Lieutenant William Edward Wallace to be Adjutant, vice Roberts, promoted. Dated 1st April, 1853. 27th Foot, Ensign Joseph P. O'Loghlin, from the 95th Foot, to be Ensign, vice J. W. B. O'Loghlin, promoted. Dated 1st April, 1853. 30th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon William Johnstone Fyffe, M.B., from the Staff, to be AssistantSurgeon, vice John Macnamara, M.D., who retires upon half-pay. Dated 1st April, 1853. 46th Foot, Ensign Alfred Henry Waldy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eustace, who retires. Dated 1st April, 1853. 79th Foot, James Nicholas Bell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Scot, promoted in the 48th Foot. Dated 1st April, 1853. 98th Foot, Major Daniel Rainier to be LieutenantColonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., who retires upon halfpay, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, Unattached. Dated 1st April, 1853. Brevet Major Edmund Haythorne to be Major, by purchase, vice Rainier. Dated 1st April, 1853. Lieutenant Octavius Latouche to be Captain, by purchase, vice Haythorne. Dated 1st April, 1853. Ensign Norris Goddard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Latouche. Dated 1st April, 1853. Serjeant-Major John Gillespie to be Quartermaster, vice John Riordan, who retires upon half-pay. Dated 1st April, 1853. 2nd West India Regiment, Major Herbert Mends to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Jones, deceased. Dated 14th February, Captain Henry Wase Whitfield to be Major, without purchase, vice Mends. Dated 1st April, 1853. Captain Herbert Watkin Williams Wynn, from the 7th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Whitfield, whose promotion, by purchase, on the 15th February, 1853, has been cancelled. Dated 1st April, 1853. Lieutenant William Elliot Mockler, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Whitfield. Dated 1st April, 1853. Ensign Horatio James Wise to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mockler. Dated 1st April, 1853. Garrison-Serjeant-Major John Kavanagh to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wise. Dated 1st April, 1853. HOSPITAL STAFF. Robert Ferguson, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Lapsley, appointed to the 74th Foot. Dated 1st April, 1853. MEMORANDUM. Major-General Sir Henry Floyd, Bart., (Lieutenant-Colonel on half-pay, Unattached), has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission. Dated 1st April, 1853. The promotion of Lieutenant James Owen Bovill, of the 2nd West India Regiment, by purchase, on 15th February, 1853, in succession to Captain Whitfield, has been cancelled. Office of Ordnance, 1st April, 1853. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert William Gardiner, K.C.B., to be Colonel Commandant, vice Lieutenant-General James Webber Smith, C.B., deceased. Dated 22nd March, 1853. Corps of Royal Engineers. Brevet-Major Robert Kearsley Dawson to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 29th March, 1853. Brevet-Major Henry Tucker to be LieutenantColonel, vice Forbes, deceased. Dated 29th March, 1853. Second Captain Charles Duesbery Robertson to be Captain, vice Tucker. Dated 29th March, 1853. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 1st Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. Lieutenant Clarence Horatio Cary to be Captain. Dated 21st March, 1853. Lancashire Hussars. Adolphus Monbert, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hawarden Gillibrand Fazack erley, deceased. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia. Charles Henry Knox, Esq., a Captain, Unattached, in Her Majesty's Land Forces, to be Major. Dated 21st March, 1853. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Stafford. Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Cornet Joseph Challinor to be Lieutenant, vice Cruso, resigned. Dated 26th March, 1853. Sergison Hyde Smith, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Challinor, promoted. Dated 26th March, 1853. Essex Militia. Her Majesty has been pleased to direct that the East Essex Regiment of Militia shall be formed into a Rifle Corps. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of APRIL 5, AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 11th day of March 1853, The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the representations made (as set forth in this Gazette) by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches Assigning particular districts to the consecrated churches of Saint James, at Croydon Common, Saint Peter, at South End, and Christ Church, at Broad Green, all situate in the parish of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, and diocese of Canterbury, to be respectively named "The District Chapelry of Saint James, Croydon Common;" "The District Chapelry of Saint Peter, South End ;" and "The District Chapelry of Christ Church, Broad Green." Assigning a particular district to the consecrated chapel of Saint Stephen, situate in the parish of Tonbridge, in the county of Kent, and diocese of Canterbury, to be called "The District Chapelry of Saint Stephen Tonbridge." At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 1st day of April, 1853. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the report of the General Board of Health, dated the 10th day of March, 1853 (as set forth in this Gazette), and to order that the Public Health Act, 1848, and every part thereof, except the section numbered 50 in the copies printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force within the boundaries of the township of Heckmondwike in the parish of Birstal, in the county of York; that such township shall be and constitute a district for the purposes of the Public Health Act, and that a Local Board of Health should be elected therein, in conformity to the instructions and regulations contained in the said report. India Board, April 2, 1853. THE following Dispatches have been this day received at the East India House. The Governor-General of India in Council to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. (Extract.) Fort-William, February 19, 1853. WE have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of further papers relative to Burmah affairs. |