The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

CONSERVA'

THIS DAY.
The annual meeting of the members was held in Exeter
Hall this day—Viscount Ranelagh presiding.
11r GRUNBISEN, the secretary, having read the adver-
tisement convening the meeting, the noble chairman read
the following report :

The twelfth financial year of the Conservative Land
Society having been completed on the 30th of September,
1861, it is now the
Pleasing duty of the executive committee
to report to the shareholders a summary of the year's suc-
cessful operations, and to lay before them the balance-sheet
and statement of accounts. At the last quarterly meeting
on the 4th of October, the members elected the ltev. W. G.
Goodchild, rector of East Tilbury, and Mr Clemow, secre-
tary of the English and Swedish Bank, as their auditors,
and the board having nominated Messrs W. C. Astbnry
and N. Winstanley, the four auditors on the 2d, 3d, and 4th
of November, met and verified the vouchers and books, and
signed the balance sheet.
The subjoined table will show the shares issued, and total
cash receipts for the respective quarters of the year 1863-4,
and the grand totals since the commencement of the society
in September, 1852
Qrs. ending Receipts.

Shares in
progress.

Shares i Total
Complete. S hares.

Dec. 24,1363 ..
March 25, 1864
June 24, 1364..
Sept. 30, 1864..

63
67 •

Totals for the
year 1863-4
Totals to Sept
30, 1833

Grand totals tol
Michaelmas,'64

1,186

15,537

4,174

1,517

s. d.
1 7

15,323
17,371 5 _ _
20,880 9 5
27,637 8 4

81,242 15 3

19,711

701,146 18 7

last year's receipts, the
show an increase 0f.... £5,483 910
land to Michaelmas, 1861,

Compared with
present return
The total sale of
was
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the Society (7th September, 1852) to
Michaelmas, 1864, are
The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total,
5,432 3,234 1,706 10,372
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c, .... 7,787

