The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

LOCH LAGGAN-THE QUEEN'S

VISIT.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
The s.Nnaery of Loch Laggan, amidst which our gra
cions Qieen is about to pass a portion of the summer,
is among the most remote and grand iu Scotland ; and
yet it is not so bleak or wild from its position as many
would suppose. Ardverikie (King Fergus's Mount),
the shooting- lodge c f Lord Abereorn, which is to be the
temporary residence of her Majesty and Prince Albert,
lies on the south side of the lake. and is about sixty
mites in a right line south of Inverness. It is stir,
tounded with beautiful woods of birch and oak, and
belts of young and less hardy forest trees, from
which deflect on all sides interminable heaths and
corries, the abodes of multitudes of the roe and red
deer, of the blackcock, red grouse, and ptarmigan.
In the copses along the lake side may be seen some
of the largest aspens, mountain ash, and birch trees
in Scotland, and the adjoining moors abound with
enormous roots and stems of oak and pine trees, the
relics of an ancient forest. A most excellent road, with
good country inns, traverses the district from Fort-Wil-
liam to Kingussie, in Badenoch (a distance, in all, of
54 miles), and the peculiar Highland features of the
scenery are often relieved by considerable patches of
corn land, and by long terraced banks of the greenest
pasture. The mountain screens all round are grand in
the extreme, and varied in their outlines, from the bare
mural Alps of Ben Nevis, Loch Treig, and Glencoe, to
the round-backed, desolate, and undivided ranges of the
Monaliadh and Grampians, while over the whole is
cast much of that stern and solemn stillness so
generally felt in passing through the solitudes
of Skye and Sutherland. Human associations, however,
are not wanting to give additional interest to this
locality. There is Inverlochy Castle, whose history is
lost in high antiquity—Glenroy, curious alike in its
wonderful natural roads and terraces as in its name and
Celtic recollections—Corryarrick, by which Prince
Charles's army passed on its march to the low country
—Keppoch, the residence of a branch of the Clan Coila,
that can trace back its lineage to Robert the Bruce—
Craig Dhu, the high beacon and, gathering hill of the
Macphersons, guarding their Chief's Castle, beautifully
nestled on its western slope—and Loch Laggan itself,
with its island, its ruined castle, and all its surrounding
homesteads—the undoubted earliest seats of the Scottish
monarchy—and deriving their names from Fergus
and other kings and heroes who had there their
hunting. grounds, and whose feats are still handed down
in the Celtic songs of other years. A more romantic
and spirit-stirring district for the Sovereign and her
royal household to repose in does not exist in all Scot-
land.
An official return has been ordered by General Rid-
dell, Commander of the Forces in Scotland, of the
number of soldiers that can be accommodated in Fort
Augustus. The return was required to be immediate,
and it has accordingly been transmitted. A garrison of
about 300 can be temporarily accommodated in the Fort,
though the buildings are in a dilapidated condition.
To quarter soldiers in Fort-Augustus for ordinary
military purposes would be absurd—the above return
most probably refers to the approaching visit of her
esty.

SUPPLY.
The report of the Committee of Supply was brough
up and agreed to.
COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES (IRELAND,
BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
POLLING AT ELECTIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND), &c., PEN-
SIONS AND SUPERANNUATIONS.
The report upon this Bill was brought up and
agreed to.
CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND, &c.) BILL.
The House then went into Committee On this Bill,
On the order of the day for bringing
and the various clauses were agreed to.
NAVIGATION (No. 2) BILL.
up the report
upon this Bill being read,
Lord JOHN MANNERS moved the insertion of a
clause in the Bill, suspending the stamp duties on
The CHANCELLOR of the EXC
policies of insurance effected on grain-laden British
ships till the Ist day of March. 1848.
the clause.
After a few words from Mr. Ferster, Mr. Thornely,
and Lord J. Manners, in reply, HEQUER opposed
Strangers were ordered to withdravv. No division,
however, took place, the clause having been withdrawn.
