20 MARCH 1841, Page 9

Araistellanrous.

The changeable weather has carried the popular ailments, colds and influenza, into high circles. The Queen Dowager has suffered during the last few days from a slight cold ; and the Duke of Sussex is reco- vering from one which seems to have been rather severe.

The Marchioness of Winchester is dangerously ill.

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., intends present- ing the members of the reading-rooms about to be formed at Tamworth with a valuable collection of works, both moral and scientific.—Courier. [That's right : stick to your text, Sir Robert.]

Tuesday night's Dublin Gazette announces that writs have issued. from the Hanaper Office, for electing a temporal Peer of Ireland, in the room of the Earl of Rosse.

We understand that Colville George Dore, Esq., of the county of Middlesex, has taken out a brieve from Chancery for serving himself heir to David fourth Lord Colville of Ochiltree, who died in 1782; since which time this ancient titie has been in abeyance. Mr. Dore is the great grand-nephew gf the last lord ; and we are informed there is, no doubt of his being able to establish his right to assume the title.— Scott:lona.

The value of the plate, paintings, furniture, and other property saved from the fire at Wynyard Park, is said to be 50,0001. The total loss is estimated at 70,000/. : and there now seems to be no doubt of the dis- tressing fact that the property was wholly uninsured.—Noweasde Journal.

Rear-Amiral Sir William Parker, K.C.B., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, is to have the command on the East India station, vice Rear- Admiral Elliot, who is invalided, and who will take his seat as one of the Lords, in the room of Sir William Parker. The Cornwallis, 72, at Plymouth, is to be prepared without delay, with Captain Peter Richards as flag-Captain.—Brighton Gazelle, March IS. [It was too much to expect that an Elliot could abandon the service of his Queen, even when invalided, and driven from the rougher labours of his profession by heart-palpitations.]

The Marquis of Normanby has appointed Major James Glencairn Burns, the youngest son of the poet, a Sub-Inspector of Factories. Mr. James Gardiner, a barrister, has been appointed to the office of Auditor of the Dutchy of Cornwall, in the room of Sir George Har- rison, deceased. The emoluments have been reduced from 1,200/. to 4001. a year.

Yesterday's Morning Post announced the despatch of a messenger from Paris with special instructions to the Baron de Bourqueney, the French Charge d'Affaires in London-

" It is said that M. de Bourqueney has been charged to announce verbally to Lord Palmerston the peremptory refusal of the French Cabinet to sign the last London protocol, until the Porte has granted to Mehemet All the hereditary government of Egypt in the direct line. It is, however, added, that Baron de Bourqueney is charged to express to the British Ministry, that France expects from the wisdom of the Four Powers, to see all obstacles quickly removed, in order that she may abandon her isolation."

The Paris papers of Wednesday mention rather an unexpected cir- cumstance. On Tuesday, the Chamber of Deputies met in their Com- mittee-rooms, to discuss two resolutions proposed by M. Mauguin and M. Pages, (de l'Arriege,) declaring that the holding of office and sitting in the Chamber were incompatible. From this rule Ministers, Under Secretaries of State, and Councillors of State, are expressly exempted. The resolutions were opposed by Government, but supported by all the Opposition members of every shade of opinion. They were carried in the Committees by a gross majority of 165 to 145. They would ac- cordingly come on for discussion in the Chamber on Thursday.

In the Chamber of Peers, Baron Mounier, the reporter of the Com- mittee on the Fortifications Bill, has reported against the wall of circum- venation provided for in the bill as it left the Lower Chamber. He re- commends a simple instead of a bastioned wall ; and proposes that only 93,000,000 francs shall be appropriated to the fortifications, instead of 140,000,000 ; and the smaller sum is to include 13,000,000 of credits already opened. It is supposed, however, that the original bill will ultimately be carried. A correspondent of the Morning Post says that Baron Harteg, an Attache of the Austrian Embassy, left Paris on Friday, for Vienna, with despatches written by Count Appony, immediately after a long in- terview with DL Guizot. Austria and Russia are believed to be much dissatisfied with the conditions of the Sultan's firman.

M. Decomberousse, a Deputy of the department of Isere in the Na- tional Convention, and Member of the Council of Ancients, of which he was Secretary and President, died on the 10th instant, in his eighty- seventh year.

Madrid papers of the 7th announced the resignation of M. Gamboa, the Finance Minister, on account of a difference with the Regency.

The Corporation of Cadiz, it was said, had requested the Government to take the tolls of that city into their own hands ; an arrangement which M. Gamboa opposed, but negotiations were carried on by the Government without his knowledge.

The papers of later date, however, assign a different cause to S. Gam- boa's resignation. It appears that the Duke of Victory had demanded 30,000,000 reels fur the army ; and that S. Gamboa, having failed in all his negotiations for raising that sum, determined to retire : not, however, without urging upon Espartero the ruinous consequences to the country of maintaining on foot an army so much larger than its exigencies -would appear to warrant. Espartero has been indisposed ; in consequence, it is thought, of disappointment at his lessening chance of obtaining the undivided Regency. Rumours of changes in the Ministry are alternately promulgated and contradicted.

The Regency is said to be negotiating a loan in Paris of four or five hundred millions reals, secured on the property of the secular clergy the revenues of the colonies, and the proceeds of the sale of tobacco.