EUROPEAN EXTRACTS. ODDS AND ENDS. (From late European Papers.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 225, 26 July 1848, Page 3

EUROPEAN EXTRACTS. ODDS AND ENDS. (From late European Papers.)

What two :coie of foreigner* would make a man iincjv'l ? Forty Poles, because they make, one rood. — Tne American public is much puzzl d to know vvhut is Pieeulent Polk's object in Bending out an expedition to Palestine, to txjlaie the Dend vSea. The editor of the Maine Farmer believes that the object is to fi li up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and to annex them to the United States.— The gold and lilver plate at Windsor Cd&tle is valued at £2,000.000.— The railway calls for January amount to £4,677,000. Of these, £211,000 are on foreign lines. — Wm. Napier, Esq., has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the island of Labuan.— The freightage of flaX along the east coast of Scotland is estimatrd to amount to £121,000.— The Butlder slates il:ata Scottish national gallery will probably be established in Edinbuigh.— A French club has been established in London, under regulations similar to those of t l ;e English clubs.— Theie arc in the entire wo.lcl 1,031 S3G Baptists, andiu the Uirttd States 731,906.— At the General Po*t Offi<e these were issued during; the quartets ending January sth, about 17,000 money orders ; at Edinburgh, 13,000 ; Dnblin, 20,000 ; Liverpool, 30,000 ; Manchester, 20, 000; Bigminghara, 17,000 ; Glasgow, 16,00 j ; Bristol, 12,000 ; Hull, 10,000 ; Southampton, 70UO ; Brighton, ) 0,000; Bath, 80 o.— The total value of the horses, black cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United Kingdom is estimated in M, Queen's statistics of the British empire, at £346,270, 000 sterling,— A family, residing in Littledale, near Lancaster, is said to h >ye owned and occupied the said farm diving- the last six hundred yt a-s ; and its head is repoi ted lately to have Bold, for o'd iron, the armour in winch his forefathois fought at the batlls of Flodden.— The increase of the Irish consumption of sugar last ycarVwas about 5000 tons, being nearly a fifth of the whole increase of the United Kingdom.— The total sum spent on the relief of the poor in Manchester, in the year just ended, was .£48,321 13s. Id. This is an excess of £18,055 above the previous year, and of tbii sum £14,325 was spent in the relief of Irish caser— The poor-rates at Radford are 10s. in the pound ; at Smton-in-Ashfield, \b». — The artisans of Birmingham have subscribed • sum of £924 18s. Id., which they have presented as a ,iew year's gift to the Queen's Hospital in that town. —An American j>arer, the St- Louii Republican, sta e» that a farmer, living in Madison country, in tbe state .of litinios, hat grown a crop of maize, which has returned 180 busheli to the acre— Si ace the accession ,of Donna Maria in 1834, now a period of fourteen years ago, there has been no leis than forty-two changes of ministry in Portugal. The population of New Or lean* is 79,998, a diminution of 16, 00 since lait year, and 23,000 since 18 10 — More than twotbirdi of the failures which happened in Berlin during the last year aro believed to ha\e been caused by speculation in railway shapes. — The population of the town of Hamburg amounts, according to the last census to between 122,000 ai d 153,000 scul , of whom more thun 20,000 proftsi the Jewish religi m. The piopotition lor admitting members of the Je vish pd| lasion t-i all commeiciul assemblies lias beuu reject d by" an

