NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 96, 3 April 1847, Page 3

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Admiralty, October 81.— This day, in pursuance of Her Majesty's pleasure, tho following Captains of the Royal Navy were promoted to the rank of Retired Rear Admiral of Her Majesty's fleet, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette, of September Ist, 1846, viz.— James Wilkes Maurice, James Preyost, Spelman Swaine, Thomas White (A), James Lillicarp, Walter Grosset, Thomas Folliot Baugh, Samuel Martin Colquitt, Gustavus Stupart> Thomas Francis Charles Mainwaring, Right Honorable William Earl Waldegrave, John Hollinworth, Clement Sneyd, John Duff Mark land, C. 8., Abel Ferris, Robert Merrick Fowler, Donald Campbell, Sir Henry Hart, Knight, K. C. H., George Henderson, Thomas Tudor Tucker, C. 8., Henry Bourohier, Robert Worgan George Festing, C. 8., George Morris, John Tancock, James Pattison Stewart, C. 8., Christopher Bell, C. 8., James Stevenson, Honorable Edmund Sexton Pery Knox, Right Honorable David Earl of Leven and Melville, Colin Campbell (A), Joseph Symes, Honorable William Henry Percy, James Pringle, Samuel Leslie, Edward Ellieott, Peter Rye, James Gifford, George Le Geyt, C. 8., Henry Gage Morris, Edward Augustus Down, Thomas Whinjates, John VVilliam Andrew, C.8., Robert Mitford, Henderson Bain, Clement Milward, John Fordyce Maples, C. 8., Robert Bloye, C. 8., Thomas Edward Symonds, Lewis Hole, John M'Kerlie. Captains John Simpson, John Bowker, George Mourbray, and Alexander Barclay Branch, K. H., having accepted the situations oi Captains of Greenwich Hospital, are to be placed on the list of Captains on retired pay. And this day also, in pursuance of Her Majesty's pleasure, tho following Captains of the Royal Navy, having accepted the retirement of their rank on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September, 1846, have been placed on the retired half-pay list at the increased rates therein specified:— • Frederick Jennings Thomas, Henry Thomas Davis, Honorable Henry Dilkes Byng, George Gustavus Lennock, Sir William George Parker, Baronet, Robert Gambier, Charles Frederick Payne, Colin Macdonald, C. 8., Abraham Lowe, Charles Bertram, George Hills, Henry Fanshawe, Isaac Hawkins Morrison, George Barne Trollope, C. 8., Sir Thomas Mansell, Knight, K. C. H., Thomas Groube, Hercules Robinson, William Black, John Harper, C. 8., Weston Phipps, Thomas Dick, Bertie Cornelius Cater, Frederick Edward Vernon Harcourt, Right Honorable Kenelm Lord Somerville, Henry Jenkinaon, Edward Saurin, John Hardy Godby, Christopher Strachey, Arden Adderly, James Bpxer, Richard O'Connor, K. C. H., Thomas Ball Sulivan, C. 8., David Scott, Richard Creyke, Ni* cholas .Lechmere Pateshall, Rowland Money, C. B, } John Sheridan, Sir Henry Lorraine Baker, Bart, C.8., George William Hughes d'Aeth, C. 8., Robert Ramsay, C. 8., John Charles Gawan Roberts, Sir Samuel Roberta, Knight, C. 8., Archibald Tisdall, Joseph Colston Garland, William Stanhope Lovell, K. H., John Moberly, Joseph Digby, Charles Ward, K. H., William Ffarington, Frederick William Burgoyne, James Rattery, John Allen, Arthur Philip Hamilton, Daniel Lawrence, Robert Henley Rogers, George Bentham, James Arthur Murray, Thomas Renwick, Henry Higman, George Hewson, John Macpherson Ferguson, John Gourly, Augustus Baldwin, Henry Colins Deacon, Edward Barnard, James Wallis, William Bateman Dashwood, Martin White, John Cookesby, Charles George Rodney Philtott, William Wolrige, George Brine, Honorable John Gordon, William Popham, James Hay, Sir Charles Thomas Jones, Knight, Robert Riddell Carre, Hugh Patten, Honorable Charles Orlando Bridgeman, Sir Henry Shiffner, Bart., Henry Forbes, Alexander Montgamerie, John William Montagu, Honorable George Pryoe Campbell, Wilson Brad.

ilyl Bigland, K. H., John Gore (A), Jolm Cook Carpenter, K. H., Itobeifc Uockings, John Ged^e, Sir Charles Burrard, Bart., Thomas Ladd Peake, Christopher Crackenlhorp Askew, William Hcndry, Charles Nelson. The abovenamed officers on the half-pay o one pound per diem. Charles Hope Reid, Henry Theodosins Browne Collier, John Biv.loi), William llamsdcn, John Donaldson Boswall, Hemy Stanhope, John Townsend Coffin, Frederick Hunn, Edwaid Curzon, C. 8., Septimus Arabin, Thomas Ball Clowes, James Couch, William Henry Smyth, Richard Snumnrcz, .lames Montagu, Thomas Prickctt, Alexander Uumlas Young Arbuthnot, Isham Fleming Chapman, John ShckcJ, John Stoddart, George Ourry Leinpnerc, Tliomas Warrand, John Gore (B), Charles Bowen, John George Graham, John George Aplin, William Rochfort, John Packenham Francis Read, Frederick Augustus Wetherall, Henry Litchfield, William Webb. The above named officers on the half-pay of eighteen shillings per diem.

Tun Blind Traveler. — The celebrated blind traveller, Lieutenant Holman, returnee! to this country on Thursday sc'nnight, after an absence of upwards of six years, during which time he visited Poitugal and Spain, Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean, penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the Desert to Jerusalem, and finally made an extensive tour through the least frequented parts of the south-east of Europe, including Hungary, Transylvania, Servia, Bosnia, &c. As on all former occasions, this extraordinary man travelled perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and spirits.— Liverpool Mercury.