ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 594, 12 April 1851, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

[From the Hobart Town Advertiser, March >r||| Her Majesty and Prince Albert and Royal Family still remained at Windsor BS Parliament, which had been prorojj| from the 14th Nov. to 17th December, again prorogued until the 4th February. | j It is intended to commission a steam ress® for service on the New Zealand slauoo, anrfW is probable one of the iron war steamers v>||| be selected for that purpose, as it is notlik'lSp that she will be engaged in warfare would injure her in that quarter of the The bequest of the late Mr. Hartley lotg town of Southampton, for scientific purposaH has now been converted into English and has realised £82,000. This btqodg| the amount of which has been thrown Chancery, will, in a few weeks, be the ject of investigation before that court I§ The Emperor of Russia proposes, it® said, to have a tunnel bored under the Nd' similar to that executed by Mr. Brunel the Thames. M. Alaric Falconet, a ceHj brated French engineer, has been to furnish plans for this undertaking. The presidency of the East India pany’s Educational Establishment at combe, now vacant, and with £l,sooa! ! d||| exclusive of a residence and other advantages, will, it is reported, be g’ vct fi the Court of Directors to one of the Wj chosen members of their body, viz., Ollivant. H The vessel Cornwall, arrived in the doSggg from Sydney New South Wales, has 10,000 tin packages of boiled beef as P aft |gg her cargo, consigned to order. We have heard it rumoured —we kno® [ ''- with what. truth—-that Lord Nortnanbypi about to leave the French embassy, and appointed to —limes. Id In more than one church in Gutta Percha Company’s tubes dHI fitted up from the pulpit and reading the pews occupied by deaf persons, withstanding -they may sit upwards of feet from the pulpit, they can hear every’’™ i There is no longer any doubt as to ; jg| V xtavmc x-cutti s retirement iruui ment of Malta. He has declared shall leave in April next, as his will not permit his risking another on the Malta Island. Lord BeauwS-b understand, is to succeed Mr. MoreOF It is stated that an attempt is 3 b made to rate the electric telegraph at ßo per mile upon the profits of messages ßo telligence transmitted over the wires inH towns and parishes as they run tbr JHj the ground that the particular P* ace C L:|| an adventitious value on the particular J of communication. ■ |iM The last accounts from Algiers I the cholera continued prevalent, butt a I had not been any remarkable increas 8, g

iffairs were proceeding quietly. The extension of agricultural pursuits was noticeable in lome quarters of the interior. I The Newfoundland papers mention that the potatoe blight had occasioned serious damage, pot only in that place but also in the neighbourhood of Conception Bay. The attention bf the government authorities to the subject, it was said, would be immediately necessary, in order that measures might be adopted to provide for the wants of the poorer classes luring the depth of winter. I Several Jesuits have been observed in Plymouth, which, as the chief seat of a Roman Catholic episcopal diocese, has probably been honoured with their visit. | The Earl of Carlisle has proffered his pervices, on the occasion of his visiting the town of Leeds to preside at the dinner of the tradesmen’s Benevolent Society, to give two lectures —one on the “ Poetry of Pope,” and jhe other on his own Travels in America, to jbemembersof the Leeds Mechanics’ Institute. e The French fleet, under the command of Admiral Deschenes, consisting of the the vice Valmy, 112, Rear Admiral Dubourdieu ; ItfenrylV., 100, Captain DeGueydon ; Jemmappes, 100, Capta>ne De Varese; Inflexible, 90, Captain De Mouleon ; Jena, 90, Captain Larrien ; and the Caion, (steam-sloop), Captain Gesnel, which left Cherbourg on the 10th for Brest, anchored at Torbay on Monday afternoon, and left at 2.30 p.m., on Tuesday, the wind being northerly and fine. It appears that they have been detained at Cherbourg by the weather; and we are inarmed when ordered to sea, hesitated to take

