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The King has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, which has been vacant since the death of the Duke of Gordon, on Lord Aylmer. The Courier thinks that Sir Sidney Smith, or Sir David Alylne, should have been preferred ; and it is certainly difficult to discover what claim Lord Aylmer has, except that of having been an unpopular and inefficicnt Governor of Canada, and a Tory to boot.
General Thornton is the Knight Commander of the Bath, in the room of Lord Aylmer. The situation held by the late Sir Francis Freeling, of Secretary to the Post-office, has been conferred by the Treasury on Colonel Ma- berly. Sir Henry Freeling succeeds Colonel Maherly as one of the Commissioners of Customs, and one of the senior Clerks of the Post- office will be appointed to succeed Sir henry Frecling. These ap- pointments have been made by the Lords of the Treasury, and not by the Post-office authorities.—Courier.
The sinecure place in the Post-office, lately given by Tory journals to Mr. Duncombe, has long since been abolished. Mr. Stanhope, re- cently dead, who last held it, retired some years ago on a pension.
Sir H. F. Bouverie, K.C.B., is appointed to succeed Major- Ge neral Sir F. Ponsonby as Governor of Malta. In the present state of
fp that island, the office of Governor ought not to be a sinecure ; and we hope the new Governor will not be permitted, like the old one, to snake a sinecure of it. Some of our contemporaries stated incorrectly, a few days ago, that Major-General Sir William Blakcney, K. C. B., was to go to Malta. He retains his command in haunt], with the local rank of Lieutenant-General.—Morning Post.
The Commissioners for Registering Births, Marriages, and Deaths, were announced in Tuesday's Gazette : they are Dr. Phillimore, Mr. Tancred, M.11., Mr. Edgar Taylor, Dr. Thomas Rees, 1)r. Bowring, Dr. Nichol!, Mr. Robert Winter, Mr. Samuel Gale? Mr. John Parker, Mr. Samuel March Phillips, Mr. Thomas Henry Lister, and Dr. Shoveller.
Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, of the Royal Engineers, has been appointed an Assistant Tithe Commissioner.
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