3rd Light Dragoons-Lieutenant John Norcliffe Preston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Draper, who retires.

11th Light Dragoons-Cornet Robert Dunmore Napier to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Dungate, who retires; R. R. Harrison Dungate, Gent., to be Riding Master.

Military Train-Paymaster Benjamin Robert James, from the late Land Transport Corps, to be Paymaster, April 1.

Royal Artillery-Second Captain John Lawrance Bolton to be Captain, vice Flint, deceased; Lieut. Augustus Wm. Johnson to be Second Captain, vice Bolton, Feb. 23.

The dates of the promotions of the undermentioned Officers to be altered as follows, viz.: Captain W. B. Sanders to Jan. 13; Second Captain C. B. Le Mesurier to Jan. 13; Captain C. H. Smith to Jan. 24; Second Captain H. S. Elliott to Jan. 24; Captain H. T. Fitz Hugh to Feb. 21; Captain W. N. Hardy to Februrary 21; Second Captain H. P. P. Phelips to Feb. 21.

Royal Engineers-Second Captain Andrew Clerke, on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain, March 19; Brevet Major Francis Du Cane to be Captain, vice Penrice, resigned, March 19; Lieutenant Glastonbury Neville to be Second Captain, vice Du Cane, March 19.

9th Foot-Lieutenant Allen George Douglas to be Instructor of Musketry, March 14.

23rd Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Pratt, from Half Pay 41st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain Charles Grantley C. Norton, from Half Pay 23rd Foot, to be Captain, vice F. Sayer, who exchanges; Ensign Frederick Wollaston Hutton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Griffith, who retires; George Frederick Russell Colt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hutton; Ensign Charles Jacquet to be allowed to retire from the Army, Her Majesty having no further occa. sion for his services, March 6.

39th-Captain Thomas Adams, from the 78th Foot, to be Captain, vice Foster, who exchanges.

40th Ensign Henry Ross-Lewin Morgan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cook, whose promotion, by purchase, on the 25th May, 1855, has been concelled.

66th-Thomas Cambell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Shortt, promoted.

72nd-Herbert Barron, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burnet, who retires.

78th-Captain Frederick Wilmot Foster, from the 39th Foot, to be Captain, vice Adams, who exchanges.

81st-Lieutenant Walter Musgrave to be Adjutant, vice Wilkinson, who resigns the Adjutancy only.

82nd-Lieut. Wm. David Inverarity to be Captain, by purchase, vice D. P. Campbell, who retires.

97th-Ensign Robert Cecil Kearny has been permitted to resign his Commission.

STAFF. Brevet Colonel Honourable W. L. Pakenham, C.B., upon Half Pay Unattached, as Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Deputy Adjutant General to the Troops proceeding on a particular service; Brevet Colonel E. R. Wetherall, C.B., upon Half Pay Unattached, as Major, to be Deputy QuartermasterGeneral to the Troops proceeding on a particular service; Brevet Colonel Studholme Brownrigge, C.B., upon Half Pay Unattached as Lieut.-Colonel, to be Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Forces serving in Ireland, vice Brevet Colonel Wetherall, appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Forces employed on a particular service.

HOSPITAL STAFF.-Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals Archibald Gordon, M.D., C.B., from Half Pay, to be Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, March 13; Thomas Chator Beale, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces.

BREVET. The undermentioned Officer having completed three years' actual service on the 8th March, 1857, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854; Lieutenant Colonel Richard Waddy, C.B., 50th Foot, March 8.

The undermentioned Officers having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, according to the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 3rd November, 1854, to be Colonels in the Army, viz :—

Lieutenant-Colonel John William Ormsby, Royal Artillery, March 17. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Servante, Royal Engineers, February 17; Lieut.Colonel St. Aubyn Molesworth, retired Full Pay of the Royal Engineers, to be Colonel, in consequence of the promotion of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson,

of the Royal Engineers, who stood below him on the effective strength of the Corps when he retired, February 17; Brevet Major William Carton and Brevet Major Anthony Donelan, on retired Full Pay (Staff Officers of Pensioners) to be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, the rank being honorary only, April, 1.

