31 MAY 1851, Page 21

NAVAL GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY, May 23.-Corps of Royal Marines.-Lieut.-Col. R. Mercer to be Col. Sec. Commandant, vice H. Mitchell, dead ; Capt. and Brevet Major It. L. Horn- brook to be Lieut.-Col. vice Mercer, promoted • First Lieut. and Quartermaster C. Louis to be Capt. vice Hornbrook, promoted ; Sec. Limit. J. V. C. Reed to be First Lieut. vice Louis, promoted ; First Lieut. J. Pickard to be Quartermaster, vice Louis.