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om Half-pay of the 88th Foot, to be aptain, vice Brevet-Major Nathaniel teevens, whose Brevet rank has been onverted into substantive rank, under he Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 854.

89th-Lieutenant George Harmer ering to be Instructor of Musketry, pril 6.

92nd-Ensign Francis Roberts to be ieut., by purchase, vice Swift, prooted, by purchase, to an Unattached ompany; Alexander Robert Aberromby Boyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by urchase, vice Roberts.

98th-Lieut. Peter Edward Quin to e Adjutant, vice Read, who resigns the djutancy only.

Rifle Brigade - Assistant - Surgeon lexander Crawford Robertson, from he Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice rown, who resigns; Assistant-Sureon John Storey, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thompson, who

esigns.

2nd West India Regiment-Major John Lewes, from Half-pay Unatached, to be Major, vice Miller, who *xchanges.

ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE-BrevetColonel Charles Rochfort Scott, HalfDay Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant Governor, vice Brevet-Colonel Prosser, Unattached, who resigns that appoint

ment.

UNATTACHED-Captain and BrevetLieutenant-Colonel James John Graham, Half-pay Unattached, to have the substantive rank of Major; BrevetMajor Nathaniel Stephens, of the 88th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854.

HOSPITAL STAFF-Assistant Surgeon Robert Graves Burton, M.D, from the 77th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hyde, who exchanges.

BREVET-The undermentioned officers of the East India Company's Service, Retired on Full-pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows:

To be Colonels-Lient.-Col. James Benwell, Madras Infantry; Lieut.-Col. William Russell, Madras Infantry; Lieut.-Col, James Holland, Bombay Infantry.

To be Lieutenant-Colonel-Major Lowther Thomas Forrest, Bengal Infantry.

To be Majors-Capt. Claude Frederick Irby, Madras Infantry; Captain Kichard Boulton, Bengal Light Cavalry;

Capt. John Peter Mouat Biggs, Madras Infantry.

MILITIA GAZETTE.

Royal North Lincoln-Ensign Robt. Henry Owston to be Lieut., vice Mitchell, resigned.

1st or East Middlesex-Lieutenant George Crozie Cole to be Captain, vice Philips, resigned.

Fifeshire Artillery-Second Lieut. George James Williams to be First Lieutenant, vice Thomas Wm. Webb, resigned, April 4; Second Lieutenant Thomas Jarvis to be First Lieutenant, vice Thomas William Disney, resigned.

Royal Ayrshire Rifles-Lieut. Wm. Archibald Hamilton to be Captain, vice Ferrers, deceased.

2nd Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry-C. S. Grenfell, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Praed, resigned.

Royal Denbighshire-Captain J. J. Ffoulkes to be Major, vice Wynne, who retires with permission to retain his rank.

Cambridgeshire---Lieut. W. J. Harrison to be Capt., vice Cotton, resigned; Ensign E. M. Martin to be Lieut.

Galloway Rides-Dr. W. R. Potts to be Surgeon, vice Grant, resigned.

King's Own Light Infantry-Lonsdale Poundon, Esq., late a Captain in the Inverness-shire Highland Light Infantry Militia, to be Captain, vice Parry, promoted, April 4, 1857.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 24.

25th Foot-Ensign Frederick Stephen Terry to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice H. Priestly, promoted, April 3.

2nd West India Regiment-The exchange between Majors Lewes and Miller, which was published in the Gazette of the 17th inst., bears date April 17, 1857, and not April 17, 1855, as previously stated.

THE MILITIA GAZETTE.

King's Own Staffordshire - Lieut. Frederick Alfred Augustus Whyte has been permitted to resign his commission.

Royal Wilts-Ensign Alfred Wyndham to be Lieut., vice Paton, appointed Quartermaster; Ensign Thomas Pinkett to be Lieut., vice Robinson, promoted.

Royal South Glocester Light Infantry-Thomas Lyford Champion, Gent., to be Ensign.

Southern Nottinghamshire Yeomanry

Cavalry-Henry Charlton Stannia, Esq., to be Cornet, vice Lowe, prie ted; H. Beevor, Gent., to be Corn vice Clowes promoted.

BIRTHS.

March 3, at Belgaum, the wife of Nugent Kirkland, Esq., 29th Regiment, B.N.I., of a daughter.

March 27, at 14 Great Queen-street, St. James's-park, the wife of Major Robert Wilberforce Bird, of a son.At Chatham, the wife of Captain Menzies, R.E., of a daughter.

