The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29.

4th Dragoon Guards—To be Lieutenants without pur-
ehase—Coraets the Honourable M. Fitz Maurice Deane,
vice Brigetocke, promoted, John Arthur Bragge, and
Edward Rowe Fisher, Dec. 29.
sttt Dragoon Guards—To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase—Cornets Thomas Lewis Hampton and Henry Hird
SII,Y, Dec. 29.
_ .Ist Dragoons—Cornet Gilbert Metcalfe Robertson to be
ID.aeecu.t2,,en,nt, without purchase, vice Coney promoted,
2d Dra,,,,
To be Captains without .
tenon ts frail"- purcbase—Lieu-
aSrntherlaml vice Williams, deceased, Nov.
24 ; Geo. B
arb, vice Sutherland, whose promotion on
the Bth instant h
cancelled, Dec. 8 ; Herbert Ed-
wards, vice Buchan,,'nen
been cancellweCtiol7 promotion on the 13th De-
cember bas b
To be Lieutenants withoi.,;_. purchase—Cornet Duncan
M`Neill, vice Edwards, D,ae.
Handley, Dec. 29.• 15 ; Cornet Henry Edwardes
4th Light Dragoons— Cornet John
cl • .
Mas-
ter, to be Lieutenant, without purch:rsk, Riding
Mas-
Winstanley, from the 16th Light Dragoons, e Cornet Win.
to be Cornet,
without purchase Dec. 29.
te‘Nw'ahritte to be
6th Dragoons—Cornet, Alfred Ifendmer.assu
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Siv J.
Bart., who retires ; John Evans. Gent., to be Cornet, Stewart,
pur-
chase, vice White, Dec. 29.
11th Light Dragoons—Cornet George A. Maddock to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Houghton, deceased,
Nov. 23 ; Lieutenant E. Harnett, from half-pay of the
15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice .11a4bloek,
whose promotion en the Bth inst. has been cancelled
Veterinary-Surgeon Wm. Partridge to be Veterinary.
Surgeon, vice Gloag, appointed to the Staff in Turkey,
Deo. : 9.

17th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry Baring, from the
10th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
Dec. 29.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Battalion-
Surgeon George Brown to he Surgeon-Major, vice Wright.
who retires upon half-pay ; Assistant• Surgeon C. R. Nicoll
to be Battalion-Surgeon, vice Brown ; Wm. Ralph Lane,
Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Nicoll, Dec. 29.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Chris-

topher Edward Blackatt, from the 93d Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, without purchase, vice Benvene,
killed in action, Dec. 29.
7th Regiment of Foot—Llewellyn Price Traherne, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Waller, promoted,
Deo. 29.
18th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
sign Arthur Charles Elliott, from the 94th Foot ; Ensign
Charles James Coote, Dec. 29.
21st Foot—Sackville George Lane Fox, Gent., to be Eu
sign, without purchase, vice Pester, appointed to the Rifle
Wrigade, Dec. 29.
23d Foot—James Williamson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase,
be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs Henry Clark Worthington, vice Holford, deceased,
loh utFpourotc.li—ase, Dec. 29.
Nov. 29; Charles David Ingham, vice Worthington,
whose promotion on the Bth Dec., has been cancelled,
Dec. 8; Thomas Edmund Adams, from the Royal South
Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Ingham, Dec. 29.
30th Feot—Ensign Charles John Moorsom to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Ross-Lewin, died of his
wounds, Nov. 8; Ensign Joseph Fleming to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Moorsom, whose promotion on the
Bth inst., has been cancelled, Dec. 8. To be Ensigns with-
out purchase—Lieutenant Wm. Kerr, from the Northam-
ton Militia, vice Thompson, died of his wounds, Dec. 28,
and Lieutenant Rothes Hastings Neville, from the Royal
South Lincoln Militia, vice Fleming, promoted, Dec. 29.
44th Foot—Ensign Thomas Orton Howarth, from the
3d West York Militia, to be Ensign without purchase,
Dec. 29.

47th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Heiry Grange, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Saunders, promoted,
Dec. 29.

57th Foot—Lieutenant Charles George Clarke, from the
South Devon Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Bird, promoted, Dec. 29._

60i1i Foet—Honourable Richard Prendergast Vereker
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Travers, promoted,
Deo. 29.

