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We hear that the Queen Dowager intends setting out early next months on a tour through the Perthshire Highlands; and that her Majesty is expected at Taymouth Castle by the 9th proximo. A statement in a London morning journal of Thursday, from a follower of the Royal suite in Germany, to the effect that the Queen and Prince Albert intend revisiting Blair immediately after returning from the Continent, has set Atholl on the tiptoe of expectation: but we do not hear that it meets with any confirma- tion from those who might naturally be expected to receive the earliest, official information on the point.—Perth Courier.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen had appointed Sir Joh& MacNeill, G.C.B., to be one of the Board of Supervision for Relief of the Poor in Scotland; and Mr. William Smythe to be Secretary to the Board. '

The accounts of the harvest throughout the United Kingdom partake of the late sunny glow of the weather. Last week, all was favourable; and even the chillier temperature of Monday and the succeeding days has not been attended by any rain to speak of. The reports from France are also more favourable.

The experimental squadron, which arrived off Cork last week, had not come to anchor on the 2d instant. The results of of the experiment have been- published by the Times in four columns of figures, which no contrivance could make intelligible to mere landsmen. The Standard gives the general conclusions in a more compact and available form. "The fleet have had no winds or squalls to try their qualities; in fact, they have had no weather even under double-reefed: topsails: but it appears that sufficient proof has been afforded of the uncertaiir results of the Surveyor of the Navy's system of shipbuilding. In light winds and tine weather, after a great deal of cutting and contriving, at an expense of above 4,0001., the Queen, 110, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, with a lighter arma- ment, and nearly 2,500 square feet of canvass more than the St. Vincent and Tra- falgar, hashed a slightadvantage over the other ships of the fleet; and the Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer,C.B., the pride of the sea,' although spreading more canvass than the Queen, and 3,500 square feet more than the Rodney, with a well-exercised and experienced crew, (having more able seamen than any other ship in the fleet,) was actually. beaten 'off the wind,' by the Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C.B.; the Rodney having a heavier armament—a total weight of provisions and stores of only 14 tons less than the Albion, a ship nearly 500 tons larger. In the trials, 'on a wind,' the results were as follow—

Queen, 110, first. Trafalgar, 120, fifth.

A second.

Canopus, 84, fourth. Superb, 80. seventh. Ibion, 90, sond. St. Vincent, 120, sixth. Rodney, 92, third.

• _a• Vanguard, 80, eighth...

In the 'Ga.,. wiaa

Queen, first.

Albion, third. VSuaDengrubard, :21,xstbeVenth. Rodney, second. Canopus, fourth. Trafalgar, last.

In calculating the advantages of each vessel on the whole, they are entitled to

be placed thus— St. Vincent, AlQubeleonn,

Rodney, Canopus. Trafalgar, Vincent, fifth- Superb, Vanguard.

The Vanguard's position is worthy of especial attention. This was the 'crack ship' of the Mediterranean. It is now to be decided how the Surveyor's ships will behave in comparison with the others with a light draught of water. The Ad- miral is to take them again to sea for six weeks, with two months' provisions only, to give the Queen and sisterhood an opportunity of rolling away their spars."

We learn from a source on which reliance may be placed, that his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, second son of the Emperor of Russia, will visit this country next summer. The Imperial Duke is in the Russian navy.—Morning Chronicle.

According to the last letters from Alexandria, Ibrahim Pacha may be expected to visit France and gngland after his medical trip to Italy, should the result of the operation which he is to undergo be favourable.

A St. Petersburg paper of the 6th August states that the Emperor of Russia, in consideration of the services of Count Woronzoff in the Caucasus, has COM- ferred upon him and his family the hereditary title of Prince.

The Baron Achille de Maynard threw himself, on Saturday morning last, from the top of one of the towers of Notre Dame, and killed himself on the spot. He was about twenty-five years of age, the owner of a fine fortune, and had only fortnight before married the daughter of the Count D'Espagnac. Every one wars lost in conjectures as to what could have been his motive. He was the author of

two volumes of poetry, dedicated to M. de Lamartine; and he had for a few years furnished several articles to the Gazette de France and to the Nation.—French

Par. Lord Stanley is confided to his residence, at Walton-on-Thames, by a very severe attack of gout.

