12 MARCH 1842, Page 20

MILITARY GAZETTE.

WAIEOFFICE, March 11.-4th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Lient. G. H. Eliot to be Capt. by purchae, vice Place, who retires; Cornet F. R. Forster to be Lieut. by pur- chase, vice Eliot; N. Blake, Gent. tw be Cornet, by purchase, vice Forster. 1st Regt. of Foot-A, W. Gordon, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lloyd. who re- tires. 14th Foot-W. C. Trevor, Gent, to be Ensign without purchase. vice Bruce, appointed to the Rifle Brigade. 16th Foot-E. Flood. Gent, to be Ensign, by pur- chase, vice Semple, who retires. 334 Foot-Ensign J. E. Collings to be Lieut. with- out purchase, %tee Plunkett, dec. ; R. Lacy, Gent, to be Ensign, aithottt purchase, vice Collings. 40th Foot- Capt. J. Stopford to be Major, by purchase, vice Bus- cawen, who retires; Lieut. .1. Martin Bladeu Neill to be Capt. by purchase, vice Stopford; Ensign .1. A. Macgowin to be Lieut. by purchase. vice Neill; F. Nelson, Gent, to he Eusign, by purchase, vice Maegowan ; Lieut. T. L. K. Nelson to be Adjt. vice Neill. promoted. 60th Foot-Lieut. F. R. Palmer to be Capt. by pur- chase, vice Bagot, promoted; Second Lieut. A. Mosley to be First Lieut, bypurchase, vice Palmer ; H. L. Bri.yeres, Gent. to be Second Lieut. by purchase, vice Mosley. 67th Foot-R H. Wood, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tuthill. who re- tires. 77th Foot-R. Edwards, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Warringtut, wbo retires.

Rifle Brigade-Ensign IL S. B. Bruce, from the 14th Foot, lobe Second Lieut, with- out purchase, vice Ellington, promoted. 24 West India Regt. -Cornet W. H. Williamson, from half.pay 8th Drags, lobe Ensign, vice Hill, promoted; C. C. Rookes, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Williamson, who retires.

St. Helena Regt.-Ensign D. D. Wemyss, from 78th Foot, to be Lieut. without pur- chase; Lieut. W. F. Macbean to be Adjt. Unattached-Brevet-Major E. Begot, from the 6011, Foot, to be Major, by purchase. Hospital Staff-Assist.-Surg J. W. Moffatt. from 14th Light Drags. to be Staff- Surg. of the Second Class. To be Assist-Surgeons to the Forces-T. Guy, M.D. ; R. M'Wharrie, M.D. ; W. A. Tongue, Gent. Brevet-Major F. Farrant, Capt. 3d Regt. of Bombay Light Cavalry, to have the local rank of Lieut. -Col. on a particular service in Persia.

Memorandum-Major J. W. H. Welch, half-pay unattached, has been allowed to retire from the Army, with the sale of his commission, he being about to become a eettler in Van Diemen's Land.

Orrice or Otterrancs. March 8. -Corps of Royal Engineers-Second Capt. and Brevet-Lieut.-Col. G. C. Du Plat to be Capt. ; Second Capt. T. Bugdea to be Capt. vice Walpole. dec.; First Lieut. E. T. Lloyd to be Second Copt vice Bugden.