ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 August 1842, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The English funds had experienced a rise of nearly one per cent., and they were still continuing to advance. \ •; - . The Duke of Northumberland is ; tp be the new Chancellor of Cambridge. -VSir B. D’Urban had not been appointed Com-mander-in-Chief in India, up to the/22d April. It is rather expected that he will Jjq .the new' Governor of New South "Wales.'' The new Duke of Cleveland (the Tory Member for Salop, Lord Darlington) lias the ; late Duke of Norfolk’s Garter. ' The Marquis of Bute is to be appointed her Majesty’s Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. At a Court of Directors, held on the 27th April, the Marquis of Tweedale was sworn in as Governor of Madras, and Sir Ge'orge Arthur as Governor of Bombay. , Mr. Sharman Crawford had brought forward his motion for extending the suffrage, and pledging the House to adopt what is known as the “ five points” of the Chartists. Sir R. Peel, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham, opposed the measure, on the ground that it would destroy the peerage. The motion engaged the House for maey hours, and was ultimately lost. On a division the votes stood thus; — For, 67. —Against, 226. —Majority, 159. A petition was presented to the House of Commons on the 11th April, by Mr. O’Connell, from Mr. Anstey, (late of VanDieman’s Land,) complaining of Sir John Franklin having discouraged the introduction of the Catholic Faith into the Colony, and consequently obstructing the immigration from Ireland. The petition would be taken into consideration on the 7th May. A petition was presented from Port Philip, praying for the establishment of a Court to try Civil Causes, was presented to the House, by Mr. Christopher on the 28th April. A new Governor of New South Wales, was to embark early in May, for Sydney i The new Constitution for New South Wales, was about to be introduced into Parliament; its delay having been occasioned by the difficulties in which the proposed income-tax has involved Ministers. Port Philip will not&have a jurisdiction distinct from that of Sydney. There is to be but one Council, consisting of 80 members, 18 to be elected by . a constituency of £lO house or landholders, 12 nominated by the Crown. The Council to possess all the power of the British Parliament, subject to the laws of England. Prince George of Cambridge is Gazetted Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bth Hussars. Prince Albert has been appointed by the Queen, Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of Cornwall. Mr. Hume has again been returned to Parliament for the Montrose boroughs. Mr. Plunkett is on the eve of leaving England to resume the duties of his office in New South Wales. The Glasgow Courier of the 24th of March, records the.explosion of the Telegraph Steamer, whilst laying at the quay Greenock. The explosion was heard at a distance of four miles, fifteen dead bodies had been carried into Helensburgh, and the wounded were reported to be numerous. The Telegraph , was built for the river trade, and was the swiftest steamer on the passage from Glasgow to Greenock. She was matched, it would appear, against the Rail-road, and we much fear the passengers have fallen victims to the monomania of fast travelling. Every thing in the construction of steamers on the Clyde, and elsewhere, is constantly sacrificed to speed. We can recollect of a similar accident occurring in 1835 at Greenock, to the steamer Earl Gray. A memorial against the Corn Laws, and praying for a total repeal, had been presented to the Queen, by the women of Manchester, and surrounding Towns; 255,271 signatures were appended to the petition. »