The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. ,1853.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Rawdon
Power, Esq., to be Assistant Colonial Secretary for the
Island of Ceylon, and Philip Watson Braybrooke, Esq., to
be Assistant Government Agent, District Judge, Commis-
sioner of Requests, and _Police Magistrate of Badulla,
in
tbgrt Island.
PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, FEB. 4.
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Alfred Hervey, Esq. (commonly called Lord Alfred Her-
vey), one of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
has been appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal of his Royal
,Highness the Prince of Wales, in the room of the Marquis
ca:Chandos, resigned.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 4.

66: Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Roger
Claarlas Tichborne has been permitted to retire from the
Service by the sale of his Commission, Feb. 4.
Ist Dragoons—Brevet Colonel Sir William Alexander
Maxwell, Bart., from half-pay unattached, to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Marten, who exchanges ; Major John
Yorke to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Sir
William Alexander Maxwell, Bart., who retires : Captain
Robert Wardlaw to be Major, by purchase, vice Yorke ;
Lieutenant Harry Croft to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Wardlaw; Cornet Henry Sykes to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Croft, Feb. 4.
Bth Light Dragoorii—Lieutenant James- Sadler Naylor
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Walter, who retires,
Feb. 4.
12th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Vil-
liers, George, M.D., from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice
Duncan deceased, Feb. 4.
22nd Foot--Brevet-Major T. Sydenham Conway, C. 8.,
to be Major, without purchase, vice George, who retires
upon half-pay ; Lieutenant Joseph Ma3Tock to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Conway ; Ensign John William
Poole to be Lieutenant, without purchase, Feb. 4.
48th Foot--Opie Smith, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
Feb. 4.
65th
be Lionel Smith Warren, from the 91st
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hoskins, appointed to the 44th
Foot, Feb. 4.
69th Foot—Lieutenant William Shepherd Milner to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major O'Halloran,
who retires upon half-pay ; Ensign Henry Thomas Allen
to be Lieutenant without purchase, Feb. 4.
3rd West India Regiment—Lieutenant Edward Conran
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Poitier, who retires,
Feb. 4.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major Charles Belson, from the
Ceylon Bill° Regiment, to be Major, without purchase ;
Lieutenant Henry Piercy, from the 18th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, without purchase ; Lieutenant Robert Cairnes Bruce,
from the 25th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase,
Feb. 4.
STAFF.—Major F. Darley George, C. 8., from the 22d
Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-General in the Windward
and Leeward Islands, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Army, vice Terence O'Brien, appointed Assistant
Quartermaster-General in Ireland ; Brevet Major Henry
Dunn O'Halloran, from the 69th Foot, to be Deputy
Quartermaster-General in the Windward and Leeward
Islands, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army,
vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Doyle O'Brien, de-
cease& Feb. 4.
HOSPITAL STAFF.--Thomas Partridge, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Forces, Feb. 4.
Memorandum.—The Christian names of Ensign Roberts,
of the 32d Foot, are " Charles John Cramer." The Chris-
tian name of Ensign Ashe, appointed to the 85th Regiment
of Foot, in the Gazette of 21st January, 1853, is " Waller,"
and not " Walter," as therein stated. The surname of the
Ensign appointed to 41st "Foot, is " Dixon," and not
" Dickson, as previously stated.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire.
The Rev. James Vincent Vincent, Robert Lloyd Jones
Parry, Esq., Thomas Love Duncombe Jones Parry, Esq.,
and Isaac alker, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, Feb. 1.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire.
David Carrick Robert Carrick Buchanan, Esq., John
Glencairn Carter Hamilton Esq., and Henry Houlds-
worth, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, Jan. 18.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherlandshire.
Home Gordon, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
William Matthews, Esq., and Edward Bagnall Dim-
mack, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants, Feb. 1.
King's Own Ist Regiment of Staffordshire Militia—
Thomas Win. Fletcher, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 1.
King's Own 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia—
Morton Edward Buller, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 4.

Commissions by her Majesty's Commissioners of
Lieutenancy for the City of London.
Regiment of Royal London Militia.—Charles Clements
Brooke, Esq., late of the 25th Foot and 4th Dragoon
Guards, to be Captain, vice Sir Claudius Stephen Paul
Hunter, Bart., resigned ; Edward Charles Grant, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice John Allen, resigned, Dec. 17 ;
Charles Mackinnon Walmisley, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice William Tomlin Walker, retired, Dec. 18: William
Bunco Greenfield, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 17, 1852.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire.

Royal Cheshire Regiment of Militia—Hugh Horatio
Seymour, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 25 ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward Spencer Harrison to be Captain, Jan. 31 ; Henry
John Ffoulkes Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 25.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire.
Royal Carmarthen Militia—William Price Lewes, Esq„
to be Captain, vice Thomas, resigned ; David Edward
Jones, Esq., to be First Lieutenant, vice Gwn, resined ;
James William Bowen Thomas, Esq., to bo Second Lien-
tenant, vice Stackpolc, resigned, Jan. 15 ; Rees Goring
Thomas the younger. Esq., to be First Lieutenant, vice
Green, resigned, Jan. 19.

Commissioned by the Lord-Lieutenant of Essex.
West Essex Militia—John Swynfcn St. Vincent Jervis,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Jan. 27.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the East r.k

of Yorkshire

East York Regiment of Militia—Frederick Augustus
Talbot Clifford Constable, Esq., to be Second Major, Feb.
; George Heblethwaite Lutton Boynton, Esq., to be
Captain, vice Hopkinson, resigned, Feb. 2.