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THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Gloucester—Eastern Division—Robert Stay.
ner Holford, Esq., in tho rooni of Sir Michael Hicks
Hicks Beach, Bart., deceased.
13.zough of Marylebone—Hugh Forteszne, Esq., com-
monly called Viscount Ebrington, in the room of Dudley
Coutts Stuart, Erg., coinuoaly Lord Dudley Coutts
Stuart, deceased.
WAR-OFFICZ, DEC. 22.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Veterinary Surgeon Thos.
Jex, 2d Dragoons, now serving on the Staff in Turkey, to
be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Percival, deceased, Deo. 22.
2d Life Guards—Lieutenant Henry Dalton Wittit Lyon
to be Adjutant, vice Sherwon, who resigns the Adjutentoy
only, Dec. 22.
sth Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thos.
W. McMahon to be Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase,
vice Brevet-Colonel Seal lett, promoted to the rank of
Major-General ; Captain Richard Thompson to be Major,
without purchase, vice McMahon ; Lieutenant Alexander
James Hardy Elliott to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Thompson • Cornet Richard G. B. Bolton to be Lieu-
tenant, withouipurchase, vice Elliott ; Sir Edward Syngo
Hutchinson, Bart. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Honourable Grey Neville, deceased, Dec. 22.
Ist Dragoons-Lieutenant Walter John Coney to be
Captain, without purchase, Dec. 22.
Bth Light Dragoons—Cornet James Baker, from the
Royal Horse Guards, to be Cornet, without purchase,
Dec. 22.

let or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be
Lieutenants and Captains without purchase—Ensign and
Lieutenant W. Verschoyle ; Ensign and Lieutenant Fdk.
T. A. H. Bathurst ; Ensign and Lieutenant Honourable
Wyndham H. Wyndham Quin, Dec., 22. To be
Ensigns and Lieutenants, without purehase—Lieute-
-nant the Hon. John B. J. Dormer, fiom the Royal Force.
Guerds, -vice,Fergiuuson,..promoted,—Dee. 18; Henry ,
shawe Davies, Gent., vice Davies, died of his wounds,
Dec. 19 ; Patrick Keith Murray, Gent., vice Verschole,
Dec. 20 ; Sudeley Charles George Hanbury Tracy, Gent.,
vice Bathurst, Dec. 21 ; Henry Parnell, Gent.,
vice Quin, Dec. 22.
Scots Fusilier Regiment of root Guards—To be Ensigns
and Lieutenants, without purchase—The Hon. Edward
Brownlow, vice Knollys, promoted, Dec. 21; Henry Jeff
Sharpe, Gent., vice Lindsay, promoted, Dec 22.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Henry Bree-
den to be Captain, without purchase, vice Carter, de-
ceasel ; Ensign George Rowe Fenwick to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Breeden, Nov. 28 ; Ensign James
William Hassell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Fenwick, whose promotion on the Bth December, 1854, has

been cancelled, Dec. 8.
31 Foot—Ensign George Noble Roe t) be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Macneil, appointed to the 13th
Light Dragoons, Dec. 22.
7th Foot—Brevet-Major Arthur John Pack to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbra-
ham, whose Brevet rank has been converted into substan-
tive rank, in accordance with the Royal Warrant, 6th
Oct. ; Lieutenant Hugh Robert Hibbert to be Captain
without purchase, vice Pack ; Ensign George Henry Wal-
ler to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hibbert ;
Lieutenant H. N. C. Thurston°, from the 3d West York
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lord R. H.
Browne, promoted, Dec. 22.
11th Foot—Acting-Assistant-Surgeon Francis Henry
Macfadin, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Young, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 22.
12th Foot —Henry Nesbitt, Gent , to be Ensign, with-
out purcaso, vice Stirke, promoted, Dec. 22.
13th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Mark Kerr, from •
half-pay Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel
vice Brevet-Colonel Stuart, who exchanges, Dec. 22.
24th Foot—Ensign Henry William Heaton, from the 3d
West York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
Dec. 22.
21st Foot—Major John Ramsay Stuart to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Ainslie, died of his
wounds: Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Paul Haines
to be Major, without purchase, vice Stuart; Lieutenant,
Edwin Ashley Tucker Steward to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Haines ; Ensign Richard Stephens to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Steward, Nov. 15 ;
Ensign William Cairnes to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Stephens, whose promotion, on the Bth De-
cember, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 8; Isaac Tristam
Coffin. Gent., to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Cairnes,

