8 MARCH 1851, Page 20

MILITARY GAZETTE.

AnminALvv, Feb. 26.-Corps of Royal Marines-Col. Sec. Commandant A. H. Gordon to be Col. Commandant, vice Fergusson, retired on full-pay; Lieut.-Col- II. Mitchell to be Col. Sec. Commandant, vice Gordon, promoted ; Capt. and Brevet Major C. leg-en to be Lieut.-Col. vice Mitchell, promoted ; First Lieut. A. J. B. Hambly to be Capt. vice Fegen, promoted ; Sec. Lieut. G. Le Hurdy Burlton to be First Lieut. vice Hambly, promoted. March 3.- Corps of Royal Marines-First Lieut. W. R. Searle to be Capt. vice Brittain to half-pay; Sec. Lieut. E. D. Thelwall to be First Lieut. vice Searle, prom.

WAR-OFFICE, March 7.-2d Drag. Guards-Lieut. H. H. Howell, from the 15th Light Drags. to be Lieut. vice Ilibbert, appointed to the 1st Foot. 15th Light Drags: -Lieut. H. H. Barber, from the 1st Foot, lobe Lieut. vice Howell, appointed to the 2d Drag. Guards. 1st or Grenadier Guards-Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. H. H. XL Percy to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col. by purchase, vice J. Dixon, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut. J. Evelyn to be Lieut. and Capt. by purchase, vice Percy. 1st Foot- Lieut. L. Hibbert, from the 2d Drag.. Guards, to be Lieut. vice Barber, appointed to the 15th Light Drags. 5th Foot-Capt. W. R. L. Bennett, from half-pay 'Unatt. to be Capt. vice F. Ashpitel, who exchanges; Lieut. F. W. L'Estrange, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Bennett, who retires. 7th Foot-Lieut. the Hon. W. Monck to be Capt. by pur. vice Wilson, who retires; Ensign R. W. Thomas, from the St. Helena Regt. to be Lieut. by pur. vice Monck; Lieut. T. B. Speedy to be Adjt. vice Monck, prom. 18th Foot-Ensign 0. A. Elliott to be Lieut. by pur. vice Ferrer, who retires. 34th Foot-Lieut. H. G. Best to be Capt. by purchase, vice Sir G.:Douglas, Bart. who retires ; Ensign A. T. L. Chapman to be Lieut. and Adjt. by purchase, vice Best, pro-. meted. 48th Foot -Lieut. S. J. Maclurcan to be Capt. by purchase,vice Adam, who retires ; Ensign F. J. Castle lobe Lieut. by purchase, vice Maclurcan. 57th Foot- Lieut. R. A. Logan to be Capt. by purchase, vice Ashton, who retires; Ensign G. J. Forsyth to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Logan. 74th Foot-Lieut. J. Jago to be CapL by purchase, vice W. C. Bruce, who retires; Ensign P. Philpot to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Jago. 81st Foot-Major H. Farrant to be Lieut.-Col. by purchase,. vice Miller, who retires ; Capt. the Hon. R. A. G. Dalzell to be Major, by purchase, vice Farrant ; Lieut. F. Lepper to be Capt. by purchase, vice Mizell ; Ensign W. E. Todd to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Lepper. 91st Foot-Lieut. W. R. Annesley, from the 97th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Cole, promoted to an Unatt. Company.

1st West India Regt.-Lieut. E. Bagenall, from half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regt. to be Lieut. vice Ross, promoted to an Unatt. Company. Cape Mounted Riflemen.-Ensign G. L. Studdart to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Lavers, who retires. Unattached.-Lieut. the Hon. E. S. Plunkett, from the 95th Foot, to be Capt. without purchase ; Lieut. A. Rutherford, from 76th Foot, to be Capt. without pur.

Brevet.-Lieut.-Col. F. Abbott, C.B. late of Bengal Engineers' (Lieut.-Governor of the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe,) to have the local and temporary rank of Lieut.-Col. in the Army while so employed. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, March 5.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Sec. Capt. J. F. Cater to be Capt. vice Low, retired on full-pay ; First Lieut. J. F. L. Baddeley to be Se- cond Capt. vice Cator; Sec. Lieut. H. DI. G. Purvis, lobe First Lieut. vice Baddeley. ADMIRALTY, March 4.-Corps of Royal Marines-Gent. Cadet J. B. Colwell to be Second Lieutenant.