EXTRACTS PROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 428, 10 December 1856, Page 7

EXTRACTS PROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS.

The Comte of Paris is about to set forth on his travels, and will shortly present himself at the different courts of Europe. Two English agents have jjassed through Vienna for Pesth and Semlin, to examine into the chances of a new steam company for the navigation of the Danube. John Frost has returned to Newport-, not much wiser for his fourteen years exile; on Monday, the crowd, performing the duty of quadrupeds, drew him into the town; and in addressing them he denounced the Government in the usual language of the chartists, spoke of his sufferings during his penal servitude, and declared his belief that the working classes would never get their grievances redressed till they got. the charter; the more respectable portion of the inhabitants took no part in the proceeding. It is rumoured in the United States that Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has supplied the opponents of Mr. Buchanan with money to assist them in carrying their man and defeating the democratic candidate ; however few those may be who believe such a report, it is a curious instance bow completely Americans may be at sea about English polities and English statesmanship, and on the way things go on in the English political world. In the New York Senate a bill has been passed providing that whenever unoccupied guano islands should be discovered by American citizens they will be considered as appertaining to the 'United States: the bill also guarantee's to discoverers the exclusive use of the guano deposits, and fixes the rate at which the article shall be sold. By an act of last session, her ?I:uesty can appoint a Vice president of Council on Education at a salary not exceeding Jl'J.,ooo u-year. The Governorship of Jamaica has been offered to Mr. Purling-, who is now Governor ot Newfoundland. The Queen has been pleased to erect ike district of Natal, in South Africa, into a separate colony to be called " The Colony of Natal," and to appoint John Scott, Esq., the Lieutenant - Governor of the said colony.

The Exomsji Ambassador in Russia. — Accounts from St. Petersburg, by personages that rimy be relied on, authorise the assertion that, whatever may he the present or future political position of the British legation at that place, its social relations are, for some tiine^nt least, likely to he cold and unpropitious. Nor has Lord Wodehouse been kept in ignorance of the prospect. His lordship's reception by the Czar and the Imperial family was conducted according to all due forms, and with much courtesy. No point of etiquette was omitted. Compliments passed on both sides. Felicitations on the establishment of peace arid diplomatic intercourse were exchanged. Assurances were given by the Emperor and the ministers that all would be done by them that could tend to restore pre-existing good understanding, and to render Lord Wodehouse's position easy and agreeable. At the same time it is not concealed from the British envoy that a decided antiEnglish sentiment prevailed in social circles, and that some time would probably elapse ere these sentiments would assume a more favourable aspect. A recent Indian mail brings intelligence of another of those dreadful earthquakes for which Ternati and the adjoining localities of the Moluccas are proverbial, and of an eruption or. the active volcano on the island of Great Sangir, in long. 125.50 E., and lat, 3.50 N... by the concurrently destructive operation of which nearly 3,000 people lost their lives : they fled in all directions, hut were overtaken and swallowed up by the fatal fire-stream : some tried to save themselves in the trees, but were either carried away with them, or killed by the scorching heat; at TCalongan and Tariang the houses were filled with people who were stopped in their flight by the lava streaming down on all sides, and the streams of boiling water, and who met their death under the burning ashes aud tumbling houses ;. many who had readied the shore and thought themselves safe became a prey to the furious waves, and many died through sheer despair and agony. Lord Crauworth astonished the house t:ie other night by an assurance that the Bishop of London has for twenty years given away hi charities no less than Jifteeti thousand pound* per annum ! A circular has just been issued from the Agricultural Statistic Office, Dublin, to t:ie county surveyors in Ireland, enjoining the destruction of weeds along the sides of public roads in Ireland, as well as on the sides,, embankments, cuttings, and fences of railways, as the shedding of rhe seeds of thistles, dock, ragweed, and other noxious plants which are fe--v approaching to maturity, must cause great injury to occupiers of land adjoining those raii\vavs where such plants are not removed. A curious incident recently occurred in one of the Emperor Napeoleon's quiet excursions outside the town of Plombierres: lie encountered a man. who. stopping, commenced and continued for a while gaping at him with all his eye?: the Emperor approached this rustic scrutineer and asked what was the matter : the other matino reply, but, drawing from his pocket a coin, he casts his eves alternately on it and en the person before him, until at length exploring into an outbreak of enthusiasm, ho cnedou:. (i It sure is he.'" succeeded by repeated^p^Us ot" God save the Emperor —God save- tlie -Lmpoixv. A man has boon walking on the waters of the Seine: lie had each foot in a small iriar^T.l;ir box. tecuxvly iasten.nl with s^a^-s ro-.md^ L:-< legs, and in his hands ho carried a long bcd:u> cinq pole, similar to those used by rope da:u-t-r.-\ except that to each end was attached a large ::;- Hated bladder? when getting oil his balance. h.> dipped the end of the pole, and the re^tai:.l*caused by the bladder touching the water restored him to bis equilibrium. A singular wager has just been decided ■;.' Lyons: one of the best swimmers of the clr," made, a bet that he would cross the lllson.- r>l bis back, earning on bis stomach a ;..;.v,' on which should be placed two b'l^';,-,/ ",\.'\ ",'.'■ whu>. six eggs on i\y\?^ t ;mu "lour'-L^:.^ the iall ot any oneoi 1 '.\es C ' obuvU woi'U : --v,>:---. the loss of the vv^.. T h e hov.w,-. crossed tne without displacing c:u> of :■:■ articles, v U )U won the bet. . H- is a curious ihu, sry* the Courier ■ •'-:- Li/om, that although the'butchers;" sl;«-;>s :■■ Geneva are all open, and an inuncvseuut-,'.':-er < t" flies may bo seen on the outside wails, net enconies inside: this is caused by ike innev v.;l> [ being rubbed over with hmvel tr.!, which >- i.;i

