The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMT.

Capt. Anthony Blake Rathborue, 21th Bombay Native
Infantry.
Captain James Travers, 2(1 Bengal Native Infantry.
Captain Henry Joseph Polly, Bth Bombay Native In-
fantry.
Captain Edward Lechmoro Russell, 12th Bombay Na-
tive Infantry.
Captain Robert Romer Younghusband, 20th Bombay
Native Infantry.
Captain Henry Frederick Dunsmore, 59th Bengal Na-
tive Infantry.
Captain James Macleod Bannatyne Fraser Tytler, 37th
Bengal Native Infantry.
Captain John Mill, Bengal Artillery.
Captain Charles Reid, 10th Bengal Native Infantry.
Captain Arthur Wellington Chizhely Plowden, 3d Ben-
gal Light Cavalry.
Captain Richard Strachey, Bengal Engineers.
Captain Richard Baird Smith, Bengal Engineers.
Captain Charles Frederick North, Bombay Engineers.
Captain Philip Arthur Pleydoll Bouverie, 35th Bengal
Native Infantry.
Captain John Reid Becher, Bengal Engineers.
Captain John Hill, Bombay Engineers.
Captain Archibald John Muddy Boileau, Madras Engi-
neers. _ _

The Commissions, as Brevet-Major, of the undermen-
tioned Officers to be antedated as under :

Brevet-Major Francis Charles Wells, 15th Bombay Na-
tive Infantry, to 4th July, 1841.
Brevet-Major Edward Griffith Austin, Bengal Artillery,
to 14th May, 1846.
Brevet-Major Murray Mackenzie, Bengal Artillery, to
30th Dec., 1816.
Brevet-Major William Kerby Warner, Bengal Artillery,
to let April, 1847.
Brevet-Major Thomas Quin, 4th Bengal Light Cavalry,
to 21st April, 1848.
Brevet-Major 'Saunders Alexius Abbott, 51st Bengal
Native Infantry, to 31 August, 1850.
The undermentioned Non-Commissioned Officers of the
Royal Artillery to have the local rank of Lieutenant in the
Turkish Contingent :
Company Serjeant James Therburn.
Company Serjeant George Smith.
Company Serjeant Mathew Nelson.
Serjeant John Devine.
Serjeant Conductor Neil Dogherty.
Serjeant Daniel Dowling.
Serjeant Conductor Robert Bruco.
Serjeant John Harris.
Serjeant Conductor John Devine
Serjeant John Ford.
Serjeant Thomas Murphy.
Serjeant Samuel Bradbury.
MEMORANDUM. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
James, on half-pay 12th Foot, has been perluitted to re-
tire from the service by the sale of his commission, he be-
ing about to become a settler in Nova Scotia.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
East Suffolk Militia, Artillery Corps—Jacob William
Carey Whitbread, Esq., to be Captain, vice Walker, pro.
!noted ; Heber Thomas Hardingo, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Lieutenant
Stewart Forbes to be Captain.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—John Annosloy Brown-
rigg, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
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the 55th Foot.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—Robert Pipon, Esq., late a Captain in the
King's Own Lightlnfantry Regiment of Militia, to be
Captqin, vice Jennings.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Lieu-
tenant Samuel James Remnant to be Captain, vice Pipon,
appointed to the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment
of Tower Hamlets Militia.
[The following Appointment is substituted for that
which appeared in the Gazeite of 14th December last.]
Worcester Regiment of Militia—William Joseph Tibbs,
Gent., to be Ensign.