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THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT•

OROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 14.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESENT
PARLIAM ENT.
Borough of Barnstaple.—John Laurie, and Richard
Samuel Guinness, Esqrs., the last election for the said
borough having been declared void.
Borough of Abingdon.—Joseph Haythorne Reed, of
Burnham, in the county of Somerset, Esq., in the room
of Montague Bertie, Esq. (commonly called Lord Norreys),
now Earl of Abingdon, summoned to the House of Peers.
WAR OFFICE, DEC. 15.
GENERAL ORDER.
Horse Guards, Dec. 12, 1854.
The General Commanding-in-Chief has much gratifica-
tion in publishing to the array the commands of the Queen,
for the promotion of the following officers, who com-
manded Brigades during the late arduous and brilliant
operations in the Crimea, and whose distinguished conduct
has been specially brought to the notice of her Majesty by
Field-Marshal Lord Raglan :
TO BE MAJOR-GENERALS.

Colonel Richard Airy, Unattached.
James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt, Unattached.

Henry William Adams, C. 8., 49th Foot.
Honourable James orke Scarlett, sth 'Dragoon
Guards.
Sir John Campbell, Bart., 38th Foot.
Arthur Wellesley Torrens, Unattached,
George Buller, C. 8., Rifle Brigade.
William Eyre, C. 8., half-pay 73d Foot.
By command of the Right Honourable
GENERAL VISCOUNT HARDINGE,
Commanding-in-Chief.
G. A. WETHERALL,
Adjutant-General.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 15.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lien
tenant Henry Charles Lane to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice the Hon. C. B. Lyons who retires ; John William
Herbert Caninghame, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieu-
tenant, by-purchase, vice Lane, Dee. 15.
Royal Horse Guards —The Honi. Geoffrey- Richard Clegg
Hill to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Seymour, appointed
to the 17th Light Dragoons, Dec. 15.
4th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant George C. Henville
Player Brigstocke to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 15.
sth Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Frederick Hay Swin-
fen to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 15.
6th Dragoon Guards—Francis George Savage Curtis,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Fawcett, who re-
tires, Dec. 15.
7th Dragoon Guards—James Vance Cleland, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, Dec. 15.
2d Dragoons—Lieutenant George Buchanan to be Cap-
tain, without purchase; Lieutenant Henry John Wale,
from half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice Buchanan, Dec. 15.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Barry Marshall
to be Captain, without purchase ; Cornet Robert New-
comen Gore Booth to bo Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Marshall, Doc. 15. To be Cornet without purchase—
Ensign John Francis Sparke, from the 68th Foot, vice
Browne, promoted, Dec. 15.
6th Dragoons—Captain P. D'Ormieux Von Streng, from
half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to be Captain ; Lieutenant
John Clements, from half pay 15th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, Dec. 15.
Bth Light Dragoons--Lieutenant Daniel Hugh Clutter-
buck to be Captain, without purchase; Lieutenant John
Puget, from half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Clutterbuck, Dec. 15.
11th Light Dragoons—Captain Edward Fellowes, from
the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Captain ; Lieutenant Geo.
Barrington Price, froi a half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to
be Lieutenant; Serjerait-Major George Bull to be Cornet,
without purchase, vice Houghton, promoted, Dec. 15.
12th Light Dragoons Captain Henry Brett, from half-
pay of the 151,h Light Draeoons, to be Captain, vice Fel-
lowes, appointed to the 11th Light Dragons, Dec. 15.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John William Clayton
to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 15. To bo Lieu-
tenants without purchaze —Lieutenant Mamie'', from the
3d Foot, vice Clayton ; Lieutenant James Edwards Vi-
vian, from half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, Dec. 15.
17th Light Dragoons--Captain John 11a.cartncy, from
half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to be Captain ; Lieutenant
Henry Howard Barber, from half-pay. 15th Light Dragoons,
to be Lieutenant, Dec. 15.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe, from the 4th Light Dragoons,
to be Lieutenant and Captain, without purchase vice
Strong, promoted ; Lieutenant the Hon. Wm. Henry Adel-
bert Feilding, from the 62d Foot, to be Lieutenant and
Captain, without purchase, vice Mackinnon, killed in
action, Dec. 15.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Captain and Lieut.-Colonel Wm.
John Ridley to be Major, without purchase (with the rank
of Colonel in the army), vice Sir C. J. J. Hamilton, Bart.,
who retires ; Lieutenant and Captain Lord Adolphus
Frederick Charles William Vane-Tempest to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Ridley ; Ensign
and Lieutenant Arthur H. Thisllethwayte to be Lieutenant
and Captain, by purchase, vice Vane-Tempest, Dec. 15.
7th Foot —lleathcole Plummer, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Jones, promoted, Dec. 15.
9th Foot.—To bo Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs William Hassey, Henry Marcus Beresford, James
Ludlow Stawell Sealy, Deo. 15.
14th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
sign Reginald Henry Graham ; Ensign George Bridges;
Ensign Angus William Hall, Dec. 15.
15th Foot—Lieutenant James Walmsley to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Hoare, who retires ; Ensign John Smyth
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Walmsley; John
Olphert Kemmis, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Smyth, Dec. 15.
18th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Henry
John Faircloth, Gent., vice Wolseley, promoted ; Colour-
Sedeant Michael Joseph Cunningham, Dec. 15. To be
Assistant-Surgeon Edward Canny Ryall, Acting-Assistant-
Surgeon John Ray Philip, M. 8., Dec. 15.
19th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign
Edward St. John Griffiths, from the 58th Foot, vice
Goren, promoted; Edward Nassau Kindersley, Gent.,
vice Tnott, promoted, Doe. 15.
20th Foot—John Thomas Vaughan Kirkby, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dowglasse, promoted,
Dec. 15.

