ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 47, 27 June 1844, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

It is stated that the Kiug of Hanover positively comes to England at the close of March, and it is supposed will prolong his journey here tiil next August, General Espartero intends, it is reported, shortly to leave England, and take up his residence at Brussels. Destruction of King. William's College, Isle of Man, b\ Fiße.—A few days since, the whole interior ot the above named pile of building was destroyed by fire. There were about sixty boys sleeping in tbe college at the time, who were obliged to escape io their night shirts, and we are happy to say no injury was sustained-by any of them. The walls are left standing, and are not much injured ; nor has the piincipal's house suffered much, although some of bis properly is greatly injured. It is stated that Mr. Davis, who formerly acted for a short time, as successor to Lord Napier, ia China, succeeds Sir Henry Pottinger, as Governor qf Hong Koner, and tbat he will shortly depart oa bis mission by the ov< rland route. The Scotch are now gathering guano from the rocks and cliffs of the Orkney Isles, and supplies of it were also collected from parts of the Devonshire coast. A letter from the Island of Bourbon, of the Ist September, which is published in the Fr« och papers states, that the English have taken possession of Diego Saurez, a magnificent part in the Island of Madagasrar. The Leadership of the Lords. —We are enabled to state, that-the Doke of Wellington ■will, in the present Parliament, as in the last act as leader to the Upper House, and that no intention exists, or has existed, of anticipating Lord Stanley's elevation to the peerage by the ordinary process of succession:— Times, Sir J. H. Whitshed has been formalfy appointed Admiral of the Fleet, in ihe room of Sir C. E. Nugent, deceased. A writer in Blaclaooods Magazine, speaking of the Irish State prosecutions, says, " Verdicts mast be had ; Judgments must be given." This w a s rhe language of Scroggs and Jt fines, it is also that of modern Toryism. There is now no private bank in Scotland: the last, the Greenock bank, has merged into the Western Bank of Scotland. Seven hundred Christian slaves have been liberated from galling bondage at the intern ssion of Captain Harris, late ambas*ador to Abyssinia, whilst hnndreds of doomerifPigan prisoners, taken in the bloody frays witnessed by the B iish em* bassy, were set at large by ths same mediation. The B itisb Association has, since it* establishment, expended .£83,000 iu scientific investga ons. Sir Augustus D'Este. —The Observer says that no opposition will be offered to his application to be allowed to lake the title of bis Father, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, ml that Her Majesty has expressed a desire that the question should be settled as soon as possible. Mr. Robert Montgomery Martin, the well known writer on Colonial ques'ion*. and author of the* Btitish Colonial liibr».ry, is appointed treasurer for the Colony of Hobg-ltong. Twelve Fire* in one Night,-—We regret tr> state that no fewer than twelve'fires broke'out on the night of Wednesday, or early on Thursday last,, *rom the hours of twelve to four; in the vicinity of Llangwm and Cerrig There is every reason to suppose that they are all the work of an incendiary. The following are the premises burnt s—Gaergerrig, cow-houses arid barn, and eight cat* tie burnt to death ; Groesfan's cow hoose and stable,,, together with six calves, and a man found dead t Tynan l Plasau. barn, cow-house, and one calfburn% P'asau, barn and cow-house; Tygwyn, barn> cowhouse, corn, &c. At Llaofihangel, Pea-y-Gaer, stable; Maesgwn barn, stable, cowhouse, and coral LlanfihaDgel parish, Tai Draw barn,cow-house, &c. Cerrig-ysDruidion,- at Denygraig, barn and coW» house; at Penhillwydion, barn, cow-house, and stables ; at Glan-y-Gors, barn, stable, cait-house 8 and cow-house.— Carnarvon Herald. The prosperity of a new colony depends on tbe t proper proportion being maintained between capital and labour ; and if the number of labourers greatly exceed the right proportion, so that there Were no persons with capital to employ them, they would be landed on the edge of the wilderness simply to die of want. Alone, therefore, emigration can never be an adequate remedy for the prevailing distress, until there is a much greater disposition among the wealthier classes to emigrate* ' than has ever yet been manifested. Nor even then* would the proposal be in the least applicable to a manufacturing population ; a colonist in Canada,. Australia, or New Zealand, should be a carpenter, a bricklayer, a smith, or an agricultarist.— Tracts of the Ann-Corn Law League. London, Feb. 2...The Mark Lane Report states; bat the declaration of Sir Robert Peel, relative to ttie Corn Laws, has caused considerable firmness in the trade; and that there was rather an in» proved demand of a free foreign wheat. The quotation for Dantzic is given at 57s to 63t per quarter. equal to 7s ijd to 7* 10|d per-bushell; Euglisb 5 r n \'j neW \ 42s t 0 55s P er q Qarter » or 5 tlllF* 6USbel ** old red > 50s t 0 s '*.. or 6s3* to 6s Hd per bushel; old white, 60s to 64s pet qiiarter, or 7* 6d to -8s per bushel, % P