ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 659, 26 November 1851, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

[From the Colonial Times, November 4.] Her Majesty and the Royal Family were at Buckingham Palace, all well. Her Majesty and Prince Albert still continue their visits to the Crystal Palace. Several Petitions had been presented to the House of Commons against pulling down the Crystal Palace, which continued as attractive

as ever. The daily average of visitors is about 60,000. Royal Gift.-- Queen Victoria intends to present to the Emperor of Austria a magnificent dinner service, composed of porcelain and marble, which she purchased at the Great Exhibition for £lOOO sterling, in return for the superb album which she received from the Emperor.

Death of Dr. M. Moir.— It is with deep regret that we have to announce the sudden death of Dr. Moir of Musselburgh, the well-known “Delta” of “ Blackwood’s Magazine,” who expired at Dumfries, at two o’clock on Sunday morning. The grand banquet to be .given to Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., the eminent engineer, is fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 27th of August, in the Pavilion at the George Hotel, Menai-bridge. Arrivals from Nineveh. —Several cases containing some additional antiquities from Nineveh have arrived at the British Museum from Liverpool. A great variety of new and interesting objects have been brought to light, chiefly connected with the domestic economy and customs of the ancient Assyrians. They principally consist of instruments and vessels of bronze and earthenware, several in a very perfect state of preservation, others thickly encrusted with rust and broken to fragments. The use of some of them is quite inexplicable for the present, and must be left for future ingenuity and study to discover. There aie, however, bowls and vases, many richly chased ; some dozens of earthenware studs of different shapes, supposed to be for harness; a very perfect bronze wine strainer, similar to those in use at the present day ; the hinges of the gates of the palace; legs and feet of chairs ; a curious mask of iron or bronze ; richly ornamented handles of various kinds ; a large wheel, or the bronze casting of it, broken into many pieces; one or two small glass vases of very beautiful colours ; a quantity of cylinders, about an inch and a half in length, carved or inscribed, one or two of them of a substance resembling plumbago, both in appearance and weight, but the greater part of them in earthenware ; a statute of a priest in stone, about four feet high and much ornamented, and with the peculiarity that the figure has no cap or covering on its head, and is apparently bald ; and, lastly, several slabs of inscriptions. The study of these remains will, doubtless, throw, much additional light on the imperfect knowledge we possess of the ancient and wonderful people to whom they belonged. The number of ships built at this port during the half-year ending June 30, is 93 ; tonnage, 31,692. There is an aggregate of 33,500 tons of shipping now on the slock at Sunderland. — Sunderland News: A dreadful fire broke out at Madrid on the Bth instant, which consumed twentyonehouses The Queen, on hearing this melancholy news, ordered the sufferers to be relieved from the treasury commanding, at the same time, that, if there were not sufficient funds in hand for the purpose her jewels should be sold. Dr. Sutherland, the medical inspector of the General Board of Health, has been appointed to attend the Medical congress, to be held at Paris, on the subject of quarantine.

Some journeymen, whilst paving a way near Konigsberg, found under a huge stone nine ingots of melted silver, of three pounds weight, two antique silver ornaments (bracelets), and two antique silver weapons of highly finished workmanship.

Another of the ships composing the new steam fleet of the Royal Mail Company was launched on Tuesday. She is called the Parana, and was built at Southampton by Messrs. Wigram. She is to be navigated to the Clyde to receive her 800 horse power engines from Messrs Caird and Co. The occasion was madd” a holiday at Southampton. We understand that Lieut.-gen. the Right Hon. Sir F. Adam, G.C.8,, will receive the appointment of governor of Malta, together with the command of the troops stationed in that island. Mr. James the novelist has bought a small estate in Berkshire, in the state of Massachusetts, and is about.erecling a mansion upon an eminence within his domain.

