ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 31, 18 November 1843, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

/ New Zealand Society. Prom the New Zealand Journal, May 31. We have the gratification to announce that the Earl of Devon has consented to become the President of this Society. The names of the President, Vice-President, and members of the Acting Committee, we hope to announce in our next. A Deputation of the New Zealand Society had an interview with Captain Fitzroy on the 2nd instant, when the following address, agreed to at a meeting of the Society, was presented to the new Governor: — « Sir,— We have been deputed by the New Zealand Society, a "body lately constituted for the purpose of promoting the welffare of , all parties interested in the progress of the colony, to offer you their sincere congratulations on the mark of Her Majesty's confidence which you have received, in your appointment to the Government of New Zealand. We beg to express our satisfaction that Her Majesty's Ministers have selected you, a member of the British Parliament, to fill the office of Governor of the Colony. We receive this as evidence that they are imbued with a sincere desire to secure to the polony the advantages which experience in civil affairs is calculated to afford. " The Society has reason to hope, that most of the differences which for some time unhappily existed! in the colony, have, in a great measure, subsided ; and they feel confident that the task of allaying such as do still exist, is one most congenial to your feelings and habits. " In. conclusion, we are desired to convey to you the unanimous wish of the Society for your safe and prosperous voyage, and for the continued health and happiness to yourself, and of Mrs. Fitzroy and family." The following reply was made to the address, by Captain Fitzroy : — " Gentlemen, — I beg to return my sincere thanks for the congratulations of the New Zealand Society, expressed in so flattering a manner by the gentlemen whom I have now the honor of addressing. "That Her Majesty's Ministers, and the greater number of persons interested in New Zealand, may not have cause to regret the appointment which you are pleased to notify to favorably, shall be my continual care : but I am well aware of the peculiar difficulties to be encountered ; and of my own comparative inexperience. That the good sense and mutual interest of our countrymen in New Zealand have already done much to allay differences, I earnestly hope : and to assist them in promoting kindly feelings, will be indeed a congenial task. " Allow me to request, gentlemen, that you will accept my very cordial acknowledgments, and will be pleased to convey them to the other members of - the New Zealand Society, for the unanimous expression of kind wishes for the welfare of Mrs. Fitxroy, my family, and myself, to which I had the honor of listening." o Ixcrease of the Aumy. — On Tuesday last, the Government entered into a contract ■with Messrs. Learmonth, the principal army accoutrement makers, for 10,000 sets of accoutrements, to be supplied forthwith. This order confirms the general impression that the army is about to be considerably increased. — Standard. Church Endowment. — Sir Robert Peel's new Bill "to make better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes," gives power to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Bishop of a diocese to assign the right of patronage of any new district formed out of a parish, and the nomination of the minister, either in perpetuity or for one or more nominations, to any ecclesiastical corporation, or to any number of persons who have contributed building the church and permanently endowing the minister. This assignment of patronage in perpetuity is a new thing, and will be acceptable of the Evangelical party in the church. When the patronage is not specially assigned, it is to be alternately in the Crown and in the Bishops. The £600,000 to be borrowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from the Governors of- Queen Ann's bounty, is to be applied in providing churches and endowing the ministers. Covent Garden theatre closed in the middle of the season for want of support.

War Preparations. — Admiral Bowles arrived in Kingstown on Friday, on board a special Holyhead steamer, and proceeded to town. The Rhadcmanthus, armed steamer, | also reached Kingstown the same day, with a company of Marine Artillery, twenty-three | tons of powder, and 6000 stand of arms. She is now unloading at the Pigeon-house. Two frigates have arrived at Waterford harbour. The Waterford Mirror states that one of! them is to cruise along the coast — the other j to be stationed at Duninore. Nottingham Election. — The committee closed its labours on Saturday, finding — "That Thomas Gisborne jun., Esq., was duly elected to serve in this present Parliament for the borough of Nottingham." Earthquake in Holland. — The Dutch provincial papers contain a variety of details respecting some smart shocks? of earthquake which were very generally felt in the beginning of the present month, chiefly on the 6th. At Gorcum a very heavy shock was felt at a quarter before six o'clock in the morning. The motion proceeded from southeast to southwest. In one of the schools of the town the window-shutters were put in motion, and a long tubo of the stove was thrown down. The seats on which the scholars sit had a seesaw movement. The curtains of all the beds in the town were ( shaken, and the locks of doors were started. : Though there was no wind, the waters were j agitated. India. — An overland mail has just brought us additional news from India. Sir Charles Napier has had to fight another battle with the Baloochees for the occupation of Scinde. On the 24th March he met and again worsted his native adversaries most signally. From the letter of the Governor General we learn that the enemy were strongl/ posted, to the number of twenty thousand, in the vicinity of Hyderabad, and that Sir Charles Napier, with five thousand men, defeated and dispersed them. Beyond all question, Scinde is now a British province. The general orders of Lord Ellenborough, of date the 11th of April, will relieve the Duke of Wellington from all difficulty in replying, should the Marquis of Clanricarde repeat such-ques-tions as he lately asked respecting the doings , of the Governor General. That noble lord pointedly thanks Sir C. Napier and his army for " having added a province, fertile as j Egypt, to the British empire." Far be it from us to entertain any other feelings but those of gratification at the success of our arms in any quarter of the world ; but we could wish that the motives 1 for war in this case were more clear and intelligible. We cannot be blind to the benefits that may accrue from the possession of the Lower Indus and its Delta, but is self-interest acknowledged as the motive which should lead states into wars of aggression and conquest at this time of day ? We will not say more, lest we prejudge the matter without the necessary evidence before us. It seems that Lord Ellenboroug is becoming more popular than he at first was. — Scotsman. China. — The Chinese news are of no great moment. Elepoo, the imperial commissioner, died at Canton on the 4th of March, and his demise had so far affected the pending negociations, as to induce Sir Henry Pottinger to proceed northward, were the immediate business betwixt the countries will be in future conducted. Sir Henry had arrived at Macao from Hong Kong by the last tidings. It is understood that the project of opening new ports is by no means palatable to the Canton merchants, and that but for them, the Anglo-Chinese business would have been more easily settled. — Ib.