ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 204, 14 July 1847, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A change has occurred in the Haytian goTernment. At Port-au-Prince, on the 20th November," there was published an address of the Senate of, Hayti, to the citizens of that republic, and doing away with the dictatorship of Riche. . The Senate is lavish in expressions of regard and esteem for Riche, for having of his own choice relinquished a .portion of his power. The 1 railway station, Cambridge, will be the'Jargest in England. The arcade is to be 410 feet long. Lough Neagh, Ireland, is to be drained. The. expense is estimated at £195,714. Among the many memorials lately received fey his Holiness the Pope, is one from the Animal's Friend Society of London, praying his Holiness to prohibit the cruel sports of the bull-ring in Spain, and the inhumanity practised towards animals in the streets o\ Rome. Since the accession of Pius IX, crimes against both person and property have surprisingly and gradually diminished in Rome. In June there were 500 cases, in October ] 12. Father Ma'thew. — £100 a year has been offered by the Government to Father Mathew. Bankruptcy of the Earl of Mexborough. — The Earl of Mexborough was declared bankrupt a few days since at Leeds Court of Bankruptcy. His lordship is described as a " sharebrokei, -jobber, and chapman." A translation of Boz's w Martin Chuzzlewit" appears periodically in a Parisian print, the Democratic Pacifique. - The pianist, Liszt, has recently married, at Prague, the daughter of a wealthy jeweller, who is said to have brought her husband, a dowry of three millions of francs. ' • . > • It is reported that M. Jullien proposes to nuil.i a music hall in Leicester-square. For the last three weeks* the Edinburgh papers have contained statements of wilful 1 injury to the ornamental stone work of 'the Scott monument.-r-O, very modern Ashens. It is said that another Astley's will be erected on the plan- of the Cirque National, Champs Elysees, in Paris at an estimated expence of £20,000 — one half of which is offered to be paid down by Mr. Hughes, -of the Mammoth Equestrian. Circus, Birmingham. There is now a regular supply of rabbits imported twice a week frqm Ostend, in which the poulterers of the metropolis are doing a hrisk trade. The prices vary from 6^d. to B<\. per. lb. ' '•' The New House of Lords. — It, was generally expected .that, their lordships would meet in their new house on the assembling, of Parliament, but it is now ascertained that the decorations and embellishments,, which are of the most magnificent description, cannot be completed in sufficient time. Consequently the peers will for a short period continue to sit in the present' house. — Standard. A curious experiment with gun-cotton, js reported by the. Morning Post. Thirty pounds of the explosive substance was placed in a barrel, and buried in' the grounds of Messrs. Hal), the powder-manufacturers at Faverebam. Several days afterwards, an explosion occurred, tearing up the earth over and around the barrel. The whole of. the London , estates of, the Marquis of Exeter, recently advertised to be sold 'by auction, have been disposed' of by private treaty, for £130,000. Last December, the largest indictment, we believe, ever brought before a grand jurj was presented at Liverpool against the 26 men

with Conspiracy against Messrs. Jones and Pottsj engineers and iron-founders, at Newton, and their workmen. The indictment contained a hundred and ninety-eight folios,' two hundred counts', and measured se\en\/j yards in length. A rival to Punch has been set up in New York, under the name of Yankee Doodle. The artists are principally, Mr. Martin, son of Mr. John Martin; and Mr. Clark, a nephew rof Lady Morgan — both English! One main object of its satire is " the. Sovereign People."

A Merry Andrew. — Sir Andrew Agnew being at.ked what was a "moral engine ?" replied. ".A railway, engine that does not run on the Sunday." — Punch. , A person • whd advertises in a morning paper, for a clerk, .holds out this inducement: — " A small salary .will be given, but he will have enough of overwork to make up the deficiency". „ • " Receivedby lightning — printed by stean.!" is the stereotyped' head of the telegraph news in the Buffalo Courier.

A Comfortable Income.- — A contemporary says that the rent-roll of the late Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., was little short of £90,000 per annum.

The Familt of the late Thomas Hood. — We copy the following from the Times : — " We are sorry to learn that the children of the Jate Thomas Hood are, in consequence of the death of their last remaining parent, left entirely dependent upon the small fund, amounting, we believe, to about £800, collected by public subscription at the period of Mr. Hood's death. The pension of £100 granted by Sir .Robert Peel ceases with the decease of Mrs. Hood, who lived but a twelvemonth to enjoy it. We believe that Lord John Russell has already been applied to by the friends of the family to continue the pension to the children ; but his lordship has intimated his inability to comply with the 'request, since the pension becomes, by the death of Mrs. Hood, the property of the public. We feel confident that the wishes and intentions of the public will be best answered by a new grant of the same trifling amount to the orphans, to whose departed and highly, gifted parent that public

owes so large a debt of gratitude." Present Extraordinary to the King and Queen of the French. — A Bouquet de Gibier monsirk a la Soyer was forwarded from London to Paris on the 21st of December, by the well-known gastronomic regenerator, M. Soyer, of the Reform Club, and presented to their Majesties on the 24th in the morning, .at the Palace of the Tuilleries. Their Majesties were delighted with the novelty and elegance of the composition, and, after a long examination, the King ordered it to be carried to the apartments of her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, who was exceedingly pleased with'it,. and afterwards the whole of the Royal family was summoned to see the bouquet. To give .an idea of the composition of this splendid invention, the following description, perhaps,, wjll he interesting to the public:, — The height of it was about 10 feet, and wide in proportion ; the frame of it was richly covered .with Christmas holly, laurels, misletoe, and evergreen, with a variety of wioter flowers. There were 22 head of game, consisting of larks, snipes, woodcocks, teal, French and English partridges, grouse, widgeons, wild, ducks, .blackcocks, pheasants, a leveret, a hare, and golden plovers. The interstices were lightly filled with wheat and oats, the whole ornamented with tri-coloured ribbons. Victor Hugo. — It appears that in the last five years no fewer than 169,918 copies of -Victor Hugo's works have been sold to the public. Extent of Cracow. — The territory of Cracow extends to twenty-one squares miles. The population of the city is 43,000 ; of the territory 146,000. ■ The revenue amounts to two-antUa-quarter millions of Polish florins.