ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 31, 8 October 1842, Page 123

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The Semaphore de Marseilles mentions the fitting out of a French naval squadron, to proceed forthwith to Tangiers. Orders had likewise been received in Toulon, to fit out in all haste a corvette of war; to proceed direct to New Zealand. The Sabine corvette, now under repair, was also to sail for- the South Sea Islands. Rear Admiral de Hell, late Governor of Bourbon, had arrived at Toulon. Intelligence has been received of the arrival of Lieutenant Moodie, on the 15th January, with his sappers and miners, at the Falkland Isles, the seat of his future governorship. • Private letters received in London from Rio Janeiro, state that the Danish flag had appeared in those seas, engaged in the nefarious traffic in slaves. . Since Sunday morning the following ships have sailed from Gravesend for Bengal, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, with troops for India — viz., the Ann, Captain Griffiths; Mellisb, Captain Fawcett; Mermaid, Captain Kyle; Rajan, Captain Stewart; Berkshire, Captain Norris; Inglis, Captain Isaacson; and the Margaret, Captain Joyce. These ships carry out nearly 1,600 troops.— Morning Herald, May 4. Distress is fearfully prevalent among the working classes ; several cases have occurred of wilful breaking of lamps that the miserable ■ jictims of poverty might obtain the shelter of a ■prison! An artist at Rome, named Roudoin, has just succeeded in taking photographic drawings on ■ stone, and printing from it. In that way he printed a lithograph of a nebula of Orion. This -•■printing, at second hand, from Nature herself; the firmament within one move of the press ! The next process will be to print ipeech and music warm from die lips.