RECOVERY OF PUBLIC MONEYS (
The report upon the Bill was then agreed to.
BILL. and
The House then went into Committee on this Bill,
Lord CLEMENTS denounced, on the part of Ireland,
ALARMING FIRE AT KIVETON HALL, NEAR WORK- the injustice of any attempt on the part of the IRELAND)
Govern-
sop.—On Sunday night last, between eight and nine ment to recover the repayment of even a sinele shilling
o'clock, a special messenger waited upon Curzon, our of the monies which had been advanced by this country.
chief constable, with a message from John Hall, Esq , Mr. HUME and Mr. P. SCROPE insisted upon the right
of Kivetons requesting that a fire-engine might be sent of this country to exact a punctual repayment of the
over to assist in extinguishing the flames, which were loans advanced by it.
then furiously raging in the barn near to that gentleman's Sir J. GRAHAM thought that its highly neces-
the utmost
house, and containing about 120 loads of wheat, a large sary that some distinct understaralieg ould be come to
quantity oic• straw, arid a thraseing machiee, which were upon the subject of these loans, and that
untertunaf ely destroyed. l'he news soon spread, and a punctuality' should be observed in the repayment
large concourse of persons congregated in the market- several instalments in exact conformity W n eoflatwhes
d•itAt the same
place to see the departure of the engine, drawn by four under which the money had been advance
the Govern-
horses from the Lion Hotel, and on which were Curzon time he would have no objection to allow to
o some of the
and the fit-omen, &c. They proceeded with all possible ment a discretionary power, with respect !
de and amount
speed to the spot, directed the engine, and commenced poorer parts of the country, as to the m° -
playing upon the flames in the earn, but unhappily they of the repayments to be made. FENTS,
were unable to save the property.
•The buildings adjoin- After a few words from Lord CL CHEQUER said
ing the barn were preserved from injury. It was gratify- The CHANCELLOR of the .b.,
luld not have been
ing to see the willingness and anxiety manifested by that a more inappropriate occasion oz.)
the opinion he
persons in the crowd to go with the engine, for the pur- chosen by the Noble Lord for expressin
gesent one, when
pose of rendering their assistance, and many persons heel just stated to the House than the
proposed to remit
went on foot to the place, distant about seven miles. the Bill under consideration actually prol the people of
Many pars ous arrived from the neighbouring villages, one-half of the amount of debt to w
which had been
and every exertion was used to quell the fiery element. Ireland were liable, under the
lawdaurgent request, as
All the p arties present deserve the greatest praise for passed at their own most earnest an
from starvation.
their exertions, which were taxed to the utmost. The being to prevent the people
necessaryit was the duty of
fire is sup used to have been the diabolical act of an in- Mr. TRELAWNY thought that
r. the loan, and if no
cendiary ; but at the time of our writing nothing accu- the House to enforce paymen-- ofght to sell the lands
rate can be stated relative to its origin. We sincerely other means were available,
they oil-
f it themselve -.
hope, ere 1 ong, it will be discovered ; and if the demo- of Ireland, and even the owners o
niacle act of a reckless incendiary, that he will be (Laughter.) that the feelings of the
detected and punished as his crime deserves. We are Mr. W. PATTEN thought
acute the
Journal. extremely upon
happy to say that the property is insured.—Nottinyham people of this country Were
1 d dth ld
rded to Ire an ,an ey wou
Journal. subject of the relief atro
of the money which had been,
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 9.—The market insist upon the repayment
d too lavishly bestowed by
continues rat her dull, and purchases are only made to perhaps, too liberally n_
ad Liverpool had suffered most
supply immediate wants. Refined goods are flat and Parliament. The people
of
Irish distress.
effects
lower. In _rum there is very little doing. severely from the
l'S thought that there was no place
INHALATION OF ETHER.—On awakening from the Lord CLEMEN
earth which ought with greater fairness
inebriation, the personal experiences of the etherised on the face of the
the
support of the Irish poor than
are most interesting. A gentle aura, of the most to be taxed for
ort derived great profits from its
curious and thrilling character, steals over the entire Liverpool, for that P
ctions with the people of Ireland.
frame ; and a sensation of the most perfect well-being commercial trzls(lA,___ ,
rk; tnought it most preposterous to
possesses the mind. Then comes a gradual loss of con-
Mr.
