The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-19 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, MARcH 16.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint iionatien La-
porte, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of
the Island of St. Lucia; John Creighton, Esq-, to be a
member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Nova
Scotia • and Robert Hutchinson and Angus Jas. M'lntyre,
Esqs.,!to be members of the Legislative Colancil of the
Island of Prince Edward.
Her Majesty has els* been pleased to appoint Francis
Spencer Wigley, James S. Berridge, John E. Tudor, James
D. Roger, Stewart L. Davis, Archibald P. Burt, Richard
Challenger, Charles M'Mahon, William Clukies, and
Richard E. Semper, Es s., to be Members of the Execu-
tive Council of the Islands of St. Christopher and Anguilla.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 18.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—William Connel Black, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Williams, promoted in the
Military Train.
Royal Artillery—Captain and Brevet. Colonel Charles
Lawrence D'Aguilar, C. 8., to be Lieutenant •Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel Tuite, retired upon full-pay ; Second
Captain Charles Edward Mainwaring, on the Supernu-
merary List, to be Captain ; Second Captain and Brevet-
Major William John Williams to be Captain, vice
D'Aguilar; Lieut. Maurice Edward Covey Stocker to be
Second Captain, vice Williams.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain William
Wheatley to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Patrick C. L. Paget, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut.
Willoughby Sandilands Rooke to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, -vice Wheatley ; James Stephen
Ram, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Rooke.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Lloyd Evans to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Tymons, who retires. The
Christian names of Lieutenant Placket are William Alex-
ander Henry, and not William Henry Alexander, as
hitherto stated
2d Foot—John Charles Grant, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Widdrington, promoted.
4th Foot—George Hall Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Holt, promoted.
6th Foot—Ensign Charles Edward Whitaker Roworth to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tewart, promoted.
9th Foot—James Edward Henning, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
10th Foot—Alexander Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice James, deceased.
13th Foot—John Drought Edward Mooney, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice A. F. Cuninghame, promoted.
14th Foot—Philip Alfred Riley, Gent., to be Ensign, by
pur4rase, vice Edwards, promoted.
19th FOot—William' Joseph Lynch, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice H. W. Hope, promoted in the Gre-
nadier Guards.
20th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Simeon Elliott, from the
North Cork Rifle Regiment of Militia, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Egan, promoted ; Thomas Alfred
Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Foster-
Melliar, promoted ' • Charles Edward Hussey, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice De Stacpoole, promoted.
23d Foot—Joseph Napier, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Stanley, promoted.
24th Foot—Ensign Richard A. Farquharson, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Streatfield, appointed
Paymaster.
27th Foot—James Mortimer Vernon Cotton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted.
31st Foot—Brevet-Colonel William Sutton, from the Cape
Mounted Rifles, to be •Lieutenant-ColOnel, vice' Brevet-
Colonel GeorgeStaunton, who exchanges.'
'36th Foot—John Dickinson Atkinson, Gerkt.,,to bo Ensign,
by purchase, vice the Hon. C: J. F. Powyei; promoted. •
41st Foot—Charles Miller, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Talmadge, deceased ; Seymour Fitz John
Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Warnersromoted.
50th Foot—John Harrison Vander-Meulen, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Preston, promoted,
55th Foot—A. C. Addison, Gent., t• be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Alwin Shutt Bell, who resigns.
56th Foot—Mr. S. M'Dowall, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bell, promoted.
71st Foot—C. B. Murray, Gent., to be Ensign, by, pur-
chase, vice Boulderson, promoted.
74th Foot—Ensign E. T. Sainsbury to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice A. D Bell, who retires.
77th Foot—Edward Nicholas Mosley, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bridger, promoted to the Military
Train.
79th Foot—Alexander Bruce Murray, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kerr, who retires ; Albert Charles
Wood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice James
Bell Campbell, who retires.
84th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from the 98th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wolseley, who exchanges.
87th FootL-Lieutenant J. Owen Edwards Tucker, from
half-pay 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gibson, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an unattached company ;
Ensign Frederick Flood Devereux to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tucker, who retires.
89th Foot—Nassau Clark, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Pott, promoted.
98th Foot--Lieutenant John Benjamin Wolseley, from the
84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stewart, who ex-

changes.
,st West India Regiment—Ensign Herbert Gauniett
Panter to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Leggatt,

deceased.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant James H. H. Lan-
don, has been permitted to retire from the service by the
sale •of bis commission.
Cape Mounted Rifles—Brevet-Colonel George Staunton,
from the 31st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-
Colonel William Sutton, who exchanges.
DEPOT BATTALION.

Captain the Honourable S. Richard Hamilton Ward,
from the 17th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Charter, pro.

moted.

UNATTACHED.
Lieutenant James Lazenby, from the Gold Coast Artil.
lery Corps, to be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.

Brevet-Colonel Hugh Manley Tuite, on retired full pay
as Lieut.-Colonel of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-Gen.
in the Army, the rank being honorary only.
Captain Thomas EdwareKennion, Bengal Artillery, to
be Major in the Army.
Captain William Barnham Thomas Rider, retired full-
pay Royal Marines, to have the honorary rank of Major,
under her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th Nov., 1858.
The following promotions to take place in the Indian
Military Forces of her Majesty, consequent on the death of
Lieutenant-General Homy Tuffnell Roberts, C. 8., Bengal
Cavalry, on 3d February, 1859:—Major-General Julius
George Griffith, Bombay Artillery, to be Lieutenant-
General ; and Colonel Stuart Corbett, C. 8., Bengal In-
fantry, to be Major-General.
The following officers of the Indian Military Forces of
her Majesty, having retired upon full pay, to have a step of
honorary rank, as follows :

TO EE MAJOR-GENERALS.
Col. Philip Anstruther, C. 8., Madras Artillery.
Col. Richard Blood, Bombay Infantry.
Col. George Hall M‘Gregor, C. 13., Bengal Artillery.
Colonel Edward Haldane, Madras Infantry.
Colonel George Munro Arthur, Madras Infantry.