SUMMARY OF GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Great Britain.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 339, 9 August 1849, Page 3

SUMMARY OF GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Great Britain.

PitiNOE Albert was expected to visit Grimsby on the 1 lth of April, for the purpose of laying thn foundation stone of the new Docks. . . . The Rev. J, Gamier, junr., son of the Dean of Winchester, has been appointed chaplain to tho speaker of the House of Commons. . . . The Home Secretary has stated that the Yeomanry Cavalry will not be placed on permanent duty or inspected during the present year ; but such corpi as may wish to be trained according to the provisions of the Volunteer Act, will be allowed to assemble aud receive certain remuneration .... The number ot chargeable post letters in 1839 was 70 millions ; in 1818, 329 millions.. ..According to an order issued by the Adjutant-General, the home force is fixed at 43 regiments of infantry, each of the strength of 47 sergeants, 17 drummers, and7soiank. and file. The colonial force is fixed at 15 regiments, each ol the stiength of 47 sergeants, \*J drummers, and 770 rank and file. Regiment! in India and Australia, together with the

37t1» and 7&lh rcftiments will remain at 1000 ; and the corps which have been divided into two battalions will continue ul 1200 rank and file as heretofore. . . . Thirty women have been made widows and sixty children or* pluri 1 . by an explosion at Baruslev Co.Hery. A subfccnplion opened for them speedily reuched to £000 .... Five working men have lost their lives by nn accident on the Caledonian Railway.. .. Twelve or fourteen house* have l» 'en buuU down atWo-tt^xc, i ivei'on, tlic roota being thatched, the lire spmli y »pic.id.. .. Sir Ralph Lopes, a sfiiuneh advocate of Chm<» and Slate and Protection principles, his b-en ro urned to Parliament for South Devon.. .. Mr. I'ryse I'iysc, th° liberal candidate, nas been elected for Cardigan boroughs by a narrow m ljority. . . . Mr. Wakly, the Coroner fjr Middlesex, has obtained X'3so lUrosigrs against Mr. lli'alcy and Mr. Cook for a hb.l m the Medical Tunes attributing to hi in the use of improper inciini to obtain a verdict of manslaughter against the military auUioritics at th<* inqii -st, in 1810, on White, the hus« bai who diet! at liuuii^luvr BarmuLs s>oon after rccciveing 150 laßhen.. ..Two men Were arrested nt Uii.Miinghain in the act of coining h ilf-crowns by the elcctro-platc system. A complete electro-battery was discovered on the premi C 3, with a number of half., ciowns on the wirc> and undergoing the silvo ing process.. ..The amount of Exchequer Billb, authored t> be raised, charged on the supplies of 1819, is j£fl7 t 9lf>,s )0. ... The total amount which will be required to defray the expense of the packet service of the Post Office in the yea- 1 318-49, is estimated at ,£748,296. The sum last year was X' 814,360 . . .. The Sunderlaud Water Company now buppih'S 40!) poor familie-i, gratis, with service pipes and water taps in their houses, and a full supply of water at the ruto of one penny per week., ..The eminent luvpUt, Parish Alvars, is dead Mr. Bainss, the new President of the Poor Law Boaid has been re-elected for Hull, without opposition., .. Sir Joshua Walmsley has been elected forßolton tosucceed Dr. Bownnj; in Parliament „ ..The paper makers are again bestirring themselves to get rid of the excise duties.. ..The Dumfries Standard has an account of another singing mouse, which is said to utter nofrs like those of the canary and linnet.. .. Several children have been dangerously ill, and a fine boy at Tenterden has died, being poi« suncd by arsenic and other deleterious articles u o ed in colouriug confectionary. It was also stated at a late Meeting of the London Medical Society that two children nearly lost their lives by a new toy in the shape of a white rabbit, tha fur of wbi<h hod been dusted over with a mixture of arsenic and lead to preserve it from moths, &c. The children had rubbed this fur with their hands, and then put their hands into their mouths.. .