ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 787, 16 February 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The New American ship Mobile, 1000 tons, Captin Furber, has been wrecked. She sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans on Monday, 4th October ; on Wednesday she struck on Bltckwater Bank, the wind at the time blowing a perfect hurricane, with a very heavy sea running? There were forty passengers and thirty men, all of whom were lost except eight seamefc and one passenger. The eminent ship-owning firm of Lindsay & Co. are building an iron screw steamer of 1600 tons register, and 2300 burden, for emigration purposes. She is to be called the Caroline Chisholm and will it is said, take oat* on her first trip no less than 55Q young women, selected by the Family Colonization Loan Society," — no doubt to " rock the cradles for the lucky golddiggers." The managment and condition of Bethlehem Hospital have been pronounced by a committee of management of which Earl of Shaftesbury is the chairman, to be in many material respects most unsatisfactory, both in reference to the purposes for which it was founded, and the very large funds by which it is maintained, The Ordreof Dijon, states, that the Saone, . near that town, has overflowed its banks, and caused great damage. The inundation took place so suddenly that the farmers who were employed in getting in their crops, had barely time to save themselves and their horses. All the second crops of hay have been lost. Victor Hugo — .Victor Hugo, observes the correspondent of a London paper, was driven out of Belgium, and is now seeking refuge at Jersey. Since his arrival in that island, Bonaparte (we hear) has addressed a note to the British Government, complaining of the refuge accorded by England to the enemies of the French Government on an island only 20 miles from the French shore. The English Government is said to have replied that the right of asylum at Jersey was an old

privilege consecrated by time, and that it was neither in their power nor their intention to infringe that right. Bonaparte, implacable against Victor Hugo, had resolved to pursue him from one end of the world to another. It maybe learned from this resentment the ravages his book is committing in France, where its clandestine circulation is universal. A " monster blast " at Furness granite quarry in Scotland, in which three tons of gunpowder were exploded by galvanic agency, detached at once 7000 or 8000 tons of rock. A clerk at Glasgow, of slight build and not yet twenty-one yeart of age, recently walked from Glasgow to Dundee, a distance of eighty-four miles, in little more than twenty-three hours. He started at a quarter past one o'clock on Sunday morning, and arrived in Dundee soon after midnight. Elated by the feat, he offers for a wager to walk ninety miles within twenty-four hours A sporting paper states that the Home Secreretary has given his approval to the draft of a bill aiming at the suppression of betting-houses. It is remarked that the measure, as approved, is calculated to give an impetus to betting, and to create a new class of office* for its conduct on a larger scale. In the week ending the 29th September the v expenditure for pauper relief in }he township of Leeds was £259 : in seven former years it had varied from £239 in 1851 to £492 ia 1847. At Manchester the payments for out-door relief show a constant decrease for the last six months as compared with 1851, which itself was a year ot decreased expenditure. Emigration from the Western Islands is proceeding at a rapid rate under the auspices of the Highland and Island Emigration Society. Last week 400 people arrived in Glasgow, en route for Birkenhead Government depot, whence tbey will be shipped to Australia. The greater number were from Skye ; but a group of thirty-six, formed of eight families, wts from the rocky and remote St. jKilda — the first emigrants tbence. Already two thousand persons have quitted Skye, by means of the Emigration Society. An atrocious double murder has been committed near Aberdeen. A widow named Ross occupied a cottage on a farm ; and with her lived a little grandson, six years old. Two persons who were passing at nigbt heard groans from the house, and saw a man quit it carrying a bundle. They informed * constable, and the house was entered. The woman and child lay dead on the floor ; the woman's skull had been battered in, and the child bad been killed by a blow on the breast ; the murders appeared to have been committed by the '• heel of a carpenter's common axe." Suspicion fell on Donald Christie, a pensioner who bad been wotking on the farm, and who had been permitted by the widow to cook his food in her cottage. He was tracked and arrested : there was blood on his clothing, and this and other suspicious circumstances led to his committal. Mrs. Ross obtaiued a living by feeding swine ; she had recently sold some : doubtless the motive of the murderer was to seize this money ; to obtain it he killed the woman, and then destroyed the child, who might be a witness against him. Among the signs of the abject condition of at least the official portion of the French people, are the impious adulations addressed to M. Bonaparte. All preceding instances have been outdone by the following parody of the Lord's Prayer, signed by the Mayor of a commune in the department of the Herault. " Our Prince — You, who are in power by right of birth and by the acclamation of the people, you name is everywhere glorified. May your reign come, and be perpetuated by the immediate acceptance of the imperial crown of the great Napoleon. May your firm and wise will be done in France, as abroad. Give us this day our daily bread, by reducing