-<T<\i-ii.i! pvvoul.'iliw against tin' intrusion of t::c»t' troublesome in-col- : tho m«io oil \< a\»i u-i'J witli sue*. -.» in preventing the tlio> from .-•p.'ilin,, tin 1 ink fr.uiH-.» of lookinir-gh"-''-. ]>u't.';:v<. A>\ "With rcfeivnoo to tho plan of driving r.wv.v ;!io< by the iw 1 of 1.-nnvl oil. it is >tote»l r.^Mhr.i no iW will mtir .1 room in winch a wiv.ifh of w/fnut lo.no- h:ss Wen l.unir up. " I *;;«id." >.J.ia « Wo-^vru slump orator, "on tho h:v..d r;;:ioip!o* of'i'N and palsied W mine :-.r:n if I uo-'Ti \'n!" "You .st.-md on nothing ofihe l.i-u! ! -1 raiorrupuVi n liulo *hooiii:tkor in the o:vu"d ; " You sMnd in my r-o»;> th.-n yuu r.ever p.v.d mo lor. :ml I v. :nH tho monov.'' ]>i rrn it Wvtj'.r in thi: An \xiir. £c. — From tin1 toy of Chimbor.i/o to the bottom of tV Atl.,rnk\ :;; tho <loo]v>t ."pl-uv yot reneho'l i\v tho jii'.riv.rnl in tho Atlantic. lh» d>t..noi' 'm .i \ovtio.il lino i< nino milos. Tl:o <:-.-.<i^t s'-'Vi of tho North Atlantic is pruliaWy s >nu'\vhcro \v;wi-on tho lionmulas ami tho lrr.mil Bunljs. Th- wators of tin? Gulf of rUi-MOO :iro lioliJ in a l'.i.-in i\K>xii a miioii-.on in :::o i";-,-'p ; .^t r-n-:. Tiioro is at tho bottom of tho ft>a. i>r:v-ocn'Cri]V Kace. in Xowfoundland, and (.Y.v>e I'loa.r. in .Irolaml. a reinarkaMo .<oppe, \ wh'ioh i? alrca :y known a.< tho Telegraphic pla-t-.'.'au. Tiio irrvat circle disxance between those > twj >horc Hues i.< 1.000 nvllt-s. and tho sea alonir ! ;his !"ror.;c is firobabablv nowhoro more than 10,000 feet deep. Geetsa Gekek Sl.uibiages.—The act of j parliament, introduced by Lord Brougham, and j passed hi the late session, will strictly take effect, and prevent Gretna Green and also Border Marriages. From the 31st December next. ; jio irregular marriage contracted in Scotland by ; declaration, 'scknovrledgment. or ceremony, shall be valid, unless one of the parties had, at the date thereof, his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for tweuty--0210 days nest preceding such marriage, any law, custom, or usuage to the contrary notwithstanding*. If any persons who shall hare contracted an irregular marriage in Scotland after the day mentioned shall -within three months thereafter present a joint application for a warrant to refer such marria.ee to the sheriff, or sheriff's substitute, of the county where such marriage was contracted, and shall prove to his satisfaction, that the}" have he-en married to one another, and that one of them bad lived in Scotland for twenty-one d&3-s next preceding such marriage, or had his or hex usual in Scotland, such marriage shall be conclusive as to its validity. Ki.i or.x ox the SorxD Dues.—The report ircni th ■ S-jI -,vt Conjr.itt-.-1 uf the Hou--e of Coi.im ' - o"i the Sound l>uc-s L.-s juit Lcen j-uLH-1 cd Ti.e ct'i -.;jiit:ee did nut consider it tho.i y, \'\t,'.-j tv inqain- iiiio tho right exercised Iv P : *-;\:ik to L-vy t.'ll- vi -hijj' and goods ]>!