The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-01 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

INDIA OFFICE, MAY 31.

The Queen has been pleased to issue a Commission under
her Royal Sign Manual, appointing—
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P.,
Major-General Sir Robt. John Hussey Vivian, K.C.8.,
Colonel Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, K.C.8.,
Thomas Alexander, Esq., C. 8.,
Colonel Edward Harris Greathed, C. 8.,
William Farr, Esq., M.D.,
James Ranald Martin, Esq., and
John Sutherland, Esq., MD.,
to be her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into and re-
port upon the measures which it may be expedient to take
for maintaining and improving the health of all ranks of
her Majesty's Army serving in India.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sidney
Smith Saunders, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul in Alba-
nia, to be her Majesty's Consul at Alexandria.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Henry Walter Ovenden, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul
at Maranham, to be her Majesty's Consul at Baltimore.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Ferdi-
nando di Luca as Vice-Consul at Malta for his Majesty the
King of the Two Sicilies. •
FORE IGN- OFFICE, MAY 28.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Wortmann as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King
of Prussia.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre-
deric Hamilton, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Stuttgardt, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Athens.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
the Honourable William George Eden, now Paid Attache
to her Majesty's Legation at Frankfort, to be Secretary to
her Majesty's Legation at Stuttgardt.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 31.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-General George
Judd Harding, C. 8., to be Colonel Commandant, vice
Cardew, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 31.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Thomas Armstrong
Gough, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Fel-
lowes, deceased.
2d Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Walter Colquhoun Grant
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Blair deceased ;
Cornet Charles Gabriel Alfred Barnes to be Lieutenant,

without purchase, vice Grant.
3d Dragoon Guards—John Lloyd Egginton, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Maunder, promoted.
7th Dragoon Guards—Captain Fitzroy George Smith to be
Major, without purchase, vice Middleton, deceased ;
Lieutenant Humo Nicholl to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Smith ; Cornet J. J. L. M'Adam to be Lieut.

without purchase;vice Nicholl.
6th Dragoons—Lieut. and Adjutant Henry Topham Cle-
ments, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Sleigh, who retires.
7th Light Dragoons—Sergeant Robt. Masters to be Cornet,
without purchase.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Wm. Clefden Goldie has been
dismissed the Service by the sentence of a General Court
Martial.
13th Light Dragoons—Major Henry Holden to be Lieut.-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Doherty, who
retires; Brevet-Major Arthur Tremayno to be Major, by
purchase, vice Holden.
Military Train—The appointment of. Cornet John Baird,
half-pay late Land Transport Corps, to be Ensign, as
stated in the " Gazette" of the 29th April, 1859, has been
cancelled.
Royal Artillery—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel ',ugh Archi-
bald Beauchamp Campbell, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Maude, placed on the Seconded List ;
Brevet-Major Charles Frederick Young to be Captain,
vice Campbell ; Second Captain Sanford Freeling to be
Captain, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Morris, pro-
moted to be Major Unattached, under the Royal Warrant
of 3d November, 1854; Lieutenant Charles Lennox
Tredcroft to be Second Captain, vice Young ; Lieutenant
George William Holmes to be Second Captain, vice
Blackburn° who resigns • Lieutenant John Edward

