CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.

Chaplain of the Second Class the Reverend M. Crooke, M.A., to be Chaplain of the First Class. Dated 18th May, 1875.

HALF-PAY.

Assistant-Surgeon Frederick Ffolliott is removed from the Army, the period for which his halfpay has been granted having expired. Dated 29th May, 1875.

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Robert Mackenzie, 105th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major-General upon retiring on a pension. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Major Francis Edward Pratt, Royal Engineers, to have the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, while serving in the South Pacific Ocean. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Paymaster William Francis Wheble, 7th Dragoon Guards, to have the honorary rank of Captain. Dated 18th May, 1865.

Paymaster and Honorary Captain W. F. Wheble, 7th Dragoon Guards, to have the honorary rank of Major. Dated 18th May, 1875.

Deputy Assistant Commissary Richard Spink, Warrant Officer, Madras Establishment, to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant, but junior of that rank for one year. Dated 7th July, 1875.

The undermentioned Officers having completed the qualifying service to be Colonels :

Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis, C.M.G., half-pay, late 82nd Foot, Deputy Adjutant-General of Militia in Canada. Dated 4th June, 1875.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John Henry Taylour, 94th Foot. Dated 29th June, 1875.

War Office, 6th July, 1875.

MILITIA.

Royal Cornwall Rangers, Duke of Cornwall's Own.

Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Edward John Lloyd to be Lieutenant. Dated 21st February, 1874. Sub-Lieutenant the Honourable Conway Stratford George Canning to be Lieutenant.

February, 1874.

Dated 21st

Sub-Lieutenant Henry Porter to be Lieutenant. Dated 29th October, 1873.

Devon Artillery.

Sub-Lieutenant John Edgcombe Loveband to be
Lieutenant. Dated 24th September, 1873.
Sub-Lieutenant Charles Anthony Clare Deane
to be Lieutenant.

Dated 28th February, 1874.

Royal Glamorgan Artillery.

Captain Robert Frederick Ballantine, half-pay, late 1st West India Regiment, to be Captain. Dated 5th June, 1875.

Hampshire.

Henry Robert Linzee, Gent., to be Sub-Lieutenant. Dated 7th July, 1875.

East Kent.

Horace John Nevill, Gent., to be Sub-Lieutenant (Supernumerary). Dated 7th July, 1875.

3rd Royal Lancashire.

Henry Granville Wright, Esq., to be Captain. Dated 8th June, 1875.

7th Royal Lancashire.

Sub-Lieutenant Charles William Southcott Hal

Dated 25th October,

lett to be Lieutenant.

1873.

Sub-Lieutenant Dudley Richard Apthorp to be Lieutenant. Dated 1st April, 1874.

Royal South Lincoln.

Captain Charles Rothwell Norris resigns his Commission. Dated 7th July, 1875.

1st or West Norfolk.

Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Edward Spring to be Lieutenant. Dated 15th April, 1874.

Royal Sussex Artillery.

Assistant-Surgeon Ravenhill Pearce resigns his Commission. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Royal Ayr and Wigtown.

Louis Somervell, Gent., to be Sub-Lieutenant (Supernumerary). Dated 14th June, 1875.

Royal North Down.

Major Matthew William Forde resigns his Commission, also is permitted to retain his rank, and to continue to wear the uniform of the Regiment on his retirement. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Kerry.

Lieutenant Alured de Moleyns to be Captain, vice
Sandes, resigned. Dated 26th May, 1875.

The Prince of Wales' Royal Regiment of
Longford Rifles.

Lieutenant James Richard Charles Martin resigns
his Commission. Dated 7th July, 1875.
Sub-Lieutenant the Honourable Luke White
resigns his Commission. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Royal Meath.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dillon, Bart., resigns his Commission. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Sligo.

Captain Henry Griffith Bowen, 88th Foot, to be Adjutant. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Adjutant Henry Griffith Bowen to serve with the rank of Captain. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Waterford Artillery.

Captain and Honorary Major Henry Meagher to be Major. Dated 7th July, 1875.

YEOMANRY CAVALRY.

Oxfordshire.

Philip Henry Mascie Wynter, Esq., late Captain, 32nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant. Dated 7th July, 1875.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.

Sir Wroth Acland Lethbridge, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875.

The Honourable Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875. Theodore Thring, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875.

John Francis Fortescue Horner, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875. William Stephen Gore-Langton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875. Charles Thomas Dyke Acland, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 29th June, 1875.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 9,

1875.

Downing Street, July 6, 1875.

THE Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Henry Ernest Bulwer, K.C.M.G. (late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Labuan), to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal.

Downing Street, July 7, 1875.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Charles Horsey James, Esq., to be Commissioner of Titles for the Colony of Western Australia.

Foreign Office, July 7, 1875.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senor James Cook as Consul at Manchester for the Dominican Republic.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. J. J. Jackson as Vice-Consul at Milford fo the German Empire.

Admiralty, 9th July, 1875.

In accordance with the provisions of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 22nd February,

1870

Paymaster Thomas Hope Courtnay Gray has been

placed on the Retired List from the 1st instant.