NAVAL AND MILITARY. [From the Australian, Feb. 18.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 273, 11 March 1848, Page 3

NAVAL AND MILITARY. [From the Australian, Feb. 18.]

Woolwich, October 9. — Royal Artillery. — The master-general has appointed Lieutenant the Hon. W. (X Yelverton, of Captain J. Turner's Company, No. 2, 6th Battalion, serving in New Zealand, to H. Toop, Royal Horse Artillery, commanded by Captain E. F. Grant vice Henry Clark, ptomoted to 2nd Captain of Captain C. Y. Cockburns Company, No. 2, 9th Battalion, stationed at Guernsey, vice R. M. Mundy, retired on full pay. The 2 1st Foot, at present stationed in India, were expected to go home. Naval Promotion. — Lieutenant Arthur Davis (1802) to the rank of commander, on the retired list of 1830. The marble statue of the late Major-Gene-, ral Sir Robert Sale, G.C.8., the hero of Cabool, ha* been deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral.

The several companies of the West India regiments* at present stationed at Sierra Leone, are to be relieved at the close of the year, tonnage having been provided for that purpose. The Earl of Auckland has promoted the Hon. A. A. L. Cocbrane, third son of ViceAdmiral the Earl of Dondonald, K. C.8., who passed in seamanship on board the C ollingwood, 80, in the Pacific, in April, 1845, and at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, last week, to the rank of Lieutenant, dating his rank from the time of passing in the Colling wood. - The vacancies in the 10th, the 33rd, and 94th foot have been filled up. and the Guards, for once, in a majority of favour. The officers selected i>y the Commander-in-Chief are Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas M'Mahon, Major-General Sir William Warre, all of them ofixcers of distinction. Lieutenant-General Sir George Henry F. Berkely, X.C.8., commanding at the Cape of Good Hope, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's forces on the Madras establishment.