Unexercised rights
The last share No. on the register by seniority is No.
14,813, and the last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1864,
was No. 21,228. After the routine business of the annual
meeting (this day), there will be a drawing of 100 share
numbers, to be placed on the register of rights, to select
plots on the society's estates, at the option of the holders
thereof, and 50 share numbers will be taken from the seni-
ority list (date of membership), and be also added to the
order of rights. On reference to the balance sheet, it will
seen by the members that the subscriptions on shares dur-
ing the year 1863-4 amounted to £35,155 13s, and that the
cash received in the deposit department amounted to £13,609
9s 10d. The withdrawals on shares were £12,130 lls 3d,
and on deposits £13,473 2s 4d. The total balance of sub-
scriptions on shares was £128,946 12e Id, and the balance
of deposits at the close of the financial y.ar was £24,415
15s 2d. During the last year the sum of £15,562 lOs 7d
was withdrawn from the share account to pay for plots of
land, being an increase of £10,411 17s 9d compared with
last year. The repayments of loans on land amounted to
£11,907 6s 4d. The amount advanced for the same year to
allottees, towards the purchase money of their plots, was
£19,912 lOs 2d. The total balance of advance to allottees on
land account was £36,142 4s 2d. As regards the sale of
land in the allotments of 1863.4, the balance sheet shows
an amount of £15,087 Gs Bd, being an increase of £10,799
163 7d compared with last year's sales. The sale of the
stock in hand (being land previously allotted), and by pri-
vate contract, was £22,342 188 9d, the total sale for the year
being £38,430 Os sd, bringing up the grand totals of the sale
of land to Michaelmas, 1864, to £368,800 13s 10d. The
freehold building plots in various counties now for sale
amount to £71,118 13s Od. As regards the advances for
building during the pest year, the repayments were £10,909
8s 2d, an increase of £3,655 17s 4d. The amount advanced
for building, &c., in 1864, has been £13,569 13s 4d, leaving
the total balance of advances for building, &c., £15,825 5s
6d. The reserve fund has been brought up to £ll,OOO.
After providing for the interest of 5 per cent, per annum on
shares, and 4 per cent, per annum on deposits, the balance
sheet shows an available balance out of which the execu •
tive committee are enabled, as provided by the rules, to add
to the accounts of members (in their pass-books) bolding
uncompleted invested shares in respect of which no interest
has been paid, a bonus, or, in other words, interest at the
rate of 51 per cent. per annum, and on those shares on which
interest warrants have been issued, an additional half per
cent, per annum, which will be included in the half yearly
interest warrants pay,ble on the let of May next. Thus
every payment into the society on shares not in arrear, and
on the register at the annual meeting, will realise 51 per
cent, per annum for the year ending the 30th of Sept., 1864,
As regards the interest on completed shares and shares in
progress, paid a year in advance and upwards, for which
the half yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michaelmas
are issued on the Ist of May and the Ist of November re
spectively, the rate will remain at 5 per cent, per annum,
and at 4 per cent, per annum on investments in Om daponit
department, under rule 45, until further notice. The ordi-
nary quarterly meetings were duly held at the offices in
Norfolk-street, on the 12th of April, the sth of July, and
the 4th of October. The following members of the execu-
tive committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for re-
election, viz,, the Earl of Bective, M.P., the Hon. Robert
Bourke, Col. Augustus Meyriek, Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart.,
M.P., Newnham Winstanley, Esq. The new estates al-
lotted this year were the Colchester (final portion) and the
Bishop Stortford, on the 16th of March; the Plough-lane,
Battersea (first and second portions), on the 10th of April
and the 22d of June; and the Avenue estate, Southampton,
on the 20th of July, In addition to the highly successful
sale of land on the new properties, re-allotments have taken
place of estates purchased at former periods, namely. the
Kentish Town estate, on account of the railway of the
Tottenham and Kentish Town Company now in progress
through the society's property; the Ipswich estate, close
to the station, offering additional land to the intending
purchasers. and the Wanstead estat9, owing to the sale of
the mansion. An agreement has been entered into with
South-coast and Brighton Railway Company, for the new
line, to be carried on to Kemp Town, to pass through the
Round Hill Park estate, whereby the society's property will
be greatly improved. During the past year the holders of
rights had the opportunity of investing in house property,
villas and houses being offered for sale on the St Margaret's
estate, Isleworth , the Ifiley-road, Oxford; the Rouud Hill
Park estate, Brighton; Enfield estate, close to the station;
Putney estate, Wandsworth-lane ; Old Ford ; Roman-road,
Hackney, &c. On the estates just enumerated some first
class villas and convenient houses, either for letting or for
sale, are now for disposal to the general public. Notices of
applications for bills in the next Parliament for new rail-
road schemes have been published, which will tend mate-
rially to develop some of the society's estates. Three new
estates have
Navy vrealbeenrecently acquired by the society ; namely,
ethsteyard at Deal, in East Kent, the
Southgate-road estate, Wood-geen, in Middlesex, and the
Sunnyside estate, Sandown, in the Isle of Wight. These
highly eligible properties will be submitted for sale in due
course, all the three localities being particularly well
adapted for building purposes. The opening of the new
Iron Pier on the Bth November last, with a pier-head where
steamers can be moored alongside in any state of the tide,
and other great local improvements,:have already caused a
demand for building sites; and the esplanade of the Navy
Yard, together with a fine frontage on the Dover-road, will
present opportunities for the erection of large hotels, man-
sions and houses, now so much in requisition in Deal, The
Isle of Wight estate, from its commanding situation and the
increasing growth of Sandown as a bathing place, especially
since the opening of the, New Eastern Section Railway
from Hyde. which will:eventually communicate with Cowes,
will prove to be a most eligible building property. The
Wood Green estate being close to the station, and to the
Alexandra Park, as well as to the Green Lanes of Hornsey,
and being within a quarter of an hour's railway ride from
the metropolis, bids fair to be in great demand for building.
The board will allot on Wednesday,_ tie° litie of January,
1865, the WoodOreen estate No. 2, Southgate-road, and on
the same day the remaining portion of the Felixtowe estate.
The proposed formation of a railway to this last-mentioned
fast rising watering place, together with the sales pre•
viously effected, promise a speedy disposal of this
eligible property, The registration returns have been
generally satisfactory, and the freehold franchise through
the society's instrumentality has been much
extended.
The past year has been remarkable for the sale of land on
the early estates acquired by the society, which has thus
been enabled to close the acoounts of some of these proper-
ties. In addition to this development, the new allotments
having sold so well, the executive committee have been
enabled to bring the financial year of 1863-4 to a successful
termination, and the thirteenth year has been entered upon
with very encouraging prospects.
The executive committee, in recording that the Conserva-
tive Land Society has acquired 55 estates in 21 counties—
that the sale of land has been nearly .6369,000—that 21,228
£5O shares have been issued, representing £1,061,400, and
that the reserve fund new amounts to £ll,OOO, will, they
trust, have supplied sufficient evidence, that no exertions
have been spared to secure the prosperity of the society, and
it will be their endeavour to extend its political, social, and
commercial advantages.
(The meeting had not concluded when we went to press.)

