The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock.

LONDON G.

,s Evening.)

DOWNING-STREET DEc.24 .

Captain William S. Moorsom, Civil Engineer, has been
appointed, by Mr. Secretary Labouchere, to be Chief En-
gineer to the Government of Ceylon, for the purposes of a
Railway Survey.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, ILA., the office and place of
Begins Professor in Ecclesiastical History in the Univer-
sity of Oxford, in the room of the Rev. Robert Hussey,
deceased.

WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JAN. 9.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Hampden
Hugh Massy, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Sur-
geon, vice Mockler, who exchanges.
17th Light Dragoons —Surgeon Edward Mockler, from
the 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Surgeon, vice Massy, who
exchanges.
ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
Captain James Benjamin Dennis to be Lieutenant-Co-
ionel, vice Fitzgerald, retired upon half-pay.
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Wm. Edward Moyses
Reilly to be Captain, vice Dennis.
Lieutenant Alured Clarke Johnson to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Reilly.
The undermentioned Lieutenants with temporary rank,
to be Lieutenants with permanent rank, viz. :
Lieutenant Alexander Donll.
Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kane.
Lieutenant Archibald Hamilton Bell.
Lieutenant George Budd.
Lieutenant John Haughton.
Lieutenant Henry Rogers levers.
Lieutenant Robert Lloyd.
Lieutenant Thomas Clarke.
Lieutenant William Godeffroy Brancker.
Lieutenant Donald Roderick Cameron.
Lieutenant William Henry Noble.
Lieut. Richard Newton Young.
Lieut. Joseph Haythorne Edgar.
Surgeon Stanhope Hunter Fasson, M.D., from the
95th Foot, to be surgeon.
TO BE ASSISTANT-SURGEONS.
Assistant Surgeon William Beale Wallis, from the Hos-
pital Staff,
Assistant Surgeon Wm. Younge Jeeves, from the Hos-
pital Staff.

Assistant Surgeon Joseph Fletcher Loughsed, from the
Rifle Brigade.
Assistant Surgeon Wm. Morris, from the Hospital Staff.
Assistant Surgeon Andrew Robertson Smith, from the
Hospital Staff.
Assistant Surgeon Cyrus Octavius Daniell, from the
Hospital Staff.
Assistant Surgeon John Whittle Rimmer, from the
Hospital Staff.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Richard Uniacke Cashman,
from the Hospital Staff.
Acting Assist.-Surgeon Henry Richard Lobb Veale,
M.D., from the Hospital Staff.
The rank in the Army of Assist.-Surgeon R. U. Cash-
man, to bear date 18th May, 1855.
The rank in the Army of Assist.-Surgeon H. R. L.
Veale, M.D., to bear date the 14th August, 1855.

9th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Croker Miller has been
superseded, being absent without leave.
16th Foot—Acting Assist.-Surgeon Hector Ferguson to
be Assist• Surgeon.
_ _

18th Foot—Ensign Hugh Shaw to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Wolseley, who retires ; James Francis Dan-
beny, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Shaw,
21st Foot—Major the Hon. David Erskine, from the
51st Foot, to be Major, vice Knox, who exchanges.
234 Foot—Ensign J. De Gorrequer Dolmage has been
superseded, being absent without leave.
_ _

2d Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant Francis Stribling to
be Quartermaster, vice Giddings, appointed Paymaster.
35th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel John M'Neill Walter, from
the 53d Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel
Faber, who exchanges.
41st Foot—Ensign Matthew Ellison has been superseded,
being absent without leave.
42d Foot—Lieut. Wilsone Black to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Orde, who retires ; Captain Herbert Henry
Moseley, from half-pay of the regiment, to be Captain, vice
Black, placed upon half-pay.
50th Foot—Lieut. Charles Mills has been permitted to
retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
51st Font—Major the Hon. William Stuart Knox, from
the 21st Foot, to be Major, vice Erskine. who exchanges.

b 3,1 Foot—Brevet-Colonel W. Raikes Faber, from
35th Foot, to be ,Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Walter, who
exchanges; Ensign Charles BAguall to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Humphrey, who retires ; George Campbell
Sidebottom, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bag
nail.

74th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel James W. Dal-
gety, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Adam
Campbell, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Sir David Baird,
Bart., to be Captain, by purchase, vice DAgety, who re-
tires ; Ensign. Robert Elphinstone Dear to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Sir David Baird ; Francis Pavy, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dear.

78th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Stacy Skipton,
M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
O'Neill, deceased.

88th Foot —Ensign Edward Cape has been superseded,
being absent without leave.
95th Foot—Staff-Surgeon, Second. Class, John Ewing to
be_Surgeon, vice Fassou, appointed to the Royal Artillery.

2d West India Regiment: s The surname of the Ensign,
appointed on the 6th inst., is Platt, and not Pratt, as pre-
viously stated.

UNATTACHED.

Lieutenant John Gilletland, from 3d Dragoon Guards,
to be Captain, without purchase.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class William Hanbury,
from half-pay, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class,
Tice Ewing, appointed to the 96th Foct.
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons to be
Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces :
George Clarence Hyde.
Francis John Scott.
Henry Kelsall.
Edmund Greswold McDowell.
John Goodwin.