« An Association has been formed in Manchester for superintending the registration of voters, and promoting the increase of the county electors by the extension of the forty- shilling freehold franchise .. ..The Council of King's College, London, have appointed eminent professors to deli/er evening lectures for the benefit of young men \vho9e avocitions prevent them from indulging in literary and scientific pursuits during the day.. ..Captain Kellett, R.N., hai been suddenly ordered out to Behring's Straits in search of the expedition commanded by Sir John Franklin The long litigated case of the Baron de Bode's claim on the British Government, — for a large flum of money, from the piyments made by France under the Convention of 18 1 8, iw compensation for the losies he hud suffered by the confiscation of his property in the territory of Alsace, (hiring the French Revolution — Las been finally decided against the Baron In Scotland, the yon jus farms lately re-let have, notwithstanding the low prices of produce, in every instance brought higher rents.. ..Floods in the North of Scotland lmve done extensive iniichief, destroying the bridges, inundating the dwellings of the poor, so as to drive them to lake shelter in Churches, &c, mid leading to apprehensions of the appearance ot infectious dtscabes. la Inverness the results have been especially calamitous.. ..A young man has bien committed for trial at Sheffield for stealing a pair of shoes by the instrumentality of. his dog. The dog took the slioes from a shop-door, and carried them to the prisoner, who had trained it to perform such feats.. .. The number of Mormonitcb was increasing in the neighborhood of London, especially about Camden Town and Som:ra Town. They intended to emigrate to California in the spring.. ..Sir Charles Napier having expiessed a wish to visit Italy previous to his going to India, the Loids of the Admiralty had j>ivcu orders for a Government Bteamer to be at Leghorn on the 28th of March, to convey the General thence to Alexandria. The mail wa^to be detained at Alexandiu till his arrival. Before his departure from London lie was entertained at a splendid banquet by the East India Company It i 3 in contemplation to have a btation f>r reserve steam vessels at Grecnbithe, where they will be ready to proceed to sea at the shortest notice. ...The Remittance hud brought to Liverpool a quantity of quicksilver ore, shipped from California.... There was received at Liverpool, from California, a newspaper called The Culiforn an. It was well printed, but ita contents consisted chiefly of advertisements, with very little news.. ...Tin: parishioners of S\ Nicholas in Liverpool were agitating nigorously for a measure to subject the docks and corporate property to parochial and other local rate Bernard Barton, the popular and philanthropic Quaker poet, has died suddenly of an affection of the heart The Couit of Ewise has inflicted a penalty of jfjlOOl) on Joan and William Shearman, for illegally malting Lord Lcwiaham, son of the Earl ot Dartmouth, has been elected to rcpiesent tho borough of L'chfielc, in place ol Loul Ingleston, now Earl Talbot.. ..In the Couit of Queen's Bench, five persons ol lespcctable station were found guilty of selling an Indian cadetship, which is made criminal by several btringent Acts of Parliament.. ..Piincc Waldemar, of Prussia, had died in bis 32nd yoar, from thh consequences of a fall in hunting. He had been present at the principal operations of the campaign against the Sikhs, under Lord Hardinge....lt had been discovered that Mr. Alexander Buchanan, the senior partner of the fiira of the firm of Buchanan and Anderson, Glasgow manufactures, had been forging acceptances to the amount, of several thousands sterling. He had fled from justice The Bank of England has an accumulation of bullion, although lately a good deal of silver has been ■hipped to the Continent.

Ireland. The prospects of the Irish farmers were gloomy At all ,the leading provincial markets the trade in grain had become exceedingly depressed, particularly ai regarded oats, iv which foreign competition was severely felt " Conciliation Hall " (Dublin) had actually. been sold to the llev. Dr. iVleyler,ii9 a chapel of cuae toWestland Row Roman Catholic Chapel The Pilot, long the late Daniel O'Connell's newspaper organ, had ceased to exist.. ..Father Muthew was about to nnke his long promised visit to America.. .. The Society of Fiicuds have taken a farm Of 400 acres in the county of Galwdy.to bu worked under the su» perintendence of a committee of s the society Ten puncheons ol wliiskey have been shipped from a Tipperary distillurv for Calilornia.. ..The tide ol emigration flowing through Dublin has been tlie iject of geuerul conveisation. It was> impossible to pass the quays without being stmclv with the number ftud re •

