ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 137, 21 November 1846, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

In the case of the Queen v. the Nation, newspaper, for the publication of an inflammatory and seditious libel on railways, the jury were discharged, not being able to agree. Among the deaths we notice that of the Rev. Dr. Hough, of Glasgow, one of the most eminent of the Scottish clergy. Ha was honored with a public funeral. Mr. Ingram, the successful candidate at the last " fellowship " examination of Trinity College, Dublin, is the author of the celebrated lines "Who fears to speak of '98?" published in the Nation in 1843, and so often alluded to at the " State Trials." The rectory of St. James's, Westminster, has been conferred by the Bishop of London on the Rev. J. Jackson, M. A., incumbent of Muswellhill, and head master of the Proprietary Grammar School, Islington. The rectory was previously offered to the Rev. R. Harvey, B, D., rector of Hornsey and Rural Dean, but the reverend gentleman declined it. —Church and State Gazette.

The Jews in Russia.—The Emperor of Russia has just published a ukase ordering all the Jews in Russia to place themselves before Jan. 1, 1846, in one of the four following classes:—l. Amongst the burgesses of a town by the purchase of a piece of land or a house. 2. In one of the three corporations of traders. 3. In a corporation of artisans, after having given the proofs of ability required by law; and, 4. In the grand body of tillers of the earth, whether on their own property or under another owner. Such Jews as have not placed themselves by the appointed time in one of the four classes are to be subjected to such restrictive measures as the Government may think fit to employ.

The Real Railway King.—A gentleman in the Queen's" Bench has papered his room with nothing but railway shares. The effect is very rich. It is calculated that no less than three millions of capital has been sent in this way to the wall. Every county in the United Kingdom is there represented. The whole railway world is compressed into the space of eight feet by six. The gentleman breakfasts in England, takes his tiffin in India, dines at Paris, and sleeps in Switzerland, just according as he moves hlsT chair. We must not forget to mention thttt every share has been made to run in the direction of the fire-place, In this way the flue ingeniously represents the grand central terminus of all the lines in the world.—Punch.