ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 77, 26 August 1843, Page 307

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

An Irish landlord has just issued an edict to his tenantry against improvident marriages, in which he threatens with expulsion all persons on his estate who allow their children to marry before a certain age. An important decision has just been given by the Master of the Rolls in the case of the At-torney-General and the Grocers' Company of London, by which it is decreed that out of a certain amount of property left in the hands of trustees, to endow a school and hospital, no payments beyond those originally fixed by the founder's will are to be made, although the property has since increased immensely in value. In reference to this decision the correspondent of a morning paper shrewdly observes, " that, however excellent turtle, and vension, and even water frolics may be in their way, education, based on religious instruction, is infinitely more to be desired, to say nothing of the maintenance of the aged and indigent in their decrepitude."

The latest humbug invented — and the one which appears now most in vogue — is the forgery of ancient coins, which has been carried to a most incredible extent throughout the country. Some of these ingenious forgeries, it is stated, have on more than one occasion furnished lengthened disquisitions for that peculiar section of the British Association to which the examination of these matters is assigned.

Mr. Ainsworth, tbe member for Bolton, has been called on by his constituents to resign his seat, in consequence of his refusing to explain his reasons for changing his opinion on the corn-law question.

An Irish barrister of considerable notoriety was forcibly ejected from the Lady- Lieutenant's drawing-room at Dublin Castle, by the inspector of police, on the ground, it is stated, that he had failed to obtain a verdict against a distinguished relation,- in an action for defamation.

- The Limerick Chronicle says, the several poor■w unions in Ireland are indebted to the National Bank £70,000.

It is rumoured that the Right Hon. G. R. Dawßon, Sir R. Peel's brother-in-law, is about to be appointed chairman of the Board of Customs.

Lord Seaton i 6 said to have been appointed Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, in succession to Sir Howard Douglas. The expense by the overland route to India is generally estimated at £134 ; viz., £4 from London, to Paris, £10 from Paris to Marseilles, £28 from Marseilles to Alexandria, and £12 from Alexandria to Suez, whence the fare in the steamers to Bombay £80.

A sudden stop*has been put to the further progress of the Artesian well forming at the head of the Chain Pier, Brighton. At the depth of 86 feet below the surface, a stratum of rock was encountered which defied all the efforts of the workmen to bore through it. Specie to a very large amount is now exporting from Liverpool to the United States.

William Joliffe'Cooke, a gentleman in independent circumstances, was finally examined at Worship Street, on a charge of having intermarried with Amelia Hockins, he having two former wives living at the time. The prisoner was discharged on the ground that the marriage, having been performed in a private house, by a Protestant clergyman, without license or bans, was not valid.

On a late Sunday evening as the Rev. C. Rawlins, Wesleyan minister of Shrewsbury, was drawing near the conclusion of his sermon, he suddenly stopped, looked very fierce around him, and vehemently exclaimed, " Now, those who have made up their minds to go to heaven stand up," when about .two-thirds of the congregation stood up, and the other part had considerable difficulty to refrain from laughing at this disgusting freak.

At a meeting of the Primitive Methodists of St. Ives, a short time since, one of the members, on narrating his religious experience, expressed his grief at his continual backslidings, and compared himself to a sprat on a gridiron, constantly liable to slip betweeen the grips into the flames below. We regret to state that recent accounts from Yorkshire give a frightful description of the diabolical incendiarism nightly prepetrated in that district, by which an immense amount of property has been given to the flames. The militia regiments for the different counties of England, it is said, will be raised early in the course of the ensuing spring, and a ballot will take place, when they will be regularly embodied, and called out for twenty-eight days' training and exercise. Among the on dits in circulation at the leading political clubs is, that Sir J. Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Department, is likely to be selected to succeed Lord Ellenborough as Governor-General of India. At Woodbridge, Suffolk, a farmer was convicted in the penalty of £3 9s. for having killed a hare upon land in hit own occupation.

The treaty of commerce and navigation concluded with the Emperor of Russia has- been laid before both Houses of Parliament. It secures to the ships of each nation the right of entering the ports of the other, subject to the same duties as the ships of the other ; but as it does not in the slightest degree affect the Russian tariff, which a year ago was raised to almost a prohibitory rate on those goods which had not before been effectually excluded, it may be regarded as altogether destitute of value. - The Plymouth papers announce the entire extinction of the borough rats in that tr vn, the corporate property having io increased in value as to be equal to all the necessities of the council.