the eastern passage, on account as they allege, jf shoal water. Commander Storey, the injecting commander of the coast guard at Torquay, it appears deemed it his duty to visit me admiral’s ship to discover the reason of (heir visit, he was informed that stress of weather obliged them to seek shelter under jerry Head. The ships are stated to look n good order and clean, and handled their anvass tolerably quick on coming to an anhor. Had they visited Spithead, they would ave seen in the harbour ready for sea, three ine of battle ships, two of them screws 1 Ven. eance, 84, Blenheim, 60, and Hogue, 60, the wo former with advanced complements, which i the course of half an hour might be filled p: a steam frigate, Retribution, 22, an d I steam sloop, Hecate, 6, besides a powerful reserve of steamers. Had they visited Plymouth they would have found there two line f battle ships, a 50 gun frigate, and a sloop, 11 in the Sound—namely the Albion, 90, tree fourths manned ; the Bellerophon, 78, illy manned ; and the Portland, 50, fully lanned, with a good steam reserve in the arbour. Our strength at the two ports is entioned to guard against mistakes or misipresentations.—Hampshire Advertiser. Several foreign ambassadors have paid theit sspects to the Cardinal since his arrival at t. George’s Cathedral. At Seville there ive been great rejoicings on the Cardinal’s romotion, it being his native city. The ordinal was the guest of the Archduke of uscany and of the Emperor of Austria on s way from Rome to England. The following colonial appointments have Ist been decided upon : —Mr. Bannerman, te M.P. for Aberdeen, to be Lieutenantovernor of Prince Edward’s Island ; and ir John Athol Macgregor, Bart, (son of Sir i. Macgregor, formerly Governor-in-Chief of arbadoes and the Windward Islands), to be resident administeiing the government of the 'irgin Islands. The Independence of Brussels says— Mazzini has just passed through France on is way to Switzerland. He had an English tssport. He was preceded in his departure J several of his friends in London, but they d not dare to touch the French soil, and (ached the Rhine by Belgium. The rentzvous was given in the environs of Bale, he refugees of the cantons of Geneva and iauzanne were to go there also. The King of Bavaria has formed the giintic design of causing to be executed a ties of pictures on subjects derived from the Inals of all times and nations the whole beg destined to form a sort of pictorial univerd chronology. There are still rumours that the Duke of Wellington has at last convinced the governient of the absolute necessity of balloting !e militia* and that we shall have a new lilitia Act, and also a bill for enlisting seaien, introduced next session. Archdeacon Manning has, we understand, 'signed the archdeacony of Chichester, in ‘nsequence, it is supposed, of difficulties ’out the present position of the estabh bed lurch. Archbishop Hughes, the Catholic metro- 1 i itan of the united States, is said to be en )u te to Rome, to complete the ceremonials ’nnected with his elevation. He also oes the character of a representative, to detail e holy father the success of the Catholic urch in America,

Cedroni seed, recently discovered in the valleys of Costa Rica, is said to possess the property of curing madness. A medical congress, including representatives from the different states of Europe, is shortly to be held to test the efficacy of cedroni seed in mental disorders and epilepsy. A considerable number of crosses and other Romish images have been landed at the Cus-tome-house at Portsmouth, for the use of the Romanists of South Hants. They came from a Paris house, and are consigned to a Hebrew firm at Portsmouth. They appear to be sent over in the belief that as Hampshire is apart of Cardinal Wiseman’s own diocese at Southwark, the tide of conversion must necessarily have set in very strongly. The Bishop of London has directed the archdeacons of London and Middlesex to visit all the churches and chapels in which it is alleged that Romish ceremonies are practised, and to report to him every case in which any ceremonies or forms are used not authorised by the rubric, nor sanctioned by established custom. On rhe 20th Nov., tbe Right Hon. Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, attended at the Rolls Court, Chancery-lane, to swear in solicitors. The number of gentlemen sworn exceeded 200. They were introduced to his lordship in parties of twenty. The Newfoundland Times gives facts establishing the probability that the whole island is rising out of the ocean with a rapidity which threatens, at no distant period, to materially affect, if not utterly destroy, many of the best harbours on the coast of Newfoundland. A similar up-heaving has been noticed in Sweden for nearly a century. The Blackburn committee are still proceeding in raising the funds necessary for the erection of a useful memorial to the late Sir R. Peel, Bart., in the form of public batbs for all classes. Upwards of £6OO have been promised.

The Right Rev. Dr. John Inglis, Bishop of Nova Scotia, who has been for a short time sojourning in England died on the 26th October, at his residence, Curzon-street, May-fair. Dr. Inglis was the oldest of our colonial bishops, having been consecrated in 1825, and twenty-five years previous to that was an active missionary clergyman of the diocese.

