21 SEPTEMBER 1839, Page 15

The Grand Dutchess of Weimar has dedicated three rooms in

the new part of the chateau to the memory of Goethe, Schiller, and Wie- land. They are ornamented by the painters Neher and Preller with scenes taken from the works of those celebrated writers.

A statue is shortly to be erected at Versailles to the memory of the benevolent Abbe de ]'Epee.

The Queen Dowager of Sardinia has come to the resolution of with• drawing from the world, and ending her days in a convent. Her Majesty is said to have already returned to the order of Jesuits, to whom it formerly belonged, the Villa Rufinella, situate on Mount Tue- culum, which is her property, and where she now resides.