Extracts.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 14, 8 November 1843, Page 4

Extracts.

Ft he at Liverpool. —Friday, l!)th May.— An alarming fire, extending to the fonith of the warehouses in the range on the west side of Jackson's Lane broke out here, and much damage was done. There are, of course, various conjecluips ns to the atnotin t of" damage sustained.' Thf^highest estimate rumoured is £BQ,OGOI. The quantitv of cotton said to hr destroyed is 5000 bale*, f lit insurance offices which have suffered are the Liverpool fire and life assurance company, £30,000 : the Globe, ,£SOOO ; the London assurance company, £5000; tlie Imperial, £2,600 ; the Sun £1,500 ; the Phasnix, £1,500. A special general nyeeting of the members 0 the Colonial society was held in May last, at the Colonial Club, St. James’s square, London, for the purpose of adopting a memorial to Her Majesty’s Minister* upon the subject of general and sysfamatic colonization. The attendance of members was unusually large- The right hon. the Eirl of Mountcaibel in the chair. Mr. Montgomery Martin said, in England, there weie 300 individuals to the square njiie, whilst in Cana,la there was not three. In Upper Canada there were three ; in Australia there was'not one ; in New Zealand there wes not half a one, and in South Australia there was not one. When this was the I •*’!, it surely was the duty ot the Government to e icoursge imndgratioq tQ those fertile- coionies, There was a steal deal of etpifal in this connCy seeking a vent ; £.'121,000,000 sterling of British ctpital was invested iu foreign couotrieSj and of that sunt £'100,000,000 paid no interest whatever. Jlow much nnre profitably it would he to direct ttio stream of tlint wealth to the colonies of our empire. On such clear ground, resolutions were passed, which bind the society to try its utmost efforts to call the attention of the government, and tin, public to the duty of colonization,— Tablet April 15.

Captain Bruat had been appointed by a royal ordinance Governor of the French establishments in Oceanica, aud Commissioner of the King at the court of her Majesty the Queen of the Society Islands.

A correspondent of the Ti mes says that there are now between 40,000,0001. and 50,000,000 of money in the name of the Aceouutant General of the Court ot Chancery, a considerable portiou of which is kept ifrom the starving and suffering suitors by the want of progress t in the Mastoi’s Office.!

The Duke of Manchester expired at Rome, on the 18th|March. Scinde has been declared'a pottion of the British territory, and the navigation of the liver Indus was to be opened to all nations. Slavery was to be*abolished. In ’ Hyderabad more than 1,000,000/. stilling had been found, Prince Albert was to visit Bristol in June, to be present at the launch of the “ Gieat Brit tin.” The launch of her Majesty’s steam yateb, tb e “ Victoria and Albert,” took place at Pembroke, in the p esente of upwards of”ten thousand spectators. The presents ‘which have been sent to Queen Victoria from the Emperor of China of golden bedsteads and a great quantity of silk of a sort which has never yet been fseen in There were likewise two ear-drops, worth's thousand pounds each; am) a shawl worked in needlework, with every kind of beast on’it known to the Chinese’; besides fourteen large cases,geacli weighiug fourteenewt., and asmalFhoX of jewels lery. John Dillon, and'late'officer in the Navy, Bad threatened to assassinate Mr. Gonlbutn, Chancel'or of the Exchequer. A warrant was issued to at>prt bend Dillon, hut it was disoo'eted lie wns already a prisoner for debt in Wliitecross* street. Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett, who acqn'red gteat ifi toilety from hi*. “ Mlairof honour ’’ with the Earf ul