March 28, at 71 Park-street, Grosvenor-square, the wife of Colonel Newton, Coldstream Guards, of a son.

March 29, at 36 Stanhope-street, Park-place, Camden-town, the wife of John M. Jefferson, Esq., Paymaster, R.N., of a son.-At Bedford, the wife of John James Chapman, Captain of the Royal Artillery, on half-pay, of a son.At Yorktown, Surrey, the wife of Col. Wellesley (late Royal Fusiliers), of a son March 30, at Tavermore, Fermoy, the lady of Captain Hayes, of a son.

April 1, at 8 York-terrace, Regent'spark, the wife of Captain J. Gilbert Johnston, prematurely, of a son, stillborn.

April 2, at Cheltenham, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hall, B.L.C., of

a son

April 3, at Athlone, the wife of C tain R. H. Wood, 67th Regiment, of a daughter.

April 4, at Hume-street, Dublin, t wife of Lieut.-Colonel J. H. C. Rober son, of a son.

April 5, at Corley Vicarage, the v of Major Broadley Harrison, 10th H sars, of a son.

April 8, the wife of Commander (i M. Balfour, R.N., of a son.-At Fas George, the wife of Brevet-Mos Haines, 92nd Highlanders, of a dan,"

ter.

April 9, at Carmarthen, the wife. Capt. R. Scott, of a son.-At one bridge House, near Romsey, Hants, wife of Major Herbert Russell p ners, of a son.-At 3 Maryon ra Woolwich, the wife of Capt. John ' Wilson, Royal Engineers, of a SOG. April 10, at Dover, the wife of Noble, R.N., of a son.

April 13, at Appley Cottage, near Royal Military College, the wiLieutenant Gammell, 12th Rl. Lanc of a son.

MARRIAGES.

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March 26, at Churchill Chu county Kerry, Major Henry Wotte Campbell, late of the 79th Highs ders, to Henrietta B. B. Grabs. youngest daughter of the late Colo Graham, of Meiklewood, and D.L. Stirlingshire. - At Frankfort-on-th Maine, according to the rites of Church of Rome, and afterwards at the British Embassy, Otto Ferdina Baron de Guttenberg-Steinenhause to Katherine Clementina, only dang ter of the late Thomas Louis, Esq. the Bengal Civil Service, and grand daughter of Admiral Sir John Louis Bart.

March 27, at St. Clement Danes Henry Wilkes Masterson, Esq., late

M.'s 20th Foot, to Helen Esther int, youngest daughter of the late lliam Henry Hunt, Esq.--At St. in's Church, Ryde, Isle of Wight, . Launcelot Armstrong, 13th Light agoons, to Sarah Anne, only suring daughter of the late Mr. Cant Penrith.

April 2, at Christchurch, Marylebone, ptain James Anderson, R.N., to ura Eliza, youngest daughter of vid Henderson, Esq., R.N. At alcot Church, Bath, John Halkett › Couteur, Lieutenant Colonel Coldeam Guards, to Mary Catherine, only ughter of Alexander Low, Esq., late

Criggie, Kincardineshire.-At the anse of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Capt. homas Jenkins, Madras Army, son of e late Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B., .C.L., and F.R.S., to Caroline E. M., ly child of the late Capt. John Leslie, nd Highlanders.

April 4, at St. Peter's Church, Eatonquare, Edward Power, Esq., of Glouester, to Caroline Sarah, daughter of aptain Payne, late of the Grenadier uards. At Southsea, Francis Walton, deutenant Royal Marines (Light Inantry), youngest son of the late Major harles Walton, 4th Light Dragoons, o Maria Anne, only daughter of John 'arry, Esq., of St. Andrew's, South

.ea.

Feb. 26, at Clifton, James Nenon Brislington, the only son of the late Nenon Alexander Connor, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate of the island of Jamaica, formerly Capt. of H.M.'s 71st Regiment, to Eliza, daughter of J. A. Jones, Esq., Solicitor, of Westbury.

March 2, at Ceylon, Colonel Garvock, Assistant Quartermaster-General, only son of the late Major Garvock, Assist. Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards, to Blanche, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Clayton, Scots Fusilier Guards, of Stone Hall, Surrey.

April 4, at Dublin, Henry De Burgh Adams, Esq., Purveyor's Department, Army Medical Staff, son of Captain Adams, Paymaster, Dublin Recruiting

District, to Letitia, daughter of John Mason Pooley, Esq.

