Miscellaneous Extracts.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 19, 13 December 1843, Page 3

Miscellaneous Extracts.

It is said that the Duke of Wellington purposes to recommend to her Majesty several officers for promotion to tbe rank of Captain, who ha»e lately distinguished themselves in India and China. The proprietor of a Parisian cafe has offered Madle Katbinka Heinefetter a salary of fIO.OOOf with board, lodging, &c. in return for her services as dame du comptoir for the space of one year j the lady, it is understood, has declined ihe offer. During the last few days, it is said, the Thames bag exhibited an animated and bustling appearance, in consequence of the arrival of a large fleet of shipping, laden with valuable cargoes, from the East and West Indies, China, and naraerous other foreign ports. A curions autograph of Napoleon was discovered a fevr weeks ago at Peiugia: it is an order for the atmy and a bill of exchange for 2,000,00Qf addressed to Marshal Massena; this autograph has been detected in a five franc piece, which had been given in payment to an individual, who, thinking it a counterfeit piece, bad it broken;

A singular wedding took place at tbe villiage of Shurdington, in Gloucester, a short time ago j the bridegroom was 72, the bride 69; the bridesman 76, and the bridesmaid 73 yean old. The new royal summer pavilion in Buckingham Palace gardens, is to be adorned with trescoes, by Stanfield, Landseer, Ea»tlake, and Uwins, to whom a commission has beeu given by Prince Albert.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has it in content plation to convert tbe long drawing room of Dub« lin Castle into a picture. gallery, and for this purpose is making a collection of portraits of (he several Lords Lieutenant who have held office in Ireland since the year 1800.

The Duke of Sutherland has agreed to assist, to a large extent, several poor families on his estate who are desirous of embarking for America; the sum which his Grace acvances will altogether, it is said, amount to about three hundred pounds. The Earl of Riponhas received the appointment of President of tbe Board of Control, and Mr. Glad, stone succeeds bis Lordship as President of tbe Board of Trade, with a seat in tbe Cabinet; the probable successor to Mr. Gladstone is not yet named.

The Crown very lately, obtained a ve diet of £4,500 against a glove-manufacturer named Hurel, in London, for b. ing concerned in illegally unship" ping large quaintities of uncustomed goods, and receiving and concealing the same knowing that the duty had not been paid upon the same; the prosecution resulted from the investigations whioh have lately taken place by the Commissioners of Customs.

The employment of British capital on railroads in France is tending to soften tbe anti-Eng!ith feeling which lately was so' violently exhibited on tvery occasion ; at the dinners given on the opening of the Rotten railroad, and at the manufactory of » Mr; Taylor, at Marseilles—toasts were drunk coma plimentary to both nations.

Tbercwerea husband and wife at Kendal mats ket ou the 3 d June, whose united ages, at the birth of their first child, amounted only to twenty-seven years ; the tender family were of the Gypsy tribe. Ftesh eggs are now selling in the Principality o Wa'es, at seven for 2d or foity-two for Is; salmon trout, nine to 6d ; best fresh butter retail, lOd per lb; potatoes six pounds for Id; aqnaiterof veal costs only 2s 6d ; rent is at tbe same low rate as living, and clothes of the native manu acture cost next to nothing.

Small flitches of dry dairy fed bacon were sold last week at Marlboiotg'i.at per lb and retailed at,sd. This is but little more than half tbe price that was charged a few years ago. In 1828 when the duty upon cigars was 18s per lb, duty whs paid upon «,Coolbs. In 1830, when he duty was reduced to 9t per lb, duty was p-id upon 66 ; 000lbs. In ib33, duty was paid upon 141-,6001b5.

Mrs. Rees, a lady of fortune, win tried a short time since at Westminstei Sessions, and acquitted ou a charge of having stolen a pair of white silk stockings in the shop of a hosier in Regenisstreet street: she is related to some of th t first families in Wales, and bad several thousand pounds in her pocket at tbe time of the alleged thieft, Col.Toro-ns has addressed a long letter to Mr. Cobden on the su-bject of free trade, of which he lihs been a zealous advocate since 1812, and on account of which he wishes to explain the gounds of his belief, that tbe course which Mr Cobden is pursuing is calculated to retard the accomplishment of the object which they are mutually desirous to promote.

Mr. Dyce Sombre liss been, by the common consent of all his friends, placed in a lunatic assyjunv The-Queen has been pleaied to approve of Mr. Francis B, Ogden, as Consul at Liverpool} Mr John Atkinson at Hull; MrJ Tliomoi Were Fas it Consul at Plymouth ; Mr John Graham Stewart, as Cousul at Glasgow; and Mr John Roxburgh as Consul at Greenock, for the Republic of Ttss&. The Earl of Dalhousie, the new Vies President of tbe Board of Trade, vice Mr. Gladstone, U> in his Slst year; bis Lordship i# mimed to the eldest daughter of Lieut-General the Marquess ot Tweed' die, Governor of Madras, and sister to the MmehU oness of Dotifo.

