The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

At the Court at Windsor, the Ist day of March, 1864.
Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
Thomas Thorueycrott, of Tottenhall Wood, Wolverhamp-
ton, Esquire, to be Sheriff of the County of Stafford, in the
room of George Briscoe, of Elmhurst Ilall, Lichfield,
Esquire; and Boscawen Trevor Griffith, at Trevalyn Hall,
Wrkahatu, Esq., to be Sheriff of the County of Denbigh, in
the room of John Lloyd Wynne, of Coedcoch, Abergele,
Esquik o.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Fun. 2J.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edmond
do Lays as Consul at Edinburgh fur his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. G.
Harris as Consul at Brisbane for his Majesty the King of
the Belgians.
The '4ueen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Geo.
Newenhank Harvey as Vice-Consul at cork for his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin.
CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 29.

MEMBERS 113ITIMNSD TO SERVE IN THR rIiESENT PAR

LIAMENT.

County of Dorset—John Floyer, of West Stafford, in the
said county, Esq., in the room of Henry Ker Seymer, Esq.,
who has accepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of her
Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.
CWAit OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARCH 1.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Charted Rainier
Jones, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice John Robert Burlton Bennett, transferred
to 7th Hussars.
2d Dragoons—Captain Townley Patten Humo Marartney
Filgate, from 18th Hussars, to be Gaptain,
vice Stewart,
who exchanges.
6th Dragoons—Major Theodore Wirgroan, from half-
6th
Unattached, to 'Do Major, vioe John Edward Swiudley,
who retires upon half-pay.
7th liussara—Cornot Jelin Robert Barna Bennett, from

