ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 195, 12 June 1847, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.]

The Established Church of Scotland hat already raised s£65OQ in aid of the destitute Highlandeis. The Right Hon Charles Watkins .Williams Wynn, M. P. for Montgomeryshire, i« now the oldest member in the House of Commons. He was born in 1775, and he has been in Parliament during the last 50 yeart.

It is stated, says the Courier Francis, that an Aide-de-camp of the Minister of the Marine is about to be sent on a special mission to the Marquesas, the object of which is not known.

New Zealand Warriors. — The following additional Regulations (dated 29th ult.) for the guidance of candidates for the enrolled Companies of Pensioners for service in New Zealand have been issued from the War-office :—: — On their arrival in New Zealand the Governor is to have the option of employing them in public works, in preference to their being permitted to hire their labour to private individuals ; but if their services are thus required they will receive the current rate of wages in the colony. If, after being permitted to labour for private individuals, they do not find employment and claim the condition of being provided with work by the Government during the first year of th 'ir service in the colony they will only be paid at the rate of Is. 6d. per day. In the event of the death of the pensioner before the expiration of the seven years of Tiis engagement, the following options will be granted to the widow and family : — A free passage home, with the same rations during the voyage, and previous to embarkation, as are granted to the widow and orphan children of soldiers dying with their • regiments under similar circumstances. Or, if they prefer remaining in the colony, and wiih to settle on land, they will receive a grant not exceeding three acres for the widow, and one for each child ; together with the sum of £45, to be applied under the direction of the Staff Officer, in building a hut, and settling them on their land. Or if they resolve in fin 'ing other employment for themselves in the colony, they may recive free rations for one year in the proportions above referred to, and which may be commuted into an equivalent in money not exceeding £20 in the whole, at the recommendation of the Staff Officers. All the advantages of benefit societies, of which the pensioners may be members, will be continued to them through arrangements between the respective Staff Officers at home and in the colony. The pensioner is not to expect a free passage home at the public expense, either at the expiration of the seven years, or at any subsequent period ; should he be desirous cf returning, it must be at his own cost. The only stoppages against tl.eir pension will be for the charges incurred by advances for their voyage, and for furniture and stock for their cottages. Otherwise it will be continued to them during their lives, unless forfeited by misconduct. Should the candidates be in debt at home, no advances will be made to them on this account, as such improvidence would be no guarantee of the steadiness of conduct required in a settler.

Louis PmriPPE and the Doctors. — It is known that on the first day of every year our Academic de Medicine enjoys the signal honour o f being received at the Tuileries and complimenting the King. The academy is not very old, and yet has seen three reigns and two dynasties. This gives it some experience. Wiser than more powerful, and more highly placed constituted bodies, it generally abstains from those adulatory cajoleries lavished on this day, and frequently from the same mouths, to the representatives of all the governments which have succeeded each other during the last half century — to princes by right of the sword, to princes by right divine, to princes by the right of the people. These harangues are shorf, reserved, and appropriate, and since they are consecrated by usage, however wearisome they may be, the academy gets through its address as well as it can. This year, as in all others, the President read bis short speech, and the King replied with his accustomed facility. The official ceremony being gone through, the august party waited upon came forward to the deputation, saying, " Well, gentlemen, you who are physicians, tell me what you think of my state of health. 'The deputation inclined their heads in due respect. 1 "No! no ! look at me well. They say that I have got the gravel, some say the stone, and that I am about to undergo lithotrity; some say the gout, and others, 1 know not how many complaints. I assure you, gentlemen, and yourselves can see, that all this is unfounded, and that I am in perfect health." These words, the correctness of which we can guarantee, were spoken with the utmost cheerfulness, and, in fact, the Academic deputation was able with perfect sincerity to congratulate the King on his good looks, oh\s clear and rosy complexion, and all the other appearances of the most flourishing health. This little scene was most assuredly not got up without design, and therefore we have no apprehesion of displeasing any one by relating it to our readers. Be it known, moreover, that of all the inhabitants of the kingdom, the King is perhaps the most rigid observer of the rules for preserving sound health. He rises at five in the morning, at all seasons, works in his cabinet while fresh and clear, and therefore with ease — breakfasts simply — thep takei a long walk, which pro-

motes a mild and salutary reaction towards the skin ; at dinner has constantly half a fowl dressed with rice, and for his drink takes only pure water, about which his Majesty is very particular. At the end of his meal he takes half a glass of old Bordeaux wine. He sleeps on a single mattrass, laid on a camp bedstead, and for never more than six hours. Such is the sober austere life of our Sovereign, and with such a regimen men may live long. It is known that Louis Philippe has some medical opinions of his own. His remedies, however, are most innocent, and have the sanction of one of the greatest practitioners by whom our heart is honoured. Like Sydenham, in fact, the King may carry the whole of his therapeutical apparatus in the head of his cane. The lancet and opium are his great remedies. — Union Medicate.

The City of Montreal. — At eight o'clock in the morning we were beside the wharf of Montreal ; it is of great extent, reaching nearly a mile up the river, and very solid, built of handsome cut stone. It is broad and convenient for purposes of commerce ; vessels of five hundred tons can discharge their ca r goes there. Immediately above the town, the rapids of Lachine forbid further navigation. The city extends along the river nearly two miles, the depth being about one half the length. The public buildings are calculated for what the place is to be — at present being perhaps too large and numerous in proportion, though fifty thousand inhabitants dwell around them. The neighbouring quarries furnish abundant materials for the architect, and the new shops and streets are very showy. The French cathedral is the largest building in the New World ; its proportions are faulty, but it is nevertheless a grand mass of masonry ; ten thousand people can kneel at the same time in prayer within its walls. The town is well lighted, and kept very clean, full of bustle, life, and activity— handsome equipages, gay dresses, and military uniforms. Many rows of good houses of cut stone are springing up in the suburbs, and there is a look of solidity about everything, pleasing to the English eye. Some of the best parts of the town are still deformed by a few old and mean buildings, but, as the leases fall in and improvements continue, they will soon disappear. Montreal is built on the south shore of an island thirty miles long, and about onethird of that breadth. All this district is very fertile, the revenues belong to the seminary of the St. Sulpicians, one of the orders of the Church of Rome, and are ver> ample. The Mont Royal alone varies the level surface of this island. The parliament house, the seat of government, the military head quarters, and the public offices of Canada, are in this city ; the trade is very considerable ; within the last few years it has rapidly increased, and is increasing still. The export of corn to England opens a mine of wealth, while in return its wharfs are crowded with our manufactures and the luxuries of other countries. The people are fully employed, and live in plenty ; but there are occasionally disturbances among them occasioned by the collisions of the English, Irish, and French races. The elections are carried on with much excitement and bitterness of feeling, but usually ended in the success of the conservative principle. Society also is much divided ; there is but little of that generally social feeling which characterises Quebec. Their entertainments have more display, but are far less agreeable than those of the sister city, and among the different coteries of the inhabitants there is not apparently much cordiality. Montreal would be considered a very handsome town in England, and in bustle and activity far surpasses any one of it size there ; the wharfs, hotels, shops, baths, are also much finer ; it possesses quite a metropolitan appearance, and no doubt it will, ere long, be the capital of a great country. Few towns in the world have progressed so rapidly in size, beauty, convenience, and population, within the last few years, and at this present time its commerce is in a most prosperous condition. You see in it all the energy and enterprise of an American city, with the solidity of an English one. The removal hither of the seat of government from Quebec and Kingston, has, of course, given it a considerable impulse of prosperity, at their expense ; but it is still more indebted to its excellent commercial position, and the energy of its inhabitants. — England in t7ie New World.