ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 6, 16 November 1844, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

In Spain, La Coba, who has kept Maestrasso for Don Carlos since 1833, has-been taken and shot. A civil war has broken out in Switzerland. The paper we have seen merely states the fact without furnishingparticulars. The insurrection at Aux Cases, in St, Domingo, has been put down by the President Rivire. The Emperor of Russia was visiting, frequently incog. , the public institutions of London. The Earl of Athlone died on the 21st of May.

Cutting the New World in two. — We extract the following relative to the attempt to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, already begun by the company chartered by the Government of New Granada. — " This process, it seems, is begun. The Canal Company, chartered by the Government of New Granada, have commenced excavating their big ditch, through the Isthmus of Panama, and in a few years, whale ships, instead of rounding Cape Horn, will pass from ocean to ocean, through the mountains which Pizarro and his followers found such difficulty in climbing over. The line of the canal, however, follows a le s rugged route than they did. The country through which it passes has a mean elevation of only thirty-seven feet above the level of the sea at high tide. The entire length of the canal will be about forty-nine miies, of which twelve and half miles only will be excavated, the rivers Charges, Grande, supplying the neces-,-sary navigation for the remainder of -the dis- ; tance, There will be a sufficient depth of water for ships of fourteen hundered tons. It is supposed that within five years the continents will be divorced, and every thing prepared for celebrating the nuptials between the two oceans." — Halifax Herald.

New Zealand. — There is, something in the nature of an English colonist, of which his countrymen at home may be justly proud. Other nations foster and protect their colonies, yet they make little progress ; we first oppress and then neglect our settlement, notwithstanding which, they rise superior to the difficulties opposed to them. The watchful care of the infant offspring of other countries is not thought beneath the not.cc of their wisest statesmen ; the early youth of ihe newly born offspring of, this country is turned over to the clumsy dry-nursing of the underlings of the Colonial Office ; by them ,it is abused, an i it is not till the brat, in consequence of bad treatment, kicks and sqnalls in a manner as to awaken the sympathies of its uti natural parent, that any notice is taken of its cues, in spite of all this, the youngster becomes vigorous, and grows to sturdy manhood ; its iirst act, after emerging from nonage, as is generally the case with all cruellytreated children, being to turn round and kick its own mother. This is the history of all the off-shoots of Great Britain, from the ' United States of America, Tsrhich have long ago kicked to some purpose, down to Canada, which is only waiting an opportunity to do so with impunity. New Zealand is in the squalling stage o of its existence, notwithstanding which, it hat' cantrived to bestow some clumsy thumps upon its persecutors ; and what is more to the purpose, its cries are, beginning to .disturb the placid slumbers of its very respectable-mother. The young gentleman will not be quited with " Godfrey's Cordial, or Soothing Syrup ;"— to ensure natural resf, it requires nourishing food. If it was born agains the orders of its nurse, Mr. Stephen, yet having seen the light, that is no reason why the said Stephen should be allowed to quack it to [death ; suclus catastrophe would be downright mfancide, tnd ray Lord Stanley, who has been deputed by Mr; or Mrs., Bull, no matter which, toistand to it in loco par entis, would be> clearly an accessory before the fact. T -:iy~#« > Ztqland'JourMiL , Smuggling is now so completely organised in Spain, that there was lately 'a regular pitched battle between three hundred/sraugglers and a party of mounted custom-house officers. The officers were, defeated, leaving twenty killed and, tea .wounded.. I r „ -n"-

