24 FEBRUARY 1844, Page 12

The Queen Dowager has been pleased to appoint the Marchioness

of Ormonde to be one of the Ladies of her Majesty's Bedchamber, in the place of the Countess of Mayo, deceased.—London Gazette, Feb. 23.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Grey Porter Atthill, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for the Island of St. Lucia. —Iden. [If we mistake not, Mr. Atthill is a gentleman of Colour.]

The Queen has granted permission to Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer to take in addition the maternal surname and arms of Lytton.

The Gazette announces the blockade of Alicant and Carthagena by the Spanish Government.