April 11, at St. Peter's Pimlico, Wm. John Barker, of H.M.'s Office of Works, Whitehall, to Louisa, second daughter of the late T. Dwelly, Esq., of the Coldstream Gds., and Vincent-square, Westminster.

April 14, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, George Philips, Esq., R.E., second son of Major-General Philips, R.M., to Clara Georgiana Eleanor, eldest daughter of John Easton Esq., and grand-daughter of the late C. Easton Esq., of Colcombe Hall, Glocestershire.

April 4, at Clifton, Captain William Du Vernet, H.M.'s 84th Regt., eldest surviving son of the late Major Fred. Du Vernet, Royal Staff Corps, and Deputy Quartermaster-General, Ceylon, to Alice Martha Anna, youngest daughter of the late Edward Tyndall, Esq., Lieut. R.N.

April 14, at Whichford, the Rev, G. S. Ward, M.A., Mathematical Lecturer in Magdalen Hall, Oxford, youngest son of the late Vice-Admiral William Ward, to Mary, youngest daughter of the Rev. R. B. Pinniger, Rector of Whichford.

April 15, at St. George's, Hanoversquare, W. T. Markham, Esq., of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, late of the Coldstream Guards, to Anne Emily Sophia, daughter of Francis Grant, Esq., of the Lodge, Melton Mowbray.-At Saint George's, Hanover-square, Walter Long, Esq., M.P., of Rood Ashton, Wilts, to Mary, Lady Bishopp, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Sir James Hillyar, K.C.B., K.C.H.

April 16, at Monkstown Church, county Dublin, by the Ven. the Archdeacon of Dublin, cousin of the bride, John William Madden, Esq.. Lieut. H.M. 70th Regiment, third son of the late Rev. Samuel Madden, of Kells Grange, county Kilkenny, to Emily, second daughter of the late J. Busby, Esq., of 14 Longford terrace, Monkstown and Enfield, county Roscommon.

DEATHS.

March 21, at Gibraltar, after a long and protracted illness, Amelia, wife of Lieut. Colonel Dawbeney, of 55th Regi

ment.

March 26, at her house, 52 Berkeleysquare, Caroline Mowbray, relict of Colonel Edward Boscawen Frederick, aged 72.

March 28, at St. Augustine-road, Camden New Town, the wife of Commander Dunsterville, R.N.

March 29, at Jersey, Emily, youngest and only surviving daughter of Lieut.Col. Malton.-At Woolwich Common, Charlotte Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Freese, Royal Artillery, C.B., aged three years and six months.

March 30, at Leytonstone, William Young, Esq., Paymaster in the Royal Navy, aged 66.

March 31, at Southampton, at the residence of her son-in-law, Colonel Robert Hunt, Sarah, relict of the late Captain George Henry Grimes, Royal Artillery, in her 78th year.

April 1, at 8 York-terrace, Regent'spark, Harriet Ann, wife of Captain J. Gilbert Johnston, late Madras Engineers, and elder daughter of the late Sir Wm. Henry Richardson, of Chessel, Hants. At Stepple-hall, Salop, Hon. Philip James Cocks, late Lieut.-Colonel Grenadier Guards, aged 82.-At Acre lane, Brixton, Surrey, Lieut.-Colonel McVicar.

April 2, at the Grange, Farnham, Surrey, Francis Eleanor, only child of John Edward Walford, Esq., of Chipping-hill, Essex, and wife of Lieut.-Col. Clark Kennedy, C.B., Assistant Quartermaster-General at Aldershott.

April 3, at Osmington, near Weymouth, Francis, wife of Edward Atkyns Wood, Esq., and eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Hervey Smith, of Apsley House, near Woburn, Beds, in the 45th year of her age.-At 120 Westbourneterrace north, Ensign Donald Young, 40th Regiment Madras Army, eldest son of Col. J. S. Young, Ness House, Inverness, aged 18.-At 25 Cavendishroad west, St. John's wood, LieutenantColonel Thomas Best Jervis, F.R.S., aged 61, H.E.I.C. Engineers.

April 5, at Edinburgh, Frances Sarah, the wife of Charles Edward Barrett Lennard, Lieut. 5th Dragoon Guards, aged 17 years and 10 months.

April 7, at 8 Euston place, Eustonsquare, in the 69th year of her age, Mary, relict of the late Major George Burton Phillipson, H.E.I.C.S.

Sept. 14, 1856, killed by accidentally falling down a quartz mine, at Muckleford, Victoria, George King Thornhill,

Esq., son of the late Colonel Thornhill, 13th Foot.

