The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Mathew Biddle is per-
mitted to resign his commission.
€6th Foot—The Commission of Ensign John Mahony to
bear date 25th, and not 26th, August, 183 T, as previ-
ously stated.
67th Foot—Charles Henry Blachley Turner, Gent., to be
Ensign. without purchase, vice Loftus Reade, who
resigns.
75th Foot -Bentinck L. Cumberland, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Pym, promoted.
79th Foot—The surname of the Captain, restored to full
pay on the 7th Aug. last, in the Gazette of that date, is
Harrisson, and not Harrison, as therein stated.
94th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Wallace, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fitzgerald appointed
to the Staff.
93th Foot—Percival Herbert Dobbs, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Brett, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon Edward
Joseph Crane, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Clutterbuck, appointed to the Staff.
St. Helena Regiment—Lient. John H. Prenderville, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Mare-
chaux, deceased ; Ensign Adolphus W. Campbell to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Prenderville ; En-
sign James W. Mitchell to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase,vice Campbell, whose promotion oa the 28th Aug.,
1857, is cancelled.
DEPOT BATTALION.
Quartermaster William Goldby, from half-pay, British
Swiss Legion, to bo Quartermaster, vice Thomas Walker,
appointed to the 60th Foot.
UNATTACHED.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Pym Harding, 22d
Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th, Oct., 1854.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Tyrrell
Matthias Byrne, Ist Foot, to be Major, without pur-
chase.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles
William Fortescue, of the Royal Artillery, to have the
Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of
3d November, 1854.
Brevet-Major John Dwyer, 14th Foot, to have his
Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal Warrant 6th October, 1851.
HOSPITAL STIFF.
Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, Daniel
Scott, M.D.,to be Inspector-General of Hospitals.
Deputy nspector-General of Hospitals James Barry,
M.D., to bo Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local
rank, vice Scott, who retires upon half pay.
Assistant-Surgeon James E. Clutterbuck, M.D., from
the 2nd West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice flatchell, appointed to the fOth Foot.
Assistant-Snrgeon'Fraucis L. Fitzgerald, from the 94th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Wallace,
appointed to 94th Foot.
To BE ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEONS—Robert Dade,
Gent., and Hervey Rowe, Gent.
BREVET.
The following Officers to be promoted to the Brevet
Rank of Major in the Army:—
Capt. William L. Merewether, of the 3rd Regiment of
European Infantry on the Bombay Establishment.
Capt. Edwin B. Johnson, of the Bengal Artillery.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 24.
The following promotions. dated the 10th instant, con-
sequent on the death of ViCe-Admiral of the Red Sir
William Henry Dillon, K.C.H., on the 9th instant, have
taken place:
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Prescott, K.C.8.,
to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Fairfax Moresby, K.C.B-,
to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red William Walpole to be Vice-
Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Byam Martin,
K. 0.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley,
Bait., to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain John Kingcome to b 3 Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Lincoln.—Sir Edmund Gonville Bromhead,
Bart, Henry Lionel Dymoke, Esq., Richard George Elli-
son, Esq., George Henry Haigh, Esq., Henry Handley,
Esq., John Hood, Esq., George Morland Hutton, Esq.,
Herbert Ingram, Esq., William Parker, jun., Esq., Geo.
Charles Uppleby, Esq., Richard Septimus Wilkinson,
Esq., and Thomas Dallas Yorke, Esq., to be Deputy.
Lieutenants.
Royal North Lincoln Militia.—Henry Metcalfe, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Robert Henry 0 wston, promoted.
Royal South Lincoln Militia.—Robert Cecil Kearney,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice William Barry Drew, re-
signed.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia.—Russell England,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Baines, resigned.
Huntingdonshire Militia.—William Whitter Goldicntt,
Esq., to bo second Lieutenant.
4th or Duke of- Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia.—Hallowes Henry
Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Corlett, resigned ;
Frank Jefferson, Gent„ to be Ensign, vice Daly, resigned;
James Hardcastle, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bennett,
resigned ; Robert Edmund Haworth, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Fitzpatrick, resigned ; Ensign George Ainsworth,
to be Lieutenant, vice iVorrall, resigned.
Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Regiment.—Charles
Williams, Gent., to be Lecond Lieutenant, vice McCantlie
Campbell, promoted.
County of Surrey—George Thomas Nicholson, Esq., to
be Vice-Lieutenant.
3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be En-
signs- Frederick Goulburn Walpole, Gent.; Adolphus
William Murray, Gent.
Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militie -Archibald William
Ramsay Davidson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Henderson,
promoted.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Captain John Gordon
Campbell, late 42d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice
Trapaud, resigned; Ensign Francis Wallis Lipscomb to
be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, promoted.
Forfar and Kincardine Militia Artillery—CarWn
Robert Todd Boothby to be Major, vice Laird, promoted.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—
Major David Laird to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant,
vice Ramsay, resigned ; First Lieutenant Alexander Mon-
crieff to be Captain, vice Boothby, promoted; Second
Lieutenant James Beattie to be First Lieutenant, vice
Mcncrieff, promoted.