Last night's Gazette notifies that the Queen has been pleased
to ordain a special statute of the Order of the Bath for authorizing the admission into the Military Divisions of the Second and Third Classes of that Order "such officers of the Commissariat and Medical Departments of the Army and Navy, and the East India Company's Armies and Navy, as by their meritorious services have already or may hereafter be deemed by her Ma- jesty.to have deserved such distinction.' Her Majesty has accordingly appomted to be ordinary members of the Military Division of the Second Clasa, or Knights Commanders of the said Order—
Sir John Bisset, Knight, Commissary-General; Sir James M•Grigor, 'Bart., Doctor of Medicine, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Army ; Sir William Burnett, Knight, Doctor of Medicine, Directorlienoral of the Me- dical Department of the Navy; and James Thomson, Esq., Inspector-General of Hospitals on the Bengal Establish- ment of the East India Company's Service.
The Queen has also appointed to be ordinary, members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Order, twenty-one gentlemen, chiefly members of the Medical Department and Commissariat.
We understand that the Exposition Commissioners, at their meeting on Thursday, decided that the last day for receiving demands for space in the building from local Conamittees in the United Kingdom and Channel Is- lands should be the 31st of October. Parties failing to give such notice as their nearest local committee may require cannot be assured that their claims for space will receive any consideration. Though the 31st of Oc- tober is fixed, it is obvious that it will materially forward the arrange- ments of the exhibition if immediate notice is given to the nearest local committee.—M-orniNg Chronicle.
The candidates announced for the vacant Recordership of London are Mr. Sergeant Merewether, Town Clerk ; Mr. Edward Bullock, Common Sergeant ; and Mr. Russell Gurney, Commissioner of the Small Debts Court. It is said, however' that the Court of Aldermen are likely to de- part from the hitherto unbroken custom of appointing =cording to se- niority, and that several other barristers of eminence are likely to be tan- didates.
The fee of twopence on the admission of the public to St. Paul's Cathe- dral is abolished. The cathedral was thrown open on Wednesday last, and crowded with orderly and gratified visitors.
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