63d Foot—Lieutenant Richard Halliday Archer, from
the South Devon Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vise Wyberg, promoted, Dec. 29.
68th Foot—Captain Herbert Blount, to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Harry
Smyth, died of his wounds ; Lieutenant Charles 11. Shut-
tleworth to be Captain, without purchase, vice Blount,
Nov. 24; Lieutenant and Adjutant T. de C. Hamilton to
be Captain without purchase, vice Shuttleworth, whose
promotion on the lot Dec. has been cancelled, Dec. 1.
77th Foot—Ensign H. M. L. Colquhoun to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Maine, deceased ; Ensign G.
E. Leggett to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; John
George Skene, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Morgan, promoted, Dec. 29.
94th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Dennis to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Colonel Milner, who retires upon full-pay ; Captain Wm.
Henry Kirby to be Major, without purchase, vice Dennis ;
Captain Brotherton Browne, from half-pay, unattached,
to be Captain, vice Whahab, appointed Paymaster ; Lieu-
tenant Justin E. D. MacCarthy to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Kirby ; Lieutenant Henry Hamilton Pratt,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires;
Ensign William Pluraer Gaskell to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice MacCarthy ; Ensign G. L. Hedley to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pratt ; Josiah Robt. Rolls,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hadley, Dee. 29.
95th Foot—Brevet-Major Alfred Thomas Heyland to be
Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Champion, died of his wounds ; Lieutenant Charles Henry
Martin to be Captain, without purchase, vice Heyland,
Dec. 1. To be Lieutenant! without purchase—Ensign G.
H. L. Brooke, vice Martin, Dec. 1; Ensign J. W. J.
Stockwell, vice Brooke, whose promotion en the Bth inst.
has been cancelled, Dec. 8; Ensign Norton Knatchbull,
feom the Royal Wilts Militia to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Stockwell, promoted, Dec. 29.
' 98th Foot—Lieutenant Robert James, from hlf -pay
of the 56th Foot, to be Lieutenant, viceP a
Browne, ap-
pointed to the 84th Foot ; Ensign Robert Westropp Ellis
to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice James, who retires ;
William Blackett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Ellis, Dec. 29.

Rifle
Brigade—Second Lieutenant C. A. P. Boileau to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Godfrey, d‘cea.sed,
Nov. 28. ; Ensign Alexander Heywood to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Boileau, whose promotion on the
Bth instant has been cancelled, Dec. 8 ; Ensign F. W.
Fremantle to be Lieutenant, withouc purchase, vice Hey-
wood, whose promotion on the 22d December, has been
cancelled, Dec. 22. To be Ensigns without purohase—
James Frederick Henley, Gent., vice Norris, promoted,
Dec. 24; Ensign John Clerk, from the 6th Foot, vice
Boileau, promoted, Dec. 25 ; Ensign J. C. Pester, from the
21st Foot, vice Honourable A. Anson, promoted, Dec. 26 ;
H. D. Bailie, Gent., vice Talbot, promoted, Dec. 27 ; E.
S. G. Woodford, Gent., vice Fremantle, Dec. 28 ; Lieu-
tenant H. A. Scriven, from the 4th Middlesex Militia,
Dec. 29.

let West India Regiment—John Richard O'Meara Law-
lor, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, -vice Beamish,
appointed to the 45th Foot, Dec. 29,
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Edward Armstrong
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Savage, decased,
Oct. 5 ; Ensign George Gant Beazley to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Armstrong, whose promotion on
the Ist December, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 1.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Major Percy Hill to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, by 'menace, vice Brevet-Colonel
Taylor, who retires ; Captain James Nicol Holmes to be
Major, by purchase, vice Hill P • Lieutenant Kenneth
Mackenzie Moffatt to be Captain, by pc rchase, vice Holmes ;
Ensign Edward Wolley to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Moffatt; William Fleming Alarcon, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Woolley ; Lieutenant William
Henry Sharpe to be Adjutant, vice Moffaet, promoted,
Dec. 29,,
Provisional 'Depot Battalions—Brevet-Colonel John T.
Hill, from half-pay 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel;
Major John Johnston, from half-pay unattached. to he
Major ; Brevet-Major Donald Angus George Darrach, of
the 51st Foot, to be Adjutant ; Lieutenant John Burke,
27th Foot, to be Qearterinaster, Dec. 29.
BREVET.
Brevet-Colonel Henry Robert Milner, on retired fail-pay
of the 91th Foot, to be Major-General in the Army, the
rank being only honorary, Dec. 29.
Ckptain Brotherton Browne, of the 94th Foot, to be
Major in the Army, Nov. 23.
Brevet-Major Brotherton Browne, of the 94th Foot, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 11.
Major-General Richard Airey, being the Senior Super-
numerary Major-General, to sacceed to the vacancy on the
fixed Establishment of General Officers, Dec. 29.