The Queen and the Royal Family arrived at Buckingham Palace
this afternoon from Windsor.
The Gazette of last night notifies that the ports of Russia in the Baltic are under strict blockade.
It also announces, that the Queen has conferred the honour of Knight- hood upon Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Abbott, Lieutenant-Governor of the Military College at Addiscombe, and upon George Maclean, Esq., Commissary-General of her Majesty's Forces. The Queen has appointed Sir Charles Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales, and Sir John Davis, some time Governor of Hongkong, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath.
Sir H. E. Fox Young, now Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, is to be Governor of New Zealand. Sir William Denison, the Lieutenant- Governor of Van Diemen's Land, is to be appointed to New South Wales, vice Sir Charles Fitzroy.—.Daily News. [This last must be "an inven- tion of the enemy."] Owing to the great pressure of business at the War Office, the Brevet will not appear until Friday evening. It will be on a very extensive scale. The Lieutenant-Generals down to Sir William Gomm become Generals ; all the Major-Generals, from Major-General Beatty upwards, become Lieutenant-Generals. The Colonels, down to Colonel Hall of the First Life Guards, will be made Major-Generals ; the Lieutenant- -Colonels, from Lieutenant-Colonel Wyndham upwards, become Colonels ; the Majors, down to Major Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonels ; and the Cap- tains' whose commissions as such date before January 1, 1844, acquire the brevet rank of Major.— Globe.
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