Star.
London, England, 1825-05-16 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

WAR-OFFICE, MAY 13, 1825.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Cortland' George
M'Gregor Skinner, truth half-pay of the York Chassturs, to be
Capt. v. James Leatbam, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet George Lister Lister
Kaye to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harvey, promoted ;
Dudley Heneage Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Kaye.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Lieutenants
and Captains, by purchase—Ensign and Lieutenant Hugh Henry
Langrishe, vice Hudson, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant
Sir John Montagu Burgoyne, Bart. vice Luttrell, who retires.
To be Ensigns and Lieutenants, by purchase—Hon. Charles James
Fox Stanley, vice Langrishe; George Crawford Hackett), Gent.
vice Sir John Burgoyne.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot
be Captain and -

—Captain Charles Shaw, to
by purchase, vice Walpole,

who retires.
To be Lieutenants and Captains, by purchase—Eosign and Lieu-
tenant Henry Murray, vice Walter Forbes who retires; Ensign
and, Lieutenant Brinckman Broadhead, vice Shawe.
To be Ensigns and Lieutenants, by purchase—Boyd Pollen Man-
ningham, Gent. vice Murray; Ealward Bootie Wilbraham,
Gent. vice Broadhead.
sth Regiment of Foot—Ensign and Quartermaster Henry Bishop
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fry, deceased.
6th Ditto—Ensign Constantine Wentworth Stuart Smyth Stuart,
from the gist Foot, to be Ensign, vice Kirkman, appointed to
the 70th Foot.
7th Ditto—Captain Lord William Thynne, from the 27th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Higgins, wbo exchanges.
Bth Ditto—George Burrard, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase,
vise Nisbett, whose appointment has not taken place.
9th Ditto--Lieutenant Charles Brownsigg to be Adjutant, vice
Davis, promoted.
15th Ditto--Ensign George Stevens Byng, from the 29th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Temple, promoted.
46th Ditto—Ensign Ronald .Iticdonald, limn ball-pay of the 91st
Foot, to be Ensign, repaying the difference.
27111 Ditto—Captain Matthew Higgins, tram the 7th root, to be
Captain, vice Lord William Thymic, who ea,-'

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9th Ditto—Christopher Eaton, Ger t. to be En.igt, by purchase,
vice Byng, promoted in the 11th Font.
41st Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Montgomery Per-rent to be
Surgeon, vice Cowen, deceased; Hospital-Assistant Jclin Ten-
nent to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Perrott.
44th Ditto—Captain John Shelton to be Major, without purchase,
vice Brugh ; Lieutenant Benjamin Whitney to he Captain, vice
Shelton; Ensign John Jacques 13oyse, to be Lieutewint, vile
Whitney ; John l'ennington, Gent. to be Ensign vice lloyse.
46th Ditto—Albert L. Davids, Gent, from the Royal Military
• Academy at Woolwich, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Sutherland, promoted in the 77th Font.
110th Ditto—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell, from the
45th Foot to be Major, without purchase, vice Fraser, deceased.
Slit Ditto—Lieutenant Alexander Murray Hay, from the 48th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Macpherson, whose appointment has
not taken place.
Inch Ditto—To be Second Lieutenants, without purclive—Gen-
tleman Cadet Charles 11. Spence, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, vice Binstead, promoted in the 55J Foot ; A uclimut y
Tucker, Gent. from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
64th Ditto—Ensign John Michel to he Lieutenant, by purchase,
• vice Gammen, promoted in the 92d Foot; Digby Henry Laurel!
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Nlichtl.
70th Ditto—Ensign Edward Kirwan, from the 6th Font, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Tuthill, whose appointment has
rut taken place.
79th Ditto—Lieutenant Hon. James Sinclair, from half-pay of the
95th Foot, to be Lieutenant, repaying the difference ;;Charles B.
Newhouse, Gent. from the Royal Military Academy at Wool-
wich, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brown, promottil.
80th Ditto—Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Shaw Dtnik in, K. C. 13.
to be Colonel, vice Sir Alexander Campbell, deceased.
Blst Ditto—Set-kola-Major Alexander Mi Donald, from the 3d
Foot Guards, to be Adjutant (with the rank of Erisigo), vice
Sisson, promoted.
85th Ditto—To be Captains—Lieutenant William Thomas llunt, •
by purchase, vice V. illianis, promoted. Captain Lord William
Paulet, from the half-pay, vice Robert Charltoip who exchanges,
receiving the difference.
To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Ensign Lord Crofton, vice Hunt.
To be Ensign, by purchase—W. Cooke, Gent. vice Lord Crofton.
86th Ditto—Henry Copinger, Gent. from the Royal Military Aca—
demy at Woolwich, to be Ensign, without purchase.
91st Ditto—Ensign William Calder, from the Ist West India
Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Stuart, appointed to the 6th Foot.
92d Ditto—Lieutenant James Gamma', from the 64th Emit, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Warren, who retiree. Ensign Wanley
Elias Sawbridge to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gor-
don, deceased.
To be Ensigns, without purchase : Aird, Gent. James
11. Mackrell, Gent. vice Buckley, promoted. James Gardener
Inglis, Gent. vice Sawbridge.
9:)d Ditto-s-Lieutenant Charles St. John Fancourt, from the 4th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Coleman, who
retiree.
Rifle Brigade—Serjeant-Major Fairfoot to be Quartermaster, vice
Pluut, appointed to the 90th Foot.
Ist West India Regiment—Francis Lloyd, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Calder, appointed to the 91st Foot.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Lieutenant Hugh Patterson to be
Adjutant, vice Jailing, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
Cape Corps— Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Somer,xt, from the half-
pay, to be Lieuteuant•Colonel, vice Henry Ilely Hutchinson,
who exchanges.