the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice William For-
fescue Armstrong, who retires.
ISth Husears—Lieut. Harold Esdaile Malet to be Captain,
by purchase, vice George Harmer Pering, who retires—
Captain John Lorn Stewart, from 2d Draooons, to be
Captain, vice Fi'gate, who exchanges—Cornet 1. rederic
Louis Brandreth to be LiPutenant, by purchase, vice
Malet—Gentleman Cadet Robert Stevenson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Brandr,,t h.
19th Hussars—Henry Octavitie Currie, Gent., late Lieu-
tenant in her Majesty's Indian Forces, to be Paymaster.
2lst Hussars—James Clarke Hicks, Esq„ late Captain 18th
Hussars, to be Paymaster.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Frederick Cockburn
Griffin to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Richard King
Freeth, removed to the Supernumerary List; Second
Captain John Henry Peile to bo Captain, vice Henry
Mercer, died of wounds received in action; Lieutenant
George Murray Lyon Campbell, to be Second Captain.
vice Griffin ; Lieutenant George Edwin Maule to ho
Second Captain, vice Pelle; Gentleman Cadet John Mit-
chell Salmend to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell ; Gentle
man Cadet Henry Samuel Spitler Watkin to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Mania.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieut.- Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel William Charles Hadden to be Colonel, vice
Nelson, retired on full pay—Captain and Brevet-Major
Millington Henry Synge to be Lieuto.Colonel, vice ,
Brevet-Colonel Haddon—Second Captain Edmund Fre-
derick Du Cane, en the Seconded List, to be Captain—
Second Captain William Craftsman to be Captain, vice
Brevet-Major Synge—Lieutenant Edward Mitchell to be
Second Captain, vice Crossman—Gentleman Cadet John
Lawrence Macpherson to be Lieutenant, with temporary
rank, vice Mitchell.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Francis Roach Gubbins
to bo Captain, by purchase, vice John Leslie Toke, who
retires—Ensign Charles Fairbanks Lawson to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gubbins—Gentleman Cadet
Arthur Thomas Mudge, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lawson.
sth Foot—Lieutenant Charles Langford Oliver, from the
102 d Foot, to bo Lieutenant, vice Beasley, who ex-
changes.
7th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Prescod Holmes,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Charles Tayleur, who retires.
Bth Foot—Captain Angus William Hall, from Adjutant of
a Depot Battalion, to be Captain, vice John M'Queen,
appointed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
11th Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Samuel Bailey, from
16th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Boyce, who exchanges.
15th Foot—Captain Andrew John Cowper tolbe Major, by
purchase, vice Williaru Cairnea Armstrong, who retires
—Captain William Wood, from 74th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice Low, who exchanges—Lieutenant Francis
Ironeide Rawlins to be Captain, by purchase, vice Cowper
—Ensign Henry John Lancaster to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Rawlins—Ensign Arthur Fishe, from the
67th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Lancaster.
th Foot—Lieutenant John Boyce, from the 11th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Bailey, who exchanges.
th Foot—Ensign Henry Gordon Heath to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieutenant John Wily, who has re-
signed the appointment.
th Foot—Lieutenant George Douglas Harris to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Edward Robert Ward Bayley,
who retires—Ensign Henry Stokes to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harris—Gentleman Cadet John Francis
James Miller, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Stokes.
th Feet—Ensign Francis Edward Carleton to bo Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice. Charles Bassett Lewis, who re-
tires—Gentleman Cadet Henry Hartley Prior, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Carleton.
31st Foot—Ensign Richard Horatio Townsend to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Captain George Nicholson
Pepper, who resigns the appointment.
34th k oot—Captain Irving Francis Kennedy, from half-
pay, late 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Julius Dyson
Laurie, seconded on appointment as District Inspector of
Musketry.
37th Foot—Ensign Russell Skinner to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Michael Andrews Borthwick, who retires
—Gentleman Cadet Edward Jodrell, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Skinner.
46th Foot—Lieutenant Frank Grieve to be Adjutant, vice
Ensign John Dwyer, who resigns the appointment—
Ensign John Dwyer to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase.
60th Foot—Major Randal Joseph Feilden to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Webbe Butler,
who retires—Captain Henry Edward Warren to be
Major, by purchase, vice Fielden—Lieutenant Edward
Campbell Ainslie to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Warren—Ensign Charles Louis Constantine de itobeck
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ainslie—Gentleman
Cadet Thomas Ambrose Worewick, from the Royal Mili-
tary College, to be Ensign, ley purchase, vice do Itobock,
67th Foot—Lieutenant George Thomson to he Captain,
without purchase, vice Edward Cozen, deceased—En-
sign William Mascall Kenrick to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Thomson—Gentleman Cadet Charles
Christian Pearson, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur Fishe, transferred
to 15th Foot.
74th Foot—Captain John Low, from 15th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Wood, who exchanges.
79th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Angus from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur
Lenon, who retires.
82d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Mangin Waters
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice John Niven, who resigns.
100th Foot—Ensign Bethel Martin Dawes to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Reginald Blewitt Dowling, who retiree
—Ensign Alexander Webster M'Kenzie, from 30th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Joseph Dooley,
who retires on temporary halt pay—Gentleman Cadet
John Hart from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Dawes.
101st Foot—Lieutenant John Campbell Partridge to bo
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Henry Howard Chapman,
killed in action.
1024 Foot—Lieutenant George Todderick Beasley, from
the sth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Oliver, who ex-
changes.
104th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Campbell Richardson to be
Paymaster.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Charles Edward Buckley to be
Captain, wtthout purchase, vice Frederic Carl Playne,
deceased.
4th West India Regiment—Captain Meyrick William Bid-
well Edwardes has been permitted to retire from the ser-
vice by the sale of his commission.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Major Oliver Barker D'Arcy
has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale
of his commission; Captain and Brevet-Major Froderich
Campbell has been permitted to retire frotn the service by
the sale o 1 his commission.
DErOT BATTALlONS.—Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. Gil-
bert Elliot, from half pay, late Rifle Brigade, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Frederick Green
Wilkinson, who retires upon temporary half pay—Capt.
John M'Clucon, from Bth Foot, to be Adjutant, vice
Captain Angus William Ilall, transferred to the Bth
Foot.
PURVEYORS' DEPARTMENT.—Purveyor's Clerk Frede-
rick William Page to be Deputy Purveyor, vice George
Ward, deceased—Purveyor.s Clerk Robert Duport to be
Deputy Purveyor, vice Thomas Rogers Vioary, deceased.
BREVET.
Colonel Richard John Nelson, retired fall-pay, Royal
Engineers, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary
only.
Major and Brevet Lieutanant-Colonel Robert Carey,
C. 8., 11. P., 40th Foot, Deputy Adjutant-General, New
Zealand, to be Colonel.
Captain and Brevet Major John Carstairs 107th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
TO BE MAJORS.
Captains John Inman, 18th Foot—James Tarrant Ring,
18th Foot—Arthur Saltmarshe 70th Foot—Geo. Richards
Greaves, 70th Foot—William Henry Gresson. 65th Foot--
William Aldersey James Shortt, 67th Foot--Hickman
Rosa Russell, 67th Foot, and Second Captain Edward
Thomas Brooke, Royal Engineers.
The undermentioned Officers having completed the qua-
lifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel,under the
provisions of the Royal Warrant of 14th October, October,
,
1858, to bo Colonels :
Lieutenant-Colonel William James Loftus, half-pay, late
38th Foot.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Horace William
Montagu, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Wilson Austen, 14th Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bird, Military Train,
The following promotion to take plane in her Majesty's
Indian Military Forces, oonaequent on the death of Major-
General Robert Thorpe, Madras Infantry, on January 17,
1864:—Colonel William Couporus Macleod, Madras In-
fantry, to be Major. General.
The undermentioned officers who have retired upon full
pay to have a step of ordinary rank as follows :
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Stephenson • Finday,
Madras Infantry, to be Colonel.
Major William Frederick Newton Wallace, Bengal In-
fantry, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain William Robert Wallace, Bengal Infantry, to its
Major.