ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 734, 14 August 1852, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Queen's speech yesterday was transmitted by the submarine telegraph to Paris with such rapidity that a complete copy thus forwarded was in the hands of the President at half-past six o'clock yesterday evening. — Times, Feb. 4. Cape Corpb. — The vacancies which have occurred in this regiment by desertion to the enemy, and other casualties, amounting to 400 men, are to be filled up by volunteers from the regiments of the line now stationed at the Cape of Good Hope.' Each man is to receive a bounty of one guinea. The regiment will then be recruited in England, and ultimately consist of white men. Roman Remains. — On Thursday last, as some workmen were employed in trenching a mound, in a field between Newbigging and Newtyle, they came upon two stone coffins full of bones. They were at a considerable depth, and near them was a clay vessel, which was unfortunately broken, but which appears to have been something like a vase or urn. The mound in which this discovery was made, is one of four which extend in a line almost due east and west. The one most to the west, close behind the farm-house of Auchtertyre, is popularly named " The Camp," and has been recently trenched and enclosed, but no remains were discovered" in it during these operations. In the one to the east, however, a stone coffin was found some years ago, and we believe remains there still. The other two mounds are of exactly the same form as the remains of the Roman camp at Camphill, near Coupar- Angus, and from this and the traditional name, it may be concluded with some degree of probability that these tumuli may be the remains of a Roman camp, and the dry bones which they contain those of Roman soldiers. The urn, to be sure, was more fashionable among the Romans than the coffin, but interment was not altogether unknown, and when it was practised stone coffins were always employed. — Northern Warder; Jan. 22. Lord Stanley, who has been amongst us upwards of a month, left by the steamer of the Ist for Calcutta. He made as much use of his opportunities for observation as was possible, visiting whatever was deserving of attention, and making a short excursion into the interior as far as Mysore. — Madras paper, Dec. 13.