[From the Hobart Town Advertiser, Nov. 4,] The Earl of Selton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster, vice the late Earl of Derby. On Tuesday the ex-Queen of the French arrived in Edinburgh. Lady Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, lost £20,000 on the last Derby race. 1 he Queen of Spam has subscribed £40,000 to the enterprise for bringing water to Madrid. Some Jewish capitalists, driven from Russia by late measures against their race, are endeavouring to purchase large tracts of land for the formation of Jewish colonies in Hungary. Secular Education,—Mr. Oastler, in his admiral periodical entitled The Homo, says, “ Jet once the restraining influence' of

religion be got rid of in the training of youth in this country, and the rising generation will grow up a money loving race of cunning infidels.”

Sir George Grey has been dangerously ill; he was not sufficiently recovered to attend to bis official duties. Lord Fitzalan Howard has married Miss Talbot.

The Bishop of Bombay, on leave of absence in England, has resigned. The vacant see has been, it is said, conferred on the Rev. John Harding, Rector of St. Andrews by the Wardrobe, and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor received a communication from Lord John Russell on Thursday evening, conveying her Majesty's most gracious approval of all the arrangements of the civic entertainment at Guildhall, on Wednesday last, and announcing the fact that her Majesty had been pleased to confer upon his lordship the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom, in token of the royal appreciation of the hospitality presided over by his lordship. The Earl of Mulgrave has been appointed Comptroller of the Household, in the room of the late Right Hon. W. S. Lascelles. Wool Market. —The wool sales commenced on the 17tb, with a large attendance of home and foreign buyers : biddings were very spirited, and prices fully maintained. It has been arranged not to offer more than 60,000 bales during the present sales, and only to have one more sale during the present year,— to commence the end of October. This announcement has given additional firmness to the market. Friday, July 25. —The public sales will elose on the 16th of next month, over 17,000 bales having been already offered of the 60,000 declared. The biddings have continued brisk, and high prices have been obtained. Australian sheep’s has been at Is. Id. to Is. and for scoured up to Is. lOd. to Is. ll|d. per lb. Port P-hillip has realized Bd. to Is. 10|d. for clean sheep’s, and lambs Is. 3d. to 2s. B|d. for scoured. Cape Is. Id. to Is. 3d.. New Zealand Is l|d. to Is. 3d. Buenos Ayres merino, in the grease sfd., and sheep’s 4d. to s|d. Egyptian 7|d. to B|d. for white, and 6|d, to 7|d. for black. Chilian 6d. to 10d., and Turkish 7|d to 7£d per lb. 26th July.—Saleshave continued daily with the same large attendance, both home and foreign buyers, and the sales will conclude on the 16th August. Oikis quoted—Sperm at £B4. South Sea oil, £29 to £3l 10s. Whalebone, £155. Average price of wheat for the last six weeks, ending 26th July, throughout England and Wales, ss. 6d. per bushel. The late affray at Liverpool between the police and the military was still exciting great interest, and petitions were pouring in from that great port and the surrounding country to head quarters, to have the 91st regiment removed. An inquiry was made into the cause of the late disastrous fire at Aiderman Humphrey’s, near London Bridge, and the general opinion was, that it was the work of an incendiary. .£2OO was offered for the detection of the offender. Rome remained in a very unsettled state, and assassinations in the public streets were of daily occurrence. A fearful storm of hail, wind, and thunder, had swept the whole of the north-west of England and done great damage to the growing crops. Some lives bad also been lost from the falling in of houses, from the violence rf the wind. The following members of the bar had been elevated to the rank of Queen’s Council, viz: Messrs. Campbell, Chandler, Elmslie, Wilcock, Glasse, Craig, Anderson, Follett, Coulson, J. Bailey, and Daniel. An extensive fire had broken out in Bushlane, which destroyea property to the amount of £3,000. The Times, by means of the Electric Telegraph, announces that “the President of the French Republic had received letters through her Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires, in Paris, in reply to the recall of M. Dryhn D’Llhys from his post as French Ambassador at London, The circumstance created much gossip. Hulbert & Co., and Kandon & Co., eminent banking houses>in New York, had suspended payment. Letters from Hungary mention the shock of an earthquake having'been felt at Comorn. It was accompanied by a fearful crashing sound, and loud peals of thunder. The church bells were made to ring, and scarcely a house that was not injured in some way. Most of the inhabitants betook themselves to the fields. Lord Stanley left London for India, The Archbishop of Turin bad arrived in London. £4OO per annum had been settled upon M r. Silk Buckingham hy the East India Company and the Government.

