ENGLISH EXTRACTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 18.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 775, 17 September 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 18.

Some distinguished ladies conected with th north having projected a bazaar in aid of the <; Highland Emigration Fund," of which Sie Charles Trcvelyan is the chairmi n, and the Honr Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the treasurer, the sale commenced yesterday at Willis's Rooms, where it is intended to be continued to-day. Her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk kept the principal stall at the head of the room, and contributed a number of articles of ornamental and useful work, iinished, in many cases, with her own hands. Other stalls, arranged with great taste, were kept by Lady Macdonald, the Hon. Mrs. Macleod, and Mrs. and Miss Macleod, of Macleod, the Hon. Mrs. and the Misses Cust, Lady Isham, Mrs. and Miss Dewar, Mrs. Courtney Thorpe, Mrs. and Miss Walker, Mrs. Carr, Miss Gordon, &c. The band of the Caledonian Asylum Schools, headed by the Queen's piper, attended, the children being dressed in the national costume. The bazaar, though not crowded, in consequence of the superior attraction of " the Oaks," was most fashionably attended, the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Duchess of Argyll, and a number of the English and Scotch nobility being amongst those who evinced the greatest interest in the proceedings. Her Majesty will, it is hoped, be able to honour the bazaar this day.

GItKAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT EdINIIUROH. —The Scotsman says—" Our readers have already been informed that a movement has been set on foot for getting up an industrial exhibition for Scotland in our City. A committee has now been formed, who have succeeded in acquiring the option of a central and adequate site on the Carlton-hill. It is proposed to complete the national monument in a temporary style, but so as to correspond in appearance with the section of the edifice already erected. Should this design be accomplished, the public will have presented to them an entire model, on a scale equal in point of size to the original, of the Parthenon of Athens. A contractor has expressed his readiness to undertake the execution of the work at an expense of £12,000, and to rely for payment of half the expense on the receipts.

The Edinburgh Theatre had been totally destroyed by fire.

The Queen has appointed Dr. James Begbie to be her physician, in'Scp'tland. . Mr. J. G. Payne ls'appointed resident surgeon of the M,ilbank Peiiitenitentary, in the room of Mr. .lames GMtendle, appointed medical officer of the New Prison ;-at Brixton, • />».■< ;

The trustees, of the Female Emigration Fund, established under Mr. Sydney Jlerbert's presidency had determined on very widely extending the scale of"'operations. Upwards of 1200 needlewomen having been sent r to' the Colonifes, and £24,000 thus expended, it has been found that those of their class are better employed, and

the desire among them to emigrate considerably less. At a recent meeting, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert occupying the chair, it was determined that the advantages of the fund should be extended to any women desirous to emigrate, without distinction of age, residence, or occupation, upon a payment of £22 for each emigrant, being at the scale of nearly £lO less than the present rate of charge for intermediate passengers. The first party of emigrants upon the new system were to be despatched in one of Messrs. Green's first-class ships, at the latter end of July, and, on arrival in any of the Australian colonies, they were promised " all the advantages of the Government home and the immigration Inspector's experience and counsel."

Mrs. Beecher Stowe has added her name to the list of patronesses of the Distressed Needlewomen's Society.

Conference of the Society of Arts. The Conference of the Council of the Society of Arts with the representatives of the Mechanics' Literary and Scientific Institutions in Union, took place at the house of the society, in John-street, Adelphi. Mr. Cole, as chairman of the council, presided on the occasion. A number of members of Parliament, mayors of cities and towns, and gentlemen of various professions, were present. Two hundred and seventy of the principal mechanic, scientific, and literary institutions of the kingdom were represented at it. The sitting lasted for six hours, and there were 106 speeches delivered, short and to the purpose. Amongst the resolutions were the following:—"'lhat this meeting is of opinion that the fiscal restrictions on paper, advertisements, news, and foreign books have an injurious effect on institutions connected with the Society of Arts, and that the Council be requested to proceed with their investigation of the subject, with a view to the abolition of such restiLtU n>.' " That it is desirable that the training schools of this country should introduce into their courses of study a more thorough knowlsdge of the natural and physical sciences, and a system of instruction in art, and that the Council of the Society of Arts be requested to forward this resolution to the President of the Council of Education, and to the various training institutions."