Her Majesty’s letters patent have passed the great seal of Ireland, grafting the bishopric of Meath to the Very Rev. T. Stuart Townsend, D.D. It is generally rumoured that the Rev. Dr. Okes, the lower master of Eton School, will be selected to fill tbe vacant appointment of provost of King’s College. The Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, head master of Eton has, it is stated, declined to be put in nomination. Baron Rolfe is to be elevated to the peerage, for the sake of the country’s having the advantage of his judicial experience in the House of Lords.

The first screw propeller of the General Screw Navigation company will sail with the mails for Cape Town on the 15th of December. This event will constitute an era in the history of the colony. On Monday, the 4t,h November, a general assembly of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, Trafalgar-square, when Charles Lock Eastlake, Esq., was elected president in the room of Sir Martin Arthur Shee, deceased ; and Mr. Jas. Clarke Hook was elected an associate.

A grand entertainment was given at Lisbon on the 9th December, on the arrival of the new Cardinal. The British Minister and the officers of the British squadron were invited, but they all unanimously refused the invitation.

Dr. Newman, a recent convert, is to be the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham. A correspondent of the Daily News, writing from New York, says : —“ Archbishop Hughes, who has just left us in order to go to Rome to receive the pallium from the Pope, delivered a lecture here a few days since, in which he asserted the positive and rapid decline of protestantism in this country aud in Europe. The lecture excited much attention here, but I undertake to say it was a fallacy from beginning to end—false in its facts and in its inferences. The only additions made to the Roman catholic church here are derived from Irish and German emigration. The only Americans who belong to it are the immediate descendants of foreigners, who keep up a show of reverence for the church in order to control the votes of these poor ignorant people. It is with the greatest difficulty the Romish churches are kept up in this city. All the congregations are deeply in debt, and in danger of being sold. All tbe Irish servant men and women are taxed a few cents, each week to keep the priests from starving; .while, on the other hand, the protestant churches of all denominations are liberally sustained, without any resort to compulsion or censures. If protestantism is on the decline here we cannot perceive it.”

There have of late been a variety of rumours in circulation as to further legal changes in, and even in addition to, the judicial bench. Lord Langdale will, it is reported, resign, at no very distant period, the Mastership of the Rolls. The short experience of only two ViceChancellors is said to be so unfavourable to that experiment, as to be likely to lead, on the re-assembling of parliament, to the introduction of a measure for the re-appointment of a third, to keep down the pressure of suits in Equity. Now that Lord Cottenham is ill and abroad, Lord Lyndhurst almost deprived of sight and unfit for business, Lord Campbell occupied in the Queen’s Bench, Lord Chancellor Truro unable to greatly reduce the arrear of appeals in the Court of Chancery, and Lord Brougham threatening to pay a visit in the spring to the United States, some further provision for the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords on the meeting of Parliament will, it is obvious, have to be made : so there is a very prevalent belief (we may add a strong desire) that should the senior puisne Baron of the Exchequer be then disposed to retire on the pension he has so well earned, a peerage would be conferred on him. And, we_regret to say, that one of the ablest judges in Westminster-hall is at present very seriously unwell.— Daily News. Cardinal Wiseman was enthroned at St.George’s Church, Southwark, on the 6th December.

A deputation on the subject of steam communication with Australia, had an interview with Lord John Russell on the 4th December, at his official residence in Downing-street. His Lordship was accompanied by Earl Grey and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The deputation consisted of Lord Monteagle, Hon. F. Scott, M.P., Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Mr. DeSalis, Hon. W. Wrottesly, Mr. Charles Logan, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Henriquez, and Mr. Davidson.

It is stated that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has had conferred upon him for some years the “cardinal’s hat,” but that for certain reasons his grace kept the conferred honor a profound secret. The folio wing account of the enthronement of Cardinal Wiseman is from the Daily News Dec, 7 :—

