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MILITARY GAZETTE.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 20.-4th Light Drags.—C. Montgomery, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Edged, promoted in the 7th Foot. 6th Drags.—Corset W. Doyle, from 15th Light Drags. (Riding Master), to be Cornet, vice Powell, promoted. 15th Light Drags.—E. R. Keene, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Doyle, appuiuted to the 6th Drags. 16th Light Drags.—Lieut. E. J. Pratt. to be Capt. without purchase, vice Manse], dec.; Cornet D. Maycock to be Lieut. vice Pratt ; Sergt.-Major R. Hod,lson to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Maycoek. 4th Foot—Eusign H. Fliz•Gerald to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Morgan, dec.; Gent. Cadet C. W. Aylmer, from the Royal Mil. Coll. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fitzgerald. 7th Foot—Cornet G. R. Edgell, from the 4th Light Drags. to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Grogan, who retires. llth Foot—Capt. J. Forbes, from half-pay Unattached, to be Capt. vice I. Goold, who exchanges ; Capt. R. Webster, from half-pay Cuattached, to be Capt. vice J. Forbes, who exchanges. 17th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. P. 51 Pherson to be Major. without purchase, vice Deshon, dec.; Lieut. F. A. Wetherall to be Capt. vice hi'Pher- af; Ensign W. H. H. Ellison to be Lieut. vice Wetherell; Eusiga R. Dudgeon to be Lieut. without purchase,vice Ellisou, whose promotion on the 24 Aug. 1844, has been can- celled; Gent. Cadet E. J. Gardiner, from the Royal MU. Coll. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dudgeon. 26th Foot—Capt. F. Stupart, from half-pay 2d Drags. to be Capt. vice Cain, promoted ; Lieut. H. Edgar to be Capt. without purchase, vice Sham, dec. ' • Lieut. A. W. Johnstone to be Capt. by purchase, vice Stupart, who retires ; En- sign C. J. S. Wallace to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Johnstone ; the Hon. A. E. 0, Sinclair to be Ensign. by purchase, vice Wallace ; Gent. Cadet C. E. Blackett, from the Royal ma. Coll, to be Easigu, without purchase. 29 h Foot—Ensign H. T. Metge to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Hope. dec. ; Gent. Cadet J. S. Richards, from the Royal Mil. Coll. to be Ensign, vice Metge. 50th Foot—Ensign C. E. Young to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Bernard, dec. ; Eusigu W. P. Elgee to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Joyce, dec.; Gent. Cadet C. H. Slessor, from the Royal Mil. Coll, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Young ; C. A. P. James, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Elgee. 60th Foot—Major the Hon. G. A. Spencer to be Lieut.-Col. by purchase, vice Cockburn, who retires ; Capt. E. C. Giffard to be Major by purchase. vice Spencer ; Lieutenant the Hon. A. Hope to be Capt. by purchase, vice Gtffard I Second Lieutenant W. F. L. Meason to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hoge; H. E. Galton, Gentleman, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Messes. 63rd Foot—Ensign R. Taylor to be Lieut, without purchase, vice Considine, dee. ; Gent. Cadet T. W. J. Lloyd, from the Royal MU. Coll. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Taylor. 67th Foot —F. Pratt, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase. 70th Foot—. Gent. Cadet J. M. Buchanan, from the Royal Mil. Coll. to be Ensign. vice liumfrey. dee. 87th Foot—Second Lieut. H. F. Williams to be First Lieut. by purchase, vice the Hon. R. W. D. Shirley, who retires; E. W. J. Fulcher, Gent, to be Second Lieut. by purchase, vice Williams.

Brevet.—Capt. F. Stupart, of the 26th Foot, to be Major in the Army.

Hospital Staff.—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, J. Monis, M.D. to be Dep. Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals, with local rank in China, vice Barclay. Memoranden.—The Christian names of the Hon. Lieut. Chetwynd, of the 73rd t, are William John Granville, and not Glauville, as previously stated.