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The Times announces that it is Queen Victoria's intention to visit Ire- land in the approaching recess-

" It is well known that this intention is of long standing, and that in several previous years the Queen had hoped to hpnour her Irish subjects with her presence. "The distress unfortunately still so prevalent in Ireland precludes her from visiting Dublin in state, as any large expenditure on mere ceremony would be ill-timed and inconvenient to her subjects.

"She proposes therefore to embark in the Royal yacht; to%tonch first at the Cove of Cork, and to proceed thence along the Irish Channel. tepublin; where she will remain for a few days' the guest of his Excellency Lord Clarendon.

"Upon leaving Dublin, the Royal squadron will proceed Northwards along the Irish coast to Belfast, and thence cross to Scotland.

"Although the precise period of her hlaje.sv's visit cannot yet be fixed, it will probably take place as early in August as the termination of -the'Oesaion of Par-

liament will permit." ,

Sir Robert Peel, it appears, is in treaty for the occupation this season of the house and grounds of Ellen Aigas, near Beauly, on the estate of Lord Lovat; a place whose picturesque beauties are thus described ffiy the In- verness Courier- " Eden Aigas, or the Island of Aigas, is a smell Highland Patmos!-from towns and toil remote,' but singularly picturesque and beautiful. It is formed by the waters of the Beauty; which, having divided and cut through maims of conglo- merate rock, flow in deep gorges over cliffs, and in some places in a still, deep stream, around the romantic, isolated territory. The inland stands high, and consists of about fifty acres of rock, wood, and pasture. It is kiiiariastia birch and oak, and is frequented by rat deer and roe, and the mailer game. 4ine house, which is approached by a wooden bridge on the East side, is In keeping with the scene. Though a modern structure, it is built partly in the ekt Scotch style—a low crow-stepped building, with a porch decorated with bows horns, deer-heads 11:c. The interior is spacious and elegant. Walks have been made through the woods and heather, commanding the haest-river-v ews and mountain terraces, and in one part overlooking a considerable waterfall. The spot alto- gether is just such a one as Sir Uvedale Price would have selected to-illustrate his definition of picturesque beauty, as distinguished froin sublimity. The ab- sence of the 'terrible- graces' is made up by endless variety—by the constant intermingling of rich foliage, heather, grey chit's, cascades, wild solitude, and cul- tivated beauty. The drive from Inverness through the fertile lands of the Ain!, by the side of the Beauly Firth, the Falls of Kihnorack, the high precipices and wooded slopes of the Dream, (or Drhuim,) Man Aigas, and Screthglass, has been described by poets, naturalists, and other tourists, and is tidily deserving of all its fame._ Etlan Aigas is about fourteen miles from Inverness; and • near It are Beaufort Castle, the Rat of Lord Lovat, and Erchless Castle, the seat of the Chisholm?'

Major-General Sir Thomas Wiltshire, Bart., K.C.B., has been selected to succeed the late Lieutenant-General Sir Beujamin D'Urban, G.C.B., as Colonel of the Fifty-first Light Infantry.—Glok.

It is said that the chief command of the forces in Canada, vacant by the death of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, will be divided: Lieutenant-General Sir John Harvey to command the troops iu Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, receiving no additional pay, as he holds also the civil situation of Governor of Nova Scotia; Major-General Rowan to receive the local rank of Lieu- tenant-General on the Staff, and succeed to the command in the Canada. The estimated effect of these arrangements would be a saving of nearly 3,0001. a year.

The Carlist noblemen and gentlemen, hitherto residing as exiles in this and other countries, have at length come to the determination to return to Spain; and avail themselves of the provisions of the recent act of amnesty. Several of them have set out for their native land; and some, we believe, have already arrived there.—Morning The instructions issued on the 17th April last by the French Govern- ment to its Charge d'Affaires at Vienna and its Ambassador and Envoy at Gaeta and at Naples, on the Roman expedition, -have been laid before Parliament. The paper of iustructions to the agent in Italy declares the reasons which induce the French Government to interpose, and explains the constitutional guarantees on which that interposition is to be used by the Pope for advancing his restoration as Sovereign Pontiff. The in- structions to the agent at Vienna do the same things, and express a hope that Austria will not think proper, as she has more than once intimated, to procure for herself, by the occupation -of Bologna, a fresh security, which, however useless to her with regard-to serious interests, would serve but to disquiet and to excite men's minds. The documents do not.differ from previous explanations which the Freneh‘Government has given efts intentions in Italy.

It appears from a paper just presented to the House of Commonsffiy commaud of her Majesty, that the total estimated coet of the new Hoenig of Parliament has swelled from the original estimate of 707,1041 to 2,045,9231.; and that 1,025,4631. 8.s. 3d. is the gross amount required to'bo provided for, from 31st December 1848, for all expenses for any purpose whatever,—excluding the coat of the apparatus for warming the House of Commons, &c., and all incidental payment not under the cognizance or control of the architect. The Lords of the Treasury expressed their sur- prise at this swelling of the first estimate; and they desired the New Palace Commissioners to: report what groubds there were for the excess. The Commissioners replied, that large additional expenses have been in- curred by the necessity of deepening and strengthening the foundations, making additional official residences, great alterations in 41Ie materials, and in the construction to render It well-ventilated and fire-proof, and by the rise of wages and enhancement of prices in the long period which has elapsed since the first estimate, augmented by the comparative want of funds for the last few years. Among the heavy items 41,re 184,9841 "for warming and ventilating arrangements," and 72001 for "architect's remuneration.'

Apropos to the reappearance of,Sontag (Countess Rossi) on the scene of her former triumphs in England, the Alornisg Chroniale -supplies-a me- moir—

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"Madame Septa& a,German by birth, began hea career at fifteen years of age: Almost immediately oc her appearance at the german Opera at Vienna; she created the 'greatest eathitaiastp., The ueltheated.Rarbaja, who at the same rap- ineat was the unpresario of fig-1.0,er the greatest operatic theatres of Europe, travail,. lanai her dog it Vienna' employed stientainisexertiOns to withdraw. her from the German to the Italian &neat stage. . He at length succeeded.. in his ob- Jett-, and the made her dehlit hi the. Donna clel 'Live at the Grand Operant' the Carinthia. This new aspect of her talent createdauch a,sensatioe that effete of talimited liberatity pouredinfrogreverv (Darter' and at the close Ofthe swam the itidieietis and enterprising Seyerini liacithegoadferthne to secure Madame S,antagar l'ervices for the Itatiene in Paris. There she met with another celebrated.pnath dolma wile bad long preceded her, Madame aifelibran; and with heediatiagaithed Colleague alit perfarniedaaa with an elder ranee, ial'ancreefi, alitlfatianneam,rtna aninrither 'opetaa: Se eionspicarius Was he suceeth that every. effort tate made to-brinat her to Leach:Mir' and she arratedathe following season m Englaird: flee debait . toak place at a concert at Devonaldreilloase; in the Easter week. Sueh nee her repntatiotta not only for musical giaias, bat for beauty, elegance, and fascination of deity kind, that crowds of eager spectators in the streets equalled the throug of -netaility,•,rankaand -fashion, under the roof of the great dilettaite siaa,patrou of arta the Duke of Devonshire. A few -days afterwards ehe Made. her kipit appaarairce at Her Majesty's Theatre; when she More than realized the high tatasetaatons which had-been raised. ' • - - - a a -., - , ,aaMilet. of thegreat:pritne eitanne of our times have been cempelleca in soprano Vali; to compensate by their.genina timid science for the want of wimples of • their vcdiiet-'aaa, for example, Matte ctheif Paata, Whose natural voice-was a- ragged, mezzo-soprano, and of Maliarapa who was a real contralto. hi Madame aoetag fbe pita& found a real sopitatikate the manner born,' enabling' her to perform vitheettainty of toile, andWitianimaisite ease, purityaand delicacy, the, mist Ma trioattapftssages and original embelliahments,awhether with fall tore Or -metes vine.. When she first appeared in Rising, she .reveiteil suid hianriatedan nada aeateaVes, and teacake', divisions; and subsequently, in Donna Anna,' the protf tiler s e.epula sing inithe,chasteat classical style, and produce the sathe eéc1by poneigattalenaatideammasion, as,shehad dope before .by---fieriture audataceetii peastiagaaa laipna Eaglittal Madame Sontagavrent to 4ertin; -*mina tlarcinghitheiha- treapce a heramiablequailtiee, no leas than lialier talents, she gained the matked ejsalaand regard of tee latelaiag,of Prnthia itadtbeattgal Family., Tlieraathe .aoci attached to a youaeg Pleditionfetie nobleman, the reptesentative of laia Se- ta:taiga-at that court. tier last aappeitisMee was in SeMirlanitle. This perfur- ilithbei-appeared as if it were a nationeleelebnitiona • All Berlin was present, and the-whole audience' was in tears. when she bade adieu. On the 'occasion Of her marriage, the King of Prussia, atteuded by idIthe Prinetaisei-of the ,blooaahirri- self gave away the beide. During the several mistime of her .-haslierattait"St: Paterabarg 444 -4 aaarlan, this amiable and gifted lady IOW Tecebred ata0oiart

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liak(alle itaaateat. ..., . , ..ap4 ,eise occasionally delighted. her Imperial hog* entertamersTiy: ai. WO of her genius. At St. Petersaum, such was the eepsation Which els p ' aeed by ainging at Coart, that the Emperorand Empress, on her departtite, determined to establish the Maliati Opera, now one of the first ip.„Kurope.".

