to be maj.-gen., the rank being hon. only-24th Oct.

Lieut.-Col. and Brev.-Col. Wm. Radcliffe, retired full-pay, 75th Foot, to have the hon. rank of Maj.-Gen.

Maj. Alexander Abercrombie Nelson, half-pay, late of a Depot Battalion, Deputy Adjt.-Gen. in Jamaica, to be lieut.-col.

Paymaster, with the hon. rank of Capt., Robert Smyth, 69th Foot, to have the hon. rank of Maj.-10th Nov.

Paymaster Terence Rowan, 34th Foot-to have the hon. rank of Capt.-16th Sept.

The following promotions to take place in consequence of the decease of Gen. Edward Buckley Wynyard, C.B., Col. of the 68th Foot, on the 24th Nov.

Lieut.-Gen. Charles Geo. James Arbuthnot, Col. of the 91st Foot, to be gen. 25th Nov.

Maj. Gen. Charles Gascoigne, Col. of the 89th Foot, to be lieut.gen.-25th Nov.

Lieut.-Col. and Brevet-Col. Frederick Paul Haines, from halfpay late 8th Foot, serving with the rank of Brigadier-Gen., to be maj.-gen.-25th Nov.

Capt. and Brev.-Maj. Francis William Hastings, Royal Artillery, to be lieut. col.-25th Nov.

Capt. George Thompson, 85th Foot, to be maj.-25th Nov.

The following Lieut.-Cols. of the Royal Engineers having completed the qualifying service in their present rank, to be cols., under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 14th Oct., 1858, viz.: Robert Michael Laffan, Arthur Henry Freeling, Harry St. George Ord, and Hampden Clement Blamire Moody-28th Nov.

THE MILITIA GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 6. 1st Devonshire Regiment of Militia-Lieut. Henry Arundel Martyn Farrant to be capt., vice Fursdon, resigned.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 9.

1st Derbyshire Militia-Alfred

Oliwant Francis, gent., to be assist.-surg., vice German, promoted.

West Suffolk Regiment of Militia-Lieut. Edw. Walter Greene to be capt., vice Lord Manners, deceased.

THE VOLUNTEER GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 6.

Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteer Corps Roper Dacre Tyler, late Lieut. in Her Majesty's 11th Regt. of Foot, to be adjt.,

from the 18th Oct.

Memorandum Adjt. Roper Dacre Tyler, of the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteer Corps, to serve with the rank of Capt.

1st Staffordshire Artillery Volunteer Corps-Sec. Lieut. John Strick to be first lieut.

24th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. John Ashton to be lieut., vice McAndrew, resigned; Robert Ashton, gent., to be ens., vice J. Ashton, promoted.

1st Devonshire Light Horse Volunteer Corps-Lieut. Henry Carew Hunt to be capt., vice the Earl St. Maur, resigned; Jeffery Michelmore to be cor.

4th Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps-Charles Paget Blake, M.D., to be assist.-surg.

1st Devonshire Engineer Volunteer Corps-Charles Fowler to be sec. lieut., vice Withington, resigned.

4th Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle VolunteersWalter Soper Gervis to be surg.

3rd Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Abel George Clifton to be ens., vice Harris, resigned.

5th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieut. Arthur William Leigh to be capt.,_vice Collins, resigned; Joseph Foster to be lieut., vice Leigh, promoted; Isaac Frost to be ens., vice Leigh, promoted.

6th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Anthony John Newman to be assist.-surg., vice Gamble, resigned.

13th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-The Rev. Edward Bard to be hon. chap.

17th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Francis Edmund Stacey to be capt., vice Watson, resigned.

6th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. Henry Wilshin to be lieut.; Ens. George Edward Riddiford to be lieut.; Joseph McGregor Koppel, gent., to be lieut.; William Joseph Frederick Bannatyne to be ens.

1st Midlothian Artillery Volunteer Corps-Capt. Charles Stewart to be maj.; First Lieut. James Thomas Riddock to be capt., vice Stewart, promoted; Sec. Lieut. Alexander O. Spence to be first lieut., vice Riddock, promoted.

1st Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Edward Butt, gent., to be ens., vice Burgess, resigned.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 9.

13th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Garden William Duff, Esq., to be capt., vice Patrick Rose Innes, resigned.

7th Bedfordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Sir George Robert Osborn, bart., to be capt., vice Hogge, resigned.

1st Middlesex Engineer Volunteer Corps-Sec. Lieut. George James Kain to be first lieut., vice Sandham, promoted; Sec. Lieut. Josiah Webber to be first lieut., vice Phear, resigned; Michael George Luck to be sec. lieut., vice Webber, promoted.

London Scottish Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.B., to be hon.col.

1st Administrative Brigade of Norfolk Artillery Volunteers-Lieut.-Col. Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, Bart, M.P., to be lieut -col.; Maj. Hill Masernden Leathes to be maj.

1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteer Corps-George Moore Chamberlin, to be sec. lieut., vice Brown, promoted.

1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps-Robert Ferguson Cader.head, gent, to be sec. lieut., vice Rober Keddie, deceased.

