The Gazette of yesterday notifies the appointment of Sir Charles
Augustus FitzRoy, Knight, to be Gov- .or-General of New South Wales and its dependen- cies.
Mr. Henry Hallam, Sir Henry Ellis, Mr. Wyon, Mr. Macdonald, ( ?) and Mr. Landseer, have been chosen Members of the Royal Academy of Brussels.
Mr. Cobden has been suffering from a severe attack of inflammation in the bead and ear, occasioned by a cold caught during a journey from Manchester to London, on Thursday last week. He is now better; but it is thought that some days must elapse before he can resume his Parliamentary duties.
Donizetti, the composer, is in a state of health past recovery—one of hopeless imbecility. He lately left Paris with his physician, to see what his native climate of Italy would do for him.
The papers of the morning report a Coroner's inquest on the body of Sir George William Lefevre, late Physician to the Russian Embassy, and the possessor of a considerable fortune. He had taken prussic acid, having been deranged for some time. Sir William was in his fiftieth year.
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