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London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

Ist West India Regiment—Ensign G. Webb to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Moffatt, appointed to
the 53d Foot ; C. Q. Dick, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Webb ; T. J. Holmes, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Andrews, appointed to the 33d Foot, Dec. 27.
3d West India Regiment—W. R. Renwick, Gent., to
be Assistant• Surgeon, vice Stewart, deceased, Dec. 27.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut. R. Mylius to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Dickson, deceased ; Second
Lieutenant W. C. Vanderspar to be First Lieutenant,
vice Mylius, Oct. 9 ; Second Lieutenant R. B. Staveley
to be First Lieutenant, vice Vanderspar, whose promo-
tion, on the Ist Nov., has been cancelled, Nov. 1 ; F.
Hill, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, rice Staveley,
Dec. 27.

UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major S. Tryon, from the 43d
Foot, to be Major, by purchase, Dec. 27.
BREVET—Capt. W. B. Cockburne, of the 95th Foot,
to be Major in the Army, June 28, 1838.
The undermentioned Cadets of the Hon. the East India
Company's Service, to have the local and temporary
rank of Ensign during the period of their being placed
under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederick
Smith, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for field
instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining :
G. W. Walker, gent. ; E. 'fernery, gent. ; J. C. Ander-
son, Gent. ; C. E. 1). Hill, Gent. ; C. V. Wilkinson,
Gent. ; E. A. Foord, Gent., Dec. 27.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon G. A. Cowper,
M.D., from the 90th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to
the Forces, vice Kelly, deceased, Dec. 27.
MEMORANDUM.—Major D. Wentworth, on half-pay
Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the Army
with the sale of a Majority, he being about to become a
settler in New South Wales, Dec. 27.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 21.
The Lord Chancellor 'has appointed Henry Moore, of
Wimborne Minster, in the county of Dorset, Gent., to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan-
cery.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
ISIDORE BLOOMENTIIAL. wholesale stationer,
Thornton-street, Dockhead, Surrey.
BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM JAMES BERNARD STAUNTON,
wine merchant, Salvador-house, Bishops,gate-street, to
surrender Jan. 6, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 7, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Graham, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Turner and
Hensman, Basing-lane.
SAMUEL PARTRIDGE, lieenced victualler, Peer-
less-row, City-road, Jan. 10, and Feb. 7, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copt-
; Cox Sise-lane.
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THOMASiI ui din gs ,Fooffiict iroa I assignee
HARRIS,
draper, Great Portland-
street, Jan. 10, and Feb. 6, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee ; Reed
and Shaw, Friday-street.
GEORGE COATES, apothecary, Bloomsbury, Jan.
13, at at twelve, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, asinghall-street. Turquand, official-as-
signee,street. ; Cox, Pincer's-hall, Broad-
Copthall-buildings
THOMAS KIMPTON, draper, Newington-butts.
Jan. 11, at half-past one, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, Rasinghall-street. Edwards.
official-assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Reed and
Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside.
GEORGE HARKER, farmer, Sunderlandwick,
Yorkshire, Jan. 10, at one, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the
Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds ; Jennings and Conyers, Great Driffield.
JOHN FAWCETT, coach builder, St. John-street,
West Smithfield, Jan. 6, and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Swan, Sergeants' Ten, Fleet-street.
THOMAS HOLT, dealer, Clitheroe, Lancashire,
Jan. 11, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy. Fraser, official assignee,
Manchester ; Bailey, Clitheroe, Lancashire ; Wetherell,
Temple, London.
JOHN NEWTON SARGENT, grocer, Notting-
ham, Jan. 9, at one, and Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Valpy, offi-
cial assignee, Birmingham ; Parsons, Nottingham.
NOTICES OF BANKRUPTCY.
MATTHEW KNOWLES, cooper, Tadcaster.
THOMAS COLES COX, milkman, Cheltenham.
THOMAS WADL, grocer, Castleford, Yorkshire.
JAMES ROGERS, billiard table marker, Exeter.
HENRY BURGH, Jun., farmer, Gloucester.
RICHARD BUTTERY, wood ranger, Little Wen-
lock, Shropshire.
THOMAS M'DERMOTT, military knight, Lower
Ward, Windsor Castle.
JOSEPH GARDNER, licenced victualler, Dudley.
JOHN GILLIBRAND, coal dealer, Birmingham.
HENRY DELCOUR, appraiser, South Molten-street,
Oxford-street,
JOHN WILLIAM HENTIG, jun., gentleman, Judd-
place East, St. Pancras.
EDMUND NASH NORCOTT, Captain on half-pay
in the Royal Navy, Cecil-street, Strand.
THOMAS RUSSELL WILKINSON, mercantile
clerk, Jeffries-terrace, Kentish-town.
JAMES SMITH, cheesemonger, Lombard-street,
Chelsea.
N EDWARD STRETCH, Lieutenant on
half-pay
the
7th Regiment of Foot, Westbourne-
starßiee-OtLay T
in
Eaton-square.
JOHN KAY. beer housekeeper Doncaster.
JOHN MAY, retailer of beer,'Golcar, Huddersfield,
Yorkshire.
SIMEON HOLROYD, grocer, Clayton, Bradford,
Yorkshire.
ROBERT BARKER,shire.
saddler, Burton Leonard, York-

WILLIAM SCRUTON, grocer,Walmgate, Yorkshire.
JOHN EDWARD PEARSE, beer-seller, Manchester.
WILLIAM KNIGHT TURTLE, printer, Walworth.
WILLIAM PERCH, coach-proprietor, Sheffield.
BARNABAS TRAVIS, baker, Sheffield.
THOMAS HAIGH, brass-founder, Sheffield.
JOHN NEWBOULD, table knife hafter, Sheffield.
WILLIAM
QUARMBY, jun , clothier, Linthwaite,
Almondbury, Yorkshire.
JABEZ QUARMBY, weaver, Linthwaite, York.
JOSEPH REDREARN, pattern designer, Almond-
bury, York.
THOMAS SMITH, ironmonger, Leamington Priors,
Warwickshire.

