ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 299, 10 June 1848, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Military Emigration to New Zealand. — Belfast, Dec. 24. — The Anne, Government transport ship, with volunteers from the pensioners from the United Kingdom, has been lying for the last two months

in the Lough, opposite to Carrickfergus, in consequence of small-pox and measles having broke out among the children, but as they btve now completely recovered, the vessel sailed on Wednesday for New Zealand. We have never seen a vessel better fitted up for the comfort and accommodation of passengers. We understand that ere long another batch of the enrolled pensioners will be allowed to extend their services to New Zealand. There will be shortly an addition made to the companies of this district, from the reserve. — Banner of Ulster.

The Cholera. — The Bishop of London has addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy of his diocese on the near approach of the cholera. Our limits do not allow us to quote this document, which occupies a large space in the daily papers. We may state, however, that it is remarkable chiefly as emanating from .such a quarter, and as containing, with all the force of episcopal authority, the best arguments in support of a sanitary movement. Two-thirds of the letter are occupied with the precautions by which the possible arrival of of cholera should be anticipated. It also insists on the connexion of cholera with filth and intemperance, and on its non-contagious character, and it concludes by recommending the clergy to enforce the efficacy of prayer and repentance, and to "admonish those who are stationed on the vantage-ground of life, that after the most strenuous exertions of benevolence on their part to avert the threatened scourge from their brethern, they themelves may fall under it ; and that the best preparation for all classes is to do their duty, and to put their trust in God."

Gigantic Gasometer. — There is now in the course of construction, at the iron foundry of Messrs. Westwood and Wrights, Hope Works, Brierly-hill, a gasometer measuring 471 feet in circumference, the mean diameter being upwards of 150 feet. The depth from the centre of the crown tjo the bottom will be 45 feet, of which 38 feet is to be the available mean depth for containing gas, and it is calculated it will hold 671,498 cubic feet. This stupendous piece of workmanship will contain upwards of 28,000 feet of rivetting, and when completed will weigh upwards of 400 tons. — Globe.