spectability of the masses of people hurrying alonc£ lowauls the emigiant ships, or the eteamors for Liveiponl, from whence many take passages to Ameiicd. . .. The Ltmeruk Enuniner states that no less thaii twenty proprietor in Clare were sibont to sell their estates, and seek a home in other climes.. •. On » bingle Sunday in February, seven persons, three of whom hail been intended for the priesthood, publicly | lenoiimb'l the Konun Catholic h>li»ioji in SN Thomas's cliurch, Dunlin.. .. ! li,- huhopnr of Down .md Connor .still continual viemit, woul having declined to ncxept it in consequence ol the fiu.nici.il embarrassments rosultinjj from the <■»<,- ;-cmcnt, ot the late diocesan, Dr. Mint.,.. The >»( t U amount contnbiiU'd for the wife «nd family of J, hn Miiohel', was only about £') 0 On St. PatiitKi <l.y, the Lord Lieuteivmt did not Kuop up the. eld custom of r lu'vin:? the C isrtij >rd witli special p >inp. . „ The Irish Spiiitual R"prc*scntativ(j IVeiH privi!c< eu" to eil a<id \ote this ses-ion, arc the Arehbiohop of Dublin, the I'.ialiopa of Meath, Ca*liul, and 'iW....Mr Coiiolly, has bvm elected to icpwacnt Doruv;jl County, in mom of !,i 8 father, the laic Colonel Conolly, in whose fjoUcps of " hi,; 1 ) Conservatism " iic promises to tread.. .. Tne It'-v. Geoi^e Wliiimoie Carr, the first founder of .1 Temperanc ; Society in Kuropj has died fit Now R>sb, in his 70th year A. new weekly journal, The I'mintec of Muni lei , li.ul oecn started uc Cork on the exticu jiopulnr intciesc. It flings Repeal oveiboatd, however. ... Sir WiH.jia Somerville hab tromihul tho immediate introduction of. two tiu'Ubures lelatin j to renewable leaseholds an 1 mi" prov^me/i's on 1aud..... It w.i'i ovp^ctciJ tint Mr. Duffy would be .I^lll put on trial at Hie Duulm coinmiasion on the 7Ui »»f Apri'. Uc was to be kept in durance till then.. ..The cholera continued to prevail in the North. Belfast suffered severely.,, .. Destitution and hunger ravaged the. South and West, In the Conneraara districts it was alleged that hundreds died daily from insufficient and unwholesome food. Glkanings from r.WB Auskial.vsi^n Papens.—The Launccslou Examine) sa_ys that tlia grosa agricultural produoc ot thu last sc.uon h undoubtedly thj heaviest that ever ha., been pnthcrad in the colony., ..Several conditional )>ardons, not available in Van Biomatis Lund, have been granted, with Iho view of removing the worst part of (he population from the colony., „I'oit Grey (Rivoli Buy) is to be declared a puhlic port, and a Customs establishment stationed there.. .. Captain Fieeling. 11. E , the new Surveyor-Guneral of South Australia, has arrived in Adelaide.. ..The sum expended in the election of Churches and P.U'^onagas there in connexion with the Cnui'eh ot Kng'and, since the foundation of the colouy, is, from piivat* subscriptions. j624,U4; from Government aid, £2557 The attempt to amalgamate the Railway Company funned, in Ade'aide wiih that established ia London has failed. The London Company, it ? s supposed, will lay down a line to the North Arm, and not to the present port.... Mr. Justice a' Beckett has decided that none of the streets in Melboui ne have been propcily proclaimed. „..G. W. Andechou, E-q , of the Civil Service of India, has been appointed Governor of the Mauritius. He was to receive the honour of knighthood before proceeding to thj Island. . ..la the House of Commons lately Mr. Ilawes siid, *' New Ze-ilund at this moment afford^ a blight example of the wise and pure motives and the 'uajucity of choice wiiich have ruled Lord Grey in hb < xirribe of putroiia»c.".. . . In a debite on the .ilViins of Ceylon, Sir William Molebwoith Beverely animadverted on our pindei iu£ to the s.uperBiitions of the Buddhists with regard to '' the tooth of Buddha," a iclic with which the possession of which they fancied that the sovereignty ot Candy was for ever connected. He advised that it should be placed in the British Mu'ieum, " there to fulfil the prophecy, and remain till ferituunia ceaael to be Queen of Cey10n."....,.At l'arr.im.Uti the inhabitants held a public meeting to urge the Governor and Council to vota a sufficient sum (ab nil dCJOuO) to bnn<; u stipply of pure water into the town.... The 7! for clou Hag Courier strongly urges the establishment of an efhvient )>alicc to guard at least the roads in the neighborhood...... The mail-coach fiom Singleton to MaitUnd has been stopped hy two armed bushrangers, and robbed to a lerge amount.... A number oi ftlaoriea employed at Wellington in road-making left then wiges in the hands ot the Gjvcrnment until they amounted to £272, with which th<y are now erecting a watcrmill Influenza has been very prevalent at Melbourne A piece of groun I has been granted bj Sir Ch ides Fitz Roy to the Corporation of Melbourne as the site of a Town Ha 11.... A man has died at Melbourne, on ixMni the Sophia, <rom lnhaliag the fuaies of snl])hur with which tlit; schooner wab fimigalcd to destroy ruts A Company his bi.cn foimed called "Thcs Moreton Hay Company," for the pur|io,eof pcowin", and manufacturing su^ir. The capital 13 X'oUOO, in GO shares of £5 each We regret to sec that the iv religious practice of publishing n&A'upapeib on the S.ihbath has beau iutroduoed at -Sydney, whcie a Sunday p iner is nnnounrcd. ... In Melbourne there me 103 public-home ,, and a population of about 20,000 ; iv Poitlaiul, with a population of fiOO, there is a publio house for every sl[ inhabit ants. To put Melbourne on a footing with I'ortldnd, in place ol 103 licensed publicans, there ought to be 3G7.

