10 DECEMBER 1853, Page 9

The Gazette of last night announces that the Queen has

taken steps to confer the rank of Knight Commander of the Bath upon General Godwin, General Steel, and Commodore Lambert ; the rank of Companion of the Bath upon Lieutenant-Colonel Holdich, Captain Tarleton, and Captain Shadwell, of the Royal Navy ; and, by "special statute," the rank of Companion upon Lieutenant-Colonel Tudor, Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser, and Captain Lynch, Indian Navy, in the service of the East India Com- pany.