GREECE AND MExicu.—The Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Mexico
to Turkey and Greece, M. Martinez del Rio, had an audi-
ence of the King of the Hellencs at Athens, ou the 20th
inbt., to present his credentials. In reply to the Minister's
speech the young King, af er some complimentary phrases,
said :—" Myself. the head of a new dynasty, and charged
with the destinies of a people for their regeneration, I can •
not but have great sympathy for a new sovereign and for a
nation which, like the Greek nation, have had to pass
through painful crises in order to conquer the place they
should rightfully occupy among civilised nations. It is
therefore with perfect sincerity that I express my wish for
the happiness of his Imperial Majesty and for that of his
august family, for the prosperity of his reign, and for the
progress of his people,"

The following highly humorous description of a
genuine Irish shindy or skrimmage we transfer to
our columns from those of our cheap pictorial con-
temporary, the Penny Illustrated, The hand that
wrote it, or we are marvellously in error, is surely
no other than that of Ralph Neville. For the life-
like truth and racy fun of the sketch—lightly, even
carelessly, pencilled though it is—it seems to us
not unworthy in both particulars, that is, in the fun
and in the truth of it, as a literary photograph of
Irish life, it seems to as, we say, not unworthy of
the author of " Lloyd Pennant ":
Arriving at the village of —, some two hours before
Bianconi's car passed through on its route for Clonmel, I
sauntered about in search of amusement during the interval.
A crowd assembled round a modest-looking house, at the
end of the main street, attracted my attention ; a policeman
told me it was "Petty Sessions" day, and invited me to
enter the court. Being anxious to witness the local admi-
nistration of justice in Ireland, of which I had heard and
read much, I availed myself of the invitation, and took my
seat amongst the spectators. The chair was filled by a
portly, rubicund personage, and with him sat a " stipen-
diary'' (who used an ear-trumpet), and two others. As I
entered, the clerk, having recorded the judgment pronounced
in a previous case, cried, " Timothy Nolan against Barney
Brannan." There was a buzz of excitement in the court,
which subsided into a dead silence as the parties pro-
ceeded from their respective positions to the front of
the judicial seat. Tim Nowlan (the complainant), his
head enveloped in bandages, rose slowly, and, leaning
on the arm of his spouse, advanced with difficulty, as if his
injuries were even more serious than they appeared to be;
and they were followed by Paddy Phelan, their witness, an
old, peaceable looking farmer, who, as a -mark of respect,
was accommodated with a chair. Barney Brannan, or
"Boulteen,"* as he was nicknamed, casting a half-smile,
half-grin on the auditory, as if to say, "Now I'm in for it,' f
also came to the post, and he was attended by a small wiry
looking cur dog, which all his threats and all his wife's
efforts could not restrain from sharing the fortunes of his
master. The little brute burst from the grasp of Mrs Bran-
nan (who did not accompany her liege lord to the tribunal)
and ensconced himself at Barney's feet, plainly indicating,
by the expression of his physiognomy, that he was ready to
take a turn with any adversary in his owner's defence. Both
parties made a profound obeisance when they came in front
of the Bench, and then, Barney Brannan, placing his shil-
lelagh under his left arm, stood proudly erect, with his
hands behind his back, an attitude which he rigorously
maintained until called upon for his defence. He responded
to the accusations of his adversary occasionally by a bland
smile, and sometimes by a knowing wink at their worships.
"State your complaint, sir," said the chairman to the
wounded man.
" Ah, thin it's myself that's not able to say anything,
yer honours," replied Tim (delivering his answer with ex-
treme difficulty, and gasping for breath between every
word): "I'm fairly ruined by that villain ; he didn't lave
as much blood in my body—saving your honours' presence
as id feed a hungry midge,"
"Well, come, how did it happen, sir ?"
"How did it happen ? By gorra, it happened no how at
all, barring ' The Boulteen' comin' roarin' drunk into my
house whin I was quiet with my pipe, and kissin' my wife
and murtherin' myself, when I tould him to behave decent
av he could, That's all, Nelly can tell yer the rest better
nor I can ; for I'm not able to say any more." And Tim
threw himself on Nelly's shoulder, as if completely ex-
hausted.
" Well, Mr Brannan," observed the chairman, with great
dignity, "I'm sorry to see you here again so soon, sir."
"Thank yer Honour, I know'd that, long life to you."
" What have you to say in answer to this charge, sir ?"