Dec. 22.
31st Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Francis Ball to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Minnitt, who retires ; Ensiga
William George Herbert Taylor Fairfax to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Ball; Thomas Christian Rycroft, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fairfax, Dec. 22.
37th Foot—John George Jervis, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, *vice Evered, promoted, Dec. 22.
35th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Jackson

Louth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Sir John Campbell, Bart., promoted to be Major-General ;
Brevet M::jor Joseph Samuel Adamson to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Lowth ; Lieutenant J. T. Craster to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Adamson ; Ensign
John Bolton French to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Ouster, Dec. 22.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Isaac King, from the Royal
Bucks (King's Own) Militia, to ha Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Fitz Roy, promoted, Doc. 22.
49th Foot—Major John Thornton Grant to bo Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without much vice Brevet-Colonel
Adams, promoted, to be Major-General; Brevet-Major C.
S. Glazbrook, to be Major, without purchase, vice Grant ;
Lieutenant J. A. Conolly to he Captain, without purchase,
vice Glazbrook ; Ensign Patrick Cahill to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Conolly, Dec. 22.
50th Foot—Edward John Miller, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice A1444,1)113, promoted, Dec. 2.
60th Foot—Ensign James Arthur Morrab, from the
Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Ensign, vice Fox, pro-
moted, Dec. 22.
73d Foot—Ensign Bryan George Davies Cooke to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, who retires • James
Frederick Henley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Cooke, Dec. 22.
77th Foot—Lieutenant William Seward Le Fetvre,
from the Hampshire Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Carden, promoted, Doc. 22. •
78th Foot—Captain Jacob Meek, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Bentley, who exchanges ; Lieu-
tenant Lawrence Ploydell-Bouverie to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Meek, who retires; Ensign John Finlay to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bouverie ; Montagu Alex-
ander Kirby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fin-
lay, Dec. 22.
88th Foot—Ensign Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas
Kenny to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Maule,
died of his wounds, Nov. 16.
Ensign William Lambert to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Kenny, whose promotion on the Bth Decem-
ber, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 8.
Lieutenant William Little to be Adjutant, vice Manle,
died of his wounds; Berkeley Mitchell, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Lambert, Dec. 22.
89th Foot--Captain Daniel Tom, from half-pay 36th
Foot, to bo Captain, vice Knipe, who exchanges, Dec. 22.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur D. Swift, from the Hamp-
shire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Jack-
son, appointed Quartermaster, Dec. 22.
93d Foot—Ensign Maxwell Wither Hyslop, from the
39th Foot, to be Ensign, Dec. 22.
Rifle Brigade—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel W. S. R.
Norcott to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel Buller, promoted to be Major-General;
Brevet-Major Alexander Macdonell to be Major, without
purchase, vice Norcott ; Lieutenant the Hon. Leicester
Curzon to be Captain, without purchase, vice Macdonell,
Dec. 22 ; Second Lieutenant the Hon. H. Walter Camp-
bell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tryon, killed
in action, Nov. 21 • Ensign Alexander Heywood to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Campbell, whose pro-
motion on Dec. 8 has been cancelled, Dec. 8 ; Ensign John
Brett to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Curzon,
Dec. 22.

BREVET.
Captain Jacob Meek, 78th Foot, to be Major in the
Army, June 28.
Brevet-Major Jacob Meek, 78th Foot, to be Lientenan-
Colonel in the Army, Nov. 11.
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Robert Wesley, Royal
Marines, to be Colonel in the Army, Dec. 13.
Captain George Colt Langley, Royal Marines, to be
Major in the Army, Dec. 13.

revet-Major George Cult Langley, Royal Marines, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Dec. 14.

The undermentioned Cadets, of the East India Com-
pany's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of
Ensign during the period of their being placed under the
command of Colonel 11. D. Jones, of the Royal Engineers,
at Chatham, for Field Instructions in the Art of Sapping
and Mininr, :—Eneas Robert Ronaldson Macdonell, Gent.;
Edward Jones,' Gent ; Henry Alexander Lindsay Car-
negie, Gent ; Edward Talbot Thackeray, Gent. ; William
George Douglas Dick, Gent. ; John Greenlaw Forbes,
Gent. ; Hugh Robert Meiklejohn, Gent. ; Frederich Colvin
Mytton, Gent.; Harry James Grant Gordon, Gent.,
Dec. 22.

