GENERAL ENGLISH NEWS. [From our lately received files.]

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 594, 24 December 1851, Page 3

GENERAL ENGLISH NEWS. [From our lately received files.]

Tlip Great Chess Tournament is at length decided. On Wednesday, Messrs. Staunton and Williams sat down to play their eighth and final game ; they had each won three games with one drawn game. After about five hours' play, Mr. Williams was the victor, winning four games to Mr. Staunton's three. The final rebult, thorefore, of tho Tournament is — Herr Anderssen is the victor, beating Ins four antagonists ; Mr. Wyvill second, having been three times victorious, but beaten by Auderssen ; Mr. Williams third, Mr. Staunton fourch, Herr Szen fifth, Captain Kennedy sixth, Messrs. Horwitz and Mucklow, who have not played off, seventh and eighth. — Atlas } July "26. The Board of Trade has suspended the compulsory adoption of the scale of medicines for merchant ships, issued by them in December last, until farther notice ; and in the meantime medicines may be carried by such ships iv accordance with the scale hitherto in force. The Quarantine Covortss. — Dr. Sutherland, the Medical Inspector of tho Geneial Board of Health has been appointed to attend the Medical Congress to be held at Pans, on tho subject of quarantine, by the medical authorities of the several European Governments interested in the question. The Hon. and Rev. Henry Beitie, son of the Earl of Abingdon, and a few years ago rector of Stanford, Woicestershiie, was among the passengers for Lyttelton, Canteibury, New Zealand, at the sailing of the last body of colonists. The select committee on Newspaper stamps have published their report. They do not directly recommend the abolition of the stamp, but they suggest that "news is not in itself a desirable subject of taxation." Tnc Late Eaul or Dcuby's Zoological Collection. — The late Earl of Dei by has left his superb collection, of animals and birds to the Queen. Tn the event of her Majesty not desiring to avail herself of the bequest the specimens are to be given to the Zoological Society, Regent's Park. The late Earl was possessed of a very large collection of the skins of animals and birds prepared for staffing. These have been bequeathed lo Liverpool. Lady Noel Byron has set to work on her estate 200 unemployed frame-woik knitters. She has also addressed them on frugality, and offered a bonus of ten per cent, on all monies which they will place in her hands during the first twelve months. University of St. Andrews and Homoeopathy. — . At the last examination, of the candidates for the degree of M.D. in the University of St. Andrews, a Mr Robert Hale, from Norwich, presented himself for examination, and obtained his diploma ; but it afterwards came to the ears of the Senatus, through the medical press, that tbib gentleman was and is a homoeopathist, practising at Norwich. The Senatus accordingly requested him to return his diploma. The hooeopath however, lefuses, and we understand that the Senatus will commence proceed, ngs against Lim. We believe this is the first case in which any university has recalled its degree got under similar circumstances.— Fijeshire Journal of yesterday. The Ccßsanan opeiation has been successfully performed for the delivery of a poor woman in Guy's Hospital : the surgeon was Dr. Poland. The delivery was effected on the 2d instant, and both mother and chid are going on favourably. "Mass is to be celebrated at Abbotsford : Mr James Hope, Q.C. is the piesent tenant; he was recently converted to Roman Catholicism. A chapel is fitting up in the Catholic mode. Sarah Barber has been found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, at Nottingham, for poisoning her busband at Eastwood. Tngram her paramour was acquitted. Mr. Silk Buckingham has at length succeeded in his long contest with the East India Company for indemnification for his losses as an oriental journalist. The bill before Pailiament for restitution has been withdrawn, the court of Directois and the Government having agreed to settle upon him a pension of £400 per annum — Globe. Extraordinary Discovery. — Ou Tuesday morning at an early hour, a stout-looking female was stopped by the watchman near the head of Castle-street, Glasgow, Her appearance was so peculiar, that though she bore no visible indication of being a thief, the watchman had hpr conveyed to the Central Poheceoffice where on her per&on being searched, no feiver than fifteen hens and a cock — all dead of course — wore found concealed about her. Six of these were, in the course of the afternoon, indentified as stolen from Mr. Martindale, of Broomfield. Depredations of this kind in the neighbourhood of Glasgow have of late been veiy frequent. — Glasgow Mail, The Gatebhead Observer, is one of the wittiest accounts of the Exhibition, says that like other beauties, the undress of the Crystal Palace is more copious than its full diess. "Its morning garments are ample, and conceal its charms. The diamond of the Great Rlogul is wholy withdrawn from sight. The Greek Slave wears a robe de chamhre. The Machinery, overspread with wiappers, is not at work. The bronze and ciystal fountains are not at play. John Jones is dusting the Duke of Rutland. Tim Titniarsh, having performed the same office for Radetzke, has unceremoniously laid his duster on the shoulder of King Leopold. William Smith— prouder of his name than, ever, for has it not been worn by Louis Philippe? — is rubbing down Andromeda; and Dick Thompson provided by the Executive with a pair of parloui -bellows, has brought himself a" long side of ' Satan tempting Eve, 1 and is blowing the dust out of the ejes of our credulous mother." The Right Hon. Fox Maulp has left town for the season, for Buxton, having suff'eied so seveiely from repeated attacks of the gout, as to have been quite unablp, for some weeks past, either to attend his place m Parliament, or fulfil his duties as a Cabinet Minister. Two Roman Catholic Bishops — Dr. Turner, Bishop of Salford, and Dr. Errington, Bishop of Plymouth, were consecrated on the Ist of August, at Manchestet, by Cardinal Wiseman ; The Irish Primate, Cullen, the Bishop of Beverley, the Bishop of Birmingham, and the Bishop of Noithampton, assisting in the ceremony. The spectacle was open to the public. I'ive shillings was charged for the cltoir aisles, half-a-crown and eighteen-pence for other places. At these prices there was a full Church. The Bishop of Bombay, Dr. Cai r, who has been for the last few months in England on leave of absence, has placed his resignation in the hands of the proper authorities ; and we hear also that the vacant see has been conferred on the Reverend John Harding, Rector of St. Andrew's, by the Wardrobe and St. Ann's, Blackfriars. — Morning Post. The Ewscopal Church in Scotland.' — The Court of Session in Scotland has pronounced the declaration of Bishop Skinner, of Aberdeen, and the act by which he excommunicated the Rev. Sir W. Dunbar, Bart. — a clergyman in communion with the English Church, resident in Scotland — altogether ineffectual to impair or prejudice the statiib) rights, piivdeges, &c, of the rev. baionet, and a verdict of ;£I3OO has beon taken by consent. It is stated that the effect of the decision is incidentally to place the Scotch Episcopate, quoad its territonal claims of juiisdiction, in a pobiuon precisely similar to that of Doctor Wispm.in and his coconspirators, as denned by the Anti-Papal Aggression Bill. East Indu House. — On Wednesday, a billot was taken at the East India House, for the election of a Director in the Room of Mr. Henry St. George Tucker,, deceased. At G o'clock the glasses were closed and dplivered to the scrutineers, who reportpd that th& election had fallen on. Mr. John Harvey AstelL