The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-01 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 31.

lat Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon
William Alexander Davidson, M.D., from the 42d Foot,
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant P. W. Martin to be
Captain, ley purchase, vice Molyneux, who retires ; Cornet
H. H. de Bourbel to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice
Martin.

12th Light Dragoons—Captain H. E. Reader from the
14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Brett, who ex-
changes; Cornet C. White to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Coape, who retires.
13th Light Dragoons—The surname of the Cornet, ap-
pointed on 10th April, 1855, is Gratrex, and not Greatrex,
as previously stated.
14th Light Dragoons—Captain Henry Brett, from the
12th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Reader, who
exchanges.
Royal Artillery—Gentleman Maeo Vitzßoy Somerset
Talbot to bo Lieutenant • Lieutenant Claud George Wil-
liam Lascelles to be Second Captain, vice Archdall, re-
tired on half-pay ; Captain Arthur Thomas Phillpotts to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Harison, deceased ; Second Cap-
tain William Conyngham Lynch Blosse to be Captain,
vice Phillpotts ; Lieutenant Shadwell Morley Grylls to bo
Second Captain, vice Blosse ; John Dennis Harrison,
Gent., to be Veterinary Surgeon.
Grenadier Guards—Brevet-Major H. F. Ponsonby to be
Captain and Liautenant.Colonel, by purchase, vice Hon.
C. H. Lindsay, who retires ; Ensign Edmund Pittner,
from the 57th Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, Fitzroy A. T. Clayton, promoted ; Captain W. S.
Ewart, from the 93d Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain,
by purchase, vice Christie, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Martin Brown
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Newland, who retires.
3d Foot—Captain Robert Owen, from half-pay 12th
Foot, to be Captain, repaying the lifference, vice Cole,
who exchanges; Lieut. Henry G. C. Birningham to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Owen, who retires.
4th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Williams
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet•
Colonel Cobbe, died of his wounds; Captain W. Wilby
to be Major, without purchase, vice Williams ; Lieut.
Thomas Sheppard to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Wilby ; Ensign H. A. Blake to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Sheppard ; Ensign Thomas Tanner to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted ; Wil-
liam Faulder Kuper, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Blake; Lieut. H. B. Maul; to be Adjutant,
vice Sheppard, promoted.
sth Foot—Edwin John Oldfield, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vi.ce Brown, promoted.
7th Feet—Captain E. H. Rose to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mills, ceased ;
Lieut. H. M. Jones to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Rose • Ensign W. P. Browne to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Jones; Ensign Honourable Howard More-
ton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Honourable A. H.
Crofton, who retires; William Biddulph Pinehard, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Brown. The first Christian
name of Ensign Butler is Lindsey, and not Lindsay, as
stated in the Gazette, July 13.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Bowen Van Straubenzee, from
the 32d Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Gaynor,
cashiered by the sentence of a general court-martial.

12th Foot—Ensign John Lunan Wilkie to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fairtlough, promoted ; John Archer
Julian Briggs, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hatchell,
appointed to the 431 Foot, ; George William Iteade, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Briggs, appointed to the
44th Foot.