Karl Ducie hashecome a theca* of mese-Weisel and has consented to steep thipaisidency-of a "Mesmeric Institute" at Briaol. In .8 statement. made oil • the .occasion, he narrates how he was coaveetodby mesas of meet .asteranding preofspf clairvoyance. A lady cured him of.aa nervous attack by its influence. girl of eighteen was mesmerized by a surgeon; and Lord Ducie left akin,' with her. "Finding her clairvoyante, lie began to question her. They then travelled meat* to the railway statiop, the clairvoyante expressing her wish to go irate the country, as she had not been there for many years. He then, *on he regle, aiked her togo into Gloucestershire, and went 'down to his own inanition.: She described the gravel-walk, the iron gates, the ball; the described- itacheokaired pavements, the musket and.cartonehe.boxes.on the :wall, the carved fire-place- of his .1:Duluth:lat. house. They then went over ale farm; and sae deseriliedthe crops of hie gala, acc.y. seeming puzzled at the Thoth, and mistaking, as a loNdoner might, turpips for potatoes. The shinier proof. of her clairvoyance wathathat she noticed to him that one field in particular with Planted With two dif- ferent crept:: she noticed this, and 'toldhim that part of the field was cut and tairrietrandthe -other remained. He found tide afterwards to be true, :although be ectualltat the tithe did not know it himself. The laay -by whom he ecured told him several things about himself which he thought no oneainAlieavoild. knew:: .There could be no ,00liiiaiou it the cases; for he had never seen the girl ire,sud she did not know his name oratesidence; and if she had beettiafarmed she could not have known all the details of his farm in Glouceatershirm"; • • • A correspondent of the Times trusts it will relieve Sir John Jervis's anxiety to know that the Palace Court practitiouere have already "received'aeametera- than three times,--first, when Court of Requests was established; second, oti the abolition of arrest upon meant process; last time, when the present County. Oouçla :were established." • P50 Worcester arena& calls attention to a case in which the funds of an endowed school are glaringly perverted. "King 'Charles the First's 'Reboot" at Kidderrniaster was intended for the education of the children of the town; but it iS converted to the benefit of the masters, who take boarders charging for their education. With an income of 700L or 800L, only thirteen "lowebays" are in- structed in Latin and Greek; and these scholars Me put on an inferior level to that of the boarders. It is said that though tbe town boys only are -eatitied M peatzes, by far the greater number' have been given to the 'boarders. The lodging of the latter is at the expense of the charity; while nearly two-thirda of the in- come is swallowed up by the two teachers, who impart Latin and Greek to thir- teen boys, "when there are hundreds of children in Kidderminster perishing for

lank of the common elements of knowledge." - A Parliamentary return of the number of passengers by railwayas in the United Kingdom for the half-year ending 81st December 1848 has been issued. On the July, there were 4,433 miles of rail open; on the 318t December, 5,079. The number of passengers was 31,630,292; ot whom about a half were third-class and Parliamentary travellers. The receipts from passengers were 3,283,3011.; from, mails, &c., 2,461,6621. The Loudon and North-western Railway conveyed, t largest number of passengers-3,162,(151.

Goodfellow, the groom of a gentleman living in the.Wandeworth Road, is to be wantonly causing the death of a boy at East Sheen. The boy NAB in tls mad wheeling a barrow, by the side of a hay-cart; Goodfellow, in a light cart, itterapthe to pass between' the berm* and cart, though there was evidently not riroM.Libe boy was knocked down, and the wheel went over his head. ' Men—O'Leary, Riley, and Regap—were sethessively charged at Marl- baiMtighttreet Police-office, on Tuesday, with begging in thearreets. One was &Miler another abused a lady who refused him alms; and the third protested that he had not tasted food for twedays. In each case a suet of Money was found oa the taiposter. They have all been sent to gaol: • a - Breen; a soldier of the Thirteenth Reginthaa and a girl he hid -married the stone -day, have perished on the Mulom R.olaneritaBelfiest. 'While walking to- gether during the evening, it began to rain andahetiouple got -under in over- hanging bank of sand ; several tons of the siind fell mutburied them.

Two persons have perished in the river Add, near lecbgilphead. A girl was crossing the stream, when a suddeu flood from thithilisicirried her away: a ram man plunged in to the rescue, hut he also lorklitabotieg, mid both were

drowned. _ :cal*, tea aa Female twins have been born at Eerneghern, three leagues from Bruges; wawa bedithare joined by M8883 of a ligature beginning at the breast and exlendingta the navel.