JOHN GEORGE lIUTCHINSON, tailor, Westgate,
Yorkshire.

SIMON SMITH, saddler, Lambeth.
RICHARD ROSER, gardener, Brixton-hill, Surrey.
JOHN SKERMAN, whitesmith, Hertfordshire.
THOMAS LEACH, overlooker, Bradford, Yorkshire.
ROBERT FLEETWOOD CROUGHTON, vicar,
Mowbray, Leicester.
THOMAS CHISHOLM, greengrocer, South Shields.
JAMES PLUMB labourer, Woking, Surrey.
WILLIAM NEWPORT cooper, Manchester.
THOMAS SIEITER, engineer, Aston, Birmingham.
FRANCIS LOVETT, china dealer, Guildford, Surrey.
MOY THOMAS, clerk, Nicholas- street, Hoxton,
Middlesex.

HENRY BRITTAIN, smith, Aston-road, Aston,
Warwickshire.

JAMES TRIJSCOTT, victualler, Swansea.
GEORGE WATSON, stone mason, Ripple, Worces-
tershire.

JOSEPH CRESSWELL, farmer, King's Bromley,
Staffordshire.

CHARLES WARD, flour dealer, Liverpool.
BENJAMIN DONKERSLEY, fancy manufacturer,
Almondbury, Yorkshire.
WILLIAM RICHARD CHAPMAN, clerk, Kings-
land-road, Hackney, Middlesex.

25th Foot—Lieut. W. Woodgate, from the sth Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell, who exchapges, Dec. 27.
26th Foot—Ensign W. W. Turner to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Postlethwaite, who retires ; Gentle-
man Cadet Sir G. F. R. Walker, Bart., from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tur-
ner, Dec. 27.
31st Foot—R. Mackenzie, Gent. to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Sparrow, promoted, Dec. 27._
33d Foot—Gentleman Cadet F. W. I'Estrange, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Knollys, promoted, Dec. 27.
Assistant-Surgeon F. Andrews, frDm the Ist West
India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bowlby,
deceased, Dec. 27.
43d Foot—Lieutenant W. R. Herries to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Tryon, promoted ; Ensign H. P.
Denniss, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Herries ;
F. G. Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Denniss, Dee. 27.

49th Foot—Captain T. S. Reignolds to be Major,
without purchase, vice Stephens, deceased ; Lieutenant
J. T. Grant to be Captain, vice Reignolds, July 30 ;
Lieutenant H. G. Rainey to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Meik who retires, Dec. 27.
To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensign C. Faunt,
vice Gibbons; killed in action, Julyl22 ; Ensign G. D.
Prettejohn, vice Weir, deceased, July 26 ; Ensign J. G.
Bolton, vice Grant, July 30.
To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Ensign C. S. Glaz-
brook, vice Rainey, Dec. 27.
To be Ensigns, without purchase--Sergeant-Major
W. Porter, vice Faunt, Dec. 26 ; Gentleman Cadet H.
F. Ponsonby, from the Royal Military College, vice
Prettejohn, Dec. 27 ; Gentleman Cadet L. Bellairs, from
the Royal Military College, vice Bolton, Dec. 21.
62d Foot—Captain EL Astier to be Major, without
purchase, vice J. Kitson, who retires upon full pay ;
Lieut. H. Jacksim to be Captain, vice Astier ; Lieut.
G. Eratt to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bu-
chanan, deceased, Dec. 9.8.

To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign K. E.
Hillier, vice Scobell, deceased, Dec. 7 ; Ensign C. Lam-
bert, vice Gason, deceased, Sept. 7 ; Esign H. S. M. D.
Fulton,: vice Hillier, whose promotion, on the Ist Nov.,
1842, has .been cancelled, Nov. 1 ; Ensign R. Douglas,
vice Evatt, Dec. 28.

To be Ensigns, without purchase.— Colour-Sergeant
M. Kelly, from the 13th Foot, vice Lambert, Dec. 26 ;
W. L. Ingall, Gent., vice Fulton, Dec. 27 ; M. Batt,
Gent., vice Douglas Pee. 28th.
66th Foot—Lieutenant J. H. Ross, from the 92d Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice:Pratt, who exchanges, Dec. 27.
89th Foot—Ensign G. A. F. Ruxton, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Dillon, who retires ; W. Duff,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Buxton, Dec. 27.
90th Foot—W. Maclise, Gent., to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Cowper, appointed to the Staff, Dec. 27.
92d Foot—Lieut. E. B. Pratt, from the 66th Foot, to
be Liedtenant, vice Ross, who exchanges, Dec. 27.
95th Foot—Capt. W. H. Cockburne, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice C. D. Allen, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference ; Lieut. J. R. Ford to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Cockburne, who retires ;
Ensign A. Taylor to be Lieutenant, by purchaie, vice
Ford ; A. T.:Mosley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Taylor, Dec. 27.
98th Foot—Captain G. A. Gordon, from the 6th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Darley, who exchanges, Dec. 27.
99th Foot—Ensign C. E. Leigh to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice D. Beatty, slim retires ; Ensign F. W. R.
Wright, from the 22d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Leigh,
Dec. 27.