The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-20 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIG BT.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCIT 13.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon Colonel George Everest, C. 8., and
F.R.S., on the Retired List of the Bengal Artillery,
formerly Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical
Survey, and Surveyor -General of India.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood, upon Colley Harman Scotland, Esq., Chief
Justice of Madras.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCY 19.
lst Regiment" of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Thomas Arm-
strong Gough to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Grews, promoted.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant George M. Billington to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Joseph Thomas Wetherell,
retires ; Cornet Henry Albert Reade Revell to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice the Honourable Edward Roden
Bourke, promoted ; Frederick 'Wise, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted ; Cornet William
Ward Bennitt to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieu-
ten Ott: Bourke, promoted.
Bth Lkht Dragoons—John Gaspard Le Merchant, Gent.,
to be' Cornet, by purchase, vice Clarke, promoted.
15th sight Dragoons—Captain Horace Trower to be Major,
by purchase, vice Hen ry Lee, promoted by purchase to
an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Lieut. Phineas
Butrto be Captain, by purchase, vice Trower ; Cornet
Hugh Humphrys to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Bury.
16th Light Dragoons —The surname of the Cornet ap-
pointed on 12th March, 1861, is Maillard, not Mallard,
as stated in the Gazette of 12th inst.
18th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Maxwell How-
ard from the 4th Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Hicks, promoted.
Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Maclean
from the 42d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
McMunn, promoted on the Staff.
6th Regiment of Foot—Rnsign Alexander Courtenay
Hall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edmund Hall,
who retires; John Vincent Rigg, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, promoted
Ilth Foot—Francis William Braithwaite Gattey, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Leigton, promoted.
10th Foot—Major Harvey Wellesley Pole Welman, from
the 86th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Richard Motclesley Best, who exchanges.
11th Foot—Lieutenant David Baker Gabb, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Paget John Bourke, who retires ;
Ensign Roper Dacre Tyler, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chesie, vice Gabb ; John Hely, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purcilsase, vice Ferdinand Russell, appointed to the 49th
Foot
12th Not=—Ensign Alfred Handcock, from the Royal Dub-
lin City Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dun-
levie, promoted ; "William Henry Brooke Peters, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mac Donnell, promoted.
13th 'Foot—The surname of the Ensign appointed on 22d
ultimo, is levers not Jevers, as stated in the Gazette of
22d February, 1861.
15th Foot—Ensign John Joseph Grier to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Maunsell, promoted.
17th Foot—James Stuart Thornton Duesbery, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice William Villett Rolleston, pro-
moted in 2d West India Regiment.
18th Foot—Loftus Corbet Singleton, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Marsland, promoted.
20th Foot—Arthur Joseph Stourton, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Elliott, promoted.
22d Foot—Haworth Peel Massy, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Parry, promoted.
29th Foot—Charles Edward Pinckney Simpson, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice William Graham Arnold,
who retires.
30th Foot—James Alexander M'Mahon, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Brownlow, promoted.
35th Foot—Edward Douglas Jones, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ed ward Laws, who retires.
36th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Charles
Butler to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel James Nugent, who retires ; Lieutenant Horace
EdWard Willett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Butler ;
En'tign Christophet Spurgeon to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice -Willett.
42d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Arthur Elgin to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Fraser, about to retire
from the service.
46th -Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Matthew James Ed-
ward Fagan, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Meane,
promoted on the Staff.
48th Foot—Major John Guise Rogers Aplin to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
Benjamin Riky, deceased; Captain James Mancor to be
Major, without purchase, vice Aplin ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward Feneran to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Mancor; Ensign Pulteney Edward Bowlby to be Lieu-
tenant without purchase, vice Feneran.
49th Foot—Ensign Ferdinand Russell, from 11th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Robert Emslie Henry, who reties.
50th Foot—George James Campbell Allardice, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice White, promoted.
56th Foot—Staff! Assistant-Surgeon Edward Knapp Wur-
tele Smith, M.D., to be-Assistant-Surgeon, vice Taylor,
appointed to the Staff.
