§ "VICTORIA R.
§ "Her Majesty, taking into consideration the important services rendered by Hugh Lord Gough, a Lieutenant General in Her Majesty's Army, and Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's and the East India Company's Forces in India, in the course of the recent hostilities which have taken place on the Banks of the Sutlej, and in the Punjaub, and being desirous to confer some signal mark of Her favour, for these and other distinguished merits, upon the said Hugh Lord Gough, and the two next surviving heirs male of the body of the said Hugh Lord Gough, recommends to Her faithful Commons the adoption of such measures as may be necessary for the accomplishment of this purpose. "V. R."
§ Her Majesty's Messages to be taken into consideration on Monday.