The undermentioned Cadets of 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 Col. Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for field instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining:

Isaac Pratt Westmorland, Gent.; Arthur Charles Padday, Gent.; Thomas Freeman Dowden, Gent.; Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, Gent.; Augustus Le Mesurier, Gent.; David Henry Trail, Gent.; Arthur Herbert Bagge, Gent.; William Coningham, Gent.; Frank Robertson, Gent

Transport Corps, to be Paymaster, April 1.

3rd Foot-Captain Wm. Wainman, from Half-pay 3rd Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Smith, promoted to the Substantive rank of Major, Unattached, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.

4th-Capt. Augustus Joseph Sikes, from Half-pay 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Patrick Robertson, whose Brevet rank has been converted into Substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.

12th-Ensign and Adjutant George Gibson, to have the rank of Lieut.; Ensign John Warren, to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Irving, who resigns.

20th-Ensign Frederick Augustus Ramsay, has been permitted to resign his commission.

25th-Brevet Major Edwd. Ramsden Priestley to be Major, without purchase, vice Holt, who retires upon Fullpay; Lieut. Horatio Priestley to be Captain, without purchase, vice E. R. Priestley.

27th-Ensign Wm. Magenis Stafford to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George Reynell Gresson, who retires; Ensign Albert Dixon, from the 85th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stafford.

43rd Captain Henry J. Parkin Booth to be Major, by purchase, vice Primrose, promoted; Lieut. Henry Trafford Trafford to be Captain, by purchase, vice Booth; Ensign Wm. Livesay to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Trafford Trafford; Gerald Henry Baird Young, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Livesay.

45th-Paymaster Jno. David Blythe, from the 3rd West India Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice M. G. Taylor, appointed to a Depot Battalion.

47th-Lieut. Charles Finnerty to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major C. A. Stephenson, deceased, March 4.

55th-Ensign George Lewis Whyte has been permitted to resign his com

mission.

63rd-Ensign Robt. Edwd. Sproule has been permitted to resign his commission.

97th-Ensign Robert Annesley to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Oates, who retires.

Rifle Brigade-Lieut. Henry A. F. Luttrell has been permitted to resign his commission.

3rd West India Regiment - John Wilson, Esq., formerly a Captain in the 93rd Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Blythe, appointed to the 45th Foot.

Gold Coast Corps-Henry Augustus Williams, Gent., late Lieut. Osmanli Cavalry, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Elgee, deceased.

UNATTACHED.-Captain and Brevet Lieut. Colonel Hugh Smith, 3rd Foot, to have the Substantive rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.

Brevet Major Edward Tomkinson, 8th Light Dragoons, to have his Brevet rank converted into Substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct.,

1854.

Brevet Major Patrick Robertson, 4th Foot, to have his Brevet rank converted into Substantive rank, under the Roval Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.

HOSPITAL STAFF.-Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Rhys, from Half-pay, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, March 24; Staff Surgeon of the Second Class James Fraser, M.D., from Half-pay, to be Staff Surg. of the Second Class, vice Wellington Poole, placed upon Half-pay; Purveyor's Clerk George Dalton to be Purveyor to the Forces.

Assistant Staff Surgeon Archibald Wm. Pultney Pinkerton, M.D., has been permitted to resign his Commission.

BREVET.-Major Geo. Holt, Retired Full-pay 25th Foot, to be Lieut. Col. in the Army, the rank being honorary only.

THE MILITIA GAZETTE.

Royal London-Ensign John Thos. Henry Butt to be Lieut., vice Thomas Jones, resigned; Ensign Augustus Bolle de Lasalle to be Lieut., vice Mur lock Wm. Pollard Robertson, resigned; Ensign James Cunningham to be Lieut., vice James Duke Hill, resigned; Ensign Augustus Henry Garland to be Lieut., vice Augustus Charles Twentyman, resigned; Fred. Richard Fortnum Keats, Gent., to be Ensign, vice John Thomas H. Butt, promoted.

Hertfordshire-Thos. Byron Myers, Gent., to be Lieut., vice Lieut. Henry Joseph Toulmin, appointed to the 13th Light Dragoons.