13th Foot—Brevet-Major George King to be Major,
without purchase, vice Jennings, who retires on full-pay ;
Lieutenant C. P. Cobbe, from the Bth Foot, to be Captain,
without purchase ; Lieutenant John Augustus Fuller to
be Captain, without purchase, vice King ; Ensign J. J. P.
Fox, from the 61st Foot, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase ; Ensign A. S. Adair to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Fuller.
17th Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign L.
J. Seagram, vice M. Bayne, who hes retired ; Ensign J.
M. C. Travers, vice Smyth, promoted.
18th Foot—William Mishear, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
19th Foot—Brevet-Major Robert Warden to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Edward M`Gee, whose brevet rank has been converted
into substantive rank, unattached, under the Royal War-
rant of the 6th Oct., 1854 ; Lieutenant H. T. Uniacko to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Warden ; Lieutenant
Peter Godfrey to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bre-
vet-Major Shadwell, whose brevet rank has been converted
into substantive rank under the Royal Warrant of the 6th
Oct., 1854 • Ensign G. F. Webster, from the 98th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Kirby, cashiered
by the sentence of a General Court-Martial ; Ensign R. C.
Martin to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Uniucke;
Cranmer Kenrick, Gent., to be Ensign, without putehaee,
vice Martin, promoted.
20th Foot—Joseph Cooke Cox, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Edridge, promoted.
21st Foot—Lieutenant J. G. Image to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Legh, who retires ; Ensign S. S. Connell
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice King, promoted.
22d Foot—Ensign 0. P. Leigh, from the Ist Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase.
29th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Stewart,
from the 81st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Smith,
who exchanges ' • Captain Frederick D. Middleton, from
the 70th Foot, to be Captain, vice Cumberland, who ex-
changes.
32d Foot —Ensign Henry Cook to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Van Straubenzee, promoted in the 9th
Foot; Henry George Browne, Gent,, to be Ensign with-
out purchase, vice Cook.
33d Foot—Lieutenant John Trent to be Adjutant, vice
Marsh, killed in action.
34th Foot.—To be Lieutenants without purchase.—
Ensign J. D. Laurie, vice Clayton, deceased ; Ensign
Thomas L. Stack, vice Laurie, whose promotion ou the
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tion on the 2d August has been cancelled. To be Ensign,
without purchase. Mark Burgh Rochfort, vice Stewart,
promoted.
37th Foet—Ensign S. L. Curgenven to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Baker, appointed to the 48th Foot.
38th Foot—Lieutenant S. G. Quicke to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Lsyard, deceased; Lieut. H. B.
Feilden to be Captain, by purchase, vice Quicke. whose pro-
motion by purchase on the 17th August, 1855, has been
cancelled; Ilnsign R. C. Franks to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Quicke; Arthur Bailey, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, The name of the Lieutenant pro-
moted on the 17th June, 1855, is Stansfeld, and not Stans-
field, as previously stated. The name of the officer who
retuned in the Gazette of 17th August, 1855, is Captain
Lambert, and not Lambeth, as previously stated.
39th Foot—Lieutenant C. B. Phillipps to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Northcote, who retires.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Assistant-Surgeon James
Petrie Street, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Madden, appointed to the 43d Foot ; Assistant-
Surgeon Alexander Milne Humphrey, from the Ordnance
Medical Department, vice Sparke, who exchanges.
40th Foot—The name of the Ensign appointed on the
17th instant is Neufville Lucas and not De Reufville Lucas
as previously stated.
41st Foot—Henry Edward Harrison, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase.
42d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Alfred Hooper, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Davidson, appointed
to the let Dragoon Guards.
43d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Doclgson Madden,
M.D. from the 39th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Biddle, appointed to the 60th Foot.
44th Foot—Brevet-Major Andrew Browne to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel R.
Fielders, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Sub-
stantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant, Oct. 6; Lieut.
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LCiaeputtaeinna,n withoutwithout purchase, vice
Hoskius ; Ensign James Stracnan, from the Dumfries purchase ; Ensign
Charles
Militia, to be Eusign, without purchase ; Ensign J. A. J.
Briggs, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase. The Christian names of Ensign Webster, appointed
en the 10th August, aro Henry Francis George, and not
Henry Frederick as previously stated.
46th Foot—Ensign A. J. Kentish, from the St. Helena
Regimeet, to be Ensign, without purchaee.
48th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Baker, a froi the 37th
Foot, to bo Lieutenant.
49th Foot—Ensign E. J. Cresswell to he Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Earle, promoted.
50th Foot—Thosecoud Christian name of Ensign Meyer,
appointed on 20th July, i 3 5, is Adolphus. The appoint-
ment of Serjeant Huntly Gordon, from the Scots Fusilier
Guards, to be Ensign and Adjutant, to bear date 15th
April, 1855, instead of 2d June, 1855, as previously stated.
52d Foot—Lieutenant B. W. Ellis, from the 98th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, who exchanges ;',Colin John
Rose Troup, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Story, promoted in the Rifle Brigade.
55th Foot—Captain Wm. .Andros, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain (repaying the difference), vice King,
who exchanges ; Lieutenant S. W. F. M. Wilson, from
the 83k1 Pont, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Andros,
who retires ; Ensign P. L. Bellamy to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice C: H. Evans, died of his wounds ; En-
sign P. S. Morgan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Richards, promoted ; Lieutenant Al win Shutt Bell, from
the East York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Pennefather ; ScrjeantsMajor Thomas Dunn to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Bellamy.
58th Foot—William Bell, Gent., to bo Ensign, without
purchase.
57th Foot—Ensign S. 11. Powell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Ingham, promoted.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Leflie Jenkins Thompson to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Cockraft,
who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign Andrew 11. Russell to
b 3 Lieutenant, without parch: s 3, rice 'Thompson; Henry