An absurd statement respecting Mr. Oastler and his gains in business as a share-broker appeared as a leading article in the Blackburn Standard, and has since been copied into the London journals. There is no foundation for the state- ment that Mr. (tastier is about to enter Parliament; and as to the amount of his gains, the statement adverted to exaggerates them very much.—Leeds Intel& gencer. Mr. W. G. Ward has at length openly passed over to the Roman Catholic Church. He states his justificatory reasons in a letter to the Editor of the Ox- ford Herald, incorporating another explanatory letter to an anonymous person, addressed as "My dear — ". Mr. Ward says—" Any one who will take the trouble to read carefully what I have said on the subject, especially in the last chapter of my work, will see plainly that I have grounded the (alleged) duty of remaining in the English Church on two principal circumstances: 1st, that there is nothing to hinder any one in our Church who may please from holding all Roman doctrine; and 2d, that all those, without exception, who, being in doubt of the English Church's claims, have resolved on living a stricter life in her com- munion, have found an ever-increasing confidence in their position. (See espe- cially from p. 567 to p. 570.) " Both these circumstances, he says, have ceased: if the Bishops be the official exponents of the Church of England, the point has been ruled against the " Romanizers" long ago; and in the decisions in the cases of Mr. Oakley and of the "stone altar" the doctrines of the Roman Church have been condemned. Great part of Mr. Ward's duplex letter is devoted to showing that his present change is rather in the application of principles than in the prin- ciples. He alludes to his quondam teacher in a way that will surprise some per- SOILS. "It is some considerable time since Mr. Newman's writing and teaching (however edifying I found it in all other respects) altogether failed to commend itself to me as being in the least exponential of any te,aching of the English Church. Indeed, during that time, I might have seen that I was deceiving myself in thinking that I did simply follow his teaching: for, whereas he stre- nuously disavowed any authority except as interpretative of the voice of the English Church, when I was unable to accord to him that claim, I was unable to follow his teaching in that very particular which he himself represented as constituting his only right to teach." He hints a warning to those whom he leaves behind—" I should add, too, that additional thought and experience has much increased my. sense (which before, indeed, was very great) of the extreme importance of a living and energizing dogmatic system. If the claims of such a system long remain unrecognized, I hardly know how to express, without appearing to exaggerate, how great are my fears as to the miserable errors into wideh even very well-intentioned and right-minded persons may be led in the course of inquiry and speculation. Nor need I say how serious an addition this constitutes to the many other grave phenomena which seem clamorously to enforce on us all the duty of reviewing very carefully, and weighing very accurately, the reasons adducible in defence of our present position."

A London reporter describes some rifle-shooting in the meadow at Coburg, where the children walked in procession and the Queen dined the other day. ' The target is peculiar: a screen of green branches has been erected, with an en space, something like a door, in the centre. Planks are laid transversely on the ground. Along these planks a wooden deer, set in motion by means of a pulley and weight, runs on wheels. The weight is let fall, the deer shoots along the screen, is seen for an instant passing the opening, batig goes the rifle, and in most cases the ball speeds truly to its mark. The wooden deer-slayers are dressed in a sort of uniform; they form a society or club in Coburg."

While the reporters were at Coburg, they took the opportunity of going to see some veritable "wild boars," in a forest belonging to the Duke; the animals being visible at feeding-time. The writer whose account we follow set out with romantic associations of the ferocious boar and the adventurous chase; anticipating 4‘ a rich treat, heightened by a slight dash of personal apprehension, in seeing these animals roam at large through their native fastnesses." The party entered the forest with keeper and stag-hound; they marched in "Indian file" and in silence; the "gentleman connected with the press " thought of "the wolves of Russia and the bears of Norway," and almost fancied that they were "following the trail of some wild elephant or tiger in an Indian forest." They were ensconced in a small hut, capable of holding a dozen persons, without windows, but with small sliding panels, whence they might view the wild beasts. Round the hut was an enclosure, in which the keeper strewed some grain. For an hour they bore the tedium and the stench, and then they heard the faint notes of a horn—romantic sound !—followed by—a grunt. "Another pause of anxious expectation, and then in stalked two or three of these ferce natunz, with head and ears erect and staring eyes, as if expecting a rifle-shot from behind the trunk of every pine. All the charm was at once dispelled: with every disposition to view the exhibition in the most favourable light, I could make nothing of them but long-legged gaunt porkers, with a cross of the wild deer in their limbs, and a strong touch of the alligator in their sharp and prominent snouts; and any respectable Irish pig-driver would have been ashamed to acknowledge the lot. The number soon increased till there were some fifty or sixty in the enclosure, most of them small and well-fed; and, after some little coquetting, they commenced their supper in a quiet and gentlemanly way. There was none of that ravenous or wolfish appetite exhibited which Iliad anticipated; and I am now firmly convinced that the German forest-pig is a much quieter and better-behaved animal than his keeper gives him credit for. We were assured, however, that there were some in the forest much larger and more fero- cious, with great tusks and bristling heads." So the wild boar, after all, is but a pig; and the wild huntsman but a pork-butcher!