Splitting a Hank Norn. — The Governors and Director of the 15.viU of England having been informed of tho extia ndiniry ingonuily of IMI. 15 lldwin, and that he was ablo, not. only 10 split a newspaper, but a bank-note, aent for him in order to tc.t bis skill. That this t.isk might he as dilViou t as pov>rtlc, they picked him out one of ths old one-jioutnl noies, which arc printed upon paper much tlunuer than the notes of the present clay, and told him lo sp'ii it if he could. Mr. Baldwin Uok the note home with him, and returned it the mxt day in this state he had promised The paper was not in thu filthiest degree torn, and seemed ao though it had just come fioin the manufactory, so little was its appearance nlFurted by the operation. The Directors remunerated Mr. ikluVm for his trouble, but could not elicit, horn him the means he employed. The discovery ii considcitd of much importance in connection with the pj^er currency of the country.

Valuable Australian Wood&.—I» ike Cipe of Good Hope Shtppmy Gazollo we i'md the following notice of a valuable spceies of Australian wood :— ■" A gentleman, recently lions England, lms brought witli him a piece of tha Australian wood, known as Uio " Blackthorn," remarkable for tho solidity of it 3 Enbstance, and the fineness of iis grain. ThubC qualities, and the hi»u polish of which il is coiwyuuilly i>u!>ccptible, lias lately biou^lit it into much estimation its England, where it is iibed fop m»ny of ihe jmi-pobt-s to which ivory 19 oidinarily applied. Its excellence and rarity, with the grcut demand t»r it, have given it an extraordinary value— the picscnt selling price being, as we are infoi mcd, jCIOO per tun. The blackihorn ia nol the only Australian wood with which the English market h now supplied. From Swan lliver, in paiticul.ir, two or three kind * of vjluable timber have been lately expoitcd, and with good kucccßS." The hatnc paper suys that u spccimmi of remarkably fine-grained wood had lately been lu ought to C<ipe Town from NdUl. The name upp-o[iuattly ijivqu to Uis " !.l«^ Ebony.'