624 Foot—Eugene Charles Pollexfen, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Charles Callaway Ross, appointed to
the 92d Foot.
70th Foot—Charles William Howard, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Collins, promoted.
75th Foot—Lieutenant Harry Philip Dawson to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Cornwall, returned
home invalided.
81stFoot—Mark Saurin Wynne, Gent., to be Ensign,
sdtout purchase, vice Cowper Rochefort, who resigns.
81115:Toot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard
!Mordesley Best, from 10th Foot, to be Major, vice Har-
vey Wellesley Pole Welman, who exchanges.
87th Foots—Ensign Edward Willoughby Pardoe to be
liieutenant4 by purchase, vice Hickson, whose promotion
by purchase, on Jan. 4, 1861, has been cancelled ; En-
sign George Cox, from 2d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Par-
doe.
90th Eoot—John Henry Hedges, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Murray, promoted.
91st Foot—Atherifi.” (:a„+
by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant gurney, pro-
moted ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Traill, M.D., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Watson, appointed to the Staff.
94th Foot—Edward Smyth Mercer, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Buller, promoted.
95th Foot--Lieutenant Edwyn Brenton Andros to be In-
' structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Nicholas, returned
home invalided.
97th Foot—Staff - Assistant - Surgeon Samuel Edward
Maunsell to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Porter, appointed
to the Staff.
98th Foot--Ensign Charles Frederick Sharp, from Royal
North Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Percivar Herbert Dobbs, who retires.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Edward Roberts, from
the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ar-
thur -William Crombie Nowlan, who retires.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—John Charles Jobling, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Negus Wood,
7: Who retires ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Lancelot An-
drewes White to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Noott, who
exchanges.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Mortimer
James Macdonald to be Instructor of Musketry, vice
Lieutenant Ernest C. Wilford, appointed to 49th Foot.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Ensign Francis Nolan, from
Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Bolton, promoted.
UNATTACHED.

Major Henry Lee, from 16th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase.
Lieutenant -Julius Henry Stirke, from 12th Foot, to be
Captain, without purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Assistant-Surgeon John Meane, from 46th Foot, to be
Staft-Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Dolmage, placed upon
half-pay.
Assistant-Surgeon John Alexander M'Munn, M.D.,
from Royal Artillery, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Chartres,
appointed to 100th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Edward Gregg Noott, from Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice White,
who exchanges.
Assistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter, from 97th
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fagan, appointed
to 46th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Duncan Campbell Taylor, MD., from
65th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Maunsell,
kwointed to 97th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Robert Watson, from 91st Foot, to be
Stag' Assistant-Surgeon, vice Edward Knapp W. Smith,
M.D., appointed to 56th Foot.
To be Staff Assistant-Surgeons from Oct. 1, 1860, the
antedate not to carry back pay—Charles Henry Young
Godwin, Gent. ; John Walters, M.B. ; Franklin Gillespie,
M.D. ; Albert Augustus Gore, Gent. ; Thomas Maunsell,
Gent.; George Farr White, Gent. ; Frederick Ro-
bert 'Wilson, M. 8.; William Henry. Jones, M.D.;
Nathaniel Alcock, Gent. ; Donald Macgillivray David-
son, M.D. ; Robert Edward Heath, M.D.; Robert
Adams, M.D. ; Reginald Croft Lever, Gent. ;
Bronislaw James Fazdowski, M. 8.; James Thompson,
Gent. ; Caleb Shera Wills, Gent. ; Robert De Burgh
Riordan, Gent.; Samuel Hope, Gent. ; Thomas Young
Baker, Gent.; John Henry N. Bracken, Gent. ; Patrick
Quinlan, Gent. ; Frank Pout, Gent. ; Patrick Charles
Baxter, M.B. ; Samuel Gamble White, M.D. ; Henry
Lamb, Gent.; Henry Offley Harvey, Gent. ; Erskine Bur-
nett Grant, M.D. ; Wrn. Robert Wall, Gent. ; Thomas
Pattison Flynn, Gent.