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Various contradictory rumours have been circulated concerning the Queen's visit to Ireland. Opinion seems to concur in postponing the intended visit till after the Parliamentary session. The Dublin correspondent of the Daily News states a fact which corroborates this opinion
" An official communication from the Lord Chamberlain has been received by the Kingstown or Royal Irish Yacht Club, informing the committee that the Queen had been pleased to give a cup, value 1001., as an annual prize to be contended for at the club's sailing-matches, which take place each year in the first week of August; and expressing regret that she 'cannot reach Ireland in time to witness 'this year's contests."
Sir William Colebrook, the late Governor of New Brunswick, who had been appointed to the Governorship of British Guiana, is now appointed to Barbados, to assume the government of that island in the place of Colonel Reid.
The Electress of Bavaria was killed on the 23d of June, by the overturning of her carriage, as she journeyed from Munich to Vienna.
At some distance from Wasserburg, the carriage was ascending a steep hill, when a heavily-laden waggon, which was coming down without the drag being put on, overpowered the horse which was harnessed to it, rolled down the hill, and falling. against the carriage, overturned it, and the Electress was killed on the instant.
The Electress was the daughter of the Archduke of Modena-Brisgan. and Marie Beatrice d'Este Dutchess of Massa Carrara. She was born in 1776; and in 1795 married the Elector Charles Theodore of Bavaria; who died in 1799, without issue, and whom Prince-Max de Deux-Ponts, since King of Bavaria, succeeded. She afterwards contracted a morganatic marriage with Louisal'Arco, at present Peer of Bavaria: by him she had two sons, to whom she leaves a fortune of more than 15,000,000 florins.
M. de Chateaubriand died at Paris on Tuesday morning, in the eightieth year of his age. The French Academy held no meeting on that day, in token of respect; and the Paris papers are unanimous in the expression of sorrow. Madame de Chateaubriand died last year, and her death deeply affected her husband; but, says the Abbe Deguerry, since the death of his friend M. Ballanche, which occurred soon after, M. de Chateaubriand has seemed "less to sink, than to hasten, to the grave."
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