ENGLISH EXTRACTS,

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 490, 13 April 1850, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS,

The following are among the names of eminent perions recently deceased: — The Earl of Albemarle, (father of the Hon. Captain Keppel of H.M.S. Meander), the Earl of Aldborough, General Sir G. Anson, General Sir J. O. Vandeleur, Sir J. A. Whitshed, Admiral of the Fleet, and Rear-Admi-ral Pechell. William Etty, the Royal Academician, died at his residence, in his native city on Tuesday evening. The deceased artist was born at York in 1787, where his father was a miller, and it was not till towards the close of a seven year's apprenticeship to a printer that Etty's natural bias became irrepressible, and he determined to become a painter—with what distinguished success :s: s well known to every one who has the slightest acquaintance With the history of modern art. Dr. Ollivant, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, had been appointed Bishop of Llandaff, and the Rev. H. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's. A day of general thanksgiving had been observed throughout England on account of the entire cessation of the choleia. The accumulated deficit of the French exchequer for the past year was 600,000,000 francs; 200,000,000 francs of the amount was to be borrowed of the Bank of France and the balance to be added to the floating debt. The Income Tax Bill was nevertheless withdrawn, and the minister hoped "unless any grave event occurred," to jog on till January, without another loan. Accounts from New York represent the cotton trade as somewhat active. The influx of money from the United States continaed to a serious extent. The Niagara steamer had brought over £60,000 in sovereigns. The Canada had previously brought over gold to the amount of a million sterling. British America.—Agitation, disappointment, and party brawls prevailed throughout the colony. The country was splitting into two factions—"the annexationists" and " the anti-annexationists." Mr. L. M. Yigar, the Receiver-General, had resigned office. Some disturbances had taken place in Quebec. The steam screw propeller Globe had gone down in Lake Erie with a cargo valued at 100,000 dollars ; but no lives were lost. 1

Wedding in the Rothschild Family. —Wednesday last (the 17th) was appointed for the wedding, at Frankfort- on-the-Maine, of Baron William de Rothschild, son of Baron de Rothschild of Naples, to a granddaughter of B. Solomon de Rothschild of Vienna. Nearly all the members of the j houses of Rothschild, at Vienna, Naples, j London, and Paris, came to Frankfort to at- | tend the solemn ceremony. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore were also present. The bridegroom is very young and handsome. It ii most remarkable, however, that he attends very little to business, but is mostly engaged in religious study, and in the affairs of Jerusalem. He is a punctual attendant at the synagogue twice every day of the week, and wherever be goes is accompanied by his Hebrew tutor. Indeed, his incessant devotion to the religion of his ancestors has secured for the young Baron a universal reputation. —Jewish Chronicle*

Legacy of £10,000 to the National Gallery by the late Mr. T. D. Lewis. —The will of this gentleman, who was the youngest and only son of the celebrated comedian, has been proved at Doctors' Commons. It is worthy of public note, and the memory of the deceased demands public gratitude for a legacy of £10,000 new £3 : ss. per cent, annuities to the National Gallery. To this munificent bequest is attached a gift of a valuable portiait of the comedian in these words : —" from a desire to perpetuate the memory of one of the best of fathers, whose private worth and public merit were alike deservedly appreciated, I give and bequeath to the trustees of the National Gallery the full length portrait of my late dear father, William Thomas Lewis, Esq., painted by Mr, Martin Archer Shee ; and it is my particular request that,' in consideration of the (above mentioned) legacy, they will permanently provide some conspicuous and eligible situation in the National Gallery for the said portrait, and preserve the same in good condition." The portrait presents the celebrated comedian as the Marquis in the ' Midnight Hour.' The pecuniary legacy is directed to be invested upon trnst to pay the dividends to Miis Lewis, the testator's only surviving sister, for life, and at her death the £10,000 is to be transferred to the trustees of the National Gallery. —Observer,