The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

BREVET.

The Commission as Colonel of Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederic Arthur Willis, C. 8., 38th Foot, to be altered to
21st May, 1865.
paymaster William Wastell, 6th Foot,to have the hello-
rary rank of Captain.
Captain Francis Gamble Blood, 69th Foot, to be Major,
in succession to General Sir Edward Whinyates, K.C.8.,
Royal Artillery, deceased.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
General Peter Augustus Lautour, C.B. Colonel of the 3d
Hussars, who dieeJan. 11, 1866 ; and 'General Sir James
Frederick Love, G.C.8., Colonel of the 43d Foot, who died
Jan. 13, 1866 :
To have the rank of General—Lieutenant-General John
Henry Richardson, Lieutenant-General, Unattached; Wm.
Chamberlayne, Lieutenant-Colonel, Unattached.
To be Generals—Lieutenant-Generals the Hon. Sir
Edward Cust, Colonel of the 16th Lancers ; Francis John
Davies, Colonel of the 67th Foot.
To be Lieutenant-Generals—Major-Generals Frederick
Johnston ; Sir Edward Macarthur, K.C.8., Colonel of the
100th Foot.

To have the rank of Major-General—Brevet-Colonels
Edward Charles Fletcher, Captain, half-pay, 3d Dragoon
Guards; Edward Bagot, Major, Unattached; James Scar -
gill, Major, Unattached ; Samuel Tryon, Major, Un-
attached.

To be Major-Generals—Brevet-Colonels Robert Lewis,
from Major, Unattached; with local rank of Major-Gene-
ral in India, Thomai Williams, C. 8., from Lieutenant-
Colonel, 4th Foot.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Captain and Brevet-Major
Charles Mingaye Green, 30th Foot ; Major Nathaniel
Stevens, Unattached.
To be Majors—Captains Francis Robert Glanville, Royal
Artillery; Frederick N. Dore, half-pay 97th Foot, and
Staff Officer of Pensioners.
The following promotions to tako place in her Ma-
jesty's Indian Military forces, consequent on the death
of Lieutenant-General George Edwards Gowan, C. 8.,
Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, on 19th December, 1865,
and of Lieutenant-General Duncan Sim Royal (late
Madras) Engineers, on 20th December, 1865:
To be Lieutenant-Generals—Major-Generals Edward
Garstin, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers; Adolphus Derville,
Madras Infantry.

To be Major-Ureneral—Colonel, with the rank of Colonel-
Commandant, Henry Blois Turner, Royal (late Bombay)
Engineers ; Colonel George Henry S winley, Royal (late
Bombay) Artillery.
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Frederick
Cooper, of the Madras Establishment, having retired upon
full-pay, to have the honorary rank of. Inspector-General
of Hospitals.

FURTHER SEIZURE OF ARMS IN BELFAST.—Yester-
day morning information was obtained by the police
authorities that a box of arms was on its way to a hardware
establishment in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, and
constables Fitzgerald and Drought, of the detective force,
having been set apart to intercept it if possible, succeeded
in doing so. Having seen a car with a suspicious-looking
box upon it in Great Victoria-street, near the railway sta-
tion, they searched the box, and found in it eight stand of
arms and ten bayonets, which they captured. The arms
were all perfectly new, and such as aro usedby the military,
Another lot of guns, packed in a hogshead and consigned
to another hardware merchant in Belfast, were captured
by the Customs authorities and coastguards on beinglanded
yesterday morning from one of the steamships.—Northern
Wkly.