Barney planted one end of his sapling cn the floor, and
leaning with both hands on the other, he bent forward with
great gravity and decorum before he answered—" Ye all
know me, gintlemin, egg and bird, man and boy, for gene-
rations, except the stipendiary; and sure my uncle's son is
his Honour's right hand man; an' I defy the world to say
I iver did anything mean, ye see, or my fathers afore me."
" Well, tell us all you know about the matter," cried the
deaf magistrate, who appeared nervously attentive to the
proceedings, and occasionally blew into the ear-piece
of a gutta percha trumpet. "It is very extraordinary," he
remarked to the chairman, "it's very extraordinary,
I had this trumpet from town yesterday, could hear
perfectly with it last night, and find it quite useless to day.
It must have been left too near the fire : it really does me
more harm than good.
" Well, yer Honours, it's an ould story."
" We have nothing to do with old stories," interrupted
the justice. " Tell us, sir, why you beat the complainant."
" Five years agone, comp Michaelmas next," resumed
Barney, "Tim Nowlan and myself had a piece of Conacte
oats in co., and when the reaping time came we cast lots;
I got the right-hand side, and becourse Tim got the left,
Then, ye see, we agreed to reap in co., and I won the toss
for the first cut, and my part was housed and stooked that
same day ; it was the fair eve of Boulahy ; but I had no
more notion of goin' there the next day than the child
unborn. I was sittin' quiet at home, when in comes a boy
of the Feeneys, to say that they were to beat the Sullivana
and take the town from them to-morror, and that they'd
want the 20 swap men they lent us (the Brannans) to beat
the Mullanys at the fair of Ballyhawnish. I cant go, sis I,
for I have Tim Nowlan'a oats to reap, and the wind's getting
strong and it'll be shed. No faction has a right to borrow
men, says he, if they dont intend to pay them back; but
I'm thinkin', sis he, that ye're afeard to meet The Whang*
that's to lead the Sullivans (The Whang, yer honours, is
Nelly Nowlan's own brother). Well, sis I, to the devil with
the oats ; no one ever had it to say that I didnt pay men or
money when I could, and I dont care a thraneen for any
Sullivan that ever stepped in shoe leather."
" Ohl d'ye hear him ?" ejaculated Nelly. " It's little
business three like ye id have to stand before The Whang,'
av he got fair play. '
" Well, I wint," continued Barney, " to the fair, and
' The Whang,' an I met—and the world knows that I
didn't get the worst iv id. From that day to this Nelly
Nowlan's against me; an it's not bekese the oats was de-
stroyed by the storm, but bekese I bet her brother, Well,
ye see, I went into the election the other day with Father
Mick—and well treated we were, no doubt ; and comin'
home does I meet his Riverence. ' Well,' says he, Boni-
teen, I forgive ye all ye ever did to me, ye behaved so well
to-day. Ye're a real patriot, Here's a shilling to drink
my health
" Oh, ye villain l" interposed Nelly ; " Father Mick
wouldn't look the side iv the road ye travelled, Didn't he
give ye the curse iv God last Sunday, for yer tricks ? And
didn't he promise the congregation that if that wasn't able
for you, he'd give you his own curse next Sunday? And
in troth, av he does, ye'll be trotting about the Moat of
Mallow in a little black dog to the day iv Judgment I"
" Hould yer tongue woman I" cried Barney, not at all
relishing the threat. " Father Mick 'II do me no harm, I
tell yes. Well, ye see, gintlemin, I was in great humour,
seein' I had the priest on my side, and says I to myself, as
I passed Tim Nowlan's house, " I'll go in, an' make up with
them, and be at pace with the world.' In I goes in, an' bid
them the time of day, and sat on the bed, beside Nelly, and
lit me pipe. Batty,' this little animal (pointing to
the dog), the best bit of flesh on earth, Master Charley (ad-
dressing the youngest justice) ; yer Honour recollects the
day he buckled the big water-day? (Well, yer Honour
needn't laugh, now ; for, on my sowl, ye might put him to
sleep in a partridge's nest, and the divil an egg he'd touch)
—well, ye see, by course, Butty followed me in, an' wint to
warm himself at the fire; and whatever came between him-
self and the pig in the corner I don't know, but they up and
at 'other in the middle iv the floor, and there was a rigular
ruction. I lifted my legs out iv the way, and laid my hand
on Nelly's shoulders to hinder myself from fallin into the
bed, when she gives me a rap on the lug, I jumped up.
Tim made a whack at Butty, and knocked him down. I
made a blow at the pig, and Tim's head came between my
stick and her back. ' Whooh I' says he, spitting on the
handle of his stick. Whooh I' says I, doin the same. We
at 'other ; and I wasn't gettin the worst iv id, when that
decent man (pointing to Paddy Phelan) came in and sun
dorod us."