Captain James Simpson, from the Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards,
to he Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by purchase, vice Major-
General John Nugent Smyth, who retires. Lieutenant John
Vebie Temple, from the 15th Foot, to be Captain of a Company,
by purchase, vice Ileathcote, promoted in the 27th Foot.

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ItIEVET.
Major William Forrest, of the Honourable Test India Company's
Service ( luvector of Military Stores). to be Lieutenant-Colonel
in the East Indies only. Captain Thomas Josephus Baines, of
the 32d Foot, to be .Major in the Army.

Major Duman Dougall, on half-pay 85th Foot, to be Inspect-
ing Field-(dicer cf :Militia in Nova Scotia (with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army), vice Barris, who resigns.
HOSPITAL avArr.

To be Surgeons to the Forces—Staff-Surgeon Samuel Burd, M.D.
frotu half-pay. Staff-Surgeon Thomas O'hialey, from half-pay.
Staff-Surgeon Valium Wel44 M.D. from half-pay.
. To be Hospital Aoiistant—Georse grown, Gent. vice Tennent,
. prontoted in the 41st Foot.

it I'4.IYA MCKIM
1114: appointment of Lieutenant O'Meara, front half-pay Royal
African Corps, to be Paymaster of the 2d West India Regiment
as stated in the Gateitc of the lgth February last, bastnot taken place'
• Ccalimission in the 2d Regiment of Surrey Militia, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.
. Richard Phillips, Gent. to be Ensign.
Comtuissionsitt the Oxfordshire Regular Militia, signed by the
Lord JAeutenatit of the County of Oxford.
. Jobb William Fane, Esq. to he Major, vice Goldanchsdeceased.
Commissions in the Royal Anglt sey Militia, signed by the Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Anglesey. tx
- Thomas Peers Williams, Esq. to be Captain, viol-.Mmas Mit-

then, resigned.
Richard aulkelry Williams, Gent. to be First Lieutenant, vice
Thomas P. Williams, prontotod.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
. orcestershire Militia—Frederick Dodd Stephenson, Gent. to
be Ensign. '
•• Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—Joseph Hall, Gent. to be Co-
terinary Surgeon, vice Samuel Palfrey, deceased.

