The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Mertca 24.
The Queen has been pleasant to approve of Mr. George
Allen Everitt as Consul at Birmingham for his Majesty
the King of Hanover.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Thomas Havers as Consul at Port Stanley for the Free
Hanseatic city of Hamburgh.

WHITEHALL, 31Ancs 25.
The Queen has been pleated to appoint James Duff,
Esq., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the Shire
of Banff, in the room of James, Earl of Fife, resigned.

WAR DEPARTMENT, MAncrr 25.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Philip Bennett,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase. vice Williams, promoted;
Carperal John Boswell to be Riding Master, vice Brunt,
resigned.
sth Dragoon Guards—Captain Robert Garrard, from
95th Foot, to be Captain, vice Henley, who exchanges.
Royal Artillery—The surname of the gentleman ap-
pointed Lieutenant, with temporary rank, on the 6th
.March, in the Gazette of the 18th inst., is levers, and not
Tevers, as thereinlstated.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Brevet-Colonel John Henry
Pringle, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fordyce Buchan, who exchanges;
Lieutenant and Captain William Aitchison to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, vice Pringle, who
retires ; Captain W. J. Rous, from 90th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Aitchison.
Ist Regiment of Foot —John Illidge Fraser, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Hurt,
promoted.
3d Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant
A. L. Coussmaker, vice Ross, deceased ; Lieutenant Leo-
nard Sidebottom, vice Coussmaker, whose promotion,
without purchase, on Sth Jan., has been cancelled ; Lieu-
tenant W. Weinman, vice Sidebottom, whose promotion,
without purchase, on lst Feb., has been cancelled. To be
Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign F. Morley, vice
Coussmaker ; Ensign R. B. Leatham, vice Morley, whose
promotion, without purchase, on Oct. 8, has been cancelled;
Ensign A. B. Letts, vice Leatham, whose promotion, with-
out put chase, on Nov. 9 has been cancelled • Ensign John
Awdry, vice Letts, whose promotion, without purchase,
on Nov. 16, has been cancelled ; Ensign Henry Pears, vice
Awdry, whose promotion, without purchase on Jan. 8, has
been cancelled. The surname of the Ensign promoted to
a Lieutenancy on the let inst., is St. Aubyn, and not St.
Aubin, as previously stated.
15th Foot —Brevet-Major J. H. Wingfield to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel R. A.
Cuthbert, who retires upon full pay; Lieutenant Robert
W. Price to be Captain, without purchase, vice Wing-
field ; Ensign and Adjutant Robert Coupe to have the
rank of Lieutenant ; Ensign F. S. L'E. Fitzroy to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Price; Ensign Francis L
Rawlins, from 3d West India Regiment, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Fitzroy.
2lth Foot—For Thomas Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Helford, appointed to the 79th Foot,
dated 7th March, 1856, which appeared in the Gazette of
the 7th instant, read Captain Thomas Hill, from the North
York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice 1101-
ford, appointed to the 70th Foot.
37th Foot—The first Christian name of Ensign Bell is
Robert, and not Arthur, as previously stated.
41st Foot—Lieutenant C. V. Fitzßoy to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Lumley Graham,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ;
Ensign E. J. B. Denelan to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Fitzßoy ; First Lieutenant Matthew Ellison,
from the -Kent Artillery Regiment of Militia, to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Donelan ; Quartermaster-
Sergeant John Dwyer to be Ensign, without purchase, and
Adjutant, vice Cross, who resigns the Adjutautcy only.
63d Foot —Lieut. Wm. Paterson, from the 80th Foot,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Carter, promoted; Lieut.
Charles Aeidoreon Morshead, from half-pay sth Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, promoted without pur-
chase; to an Unattched Company.
67th Foot—Lieut. Charles Morgan, from the Bucks Mili-
tia, to be Eesien, without purchase, vice Colgulaoun, ap-
pointed to the'l sth Foot.
90th Foot—Ensign Hugh Gordon, from the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, to be Ensien; without purchase.
95th Foot—Capt. James Henley, from the sth Dragoon
Guards, to be Captain, vice Garrard, who exchanges.
96th Foot—Lieut. John Whiteside to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Lambert, deceased; Ensign Holwell H.
H. Walehe to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice White-
side ; Edmund John Scovell, Gent., to bo Ensign, without
purchase, vice WaLshe.
Rifle Brigade—Wm. Arbuthnot, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
3d West India Regiment—F. I. Rawlins, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Rowland.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Hugh Gordon, Gent., to be
Ensign, bv Nuclease, vice Roddy, promoted ; Arthur
Hansard, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, Tice Gor-
don, appointed to the 90th Foot.
BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.