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talosiali efiistia 64,mt
14th Doc. 3164, inetead.of.l24, Pri3VlOl4lY4
18th Foot—Ensign M..T9th. cuoningbaliv
55th Foot—Ensign James Scott. •
Erratum in the.acctite of 604:.
For Captain E. Fellowes, from the 12th Llg Avita-' AZ.,-/""
to be Captain in the 11th Light Dragoons, Read -
Major E. Fellowes, from the Light Dragoo4, kc.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 13.
STAFF.
Colonel Samuel Robert Wesley to be Deputy-Adjutant
of Royal Marines, vice Major-General Sir John Owen,
IC. C.D. , Dec. 13.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Colt Langley to be Assistant
Adjutant-General of Royal Marines, vice Wesley, pro-
moted, Dec. 13.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 16.
Corps of Royal Marines—second Lieutenant Charles
Throckmorton Witham to be First Lieutenant, vice
Douglas, to half-pay.
ADMIRALTY. DEC. 19.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Adja-
tent Thomas Valentine Cooke to be Captain, vice W. M.
Heriot, deceased ; Second Lieutenant Albert Higman to
be First Lieutenant, vice Cooke, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENA.NTS.
County of Fife —To 1),) Deputy Lieutenants—Alexan !er
Bethune, Esq. ; James (10i'ey D dgleish, Fsq. ; David
Gillespie, Esq. ; Frederick L gaitland lleriut, Esq. ;
Frederick Louis Scrymgeour Wedderburn, Esq. ; James
Wenayss, , Esq • Major Alexander Anderson • Captain
Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune ; James' Flay Era-
kine Wernyss, - Esq. ; George Robertson Barclay, Esq. ;
George William Mercer Henderson, Esq. ; Captain Win,
Maitland lleriot Don al ; C3utts Trotter Lindsey,
Bait. yr., Dec. 19. Doug
Fifeshire Regiment of Militia—William Bonthron to be
Surgeon, vice James ISloore Graham, resigned ; James
William Reid Mackie to b 3 A,sistant-Surgeon, vice Wil-
IR're°grnii°nteciadt' oNf'N'wo. rlfBo.lk Militia.—To be Cap-
tains— Meybohn Ryder Haggard. vice Wodehouse,
superseded, Dec. 16; James Hay Wodehouse, Esq. To
be Lieutenants—Thomas Keatiug Nixon, Gent., vice Free-
man, resigned, Dec. 15; Henry
Gresham Paske, Gent.,
vice Palmer, resigned, Dec. 16 ; Robert Arthur Rising,
Gent., vice Mayhew, resigned, Dec. 18.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Edward
Beovor Batchelor Gent., to be Lientenant, Dec. 18.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Captain, vice
olYneux Seel,
BL ireandtes
hnnawn,t Triemsiogtnhedy BDriees to. ‘2v
1; Hughiwe sardt o bear
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Henry Morewead, Gent., to
be Ensign, Dec. 15 ; Joseph Rowley, Gent, to be Eng.,
Dec. 16 ; Edward Averill Lucas, Gent., to be Ensign,,
Dec. 17 ; Robert William John Barlow, Gent., to be
Ensign, Dec. 18; Richard Borough, Gent., to be Ensign,
_Dec. 18 ; William Flesketh, Gent. to be Ensign, Dec. 20.
East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—To be
Ensigns-11.--;, se Tluckland, Gent.; William-H=7 Bent,
Gent.; Robert a-Olden Stone, Gent.; John Irby Iles, Gthit, _ _
Dec. 19.
3d or Royal ,Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—John Stone Wigg, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, Dec. 13.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Stanley Mortimer, Gent., to be Ensign,
Dec., 13.

Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—
Dudley Edward Saurin, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 9.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—
Edmund Vernon Mackinnon, Esq., late sth Dragoon
Guards, to be Captain, vice Scott, resigned, Dec. 15.
James Wemyss Anderson, Eiq., late 92d Highlanders, to
be Captain, vice Philips, resigned, Dec. 16.
Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—
John William Crowe, Esq., late 83d Regiment, to be Cap-
tain, Dec. 16.
Kirkcudbright Quota of the Galloway Rifle Regiment of
Militia--The Lord Viscount Garlus to be Lieutenant, vice
M'Crackan, retired ; David Alex. Gordon, Esq., younger,
to be Ensign, vice Laurie, retired, Oct. 18; Arthur Nugent
Dunbar, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Denniston, retired, Nov.

