The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-26 00:00:00

ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD FOR INDIA.

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INDIA-OFFICE, Joys 25.

The Queen, being desirous of affording to the
princes, chiefs, and people of the Indian empire a public
and signal testimony of her regard, by the institution of an
order of knighthood, whereby her resolution to take upon
herself the government of the territories in India may be
commemorated, and by which her Majesty may be enabled
to reward conspicuous merit and loyalty, has been graciously
pleased, by letters patent under the Great Seel of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to institute,
erect, constitute, and create an order of knighthood, to be
known by, and have for ever hereafter, the name:style, and
daignstion of "The Most Exalted Order of the Star of
India."

And to ordain, direct, and appoint that the said order
shall consist of the Sovereign, a grand master, and twenty.
Eve knights, together with such erica and honorary knights
as her Majesty, her heirs, and successors shall from time to
time appoint.
And to ordain, direct, and appoint that her Majesty, her
heirs, and successors, kings and queens regnant of the said
United Kingdom, shall be sovereigns of the said most
exalted order.

And that the Viceroy and Governor-Geneml of India for
the time being shall be grand master of the said order, and
that he shall, in virtue thereof, be the first and principal
knight of the order.

And that the said most exalted Order shall be governed by
statutes and ordinances, to be from time to time made and
ordained by her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, sove-
reigns of the said Order.

And to ordain and direct that it shall be competent for
the Sovereign of the said Order to confer the dignity of a
knight of the Order upon such native princes and chiefs of
India as shall have entitled themselves to her Majesty's
favour, and upon such of her Majesty's British subjects as
have, by important and loyal services rendered by them to
the Indian Empire, merited her Majesty's favour.
The Queen has been further pleased to ordain, consti-
tute, and appoint the Right Hon. Charles John, Earl Can-
ning, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of
the Beth, and her Majesiy's Viceroy and Governor-Geasral

Of India, to be the gut Grand Muter of the said Most
Exalted Order of the Her of ladle ; and to nominate and
appoint his Mightier Nuwab Tayinat Ali
Klan, Nimm of Hydrabed ; General the Viscount Gough,
K.P., G.C.8., some time Oommander-in-Chief of
her Majesty's forms is the East Indies ; his High-
ness Jyajose Rao Sindhia, Maharaja of Owalior ;
the Lord Harris, some time Governor of the Presidency of
Madras ; his Highness Maharaja Duleep Singh ; General
the Lord Clyde, G.C.8., lately Commander-in-Chief of her
Majesty's forces in the East Indies; his Highness Runbeer
Singh. Maharaja of Cashmere ; Sir George Russell
Clerk, K.C.8., Governor of the Presidency of Bombay;
his Highness Tookoojee Rao Holkar, Maharaja of
Indere ; hie Highness Maharaja Khunde Rao, Guiesmir
of Barad& ; the Right Hon. Sir John laird Mali
Lawrence, Bart., G.C.8., lately Lieutenant-Governor of the
Punjab ; his Highness Nurendur Singh, Maharaja of
Plaids ; Lieutenant-General Sir James Outrun, Bart.,
0.C.8., lately member of the council of the Governor.
General of India ; her Highness Nuwab Sekundar Begum-
of Bhopal ; General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.8.. Com,
wanderin-Chiet of her Majesty's Forces in the East Indies ;
sad his Highness Yoosuf Ali Khan, Nuwab of Hampers—
to be Knights of the said Most Exalted Order of the Star
of India.

The Queen, io order to mark the high seam and esteem
in which her Majesty holds the said Ordir, and to give an
additional proof of her affectionate regard for his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort and hie Royal Highness Albert
Edward, Prises of Wales, has bees pleased to nominate
sad appoint their royal highnesses to be Extra Knights of
the said most exalted Order of the Star of laths.

Mr. Alderman Salmons, to-morrow, will ask the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he proposes
making inquiry into the circumstances attending the com-
mencement of the recent tire in Toolepstreet, with a view
of escertaining whether there was • sufficient supply of
water in the mains of the company supplying the attic!.
A Dublin letter of yesterday says :—" A vast
quantity of rain has fallen here since Friday last. The
weather is at the mine time intensely wens, and if the rein
does not continue too long we shall have an abundant har-
vest."