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LON DON, SATURDAY

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Dee. 5, I
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 2, 1851.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to aopoint the
Hon. Richard Edwardes, now First Paid Attach 6 to her
Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Frankfort.
WHITEHALL, Dnc. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to presens the Reverend
Hugh Mc Donald to the church in the island of Bernera,
in the parish of Kilbride, in the presbytery of Uist and
shire of Inverness, vacant by the death of the Reverend
John Bethune, late minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint the Re-
verend Walter Ross Munro to be preacher to the church
or chapel at Cromarty, vacant by the transportation of
the Reverend John McLennan to the parish of Kil-
chrenan.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Adrian
Le Suer, Esq., to bo Postmaster for the colony of the
Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Alex-
ander Barclay, Esq., to be Receiver-General for the
Island of Jamaica.
WAR-OFFICE, Dm. 5.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Alex-
ander James Hardy Elliot to be Adjutant, vice Robbins,
who resigns the Adjutancy only, Dec. 5.
7th Dragoon Guards—John Joshua Nunn to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice William Stuckey Wood, who
retires; Lieutenant Thomas Edward Dowbiggen to be
Adjutant only, vice Middleton, who resigns the Adju-
tancy only, DPc. 5.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain George Wentworth Alexander Higginson to be
Adjutant, vice his Serene Highness Prince William
Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, who resigns the
Adjutancy only, Dee. 5.
2d Foot—Frederick Stephen Steele, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Lord Charles Edward Hay,
promoted, Dec. 5.
3d Foot—James Bullen Dennis, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Ramadge, promoted, Dec. 5.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Martin, from 18th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice De-Robeck,
dismissed by the sentence of a General Court-martial;
Lieutenant Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin, from 7th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ramsbottom, dismissed
by the sentence of a General Court-martial; Ensign
Patrick Robertson, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Coryton, dis-
missed by the sentence of a General Court-martial,

Dee. S.
sth Foot—Second Lieutenant William Henry Petty
Meant to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Knapp,
who retires; Ensign George Henry James Mowbray
Chapman, from 6th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Meara ; Lieutenant Frederick Blanco
Forster, from 64th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Potter,
who retires on half-pay, Dec. 5.
7th Foot—Ensign Standish de Courcy O'Grady, from
64th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Dowbiggin, appointed to 41st Foot, Dec. 5.
18th Foot—Ensign Frederick Herbert Suckling to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Martin, promoted in
the 4th Foot; Ensign Thomas Esmonde, from 77th
Foot, to be Ensign, vico Canavan, promoted; Gentle-
man Cadet George Henry Pocklington, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Suckling, Dec. 5,
26th Foot—Ensign William Mosso to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Thomas, who retires, Dec. 5.
47th Foot—Ensign James Armar Lowry to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Perceval, who retires, Dec. 5.
49th Foot—Lieutenant Cadwallader Adams to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Biggs, who retires; Ensign
Arthur Savory Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Adams, Dee. 5.
51st Foot—Ensign Robert Coke Glover to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Nunn, who retires, Dec. 5.
54th Foot—Ensign Charles Alexander Thomson to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Cave, promoted,
Nov. 11; Alfred Robert Ord, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Thomson, promoted, Dec. 5.
64th Foot—Ensign Frederick J. Hutchinson, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice O'Grady, whose pro-
motion, without purchase, on 9th May, 1851, has been
cancelled, May 9; Lieutenant Standish de Courcy
O'Grady, from 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hutchi-
son, whose promotion, by purchase, on 6th June, 1851,
has been cancelled; Lieutenant Thomas Eyre Lambert,
from half-pay 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice F. B.
Forster, appointed Paymaster sth Foot; Assistant.
Surgeon Robert Thomas Buckle, M.D., from the Staff,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Short, deceased, Dec. 5.
76th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward William Fre-
deric Acton, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Colthurst, appointed to 83d
Foot, Dec. 5.
77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Joseph Carden,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice
Esmonde, appointed to the 18th Foot, Deo. 5,
80th Foot—Ensign William Paterson to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Hickson, deceased; Gen-
tleman Cadet Robert oore, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vise .Paterson,
Dec. 5.
83d Foot—Ensign Francis Henry Digby Marsh to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mainwaring, ap-
pointed Adjutant, Sept. 11; Ensign James Nicholas
Colthurst, from 76th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Marsh,
Dec. 5; Lieutenant E. M. H. Mainwaring to be Adju-
tant, vice Hall, deceased, Sept. 11.
89th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Robert Vandeleur,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Lewis, who exchanges; Brevet
Major Caledon Richard Egerton to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Vandeleur, who retires; Lieut. Butler Dun-
boyne Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Egerton;
Lieutenant Hans Robert White to be Captain, by pur-
chuse, vice Caue, who retires; Ensign Alfred Nixon to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moore; Ensign Charles
Haycock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice White,
Dec. 5; John Longtield, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Nixon, Dec. 4; Gentleman Cadet Francis
Knatchbull, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Heycock, Dec. 5.
95th Foot—Ensign Alexander James John Macdo-
nald to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Dowdall,
promoted, Nov. 11 ; Gentleman Cadet Godfrey Clerk,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Macdonald, Dec. 5.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Harger
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Howell, deceased,
Sept. 5.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Henry James
Rainsford to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Hardy, deceased, Sept. 10 ' • Ensign Reginald Guards
Palmer to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vico Rains-
ford, whose promotion, without purchase, on 31st Oct.
has been cancelled, Oct. 31; Frederick Tichfield Great-
rex, Gent., to be Ensign, without, purchase, vice Palmer,
promoted, Dec. 5.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Stuart
Moore to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Buckle, appointed to the 64th Foot.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
—Josiah Higginbotham, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Ro-
binson, deceased, Nov. 20.
Commission by tho Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
and Bristol.

The Royal South Battalion of Gloucester Light In-
fantry Regiment of Militia—Swinburne Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice James, deceased,
Dec. 2.