English Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 58, 17 October 1855, Page 2

English Intelligence.

[Compiled from late Papers.]

A stranger's home, for the natives of Mahomedan lands, is about being established in London.

Dr. Easton has been appointed to the chair of Materia Medica in Glasgow University, vacant by the death of the late Dr. Couper. Dr. Easton has for several years held the chair in the same branch of knowledge in the Andersonian University.

Pauperism continues to increase in Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneton, Kidderminster, Dudley, and the iron districts of South Staffordshire. *

The late eminent geologist, Mr. G. B. Greenough, has left a fortune of £180,000, all derived, it is said, from his father, a manufacturer of lozenges.

The Perth Courier mentions that a gardener at Keir House has patented an invention for fabricating paper and rope from the common garden hollyhock. Wednesday, the 13th of June, was fixed for the inauguration of the New Metropolitan Cattle Market, Copenhagen-fields. Prince Albert was expected to attend.

A fire broke out, on the 28th May, in the Croft Mills, Ashton-under-Lyne, belonging to Messrs. Nield Sutcliffe, which resulted in the destruction of the building and a large amount of cotton.

A publican, named Keeth, has been fined by the magistrates of Exeter in the mitigated penalty of £200, for adulterating his beer with grains of paradise, camomile flowers, and gentian.

The Freemasons of Oxford intended to give, on the evening of June 19, a grand ball to commemorate the presence of the Chancellor (the Earl of Derby), who will visit the University, for the purpose of laying the foundation stdne of the new museum.

The screw ship Severn is finished, and will be the next vessel launched from her Majesty's dockyard, Chatham. She carries fifty guns.

From a return it appears that, on the 31st March, the balance at the Bank of England, on account of the public revenue, was £3,595,892 15s. 9d.

Colonel Rawlinson has arrived in L6ndon, from Bagdad, having brought to a close the excavations in Assyria and Babylonia which he has been superintending for the last three years on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum.

At the various " statutes," or annual hiring of servants in husbandry, which have recently been held in the county of Lincoln, a higher rate of wages has been obtained by both men and women, in consequence of the increasing scarcity of hands.

The Queen has been pleased to constitute the island of Labuan and its dependencies to be a bishop's see and diocese, and to appoint the Rev. Francis Thomas M'Dougal, D.C.L., to be ordained and consecrated bishop of the said see.

A few days ago, a skeleton of a man waß found in a stone-girt grave under the flooring of Glasgow Cathedral. The bones are supposed to be those of a Scottish priest of the period of Bruce or the early Stuart kings. The salaries of the magistrates of the eleven metropolitan police courts, twenty-three in number, have been raised from £1,000 to £1,200. Formerly, the allowance was only £800; it was then raised to £1,000; and now £200 per annum is added to it.

Mr. Fenton, the celebrated photograper, and his assistant, have been actively employed in front of Sevastopol. His duties in the British Museum compel him to leave the Crimea now ; but such have been his zeal and energy, in spite of winter weather, and occasionally of Russian missiles, that ( he will bring home with him about 800 views of Sebastopol and its vicinity. The Mercantile Marine Fund, under the act which came into operation on the Ist June, is under the Board of Trade. Last year, the fees on the examination of masters and mate* produced £4,350; on engagement of crews, £12,341 Bs. ; on the discharge of crews, £11,817 Is. 6d. ; and on renewal of certificates, £116 Bs. 6d.

An instance of cruelty in Tunbridge School, arising out of the " fagging " system, recently came before the Dover bench. A boy, named Edmund Burke Shepherd, was severely beaten and bruised by a boy named Shipworth, for refusing to " go to the cricket ground to fag." The bench, to the surprise of the public, dismissed the case, considering that the dispute should be settled within the school. The council of the University College, London, at their session on the 26th May, received notice of the resignation, by Mr. Graham, of the Professorship of Chemistry, in consequence of his having received the appointment of Master of the Mint.

The notorious Tom Provis, alias "Sir Richard Hugh Smyth, Bart.," whose impudent attempt to grasp the Smyth property, at Stapleton and Ashton, must be remembered, died on Sunday, the- 27th of May, in the infirmary of Dartmoor prison. He had been ailing for some time.

The Cardiff Guardian has the following : — "On Wednesday last, the 23rd May, a poor woman, the wire of Patrick Sanders, a docklabourer, living at No. 1 1, Ellen-street, in this town, gave birth to four children (daughters), the whole of whom are now doing well and are likely to live." The Government now decline to render any assistance to the emancipated slaves who arrive in this country from Cuba on their way to Africa. These emancipados, as they are called, are possessed of large quantities of gold and silver plate and ornaments, in which they invest their wealth for convenience and safety. The artizans and operatives of Wolverhampton are signing in large numbers a testimony of their estimation of the recent public services of Mr. Layard. It will be engrossed upon vellum, with the signatures of the artizans, &c, stitched in a very handsome cover prepared for the plirpose, and the whole enclosed in a papier mache case, to be got up in an elaborate style.