EXTRACTS FROM THE 'HOME NEWS.'

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 14, 16 January 1874, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM THE 'HOME NEWS.'

(November 14) The Court of Admiralty has recently moved for a decree condemning the Murillo in the damage done by her to the emigrant ship Northfleet, and ordering her to be sold. Sir R. J. Philiimore said: — "I grant the prayer of the motion which has just been made to me, but I do not think I ought to content myself with the mere discharge of that part of my office. I find it difficult to express in adequate terms the indignation which the brutality and meanness of those who had charge of the Murillo must excite in the boßom of every man not void of the ordinary feelings of humanity. This case, indeed, represents all the cruelty without any of the courage of the pirate." The ship Oluna, which sailed from London, yesterday, took out for New Zealand several specimens of cattle and sheep of the purest strains in England. They consisted of "British Flag," a first prize animal, lately tho property of the Messrs Dudding, of Panton; "Wellingtonia," a splendid half-bred by Mr Kirkham, of Audley Caister, and "Cherry Gwynne," from the herd of Mr Sharpley, of Acthorpe. This laat hails from a herd of which a cow and three descendants, two heifers and a bull, realised at a recent sale nearly £JSOO. These, as well as twenty-five pure Lincolnshire ewes, are being shipped by Mr Larkworthy, of the Bank of Now Zealand. Twenty Lincolu pwes and two racus from the flockd of Mr Thomas Kirkham, of Biscathorpe, and the Messrs Dudding, of Panton, have also been shipped by the Cluna for Mr Cathcart Waaon, of Canterbury.

Various predisposing causes resulted in a city panic on Saturday last. Tho cscitt. I.raentwas very great, and things were flung upon the market, in a way not calculated to increase outside faith in the wiedom of those who advise anal direct our monetary speculations. Matters have, however, mended, but the fact that the Bank rate had been raised to 9, which for many purposes means 10, is enough to give men of business a key to the situation. The Agent-General for New Zealand has entered into an arrangement with Mr Holloway, one of the representatives of the Agricultural Laborers' Uuion, to accompany from 200 to 300 emigrants who take passage iv the MoDgol on Dec. 15. Mr Holloway will see lo the settlemeat of the emigrants and return to England for the purpose of reporting on the advantages of New Zealand as a field for emigration. This is a step in the right, direction, for a practical knowledge of the actual wants and circumstances of Australian settlement is chiefly conspicuous by ita absence on the part of those directly engaged in the work of emigration here. Dr Featherston hopes to be able to charter for emigrants the second steamer intended to carry (he mail between New South Wales, New Zealand, and San Francisco, leaving in January. Scarcely a day passes without our being informed of additional preparations for the Asbantee war, and it is abundantly clear that our commander has made the Government aware that ho must be supplied wk» menns to do bis work thoroughly. A rumor ia in circulation that some kind of reverse ha 3 been experienced by our forces, and that Sir Garnet Wolseley has invited the services of all officers who are inclined to volunteer to take duty. It ie certain that there has been a demand for more artillery, and that a reinforcement from Aldershot was despatched three days bock at the shortest possible notice. The railway on the Coomassie road will, as at present arranged, be twenty miles long, and the delivery of the rails at Woolwich is nearly finished. Somewhat of a sensation has been created by a warning which has been given to England to beware of Turkey. The idea has a repellent element. Turkey, for whose sake we fought the most trying and costly war since 1815. Turkey, whose strong friend and patron England has ever. been. Yet it is not the less true that the Turks are supposed to meditate the entire conquest of the Arabs, and that powerful forces are dealing with the dwellers by the Red Sea. The future of Aden will be n, dark one, it is thought, if the Sultau be not checked. We have so little real information as to what has been done or is going to be done, that wo can say no more than that the alarm note has been sounded, and thot it ia being echoed from the watch-towers of our journals. An accident occurred the other day at the wedding of a Staffordshire clergyman As the bride and bridegroom were leaving, the customary old shoes and a quantity of rice were thrown at them, some hitting the horse, which bolted. The driver was thrown off the box, and the carriage pnssed over him. The carriage subsequently came into collision with a cab and capsized, and smashed to pieces. The bridegroom was pitched out of the window, and sustained a sculp wound several inches long. He lies in a precarious state. The bride was more frightened than hurt, and has recovered from the shock. The Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated a new church at Margate, on Nov. 13, and at a luncheon which followed the ceremony bis grace made a speech ia response to the toast of hie health. The most rev. prelate, in alluding to tho fre-quently-heard cry that the Church was in danger, remarked that wherever ho had the pleasure of going he found large churches well filled, hearty worshippers, and a great, deal of enthusiam in the work and in the services of the establishment. He did not know how these facts were to be reconciled with these gloomy vaticinations they so often heard, and for his own part he believed that the Church of England was really loved by his people. Wool. — Messrs, Helmuth, Schwartz, under the date Nov. 13, report: — Since the close of the last series the market has been very quiet, and only a few transactions have taken place, at firm prices. The high rate of money may influence the market, but the stocks being everywhere very small, firm prices are generally expected for next sales.