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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPT. 5.
WAR DEPARIXENT, Pall Mall, Sept. 5.-Caralry-5th Regt. of Dragoons-Lieut. J. S. Ferguson to be Capt. without purchase, vice Brevet-Major A. W. D. Burton, C.B. whose brevet rank has been converted into substantive rank, under the Royal warrant of 6th Oct 1854.
12th Light Dragoons-Cornet J. H. Cotton to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Han. ford, promoted.
Infantry-26th Foot-Capt. W. H. Hopson to be Major, by purchase, vice Bre- vet-Lieut.-Col. F. Whittingham, C.B. promoted, by purchase, to an Unatt. Lieut.- Colonelcy ; Lieut. H. C. Hardinge to be Capt. by purchase, vice Hopson ; Ensign G. Hogarth to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Hardinge ; P. C. Storey, Gent. to be En- sign, by purchase, vice Hogarth. 43d Foot-Ensign C. H. Hatchell to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Calvert, who re- tires; H. C. Talbot, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hatchell.
51st Foot-Capt. G. H. Hibbert-Ware, from the 97th Foot, to be Capt. vice Mar- ston, who exchanges; Lieut. C. Goddard to be Capt. by purchase, vice Young, who retires ; Ensign E. B. Burnaby to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Goddard ; H. S. Thompson, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burnaby. 54th Foot-Major R. Moffat to be Lieut.-Col. without purchase, vice Brevet-Col. W. Y. Moore, who retires upon full-pay ; Capt. J. C. H. Jones to be Major, without purchase, vice Moffat ; Capt. R. Bourne, from the 2d West India Regt. to be Capt. vice Lake, who exchanges; Lieut. J. S. Swann to be Capt. without purchase, vice Jones ; Ensign A. Herrick to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Swann. 58th Foot-Capt. R. C. Whitehead, from the 97th Foot, to be Capt. vice Herbert, who exchanges. 74th Foot-Lieut. F. R. Thackeray to be Capt. by purchase, vice Brevet-Major R. Bruce, promoted, by purchase, to an unattached Majority ; Ensign A. W. C. Ma- grath to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Cathcart, who retires Ensign C. H. Thomson to be Limit. by purchase, vice Thackeray ; Edwin T. Sainsbury, Gent. to be En- sign, by purchase, vice Magrath; S. Richards, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomson.
88th Foot-The Christian name of Quartermaster Evans is Matthew, and not Wil- liam, as previously stated. 97th Foot-Capt. H. F. Marston, from the 51st Foot, to be Capt. vice Hibbert- Ware, who exchanges ; Capt. C. St. John S. Herbert, from the 58th Foot, to be Capt. vice Whitehead, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment-Capt. P. G. B. Lake, from the 54th Foot, to be Capt. vice Bourne, who exchanges.
Cape Mounted Riflemen-Ensign J. T. Cartwright to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Thursby, promoted; Ensign C. J. Barnard to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Gill, who has retired.
Unattached-Brevet-Major IL Bruce, from the 74th Foot, to be Major, by pur- chase ; Brevet-Major A. W. D. Burton, C.B. 5th Drag. Guards, to have his brevet converted into substantive rank, under the: Royal warrant of Oct. 6, 1854 ; Brevet- Major R. B. Hawley, 89th Foot, to have his brevet rank converted into substantive rank, under the Royal warrant of the 6th October 1854.
Hospital Stuff-Assist.-Surg. W. Duinbreck, from the 1st Foot, to be Assist: Surg. to the Forces.
The appointment of Assist.-Surg. A. J. Mackay, Supernumerary in the 71st Foot, to be Assist.-Surg. to the Forces, as stated in the Gazette of 1st August 1856, has been cancelled.
The undermentioned Acting Assist.-Surgeons have ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their services-G. Redford, G. Wright, C. W. I. Moffatt, M.D., G. Palatiano, M.D., T. H. Somerville, N. G. du Vernet Parker, M.D., II. APNiece, and A. W. A. Delisle.
Brevet.-Brevet-Col. W. Y. Moore, retired full-pay 54th Foot, to be Major- Gen. the rank being honorary only.
Memorandum.-Major G. B. Tattersall, upon half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commis- sion, he being about to become a settler in Ceylon.
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