Senhor Carvalho and family have taken their departure, in the
Transit steam-vessel, for Lisbon ; and there is it strong impression in the City that it is for the purpose of resuming his former position as Minister of Finance.
A letter from Florence confirms the report of the Duke delSt. Len being on the eve of marriage with the young and beautiful Marchesa Strozzi, notwithstanding his age, and that he intends to endow his bride with the whole of his fortune. It appears that the brother of Napoleon, and not young Prince Louis, son of the former, is indicated by the above title.-Post.
Rossini will, it is said, be the director of the new Italian Opera- house at Paris. He is composing an opera for its opening in October next.
Mademoiselle Louisa Taglioni, a beautiful and graceful girl of fifteen, (and a younger cousin of the Splphide), is to make her debut this season at the Theatre San Carlo, at Noples, as premidre danseuse. Her two elder sisters, Mademoiselles Mariette and Ermenia, are sing- ing with great success at the Royal Theatre de Fond°.
The line of railway between Lyons and St. Etienne, the largest manufacturing town and richest coal district in France, is only thirty- four miles in length ; yet such is the unevenness of the country, and so great has been the anxiety of the engineers to preserve as complete a level as possible, that there are actually no less than twenty tunnels • between the two termini ! One of these is a mile in length, while another, which is half a mile long, is carried under the bed of a river
• which crosses the line.-Mechanice Magazine.
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