4.
Oxfordshire Militia—Thomas Frederick Bulkeley, Gent.,
to be Ensign, Dec. 20.
Hertfordshire Militia—Captain Joseph Foskett to be
Major, vice Dorrien, promoted ; Lieutenant James John
Gape to bo Captain, vice Foskett, promoted ; the Honour-
able Charles Grimston to be Lieutenant ; Henry Bingham,
Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 16. "
Leicestershiro Regiment of Militia—Thomas Stammers,
Gent., to be Ensign, Dec, 16.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
The Right Hon. Arthur Lennox, commonly called Lord
Arthur -Lennox, late Lieutenant-Colonel of her Majesty's
68th Regiment of Light Infan try, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Paine, resigned ; John Kincaid Smith, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; Augustus Granville Morgan, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; John Moore Clarke Travers, Gent., to be En-
sign, Dec. 14.
Ist Loyal Lanarkshire Militia—James Davidson, Esq.,
to bo Major, Dec. 9; Lieutenant Douglas Hamilton
to be Captain, vice Campbell, deceased,, Dec. 6 ;
Sir Alexander Charles Gibson Maitland, Bart., to be Cap-
tain, vice Stewart, deceased, Dec. 7 ; John Findlay, Esq.,
to be Captain, vice M`Lean, deceased, Dec. 8; William
Hamilton Ramsay, Esq., to be Captain, vice H. C. J.
Hamilton, retired, Dec. 9 ; James Coutts Crawford, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Currie, deceased, Dec. 6 ; Ensign
Andrew Tennant to be Lieutenant, vice Douglas, de-
ceased, Dec. 7 ; David Bremner, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Stevenson, deceased, Dee. 8; Johu William Hender-
son. Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice M`Kenzie, deceased,
Dec. 9 ; James Hamilton Henderson, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Campbell, deceased, Dec. 6.
Ba EV ET,—Adjutant \V illoughby Harcourt Carter to be
Captain, Dec. 6.

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2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Archibald Hamilton
Tattnall, Esq., to be Major, Dcc. 6; Andrew Frazer, Esq.,
to be Captain, Dec. 5; William Bertram, Esq., to be
Captain, Dec. 6; John Dickson, Esq., to be Captain,
Dec. 7 ; John George Brown, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 8 ;
Walter ScAt, Esq.-i to be Captain, Dec. 9; Andrew Adam
Yealson, Esq., to bo Captain, Dec. 11; James Carmichael
Robertson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Dec. 6; George
M•paii. to b 3 Lieutenant, Dec. 7.
Dorset Regiment of Iktilitia.—Wi!li:Lm Henry Bragge,
Gent., to be Ensign ; Chatles Edward Lambert, Gent.,
to ho Ensign, Deo, 15.

North York Ritt?, Regiment NT ilitia. —William S wire,
Gent., to bo Ensign; .11,1).!rt Tit oupson, Gent., to be
Ensign, De... 16.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment
of Militia.—James Brooke O'Loghlin, Gent., to be a
Lintenant.

21 Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign Archibald Iver to be Lieutenant, vice .Ashton,
signed ; Ensign John Edwar I Knight to In Lieutenant,
vice Edwards, resigned ; John Burton Phillipson, Gent.,
to he Ensign, vice Kemp, re,,igned, Dee. 18.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Roger Car-
michael Robert Owen to be Captain, vice Hill, resigned ;
Ensign William Henry Niccolls to be Lieutenant, vice
Owen, promoted ; Thomas Kennersly Gardener, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Boyce, resigned ; Thomas Wood-
ward, Gent., to be Ensign ; Edward Beck, Gent., to be
Ensign ; Henrich Ap Eyton Parry Jones, Gent., to be
Ensign, Dec. 18.
[The following article is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the Gazette of tho 21st of November last.]
Derbyshire Militia—William Manjin, Gent., to be En-
sign, Nov. 17.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Morris Ellis Pemberton, merchant, Lime-street, City.
William George Sharp Mockford, merchant, Rood-lane,
City.

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