16 DECEMBER 1848, Page 18

MILITARY GAZETTE.

Wait-optics, Dec. 15.-91h Light Drags.-Cornet H. A. Sarel to be Lieut. by pur- chase, vice Wedderbum, promoted ; W. W. Arbuthnot, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sarel. 10th Light Drags.-Cornet J. Drummond to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Parker, who retires ; F. B. H. Carew, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Drum- mond. lath Light Drags.- Cornet J. H. D'Arcy Hutton to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Colston, who retires ; W. O. Bird, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hutton. Scots Fusilier Guards-Capt. P. L. C. Paget, from the 54th Foot, to be Lieut. and Capt. vice Hay, who exchanges. 10th Heat. of Foot-Lieut. H. R. Norman to be Capt. without purchase, vice Hollingsworth, died of his wounds ; Ensign P. B. Lucas to be Lieut. vice Norman. 30th Foot-Lieut. A. Lowry to be Capt. by purchase, vice Wilkinson, who retires ; Ensign William Robert Hepburn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowry; George Francis Coventry Pocock, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hepburn. 49th Foot-Capt. H. G. Hart to be Major by purchase, vice Faber, promoted in the 2d West inclia Regt. • Lieut. H. S. M. D. Fulton to be Capt. by purchase, vice Hart ; Ensign W. W. Maitland to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Fultou ; Gent. Cadet G. H. Lamb, from the Royal SIll. Coll. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Maitland. 54th Foot -Lieut. and Capt. J. W. Hay, from the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Capt. vice Paget, who exchanges. 55th Foot-Lieut:Gen. J. M. Hamerton, C.B. to te Col. vice Lieut.- Gen. J. Wardlaw, deceased. 62d Foot-Lieut. J. M. M. Hewett to be Adjt. vice Lam- bert, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 63d Foot-Lieut. H. Lees to be Capt. without purchase, vice G. G. Shaw, who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign D. C. A. Delhoste to be Lieut. vice Lees. 95th Foot-Lieut. W. Minchin to be Capt. by purchase, vice Rouse, who retires ; Ensign J. H. Armstrong to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Minchin ; G. L. C. Smyth, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong.

2d West India Regt.-Major W. R. Faber, from the 49th Foot, to be Lient.-CoL by purchase, vice Allen, who retires.

Unattached-Lieut. J. K. Wedderburn, from the 9th LightDrags. to be Capt. by pur- chase ; Lieut. A. Menzies, from the Royal Newfoundland Companies, to be Capt. with- out purchase. Memorandum-The removal of Ensign J. C. Goodfellow, from the 10th Foot to the 22d Foot, as stated in the Gazette of 15th Aug. 1848, has been cancelled. Capt. T. Smales upon half-pay of the 1st West India Regt. has been permitted to retire from the Army, by the sale of an Unatt. Commission, as a Capt. of Infantry, he being about to settle at the Cape of Good Hope.