The Submarine Telegraph.—The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company have successfully completed their submarine line of communication between Great Britain and Ireland. The cable laid across, consists of six guttapercha covered copper wires for conducting the magnetic current, insulated in gutta percha, and protected from outward damage by a spiral iron wire casing.

The Queen's Chaplain, the Hon and Rev. A. P. Percival, rector of Little Bookham, had committed suicide on the 11th June, .and on the 13th an inquest was held by Mr. Woods, the coroner of Surrey, when it was proved by evidence the deceased clergyman had taken a large quantity of laudanum. The evidence was conclusive that the deceased had for some time past been labouring under strange delusions; and the jury, after a patient investigation, returned a verdict of" temporary insanity."

Funeral of Lieut.-General Sir Walter Rvleigh Gilbert, G.C.B.—The funeral of this distinguished and lamented officer took place on Monday, the lGth instant, at the Cemetery, Kensill Green. The remains were followed to the grave by General Lord Hardinge, Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Forces, and by Lord Gough, who came from Dublin to join in this last act of respect for the deceased general. The cortege consisted of a hearse, drawn by four horses, followed by ten mourning carriages, containing the relatives and personal friends of the deceased. On account ot the death oi Mr. Brown, the Chamberlain of the City of London, an election took place for his successor. Sir John Key and Mr. B. Scott were the candidates, and at the close of the poll on the seventh day, the numbers were, for Sir John Key, 8170, and for Mr. B. Scott 2912, giving a majority for the former 267 votes.

The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1854 will be held at Lincoln. The meeting of the society this year will be held at Gloucester.

Much doubt was expressed as to the ability of the Stratford to fulfil her contract for conveying the Australian mail within the specified time. The commercial traveller who endeavoured to extort money or a Government place from Mr. Gladstone, by threatening to publish a false accusation against him, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour..

The Lord Mayor of London has invited the masters an 1 mispresses of schools from all quarters to a banquet at the Mansion-house. They will have an interview with the commissioners on the means of improving education.

Amongst the recent diplomatic appointments for the United States is Mr. Robert Dale Owen, son of the Socialist leader, and Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of "|Mosses from an old Manse;" Many of the other appointments of residents at foreign courts consist of gentlemen who have been connected with newspaper literature. On the forenoon of the 6th June, shortly after ten o'clock, the neighbourhood of the City-road was visited by the outbreak of one of the most extensive conflagrations that had occurred in that locality for many years, which in less than half an hour fired premises containing property valued at nearly half a million sterling. Fortunately, the whole was not destroyed, but the damage done, it was feared, by those well able to form an estimate, would considerably exceed 100,000 J. The premises in which this terrible disaster commenced belonged to the Patent Gutta Percha Company, situate at the end of.the Wenlock basin, City,.oad—a thoroughfare filled with warehouses and stores of vast extent.

Houses for exportation are "all the rage." The following is from a Glasgow paper :—" We had the pleasure, a few days ago, of examining one of those houses built by Messrs. Chaplin and and Co., Stobcross-strcet, for Mr. Joseph Thompson, of Sydney, who was for many years in the house of Messrs. J. and W. Campbell and Co., of this city. It is one of the finest and most complete structures of this class of modern architecture we have seen, being constructed for a dry goods store and dwelling-house. It is composed of two separate parte, the one having a frontage of 55 feet in length, by 25 feet in breadth, and 2 storeys high. The upper portion being intended for a dwelling-house contains seven sleeping apartments, and several sitting-rooms, the ground flat forming part of the store in connexion with a back branch, which fits in with the lower part of the front building, thus giving storage room of 'BS feet by 25. Amid the brick walls of Sydney this building will have quite a palatial appearance as regards its exterior, while, internally, its accommodationsand fittings might well suit a prince. We may justly state that the building was got up five weeks from date of order given, and on the very day the builder had promised to have it finished, it was shipped on board the Hugh Walker, then lying at Broomielaw."