“ It might have been expected that some indications of that excitement would have been presented to view. But the reverse was the fact. The precincts of tbe building wore the usual aspect of tranquillity, and the exterior calm was reflected by silence inside doors. “ The sombre character of St. George’s derived additional dimness from one of the foggiest mornings of the winter season. Nor was artificial lustre, that gorgeous accessory to the service of the Roman catholic church, much resorted to in aid of the feeble light which glimmered through the windows of St. George’s. For half an hour after visitors were admitted to their seats, nothing preparatory was observable; the organ was hushed and the choir silent; but about half-past eleven the preparations were observable in every part of the edifice. An acolyte came in this direction with a thurifer ; another carried a crucifix to the spot where the procession was to form. A chalice was transferred from one altar to another by a third. At length the order forming the procession was given by the tolling of a bell, and the clergy of the new “ archdiocese” formed into regular order at its summons. The Cardinal himself, robed in scarlet and white, and wearing a small scarlet cap, proceeded from the sacristy, his flowing train borne by two train bearers. After a brief pause, at the extreme end of the nave of the church, the choir commenced chaunting tbe ‘ Hallelujah/ from Beethoven’s “ Mount of Olives,” and presently tbe procession was observed to move up the nave in the direction of the central altar. Foremost was borne the cross with lighted candles on either side. Then came the Roman catholic clergy subject to tbe new archdiocesan’s jurisdiction two by two, habited according to their respective ranks and orders. Tbe peculiarity of theOratorian costume was striking. At length the cardinal himself appeared, wearing a gorgeous mitre aud pallium. A canopy, fringed with silk and gold, was borne over his path by (it was stated) the “ converts” exclusively. There were about two hundred of the secular clergy and the various religious orders in the procession. Lastly came Dr. Doyle robed in tbe usual sacrificial vestments, preceded by Dr. Cox, the Rev. Mr. Cotter, and the Rev. Mr. Daniel, as master of the ceremony, deacon, and sub-deacon. Having reached the screen which fronts the sanctuary the Cardinal was led into a small compartment at the left of the principal altar, called the Chapel of the Blessed Eucharist, whence after a brief interval, the procession moved within the sanctuary, Cardinal Wiseman kneeling at the foot of the altar, and the celebrating clergyman ascending its steps — assisted by the deacon and sub-deacon. The customary form of prayer having been read, tbe mitre, which had been exchanged for a scarlet cap a short time before, was formally

placed upon the bead of tbe new archbishop, whilst the crosier, emblematic of his authority, was also placed in his bands. He was then conducted to the archiepiscopal chair, at the foot of which the whole body of the clergy made tbe usual obeisance—kissing the cardinal’s ring in recognition of his spiritual authority. The solemnities of high mass were then proceeded with; after which the Bull was publicly read, in virtue of which Cardinal Wiseman assumes the archiepiscopal jurisdicliGn of Westminster. Tbe proceedings closed with the presentation of an address to tbe new “archbishop,” and an exhortation, in which he impressed upon his clergy the duties and obligations incidental to their important mission.

A meeting to address the Queen on the exciting topic was to have been held at Birkenhead on the 29th November, but it was stopped by a large body of Catholics. The police attempted to preserve order, but were immediately attacked, and two wounded in such a manner that their lives were despaired of, and twenty more were severely wounded. A large body of police were ordered out from Liverpool, as well as a body of military. We copy the following from the Weekly News of Dec. 15 :—

“ The proceedings of tbe week have been interesting as well as important. At Birmingham, a meeting of the inhabitants, convened by a numerous and highly respectable requisition to the mayor, for the purpose of considering the aggression of the Pope of Rome, was held in the Town-hall, and we never remember so much excitement manifested since the great New Town-hall gathering under Mr. Thomas Atwood. An address to the Queen was proposed, to which Mr. Sturge offered the following amendment: —“ That in the opinion of this meeting the appointment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy does not require any legislative interference.” The mayor impartially read tbe original resolution, and the amendment. He then took a show of hands upon the amendment, when a forest of haudswasheld up, amidst tremendous cheering. He then called for a show of hands on the original address, when to all appearances a number of hands equally as great were held up, accompanied by the most rapturous and enthusiastic applause. It was almost impossible to decide between the uarties. The mayor called for another show, and gave it as his opinion that the amendment was not carried. He then put the original address as a substantive resolution, when an exhibition of bands was held up against it which neutralized the show against the amendment, and the ultimate decision of the mayor was that the amendment was not carried, and the original address lost. Dr. M'Neil delivered a lecture on the canon law, on Tuesday afternoon at the Liverpool Amphitheatre. Although the admission was by paid tickets, there could not have been less than 3000 persons present, among whom were a number of well dressed ladies. —On Thursday an address to tbe Queen was voted at a great meeting at Burnley.—At Frome, Bradford, Northumberland, and Durham, addresses were also voted.—On Tuesday night, a meeting, attended by upwards of 2000 persons, was held in Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars-road, for the purpose of agreeing upon an address to the Queen. Tbe Rev. James Sherman took the chair, and the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Messrs. Smith, Stowell, Cummings, —The protestants of Edinburgh have also had a meeting, at which the addressses were carried unanimously.