ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 675, 21 January 1852, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

It is reported that as a consequence, and in commemoration of the Exhibition, the honor of Baronet will be conferred upon several gentlemen ; and also that the honor will conclude some of the liberal M.P.’s to whom the Government are indebted for support. It is also said that Mr. Paxton, Mr. Fox, and others, would be included in the list, if possessed of sufficient fortune, but those and others will probably receive the honor of knighthood. The list of new baronets will include Mr. Aid. Farncomb, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Guiness, Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Thomas Bazley, Esq., commissioner for Manchester, and Mr. Samuel M. Peto, M.P. At one o’clock on Wednesday, the 13th August, the City of Glasgow, screw steam ship, left the Mersey for Philadelphia, with the wholly unprecedented number of 224 passengers, some of whom were glad to pay full cabin fare for the privilege of making up their beds on the floor. Besides the above, this ship took out a very valuable cargo of dry goods. Some Spanish professors have arrived in Germany, with commissions from their governments, to make all necessary inquiries respecting the progress of education in their respective branches, and also to purchase German works for the public libraries of Spain. The funeral of Marshal Sebastiani was celebrated at the Invalides, on Tuesday, with the military honors due to a marshal of France. Detachments from every corps in the garrison of Paris were present. After the funeral service the body was placed on a hearse upon the esplanade outside the railing, in front of the Invalides, and the troops filed past. An alarming accident happened in church before the coffin arrived. Owing to the carelessness oi one of the children employed in thereligious ceremonies about the high altar, the draperies placed there for the occasion caught fire from one of the wax candles. The flames spread so rapidly that they reached the flags which hang on each side of the church, some of which were consumed before the fire could be extinguished. The fire destroyed fifteen flags and injured many others. The old soldiers, who rejoiced in the sight of these trophies, many of which they bad helped to conquer were deeply affected'at their loss. The full solemnities of religious service could not be performed. An Altar was hastily arranged in the vaults, and lighted by four modest candles only, where De Profundis was sung in the midst of smoke, and with water up to the ankles of the mourners. The scene was deeply affecting, the moresothat the young Due de Praslin was present. General Tiburce Sebastiani, Marshals Jerome Bonaparte, Excelsman, and Reille ; the minister of war, and most of the general officers in Paris, were among the mourners. It was only decided, after much discussion, that the military honours should be postponed.