ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 33, 2 December 1843, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Ireland. — Progress of Repeal. — The usual weekly repeal meeting was held on Monday, when a sum of £700 repeal rent was received. An adjourned meeting was held on Tuesday. The room was crowded to excess, and at 3 o'clock Mr. Mahony was called to the chair. The .meeting was addressed by Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, Mr. Staanton, and several others. The invectives uttered by O'Connell against Wellington, Peel, Brougham and Co., were successfully reiterated on that day. There was a meeting at Mullingar on Sunday, at which O'Connell attended. There were upwards of 100,000 men present. There was a dinner in the evening, to which upwards -of 400 -of the farmers and landholders -of Westmeatfe and the adjacent country sat down. O'Connell proceeded on Wednesday to Charleville, where lie attended a repeal meeting on Thursday. He went from thence to the city of Cork, where he was to be entertained at a spleadid banquet yesterday. He wiH be in Longford next Sunday, and in Ennis on the 28th inst. He will thus continue his itinerant agitation until all Ireland shall be organized. — Album, May 22. At the Repeal meeting held in Mullmgar, on Sunday week, the Catholic Bishop of Ardagh made a long speech in favour of repeal, and announced that "he expressed the sentiments of all the Catholic Bishops. The repeal rent for the week, declared at the last meeting in Dublin, amounted to £696 125. 4d. Meetings are taking place in various parts of the country to petition Parliament for a separation of Church and State. — Scotsman. Spirits in Stone Bottles for Ships' Stores. — The Commissioners of Customs have ordered, that, as spirits are no longer prohibited, when in stone bottles not exceeding one quart eaeli, such may "be allowed, out of bond, for ships' stores, if packed in cases containing not less than one dozen reputed quart bottles of stone, the minimum allowed when in bottles of glass. — Mail. The Arhy. — The 23rd regiment, Ist "battalion, the 71st ditto, ditto, -and the 85th Regiment, go from Canada;, to the West Indies, to relieve the 47th, -]ssth, and 92nd Regiments, to be brought home. The Reserve Battalion 45th Regiment goes to Gibraltar, to replace the 48th Regiment, which is to proceed to Jamaica to replace the 2nd battalion 60th Rifles, which goes to Canada to relieve the 68th Regiment, ordered home. Public Opinion. — The number of petitions for th& tetal and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws, presented to Parliament up to May 9, 1843, was 2,777, with 880,831 signatures. In favour of the Corn-laws, up to the same period, were presented 2 petitions with 12 signatures ! The Emperor of Russia has issued an ukase, declaring that in future British subjects resident in Iris dominions, who may have suits before the Russian tribunals, are not to be called upon to give security beforehand for the costs, provided the same prin- j .ciple be adopted towards Russian subjects in

Collection of Poor-hates in Ireland. — The Tuam Herald states that the result of a day's labour of a collector of poor-rates in the Ballinasloe Union, backed by a force of nearly 100 policemen, was llfd. At the weekly meeting of the Castlebar guardians, Mr. Garaghty announced that since the last day of meeting lie had succeeded in collecting fifteen pence. Important Flaw in the Grinding Act. — According to the Grinding Act, by putting certain stated quantities of flour or biscuits into bond, certain quantities of foreign wheat may be taken into consumption free of duty ; but the act does not state that this flour so j put into bond should be of British manufacture or the produce of British agriculture. In consequence of this omission, duty paid \ American flour may be put into bond, and a corresponding quantity of foreign wheat taken into consumption free of duty. The Aerial Machine. — We are credibly informed, that this seeming impossibility has been to a certain extent accomplished. Mr. Henson, the inventor, has, after the most indefatigable and praiseworthy perseverance, constructed a model machine on the scale of an inch to a foot, and succeeded so far in his experiment as to leave no doubt of its ultimate adoption. At the trial, which took place a few days ago at the Hippodrome, the machine flew about 800 yards, and perfect control was maintained over it, the depression and elevation being managed skilfully. — London paper. Electric Telegraph. — The velocity of Wheatstone's messenger has reached a maximum which can safely be said of but few human things, and we ought to be satisfied, j as we know that the speed is about 120,000 j miles per second ; that, therefore, a message ' could go to Bristol or Birmingham in 1-1 400 th ! of a second, or round the globe, if wires could I be laid for its travelling upon, in one-sixth of a second. The messages upon the Blackwall Railway, upon part of the Great Western Railway, and some other railways are carried at this extraordinary rate. The bells in the House of Commons are rung by it, and .its uses are extending. The French Minister of the Marine has ordered two iron steam-boats to be built, which are to run between the Marquesas and the Society Islands. New Musket. — A gun-smith at Irelles, in Belgium, of the name of Montigny, has latterly made some highly successful experiments, in the presence of several officers, with a musket of new construction, for which he has taken out a patent. The charge is inserted at the breach. He loaded and fired 21 times in three minutes, whilst three experienced hands with rifles were not able to load more than 14 times altogether in the same interval.