21 OCTOBER 1848, Page 9

The Queen has ordained a special statute of the Order

of the Bath, for appointing Lieutenant Herbert Benjamin Edwardes of the East India Company's service, to be an extra member of the third class of Military Knights Companions.

Last night's Gazette announces that the Marquis Ridolfi had an audi- ence of the Queen on Wednesday, to present his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on a special mission from the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

"Lord Morpeth," now Earl of Carlisle, has issued a valedictory address to his late constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire, written in a cha- racteristically cordial spirit: it "devotes to them the last signature of a name (Morpeth) that derived its chief illustration from its connexion with them."