Tallow is quoted 40s. f to^ 40s, 6;d. for P. Y. C, on the spot ; and 425. for Tojwn. The stock inLondori is 18,76o>easks, against 19,568 casks at this time last '"> ear.- The delivery last, week was 995, casks, and the arrival 781 casks. - ; ; The Queen and her Royal Consort- arid Family were in the enjoyment of 'perfect health. > H " '■'•" A very extensive conflagration took-place at Gravesend on Sunday, the 2d June, when twenty-five houses were burnt- to thV'ground and fifteen considerably damaged,- in ; -West Street, Matthew's 'Court; and Merit's Quay. The fire was first seenissuing from a house occupied by a poor woman natned^Saadford, a dealer in shrimps. The daughter of a shoemaker, named Hoker, was burnt to death, and carried on the shoulders of her father from the burning fabric in which they had lived! The buildings, for the ' Most part, were occupied by small tradesmen/ -who were, through' this calamity, thrown into great-dis-tress — to alleviate which the inhabitants', the mayor of the town at their hea~d,"had assembled to devise means for their relief, and had placed the sufferers in temporary lodgings. ! Mr. Entwistle, the Conservative candidate, was returned for North Lancashire by a majority of five hundred. Great excitment existed in consequence of the Government having introduced a bill to secure to the occupiers of dissenting chapels the possession of them after thirty years, without reference to the original intention of. persons who endowed • them. The bill was opposed on the ground that a great number of chapels originally endowed byorthodox Presbyterians are now held by Socinians,,.. second reading was carried by a majority of 307 to 117. ]"[- In the House of Commons notice was given by Mr. T. Duncombe that, on the first night of the house resolving 1 itself intoa committee of supply, he would move as an- amendment, That an humble address be pressented to her Majesty, praying that the execution of the sentence upon Mr. O'Connell and his' fellow prisoners may be suspended until the decision of the House of Lords shall have been given upon the wric of error, which is to be brought before that tribunali _ .:';;-.

P*Phe New^ealastd Company. — Amid all its difficulties the Company bas this consolation :—lt: — It may fail-as a proprietary,, speculation, but it has begun a goodnyork f whicli even the Colonial- office cannot, undo/ , Ten thousand Britons have planted themselves on the soil pf New Zealand, and are already reaping a partial return from their labours. No Governor, no Colonial Minister dare long refuse justice to so many British , objects, whatever they may to one Company. • The settlers are sure to get lands, and .that -at:nb distant date. If shaW do not urge^Gd'verrii ment to afford them protection from •, the assaults of their .barbarian neighbours, they will soon be able to defend themselves i and that they will do so with moderation, and justice, ,the deep root the Angftcan <JnMrch. has already struck in these young sett4ements is to us a guarantee. The clear and eaerj getic spirit of their truly Christian Bishop will exercise a dove-like influence over tKem amid all their provocations. A tree had -been planted that deßes storm and canker. - The islands of New Zealand, which a wiak wavering Ministry were on the eve of throw* ing away, have been -won for the, cajse of civilization— for us and for ,<W , children And this, whatever the servile, ,^nd calutoni-. ous may say, has been the doing of the. 'New Zealand Company. , , c , " . In the interest of the nation' at la?ge r , $nj! of the young British community in tneserfift ocean isles, we commenced these papers,: arid in that interest, with Gods's blessing we ".will !go on. "We have shown in part the obstirucv lions our Anglo-New-Zealanders have-ex-perienced from the settled policy'-of the Colo-nial-officei Next -week we will direct attend tion to the treatment of them by the local officials, which has been sanctioned by the j. authorities at home.^ — New Zealand Journal:

Goi,ONEL 7 S'TbDpAST AND CAPT. CoNOLtfT, — We have to request particular attention, to the annexed article,, which we take ,from^the Agra~ XJkhbar, The news of Colonel Sto,d-j dart and C*ptain v ConoUy' being alive is gtygn with great jiositiveness. We snaijlbe dell|trtietfon finding it re.aliz«d; — '* We -ijay.e ;^«t at a late hour received a piece of intelligence, which we lay before oar readers withQii^ote or cboimenr." Our iiahore,' corrertonideat nientibo* to .us, "as' a fact on. ~wsfe[]g; .^ve_ry reliance can be placed, that T)qss i^TaHomed bad^een't io'tefli^ence, to "Colonel that b6th Colonel St6dflarV,andp f a.Jtt,'Conolly ar^alrve'. ' There can tHerefdreVe,Jio d^u^t that'tfie R%y. : Mf."' Wqolff will^^be yugce'gSfgl fn>attaintng'o'ne object ef Jus joW,ney^ vys.r^mfinkin^ tfiek^ahver" 7 What ip&y^* Vbe resiiltrof nrff foisgion' remain's to" be "seen.V?-^ Weekly Dispatch, May 5, 1844,

- ' The Weather ibroughoiit' Great Britain was *«ry unfavourable; '> AppifeKensi'ons we're left -fctithe crops, and- a general rise in grain was - taking place. " tht Ctotrt Circular is engrossed witli the - movements of the Royal Family ami their' , 'Royal guetets .the'TSmperor of Russia and the King of Saxony, accompanied with the most splendid demonstrations of grandeur and hospiialily. Th^ Cfcown Prince of Denmark . was malting a tour- through Scotland. The . Queen Dowager had departed on a -visit to the ccptipent.