ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 446, 10 November 1849, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The board of guardians at Linton, in Cambridgeshire, received an application from a French merchant at Calais to supply their Union with bread, meat, flour, oatmeal, beans, &c, at a less price than any English tradesroan. The Great Britain, it is understood, has been purchased by Mr. Collins, of London, for £30,000. who has contracted a further expense ol £22,000, to have her fitted out for sea. She is to ply between Liverpool and New York. Don Miguel has taken a small coitage and some shooting at Bexhill, where he is now living in retirement, his household consisting of two mule servants, valet and cook, and one female. The Times newspaper of Monday, the llth June, contained 2,051 advertisements, the largest number, we believe, that ever appeared in that journal. The duty payable to Government thereon would be £153 16s. 6d. The circulation of the Times is about 35,000 a day. Last week, that paper issued a double supplement, on which occasion the weight of the paper used for the one impression was between six and seven tons! Subscriptions are on foot throughout the Austrian army for a present to Radetzki ; it will consist in a marshal's baton of pure gold, studded with jewels, the work of the Vienna Cellini, Herr Glanz. Everything connected with Government and Legislature continues at a stand still at Demerara ; the supplies are stopped, and the public creditor unpaid. Rajah Brooke is carrying on a war of extermination against the pyratical Dyaks in the neighbourhood of Sarawak. It is said the coal mines at Labuan will shortly be in active and profitable working. In the Singapore Free Press great advantages are anticipated from this circumstance for the commerce of the entire Archipelago. The coal is now, after a long and fair trial, admitted to be excellent, indeed by far the best ever found in the east. It is already raised to a large amount, and the .steamers are supplied with it. The seam is 10 feet thick, and runs across the island. It is a continuation of the Bornean seam, which has been traced from the coast, and runs many miles into the interior of the great island. Lieut. -General Lord Seaton, who has been replaced as chief commissioner of the lonian Islands, left Corfu on the 2nd instant, when there was a great demonstration of the lonian inhabitants assembled to do him honour, such as was never before seen, for it was spontaneous. The whole Greek population turned out ; small boats, crowded with country people shouting " Live for ever !" waylaid his

Excellency's barge ; and he could haidly move | down to the shore for the mass of people who lined the quay. A company established in the metropolis, intitled " The Company of Window Cleaners," are now cleansing house windows for nothing, in order to demonstrate their abilities. On the 13th instant, the « day of the late u Red" demonstration in Paris, M. Alexandre Dumas met in the Rue dv Faubourg Montmartre M. Ledru Rollin, arm in arm with an ill-looking man, and walking very quick. On seeino- M. Dumas, M. Ledru Kollin, fearing that the illustrious novelist would accost him, waved his hand to him at a distance, as much as to say, " I am in a hurry, don't stop me." M. Ledru Rollin must, indeed, have been very much pressed for time, for he had just lost his place in the Assembly, and was very anxious not to lose his place in the railway train. M. dAlton Shee left Paris for Brussels in the evening of the 14th by the Northern Railroad, in the disguise of a stoker. It is singular that the Socialist ex- Peer of France performed the offices at the engine of the man who lent him his dress, and the / train it drew contained the late questor of the Assembly, M. Degousee, and several of his political friends, called amis de la constitution. The country house of M. Ledru Rollin, at Fontenay-aux-Rosses has been searched, and a quantity of arras and ammunition of all kinds found in it and seized. It had been converted into a resort for conspirators. General Donadieu, who filled a prominent part in politics under Louis XVI II. and Charles X., died in Paris, on Monday last of cholera. General Pont le Roy died in Paris on the same day, in the 80th year of his age. Madame Cavaignac, the mother of the General, died on Tuesday night of the cholera. She was of advanced age. and was the widow of the celebrated Conventionist of that name. The funeral service to the memory of the late Marshal Bugeaud was celebrated with great pomp, at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, in the church of St. Louis of the Invalides. In addition to the recent demise of Madame Catalani, another artist of European reputation has just been carried off by the disease in Paris — Frederick Kalkbrenner, whd died last week, just as he had completed a work upon which he had been engaged for some time past. The deceased was on the point of setting out for Italy, for the re- establishment of his health. Banderall, the celebrated professor of singing at the Conservatoire, which post he had filled for 20 years, has also been added to the list of victims. Marshal Bugeaud died of cholera at halfpast six o'clock on Sunday, June 10th. He began his military career as a simple solJier. He carried the knapsack and musket as many marshals, his seniors in rank, had done before him. He received his promotion as corporal on the field of Austerlitz. A Prefect of one of the French departments mentioned to a friend some days since, as a curious instance of the instability of human affairs, that about 12 months ago he received the following telegraphic despatch :—: — "Monsieur le Piefet, — Arrest by all possible means the citizen Louis Napoleon Bonadarte, should he present himself in your department. (Signed) "LEDRU ROLLIN." A year later the same Prefect received another despatch in the following terms :—: — " Arrest by all possible means the citizen Ledru Rollin, if he present himself in your department. (Signed) "DUFAURE." Minister of Louis Napoleon.