The English Church at Alexandria. A few English travellers, witnessing the un-

finished and fast decavin™ n lish church of St. Mark, haye tb° f exertions, raised subscriptions \o J°? gh fintsa the edifice. They P have iusM^ the materials in wood and iron for the church, in nearly 100 packages h sei about to sail for Alexandria 8 Extraordinary Discovery * miltee appointed bv » , •.'"A tn*, the Treasury to Mr. George Matthews, lato i un i 0 COti ? act «t the office of the Chief Secretary f have published a report, disclosing ordinary mal-administration of the T . Xlraffium Donum, the distiibution of whi^" 811 to have fallen chiefly on Mr. Mattfeabused the confidence reposed' in ating imaginary ministers, a fictiti ol ? and even a whole presbytery, ffhi J IT’ existence but on paper app„ p , irti sands of pounds nominally paid to th* ■ positiiious grantees. He was i a employing fourteen messengers l/esirhnJi ' f as the recipients of 116 noufiLi . erlcB ! One messenger acted for twenty D A °l taDl ’* parties, a second for seventeen,, aid these agents being quite unconacbm o °fT frauds of which they were made tb e ft., ® ments. He appears further to have mJ.™’ of his power for the aggrandisement of bi,. latives, by means of the fund entrusted to M charge. On tracing his history it hasU n found that his real name was Chisholm M > thews, and that twenty-five years ago b a resident at Inverness, from which he sud. denly disappeared in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments. He anticipated thete". suit of the present inquiry by flight. There are three cardinals at present i Q London—the three being the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, the Cardinal Archbishop o'l Bordeaux, and Cardinal Wiseman. Jenny Lind.—A correspondent of theStm says, it is generally understood on the other side of the Atlantic that the fair songstress is at last likely to be bound in the soft bonds of Hvmen; that the gentleman whom rn. mour points out as her fortunate husband is Mr. Frederick Wood, who has for several months had the arrangement of her business matters in this country. On this subject the Sun says : —“ Many vague reports have been circulated as to the fortunate individual. Tbe name of Mr. Wood has beers mentioned, but erroneously. We can state on unquestionable authority that Signor Belletti will be the happy man. Every arrangement has, we believe, been concluded for the nuptials of the loving cou| le on their return from Canada, previous to the voyage from New York to England.” The late Earl of Derby has left his superb collection of animals and birds to the Queen, if her Majesty will graciously please to accept them. In the event of her Majesty not desiring to avail herself of the bequest, the specimens are to be given to the Zoological Society, for the enrichment of their gardens in Regent’s park. The late Earl possessed a very large collection of the skins of animalsand birds prepared for stuffing. These have been bequeathed to Liverpool.

The Pope's London Church.—Dr. Cumming, in a letter to the Times, proposes to retaliate on the Pope’s proposal for building an Italian Church in London, and to test the sincerity of his recent charitable declarations, thus :—“ The project of tbe Pope is that ol building a spacious church in the centre of London, in s fine position, in oneoftbs most majestic streets in the city, principally for the use of Italians, and thence ofotner foreigners, as well as of the natives." This is very bold, very plain, and a very satisfactory answer to the apologetic explanations of the Papal rescripts poured out by Dr- W ,se " man. But does it not suggest a very obvio QS duty? Let us start the project of ‘building a spacious church in the centre of Rome< lE ‘ fine position, in one of the most Saje!l |l ' streets in the city principally for the English, and thence of other fci^B- ers ' as well as of the natives.’ lam notary®' ber of tbe church of England, but I P that it be a cathedral church, witba thorou? y Protestant Bishop and presbyters; a n “ . n gage to raise £lOO towards this noble proje if undertaken by Christmas, 185 L a ® doubt not thousands of similar offer# made if the thing be net a-going\ Chester Courant suggests, that Stnitu > as soon as vacant, might be recom® 60 , to “his Holiness” as a locality to the “ Royal Apostolic Council of 018 by some of its historical associations-