The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-08 00:00:00

BREVET.

Lieut.-General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.8., of
the Royal Engineers, to be General.

- TO BR LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.
Major-General Sir Richard England, G.C.B.
Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B.

WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 8.

4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Henry Thos.
Richardson has been permitted to resign his commission.
Ist Dragoons—Richard Reynolds Peyton, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Johnson, who retires.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards -- Captain and
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. Augustus
Frederick Foley to be Major, without purchase, vice
Major and Brevet-Colonel James Robertson Craufurd,
promoted to be Major-General.
• 2d Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet Francis Roach
Gubbins, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment).
sth Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Hoare, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
6th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Whyte, from the North
Down Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment).
Bth Foot—Lieutenant Robert Bradshaw Moorhead, from
the North Down Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
10th Foot—Lieutenant John Bali, from the Donegal
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment.)
11th Foot—Gentleman Calet John Anthony Miers, from
the iloyal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase (Supernumerary to the Establishment.)
12th Foot—First Lieutenant Reuben Frederick Mager,
from the Cornwall Militia Artillery, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment.)
15th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Edmund Layard,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment.)
16th Foot—Lieutenant James Brabazon, from the Louth
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Festablishment).
224 Foot—Captain David Anderson to be Major, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thackwell, who
retires upon half-pay Unattached ; Captain Trevor Goff,
from the 45th Foot, to be Captain , vice Stack, who ex-
changes ; Lieutenant Laurence N. D. Hammond to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Anderson ; Ensign Thomas
Smith Robin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ham-
mond ; James St. George Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Robin ; Gentleman Cadet, Herbert
Charles Patton, from the Royal College, to be
liasignovithout purchase (Supernctaierary the Estab-
lishment), '
23d Foot—Lieut. Frederick William Jebb to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Drewe, whose brevet rank
has been converted into substantive rank, under the Royal
Warrant, 6th Oct., 1854 ; for Captain S. Falkiner, from
half-pay, Unattached, to be Captain, vice Tritton, who ex-
changes, which appeared in the Gazette of 29th June, 1855,
read vice Tritton, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
21th Foot—Ensign John Johnstone, from the 24 Lanark
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (supernumerary
to the establishment).
2511 Foot—Lieut. John Stubbs, from the Shropshire
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary to
the Establishment)
26th Foot—Ensign George Philip Fawkes, from the 4th
Middlesex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Super-
numerary to the Establishment).
29th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Godfrey Black, from the
Leicester Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase (Supernume-
rary to the Establishment).
3 ?,c1 Foot—Ensign James Wolfe Charlton, from the Meath
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment).
35th Foot—First Lieutenant Thomas Brown, from the
Forfar Militia Artillery, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
36th Foot— Lieutenant Thomas Hill Lucas, from the let
Somerset Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Super-
numerary to the Establishment).
37th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Francis Charteris Forbes,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign without pur-
chase (Supernumerary to the Establishment).
40th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Evans Stuart, from the Lon-
donderry Militia, to be Ensign (Supernumerary to the
Establishment).
45th Foot—Captain Thomas Stack, from the 22d Foot,
to be Captain, vice Goff, who exchanges ; Gentleman Cadet
Henry Blakeney Hayward, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary to
the Establishreent).
50th Foot—Lieutenant C. Mills, from 98th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Lewes, who exchanges.
51st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas lil`Goun, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
52d Foot—Lieut. Richard Wingfield, from the Queen's
County Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment).
534 Foot—Ensign Charles Bagnall, from the 2d War-
wick Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment).
54th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Matthew William Edward
Gossett to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment).
58th Foot—Lieutenant James Pringle, from the Edin-
burgh Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, to complete
the Establishment.

59th Foot—Lieutenant Gerald Fitz Gibbon, from the
Dublin City Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Su-
pernumerary to the Establishment).
60th Foot—Ensign John Walker King, from the Kildare
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment).
65th Foot—Ensign Andrew Pagan, fromthe Ist Lanark
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment).
66th Foot—Ensign Edward Richardson, from the Fer-
managh Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Super-
numerary to the Establishment).
67th Foot—Ensign Edward Coxen to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Jones, deceased ; Ensign George
Thomson, from the Ist Lanarkshire Militia, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice °oxen.
69th Foot—Ensign Edward Williams, from the Radnor
Mi
70th Foot—Second Lieutenant George Aislabie Hilton,
to
from the Lancashire Militia Artillery, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment).
73d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Hastings D'Oyly Farring-
ton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase (Snpernamerary to the Establishment).
74th Boot—Ensign Abel Straghan to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice IlTarlan, promoted, by purchase, to an un-
attached Company ; Robert Elphinstone Deare, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Straghan ; Lieut. Augustus
Daniel Keane, from the 4th Middlesex Militia, to be En-
sign, without purchase (Supernumerary to the Establish-
ment).