Ruck-Keene to be Second Captain, vice Freeling ; Henry
William Vyner, Gent., to be Paymaster.
Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel John Twiss to be Colonel,
vice Hall, removed as a General Officer ; Brevet-Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Thomas Fenwick to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Twiss • Second Captain Berdoe Amherst
Wilkinson to be daptain, vice Fenwick ; Lieutenant
Lonsdale Augustus Hale to be Second Captain, vice
Wilkinson.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Henry Sedley Bainbridge, Gent.,
. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Evans, promoted.
2d Foot—Ensign Frederick Squirl to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Eman, who retires.
sth Foot—Lieutenant Edward M. Mason to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Symonds, who retires.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Horace Sibbald Harrison to be In-
structor of Musketry.
9th Foot—William Hawkins Hathway, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Layard, promoted; Lieutenant George
Minchin Chadwick to be Instructor of Musketry, vice
Captain Douglas, who rejoins his Company.
12th Foot—William Seaman Thomsen, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Page, promoted.
14th Foot—Cecil Thomas M'Mahon, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Frizil, promoted.
16th Foot—Ensign Charles James Horne to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Malone, who retires; Ensign Frank
Jefferson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Healy, pro-
moted; Arthur Ewen Stabb, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Whitlanwpromoted ; Lieut. Wm. Henry
Carter, to be Adjutant, vice Healy, promoted.
19th Foot—Lieut. Robert Conolly Martin to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Bissett, who retires •, Henry Stokes,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vesey, promoted.
21st Foot—Edward Walker, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Changer, promoted ; Francis Farquharson,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jackson, promoted.
24th Foot—Wm. Hitchcock, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Butler.
25th Foot—Reginald Blewitt Dowling, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ramsay, promoted.
37th Foot—Norcliffe Gilpin, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice A. Jones, promoted.
40th Foot —Richard rundel Brook, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Rees, promoted.
43d Foot—Herbert Boyles Osborne, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice WO own, promoted.
58th Foot—Ensign James Pringle to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harrison, who retires.
61st Foot—John Darwin Wedgwood, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Rowband, appointed to the 75th Foot.
64th Foot—Surgeon James Gordon Inglis, M.D., C. 8.,
having completed twenty years' full-pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major, under the Royal Warrant of Ist October,
1858.
70th Foot—John Robert Collins, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Wright, promoted.
71st Foot—Hugh Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Leslie, promoted.
72d Foot—Thomas Francis Pardoe, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted.
74th Foot—George William Monk Hall, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Sainsbury, promoted.
77th Foot—William Samuel Henderson, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Wordsworth, promoted.
79th Foot—Alfred Hutton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice A. R. M'Gwire, who retires.
80th Foot—Charles George Norris, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Graham, promoted.
84th Foot—Ensign W. C. Clayton, from the 96th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Griffin, promoted.
88th Foot—Arthur Allen Owen, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Whitla, promoted.
89th Foot—Ensign William Sealy to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Harrison, deceased.
92d Foot—David Maitland Makgill Crichton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Bond, who retires. The
Christian names of Brevet-Major Hamilton, who was
promoted to the Brevet Rank of Major, in the " Gazette"
of Jan. 28, 1859, are Christian Monteith, and not Charles
' Monteath, as therein stated.
96th Foot—William Clayton Clayton, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kirkwood, promoted ; Edward Barrett
Hodges Curteis, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Wright, promoted.
98th Foot—Stafford Willard Vardon, Gent., to be Ensign,
by'purchase, vice Woodward, promoted.
99th FOot—Walter Skipper, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Gray, promoted.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Edward Henry Chamberlin, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parr, whose promotion,
by purchase, on the 17th December, 1858, has been can-
celled; Ensign the Hon. C. E. Edwards, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hook, whose promotion, by purchase,
on the 11th January, 1859, has been cancelled.
RECRUITING DISTRICT.—Birevet-Colonel Walter
Hamil-
ton, C. 8., from the 78th Foot, to be Inspecting Field
Offi-
cer in succession to Brevet-Colonel John Patton, promoted
to the rank of Major-General.
Chaplain
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. W. Hei to be
Chaplain of the Second Class; his commission asq
statedin
of the Third Class, with date 16th April, 1856, as
Gazette of 18th January, 1859, has been cancelled.
n Surgeon Fran-
ROYAL HIBERNIAN SCHOOL.—Assistant-Surgeon
to the
cis Bowen, M.D., from the Coldstream
Guards, to be Surgeon, vice Blakeney, p
rank of Surgeon-Major.
BREVET. _
vice
asimstaßtegiment of Foot
Cardew, deceased. al Engineers, to be
Hall, of the Roy
Major-General John Oldfield to be Lieut.-General,
Colonel Lewis Alex. ,
Majcr-General, rice Oldfielnd.
ra in consequence of the pro-
motionrie,tired full-pay of the Royal
sci'
who stood below him on the effec-
tive list of the corps Co
Engineers,lenel
of Colonel Hall,
Ctroigbehtmona
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enehe date of his retirement.
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The under-mentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent Colonel Lewis A. Hall,
promotion of Royal
on the
Engineers, to
be Major-General in succession to Lieut.-
General George, C a rdew, Royal Engineers, who died on
1809 :
the 9th May,
Breve
t Lieutenant-Colonel (Hugh Plunket Bourchier
Captain on ,
half-payo of the 19th Dragoons, Town Major,
,
Canada, t be Colonel.
Kingston,
Brevet Major Malcolm
Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Douglas Jones, half-pay Unattached, Aide-de-
Camp to the General Officer Commanding the Troops in
Scotland, to be Major.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of Lieutenant-General Henry Adolphus
Proctor, C. 8., Colonel of the 97th Regiment :
Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward Colonel
Cust,
of ,the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Genoral.
Brevet Colonel Robert Richardson Robertson, C. 8.,
Lieutenant-Colonel
on half-pay Unattached, to be Major-
General.
Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Mountford Stoughton Hoy-
liger Lloyd, Major on half-pay Unattached, to be Colonel.
Brevet Major William O'Neill, Captain on half-pay Un-
attached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Colonel.
Captain T. Lionel J. Gallwey, Royal Engineers, to be
Major.
Brevet-Major John Maurice Wemyss, C. 8,, Royal
Marines, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
The promotion of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry A. Olpherts,
Bengal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, to
bear date the 19th January, 1858, instead of the 15th of that
month, as previously stated.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 25.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Charles Louis
Atterbury Farmar to be Captain ;. First Lieutenant Charles
Jolliffe to be Captain_; Second Lieutenant William Henry
Nantes to be First Lieutenant, vice Farmar, promoted ;
Farquharson to be
Second Lieutenant Matthew Henry
First Lieutenant, vice Jolliffe, promoted.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
't'a George Maunseil; Esq.,
of
East York Regiment
resigned from the 12th
Adjutant, vice Minchin,
to be
April.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
Henry moke, Bart to be
of Lincoln—Sir enry
County
county of Lincoln.
t of the
Vice Lieutenant
Kings Own Light Infantry
Regiment of Militia—
'
Octavius
Gibbon, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Little, re- a