Rev. Joseph Caskey to be hon. chap.; June 27. 19th Perthshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-S. P. Mitchell to be ens., vice Morrison, resigned; Aug 3. 13th Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Evan David Lloyd to be capt., vice Mainwaring, resigned; Aug. 4. Ens. Charles Wright to be lieut., vice Streatfield, resigned; Aug. 4. 1st Wigtownshire Artillery Volunteer Corps-James Dormon, gent., to be sec. lieut., vice Shaw, promoted; July 30. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 12. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. 9th Elginshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Johu Stewart to be capt.; Aug. 1. Gregor Cumming_to_be lieut.; Aug. 1. James Forbes Grant to be ens. ; Aug. 1. 9th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps -Ens. Frederick Boucher to be capt.. vice Crouch, resigned; Aug. 5. Henry James Leah to be capt., vice Rayner, resigned; Aug. 5. Henry Lyon to be ens., Boucher, promoted; Aug. 5. vice 16th Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Alfred Clark to be capt., vice Ayliff, whose services have been dispensed with; Aug. 9. Frederick Day Latham to be lieut.; Aug. 9. 1st Midlothian Artillery Volunteer Corps-John Wilsou Moir to be sec. lieut., vice Craig, resigned; Aug. 1. 2nd Wigtownshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. Samuel Taylor to be capt., vice Guthrie, resigned; Aug. 6. William Miller, gent., to be lieut., vice Watson, resigned; Aug. 6. THE ARMY GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 16. 1st Regiment of Life GuardsLieut. Walter Henry Octavius Duncombe to be capt., by purchase, vice Alfred Charles Duncombe, who retires; Aug. 17. Cor. and Sub Lieut. Sir Simon Macdonald Lockhart, Bart., to be lieut., by purchase, vice W. H. O. Duncombe; Aug. 17. Royal Horse Guards-Cornet Henry Aubrey Coventry, from the 10th Hussars, to be cor., by pur chase, vice Dudley Francis, Earl of Guilford, promoted; Aug. 17. 1st Dragoon Guards-Paul Dane O'Brien, gent., to be cor, by purchase, vice Le Patourel, promoted; Aug. 17. 4th Hussars - Captain Henry Thomas Butler to be major, by purchase, vice Frederick George, Lord Howard de Walden, who retires; Aug. 17. Lieut. Thomas Henry Porker to be capt., by purchase, vice Butler; Aug. 17. Cor. Charles Edward Pennefather to be lieut., by purchase, vice Porker; Aug. 17. Robert Chateauneuf Tuthill, gent., to be cor., by purchase, vice Pennefather; Aug. 17. 9th Lancers-Vet. Surg. Edwin Thomas Cheesman, from Royal Artillery, to be vet. surg., vice Vet. Surg. of the First Class William C. Lord, who retires on half pay; Aug. 17. 10th Hussars-Capt. the Hon. Caryl Craven Molyneux to be major, by purchase, vice John Fife, who retires; Aug. 17. Lieut. Thomas Astell St. Quintin to be capt., by purchase, vice the Hon. C. C. Molyneux; Aug. 17. Cor. Edward Hartopp to be lieut., by purchase, vice St. Quintin; Aug. 17. Royal Artillery-Capt. William James Bradford (late Madras) to be lieut. col., vice Brevet Col. J. H. Elwyn, retired upon full pay; July 4. Sec. Capt. Francis Henry Thompson (late Madras) to be capt., vice W. J. Bradford; July 4. Lieutenant William Richard Charles Brough (late Madras) to be sec. capt., vice F. H. Thompson; July 4. Lieut. D'Arcy Bowman East has been superseded, being absent without leave; Aug. 17. Grenadier Guards-Lieut. and Captain David Maitland Makgill Crichton to be adjt., vice Lieut. and Captain E. G. H. Viscount Hinchingbrook, promoted; Aug. 17. 7th Foot-Capt. Francis Hibbert, from half pay, late 24th Foot, to be capt., vice Alexander Nixon Montgomery, who retires on temporary half pay; Aug. 17. 13th Foot-Ens. Thomas Barry George to be lieut., vice Charles Edward Stanley Lee, who retires; Aug. 17. Gent. Cadet Francis James Justice, from the Royal Military College, to be ens., by purchase, vice T. B. George; Aug 17. 14th Foot-Lieut. Gerard Van Heythuysen to be instr. of musk., vice H. A. Williams, exchanged to 1st battalion; Aug. 1. 16th Foot-Lieut. George Mainwaring to be instr. of musk., vice Lieut. J. E. Orange, appointed adjutant; July 19. 22nd Foot-Capt. Edward John Butler, from 21st Foot, to be capt., vice Arthur Lloyd Monck, promoted half pay major; Aug. 17. 24th Foot-Lieut. Frederick Carrington to be instr. of musk., vice Lieut. F. Hibbert promoted; half pay capt.; Aug. 17. 63rd Foot - Captain William Grogan Graves to be major, with. out purchase, vice Brevet Lieut. Col. F. Miller, promoted half pay lieut. col. Aug. 17. 66th Foot-Staff Assist. Surg. James Aloysius Joseph O'Brien, M.D., to be assist. surg., rice James M Crevey, M.D., deceased; July 26. 67th Foot-Staff Assist. Surg. Frederick Heisch Dunbar, M.D., to be assist. surg., vice Austen Bruen, deceased; July 25. 