ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 805, 20 April 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A memorial to tbe Great Duke, in tbe shape of a College or School for tbe children of indigent officers, bad been proposed, and had been approved by Her Majesty and Prince Albert, who had authorised their names to be pnt down respectively for £1000 and £500. Nearly £10,000 had been subscribed by tbe nobility and gentry. The value of land was improving in Ireland. Some of the lands belonging to Mr. Blake, of Met Ho Park, Galway, bad realised 44 years' purchase on the rental. Dr. Me Hale had sent a band of monks through his diocese, to counteract a proselytising system that had been carried on for some time. ; Tbe Lords of the Admiralty have decided that the India and China mails under the new ! contract, shall be despatched from Southampton on the 4th and 20th of each month. A person named King has been sent to the London House of Correction for roasting a live cat. His wife and friend were looking on whilst the inhuman deed was being committed. The Marquis of Londonderry sent an invitation to Abd-el-Kader to spend a few days with him in London, and to profit by the occasion to witness the funeral ceremony for the Duke of Wellington. A vessel arrived in the Thames from Demerara, brought a parcel of crab's oil as a portion of her cargo. This appears to be a novel and singular article of importation from one of the West India Islands. — Morning Post. On the last outward voyage of the mail steamer Severn, one of Phillips' patent annihilators ignited, and the ship narrowly escaped taking fire. In consequence of the accident the company have discontinued carrying them. On Wednesday the Government balance sheet for the year ended the sth of July, 1852, and a similar account for the year ended the 10th of October, 1852, were printed in a Parliamentary paper. In the year ended the sth of Jul) , the excess of income over the expenditure was £1,745,442 16s. 4d. ; and, in the year ended the 10th October, the excess of income over the expenditure was £1,904,341 9s. 7d. On the 10th of October the balances in the Exchequer were £8,764,522 10s. 5d, — London Paper, 20th November. From almost every part of the country alarming accounts have been received this week of great floods having taken place, causing an immense destruction of property. The fall of rain throughout England has not been so heavy and continuous for many years. — Atlas. The Gazette contains the official announcement that " the Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland to John Marshall, Esq., Dean

of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, in the room of John Hay Forties, Esq. resigned." The Faculty of Advocates met for the election of a dean, in the place of Mr. John, Marshall, now a judge of the Court of Session, with the title of Lord Currichill. On the motion of Mr. Penney, seconded by Mr. Moncreiff, M.P., the unanimous choice of the Faculty fell upon Mr. John Inglis, the Lord Advocate for Scotland. His Lordship in accepting the office of dean, addressed the Faculty in an appropriate and very eloquent speech.