[From the Melbourne Argus, Feb. 11.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 793, 9 March 1853, Page 3

[From the Melbourne Argus, Feb. 11.]

In the House of Lords the Earl of Donoughmore moved and the Marquis of Bath seconded the usual address of the Queen. The Marquis of Lansdowne called the attention of the House to the great loss which the nation had sustained by the death of the Duke of Wellington. Apart from considerations of personal friendship, there was a peculiar reason why he, one of the oldest members of the house, should address them on this occasion: for it had fallen to his lot, when a member of the House of Commons, to perform the same duty to England's greatest Admiral, when he fell in the arms of victory. At that moment,

when the nation was absorbed in grief for the loss of its naval hero, few were aware that a great military genius was rising in the East, who was destined to perform the same service for the British army that Nelson had rendered to her fleets. Though the characters of the two men ■were different in some respects, they were alike in the one glorious object of their ambition and energies — the safety of the people and the honour of the Crown. In the House of Commons, the address was moved by Lord Lovaine, and seconded by Mr. E. C. Egertpn. The inscription for the Duke's coffin-plate is as follows : — " The most high, mighty, and most noble Prince Arthur, Duke and Marquis of Wellington, Marquis Douro, Earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington of Talavera. and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley ; Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, one of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and Field Marshal and Commander-in-Chifff of Her Majesty's Forces. Born Ist May, 1769; died 14th September, 1852." A funeral ode on the death of the Duke of | Wellington, has been written by Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. A fearful accident happened at Gibraltar on the 18th October, on the saluting battery. A long 82-pounder gun burst with a charge of 10 pounds of powder, while carrying on gunnery practice with red-hot shot. A large number of troops and spectators being present, several persons were severely injured with splinters from the gun and carriage — amongst others, Colonel Darcy, C.8., commanding the brigade, and Lieutenant Taylor. One of the artillerymen died from the injuries received. M. Kossuth is residing in privacy at Ken-sington-terrace, Brompton, London. At a recent fire in the United States, six children, belonging to one father, were burnt to death. Mr. Peto, M.P., is to construct the Schleswig railway from Tonningen to Flensburgh, 64 miles, at £8,100 per mile. Dr. Kreutzner, botanizing near Wiesbaden, tore a lichen from the root of a tree, and was bitten by a viper. He died a few days afterwards. Mrs. Cornwell, sister of Elihu Burritt, who was on board the steamer Atlantic, on Lake Erie, when she came into collision with the Propeller, was taken off in her nightdress, with a few other passengers, just as the vessel was going down, Two hundred persons were drowned There is scarcely a cottage among the Protestants in Hungary without its Bible ; and well read too. All religious exercises- and meetings are very carefully observed by the population. It has been proved that the percentage of loss upon vessels commanded by masters who have made one voyage is 1613; two voyages, 10-70; three voyages, 8-82; four and more voyages, 1-62. Mr. Macaulay's health is restored. He visited his constituents at EdinMrgn and made a brilliant speech on the 2nd November. Her Majesty has made ample provision for the two domestics of the late Mr. Neild z out of the £500,000 left her by that gentleman. The person who lately murdered the Baro- . ness de Scimmelpennick, in Prussian Silesia, has been arrested. -It appears, by recent returns, that the Wesleyan reform party have opened seventy-Bix new places of worship in London. The last vestiges of the Great Exhibition have been erased from Hyde Park, and the ground ploughed and sown with grass-seed. The telegraph between Cornhill, London, and Paris is complete, and despatches are transmitted at the rate of forty-eight words to a minute. The King of Sweden was seriously ill. A regency was appointed ad interim. The Patent Fire-Annihilator works at Battersea Fields were destroyed by fire, and one life lost.