SUMMARY OF EVENTS. [From the "Home News," Jan. 24]

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 433, 8 June 1850, Page 1

SUMMARY OF EVENTS. [From the " Home News," Jan. 24 ]

Thy distant dominions, like wild grafting shoots, They weigh down thy trunk— they will tear up thy roots. MoN'iGOMKRT. Fe, ft, fo, fum, I have got a loan jobber under my thumb, The Russian hear lias scaled his doom ; President Taylors hour ii> come. -Mb. Catmt, M.P. The Roy 4 family are at Windsor, where thty liaTe enjoyed the cold weather und its skating and shooting amusements. Tlib Qieen, th ugh in an inte efctinfi situation, take* regular out of-door excicise, and >te*a gjud deal of company. Ptince Albert presided at the

during the week, at which all the ministers were present, with the exception of Lord Minto, Sir Johu Hobhouse, and Mr. Fox Maule. The colony of Van Dieraen's Land has refined to receive convicts. A quaint writer in the Times thus comment! on our colonial »nd foreign policy :—: — This conflicting policy can only be explained thusi —In I8lf! it was familiarly said by those in high places, " If we thwart Giey he is capable of breaking up the Gorernment. He h,\t always said lie was going to be a fint-rate colonial minister, the colonies are his hobby, he is a glutton for work, he would not be endured anywhere else, therefore we must let him do ns he pleases ; there is luckily no great feeling for I th«- colonies in England, and " cheap sugar" is a popular cry." And it was so. In 1850 we hear from the same persons — " Palmers'on is decidedly making the slave squadion a ministerial question. We cannot do without Palmerston. Palmerston balances parties in the Cabinet. Palmerston muit have his own way. At his time of life we cannot expect him to consent to unravel the tangled skein of unfulfilled treaties which he has been so long occupied in weaving.'' And so it U, and so it will be, till John Bull's patience is exhausted. But John Bull, luckily for Grey and Palmerston, is a very putient animal. A petition is about to be presented to the House of Conimonß by soma of the York and Berwick shareholders, to expel Mr. Hudson from the house, as Die author and cause of the great declension in railway property. Mr. Hudson lias endeavoured to justify I himself in a long letter to the shareholders of thr Yoik and Berwick Railway, but the document is held to be te.f-condemnatory rather than exeulputory. We hate reason to btlieve that a bill to amend the ] pp r cscut Act i emulating the rewards for the destruction of pirates, will be introduced imniediaiely after the mee.iog of Puiliinient The interest in the female emigration scheme increases as it becomes more defined. The great contest of the day— Protection versus Free Trade — hus given rise to some most cuiious incidents. At Aylesbury, Mr. Cobden was to have met Disraeli, but the latter gentleman at a previons meeting declined the invitation. The progress of protection principle is considerable ; in almost every town in England and Ireland a meeting has been held, perhaps without mucli effect,, but ceruinly with comiden'ble force, and at one or two of the meetings, especially that at Stafford, the fiee traders pushed their opposition so far as actual blows ; a regular bailie of biiclw iind bludgeons took place ; windows ware smashed, and the protecti mists wore heverely beaten and pelted with brick hats and other such weupons. The Irish movement ha»> closed with grand effect, with an almost unanimous ngicumuni in support of the ipsolutions, ami tho adoption of a petition to her Majesty. Vhe Times of 10-dny says :—: — The sesbion commences every Thursday. For once It comes upon us almost unawares. What with the hubbub ot the Protectionist equalibli*, the general contentment of the industrious classes, and the fact that there U really little for Purliament to do, it libs almost slipped the public recollection that the great council of the nation is on the eve of its annual labours. Yet the idea of that venerable assembly, notwithstanding its actual drawbacks, and its familiar associations, ris up in grave contrast to the surrounding excesses and frivolities oHaction. The Herald announces :— We believe we may announce with certa nty that the decision of the Judical Committee of the Piivy Council has been mude, and is against the Bishop of Exeter. Hib lordship has, of course, received a command lo insti utsj Mr. Gorliam to the Rectory of B rain p ford Speke, at present we shall say no more thau that the Church of Eugland bus been saved from convulsion, and probably destruction, by this> truly-right-eous and providential judgment. The Times records s>otne signs of prosperity on the west coast ol Ireland, where the deep sea fisheries, the agriculsure and other local employments are steadily progressing. The manufacture of kelp at Donegal employs many hands, and is profitable. It is stated that Mr. James L. O'Farrull, brother to tbe Governor of Maltn, has been appoiuted the second salaried Commissioner of the National Board of Education. Tho salary of each of the resident Commissioner* is £1000 per annum. The Lord Lieutenant in reply to tbe Roman Catholic address for tbe dismissal ot the Castle WelUn magistrates, said : — It is unnecessary for me to state how deeply I have deplored the lamentable occurrences of the last 12th July, which was attended with such fatal coniequencea, and I can assure you that her Majesty's Government fully recogniz s tbe necessity of putting an end to those mal party displays, which tend to keep continually alive feelings of animosity and ill-will between her Majesty's subjects ot different religious persuasions. Afire broke out on Sunday in the Temple Church, and burned the floor of the choiisters' room : fortunately, no mischief to the beautiful building happened The weather, after violent frost, turned to thaw last Saturday, but 'belore Sunday at noon, the frost returned with great seventy, and has continued till yehterday, (V\ednebday) morning, when we had slight snovr arid rain. All over Europe, the weather it unuluully severe. Letters from the frontier of Icaly state that the Convent of St. Bttrnard is entirely blocked up with snow. The monks had been obliged to cut a subterranean passage in order to extricate theauelves. The Agapetnone case was again brought before a court of law in the Exchequer on Saturday, when judgment was suspended in the action of Miss Not* triage against Mr. Rtplty for damages for removing her from the care of Mia. Prince, and separating her from i lie Home of Love. Tbe damages were laid at £271, and it is supposed that judgment will be given tor ih I.'1 .' ,)laiutiff. Ann ncr iiisn of legitimate reaction was noticed nt Paris o i Monday last, the 67th anniversary of the ext • cution < f JLuiiU XVI: funeral masse* wur t»nd as usual on that day in all the cbu chea, which we<e generally crowded to excess, and especially at tbe chapel in the Kue d'Anjou. A Urge number of operatives, and men of the lower classes, en blouse, were observed among (be crowds of * higher grade, who thronged the