ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 65, 14 March 1843, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

(From the .Sydney Papers.) Lord French, a Roman Catholic peer, has avowed himself a repealer. He is, we believe, the only member of the peerage who has done so. * - Mr. George Thompson; the corn-law lecturer, 1 is to 1 accompany the highly honoured Baboo Dwaikanauth Tagore to 1 India. They are to . \ leave England,in December. The treaty between Great Britain and America; \ was ratified by the senate* by a majority of thirty-nine to nine. - The Eiitua, from New York, arrived in the Cove of Cork, on the 18th instant, with two

hundred and fifty emigrants returning to their native land. : Parliament was? on Thursday afternoon, by royal commission, further prorogued until the 10th November. The Queen is again “ in a delicate and interesting situation.” The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Prince Albert, are in excellent health. A proposed marriage is on the tapis between the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenberg Strelitz, the eldest son of the reigning Grand Duke, George V. The Princess was born on the 19th July, 1822 ; the Prince on the 17th October, 1819. A strange story has reached us of so painfu and delicate a nature, that it is, with extreme reluctance we allude to it at alb; but as the matter involves royal and public as well as private considerations, we should consider that we had failed in our duty to the public, we to preserve total silence on the subject. The “ mishap ,” we are informed, relates- to one of the most noble .families in. England, and the other party involved is of stiff; liigher rank. The Queen, we understand, has been appealed to, as the circumstances of the case imperatively demands that the injury should be' atoned for by a speedy marriage. The father of the “ irresistable ” is said to be on this point inexorable. But we must refrain, jfn (the present stage of the proceedings, from' paying any more on so delicate a subject, involving as it. does, consequences so important—Social, political, and royal.” —British Queen. —The above mysterious extract is said to relate to an intrigue of Prince George of Cambridge. The affairs of Canada are proceeding prosperously. The French Canadians, highly elated at the prompt, and handsome justice which has been awarded to them by Sir Charles Bagot, in the elevation of two of their most distinguished countrymen to important official posts, are now likely to become the moat loyal and enthusiastic subjects of the British crown. Sir Charles is about to follow up this act of grace and justice by a general amnesty to the offenders in the outbreaks of 1837. All will be pardoned and permitted to return to their native country except the elder Papineau. Dr. Stopford, Archdeacon of Armagh, has been promoted to the Bishopric of Meath. The papers announce the deaths of the Right Hon. Sir W. Rae, Lord Advocate of Scotland, Lord Edward Pelham Clinton, the celebrated Grace Darling, and the distinguished German sculptor, Rhul.

The largest.sheet glass in the world has just been finished at the works of the Thames Plate-glass Company at Poplar, and may be Seen at their warehouse in town. It is 14 ft. 8 in. placed in some public building, ,as there are few private residences in this, country where it could be : fixed.

Russia. —The Emperor of Russia is always pursuing some new scheme for increasing his influence’in Europe. Just now the Czar is endeavouring to detach France and lier government from the English alliance, by affecting great attachment to, and respect, for, the Orleans dynasty. St. Petersburg, which from 1830 to 1841 was the rendezvous of French .Legitimists;, and where they were allowed with impunity to insult the. tri-coloured cockade of France, as well as her flag, is noto not large enough to hold such a silly sort of personage as the Viscount d’Arlincourt, who went to the Russian capital, and conducted himself there as the French Legitimists have been so long in the habit of doing—rviz., .of. refusing to wear the French national colours, and of showing contempt for the existing state of things in France. The celebrated French .painter, Horace Vernet, has been converted into a sort of diplomatist, and is sent to Paris to converse with Louis Philippe, and then to, return to the Russian capital to hold long and close interviews with the Emperor Nicholas. All these proceedings merit but one epithet-— intrigue . Hanover. —lt is said that the King.has petitioned the: Diet , to; guarantee .ithe succession of the kingdom of Hanover, to his son under the new constitution, his Majesty offering Prussia to join the German UUion if such a guarantee can be obtained. The Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge , as agnate t have on the other hand, entered a protest hgqinst the patent of July, 1841, by which the present King of Hanover provided for the regb’nby of his son, and for the mode by which the .blind Prince should affix, his signature. It is impossible to say what may be the decision of 80 prudent a man as the King of Prussia. The reception of the King of Hanover at. the Rhenish tetes is said to have been most significantly, cold, and the enthusiasm for his Prussian Majesty would have been greater if he had not. been accompanied by the former monarch. Recently at Chichester, the reserve battalion of the <7-lstf regiment of Highlanders, being all Presbyterians, expressed their unwillingness to attend the Established Church, ; and, as there was a Presbyterian-, Church in the city, they made choice of .the Independent Chapel.! But after they had attended this place of worship one Sunday> the Colonel said that they must go to ehurt h; and on the next Sunday they

were marched thither accordingly. .Few, howeyer, of the battalion, would go in; and when the case was brought under the notice : of the Major-General commanding the district, he gave instant’orders that they should be allowed to worship in whatever church they chose to select. The Way to Cook Green Peas. —Place in the bottom of your^.sauce-pan or boiler, several of the outside leavet*hfchead salad —put your peas in the dish, with two ounces of butter in proportion to half a peck of peas—cover the pan or boiler close, and place it over the fire — in thirty minutes they are ready for the table. They can either be seasoned in the pan or after taken out. Water extracts nearly all the delicious quality of the green pea, and is as destructive to their flavour as it is to a mad dog.