86th Foot-Ens. Josiah Webbe Goldsworthy to be lieut., by purchase, vice William Henry Seed who retires; Aug. 17. 105th Foot-The appointment on probation to the Indian Staff Corps Lieuts. L. G. Hay and F. G. Maltby having been cancelled, the promotion of Ens. C. G. Mansel C. S. S. Whitehill on Feb. 23, and of Ens. W. D. Graham, on the 20th ultimo, are cancelled. Ens. Charles Grenville to be lieut., vice Power, who has retired; July 20. The appointment of Ens. E. G. Reilly to take place in succession to Ens. Beagin, promoted, insted of vice Whitehill, promoted. 108th Foot-Ens. Bowes Thorpe Montague Gompertz to be lieut., vice Vincent Lewis Matthias, a Probationer for the Indian Staff Corps; June 2. 109th Foot-Lieutenant Richard Tabuteau Mayne has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission; May 27. 1st West India RegimentLieut. Col. James Maxwell, from half pay, late 34th Foot, to be lieut. col., vice Brevet Col. Gustavus Nigel Kingscote A. Yonge, who retires on half pay; Aug. 17. Control Department-Sergeant Major James Lees from 14th Foot, to be assist. commissary; Aug. 1. Chaplain's Department-Chap. of the Fourth Class, the Rev. Edward Hillman B.A., to be chap. of the third class; July 11. Half Pay-Major, and Brevet Lieut Col. Frederick Miller, from 63rd Foot, to be lieut. col., without purchase; April 1. Captain William Parker Terry, from the 14th Foot, to be major, without purchase; April 1. Capt. Edward D'Heillimer Fairtlough, from the 14th Foot, to be major, without purchase; April 1. Captain William Tyler Stuart, from the 17th Foot, to be major, without purchase; April 1. Capt. Thomas Law Roberts, from the 99th Foot, to be major, without purchase; April 1. BREVET. Lieut. Col. and Brevet Col. John Harvey Elwyn, retired full pay, Royal (late Madras) Artillery, to have the honorary rank of major general; July 4. Lieut. Col. and Brevet Colonel James Pickard, of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, having been placed on the Retired List under the provisions of the Order in Council of the 22nd Feb., to have the hon. rank of major gen.; Aug. 1. Lieut. Col. and Brevet Colonel Robert Hughes, retired full pay, late 3rd West India Regiment, to have the hon. rank of maj. gen.; Aug. 12. Lieut. Col. Patrick Robertson Ross, half pay, late Depôt Battalion, having completed the qualifying service with the rank of Lieut. Col., to be col., under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 3rd Feb., 1866; June 2. Capt. Villars Butler 65th Foot, to be major; Aug. 17. Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals Edward Menzies, who retires upon half pay, to have the honorary rank of inspector gen. of hospitals; Aug. 17. Lieut. Col. William Campbell, 100th Foot, having completed the qualifying service with the rank of Lieut. Col., to be col., under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of Feb. 3, 1866; Aug. 4. Veterinary Department - Vet. Surg. of the First Class Alfred Job Owles, from the 6th Dragoons, to be staff vet. surg., vice J. W. Cloag, who has retired upon half pay; July 6. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 19. Control Department-F. C. Ben. nett, gent., to be assist. commissary in the African Branch; Aug. 1. Chaplain's Department-Chap. of the Third Class the Rev. E. L. Walsh, B.A., to be chap. of the second class; Aug. 5. THE MILITIA GAZETTE. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 16. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS Royal Carnarvon Rifle MilitiaLieut. David Glynne Griffith to be capt., vice Kneeshaw, resigned; Aug. 9. Hampshire Militia-J. T. Harris Yates, gent., to be lieut., vice Bigg Wilter, resigned; Aug. 11. 3rd King's Own Staffordshire Militia-William Robert Parker Jervis, gent., to be lieut.; July 26. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia-James M. Carr Lloyd, gent., to be lieut.; Aug. 8. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 19. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS -3rd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia-John James Harris, gent., to be lieut.; July 27. 3rd or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia Charles J. Stone, gent., to be lieut.; July 14. Frank Seago, gent., to be lieut.; July 16. West Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry -Cor. Edward Walter Greene to be lieut.; Aug. 5. Ulick John Burke, gent., to be cor.; Aug. 5. Robert Macnab, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., to be surg.; Aug. 5. THE VOLUNTEER GAZETTE. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS 3rd Fifeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Edward Wynne Jones, gent., to be lieut., vice Bidder, resigned; Aug. 5. 