27 AUGUST 1853, Page 19

MILITARY GAZETTE.

WAR-Mane; Aug. 19.-7th Regt. of Light Drags.—W. S. C. Standish, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice De Veulle, whose retirement was announced in the Gazette of the 15th July. 29th Regt. of Foot—Lieut. J. M. Lyle to be Capt. with- out purchase, vice Brevet Major C. E. 3CDonnell, dec.: Ensign W. S. Dickinson to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Lyle. 37th Foot—Lieut. J. Jones to be Capt. without purchase, vice Fader, dec. 64th Foot—Ensign T. A. Mackinnon to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Molloy, dec. April 30; Ensign R. H. Willcocks to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Mackinnon, whose promotion, without purchase, on the 13th May, has been cancelled. 96th Foot—Ensign J. O'Neil S. Segrave to be Limit by purchase, vice F. J. Jones, who retires; G. I. Thomson, Gent. to be En- sign„by purchase, vice Segrave.

Cape Mounted Riflemen—J. C. Minto, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Somerset, promoted. St. Helena Regt.—J. J. P. Fox, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Corn- wall, promoted.

WAR-OPFICE, Aug. 26.-1st or Grenadier Regt. of Foot Guards—Hon. A. H. Crofton, Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be Ensign and Lieut. without purchase. 6th Regt. Foot—Lieut. C. P. Catty to be Capt. by purchase, vice Armytage, who retires; Ensign W. P. Prest to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Catty; 0. W. Every, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Prest. 26th Foot—Lieut. R. B. Ficklin, from half-pay of the Royal Canadian Regt. to be Lieut. vice Dickens, who exchanges. 43d Foot —Ensign W. S. Richardson, (rem the 51st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Mitford, who exchanges. 51st Foot—Ensign P. Mitford, from the 43d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Richardson, who exchanges. 85th Foot—Ensign J. Bayley to be Lieut. by pur- chase, vice Bond, who retires; G. P. Prevost, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bayley. St. Helena Regt. Hospital—Serg. J. II. Wright to be Quartermaster, vice Miller, who retires upon half-pay. '

Brevet—Major-General W. Stavely, C.B. 'commanding the troops in the Presi- dency of Madras, to have the local rank of Lieut.-Gen. while so employed ; Major- General J. Jackson, KAI. ; commanding the troops serving at the Cape of Good Hope, to have the local rank of Lieut.-General while so employed Lieut. 11. Birch, of the 27th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry, doing duty at the East India Company's DtpOt at Worley, vice Captain Lightfoot, resigned, to have the local rank of Lieut. while so employed. Memorandum—Assist.-Surg. V. A. Brown, of the 23d Foot, has been permitted to resign his Commission.