WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 18. 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards... Gentlemen Cadet Richmond Griffin Nicholas, from the Royal Military College, to be cornet, without purchase, vice Robert George Smith, deceased. 6th Dragoon Guards ... Lieutenant Augustus Alfred de Bourbel to be captain, by purchase, vice Robert Scott Hunter, who retires; Cornet John Fryer to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice de Bourbel. Ist Dragoons...Lieutenant Carteret Houstoun Kempson, from the 7th: Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Harvey, who exchanges; Charles Falkiner Morton, gent., to be cornet, by purchase, vice William Wemyss Frewen Hay, who retires. 7th Hussars... Gentleman Cadet William Langan Forsyth, from the Royal Military College, to be cornet, by purchase, vice Metcalfe, promoted. 18th Hussars... Charles John Fletcher, gent., to be cornet, by purchase, vice Whiteside, promoted. ... Royal Artillery Surgeon Thomas Guy, M.D., having completed a period of 20 years' full pay service, to be surgeonmajor under the Royal Warrant of the 1st October, 1858...28th February. Military Train...Staff-Surgeon O'Con nor D'Arcey, M.D., to be surgeon, vice Surgeon William Braybrooke, removed to the Staff. 7th Regiment of Foot...Lieutenant George Lake Harvey, from the 1st Dragoons, to be lieutenant, vice Kempson, who exchanges 15th Foot...Lieutenant Henry Jardine Hallowes to be captain, by purchase, vice Sylvester Calvert, who retires; Ensign Reginald Cartwright, to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hallowes; Ensign Edward Joseph Jekyll, from the 73rd Foot, to be ensign, vice Cartwright Lieutenant Joseph McMurray to be adjutant, vice Lieutenant Hallowes, promoted. 19th Foot...Gentleman Cadet Edward Spencer Mott, from the Royal Military College, to be ensign, without purchase, vice George Albert Macdonnell, removed to 18th Foot. 20th Foot...Ensign John Lacey Morley, from 78th Foot, to be ensign, vice Stourton, who exchanges. 21st Foot...Ensign Edward Walker to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Popham Mainwaring, who retires; Claude Durham Patterson, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Walker. 23rd Foot...Ensign Charles Morgan to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wriothesley Augustus Fitz Roy, who retires; George Bentinck Luxford, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Morgan. 24th Foot... The second Christian name of Ensign Pritchard is Stainforth, and not Staniforth, as previously stated. 29th Foot... Lieutenant Joseph Bourke, from the 1st West India Regiment to be lieutenant, vice Alfred Fawcett, who exchanges. 32nd Foot ... The second Christian name of Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Giddings, is Langran. 34th Foot... Ensign Gerald Brenan to he lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Hamilton Webb, who retires; William Francis Trotter, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Brenan. 41st Foot...Ensign P. A. Bracken to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Isaac King, who retires; Cornet Thomas Henry Duncombe, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be ensign, vice John T. Johnston, appointed to the Commissariat Department; Gentlemen Cadet Edward Richardson, from the Royal Military College, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Bracken. 52nd Foot... Captain Hugh Pearce Pearson, from the 84th Foot, to be captain, vice Fraser, who exchanges. 68th Foot... Lieutenant Benjamin Oliver Johnson, from half-pay late 11th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Edmund Peel Ethelston, placed on half-pay. 73rd Foot... Gentleman Cadet Richard John Airey, from the Royal Military College, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Jekyll, removed to the 15th Foot. 77th Foot... Gentleman Cadet William Forbes Gatacre, from the Royal Military College, to be ensign, without purchase, vice Henry Reginald Bate, promoted, without purchase, in the 13th Foot. 78th Foot... Ensign Arthur Joseph Stourton, frfm the 20th Foot to be ensign, vice Morley, who exchanges. 84th Foot...Captain George Cruden Fraser, from the 52nd Foot, to be captain, vice Pearson, who exchanges. 93rd Foot...Lieutenant William Gordon Alexander to be captain, by purchase, vice Charles Hugh Levinge, who retires; Ensign Henry Thomas Butter to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander; William Copeland, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Butter. 94th Foot...Lieutenant-Colonel James Dodington Carmichael, C.B., from halfpay 19th Foot, to be lieutenant-colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles James Conway Mills, who retires upon half-pay. 98th Foot...Ensign Richard Townley to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice David J. Copeland Jones, who retires; Allan Græme Raper, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Townley. 1st West India Regiment...Lieutenant Alfred Fawcett, from the 29th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Joseph Bourke, who exchanges. DEPOT BATTALION. Captain George Joy, 59th foot, to be instructor of musketry, vice Captain Madden, 4th foot, who has rejoined his depot at Chatham. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Surgeon William Braybrooke, from the Military Train, to be staff-surgeon, vice Henry Higgins Jones, M.D., placed upon half-pay. Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter to be staff surgeon, vice D'Arcey appointed to the Military Train. Staff Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Chas. Baxter, M.B., from half-pay, to be staff assistant-surgeon, vice Porter, promoted PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT. To be Deputy Purveyors to the Forces...Purveyor's Clerk Joseph Muskett; Purveyor's Clerk William Richd. Taylor. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. Captain and Brevet-Major Alfred Picton Bowlby, 64th foot, to be captain of a company of Gentlemen-Cadets, vice William Thomas Exham Fosbery, who retires upon half-pay. China, while in command of the troops in that country. The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General Jeremiah Taylor, Colonel of the 59th foot, on the 1st of February, 1862 :– Major General Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, K.G., Lieutenant-Col. upon half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of Lieutenant General-2nd Feb. Major-General John Julius William Angerstein to be Lieutenant-General2nd February. Brevet-Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, from Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay 63rd foot, Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to be Major-General-2nd February. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bingham, 60th foot, to be colonel-2nd February. Major John Thomas Dalyell, 21st foot, to be lieutenant-colonel-2nd February. Captain William John Dorehill. half-pay, late 43rd foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be major-2nd February. The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent on the death of Major-General Sir Harte Franks, K.C.B., on the 5th February, 1862: Thomas Brevet-Colonel George William Key, from Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay, 44th foot, serving as a Brigadier-General on the Staff of the Army in Ireland, to be Major-General – 6th February. Brevet - Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hamilton, C.B., Major 78th foot, to be colonel-6th February. Major George Neeld Boldero, 21st foot, to be lieutenant-colonel-6th February. Captain William Francis Stehelin, 67th foot, to be major-6th February. WAR OFFICE, FEB. 21. Royal Military Academy (Woolwich). The Queen has becn graciously pleased to approve of the officers composing the Staff attached to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, being granted Commissions, and of the following appointments being made in accord ance therewith: To be Governor...General His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.. &c., Commanding-in-Chief. To be Lieutenant-Governor-Commandant...Major-General Henry Sandham, Royal Engineers. To be Inspector of Studies, SecondCommandant... Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Frederick Augustus Yorke, Royal Engineers. To be Assistant-Inspector of Studies Captain and Brevet-Major Charles John Gibb, Royal Engineers. To be Captains of Companies of Gentlemen Cadets...Captain and Brevet Major Henry Terrick Fitz-Hugh, Royal Artillery; Captain and Brevet-Major John Everett Thring, Royal Artillery; Second Captain Charles Hunter, Bengal Artillery. To be Chaplain...The Rev. A. C. Fraser. To be Paymaster and Adjutant... Paymaster (with the henorary rank of Major) Charles South, from the Coast Brigade, Royal Artillery. To be Quartermaster... George Alexander Shepherd, Royal Artillery. To be Surgeon...James Somerville Litle, Surgeon-Major, Royal Artillery. Commissions to be dated February, 1862. 11th WAR OFFICE, Feb. 21. Royal Regiment of Artillery...Paymaster Rowland Webster, from the 72nd foot, to be paymaster in the coast brigade, vice South, appointed paymaster to the loyal Military Academy, Woolwich. The second christian name of Lieutenant Lockyer, gazetted to a lieutenancy on the 7th ultimo, is Stoughton, and not Houghton, as then stated. Dr. Guy's promotion to the rank of surgeon-major bears date 28th January, 1862, not 28th February, as then stated in the Gazette of 18th ult. ... Royal Engineers... Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Sir Henry James on the supernumerary list, to be supernumerary colonel 9th February; Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Robinson, on the supernumerary list, to be supernumerary colonel... 9th February; Lieutenant Colonel Brevet Colonel Thomas Rawlings Mould to be colonel, vice John Chator, deceased...9th February. and The second christian name of Lieutenant (with temporary rank) Knowles, gazetted on 7th ultimo, is Yalden, and not Yaldon, as then stated. Royal Artillery, having completed five years' service in the rank of lieutenant colonel, to be colonels in the army, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 14th October, 1858Lieutenant Colonel James Benjamin Dennis...1st January. Lieutenant Colonel John Travers... 24th January. THE MILITIA GAZETTE. Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders... Archibald George Keen, Esq., late lieutenant 62nd foot, to be adjutant, from 1st February, 1862; vice Dawes, resigned. Memoranda Adjutant Achibald George Keen to serve with the rank of captain. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Captain Edward Alleyne Dawes, as adjutant in the above corps. The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 22nd May, 1860: 2nd or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia...Quartermaster William Hardement, late 17th Regiment, to have the rank of lieutenant. WAR OFFICE, Feb. 18. West Suffolk Regiment of Militia... Lieutenant Alfred Robert Jennins to be captain on promotion. THE VOLUNTEER GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, Feb. 18. 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Artillery corps...Samuel Robson, gent., to be adjutant from 1st January, 1862. South West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle corps...Harry B. Chichester, late lieutenant 22nd foot, to be adjutant from the 24th of December, 1861. 1st West Riding of Yorkshire Artillery corps. First Lieutenant John Pepper to be captain; Second Lieutenant Rhodes Dawson to be first lieutenant; Second Lieutenant John Dunning Kay to be first lieutenant. 4th West Riding of Yorkshire Artillery corps... Robert Waterhouse, gent., to be second lieutenant. 