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

LOCH LAGGAN-THE QUEEN'S

VISIT.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
The scenery of Loch Laggan, amidst which our gra-
cious Queen is about to pass a portion of the summer,
is among the most remote and grand in 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 d Lord Ahereorn, 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
miles in a right line south of Inverness. It is sur
founded 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
eorries, 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 stillne.s 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 —Corryarrielt, by 'which Prince
Charles's army passed on its march to the low country
—Kcppoch, the residence of a branch of the Clan Coila,
that can trace back its lineage to Robert the B
hillruce 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
thus
and other kings and heroes who had thereei
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
lraonyda.l household to repose in does not exist in all Scot-
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 imm? late,.
and it has accordingly been transmitted. A
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it appears
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DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.
Symptoms of the conclusion of the session and of the
Parliament continue to increase and multiply. It is now
evident to the most casual observer event days of the
Parliament of 1841 are numbered.
if the Govern-
pf ro or atchhe
ment were desirous of prolonging the session,
to be quite evident that all their powers would enable
them to do so much longer. But in reality they aro not.
They are naturally inost desirous to bring tomaenacesoxunrt.)e
clusiDn a session from which no further practical results
can be expected, and they are no less anxious to shorten
the excitement and the distraction of time from useful
and necessary occupations, which are engendered and
evening.
a, na ascertainedldmost every d
aayp
kept up by the non,
ekyneno
of a speedy dissolution. Government was—and is
pe'areavmeroyunt, or of
—most anxious to bring the session to an end as
soon after the 15th instant (Thursday
as possible, in order to get
.over the elections,
completely before the harvest operation shall have begun.
To this end the House of Commons has sat in the morn-
ing as well as in the
last fortnight. To this end, also, Ministers have con-
pressing, emergency. To this catalogue of useful mea-
sfhenatfeNdvatso anboafnidnonf,hoerirraotphienriotno poonsetpoofn
sures —postponed from necessity wo are sorry to be
obliged to add the Bill for the Improvement of the
Health of Towns, which we regard as a most useful and
necessary improvement, and which we know the Govern-
ment were most desirous to pass into a law, in spite of
the imperfections to which it was necessarily subjected
by the fact , f its being an attempt at legislation in
a new channel, as by the activity of the fac-
tious and interested opposition to which it was
subjected from first to last. Whatever may have been
the reluctance of a dying Parliament to deal with such
an unprincipled and unscrupulous opposition, we feel that
a new House of Commons and one less apprehensive of
the hostility of local interests and of vested abuses, will
be able to second the efforts of the Government in car-
rying out a general and well consi
W ilst we dered, and a perfectl
matured system of sanatory refor m. h expres3s'
this hope, we confess that we are
beginning has not been
not without some feel-.
ings of disappointment that a
made--a commencement in the right direction, which
know that the ministry of Lord John Russell we
re we
most
anxious to effect,
The mare routine business of winding up the session
will occupy the corning week—after which the proroga-
tion, followed by an iediate dissolution, may be bmm con-
fidently looked for.—Observcr.

The Russian squadron left Elsipeur on the Ist, for
the Catteg&t, whence it would pass Into the North Sea,