21st Foot—John Constantine Pester, Gent., to be En
sign, without purchase, vice Clarke, promoted, Dec. 15.
22d Foat—Lieutenant James Tweedie, from the 81st
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice King, who exchanges, Oct. 9.
23d Foot—Ensign Charles Monsen to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Somerville, whose promotion on
the Bth December, 1854, has been cancelled ; James De
Vic Tupper, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Bigge, promoted, Dec. 15.
26th Foot—Henry Herbert Bindon, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Lockhart, promoted, Doc. 15.
28th Foot—Edward Fox Angelo, Gent., to be Endo,
without purchase, vice Berry, appointed Quartermaster ;
Ensign HenryA. Berry, to be Qaartermaster,vice Spence,
deceased, Dec. 15.
30th Foot —Lieutenant Gilbert Howard Saunders, from
the Ist Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Campbell, promoted, ,Dec. 15.
33d Foot—George Talbot Worthington, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Rogers, promoted, Dec. 15.
34th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs Thomas Harry Saunders, Robert John Browne Clay-
ton, Arthur Scott, Dec. 15.
39th Foot—To bo Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs James Powell, William Da Wilton Roche Thack-
well, Edward John Stokes, Dec. 15.
40th Foot—Ensign Edward Henry Melville Tod, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Penuefather, who retires ;
Alfred Cook, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tod, Dec. 15.
41st Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Henry
Edward Bryan, Gent.,vice Kingscoto, promoted, Dec. 13 ;
Arthur Henry Wavell, Gent., vice Peddle, promoted,
Dec. 11 ; Andrew Halliday Hall, Gent., vice Hamilton,
promoted, Dec. 15.
4Gth Foot—John Spencer Churchill, Gent., vice Coote,
promoted, Dec. 15.
47th Foot—William Colville RodneyMylins, Gent., vice
Irby, promoted, Dec. 15.
lath Foot—William Madan, Gent., vice Young, pro-
moted, Dec. 14; Frederick Powell, Gent.; vice Chatfield,
promoted, Dec. 15.
50th Foot —Frederick Falkner, .Gent., vice Fyler, pro-
moted, Dec. 17.
55th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
sign Henry Burke, vice Warren, promoted, Nov. 6 ; En-
sign Richard John Thorley Stone, Ensign Charles Henry
Evans, Ensign Edwyn Frederick Temple, Dec. 15. To he
Ensigns without purchase—Quartermaster-Sergeant James
Scott. vice Johnson, promoted; Fred. Fitzwilliam Trench
Hobbs, Gent., vice Trevor, promoted, Dec. 15 ; Lieut.
Henry Berke to be Adjutant, vice Warren, promoted,
Nov. 6.
57th Foot—Henry Douglas Mackenzie Shute, Gent ,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mitchell, promoted,
Dec. 15.
• 60th Foot—Captain John Robert Wilton, from half-pay
unattached, to be Captain, vice Kenny, who exchanges,
Dec. 15.
62d Foot—Ensign William Bromley Davenport to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice the Honourable W. H.
A. Fielding, promoted in the Coldstream Guards, Dec. 15.
63d Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Lieutenant
Charles Colquhoun Pye, from (King's Own) Ist Stafbrd
Militia, vice Clutterbuck, killed in action, Dec. 14 ;
Stephen Moore, Gent., vice Twysden, promoted, Dec. 15.
68th Foot--To be Ensigns without purchase —Ensign
Thomas Reeder Clarkson, from the Royal Wilts Militia;
promoted; Gilbert Alfred Nicholetts, Gent., vice Tucker,
promoted, Dec. 15.
69th Foot —Colour-Serjeant William Bastard to be
Quartermaster, vice Smyth, appointed Paymaster, Dec. 15.
77th Foot—Lieutenant Honourable John Colborne, from
the 74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, Dec. 15.
78th Foot—Captain Thomas Adams, from the 83d Foot,
to be Captain, vice Keogh, who exchanges, Oct. 3.
the,
22,1 Foot—Lieutenant Francis George King, from the,
22,1 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Tweedie, who exchanges,
Oct. 9.
83d Foot—Captain Thomas Molyneux Keogh, from the
78th Foot, to be Captain, vice Adams, who exchanges,
Oct. 3.
84th Foot.—Serjeant-Major Henry Donelan to be Quar
termaster, vice Faircloth, deceased, Dec.ls.
90th Foat.—Ensign David Jackson to be Quartermaster,
vice Newland, who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 15.
99th Foot.—Lieutenant Edmund William Isdell, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Gall, deceased ; Ensign
Thomas Hollingsworth Clarkson to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Isdell ; Ensign Robert Marks on ague Hornby
to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Clwhose pro-
motion, by purchase, on the 18th August, has been can-
celled ; Henry James Day, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Clarkson, promoted ; Lieutenant Allan
Macdonald to be Adjutant, vice Despard, who resigns the
Adjutantcy only, Dec. 15.
Rifle Brigade—Captain Edward Arthur Somerset to be
Major, without purchase, vice Rooper, died of his wounds;
Lieut. Augustus Wykeham Clifton to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Somerset ; Second Lieutenant W. J. M.
Cuningbame to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Clifton, Nov. 12 ; Ensign Chas. Arthur Talbot to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase,
vice Cnninghame, whose promo-
tion on Dec. 8 has been cancelled, Dec. 8; William Trevor
Rooper, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cu-
ninghame, Dee, 14; WalterGent.,
H. Ruthven, to be