April 1, at Heavitree, Exeter, aged 28, Charles Philip Gostling, Esquire, eldest son of Colonel Gostling, R.A.

April 9, at Glannant, Crickhowel, in her 39th year, Margaret Ellen, widow of the late George Rowan Hutchinson, Captain Royal Engineers.

April 10, at Torquay, aged 20, Bingham Henry Low, youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot,commanding 8th Madras Cavalry.-At Albert-street, Regent's park, Commander Jas. Wood, Royal Navy, aged 74.-At Bath, Marianna, second daughter of the late Col. John Dick Burnaby, of Evington House, Leicestershire.-At 11 Hollesstreet, Cavendish-square, Elliott Grasette Thomas, Esq., Lieutenant Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, aged 26.

April 11, at 38 Upper Mount-street, Dublin, Margaret J. Webber Smith, wife of Col. Webber Smith, A.-A.-G. Dublin.

April 13, at Avot St. Lawrence, suddenly, Alice Beatria, youngest child of Col. and Lady Emily Cavendish.

April 6, at Londonderry, Ireland, Barbara, the wife of Henry R. Stewart, Esq., Lieut. R.N.

April 8, Lieutenant Francis H. East, H.M.'s 1st W. I. Regiment, youngest son of Hinton East, Esq., of Raymond, Hall, Jamaica.

April 10, at 32 Harley-street, Alexina Martyn, widow of the late Capt. Wm. H. Martyn, 11th Foot.

April 2, at Douglas, Isle of Man, of consumption, aged 36, Susannah, wife of Mr. Thomas Kent, late Bandmaster, 47th Regiment.

April 14, of apoplexy, at Castle Blunden, Co. Kilkenny, Robert Molyneux, Esq., V.S., formerly Assistant-Surgeon Hon. E.I.C. Service, universally and most deservedly regretted. For an account of this gentleman's preservation from death by drowning, May 6, 1851, at Kilkenny, by the late Lieut. John Du Cane, 60th Rifle Regt. see 'Naval and Military Gazette,' May 10, 1851. Lieutenant Du Cane, we regret to add, perished at sea in 1853, off the Cape of Good Hope, having embarked at East London for Cape Town, June 22, 1853, in a small vessel, Espiegle, which foundered the same day, and all on board perished.

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MILITARY EDUCATION.

THE Report of the Commissioners appointed to examine into Military Education as conducted both abroad and at home, contains an amount of information - which our readers will do well to weigh and consider with the utmost attention. Their inquiries have evidently been made with great care and ability, and the conclusions at which they have arrived are based on testimony furnished by the most competent military men they could find. After a careful perusal of the voluminous blue-book they have put forth, it seems to us that the chief benefit to be derived from the examination into foreign systems, consists rather in exhibiting the vast importance everywhere attached to professional education and the necessity of bestirring ourselves here at home, if we would not be left in a state of inferiority, than as indicating any course which it behoves us to follow; for we most fully concur with Lieutenant-General Shaw Kennedy, when he says, that the military and other establishments of a country ought to have reference to the constitution of the country in which they are formed, and to the genius and habits of the people.

The Commissioners observe, with reference to foreign education, "The national character which appears in the military education of every country, the system and management with which it is conducted, the prizes and appointments which encourage military students, the ages at which they begin their professional studies, the later opportunities after entering the service for completing them, and the value particularly attached to a high training for the scientific arms and the staff: such are obviously the first points respecting which an English officer may desire to know the practice of other countries. We should not, indeed, adequately convey our own impressions, which are founded on a careful study of the schools described in this Report, if we did not at once state our belief that in all the countries we have visited a far greater value is attached to the possession of a high scientific training, by at least a considerable portion of the officers of the army, than is the case among ourselves. Not only are the schools made of more importance, the teaching of every school higher, the discipline apparently more strict, the number of teachers generally greater, but the whole education is conducted on a more complete system, the sums expended for the purpose are far larger, and (what is, perhaps, most important of all) the advantages to be derived from an intelligent study of their profession are made more certain and more apparent to the pupils, or the officers themselves." When we think of the wealth of this country, the intelligence that pervades all classes, the vast possessions which our armies have been instrumental in acquiring, and now have to maintain for us, and the responsibility often resting upon officers, even of junior rank, when serving in the numerous dependencies of the empire, it seems wonderful that education should have been so greatly neglected. Positively, until the regulation was established, some U. S. MAG., No. 343, JUNE, 1857.

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