>-'...; l-etv.-»-,»n v.? G -rmaa Oe&iu and the ii.u:i<-. is i« a matter o! Li=t6r\- thsit England li«u> j.uj." "joed m the pr.yrr.pr.t of th«'^e dues for some ie:u« '- --. ainl ct t»ii< time tht-y are paid I t^id :\^";!..".-l u;.<lc» t'i_- .jrcment by special treat} iH';-.nn tit- ;v.,) countries. There i*. aowmr. r.o d<jut.t it-;) <.tir.g ti.i: mi- hi«f and j iiuon.u.it.-! >■ i.ttt'r.di:iu v.ri>n th-' }^%nient of I il.v S<.it:, ij j :•». cs a:; i>.~-fn -n the -trong eviuvii^"! «'! i irr-o:> t'-.f.-. z< din the Baltic trade. : T.k (kt 'lAiowic vi--j:- :n the Sound i=a:crtile fouri-* < : t,U ..rA »:.<il^~ c:.}-(;:.> j-. v.-hiai i» not riccai.'tch v lasu-tJ "i y the payiie: ts actually iv.:jl<' '<> il.e D.i^L-h (-Jovtrnij'.n:. On tl.t cont!..\i. :. ('l.'rire- ..r '-^action; n.erc'y incidental :• *^ • .^' -• -"it <-\[-' t-d :>y tl.e D..iiL-h Govern--3-' i " .:j'l u> vi t,- t'li n the dut- them.-u-h cs, - d - ■. l- t'> .:ou: I. rue ".;n thereof. f" r '■- ' _";- ..n':i-_: t -"in < -r. '.- u:i.v to the -''-'' • . li-i1 _' or.' (A t..- <'<* -inlon oi vt^-th at i. -• ( ,-■ '1 L, .■"■', :\i/u\ I'i'j i',i"y raits at *.'. cli i;,e <iv- >- ::e fii.i'd .*. nl o ]i,, tti rul coiu!'«"j l ' » vi'U"d J)iif-. \)u -c.' j,v. £.s nov.1* >» .■.•in i. i-ni ..\ li-i, (-t ol'jei llon■l^ * -■ - 1J at l.jl v, on t . f'.<—thev arc u-'- " if 1- .-■''• '. :il ■ % <.(o.i-io:i if!v->- ' ' "'L 1! '. .' --, (Al L'lidlt ::• < ■•: •..Jv'mu.il r \- ' ' ..;. ( oik '-ri'i d, * '- iwj >M,\ •-< r» i< c i .(- '' j i..1 'J' i.d iiuden ..]. -. ! J.i I h -rj f'i .' -•.. /vl.' itate I<J <- ' o <A a-i-------'y.\. •> > "-<-', «.i''l 'hit "'' .• '< ' * th< v i»hf)u!d i-" 'l; A ;■/ .r, th.t "r > > i.i i.) >■ ' iik fi< vi I •" '■ '- *.i o:> i .v. transit of

goods by lniul through her territories, lor she has already indicated an intention to act on this policy ; and she possesses. from her geographical position, a sort of territorial monopoly in all the practicable routes thai oould be ; substituted in passing from the (j<rma.n Ocean to the Baltic Sea by which the payment ot% the Sound Dues could bo avoided. The committee, therefore, recommend that, in any negotiation for the abolition of the Sound Dues, the fullest consideration should be given to the means of securing a like freedom for trade in the transit through any part o'C the Danish territory. The. committee forbear to express any opinion on the merits of the propositions recently made for the abolition of the Sound Duos, but they strongly urge the importance of speedily settling the question, more especially considering the course recently adopted by the United Stales of America. The committee, therforo, think that the proposals of the Danish Government to the tliiVerent States interested in the trade and navigation of the. Haltic should receive, immediate attention. Twelve witnesses were examined, whose expenses amounted to £107.