ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 229, 25 July 1846, Page 83

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Among the presentations at her Majesty's )ovee. on Wednesday (February 11) were— Lord } yttleton, on being appointed Under-Secretary ot State for the Colonies, by the Duke of BucLi?uch; Lord Mahon, on his appointment as .Secretary to the India Board, by the Earl of i'ipon ; the Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan uf India, on coming home on furlough for recovery of health, by the Earl of Ripon; Sir Pharles Fitzroy, on his return from the Government of the Leeward Islands, by Mr. Secretary Gladstone; the Rev. John Jessopp, on his return from India, by the Marquis of Cholmoniiely; Lieutenant- Colonel Farrant, K.L.S., on his appointment as Secretary of Legation in Persia, by the Earl of Aberdeen ; Mr. Edward Kyre, resident magistrate, Murray River, South Australia, by Mr. Secretary Gladstone ; Lieut. . Mrnmons, on his return from Canada, by MajorGeneral Sir J. F. Burgoyne, X.C.8. ; and Commander D. Robertson, on promotion and return from New Zealand, by the Earl of Ellenborough. — Colonial Gazette.

Peru. —We have seen letters and papers 'rom Peru to the 3d of December, brought by '.he packet ; and we are happy to observe by t'lein that the President Castillo's Government continued peacefully to exercise a beneficial influence over the country. The Executive was busy carrying into effect many reforms which >rere much wanted, after the disorganization caused by the protracted civil wars of his predecessors. The Government's official organ, balled the Peruano, has, in its number of the 19th of November, a leading article on "the advantages of peace," in which the perfect independence of the Congress, the entire freedom of the Press, the better administration of justice, and many minor benefits, are dwelt on as the effects of peace and good government. We are ourselves authorized to state, that Don Juan Manuel Iterregui would definitely leave Peru, on his mission here as plenipotentiary, by the January packet, due next month. He brings his lady and family with him, and proposes settling in England for some years. A ConsulGeneral has also been appointed far England, in the person of Mr. Rivero, a gentleman much esteemed in his own country ; and it is pleasing thus to seen an increasing desire to cultivate a jolose intimacy with England, the country with which, indubitably, the best and most extensive '■interests of Peru are strongly, and, we hope, jiridissolubly linked. The Callao and Lima railway project had been most favourably received, and the company established here will, in every probability-; carry it out, under a contract with the Government. This subject is Varraly discussed in the Lima papers, in an [approving tone, the rapid progress of railways iin Europe, and the extraordinary results, having icxcited great astonishment. — Colonial Gazette, jFebruary 14.

A letter from Weimar states that the Governor has just published an order, abolishing the exceptional taxes which still pressed on the Jews, iviz., those paid for protection, for liberty to Jreside, and for liberty to hire a place of residence. The same ordonance remits such sums as are at present due by the Jewish inhabitants for those taxes.

A part of the French cruisers have already taken up their position on the western coast of Africa. Their stay at the Cape de Verd Islands was much abridged by the yellow fever raging there. None of the crews, however, were attacked by it. The portion of the coast on which the vessels are to cruise is divided into three zones : one from the Bissago Islands, not far from Senegambia, to Three Point Cape; the second, from that point to Cape Negro; and the third, thence to the extremity of the coast of the Desert.

A Barcelona journal mentions a serious altercation between the crews of a Spanish brig (the Patriota) and an English vessel, at Vera Cruz, after a boat-race, in which the English (it was said) being beaten, had fired on the Spanish crew, and killed two or three men. Thii captain of the Spanish vessel immediately weighed anchor, and in passing the British frigate, fired a broadside into her, which killed sixty men. The Barcelona journal did not authenticate this news, which it professed to have received from a passenger per Vera Cruz. — English paper.