ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 43, 30 May 1844, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Her Majesty and the Royal family are well* The Prince of Wales was in better health than he has been for some time previous to tbe last arrivals. Her Majesty, who had honoured several of the nobility with her presence at their maguificent man. sions, was about to visit the greatest of them al] the Duke of Wellington, at his seat at Strathfieldsay The season has been unusually -mild and dry, being a strong contrast to the two previous wins ters.

Sir Martin Sbee has been unanimously re-elected president of the Royal Academy. A rail-road . is in progress of formation through the Lincolnshire fens fron Bis-worth to Peter borough. Beef was cheaper in the London markets in December than in Scotland, owing to tbe quantities sent out of the latter country to the metropolis. The Hon. Colonel Bagot, Grenadier Guards, will shortly proceed to the Cape as Military Secretary to the new Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B- Viscoant Mandeville and Lieut. Maitland, Grenadier Guards, are also appointed to the Staff of Sir Peregrine Maitland, the latter as Aide-desCamp. Postcoffice reform, excited by the success of th e English penny postage system, is beginning to be freely canvassed in America. An earthquake has been felt in Canada, on the 10th November. It was of sufficient violence to rock the buildings, and caused considerable apprehension, Spain is still in an exceedingly unsettled state. Tbe English and French are very unpopular. At Barcelona preparations were made for blowing up the invading force by mines indifferent situations, to be fired by galvanic batteries, on the principle lately so much used in England. The account is a curious one as translated from the Spanish; we shall give it iosertion in an any early number. A statue of Her Majesty is in course of erection at the Royal institution at Edinburgh—one block of sculpture, which weighs between eleven and twelve tons, formiug part of the statue, is already in situ. A foreigner, travelling under the title of Viscount Chastenet, who had been received into the first circles of Irish society, had victimised them to a considerable extent by fiotitious bills. On Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, tho Netherlands steam packet, Batavier, Captaiu Dunlop, arrived at the St, Katharine’s Steam packet Wharf, from Rotterdam, She brought a number of passengers, and nearly a miscellaneous cargo. Part of her cargo consisted of 890 bushels of apples and pears, and 29 live bullocks in prime condition, being superior in quality to any hitherto imported into London form Holland.