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Major-General Sir William John Codrington, K.C.B., having (with the local

rank of General) commanded in chief her Majesty's Army in the Crimea during a period of war, and entirely to her Majesty's satisfaction, her Majesty has been pleased to command that, as a mark of her Royal approba- tion, he be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Army, under the 10th clause of the Royal warrant of the 6th October 1854.—Landod Gazette.