4 MARCH 1848, Page 11

Last night's Gazette notifies a Court mourning for the late

Dowager Dutchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; to begin on the 5th instant, to change on the 19th, and to terminate on the 26th.

The Queen has appointed Lord Cowley, now Secretary of Embassy to the Ot- toman Porte, to be her Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons; and the Honourable Charles Ashburnham, sometime Secretary of Legation in Mexico, to be Secretary of Embassy to the Porte. Major-Generals Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill and John Holt, Companions of the Bath, have been made Commanders of that Order.

Mr. Hawes is named as a candidate for Kinsale ; also Lord Robert Clinton, se- cond son of the Duke of Newcastle.