Royal Sussex-Ensign James John Pickford to be Lieut., vice Sergison,

resigned; Wm. Orme, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Pickford, promoted.

North York Rifle Regiment-Eyre Ledgard, Gent., to be Ensign.

The Galloway Rifles-Ensign Lewis Audley Hay to be Lieut., vice John Underwood, appointed Quartermaster.

1st Devon-John Macdonald, from Lieut., to be Quartermaster, from 1st August, 1856; H. T. Hartnall to be Surgeon, vice King, resigned; T. W. Caird to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Martin, resigned.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 7.

Military Train.-Col. William M. S. McMurdo, from Director-General of the Land Transport Corps, to be Col. Commandant.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 10.

11th Light Dragoons-Lieutenant Robert O'Brien Jameson, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Foster, who retires; Cornet Daniel Shaw Stewart, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jameson; Paget Peploe Mosley, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart.

17th Light Dragoons - Lieutenant Arthur Burnand, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Watson, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant James Duncan, to have the rank of Lieutenant; Cornet Walter Raymond Nolan, to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Burnand; Arthur Gooch, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Nolan.

Military Train-To be Paymasters -Paymaster Thomas Calderhead Browne, from the late Land Transport Corps: Paymaster Maxwell Reeve, from the late Land Transport Corps, April 1.

Royal Artillery Second Captain George Henry John Alexander Fraser, on the Supernumerary List, to be Capt.; Brevet Major France James Soady to be Captain, vice Calder, deceased; Lieutenant John Andrew Price, to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Major Soady, March 26.

The undermentioned Lieutenants with temporary rank to be Lieutenants, with permanent rank-viz., Lieutenant Francis Sadlier Stoney; Lieut. George O'Connor, March 7.

To be Quartermasters- Second Capt. Andrew Henry, from Half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps, vice Steele, retired upon Half pay; Quartermaster Sergeant Wm. Armstrong, vice White.

retired upon Half-pay; Sergeant-Major William Cairns, vice Nicoll, retired upon Half-pay; Sergeant Major John Morris, vice Eager, retired upon Halfpay; Staff Sergeant John Williams, vice Dunbar, retired upon Half-pay, April 1.

1st or Grenadier Foot Guards-Lieut. and Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Alexander Higginson, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Edward Goulburn, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant, Clifton Gascoigne, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice John Davie F. Davie, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant William Philip, Earl of Sefton, to be Lieutenant and Capt., by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.Col. Higginson; Charles Berners Jarret, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gascoigne.

2nd Foot-Quartermaster Sergeant William Mackie to be Quartermaster, vice Mansfield, who retires upon Halfpay.

9th-Capt. Arthur Oswald Richards, from Half-pay, to be Captain, vice Lousada, who exchanges; Capt. John Holmes Houston Gammell, from Halfpay, to be Captain, vice Hon. W. L. Talbot, who exchanges.

14th-Lieutenant Dawson Stockley Warren to be Capt., by purchase, vice Segrave, who retires.

21st-Captain Roger Killeen, from Half-pay, to be Captain, vice King, deceased, March 29.

25th-Lieutenant William Robert Goodall to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ogilvy, who retires; Ensign E. H. Layard to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Goodall.

33rd-Ensign F. C. M. Glasgow, from the 72nd Foot, to be Ensign, vice H. F. Campbell, who exchanges.

41st-Lieut. Walter Johnson has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission.

44th-Lieut. Alexander W. Cobham to be Capt. by purchase, vice Greene, who retires; Ensign Thomas Gash to be Lieutenant, vice Cobham; Henry William Heane, Gen., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gash.

72nd-Ensign H. F. Campbell, from the 33rd Foot, to be Ensign, vice Glasgow, who exchanges.

91st-Lieutenant Thomas Erskine Arthur Hall to be Instructor of Musketry, March 20.

97th-Robert Gray, Gent., to be En

sign, by purchase, vice Annesley promoted.

98th-Capt. Robert Reid, from Halfpay Unattached, to be Captain, vice H. W. Goodwyn, who exchanges.

Rifle Brigade-Lieutenant Stewart Smyth Windham to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Rowles, who resigns that appointment, April 5.