The Otago Witness still continues confident that potatoes will not grow in the colony so long as Sir George Grey remains as Governor; and the reason why is as clear as noonday. Some of the Government officials in the settlement are greater adepts in fisticuffs than in law; "argal" Sir George Grey is the worst of Governors. We should think Sir George Grey ■would not be a little rejoiced to be quit of the mosquitoes of the New Zealand press, and the colony altogether. "When he does go, New Zealand will have lost the best Governor it has yet had, oris likely to have, and some other colony Will gain him in which Jm.worth.will be better appreciated. Sir George Grey, says the editor (of the Witness) "is just the man to go thorough." We butthis,w* should have thought, wasoneofthefirstqiuUifieationsofugoodGovernor. But tjien, : saya the• same ■ authority,, he is going to -add more J.P.'s to the roll of magistrates. What of that will only be a-."little more fighting amongst them.— Australian and- New Zealand Gazette, April'l6. ;;'" ; . ,

Abvexturks of a Paisley Boy.—Some seventeen years ago', a young man, a native of Paisley, a son' of one of the most respectable tradesraeu,

went to sea; the vessel foundered, and, with one solitary exception, all on board perished. The sad intelligence was soon brought to Paisley, the family went into mourning, and for seventeen long" years, if they had not forgotten the sailor, they had ceased to think of him as one about whose fate there could be the least shadow of doubt. A letter lately mndo it* appearance here, addressed to the young man's father, who several years ago had retired to a watering-place on tiie west coast, to enjoy the otiu n cum d/ffmtate of a green pld age; and it now appears that the young man supposed to have been fttwa was the one saved. A person at present m New Zealand, in the course of his peregrinations, heard that a white man was living far up the countrv. He determined to search him out. On arriving at the native village, the white man's hut wa» pointed out. He entered it, and found a coiweiylooking damsel—a New Zealandess—with two ot three fine healthy whitey-brown children nestling about her. She was able to speak a little broken English; told the Christian name of her husband, and said she expected him home shortly, 1 "?J*~ ing the stranger to await his return. By and by the husband arrives, tatooed and dressed as a New Zealander. The two men, of course, were not likely to have recognised each other, even though they had been previously acquainted; but after comparing notes, it came out that they were both natives of Paisley, and had been at school together some twenty-five years ago. The surprise and astonishment of the stranger may be well conceived. As for the host, he explained that he had been picked up from the wreck of his ship by a passing vessel, and after many curious escapes and adventures, found himself in the interior of New Zealand, far from any settlement. There he married a native of the country, a chief's daughter, by whom he has had a family, and with whom he has been living very happily. He feels quite comfortable in his adopted land ; likes the mode of living extremely, and has no desire to return to Paisley. He cannot tell how long he has been in New Zealand, not having adopted Crusoe's expedient of knotching the time. After a long talk about Paisley and " Auld langsyne," the stranger bade him adieu, and on his return to a British settlement wrote the letter above referred to. —Gwwffow Constitutional.

