ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 809, 4 May 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The managers of the Anderson University, Glasgow, with a view of providing an attractive resort to the working classes, where they may gratify their tastes and increase their knowledge, have opened their museum of natural history, antiquities, curiosities, &c, on Saturdays, at the trifling charge of one penny. Burglaries of a daring and brutal nature, were again becoming rife in the agricultural dibtiicts.

Mrs. Befcker Stowe, her Family, and , Clients — The November number of Fraser's Magazine contains " Some account of Mrs. Rcecher Stowe and her family." It is much too long for transference entire into these columns ; and the charm of personal narrative evaporates on compression. We may give, however, the leading factB with which the wiiter has made us acquainted. Mrs. Stowe is one of a family of twelve. Her father is Dr. Lyman Beecher, late pastor of a Presbyterian church in Ohio. Five of her brothers are pastors of Presbyterian churches — a sixth, killed by the accidental discharge of a gun some years since, was one of the most eminent ministers of the western church. A seventh brother is an eminent Boston merchant. One sister conducts a flourishing female school ; the other two are married to lawyers. It is a remarkably " talented family." Nearly every one of its members has contributed to perpetuate and widen the renown conferred upon it by the father — himself the son of a New England blacksmith. He was of mat uie age before he quitted the anvil for the college. Ten years later he was pastor of a church at Litchfield. Thence he removed to Boston ; which he quitted in 1832 to take charge of the Lane Seminary, Cincinnati — an institution intended to combine self-supporting labour with collegiate studies. He retired from that post in 1849 or 1850. Harriet was born at Litchfield in 1812. In Boston she received the best education that scholastic city could afford, and at an early age began to aid her sister in the conduct of a training school for female teachers. She removed with her father to Cincinnati, and married the Rev. E. Calvin Stowe, Professor of Biblical Literature in the college. She is the mother of a numerous progeny, of whom five are living. [Every woman who has read " Uncle Tom" knows that the writer is a mother and a bereaved one.] Entrusting household cares to a relative, she devoted herself to the education of her children and the instruction of the public, chiefly by imaginative contributions to the periodical press. It was her experience of slavery at Cincinnati, however, that determined the bent of her genius. A wealth} jobber on the London Stock Exchange has netted £70,000 by speculations in Australian land shares. A committee of members of the House of Commons had engaged an artist to paint a fulllength portrait of Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P, In Glocestershire two young women were seen breaking stones on the road. 1 Lord Denraan had dedicated to Mrs. H. B. Stowe a collection of papers which he had contributed to the Standard on the slavery question. A young operative from Glasgow, who left that city £3 in debt to his landlady, had sent her £10 from the diggings. £7431 had been subscribed for a monument at Manchester to Wellington. The statue was to bs an original design. The amount to be raised was £10,000. Mr. R. J. Hind had discovered a new planet which shines as a star of the 10th magnitude, with a pale bluish light. Lord Willoughby de Broke, for many years reputed to be one of the richest fuudholders of our aristocracy, died on the 16th of December, at his seat, Compton Verney, in the county of Warwick, at the age of 79. He is succeeded by his son, Robert John Barnard, born in 1800. The first baron received his title for services rendered to Henry VII. at Bosworth Field. The peerage was for many years in abeyance, but was recovered in 1694. At the meeting of the Colonial Missionary Society, December 21st, in Great Georgestreet Chapel, Liverpool, the Rev. Mr. James dwelt upon the important benefits which the Society had c< inferred, although its income was not more than £3,000 a year. He pointed out the great field for missionary efforts presented by Australia ; and urged upon them the importance of sending out, if possible, twelve extra missionaries there, which could be effected by a supplementary contribution of about £3,000 ayear for the next three or four years. Ministers sent there soon gathered congregations, able and willing to support them. The Church of Rome, he further said, appeared to have set its heart upon New South Wales. Forty priests had sailed from tint port for Sydney ; and twenty-five priests and a Romish bishop from Portsmouth ; and therefore it had become of increased importance that the true Gospel should be sent, in order to neutralise their efforts. Mr. Bower, who had arrived in Paris for the purpose of surrendering to justice, was taken into custody on the 16th December, for the murder of Mr. Morton. His trial is fixed for December 27th. The first step of a great revolution in French journalism has just taken place. M. Mires, the agent of M. de Morney, who is only the dummy of M. Bonaparte, after having purchased, three months since, the Pays, has bought the Constittilionnel for the sum of 2,000,000 of francs. Doctor Veron has received an indemnity of 8,000,00*0 francs in cash ; every shareholder will receive 5000 francs per share besides. This new company is now engaged in bargaining for the Presse and the Sitcle. M. de Girardin asks 300,000 francs indemnity. This is a sacrifice, but in all probability the sale will be effected. Henceforth M. M. Bonaparte and Co. will be the sole newspaper proprietors in Paris. This is no longer despotism in jack-boots, a la Louis XIV., or ala Napoleon. The journals will not be supressed, as had been anticipated ; they will be bought.