3rd West India Regiment-Lieut. Thomas M'Curdy to be Captain, without purchase, vice Macdonald, appointed to the Military Train.

Cape Mounted Riflemen -- Lieut. James F. Boyes to be Captain, without purchase, vice Salis, promoted in the Military Train.

DEPOT BATTALION.-The Commission of Paymaster Alexis Corcoran, appointed March 10, has been antedated to Nov. 7, 1856.

UNATTACHED.-Lieut. Robert Reid, from the 98th Foot, to be Capt. without purchase.

PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.-Gregson Bridgett, Gent., to be Purveyor to the Forces, April 1.

BREVET. - Lieutenant-Col. William Turnbull Renwick, of the Royal Engineers, having completed three years' actual service in the rank of Lieut.Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 3rd November, 1854, March 21.

The undermentioned Quartermasters, retired upon Half-pay, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant, Dec. 17, 1855:-James Nicoll, Half-pay Royal Artillery; Robt. Eager, Half-pay Royal Artillery; Alexander Steele, Half-pay Royal Artillery; James White, Half-pay Royal Artillery; Charles Dunbar, Half-pay Royal Artillery, April 1; John Mansfield, Halfpay 2nd Foot.

The undermentioned Cadet of the East India Company's Service to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign, during the period of his being placed under the command of Colonel Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining :-Wm. Merriman, Gent.

MEMORANDUM.-The following Corps, viz.:-The British German Legion, the British Swiss Legion, and the British Italian Legion, have ceased to exist, their services being no longer required.

THE MILITIA GAZETTE.
East Kent Regiment.-Wm. Tatham,

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 17.

3rd Dragoon Guards - Veterinary Surgeon R. J. G. Hurford, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Shaw, who exchanges.

7th Dragoon Guards-Cornet Richard Charles Echalaz, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Chilton, appointed to the 4th Dragoon Guards.

9th Light Dragoons-Veterinary Surgeon Austin Cooper Shaw, from the 3rd Dragoon Guards, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Hurford, who exchanges.

15th Light Dragoons-Regimental Sergeant-Major James Marn to be Cornet, without purchase, in succession to Lieut. Maude, deceased.

Military Train-Captain Henry Alexander, from Half-pay 10th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice John Wood, who resigns; Grahame Craig, Esq.,

late Chief Accountant Land Transport Corps, to be Paymaster, April 1.

Royal Artillery-Lieut. Ernest Augustus Montague Lloyd has been superseded, being absent without leave.

Scots Fusilier Guards-Ensign and Lieut. Henry George Bowden to be Instructor of Musketry, April 1.

25th Foot-Henry George Ramadge, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Layard, promoted. The first Christian name of Lieut. Layard, whose promotion was published in the Gazette of April 10, is Cnarles.

32nd-Ensign Joseph Brackenbury, to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Crowdy, deceased, Jan. 24; Ensign James Strachan, from 44th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brackenbury, Jan. 17.

55th-Captain George Anthony Morgan, from Half-pay of the 55th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bissett, who exchanges.

59th-Ensign Robert Cuming to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Tucker, who retires; Henry Seton Wakefield, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cuming.

60th-Ensign and Adjutant Matthew Tilford to have the rank of Lieut.; Ensign Frederick Simon A. Orchard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Charles James Phillipps, deceased, March 17.

71st-Lieut. Francis Bonham to be Captain, by purchase, vice F. C. Clerke, who retires.

72nd-Captain Oswald Barton Fielden, from Half-pay 72nd Foot, to be Captain, vice Robert Douglas, who exchanges.

73rd-Lieutenant J. J. Lloyd Williams to be Captain, by purchase, vice Knox, who retires; Ensign William John Lane Milligan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Williams; Thomas Monsell Warree, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Milligan.

77th-Assistant Surgeon George Clarence Hyde, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Burton, who exchanges.

78th-Lieutenant William McGregor Archer to be Captain, without purchase, vice Purvis, deceased; Ensign Hugh Simpson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Archer, Dec. 13, 1856; Ensign James Sinclair to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davidson, who retires.

88th-Captain Henry Hooper Day,