The Independent Chapel at Barnard Castle has been engaged by a company of comedians, and converted into a theatre, a large portion of the congregation having returned to the Established Church.

The St. Louis Republican contains a frightful account of a fatal rencontre between four persons in the higher walks of life (doubtless calling themselves gentlemen), which forcibly depicts the wretched state of society in that country. Two of the parties, named Farr t.nd Walker, having quarrelled in a ball-room, met casually at the Post Office, when each drew a pistol and fired at the other. Walker's pistol had revolving barrels, and the loads took effect on the breast and face. One of the balls entered the face above the mouth and below the nose; the other entered the chest a little below the nipple of the left breast. After receiving Mr. Walker's fire, Mr. Farr drew a second pistol, which he fired, but without effect. About the same time that Mr. Walker fired, Mr. M'Kinlay, seeing a pistol in the hands of Mr. Eustace, and presented, fired atEußtace, but without effect; and Mr. Eustace fired also without doing any injury. A voltaic telegraph is about to be laid down on the Great Western Railway to Windsor Castle, and back thence to the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. The effect of this will be, that, oa important occasions, when her Majesty may be at Windsor, any intelligence of extraordinary interest can be transmitted in less than a second of time.

The running of the Sunday trains on the Glasgow Railway has been adopted by a considerable majority of the company's votes. Letters from Berlin mention the death in that city, at the age of 66, of the Baron de LamotteFouque, known through all the world of letters as the author of the spiritual and beautiful lecend of "Undine." c

The Rev. W. Edge, rector of Nedging, Ipswich, implored the congregation to unite in prayer to God that he would avert the impending storm that was hanging over the church ; stating that there were 12,000 ministers in the Established Church, and that there were 9,000 who had embraced, or were ready to embrace, the dangerous doctrine of Puseyism. The contagious disorder, which has now for neSrly four years more or less attacked the cattle and sheep brought to the London markets, has this year returned with unabated violence.

Highway robberies are taking place almost every night in the vicinity of Wakefield. Sir William Ross, the miniature-painter, has been appointed to fill the place vacated by the death of Sir Francis Chantrey as an associate of the Royal Academy.

There was recently given a musical performance in the church of St. Roch, Paris, that deserves peculiar' notice from its extraordinary character. It consisted of a mass, the composition of M. Gauthier, a man who was born blind, and it was executed entirely by artists who had the calamity of being blind, all of whom had been trained under the professorship of the blind composer, at the Royal Institution of Paris.

Considerable excitement has prevailed in the city of York, in consequence of the death of a poor woman named Mary Glegg, from want and destitution, owing, as it was alleged, to the negligence and harsh treatment of the police and the relieving overseer. The infant child of the deceased died on the same day from the exposure to cold.

The Globe says that, in the event of Lord Abinger's retirement from the bench, which is daily expected, it is supposed that Lord Brougham will renew his application to Lord Lyndhurst for the vacant chiefship — of course, on the score of saving the country the salary. Sir Francis Bond Head is, it is rumoured, to be appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

It is understood thatM. Papineau will return shortly to Canada; he has recently been allowed, it is said, to draw on the Canadian Treasury for £4,000, the amount of his salary as speaker of the House of Representatives of Lower Canada, remaining unpaid when the rebellion broke out, and he himself absconded.

The Earl of Derby has granted leases to his tenantry at small rents, as an encouragement to drain and otherwise improve the land in their occupation. It is said that Government is about to embank a considerable portion of the river Thames on both sides, which will add greatly to the health and beauty of the metropolis. The great loss of life from shipwrecks which took place in January last, has led to a survey of the " life apparatus " of the whole British coast. The Royal Humane Society, a committee of Lloyd's, and a committee of the House of Commons, are engaged in the business. A man named Holden, who died near Manchester on the 9th of February, confessed to the murder of four persons in that town in 1817. for which two men named Ashcroft and one named Holden were executed.

The French have built five steam frigates to run to and from the United States.

The Rev. H. Percy Bennett, curate of Norton, near Tewkesbury, has been shot by his step-son. The rev. gentleman lived very unhappily with his wife, and a quarrel between them was the immediate cause of the young man committing the offence. Serious fears are entertained for the life of Mr. Rennett. An Italian opera has been played at Constantinople, in the harem of the Sultana Valide". Mr. "Walter, it is said, wiH not defend bis •eat for Nottingham. The trial of the Chartists for the riots in last autumn are*proceeding at Lancaster, as is also that, of M'Ntughten, for the murder of Mr. Drummond, at the Central Criminal Court.