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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 34, 28 March 1844, Page 3

After several unsucceisiut eOuri* oy vauous persons, Lieaiensnt Stone, R. N. one of the liatbour masters of the port of London, has succeeded in raising the Apollo steam-ship, winch was run down by the Monarch steamer six years ago, when the stewardess and two children perished. It is in contemplation to form an institution for the relief of decayed merchants, mauufactuiers, and tradesmen in Leeds. A young man, flamed Grocock, Voluntarily gave himself op at Derby, a short time since, as a murderer; it appears that he had tempted a young girl of twelve years of age, named Allwood, who was gleaning in the fields, to accompany bim towards Derby, where he promised her employment in a silk mill : on their way, having decoyed her into a field, be beat her on tba head with a hammer, abused her person, and left her for dead.

Io the manufacturing districts ot England and Scotland Hade coutiuties to improve, aud the prospect of increased activity becomes eveiy day still more cheering. At Manchester things have assumed a better aspect than they have done for years.

The Governor and Company of the Bank of England huve given notice of their being ready to' receive applications for loans npnn the deposit of apptoved Bill* of Exchaoge, not having more than six months to run. Exchequer Bills, aud East lodia Bonds, at the rate or three per cent, per annum, in sums of not less than two thousand pounds each.

lhe ex-Queen of Spain, Chiutinn, is at present thirty-seven years of age ; istodu will be iimteen on the loth ot Octobrr; me interna Louisa, her sister, is eleven years and a half old. ll t» stated that the Regular , Captain Dadd, from London to Bombay, whicu foundered of! the Mau« ntiua on the-'lith May laat, had on board 10,000 sovereigns* 5.000 dotla ( *, £’lo,ooo worth of copper, and £I,OOO worth of steel.

The polishes in England and Wales are returned as 10,698; die churches are considerably more numerous, probably about lk.OuO in all.

A desperate riot took place, the week before last, al 1 inloughmore lair, near Galway ; it arose out of one ol the usual local disputes between rival lactions ; one man was shot dead, and two others have since died of their wounda; sixteen others were also senoosly mjured.| .

The treasurer of the association for completing tlie caihedral'at Cologne has absconded, carrying wtih him the subscriptions received during tlic past year.

From Gainsborough to Hull-by water was a two days’ voyage thirty years ago; it is now done"by steam in two hours and a half.

John Fisher, believed to be the last surviving soldier in Scotland, engaged in the first Ameiican war, died at Leslie, .u Rhe a cighteeuih ult. at the age ol ninety two years. Death caused by priusio a*d, says a German paper, is only appajent; life is immediately restored by pouring acetate of potash aud common salt dia.olved in walei.on the head and spine. At the Stafford assizes onSsturdsy, Arthur O’Neil the ciburtist, was found guilty of uttering a seditious speech, and was sentenced to months’ impiiwoiiinent. Serjeant Corey, of the 3rd Regiment, at Dundalk, lately cut a leg of mutton suspended by a cotd thiotigh with ui.e cut," for a wager ot sixty yin, -ns, vr-twfcj . _