson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Maher, who retires, Dec. 24.
12th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Edward Crofton, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Hearn, deceased ; Ensign
Thomas Edmund ]Miller, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Crofton, oct. 13; Serjeant-Major George Gib-
son, to be Ensign, wiout purchase, vice Miller, Dec. 24.
20th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon John Meane to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cole, promoted in the Ist West
India Regiment, Dec. 24.
55th Foot--Captain John Donovan Verner, from tho
7th Foot, to be Captain, vice Shipley, who exchanges,
Dec. 24.

T9tiFoot—Brevet-Colonel Horatio Walpole, from half
VI 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Honourabl:
Lauderdale Maule, who exchange ; aor Emund Jame.
laliot to be Lieutenant-Colonel,s byM pujrchadse, vice Wal-
pole, who retires ; Brevet-Major John Douglas to be Major;
landphase, vice Elliot ; Lieutenant Keith Ramsay Malt
be Captain, by purchase, vice Douglas ; Ensign
11eroZliolford
altland
vice Stevenson to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
In, Dec. 2en 4.
Dr 87th °ot-----Captain Andrew Robertson, from the 2d
agoons, to 24. r I„, capiain, vice Boyd, who exchanges, Dec.
90th Foot—.
Captain Tobias Purcell, from half-pay un-
attached, to 1,,
Bi evet MajOr7l Char'tatin (repaying the difference), vice
laquiere Mann, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant. Thorn°:,
James Meredith to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Purcell who retires ; Ensign Henry Hope
Crealock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Meredith,
Dec. 24.
95th Foot—Major Jaines 'Webber Smith to be Lieut.-
He,y purchaLe,
.vie,
Walter who retires ; Captain
nry Hume to he major,: b—
/ purch'ase, vice Smith ; Lieu-
tenant James George ld,ngton
to be Captain, by pur-
H Hume • Ensign Frecleri k 3
chase, vice 1 , • , e alines Taylor to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eddi,,..4..ft
E 5. , Dec. 24. Ist West India Regiment—Assistant_sur
eo
the 20th Foot, Burn Robert
John Cole, M.D., from
John Edmondstone Stewart, M.D., who retires upon half-
pay, Dec. 24.
2d West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major •
ea to Milner
11"-
1ei,,,,,h, from the let West India Regiment,l3eb.322Ensign,
without purchase, vice Thompson, le
Inigo 4.
3d West India Regiment—MajorWilliam Jones
from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel',
by purchase, vice Findlay. who retires, Dec. 24.
BREVET.—Captain John Digby
Murray,of the sth Dra-
goon Guards, to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837
Brevet Major John Digby Murray, of the sth Dragoon.
Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 11,
Ms,
1851 ; Captain Tobias Purcell, of the 90th Foot, to be _ . - I
jor in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841 ; Brevet-Major Tobias
flu-
cell, of the 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, Nov. 11, 1851.
The under-mentioned Cadets of the East India Com-
pany's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of
Ensign, during the period of their being placed under the ,
command of Colonel Harry D. Jones, of the Royal Engi-
neers, at Chatham, for field instruction in the art of Sap-
ping and Mining :—Salusbury Thomas Trevor, Gent.
George Newmarch, Gent. ; Thomas Beckley, Gent. ; Cuth- i
bent 'wailer Finch, Gent. ; John Lidatone Watts, Gent.;

Irwin Montgomery Greig, Gent. ; John Norris Hunter,
Gent. ; Joseph Bealty, Gent., Dec. 24.
MEMORANDUM.— The Christian names of- Captain
Meehan, of the Ist West India Regiment; are " George
Walter," and not " Walker," as previously stated.