, About ten o'clock Saturday mor'ing, as the Duke
of YORK was riding through Hill-street, Berkeley-
square, his horse stumbled, in consequence of his put-
ting his foot in a hole, and his Royal
,Highness was
thrown oaf. Ile was immediately conveyed to his own
• residence, in South Audley-street, within a few yards
of which the accident happened, where he was attended
..by Sir JAMES Macotuirtr. his Royal Highness did
rot receive any serious injn'y by the fall, and .was
able to ride out in his cab' inlet in the afternoon, wheal
, he paid a visit to the KING, at Carlton Palace.
Friday. next, both Houses of Parliament will adjourn
for the ‘Vhitstintide holydays; but, at present, it is ar-
ranged that the adjournment will only be to the fol.
I..wing Thursday. All the Public Accounts and Esti-
. mates of the Government Offices, were ready by the
• meeting of Parliament, but Mr. CIOULBURN has not yet
• moved all the Irish E•t•mates. The Government Mo-
ney Bills not being b foie the (louse, the Session will
' not be quite so shot t as was at first anticipated.
Sunday sen'night, the BRAZEN, 28, Captain Wict-cs,
returned from escorting his Majesty's steam-tressai Co
• met anti Lightning, from Dover to Cilia's, the former
having on board tie Duke and Duchess of NOKIIIUSI
BRIII.AND and suite. His Grace ordered a relay of
48 horses, to Paris, &eve a dinner to the Officers in at-
tendance, and next day set off for Paris. Her Glare
made a present of 50/. 'o the Master of the Comet, and
• of 251. to. the Master of the I.l,thttring., which latter
' vessel took oter the luggage and servants.
Brossom, 28, C F. W. ItErcr 7.Y, will sail
sir rtly < r her interesting voyage. She will proceed, in
the first place. to Rio Janeiro, and thence to the Pacific.
s% here sl•e m ill be employed surveyirg the numerous
groups of islands in that quarter of the globe, and par-
• vc ol:trl y in asceltaining the existence of Gomc z's
avd tise geographical situatitai of Dude's and Eliza.
' If cit.'s Islands ; she mill ultimately repair to Behring's
s,.ta,ts, if. tie Lope of filling in with Capt. Fammust's
arty. overland ; and should she not succeed in the ob-
•j• ct during tie next year, the IlLosscm will remain in
those seas till the year foil. wing. Mr. -Law goes out
_
xteosivt: field
itsions, a va-
aped, of tare
. It is edict:-
11 occupy the

TliE- EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, MAY 16, 1823.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 901 to 91 for the Account; but
soon after they drooped to 904, and are now at 901 a, with a very
heavy Market.

In the Foreign Market South American Securities are very
heavy, and little doing.

Current Prices: New Spanish 18} Old Spanish e3l .24, Rus-
sian 951 ;, Mexican 76S 77, Austrian 97, Colombian New 8811 89,
Brazil Scrip I prem. Mexican Scrip 211 disc. Greek Scrip 6
51 disc. Danish Scrip 3 ‘2ll disc.

ICE OF-STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 230 2291/4
3 per Cent. lted. 901/8 89
$ per Cent. Cons. 907/8 A Vs
fri per Cent. Red. 97% 1/4 •
4 per Cent. New 1051/8 10478
Long Ann. 217/8 15.16 A
_ India Bonds 69 66
£l,OOO Excheq. Bills 19 47 50
I:500 ditto 51 47
£lOO and £2OO ditto 51 47
Cons. for Acct. 91 903/4 1/2
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Mex. Bonds, 5p Ct. 761 3 1
Ditto Scrip 1825, 11 21 1/ dis
Ditto Acc. 11 21 1/ dis
Neapolitan Bonds, 1824,
Perim Bonds, 6 per Ct. 791
Portuguese Bonds 901
Ditto Acct. 901
Prussian Bonds 1822, 5 p Ct. 102
Ruis.Bonds,lB22, Sp Ct. 951 4 1
Ditto for Aec. 951
Spanish sp. Ct. C. 231 1 1
Ditto Acct. 231
SpA. sp. C 1823, •
Ditto Acct.

Austrian 13th 5 p Ct. 971 7
Bracilian Bouds
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Scrip 1825,0/ 1 col pr
Buenos Ayres Bonds,
Ditto Aec. 911
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 831
Colombian Bds,6 p C. 861 7 61
Ditto Bonds, 1824, 881 1 1 9
Ditto Acc. 881 9-
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. 1011
Ditto Marks Banco 102.
Ditto Scrip, 1825,
Ditto Acct. 3 21 3 dig
Greek Bonds
Ditto Scrip, 1825, 51 6 dis
Ditto Acct. 51 / i dis

French Rentee, 5 per Cc.102f.25c
Exchange 25f. 10e.
Massie:l Inscription, 6 p C.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
MINIM

SRA 111. PAW. PRIM NIL SHAWL
Anglo Mexican ..ClOO £2O iss. 115 pro. £9O
Anglo Chilian - - 100 - 5 - ' -7i
Brazilian - 100 - .5 - • 141 14
Chilian and Peruvian 5
General Mining Amu. 100 - 5 •
Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5
Potosi. La Paz, &Peru,. SO 5
Real del Monte 400 170 -
United Mexican 40 - 20 •
Ditto New 40 - 10 -
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Alliance British & For. 100 10 17
Marine Alliance - 100 5 6;
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.

. 100 - a•
100 4

. 141 136
. 151 15 6
10 91 10

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