4 DECEMBER 1847, Page 19

'MILITARY GAZETTE.

Weal-orrter., Dec. 3.-3d Drag. Guards-Lieut. E. B. Purefoy to be Capt. by pur- chase, vice Watt, whn retires ; Ccrnet A.D. Monteath to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Pnrefoy; W. Kstatebtall, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Monteath. 7th Light Drags.-C. C. Fraser, Gent. tole Cornet, by purchase, vice Bosville, who retires. 21st Foot-Lieut.-Col. J. T. Hill, from the 32il Foot, to be Lieut.-Col., -vice .Pattotm, who exchanges ; Lieut. B. Thornhill, from the24th Foot, to be Lient.-vice Woodington, who exchanges. 24th Foot-Lieut. H. P. T. Woodington, from- the 21st Foot, to be Lieut. vice Thornhill, who exchanges. 32c1TootLient.-Col. B.T. R. Pattoun, from the 21st Foot, to be Lieut.-Col. vice Hill, who exchanges ; Gentleman Cadet Richard Lyons 0. Pearson, from the Royal MIL Coll. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Sullivan, dec. Mill Foot-Lieut. W. M'Donald, from the 93d Foot, to be Capt. without purchase, vice Staveley, who retires. 38th Foot-Ensign S. Hackett to be. Lieut. by purchase, vice A. Hackett: who retires ; H. P. Vance, Gent. to be Ensign, by r urehase, vice Hackett. 53d Foot-Brevet Lieut -Col. C. F. Lardy, from half-pay Unattached, to he Major, vice J.L. Black, who exchanges ; Capt. W. It. ManSfield to be Major, by purchase, vice Lardy, who retires; Lieut. J. Chester, to be Capt. by purchase, vice -Mansfield ; Ensign W. R. Fuller to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Chester ; G. Wedderhurn, Gent., to be En- sign, by purchase, vice Fuller. 70th Foot-Ensign J. Atkinson to be Lieut. by purchase, rice Greenwell, who retiree ; E. R. C. Sheldon, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Atkinson. 92d.Foot-C.M. Robinson, Gent. to be Assist-Sure. vice Downes, appointed to the Staff.

1st West India Regt.-Quartermaster A. Smith to be Paymaster, vice Matthews, ap- pointed to the 57th Foot.

Ceylon Rifle Regt.-Sergt.-Major R. Bunn to be Quartermaster.

Hospital Staff-Assist-Burg. H. Downes, 3I.D. from the 92d Foot, to be Assist-Surg. to the Forces, vice O'Connor, promoted.

Unattached-Lieut. E. Barclay, from the 96th Foot, to be Capt. without purchase.

ifemoranduni-Dep.-Assist. Commissary-General R. W. Ross, for neglect of duty, sad for having failed to render proper accounts of the sums received and expended by him on behalf of the public, during his late charge of the Commissariat on the Gold Coast, has been removed from the service.

OFFICE or ORDNANCE, Dec. 2.-Royal Rent. of ABM-Second Lieut. T. P. Warlow to be First Lieut. vice W. King, placed on half-pay.

AbsukaLsir, Dec. 2.-The under-mentioned promotion has this day taken place, con- Sequent upon the death of Rear-Admiral W. H. Shirreff-Capt. W. Fisher to be Rear- Admiral of the Blue.