"Now, sir," said the stipendiary, " what did Butty say
when he was knocked down ?"

" The diva a word, yer Honour," roared Tim, at the top
of his voice.
"What did he do, then ?"
" The poor fellow found Nowlan's heel in his mouth, and
he bit it."

" A most barbarous method of fighting," rejoined the
stipendiary, addressing Phelan, the witness. " You ought
to be ashamed of yourself."
" I had nothing to do with it," replied Paddy, mildly.
" Then where is Butty P hasn't he been summoned ?"
" He's there, yer Honour," shouted Nclly (pointing to
the dog and his master)"—" but 'twas Boulteen did all the
harm,"

"Oh I I see," said the stipendiary, again addressing
Phelan; "he's Butty, and you're Boulteen, You should
have been the defendant instead of Brannan,"
"I saved Nowlan, yer Honour."
"I was able to save myself," cried Tim (now completely
recovered from his exhaustion) ; " there never was a Bran.
nan able to handle me. I'll tight Boulteen for the whole
matter this minute, ye see, if their Honours 'ill let me."
" A -

bargain, by gorra I" exclaimed Barney; and the two
men shook each other's hands most violently, in token of
agreement, while the court rung with laughter.
"There's no knowing how to decide On such contradic-
tory evidence," remarked the stipendiary magistrate ; "and
as the men seem dispos3cl to make it up. and have shaken
hands, let there be peace, and an end of it."
" Shall lit
.be settled as Mr - suggests r asked the
chairman of his colleague.
" I have no objection," was the reply.
"Now; Mr Brannan," remarked the chairman, with great
severity of manner, "you were clearly drunk, and I'll fine
you five shillings. You're of an honest family, but you're

