English Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 178, 12 February 1848, Page 3

English Extracts.

The Right Hon. Earl Grey, one ot her Majesty* Principal Stcielanei of State, has nominated and appointed John W. Cowell, Esq , to be her Majesty* Special Commissioner for the affair* of the New Zealand Company. The London Gazette contains an order for further proroguing the Parliament until Tuesday the 12lh. of October. A meeting wai held on Tuesday week, in the Trnaei, Hall of Glasgow, for promoting the new colony of On go, in New Zealand. Mr. Fox Muule presided ; and explained, that the Hireling had been called by the Lay AsNociation. of the Frte Church of Scotland, to direct aitention to the projected .-c ttemrnt, a» one to be fonnded on " denominational principles." Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby hat been appointed to the command in the Pacific, to succeed Sir Gcirga Seymour, and will hoist his flag in the Asia, 84 guv*, at Sheernets On Saturday afternoon, two detachment! of regmfnts «ming in New Sou h WaLs, c< n>is ing of two sergeants, and twrny-hva iauk and fill? of the 58th, i eminent, and two oergeun s and tw«nty-fivu rank and fi e of ihe *?9tti, arrived at the General Hospital, l'orfc Pitt Chatham, under ths command of Major Rich rd. Denny, 68th. The whole of these troops were at the attiik of H'ki's pah, which tliey stated wa« impregnable, bein b ' built wi h trunks of treei, to me height o* fifteen 10 eighteen feet above the curface of tho earth, and tiebly stockade J wi h wails, em mnkmentß^ and ditches, mid of such nagmlude lha r the pah formed a lortre s for the protectun cf a thousand ia<'n» Majur Denny oi>ojm'-iided the Lijit C mpr.ny of the sSih on that disn- irous occuniun. I'heu ir(i«>»'S embarked at Sydney i,n the 1 6th of !«i >t M >reh, and Faileil on the 18 h, on boinl th-* ihio TushW'iia, CapU W. Black, al2 torn, and arrived t'ff Gr v ■;*>") d aitsra pasB>ge of four monina. Dr. FnjJ* ueJ ea! offi"ei P inspected the troops, and thirteen we:.' unj^r-id in'<* hospiial. Tho remaindf r wercci nvey« <l to St. Iv! y'§ barracks, to be discharged on peH^lons. The wi-r^t c»ses of the wou'id-'l ur( still remaining at Sy incy. Expenditure ot thu Loan Stkward o? ttic Royal H(.us«h»ld — The follow -ng bill uS, Uia foe one year (1846^ may not be unimei estiig to cci> r ,O" mists and the public : Bread, Jl2 063 ; f>uifor, v >a< (n 0 cliecse, and e^gs, £ J 4,576; milk ar.d cre,\.n j&l,'l/B,i buicher's meat, j£9.-i72; poultry, jtJ,6i)- a !'. 4.1,9,79 ; grocery, iT4 ,644; oilery, jL'l,7,'J3; trui. anJ con'ectionary, i^l,/4: : *»gtia'oles. kisl • w in, £4.850 1 Iqueurs, &. G £lMi.\ *\t and. btei. I ; wax candies, £1. 977; ullow canul:», £&t9.i lam< a, £4 166 ; fuel, j£6,84,9; stationery, £B>4 ; tur/iery« jf37t»; traziery, £B l J[)\ cbjm, gla^i, be., £i:&2Vi li.icn, £l,03& ; wmbinp, ttb^liaea, &c, 43 ( 130; pl.t.^oo.