NEWD
disease and privations to which the inha-
sciousness ; sight, hearing, and tactile sensation dis- set against the
had been exposed, the profits which
appear. Tlee mind appears perplexed what to bitants of Liverpoolm
s ight make by their private transac-
make of its new condition, and feeling as if the chains a few individua
ple of Ireland.
which bind it. to the earthly tenement were burst, it is tions with the_ peoß
RE TON thought that this country had
in a state of the most downright apathy with regard to Mr. BROTHER,
great credit for the assistance it had rendered
the body. Tile soul then seems to bathe in an atmosphere deserved
nthe late distress, and he sincerely hoped
of light, and aevels in the happiness of apparently another to Ireland i
ne advanced would be gratefully and
world, while frequently a dream of transcendent glories that the mo
std.
passes before it. If tho inhalation is discontinued, punctually rePwords from Mr. Trelawny, Sir R. Fer-
this blissful state is of short duration, and the stern, After a few
lof Arundel and Surrey, air. W. Brown,
the Ear
cold realities. of our unspiritual world force themselves guson, lett
back once 'more upon the recollection. The baseless and Lord W. Pow ,
the cls were agreed to and the
fabric of the- vision, and thefade The whole of the Ch '
glories away, and some resumed, airman reported accord-
casual House having
movement in the apartment summons the patient
at length out of his beatific condition. But the same glo- ingly.
HERRING FISHERY (SCOTLAND).
rious things are not vouchsafed to HERRIN
every one. Some,and ordered to
on the contra This Bill was reported, be read a third
contrary, are troubled with • ideal ccntests with
fiends ; sometime on Monday.
are violently altercating with •
their ONS (IRELAND)
relations ; some are tumbling down bottomless DESTITUTE I?ERS BILL (No. 3).
and horrors of all sorts crowd in uponh abysms;
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
In these cases, it is frequent that during t e minds of others.
committed on Monday.
the process vio-
PUBLIC WORKS AND DRAINAGE (IRELAND)
lent struggles, contortions of thefeatures, and other BILL.
tokens of uneasiness, betray the troubled state of the • Bill
dreamer's mind. A ady undergoing 'as read a second time, and ordered to be
This a
this process at our
hands, during the removal of a tunscommitted on Monday.
our, was the whole
time violently strugglinc, and crying out to her Sir JAMES GRAHAM wished to know what
child,
with whom she believed' herself to be violen. tl course the Government intended to pursue with re-
ing. Where this state exists the termination
onotfenhd-
spect to the business of Monday.h He wished to
process is an inexpressible relief to the etherised, know whether it was intended
.t. at the House should sit
but it is an almost universal experience th at an early hour, and whether it was intendeel to proceed
no actual pain was felt :—" It was a frightfulat with the second reading of the Bishopric of Manchester
dream," or "I thought a fiend had hold of m e Bil
esl.
or "I felt I Would have given wors to be out of'et!
e The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER under-
are the exprsions often made used of on. awaking, Sin stood that it was
.the wish of the Noble
head of the Gov
some cases these gloomy impressions are the result. of Lord at the
sit Government that the
imperfect inhalation; but in others it is a question hould on Mend at three o'clock,
House sprivate
burin .
whether the impurity of the ether employed is not the and after the business had been dis-
, . h should move the Committee of Supply
cause. —People's Journal. beta ot e
Great numbers of females are, it is said, employed as re the other orders of the d
of _ ay, and after
" n wvies "on the Necker and Danube, aud Prague and i that the Committee
j. We
and Means.
-- With regard to the Ishoprto of bLanclatuter
Dresden Railways.