progressively the customsduty, so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary to us, as also the exportation of what is superfluous. Pardon us our offences, when you shall be certain of oar repentance and that we become better. Do not permit us to yield to the temptation of cupidity and place-hunt-ing, but deliver us from cvil — that is to say, from secret societies, from vicious teaching, from the excesses of the press, from elections of every kind ; and continue to make it more and more a matter of honour, the practice of morality and of religion, respect for authority, agriculture and industry, % the love of order and of labour. Amen." The Swedish journals publish the following narrative. About ten days ago, a Madame Nilsaen, wife of a brewer of the highest repectability, at Odesta, feeling that she was about to die, sent for M. Ringk, the Lutheran clergyman of the parish, ,and, having caused every one to leave tbe room, confessed, with much angnish of mind, tbat about twenty-five years ago she and her husband had murdered their infant child. She said that Nilssen bad seduced her, and that tbey subsequently married contrary to the wish of their parents. As in Sweden a young unmarried woman who has acted improperly with a, man is profoundly despised, even though she marry before a child be born, her husband proposed to her to kill tbe infant. She received the proposition with horror ; but he insisted, and she a._t last consented. They retired to an isolated house at some distance from tbe town, and there she was delivered Her husband suffocated the child, and buried tbe body in a field. She desc^bed the precise spot where the interment took place. A few hours after stating these facts,she died. As in the Lutheran Church confessions are not considered inviolably secret, M. Ringk informed the authorities of wbat MaJame Nilssen bad said. A search was made in the field, and the skeleton of the child was found. Thereupon M. Nilssen was arrested. He has filled the highest municipal offices in the town, and has always been noted tor his benevolence. . News arrived in town on Monday, that one English journalist had stabbed another in Paris on tbe preceding Friday. It appears that Mr. Stvilla Morton, the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, and Mr. Bower, the correspondent of tbe Morning Advertiser, were as fellow journalists upon very intimate terms; Mr. Morton frequently visiting the house of Mr. Bower, and each assisting tbe other in his daily duties. But some time ago a slight coolness arose between them, on account of the attentions which Mr. Morton paid to Mrs. Bower. Explanations smoothed away the difficulty, and they met as usual on friendly terms. About a month ago, the fourth child of Mrs. Bower was born ; » fever ensued, causing delirium ; and during the height '

of her illness, Mrs. Bower so vehemently desired to see Mr. Morton tbat her husband was ptrsuaded by the physicians to admit bini. He came aod remained with her night and day for some time, nursing aud tending her with great gentleness. Early last week, Mr. Bower's mother arrived, to take care of the household in the Roe de Seze, where Mr. Bower then lived ; and on Friday evening the and her son were about to sit down to t late dinner, when a servant'csme in to say that her mistress desired to speak with Mr. Bower. He went ; and bis wife then confessed that Mr. Morton was the father of her last child. Unwilling to believe her words, he tried to soothe her ; bnt an officious maidservant disclosed the fact, that Mr. Morton bad slept repeatedly at the house several months before, without Mr. Bower's knowledge. During the absence of Mr. Bower from the dining-room, Mr. Morton had entered and seated himself beside Mrs. Bower, senior. When Mr. Bower returned from bis wife's room, he found his proclaimed rival sitting beside his mother. Pale, trembling with rage, his passion mastered him at the sigbtof Mr.Morton ; and snatching op stableknife, he dashed round his mother's chair and rushed at Morton. Seeing this, Morton rose and fled for his life ; the mother seized her son by bis coat ; .be ran oo so furiously that the skirts gave way, and his mother fell. Oa the stairs he overtook the fugitive, and dealt bim one blow in the neck : Morton fell lifeless, with a smothered groan. Bower returned, dizzy with hi* sudden apt, and sat down ; but he was quickly roused both by his mother and the servant, and, putting on bis greatcoat, he ran off. It appears he went to the house of Dr. Bertin, it is supposed to send the Doctor to Morton's assistance ; but Dr. Bertin was out. Thence, bow is not known, Mr. Bower escaped to England. Mr. Saville Morton was buried in the cemetery of Montmartre on Monday. He is described by the Daily News as " a gentleman of good fimiy, a graduate of Cambridge, and a talented and zealous man of letters." He had been a foreign correspondent for that journal ever since it started, in more than one capital of Continental Europe. " He was an ardent Liberal," says the same journal, " and wrote boldly and constantly in support of political progress :be bad' a keen appreciation of that which was generous and true, fine literary taste, and a lofty idea of bis* profession as a journalist." Praising him for his work as a correspondent, the Daily News adds, that bis friends, who are many, " will most of them forget any faults he may have had, in their recollection of his warmheartedness, bis talents, and his melancholy and painful end." Mrs. Bower was at once placed in a tnaison de sante at Pasiy, and the latest reports describe her insanity as having assumed so formidable a character that the use of the striit- waistcoat has become necessary day and aight. , (