... the examination and preparation for immediate service whenever required of gun-boats portion of the first-class steam reserve. Major-Gknekai. Oeoroe Morton Eden, who never saw a single day's actual service, has been promoted the colonelcy of the 50th Regiment ...

... India whenever their services may required. VISIT OF THE COMMANDKR-W-cniEP TO THE FRENCH CAMP Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with Lord Burgbersh and two aides-de-camp, crossed from Dover to Calais Tuesday night in the Royal mail packet Ondvie specially ...

... Naval and Military. Naval Appointments.—To be Commander.—Lieut. A. W. Gillett. Naval Cadets (nominated).—J. G. Fielding and E. H. Gamble. Lord de Grey, Secretary of State for War, accompanied by Colonel Jervoise, R.E., the Royal Defence Commission, has ...

... Naval and Military. J H n iT erii KHH'I'IA rut I circular hat tothe affect that the General has decided tbat the distribution into service and depot troops, when employed in the field abroad, shall be as follows, viz;.;-~Fo,ur service Troops—2o sergeants ...

... Naval and Military. THE DUKE ON CAMBRIDGE AT SHEFFIELD. On Wednesday his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Sheffield for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of a monument which is to be erected to the memory of the soldiers from Sheffield ...

... Capts. R. L. Warren and 11. B. Kellett have been granted the good service pensions, vice Capts. Nias and Drake, promoted. General G. Beatty, of the Royal Marines, to have the good service pension in the gift ofthe Board of Admiralty by the decease of ...

... .!■ .-J/, xoWol Marines FOB Service.—-Colonel Maxwell, command, ant the Royal Marine Light Infantry, at Woolwichreceived order on Saturday from the Royal Marineoffice to hold in readiness a detail of 3 division for service board Her Majesty's 30 gun screw ...

... Naval and Military. NAVAL MEDAI3 FOR THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. Tuesday night's Gazette states that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify her commands that a medal be granted to all persons of every rank and class who have been engaged in the ...

... Naval and Military. The Queen has been graciously please ! to command that Colonel James Hope Grant, K.C.8., of the 9th Lancers, be promoted the rank of Major-General in the army, in consequence of his eminent services in command of the cavalry division ...

... given to Commander H. Crease (1621), who has performed many gsllant services. Resr-Admirsl Talbot hoisted his flag the 9tb, on board the Nile, 90, at Queenstown. The whole of the Queen's British regiments now serving in India having been armed with the ...

... Corps) ; Royal Artillery/Captain Gronow Davis; Royal Art. «y, Sergeant Daniel Cambi iJge; Artillery, Gunner and Driver, T. Arthur: Royal Engineers, Lieutenant Gerald Graham, «V» Corporal Jehu Royal Engineers Corpoia., \Vilham J. Lendrim; ...

... and screw gunboats. The Queen and Capt. Coles.—The Queen has for* warded to Capt. Cowper P. Coles, R.N., through Captain his Serene Highness the Prince Leiningen, R.N., a beautifully executed statuette iu bronze of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort ...