The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of !i.ugust, 1861.
Present—The Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in
Council that the
Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the 13th
day of October next, be further prorogued to 1-o,iday, the
11th day of November next.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Auci. 30.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Thomas/Sutton
,
Kirkpatrick, rrom the Military Train, to-be Captain
vice
Elliot, who exchanges.
10th Hussars—Henry John Lindley Wood, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Cecil Russell, pro..
moted.
20th Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Edward Keneit to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and
Brevet-Colonel William James Smythe to be Colonel,
vice John Noble A. Freese, C. 8., retired upon full- pay—
Captain and Brevet-Major Stapylton Robinson to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Smythe—Captain and Brevet-Col.
Michael A. Shrapnel Biddulph to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Frederick J. Travers, retired upon half pay—Second
Captain Henry Sheridan Elliot to be Captain, vice Brevet
Major Robinson—Second Captain Henry Plantagent
Prescott Phelips to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel I3id-
dulph—Lieut. Fitzroy Somerset Talbot to be Second
Captain, vice Elliot—Lieut. Francis Duncan to be Second
Captain, vice Phelips—Gentleman Cadet D'Arcy Bow-
man East, from the Royal Military Academy, to be
Lieutenant, vice Duncan—Gentleman Cadet Albert
Beauchamp Astley Cooper, from ditto, vice Alexander
Day, who has been permitted to resign his Commission
from the 17th August, 1864—Gentleman Cadet Henry
Vaughan, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Richard Thomas Roberts, who has been
permitted to resign his Commission from the 2.1c1 August,
1864—Second Captain Hubert Le Cocq to be Adjutant,
vice Maclachlan, promoted—Second Captain Erancis
Duncan to be Adjutant, vice James Barton, who resigns
the Adjutancy only.
Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain James Scott
to be Captain, vice /11‘Gillivray, placed upon temporary
half-pay—Lieutenant Robert Kettle to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Scott—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Revill to
be Lieutenant, vice Kettle.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Graham to be Captain, vice
Andrew Clarke, seconded—Lieutenant William New-
some to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Lieut,-Colonel
Graham—Gentleman Cadet Henry Rhodes Gilbert
Georges, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu.
tenant, with temporary rank, vice Newsome—Second
Captain John Mervin Cutclifis Drake to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Captain Lempriere, who has been at-
tached as Captain Instructor to the School of Musketry,
at Fleetwood.
Military Train—Captain Philip Herbert Elliot, irom the
3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Kirkpatrick,
who exchanges.
.

9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Wiliam James Massy
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major John
William Percy, who retires—Ensign Henry Augustus
Brudenell Bruce to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Massy—Herbert Conor, Gent., to he Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bruce.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Juhn Dunbar, from the i:Bth Foot,
to bo Lieutenant, vice Coate, who exchanges.

22d Foot—Ensign John Banks Linley to be-Lieutenant,t y
purchase, \ ice Haworth Peel Massy, who retires ;
George Arnold Chtistian, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vi;e Liuley.

534 Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Godman lemplo Cot•
ton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purcbsee, vice John Seymour Wynne Finch,
transferred to the 60th Foot.

57th Foot—Ensign Archibald Kennedy Douglass to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Parkinson, who re-
tires; Ensign Kenneth Douglas, from the 50th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Andrew Balfour Duncan, deceased ;
George Garnett, Gout., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Douglass.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Eyro Coot; from the
21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dunbar,who exchanges ;
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Hunt Johnson Bailey to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vico William Barry, placed upon
half-pay.
60th Foot—Ensign the Honourable Ralph Alborcromby
to bo LieutPuant, without purchase, vice John Miller,
deceased—Ensign John Seymour Wynne, Ficch, from
the 53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice the Honourable Ralph
Abercromby.
63d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Edward
O'Loughlin, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vico Alexander
Thorburn McGowan, whose transfer from the Staff as
stated in the Gazate of 28th June, 1864, has been can-

celled.
72d Foot—Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, from the
Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia, to bo Pa) master,
vice George Fowler, who has resigned.
99th Foot—Ersign Charles John Greenham to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Henry Richmond Sayce, who re-
tires—Arthur Collingwood Jenkins, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Greenham.
4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas John
Gray, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Parr Wm.
Kingsmill, deceased—Ensign Wm. Fowler to bo Lieu-

tenant, without purchase, vice Gray.
sth West India Regiment—Captain Henry John Fano has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission.

UNATTACIIEN—Lieutenant John Mould, from the 7th
Hussars, to be Captain, without pui chase.

BREVET.

Colonel John Noble Arbuthnot Freese, C,8., on the
Retired Full-Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Mojor-
General, the ratik:teing honorary only.

Lieut-Colonel Willie-in Robert Maxwell, Royal Marines,
having completed the qualifying service in the rank of
Lieut-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the Order in Council of
Nov. 13, 1858. _ _ _

Pay Master George Pringle, of the Royal Engineers, to
have the honorary rank of Captain.
MEMORANDUM.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
William Brookes, half-pay, late 75th Foot, has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commis-
sion, under the conditions of the Horse Guatds' Circular
Memorandum of the 15th February, 13'31.
The G uz:tte contains a number of prutnetions and altera-
tions of rank amongst the officers of the Stiff Corps and of
her Majesty's Indian Military forces.