* "Boulteen" is the Irish name of the light staff of the
flail which strikes the corn in threshing.
t `` Whangt, is the leather thong used to tie the brogues
of the peasantry,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to approve pf Don Patricia
as Consul at Barbadoes for the Republic of Peru.
\VAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nev. 29,
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards —Henry Frank Ebert
Lucas, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice John T.
Marshall, who retires.
3d Dragoon Guards— Cornet Edwin Brett to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Henry Fullerton Richmond, pro-
moted.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Wtn. Thomas Erskine
Bookey to be Captain, by purchase, vice Richard Coote,
who retires—Cornet Wm. Hoey to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Bookey—Charles Leigh Davy, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hoey.
14th Hussars—Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel
Francis Monntjoy Martyn, from half pay, late 2d Life
Guards, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Lieutenant
Colonel and Brevet Colonel Sir William Russell, Bart.,
C.B , who retires upon temporary half pay—Major and
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Pearson Scott Thompson
to be Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet
Col F. Mountjoy Martyn, who retires—Capt Frederick
Barclay Chapman to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet
Lieut Col Thompson—Lieut William Arbuthnot to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Chapman—Cornet James
Logan hite to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ar-
buthnot.
Royal Artillery—Staff Assistant Surgeon Henry Cramer
Guinness to be Assistant Surgeon, vice William Younge
Jeeves, promoted on the Staff—Staff Assistant Surgeon
William Evelyn Alston, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon,
vice Robert Storey, appointed to the Staff.
Grenadier Guards—Lieut Col and Brevet Col the Hon
Augustus Murray Cathcart, from the 96th Foot, to be
Captain and Lieutenant Colonel, by rurchase, vice Bar-
nerd, who exchanges.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Major and Brevet :Colonel Henry
Percival de Bathe to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Brevet
Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, who
retires upon half pay—Captain and Lieutenant Colonel
and Brevet Colonel Henry Poole Hepburn to be Major,
vice Brevet Colonel de bathe—Lieutenant and Captain
Henry Jelf-Sharp to be Captain and Lieutenant Colonel,
by purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Hepburn—Ensign and
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch, to he Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Jelf-Sharp—Ralph
Vivian, Gent , to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Wynne-Finch.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Sidney Henry Latimer
Tinley Widdrington to be Captain, by purchase, vice
William Henry Spencer, who retires—Ensign David
Frank Byrom Webster to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Widdrington—William Wade Brownjohn, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Webster.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant John Coleberd Cooper to be Captain,
by purchase, vice John Cockerel!, who retires—Ensign
Bennett Fleming Handy to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Cooper— George Rowan Hamilton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Handy.
17th Foot—Lieut John Emmett to bo Inspector of Mus-
ketry, vice Lieut David Frederick Allen, promoted.
19th Foot—Lieut (Beauchamp Colclough to be Adjutant,
vice Lieut William Read, who resigns the appointment.
43d Foot—Staff Assistants Surgeon Robert Alex Peter
Grant to be Assistant Surgeon, vice John James Henry,
who exchanges.
53d Foot—Benjamin M`Clintock, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Philip Durham Trotter, transferred to the
93d Foot.
73d Foot—Major Godfrey James Burne to be Lieut. Colo,.
nel, by purchase, vice Hugh Maurice Jones, who retires
—Captain William Henry Barry to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Burne—Lieut, St. John Dupond Galwey to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Barry—Ensign Richard
John Airey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Galwey.
84th Foot—Lieut. Wm. Clayton Clayton to be Adjutant,
vice Lieut. William Frank Wheatley, who has retired.
93d Foot—Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry
Atwell Lake, C.B„ from half pay unattached, to be
Lieutenant Colonel, vice Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet
Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross, C. 8., who retires upon
temporary half pay—Major Erskine Scott Francis George
Dawson to be Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase, vice
Brevet Colonel Lake, C. 8., who retires—Captain Regi-
nald Stewart Williams to be Major, by purchase, vice
Dawson—Lieutenant Charles Warner Losack to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Willianis—Ensign Thomas Prince
Lloyd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Losack—En-
sign Philip Durham Trotter, from the 63d Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Lloyd.
96th Foot—Captain and Lieutenant Colonel William
Andrew M. Barnard, from the Grenadier Guards, to be
Lieutenant Colonel, receiving the difference, vice the
Hon. A. M. Cathcart, who exchanges.
lO3d Foot—Lieutenant George Henry Bridges to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Thomas Stanley
Clay, promoted.
Rifle Brigade—Quartermaster Henry Harvey, to be Pay-
master, vice Michael William Lade Coast, deceased.
Ist West India Regiment—Gentleman Cadet, Henry John
Hugh de Vismes, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Anthony Coulton Allin-
son, promoted.
DEPOT BATTALlON—Paymaster, with the honorary rank
of Major, Alexis Corcoran, from half-pay, late Paymaster
of Detachments, to be Paymaster, vice Morris Robinson
Campbell, retired upon half-pay.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT— Assistant Surgeon Wm. Younge
Jeeves, from the Royal Artillery; to be Staff Surgeon,
vice Staff Surgeon Major Alexander Douglas Taylor,
M.D., placed upon half pay—Assistant Surgeon John
James Henry, from the 43d Foot, to be Staff Assistant
Surgeon, vice Robert Alexander Peter Grant, who ex-
changes—Assistant Surgeon Robert Storey, from the
Royal Artillery, to be Staff Assistant Surgeon, vice Wm.
Evelyn Alston, M.D., appointed to the Royal Artillery—
Assistant Surgeon Andrew Moffit, from Supernumerary
in the 67th Foot, to to bo Staff Assistant Surgeon, vice
George Youell, deceased.
BREVET.
The undermentioned officers having completed the qua-
lifying service in the rank of Lieutenaa‘ Conical U.) I)e
00)...eia, under the proxittions of the Royal Warrant of
Oct. /4, ISM :

