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MILITARY GAZETTE.

WAR-OFFICE, May 19.-3d Regt. Drag. Guards-Cornet A. Neave to be Lieut. by purchase vice Wright, who retires. Otis Drags.-J. B. Baltlle, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart, pram. 16th Light Drags.-Capt. W. T. Dickson to be Major, by purchase, vice Allen, who retires ; Lieut. .J. A. Sartoris to be Capt. by purchase, vice Dickson ; Cornet J. C. Hart to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Sartons. 17th Light Drags.-Staff-Surg. of the Sec. Class 11. II. Massy, M.D. to be Burg. vice Gibson, prom. on the Staff. Scots Fusilier Guards-H. Turner, Gent. to be Assist.-Surg. 8th Foot-Ensign W. R. Ximenes to be Lieut, without purchase, vice Bagenall, dec. 12th Foot-Major T. Brooke to be Lieut.-Col. by purchase, vice St. Maur, who retires ; Capt. .T. F. Kempt to be Major, by porch. TICC Brooke ; Lieut. T. G. Vereker to be Capt. by purch. vire liempt; Ensign M. C. Saunders to be Lieut. by:purch. vice Vereker ; C. M. Harward, Gent, to be Ensign, by pnrch. vice Saunders. 27th Foot-T. S. Teevan, Gent, to be Assist.-Surg. vice Irwin, promoted in the 80th Foot-36th Foot-S. M. Webb, M.D., to be Assist-Sorg. vice Dowding, promoted on the Staff. 78th Foot-Capt. J. Henderson, from half-pay Ceylon Rifle Regt. to be Capt. vice Brevet-Lieut.-Col. W. M. G. M'Murdo, who retires upon half-pay. 91st

Foot-Ensign H. Wood to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Gordon, promoted; J. E. Burton, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wood; Lieut. W. Squill to be Adjt. vice W. G. C. Gordon, who resigns the appointment. 97th Foot-A. Bryson, M.D. to be Assist.-Surg. 98th Foot-E. F. Temple, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Raper, promoted.

Hospital Staff-Sorg. J. B. Gibson, M.D. from the 17th Light Drags. to be Staff- Surg. of the First Class ; Assist.-Surg. W. M. Dowding, from the 36th Foot, to be staff-Surg. of the Second Class, vice Massy, appointed to the 17th Light Drags. Memorandum-The Local Commission of Brevet Major G. Balfour, of the Madras Artillery, East India Company's Service, has been antedated to the 27th March 1814. The Local Commission of Brevet Major W. M. Gabbett, of the Madras Artillery, East India Company's Service, has been antedated to the 1st May 1849.