let Light Dragoons—Count Ladislaus Sztaray, formerly
of the Austrian Imperial Cuirassiers, to be Captain ; Louis
Adalbert Peukler to be Lieutenant ; August von Vrge to
be Cornet ; Lieut. R.-C. Clipperton to be Adjutant.
241 Light Dragoons—To be Lieutenants—Cornet Baron
Otto von Reischach, vice Volger, resigned; Cornet Gjort
Harrison Gjertsen.
4th Light Infantry.—To be Captains.—Baron Ernest
vonaroneufeldt, Wilhelm von Linsingeu, Carl Gustav ,
von Wehrs, Carl Munter, Otto Mehlis, Ernest vest Linsin-
gen, August W. von I)assel, Adolph Hartwig, Albert du
Vigneau, Friedrich Baschenhagen. To be Lieutenants.—
Ferdinand von laintzenstern, Otto Burstenbieder, Hugo
Heymann, Rudolph Lentz. Christian Sauer, Maximilian
Ney, Friedrich Essellee, Wilhelm Luckhardt, Baron Geo.
von Gall, John It. C. Hickson. To be Ensigns.—Max von
Pastan, Heiurich Raffiesieper, Edward Noyes, Heinrich
von Bothrner, Wilhelm Kirkerup, Henry Halliday, Wil-
liam Branaley, Graham Pogson, Burgbardt von Wissell.
Robert Thompson, Gent., to he Paymaster; Lieutenant
Hugo Heymann to be Adjutant; Edmund Henry Drake,
Gent., to be Quartermaster; Adolph Dankwerts to be
Surgeon ; Ivanoff von Will entzky to bo Assistant-Surgeon ;
Charles Nix to be Assistant-Surgeon.
sth Light Infantry—Richard Gelies to be Major ; Au-
gustus Bolls de Lasalle to be Paymaster; James Darker
to be Paymaster • Rudolph Krauthausen to be Surgeon ;
Ludwig Stauffer 'to be Assistant-Surgeon ; Arp Wilmans
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
6th Light Infantry—George Mercer Murray to be Pay-
master ; Carl Wagner to he Surgeon ; George Nieboar to
be Assistant-Surgeon ; Johann Martin sticker to be
Assistant-Surgeon.
Depot at Heligoland—Captain Frederick C. von llen-
nings to be Depot Adjutant, vice Hoffmann, appointed to
the Staff; Peter Michels to be Depot Quartermaster, vice
Addison, resigned.
PP.OVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain F. W. Gost-
ling, from the 49th Font. to be Assistant-Adjutant, vice
King, appointed Adjutant.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Hajor Lumley Graham, of the
41st Foot, to have his brevet rank converted into substan-
tive rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1851,
HosPrrar, STAFF.—Surgeon John William Mostyn,
M.D., from the 2l West India Rogirnont, to be Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Class ; Acting Assistant-Surgeon
John Denis Healy to bo Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces.
BREVET.

The following promotion to take place, consequent upon
the death of the under-mentioned Officers :—Field-Mar-
shal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., General Sir W. G. Davy, and
General Sir John Grey, K.C.B.—Lieut.-General Charles
Ash° A'Court Repington, C. 8., to be General.
Brovet-Lieut.-Colonel Robert A. Cuthbert, retired full-
pay 15th Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being
honorary only.
Major Samuel Tolfrey Christie, 80th Foot, to be Lieut.-
Colonel in the Army.
The under-mentioned Officer, having completed three
years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be pro-
moted to be Colonel in the Army under the Royal War-
rant of Oct. 6, 1851 : Lieut.-Colonel William Irwin,