The Wages Movement.—lt is to be hoped that the workmen, in the extensive agitation which now pervades the country, will keep steadily in view that it by no means necessarily follows that wherever they may compel the masters to accede to their terms, there the advantage is the workmen's. It may, on the contrary, so happen, in many such cases, that the workmen will have deep cause to regret their temporary triumphs. Increase of wages ami decrease in time hours are in themselves so desirable, that it will be well to look ahead and see that present compulsion do not so cripple the masters that ere long there be no work to time, no wages to increase. A heavy responsibility, so far as regards their own welfare no less than their masters', now lies on the shoulders of the workmen who are making their power to be felt, for good or for evil, or for both, throughout the whole country. As sincere friends of the working classes, we earnestly hope they will feel this responsibility, and not mistnke present for necessarily permanent advantage. As observed.by the Leader, —a paper whose sympathies are even more exclusively with the workmen than our own, inasmuch as we sympathies with the masters no legs tbatt with the men, and cannot view their best interests as at all separable,--" the workman must take care that they do not ask faster than the masters can give, or they will defeat their own purpose. They roual take care not to excede reason. They ought, if possible, to establish a candid understanding with their masters. They_ ought to know most especially how members of their own bodies are acting in different parts of the country. If they secure all these conditions, they will be able to procure such advantages as more comfortable places to work in, to say noihing of that better personal treatment, which would do as much as anything to improve the moral tone of trade. Prosperity has its lessons as well as adver=ity; and we are anxious that the working classes should make all they can out of the present season." This prudential advice is given at the close of an article on " the power of the working classes," in which the writer's whole interest is entered ia the progress and increase of that power. We trust to be seriously listened to, then, in pointing out the fear there is that present triumph may in many cases prove to be but permanent disaster. The present movement, as in the outset we forsaw it was likely to be, is cne of unusual generality and extent. It has penetr&ud into almost every trade. That it will, is ultimately ard in the main successful, render everything dearer to the working classes themselves, its very universality renders evident. If shoemakers obtain increased wages, shoes and boots must become dearer to workmen in every trade. If tailors share in the bine':tj shoemakers must pay as well as others. If house makers benefit, as they ought to do as well as others, rents will be raised over the hea' s of both tailors and shoemakers. So will it be throughout. For his sixpence or a shilling a day of increased wages in one trade, the workmen must help to pay the increase of wages in twenty different trades; and it must be remembered that the drones, whom it would be desirable to lay most of the common burden on, are but few in comparison with the working bees, who themselves constitute the main mass of the hive; and workmen are very much mistaken if tbey think that increase of wages is to cume really and essentially out of the pockets of the masters, or even out of those of the non-working classes; mainly, such increase will come out of their own pockets, so soon as the morement is general enough, and no movement for increase of wages probably was ever so simultaneously general as that which now prevaib. Its very universality, then, diminishes the probability of great' or decided benefit being derivable from mere increase of wages by any one particular class of workmen. Nevertheless, they may all derive some final balance of real and substantial benefit from it; and the considerations now laid before them ought to temper their eagerness as well as their hopes, so that false and hasty steps may be the less likely to be plunged into, or exaggerated expectations the less likely to lead to or .precipitate such steps.— Builder.

Jamaica, The quarrel between the Governor and the House of Assembly continues. The island wan without a revenue, the principal revenue, acts having expired in consequence of the refusal of the House of Assembly to renew them. The Governor had stated that between tha Ist of May and the 10th of October next, if matters should remain on their present footing, there would be legitimate demands upon the Island Treasury for payments to the amount of 100,000/. and that there would not be money wherewith to pay more than one-fifth of the amount. The Governor was about to discharge all the male and female convicts and prisoners whose labour could not be made to provide for their maintenance. The police, by the interruption of their pay, would also be released from their engagements. The Governor adds that —" Those who may be on the watch to turn the public loss to their own profit will have the opportuity of stocking their stores at this Reason of the year with undutied rum at the rate of 1000 puncheons a week." He recommends that the attention of the House of Assembly should be given, first, to a regulation of the civil and ecclesiastical establishments by reductions which shall either be prospective or shall be made upon the basis of a fair and moderate compensation for existing interests; secondly, to the provision of a permanent fund for the payment of the reduced establishment; thirdly, to the enabling of the Governor for the time being to employ Ministerial officers, holding seats in the Assembly, to bring forward Government measures in that House. The Assembly on the 18th were preparing to reply to the Governor. A remonstrance to the Queen, calling for his removal was in agitation. An altei-ation in the constitution of the colony seems imperatively demanded. The House of Assembly had declared Kingston a free port.