The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-03 00:00:00

A.DMIRALTY, MAY I .

Vice-Admiral of the Red Charles James Johnston has
been appointed to receive a pension of 1501. a year, as pro-
vided for in her Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June,
1851, vacant by the decease of Admiral John Mackeller,
and the name of Vice-Admiral Johnston has been removed
to the Reserved Half-pay List accordingly ; and in conse-
quence of this removal, the following promotions, dated
15th April, have taken place :-- Vice-Admiral of the White
Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the
Red; Vice-Admiral of the Blue James Whitley Deans
Dundas, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White ; Rear-
Admiral Philip Browne, on Reserved Half-pay, to be Vice-
Admiral on Reserved Half-pay ; Rear-Admiral of the Red
Henry Prescott, C 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue ;
Rear-Admiral of the White Maurice Frederick Fitzhar-
dinge Berkeley, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red ; Rear-
Admiral of the Blue Wm. Jas. Mingage to be Rear-Admiral
of the White; Captain Wm. Keats, Captain Sir H. J. Leeke,
K. H., Captain Thomas Martin, Captain Henry Edwards,
to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List; Captain Charles
Howe Fremantle to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue ; Retired
Captain John George Aplin has also been promoted to be
Retired Rear-Admiral, on the terms proposed in the Lon-
don Gazette of Ist September, 1816, without increase of
pay.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

County of Flint—Charles James Trevor Roper, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Essex—Richard Archer Houblon, Esq„ to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; Robert Mills, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Champion Russell, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant, April 27.
County of Banff—John Gordon, Esq. ; Robert Simpson,
Esq. ; John Forbes, Esq. ; and Thomas Gilzean Rose
Innes, Esq , to be Deputy-Lieutenants, April 23.
Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—Lieutenant Godfrey Gardiner Gilbert
Cooper Gardiner to be Captain, vice Mundy, resigned ;
Ensign John Draper Hemsley to be Lieutenant, vice Par-
kinson, resigned.
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Royal Montgomeryshire Militia—Major the Hon. Henry
Hanbury Tracy to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant,
vice Conroy, Bart., deceased ; Captain John Edward
Harryman Pryce to be Major, vice Tracy, promoted, May 1.
East Tork Regiment of Militia Joseph Gostlinm.
Egginton, Esq., to be Captain, vice Legard, resigned,
April 27.
Dorset Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Morgan De-
venish to be Captain, vice Gould, resigned, April 25.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Thomas Wyatt Hale,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Shum, retired, April 25.
2d Regiment of Warwickshire Militia—Garnett War-
burton, Esq., late Captain 3d Foot, to be Captain,
April 22.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Charles Garraway, Gent., to be Ensign, April 25.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Richard
Hall to be Captain; Joseph Hills Underwood, Gent., to
be Lieutenant, vice Hall, promoted, April 24.
Hertfordshire Militia—Ensign Wm. Gerard Lysley to be
Lieutenant ; Thos. Borron Myers, Esq., to be Lieutenant,
April 29.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—Augustus Granville Mor-
gan, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, April 27.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—James George Boucher,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 27. _ .

Ist Cornwall Rifles Militia—Second Lieutenant John
Borlase to be Lieutenant; David William Hicks Horndon,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; the Hon. Hussey Crespigny
Vivian to be Lieutenant, April 27.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in tho
Gazette of Tuesday last.]
Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—Richard Baylis Bennett, Esq., late
Lieutenant iu her Majesty's 86th Regiment, to be Captain.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Henry
Corbett to be Captain, vice Andrew G. Corbet, resigned,
April 27. _ _ _

Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Arthur Charles Nelson Gollney, Gent., to be
Ensign, May 1.
4th Regiment of West York Militia—Major George
Cairnes, late 36th Foot, to be Major, April 25.
sth Regiment of West York Militia—John Edward
Marsden, Gentleman, to be Ensign, April 19.
6th Regiment of West York Militia—Robert Stansfield,
Esquire, late 19th Foot, to be Major; Lawrence Bramley,
Esq., to be Surgeon, April 25.
lst West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—
Parkin Jeffcock, Gent., to be Cornet, April 10 ; Cornet
John Hartop, to be Lieutenant, vice Biram, resigned ;
Lionel Pilkington, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hartop, pro-
moted ; Edward Fox, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Jeffeock,
promoted, April 26.
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[The following appointments are substituted for those
which appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, April 11.]
2d Regiment of West York Militia— Henry Richard
Johnstone, Gent., to be Ensign, April 4.
6th Regiment of West York Militia—Hylton file Car-
donel Lawson, Esq., to be Captain, March 23.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle.
men to be Commissioners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery :
Samuel Steward, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Lawrence Burd, Shrewsbury.
Thomas Collins, Bury St. Edmunds.
Thomas Jones Mawe, New Bridge-street, City.
Frederic Hinton. Lymo Regis.
Thomas Kersey Edwards, Lawrence Pountney-hill, City.