Baldwin Eyre, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Russell, promoted.
59th Foot—Lieutenant J. S. P. Clarke to be Captain
purchaso, vice Newcomen, who retires.
60th Foot—Lieutenant W. W. Fox to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, who
retires ; Ensign P. J. Curtis to be Lieutenant, without
purchase.
61st Foot—Charles Henry Boileau, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Fox, promoted in the 13th Foot.
64th Foot—John Thomas Pack, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Bateman, promoted. The name of
the Ensign promoted to bo Lieutenant, without purchase,
in the Gazette of the 17th inst., is Bateman, and not Beat-
man, as previously stated.
66th Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant William Lane to he
Quartermaster, vice Pollard, appointed Paymaster.
70th Foot —Captain R. F. W. Cumberland, from the
29th Foot, to bo Captain, vice Middleton, who exchanges.
7341 Foot—Lieut. George Davies to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Clements, who
retires upon full pay; Ensign M. S. Blyth to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Davies.
77th Foot—John Lenthal Davids, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
81st Foot—Brevet-Colonel Matthew Smith, from the
29th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stewart, who
exchanges.
85th Foot--Captain llugh Massy to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Grant,. promoted in the 2d West India Regi-
ment ; Lieutenant Lord J. FL Taylour to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Massy; Ensign R. K. Taylor, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Lord Taylour.
86th Foot—Ensign J. F. W. Mullen to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Gardner, deceased.
88th Foot—Ensign W. Birch to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Dunlevie, who has retired.
93d Foot—Lieutenant John Salmon Gordon, from the
96th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Max-
well, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial;
Lieutenant J. M. Clayhills, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Ewart, appointed to the Grenadier Guards.
94th Foot—Lieutenant R. R. Meade to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Mahon, who retires ; Lieutenant R. A. B.
Tod to be Adjutant, vice Meade, promoted.
95th Foot—Edward Chapple, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase.
96th Foot—Ensign James Briggs to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Gordon, promoted in the 93d
Foot ; Lieutenant George Ker Hallett, from the West
Norfolk Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Briggs; Henry Macgregor Lowry, Gent., to bo Ensign,
without purchase.
97th Foot—Edward Murray Cookesley, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase.
98th Foot—Lieutenant T. H. Smith, from the 52d Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Ellis, who exchanges ; Everard
Montagu, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Webster, promoted in the 19th Foot.
Rifle Brigade—Ensigns to be Lieutenants by purchase—
David Alex. Gordon, vice Cuninghame, promoted; H. B.
H. Blundell, vice Malcolm, whose promotion by purchase
on 10th Nov., 1854, has been cancelled ; S. C. Glyn, vice
Morgan, whose promotion by purchase on 10th Nov., 1854,
has been cancelled ; William Pallisser, vice Markham,
promoted in the Coldstream Guards; C. T. Murdoch, vice
Hon. A. Anson, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Major Alexander G. Grant,
from the 85th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Wynn, who retires.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—To be Ensigns, without pur-
chase—Serjeant-Major Win. Guy; James Bell Campbell,
Gent. ; Andrew Murray Walker, Gent., vice Parsons,
promoted ; Francis Archibald Stewart, Gent., vice Pol-
lock, promoted in the 21st Foot.
Royal Newfoundland Companies—Ensign A. S. Quill:to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Cox, appointed to
the 3d Foot ; Lieutenant A. S. Quill to be Adjutant, vice
Law, promoted in the 4th Foot.
LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.
To be Quartermasters of Brigade— Willan, vice
Watson ; Serjeant-Major John Cusack, from the 97th
Foot, vice Trotter, deceased ; Serjeant-Major Thomas
Mitchell, from the 15th Light Dragoons, vice O'Reilly,
dismissed the service ; Quartermaster-Serjeant Joseph
Cheese, from the 31th Foot, vice James H. Maclean, de-
ceased ; William Edmund Cater, vice Dowse, who resigns;
Eugene Sherwood.
To be Regimental Quartermaster—Colour Serjeant John
Scott, from the Medical Staff Corps.
To be Veterinary Surgeons— William Varley, John
James Channon, Thomas Paton, Henry Hussey, John
Burr, and William Lyle Fenner.
BRITISH FOREIGN LEGlON—Edmund Edgar de Pentheny
de Pentheny O'Kelly, Esq., to be Paymaster.
STAFF—Captain George King, f:ora half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Assistant-Adjutant of a .Provisional Depot
Battalion.
UNA,TTACHED —The undermentioned ofEcerN to have their
Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the
provisions of the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 :
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Feilden, 44th Foot ;
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward M`Geo, 19th
Foot; Brevet-Major Lawrence Shadwell, 19th Foot.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—The surname of the Acting Assist-
ant-Surgeon appointed on 4th April is Baly, and not
Bayly, as previously stated. The surname of the As-
sistant-Surgeon gazetted to the Turkish Contingent on
20th July last is Bogle, and not Boyle, as previously.
stated. Ordnance Medical Department—Assistant-Sur-
geon George Whitefield Sparke, from tho 39th Foot, to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Humphrey, who exchanges. The
name of the Acting Assistant-Surgeon promoted to be
Assistant-Surgeon in the Gazette of the 10th instant is
Samuel Handy Holahan, and not Samuel Holahan, M.D.
as previously stated.