20 JUNE 1840, Page 10

Last night's Gazette announces that " the Queen has been

pleased to appoint Brevet Major Sir Alexander Burnes, Knight, of the East India Company's Twenty-first Native infantry, to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath."

The appointment of Mr. Robert Langslow to be n Judge of the Dis- trict Court of Colombo, in Ceylon, is also announced.