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The Jfor&y ®fibej&s ?#ss £#&s#& fs ahonl to fee fertpggbt *» tire tommst $ tte §sk »fm§ f&ye&r tenske and-valuable collection of hooks will occupy toetmea item mS (§mw&k», The German papers mention that the celebrated «£ftrtf &&tigssmsfofo flbe .come of being reguUnpfatit&f $* mfi§mw& progress.

The annual deficiency in the Spanish revenue amounts to thirty millions of reals,

Wilh the exception of a very short interva', the estate of Brougham has been io Lord Brougham's family for upwards of 800 years. Mr. Bird and his nephew have been ordered to find bail for \% mouth,, on account of their attempt to take possession of Brougham Hall, from wh ch they were ejected by a large body of men, headed by Lord Bioiigoam's solicitor. They are uowdn Appleby gaol. Queea Christina of Spain has taken up her residence at Malmaison, near Paris, for the summer. Tbe hous« of Rothschild, it is said, has given loo,ooof. for the foundation of an hospi tai at Jefq. salem, and is building at its own expense a synagogue at Frankfort. Only rleven mail coaches now leave London daily for the country ; a few year 3 si nee before railways were formed, they were nearly eighty thai used to leave the General Post Office. It is stated that Messrs. Grissell and Peto are not liable Greenwick pier, having only entered into a bond totae in the event Of the works not holding together for three years, two years and eleven months of which had expired } it is understood that Messrs. Grissell and Peto have since paid the forfeiture of their bond. A subscription is now on foot for the erection of an organ at tbe Episcopal Chapel, at Cbapelthorpe, near Wakefield ; when the organ is erected, it is expected that the celebrated Mrs. Wood will frequently preside. The Count de Salis has dismissed Wra, Adams, Esq. from tis office of S-neschal of Clare, for having presided at a repeal meeting in Mullaville Chapel, near Tandeugeei the Count is a Whig and something more. Mr. Bew, the chairman of tbe meeting at Bilston, at which <• Bishop Bonner" trampled on the Prayer Book, has written a letter to the editor of the Staffordshire Advertiser, confirming the accounts given of that transaction, at the same time expressing his disapprobation of it, Mr. Lane, the purser, and the chief officer of tbe late unfortunate packet tbe Solway, have sailed from Southampton, with the -uecessary apparatus for diving, to recover some of the property oa board at the time she was wrecked.

Tbe master of the British sobooner Hiram, f mm Cepbalonia for Rotterdam, has reported to the authorities that wben off Tariffa a shot from the battery struck his vessel, and one of his men was slightly wonnded in his shoulder by the splints. It is officially announced, that " his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall has graciously been pleased, by nyal letters patent under the privy seal, bearing date the Ist April, to appoint and depute George Pearce, of Bradnich, in the county of Devon, Esq, to be his Royal Highness's gamekeeper for and within the manor of Bradnich, parcel of tbe duchy of Cornwall, in the county of Devon." It is stated that the subscription opened for the family of the lateThodore Hook, has |.roved wholly inadequate to the necessities of the atilicting case, and that down to this hour the result bus been trifling. Prince Albert and Prince George of Cambridge were to be initiated into Freemasonry on the? 14 h of May, in the Royal Alpha Lod-;e, Kensington Palace, at an especial meeting convened for the occasion.

The London Gazette of the lQ:h May; contained aTrtasury warrant, dated the 9th, making various alterations in the rates of postage between the United Kingdom and foreign ports, which *iU come into operation on the Ist of next month.

By a Treasury order of the 28 u!r., the Isle of Ascension to be treated as a British possession, for all purposes of trade, and rt vjnue.

The distinguished srrtgeon, Frederick Tyrrell, Esq., of New Biidge-strtet, London, died suddenly on Tuesday, at Mr. Rtbins's Auction Mart, in Bartholomew lane, where he had gone to-purchase the freehold.of-his coontry residence,-which was adveitised for sale ; the lameuted geutleman was only forty sis years of age, but had for s"ome time iaboured under a disease of the heart.

[Postscript.] ' Chronicle' Office, Wednesday Morning 8 o'clock, The brigantine Sisters, has just arrived from Hobart Town, Nelson, and Port NiehoJson ; thelatter port she left on Friday last. Fhere was no arrival at Nelson, or Port Nicholson, from England, since the Mandarin* The Sisters parted with the m&st of her flour at Port Nicholson, at 016 jU)s, per ton, and has only brought a few bags here. There are a few steerage passengers, and a mail from Nelson, and Port Nicholson, This fine vessel will leave iu a few days for Hobart Town, Oo Tuesday Nov. 2lat the County Court at Nelson was opened by the judge, C.B. Brewer, £*g,. The Nelson Examiner aays, Solicitors were in s-uendaoce, but no business was done, for not a single writ Was issued i The would-be suitors are numerous, hut they are frightened at the enermoua e*pense6 j conseQuently, the institution as a court ofimtiee, is a positive feilure, and serves no other purpose tusn to increase the patronage and expen* dittire of the thiaf .called a Gontnmut,