76th Foot—Ensign Edward Harding, from the Limerick
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment).
78th Foot—Lieutenant William Thomson from the
South Down Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
80th Foot —Gentleman Cadet Dudley Beaumont, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
84th Foot—Lieutenant Egbert Charles S. Hely, from
the Ist Surrey Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase
(Supernumerary to the Establishment).
85th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Henry Stace, from
the Royal Military College, to be Easign, without pur-
chase (Supernumerary to the Establishment).
86th Foot—Lieut. George Fowler, from the South Glou
cester Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment).
87th Foot—Lieut. Frederick Flood Deverenx, from the
Galway Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment).
91st Foot—Lieut. Edward Kelly Obbard, from the Lon-
don Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernume-
rary to the Establishment).
94th Foot—Lieut. William Fermor Godfrey, from the
Kerry Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernu-
merary to the Establishment). •
95h Foot—Major Edward W. Scovell to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Cumber-
land, who retires upon full-pay ; Captain Edward Croker
to be Major, without purchase, vice Scovell ; Lieutenant
E. D. J. MacCarthy to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Croker; Ensign John T. French to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice MacCarthy ; Ensign Albert Jackson
Harcourt, from the Bedford Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice French ; Gentleman Cadet Lionel Smith,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment).
98th Foot—Lieutenant George Thomas West, from the

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BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.
The following Officers have been struck off the strength
of the British German Legion :
3d Jager Corps—Captain Gabriel de Korponay ; Cap.,
taro Ignace Ziemecki ; Captain Pnlsudski.
6th Light Infantry—Captain Michael Thumser (inva-
lided by Medical Board).
BRITISH SWISS LEGION.
2d Light Infantry—Lieutenant Eusebe Tricano to be
Adjutant of the Ist Battalion, vice Solioz, whose appoint.
ment has been cancelled.

UNATTACHED.
Brevet-Major George Mein, half-pay Unattached (Bri-
gade-Major at York), to have his Brevet Raak converted
into Substantive Rank, as a special case.
Brevet-Major Francis Edward Drewe, 23d Foot, to have
his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under
the Royal Warrant, of 6th October, 1854.
Lieutenant Henry Fitz Gerald, from the 87th Foot, to be
Captain, without purchase.
STAFF.—Captain Bernard Morgan, from the 77th Foot,
to be Town Adjutant at Gibraltar, vice Hume, appointed
Garrison Quartermaster.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—The undermentioned Acting As-
sistant-Surgeons have ceased to do duty, there being no
longer occasion for their services :—John Grant, Henry
Edwards, Peter Allen, M.D., William Harry Cooke, John
Munday, Eugene Francis O'Leary.

BREVET.
Brevet-Colonel C. Brownlow Cumberland, retired full,
pay, 96th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being hono-
rary only.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Crompton, on retired
fall-pay, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
MEMORANDUM. —Maj ar-General Robert Bateman (Major
on half-pay Unattached) has been permitted to retire from
the service by the sale of a majority.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 5.
Corps of. Royal Marines—Captain John Georga Augus-
tus Ayles to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Courtis, retired ;
First-Lieutenant Win. Pitt Draffen-to be Captain, vice
Ayles, promoted ; Second Lieutenant Wm. Henry Wroot
,to be First Lieutenant, vice Draffen, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-
Tower Hamlets—Joseph Turnley:, •
Lieutenant.

Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—John Pitt Bontein, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Crofts, resigned.

REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National D4bt, that there was no surplus of actual
revenue over the actual expenditure of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the
31st day of March, 1856 :
The Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by
them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provi•
sions of the Act, 10 Geo. IV., cap. 27, between the Ist
day of July, 1856, and the 30th day of September, 1856.
A. Y. SPE ARNIAN, Comptroller-General.
National Debt Office, 5t4 July, 1856.