A serious blunder has been discovered in an important act of Parliament. The new Scotch Poor-law Bill passed on the 4th August last: it enacted that on the 21st of next August the " Board of Supervision" should meet in Edinburgh to make laws and regulations for the direction of the local Boards: hence Scotland will be without a Poor-law for twelve months, unless the local Boards act independently of the" Board of Supervision." Amidst the many projects under the head of "Railways," we find one now in course of formation for the establishment of a club-house, where gentlemen of all ranks, connected with railway projects, may daily meet for the interchange of information. A mansion has been taken at the West-encl.—Railway Director. Monday last being the 1st of September, partridge-shooting commenced; but owing to the backward state of the harvest, few sportsmen were out in the manors and preserves in the counties of Cumberland and Northumberland.

New wonders come to light respecting the whirlwind at Rouen. At the sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, on the 25th August, M. Arago gave a re- port, derived from letters written to him by MM. De Breaute, Premier, and M•wq; but that of M. Precisier, being the most precise, furnishes the substance of the following account. The blast or whirlwind in question had its origin at Houlme, a village two leagues from Rouen. Two violent winds, proceeding in contrary directions, having met, a cone was formed, which descended from the clouds, with its summit towards the earth; and it had a revolving motion of ter- rible rapidity. From its centre issued flashes of lightning, and it emitted a strong smell of sulphur. Some persons, who saw it advance with enormous speed, have -assured M. Preeisier that the black and red clouds moved vertically, driven back- wards fu.d forwards with prodigious force; they also heard a rolling noise, similar to that which precedes hail. The barometer fell suddenly from 756 to 740 milli- metres, the temperature of the air became very elevated, and the whirlwind was preceded by a current of air so warm that some perso,ss before a large fire felt st strongly. The meteor rushed Eastward, overthrowing everything it met with in its course; it passed through a forest without losing any of its power, snapping off or twisting the trees, and casting them right and left; then struck a cotton- factory four stories in height, and in a second- demolished it, crashing the persons who were within its walls. The dwelling-houses which were in the immediate vicinity of this factory were but slightly injured; for the whirlwind did not take a direct course, but went in a zigzag, and appeared to be attracted by the great masses of iron in the machinery of the factories. At the second factory that it attacked, the third floor was removed in an instant, as if by suction [aspiration]; and some of the fragments were carried to a distance of several leagues. The third factory, in which there were nearly two hundred persons at work, was demolished with the same rapidity as the other two. The meteor then continued its course towards Ma- launay, devastating the country as it proceeded; but at Cleves its effect ceased. A violent wind, canoed by this frightful perturbation at one point, blew from it towards all the environs, and was felt at an enormous distance. At La Chapelle, near Dieppe, a distance of nine leagues, a shepherd saw fall a plank of more than a metre in length; slates, portions of windows, cotton, and many other objects fell near the same spot. All the facts which were witnessed, says M. Premier, prove the presence of electricity in this visitation. The bricks and stones of the buildings which were destroyed were burning hot, and many articles were car- bonized on the outside. Some spindles were found to be magnetized; but M. Arago observed that this might have been the case before the disaster. The bodies of the victims presented no marks of external injury; they resembled those of persons struck by lightning. As to the light which was seen to issue from the centre of the meteor, no doubt of its being electric can be entertained; and it was visible at a great distance. In the neighbourhood of the disaster, a family, who were about to sit down to dinner, suddenly saw the table uncovered; the plates and dishes danced in the air; and a frying-pan was driven upwards, andforced into the ceiling, surrounded by a light, which rapidly disappeared.

The French journals add some particulars regarding effects of the storm of the 19th August in other places. At Marolette, a little village near Mamers, in the department of the Maine-et-Loire, several houses were unroofed; and the electric fluid, after having consumed the greatest portion of the furniture and melted all the metal in one of them, struck two persons, who remained for several hours in a cataleptic condition. At the farm of Butte, near the source of the river, several lofty trees were torn up by the roots, and almost entirely stripped of their bark and branches. A sow in the farm-yard was dreadfully burnt, and lay the next moment a heap of cinders. On the Ballon road, a person employed in the fields during the time when the tempest was raging most furiously, saw several trees torn up and hurled to a great distance; and his companion was lifted from the ground, and thrown into the midst of a thorny hedge. A splendid specimen of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern light, was visible at the Eastern end of the Metropolis on Friday evening.