assembly of spventyievpn votes.— During the year 1847, there were no U ss than 191 pei&oin called to the bar by the societies of ihe MiJdie Temple, Inner Temple. Lincon's Inn, and Gray's Inn.— At the Kathdowny Petty Sessions, £1340 was awarded ogonibt the Greut Southern Railway, being £'20 a-day, lor slopping n road belonging to Mr. Slubber, without liaviig substituted another.— A Bristol contemporary apologises to his readers for having represented a Chiistraas [party as dining off " a tat poka, ' instead of a " fut porker."— An English ntWhpjper entitled the NcigM.wr, the fxst over published in Chili Las been ectabhshe.l at Vjkp.ira'io.— Ths Email remains at the islabl'thment at the Cn.hton Pavilio.l have been broken up and dispersed. .Several of the domestics were transferred to f^>e other roynl residences, and tLose who kMi the royal service entirely received thiee »uontjs' pa? a-, agia-.ulty.— A magistiatein New Orleans,, who has been long much troubled with coins hii at length upon an espedirnont, which had the effect ot completely i hiding hhn of such troublesome custom is He actually had them taken up befoie liimsrlf, a»(d inflicted upon them a line of twenty-five doJ'araeach, for thooling without a licence. — A gold mine isEuid to have been discovered in Canada, at a distance ol forty nv.lea from Quebec— Thtic are 202 insurance offices now existing in the United Kingdom. —The private banking accounts of Cromwell aie in the possession of thenncient London banking house of Messrs. Childs and Co.— The pooi rates in Preston are 12s. to the pound. — The number of steamers that enteied ihe port of Hamburgh in 1843 was 322, in 1815 it wild enly 295. and in 18}/ ihe number had increased to 410 — "Go dovntothe store," said *a !a y lerently, to n nr^ro ecrvp, t, "anil buy me a spool of No. 100 cotton." In a short time the servant returned, and on handing two c potjls to her, said •' they had no 100 cotton, Miss Jane, so I brought two fifties."— Whj do acilora servng in brigs make bad servants ? Be< ause it's impossible for a man to serve huo master? —Young physicians find it hard to get into business ; but they will succpeil if they only have patients. — " lam a broken man," exclaimed a poet. " So I think," was the answer, '• for I have seen your pieces. "^-Somc six and-thirty years ago, a holiday wjs proposed to the boys at Eton, on discovering within a tune, the two words which contain all the vlwcls in legulnr or <er. The answr was " abstemiously" ond '• facetiously." — " You look as if you were beside yi.nrsdl,' 1 as a wag said tv a fellow who stood by a donkey —Dr. R. maintaining that property was a vu tee. " That," replied Mr. Manning, "is literally making a virtue of neassity."— Of the tobacco consumed in London, it is estimated that at least twothird 1 ; are smuggled— -a natural result of preposterously cxoibittnt duties — The sum subscribed for the eatabhslimpnt of an English bishopric at Victory, or Hongkong, in China, now reaches upwards of £\8,009,— The Ltitish colonies occupy an area of 2,119,708 square mills, with a total population of 107,708,323. their exports and imports amount to £ J 55,533,500. — The King of Denmark has received co favourable a report as to the fertility of the Nieobar Islands, that he is about to establish a colony on them. The frigates Feria and Minerva are fitting out for the purpo«e* of tne first expedition. — It is stated that a company has been formed at Copenhagen for establishing 6team coramunicdt'.on between Denmark, the Faro Islands, Iceland, and Scotland. The communications which w.ll take place every fortnight, nre to !>e comn enccd on the Ist of April- The Government have accorded a re uctlon of port and anchorage duties to the steameis which may undo take them. — A French company of (.amblers pay to the Grand Duke of Hi j .<se Darmstadt, f«»r the privilege of keeping three gambling talles at Ha aburg, t e 6U-n o(l8 r ' i 0 r 0 florins airoually, besid s giving; the grand duke the freehold of a miign'fieent palace, said to have cost half a million, and a right to all it uontiin9 at the cxpiiarion often years— There arj in de Fngli h language 2'\500 nouns, 40 pior.oui s, 9200 aoj rtivps, 80 0 verbs, 2600 adverbs, 09 pro,O3ition-, 19 conjunctions, fiB interjections, and two articles } in all, above 40,000. — A list of railways opened in the United Kingdom during 18-J7 is pul>hbhed in Heropaik's Journal ,• from wiiicb it appears that the total miUaee was 151—515 miles in England, 128 in Scotland, and I 8 in Ireland.— From thesieond annual report of the commissioners, it appears that there are 2553 lunatics in the licensed asylums of the metroplis.— The anuunl capitul engnged in th potteiy marnfactme is jfc'2,soo, 1 00 aid the numlcrof ham's employed in it average between B.'»,ooOand iOO,OOO. — A renter's share in Drury-lane Theatre, formerly worth £bQO, vias knocked down at the auction mart, in London, for £70.— lion mny be 6oftcned by a degree of heat not exceeding that of melted lead, and may be afterwards moulded into any required shape.—

England v. France.— Engliih armies, for a hundred and twenty years, ravaged France ; but England has not feen the fires of a French camp since the bnttle of Hastings. English troops have twite taUen the French capital; an English King was crowned at Paris a Frmch king rode captive through London ; a French 'Emperor dicl in English cnptiTity, and his remains were »urrendered by English generosity. Twice the English horse marched from Calais to the Pyrenees, once from the Pyrenees to Calais ; the monuments of Napoleon, in the French capital, at this moment owe their preseiv»tion from German revenge, to an En^libh general. All the great disasters and daysof rr burn inn fof France since the battle of Hastings — Tcnchcbray, Cre sy, Poiotiers, Agincourt, Verneuil, Cervonr, Blenheim, Oudcnord, Rainilies, Malplnquer, Minden, Dettinjrcn, Quebec, Ec;ypt, Talavera, Salawanca, Vittoria, Otthes, the Pyrenees, Waterloo— were gained by English generals, and won, for the most part, by English soldiers. Even at Pontenoy, the greatest victory over England of which France can boaat since Hastings, every regiment in the French army waß, on their own admission, routed by the terrible English column, and victory was matched from its grasp solely by want of anpport on the part of the Dutch and Ausirians. No coalition against France has ever been successful in which England did not take a prominent part; none, in the end, has failed in paining its ol.jects in which eho stood foremost in the fight. The fact is io apparent on the most superficial survey of history— tl,a.t it is admitted by the ablest French historians, though they profess themselves unable to explain it.— Alison's History of the Duke of Marlborough. " '