3rd Forfarshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieutenant John Jafferson Anderson to be capt., vice Paterson, resigned; Aug. 10. Ensign David Lumgair to be lieut., vice Anderson, promoted; Aug. 10. Alfred Walter Anderson, gent, to be ens, vice Lumgair, promoted; Aug. 10. James Reid, gent., to be ens., vice Finlayson, resigned; Aug. 10. 1st Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteers-William Black Fergusson to be major (retaining his commission as Capt. in the 2nd Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteer Corps); Aug. 3. 1st Administrative of Suffolk Rifle Volunteers-James Hamilton Lloyd Anstruther, Esq., late Lieut. Col., of the 1st Administrative Battalion of Suffolk Rifle Volunteers, to be hon. col.; Aug. 3. 23rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-James Douglas Walker, gent., to be lieut.; Aug. 4. 28th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieut. Octavius Thomas Hearne to be capt.; July 30. 24th Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. Thomas Bedsmore to be lieut., vice Chinn, resigned; Aug. 1. Rowland Crosskey, gent., to be ens., vice Bedsmore, promoted; Aug. 1. 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ens. George Thompson Powell to be lieut.; Aug. 10. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Aug. 19. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. 1st Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Horace T. Barnes, gent., to be ens., vice Brittan, resigned; Aug. 11. 1st Administraitve of Haddingtonshire Rifle Volunteers-Major Thomas Shairp to be lieut. col., vice Logan Home, deceased; Aug. 13. 29th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-Arthur John Kestin, gent., to be ens., vice Hopkinson, promoted; Aug. 5. 25th Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieutenant Ebenezer Chaffey to be capt.; Aug. 12. Ens. Reginald Dickinson to be lieut., vice Chaffey, promoted; Aug. 12. William Allen, gent., to be ens., vice Dickinson, promoted; Aug. 12. 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps-Lieut. Walter Edridge to be capt.; Aug. 10. THE NEW FIELD EXERCISE AND EVOLUTIONS. We have before us the revised edition of the "Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry," bearing date the 1st September, 1870, and preceded by the usual intimation of Her Majesty's commands that the most scrupulous adherence be given to all instructions promulgated therein. The work of revision appears to have been executed with much care and judgment, and we venture to say that the prescribed system of manœuvre contains in itself all the elements requisite for its adaptation to any order of tactical action, linear or perpendicular, which it may ultimately be deemed advisable to adopt, and this too without undue redundancy of details. This numerical disproportion between our miniature regiments divided into eight or ten weak companies, and the ponderous battalions of continental nations, of Prussia more particularly, is so great, that any mere collation of the details of the drill books would probably lead to erroneous conclusions, besides occupying more space than we can here allot to it. We must therefore content ourselves with indicating some of the most noticeable alterations and improvements in the little volume on our table as compared with former editions of the same work. To begin at the beginning, in the matter of Recruit or Squad drill, we note that the position of the British soldier at "attention" has been changed for-what shall we say? the nth time-and in this instance undoubtedly for the better. The unsightly angle of sixty degrees between the feet, adopted we presume in deference to the opinions of certain anatomists who aver that the extremities of the human frame are more truly perpendicular to the earth at that angle than at any other, has been reduced again to forty-five degrees. The arms, too, are at last to be allowed to hang naturally, close to the sides, fingers and thumb close together and extended downwards, so as neither to wedge the elbows into the sides above the hips with the palms "full to the front," nor to stick them out with a display of knuckles after the fashion prescribed by former regulations, which, ere now, have furnished Friend Punch with many interesting "studies from the life," in the persons of stiff-jointed tyros in disciplinary difficulties. The good old soldierly phrase "to face" has disappeared, and all changes of individual position, whether at the halt or on the march, are designated by the more sonorous tion of the angle turned being named first. face" has become "right about turn," and "right half face" and U. S. MAG. No. 503, Oct., 1870. turn," the proporThus "right about M |