4th West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle corps...Ensign Jolin Edwin Sowerby to be captain; Joseph Henry Slater, gent., to be lieutenant; Donald Ramsay Edgar, gent., to be ensign. 16th West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle 70th Norfolk Rifle corps...Lieutenant John Archer Holmes to be captain; Ensign William Leedes Fox to be lieutenant. 19th Essex Rifles... Clayton Glyn to be lieutenant. 26th Kent Rifle corps...Lieutenant John Henry to be captain, vice Forest, resigned; Ensign Edwin Rudd to be lieutenant, vice Henry, promoted. 12th Lancashire Artillery corps . Philip Kewley, gent., to be second lieutenant. 51st Lancashire Rifle corps... John Price, gent., to be ensign. 87th Lancaihire Rifle corps...Norman Knowles, esq., to be captain; Charles Sutcliffe, gent., to be lieutenant: Septimus Firth Knowles, gent., to be ensign. Memorandum...Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by Captain Percy William Hewgill in the 13th Lancashire Artillery corps, and Captain George Hector Croad in the 65th Lancashire Rifle corps. [The following is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 11th February instant.] 19th Lancashire Rifle corps...Ensign Walter Boult to be lieutenant; Ensign George Henry Brown to be lieutenant; James Milligan the younger, gent., to be ensign; George Sprott, gent to be ensign. Memorandum...3rd Forfarshire Artillery corps...Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of Cap Memorandum Elginshire Rifles... Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the appointment of the Reverend Francis Wylie as honorary chaplain to the 1st Administrative battalion of Elginshire Rifles. of WAR OFFICE, Feb. 21. Battalion 1st Administrative Argyleshire Rifles...George Campbell late captain 71st Regiment, to be adju. tant from 6th February. 7h Monmouth Rifle corps...Francis William Lewis, gent., to be ensign. 2nd Norfolk Rifle corps... Robert Arthur Watling to be ensign, vice Preston, resigned. 14th Shropshire Rifle corps...Lieutenant Daniel Jones to be captain, vice Corbett, resigned. 4th Lancashire Artillery corps William Marriott, gent., to be first lieutenant. 1st Lancashire Rifle corps...Edwin Cannington, gent., to be ensign. 33rd Lancashire Rifle corps...Ensign Walter Beaumont to be lieutenant. 3rd Manchester or 40th Lancashire Rifle corps..John William Maclure, esq., to be captain. 70th Lancashire Rifle corps... William Gould, gent., to be honorary assistant-surgeon. Robin Hood Rifle corps...William Wright, gent., to be ensign, vice Hunt, promoted. Memorandum...the 19th Rifle corps has been united to the 3rd Administrative Battalion of Essex Rifles. Memorandum 6th Somersetshire Rifle corps...Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resig nation of the commission held in this corps by Lieutenant S. E. Baker. Memorandum... 22nd Somersetshire Rifles...Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of Captain William Benjamin Huish of the commission held by him in this corps. Memorandum...13th Aberdeenshire Rifle corps...Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Ensign James Grieve. OUR NEW BENGAL NATIVE ARMY. THE organization and regulations of the Indian Army have so long been regarded as one of those tabooed subjects which no man unconnected directly with the late Company's service could possibly master, that the recognized organs of the profession rarely contain any allusion to them. While every department of the British Army undergoes rigid scrutiny from time to time, and constantly reaps the benefit of experienced criticism in suggestions for improvement, our immense Indian Army has been left wholly in the hands of its own officials, for the undeveloped powers of the Indian Press render its opinions on military matters, no matter how well founded, of no practical weight whatever. It is universally allowed that Her Majesty's Opposition in Parliament contributes in no small degree to the admirable practical working of our theoretically defective Constitution. So we believe that the censorship of our unrivalled Press, and the free discussion of all suggested military improvements in these pages afford the most valuable aid both to the War Office and Horse Guards in carrying out and perfecting their plans for the benefit of the service. It is high time that these influences should be brought to bear on the organization and future management of the Indian Army. When we review the long series of blunders which eventuated in the disastrous mutiny of 1857, we cannot but be convinced that it never would have taken place had the local military authorities been amenable to the Press and Public Opinion of England, and had the latter been sufficiently enlightened on the doings in Calcutta to back Sir Charles Napier in his prescient warnings of the coming deluge. Now that India is about to be brought into telegraphic union with London, the English Press will no doubt pay more attention to the details of its government, and foremost in importance among them, from the very nature of our rule, must rank the regulations which govern our immense Native Army. It is much to be desired, therefore, that full details of everything connected with it should be furnished from time to time by the officers of its various branches, who alone are qualified to do them justice, and that they should resort to the organs of their profession in England for the ventilation of their wants and sug gestion of improvements. India is now at the crisis of its fate, and we do not hesitate to predict a glorious future about to open on it. Its real mines of wealth are at length being discovered, and their working will develop a richness far exceeding that which astonished Clive. The sale of lands in fee simple, at five shillings an acre, with the simultaneous establishment of trunk railways must lead to a vast U. S. MAG. No. 401, APRIL, 1862. H H |