11 DECEMBER 1847, Page 9

The Queen has given orders for the appointment of the

Marquis of Normanby to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. It is understood that Captain Alexander Milne, son of Admiral Sir David Milne, s to succeed Admiral Prescott at the Board of Admiralty.

We have the best authority for stating that the story to which the Guardian and some other newspapers have given currency, " that thirteen Bishops, (London, Ely, Salisbury, Exeter, Oxford, included,) have signed a remonstrance to Lord John Russell against the appointment of Dr. Hampden, and that the Archbishop also has strongly remonstrated," is altogether fabulous.—Oxford Herald.