2nd Administrative Battalion of Lanarkshire Rifle VolunteersJohn Campbell, esq., late Captain

7th Dragoon Guards, to be lieut.col., vice A. C. Ewing, resigned.

1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-James Henderson Ferguson, gent., to be ens., vice A. J. Watson, promoted.

3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Daniel Cameron Smith, gent., to be lieut., vice G. Lindsay, resigned.

5th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Thomas Short, gent., to be ens, vice S. Aitken, resigned.

25th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Thomas Richardson, gent., to be ens., vice T. Pollock, resigned.

Memorandum-3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps The Christian names of Lieut McCaul, gazetted 24th May, 1864, are James Sloan Mc Caul, and not John Sloan McCaul, as therein stated. 3rd Caithness-shire Rifle Volunteer Corps Charles Gardiner

Dunbar to be ens.

6th Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteer Corps-Sec. Lieut. Georgo Dirs Mertens to be first lieut., vice Talfourd, resigned; Hammerton Crump, Esq., to be sec. lieut., vice Mertens, promoted.

3rd Essex Artillery Volunteer Corps-Sec. Lieut. George Alfred Sedgwick to be capt.; Joseph Gilbert Blair Marshall to be first lieut

12th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps-George Courtauld to be

capt.

4th Administrative Battalion of Durham Rifle Volunteers - His Grace the Duke of Cleveland to be hon.-col., vice the Duke of Cleveland, deceased.

1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps-John Pilkington, gent., to be hon. quart.-mast.

8th Northumberland Rifle Volunteer Corps-James Smith to be ens., vice Jobling, resigned.

5th Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Capt. Josiah Joseph Webb to be maj., vice Ford, resigned.

THE ARMY GAZETTE. **Where not otherwise specified, the following Commissions bear the current date.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 16. Royal Regiment of ArtillerySec. Capt. John Henry Brown to be capt., vice Thomas Longworth Dames, who resigns-Nov. 26; Sec. Capt. Walter Aston Fox Strangways to be capt., vice Wm. Morris, deceased-Dec. 2; Lieut. Arthur Ford to be sec. capt., vice Brown-Nov. 26; Lieut. Francis Montague Smith to be sec. capt, vice Joseph Nathaniel Portlock Dadson, deceased Nov. 28; Lieut. Francis Arthur Mant to be sec. capt., vice Strangways-Dec. 2; Gent.-Cadet Edw. Blaksley, from the Royal Military Academy, to be lieut., vice Ford; Gent.Cadet John Ponsonby Cundill, from the Royal Military Academy, to be lieut., vice Smith; Gent.Cadet Alfred Foulger Fletcher, from the Royal Military Academy, to be lieut, vice Mant; Quart.mast.-Serg. Benjamin Trew to be quart.-mast., vice Black, retired upon half-pay-Dec. 16.

The date of the retirement upon full-pay of Major-Gen. Henry Pester, and the removal of Maj.Gen. Sir Richard James Dacres from the Supernumerary to the Effective List, is the 11th, and not the 10th of Sept., 1864, as stated in the Gazette of the 11th of Oct. last.

The second Christian name of Lieut. Russell is Broadfoot, and not Broadford, as stated in the Gazette of the 20th Sept. last.

mission held by Capt. Sir Robert Brisco, bart., in this Regt.

THE VOLUNTEER GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 13. 9th Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieut. John Frewen to be capt.

8th Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteer Corps-Thomas Murrow to be ens., vice Plumley, promoted.

3rd Manchester or 40th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer CorpsCapt. James Bayley to be maj., vice Brooks, resigned.

West Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-Stephen Harlowe Harlowe to be ens., vice Gibson, resigned; George Henley Barber, to be ens., vice Daniell, promoted; Thomas Dane to be assist.-surg.

29th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. George Butler to be lieut., vice Stoneham, resigned.

Memorandum-The 5th Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps having been struck out of the Records of the War Office will henceforth cease to hold any number of designation in the Volunteer Force of the County of Oxford.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dec. 16.

1st Huntingdonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieut. Dennis Herbert to be capt., vice Ansley, resigned.

5th Administrative Battalion of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-Edmund Joseph Tipping, Esq., to be maj.

16th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieut. Joseph St. John Yates to be capt., vice Tipping, resigned; Ens. James Blackwell to be lieut., vice Yates, promoted.

1st City of Edinburgh Artillery Volunteer Corps - First Lieut. Alexander Ritchie to be capt., vice Findlay, resigned; First Lieut. James Laing to be capt., vice Boyd, promoted; John Patrick Wright to be sec. lieut., vice McFarlane, promoted.

Memorandum-The date of Ens. Anstruther Macadam's Commission to a Lieut. in the 1st City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Corps,

should be 30th June, and not 30th July, as formerly Gazetted.

28th Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps -The Rev. Francis Cameron, M.A., to be hon. chap, vice the Rev. R. C. Smith, resigned.

Liverpool Rifle Volunteer Brigade or 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Arthur Hornby Lewis, gent., to be ens., vice Wilson, promoted; Assist.-Surg. John Stopford Taylor to be surg., vice Skinner, resigned.

1st Manchester or 6th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Wm. Wentworth Clapham, gent., to be ens., vice Nickson, resigned.