Lieut Col Hugh Smith Baillie, Royal Horse Guards,
Lieut Col George John Peacocke, 16th Foot.
The honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel conferred upon
Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Alexis Cor-
coran, in the Gazette of Sept. 2, 1862, has been cancelled,
that officer having been re-appointed to full pay.
Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Michael
Thompson, 70th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.
Staff Surgeon Major Alexander Douglas Taylor, M.D.,
who retires upon half pay, to have the honorary tank of
Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals.
The undermentioned promotions to take place in her
Majesty's Indian Forces consequent on the death of—
Lieutenant General Charles Denis Dun, Madras Infantry,
on the 16th August, 1861, and Lieutenant General George
Sandys, Madras Cavalry, on the 20th October, 1861:
To be Lieutenant Generals—Major General Robert
Hawk( s, Bengal Cavalry—Major General Archibald Ful-
lerton Richmond, C. 8., Bengal Infantry.
To be Major Generals—Cul. David Babington, Madras
Infantry—Cul. Wm Robert Andrew Freeman, Madras In-
fantry,

Th® undormentionol Officers, who have retired on full
pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows :
To be Major Generals—Colonel James Whistler, C. 8,,
Madras Cavalry.
To be Lieutenant:Colonels—Major Richard Western,
Madras Infautry—Major Alexander Campbell M`Neill,
Madras Stuff Corps.
To be Majors —Captain Charles Plowden S. John Law,
Bengal lutantry—Coptain Robert Maxwell, Bengal In-
fantry—Captain George Geach, Bombay Infantry.
MEMORANDUM.—Major and Brevet-Colonel Richard
Leckonby Phipps, half pay Unattached, has been permitted
to retire from the service by the sale of his commission
under the conditions of the Horse Guards Circular Memo:
rardum of Feb. 15, 1864.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 26.
Vice Admiral John Jervis Tucker has been appointed to
receive a pension of £l5O a year, as provided by her Ma-
jesty's Order in Council of June 25, 1851, vacant by the
death of Vice Admiral Henry Francis Greville, C. 8,, and
the name of Vice Admiral Tucker has been removed to the
Reserved Half-pay List accordingly ; and in consequence
of this removal, the following promotions to date Oct. 20,
1864, have this day taken place, viz. :--Rear Admiral
Horatio Thomas Austin, C.B„ to be Vice Admiral, and
Captain Charles Gepp Robinson to be Rear Admiral.
Autl in consequence of the death on the 27th tilt, et Rear