ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 361, 17 January 1849, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

So confidently," sayM> Jei y w ¥o,k Miri ror "were many unthinking a £ ici ; pating a total overthrow* o f %* British Government, on the 10th of April, that there were rumours flying abo at the moment the jteamer (the America) was tefeg«phed. dv*' Queen Victoria and her children were d»sengers in her. ' ' *: \ The master of the ship Tfonk wluckhte. Jy arrived at Wexford from. Qm^m&maU

died from disease caused by eating pork which had been kept m a leaden cistern on board that vessel, and several of the crew became sick • from the same cause during the voyage. They who clamour most for liberty are the greatest tyrants. Because a poor innkeeper near. Wigan opposed a set of colliers who "turned out" for higher wages, they combined, got gunpowder, made a monster machine, and blew the roof off the house.

A Natural Phenomenon. — Great excitement bas of late prevailed at Liegnitz, caused by another mysterious locomotion of the Wanderstein, or migrating stone f of the Risen'gebirge; This stone bas repeatedly been* known to have changed its place, without<the action of any outward agency whatever: It stands in the Agnetendell, neap the village of that name, and consists of finegrained granite of a yellowish gray, composed of white quartz, red feldspar, with a slight admixture of black glimmer. This block of granite has suddenly moved above 25 yards from 'itS former place. The last locomotion dates ! frbm the year 1822, and its migrations are the more enigmatical, as they take place, not on a slope, but on perfectly level ground. It is impossible to conceive the cause which thus repeatedly forces this rock from its place of rest, and constrains it to such violent leaps as that in 1822 and, of this year, which took place, between the 18th and 20th ult. — Breshuer Zeitung.

',' Btjnn v. Kind.' — This celebrated cause, in ', which it will be remembered that Mr. Bunn recovered a verdict with £2,500 damages against Mdlle. Jenny Lind, for" breach of an engagement, is still in litigation. The next proceeding will be a writ of error on the part of the defendant, which cannot be argued in the Exchequer Chamber before Michaelmas term in November. Mr. Justice Erie has lately been engaged in settling a bill of exceptions tendered on the trial, and by an ofder made, the damages, with £1,000 for costs, have been paid into the Court of Queen's Bench. The costs in the cause have been taxed at nearly £700, and the residue of the sum paid into court is to meet the accruing expenses. The action was commenced in March, 1847, so that in all probability it will be about two years before it will be finally decided. — John Bull.

The June Insurrection in Paris. — There is little question now concerning the large share which the most refined aristocrats of the Faubourg St. Germairi have taken in the late insurrection ; for, although the dead teUiDQ talss, yet the wounded are there to testify to the tribute which their order of society has chosen to pay to the cause which they have adopted in very desperation and defiance. Many of these aristocratic combatants 1 still refuse to give their names — while' 'but* few of the bodies which were found behind the barricades, and which had attracted the most attention from the delicacy of their hands, and the fineness of the linen concealed beneath the workman's blouse, had a card or paper by which .the name and station of the individual could be recognised. A friend of mine who lives in a house the windows of which look out upon the Clos St. Lazare, where the hardest fighting of all took place, was witness to a' scene of the most melancholy interest. An open space, about to be disposed of for building, lies close to the wall- of the, house. The insurgents had removed the sl'ones which had already been placed there to assist in forming the barricades, and nothing remained in the field but a few planks scattered here and there, which had not been found .available .for the same purpose. It was duringjhe heat of the fight without, that my friend perceived the palings drawn aside, and presently beheld an individual, attired as a workman, creep through the narrow opening thus made, bearing, or rather dragging in his arms, a wounded combatant, whom he managed to deposit beneath the shade of the wall of the house, and then retired to renew the combat at the barricade. One whole day and night did the wounded man lie there in mortal agony, his face turned upwards to the sky, while in the intervals of strife his low groaning was heard by those within the house, and the hissing noise, caused by the air passing through the wound in his side, moved to pity the sjejrn,est enemies of the cause for which he was, bleeding. But there was no means of arriving at the place where he lay during all this time ; and when the combat was ended, and information could be given of his pitiable situation* he.was dead — without a word or sigh — a drop .of water to wet his parched lips, or a friend: to ' turn his head from the sun, which during several hours in the day darted its burning rays full upon his countenance. No letter or paper of any kind was {bund upon him, but a curious antique ring which he wore upon his little finger, caused him to be recognised as the young Count de la Bburbaine, whose family washigh in favor at the Court of Charles Dix. — Paris Correspondent of tip Atlas.