The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-17 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY, APRIL la

Her Majesty does not require that the Officers of the
Fleet or Royal Marines 'Should wear mourning for her late
Royal Highness the Duchess of Koiit after the 14 May.
C. PAGET.

GENERAL ORDER. _
HORSE GUARDS.-APRIL 8.

His Royal -Ilighness the General Commanding-in-
Chief has received the Queen's commands to notify to the
army that the mourning for her late Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent will be discontinued on the 2d of 'next
month.
By command of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, General Commanding-in-Chief.
JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 16.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet George Ernest
Paget, from the 7th Light Dragons, to be Cornet, pay-
ing the difference, vice Martyn, promoted. •
6th Dragoon Guards—Corr-Pt St. John C. Paulet to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vine White, promote a, by pur-
chase, t 3 an Unattached Company ; Cornet Thomas
Booth to be Instruct n. of Musketry.
7th Light Dragoons—Cornet John G. Le Marchant, from
the,Bth Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice George E.
Paget, appointed t 3 the Royal Regiment of Horse
Guards.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Evelyn Wood to
be Captain, bypnrchase, vice John Macartney, who re-
tires; Cornet George John Brudenell Bruce to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Wood]
renadier Guards—Major and Brevet Colonel John Arthur
Lambert to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase,
vice ,Brevet Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, promoted
to be Major-General; Captain and Lieutenant-Col. and
Brevet Colonel the Honourable R. W. Penn Carson, C.B.
to be Major. without purchase, vice Brevet Col. Lambert;
Lieutenant and Captain Arthur E. V. Ponsonby to be
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet Colonel the Honourable R. W.P.Curzon; En-

sign and Lieutenant Charles Berners Jarrett to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, with purcase, vice Ponsonby ; The
Honorable Charles Frederick Crichton to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jarrett.
10th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Clifton de Neurville Orr
Sto ckwell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William
Batson, who retires; John Caruthers Little, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stockwell.
11th Font—Ensign David Halliday to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Francis W. Osborne, who retires; Quar-
termaster Erasmus Harris Vaughton, from the Gla-
morgan Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tyler,

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promoted.
2th Foot—First Lieutenant Arthur Henry Brittain, from
the Suffolk Artillery Militia, t, be Ensign, by purchase,
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vice Handco3k, appointed t) the 33d Foot.
14th Foot—Captain George Buck, from the 65th Foot, to
be Captain, vice William Henry Gresson, who exchanges.
16th Foot—Captain Robert Beret Stokes, from the 54th
Foot, to be Captain, vice James John Gordon, who ex-
changes; Captain William Fleming Marson, from the
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, vice
Alexander Gibson, who exchanges.
22d Foot—Philip Gully, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Daubeney, promoted; Henry Hose Swinny, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vaughan, superseded for
being absent without leave.
32d Foot—Ensign R. J. Lenthall, from the 99th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice John Arthur Grattan, who resigns.
331 Toot—Ensign Charles Francis Mundy to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Randal Howland Roberts, who
retires; Charles Alfred Carthew, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Mundy.
42d Foot—Ensign James John Peter, from the sth Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Charles William Pole Warner, who
resigns ; Ensign Andrew Michael Creagh, from the 58th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice William Henry Spooner, pro-
moted in the 9th Foot.
44th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Walker Stanley, from the
Armagh Militia, to be Ensign,by purchase, vice O'Neill,
promoted.
45th Foot—Major and Brevet-Colonel William R. Preston,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Colonel Henry Cooper,.appointedlnspectingField Officer
of a Recruiting District; Captain and Brevet •Colonel
George Anthony Leaton Blenkinsopp, to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Preston; Lieutenant:Richard Blair,
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Blenkinsopp.
54th Foot—Captain James John Gordon, from the 16th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Robert Baret Stokes, who ex-
changes

60th Foot—Ensign Marcus William O'Rorke, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice George Henry Mackenzie, who
retires; George Lancelot M'Lean Farmer, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Rorke.
65th Foot—Captain William Henry Gresson, from the 14th
Foot, to be Captain, vice George Buck, who exchanges.
70th Foot—Ensign Norman Huskisson, to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Charles Hamilton Prior, whose
promotion on the 22d August, 1860, has been cancelled.
97th Foot—Ensign Edward John Algernon Smith, from
the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Crespin, promoted.
Ist West India Regiment—Captain William Fitz-William
Smithwick, from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Nolan, promoted in the
Gold Coast Artillery Corps.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment--Captain Alexander Gib-
son, from the 16th Toot, to be Captain, vice William
Fleming Marson, who exchanges.
RECRUITING DlSTRlCT.—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Henry Cooper, from the 45th Foot, to be Inspect •
ing Field Officer, vice Brevet Colonel William Sullivan,
C. 8., promoted to the rank of Major-General.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Henry Ellis Whits, from the
sth Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, by purchase; Lieu-
tenant Arthur George Evelyn Morley, from the 43d
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.

Captain Henry Yarburgh Gold, half-pay, Unattached,
to be Major in the Army.
Captain Henry Young, half pay, Unattached, to be
Major in the Army.
Captain John Williamson, half-pay, Unattached, to be
Major in the Army.
Captain Edward Barclay, half-pay, Unattached, to be
Major in the Army. _ _ _

fj rev( t-Maj,n• llenry Yarburgh Gold, half-pay, Unat •
tached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Brevet-Major Henry Young, half-pay, Unattached, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Brevet-Major John Williamson, half-pay, Unattached,
to be Lieutenant in the Army.
Captain Lewis John Finis Jones, Bth Foot, to be Major
in the Army.
Captain Robert Gibson, 89th Foot (late 87th Foot), to be
Major in the Army.
Second Captain John Heron Maxwell Shaw Stewart,
Madras Engineers, to be Major in the Army.
Captain Charles Patton Keyes, 30th Madras Native In•
fantry, to be Major in the Army.
The under-mentioned Paymasters to have the honorary
rank of Captain under the Royal Warrant of the 27th
January, 1860.
Paymaster Raynsford Taylor, 37th Foot.
Paymaster Frederick Thomas Ongley Hopson, 3d Ligh
Dragoons.