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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 33, 21 March 1844, Page 3

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It is reported that several of the Commissioners of Customs will be dispensed with, in cousequei.ee of their inefficiency and inattention, whereby the revenue has sustained very severe losses Irom constant frauds, in which their own officers pauicipated. Dr. Hope, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, Ins resigned that office, after holding It for filly-one years ; the new eleoiion is Jo be in October ; Dr, Liebig, the celebrated German Chemist, and Sir Michael Faraday, aie spoken of by the electors as his successors. The first Irish Arms Bill was a purely Whig measure ; and was brought into Parliament by the Duke of Bedford, the tather of Lord John Russell. Cavalry and infantry barracks have been commenced at Newport, Monmouthshire; the area within the wall will be about ten acres, and ihe estimated cost of ilie erection is repoited at from ,£4.000 to £'S,t)oo. It appeais that wine is now made out of all kinds ol vegetable*, and even trout shavings ; there are said to be two hundred barrel* ot wine niiiuifactured in Jersey annually without a particle of gtape juice. Tlt« works of Alfieri have been reeently prohibited by the censoiship of Palermo ; and the const sent, which ha I been reluctantly given for tha priuting of Thiers’s * History of the French Revolaiioo,’ has been witbdiawn ' Ooe hundred guineas has been placed at the disposal of the Rev* Dr. Vaughan, President of the Lancashire Independent College, as a prize for the best e**ay on the education and improvement of the people of Great Britain, Mr. O’Connell is now in his 69th year. It is not generally known that the present act of parliament for the protection of animals empowers a peace officer to seize, aud forthwith carry before a magistrate, without auy warrant, any person illusing any cattle or domestic animal.