ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 820, 11 June 1853, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The rule for a new trial in the case of Achilli versus Newman was refused, and Dr. Newman was brought up for judgment on tbe 26tb January. The sentence of tbe court was, that he pay to her Majesty a 1a 1 fine of £100 ; and that he be imprisoned in the Queen's Bench till the finp be paid. A cheque was immediately drawn by Dr. Newman's attorney for the amount, and the Doctor then left the court. Viscount. Melbourne, better known as the Honorable Sir Frederick Lamb and Lord Beauvale, died on tbe 30th of January., He leaves no family, and the title becomes extinct. The family estates, worth, it is said, about £20,000 a year, revert to his Lordship's surviving sister, Viscountess Palmerston.

Royal Sappers and Miners.—The 22nd Company of this corps, which was formed in February, 1847, and is at present at Woolwich under the command of Captain Charles John Gibb, Royal Engineers, is in daily expectation of receiving orders to embark for Port Phillip, Australia, to erect barracks and other conveniences for the accommodation of the 40ih Regiment of Foot, already at Melbourne, and other troops about to be sent out to Australia for the protection of that colony, now »o rapidly rising into importance, owing to its extensive gold fields and other advantages for tbe encouragement of emi—TheTimes, February 10.

grants. France.—By a decree of the Emperor in the Moniteur, 99 additional persons, sentenced by the mixed commission to various terms of imprisonment and expulsion, are to be liberated without sureties. The French funds were improving on the 17th of February, and railway shares were also on the rise. Portugal—The Princess Maria Amelia, step-sister to the Queen of Portugal, and daughter of the Dowager Empress of Brazils, died at Funchal, Madeira, on the 4th of February.

Austria.—A telegraphic message from Vienna, announces that an attempt had been made on tbe life of the Emperor of Austria. The Emperor had been fired at while out riding, but the effect of the shot was trifling, and the wound which the Emperor received is not likely to be attended with danger. The perpetrator of the crime was arrested on the spot.

Havanah.—A telegraphic despatch to Halifax, jnst before the sailing of the Europa, has been received by a gentleman in this town, containing news of a dreadful fire which occurred at tbe Gardens, Havanab, by which property to the extent of nearly a million of dollars was destroyed, including the Custom-bouse, theatre, and warehouses.

produce Great Delivery op Australian Gold at the Bank of England.—Tbe Australian (s s) arrived with her valuable freight at Blackwail between 2 and 3 o'clock on Saturday last, and was immediately boarded by Mr. Superintendent Evans of the Thames police, acting under the of, tbe Commissioners of police, and a party of river constables, for the protection of tbe bullion on board. Tbe Australian entered the .East India dock the same evening, and was hauled to the west quay in the import dock for the purpose of discharging tbe bullion. A party of the Thames police remained on board till Monday morning, and no person but the officers of tbe ship and the directors of the company to which she belongs were allowed to remain in tbe vessel. Many attempts to board the ship by getftlemen of undoubted respectability in the meccantils world, who were impelled by motives of curiosity, were repuUed by Mr. Evans and bis men, who never relaxed their vigilance' until all the gold, consisting of about 400 packages, weighing nearly ten tons, was delivered over the quay and deposited in two waggons of the East and West Tndia Dock Company. These waggons were

barred and locked, and at one o'clock they left the dock for the Bank of England, under an escort of mounted police, commanded by superintendent | Steed, of the H, and superintendent Howse of the X divisions. Each waggon vras drawn by three horses, and they pro«eeded without interruption until they reached Limehouse Church, .where the off wheel of one of the waggons came off, which caused a detention of three quarters of an hour. An immense crowd soon collected on hearing the gold waggons were on their way to the Bank. The wheel having been replaced and again fixed to the waggon, the procession again began moving amidst the loud cheers of the assembled multitude, and no further accident took place. The waggons, containing the most valuable freight that ever entered the bank of England at one time, arrived there about three o'clock, and the gold was safely deposited in the coffers of the establishment. — Journal of Commerce,

January,22. Intemperance in German^. —At one of the last meetings of the congress of pastors of the Protestant Church, held in Bremen, to discuss such moral and social questions as come within the sphere of their activity, Mr. Wald, the superintendent of JKonigsberg; defended the temperance societies; and, to show the necessity for them, stated-that drunkenness was the greatest vice of the lower classes of Germany. There are annually, he says, throughout Germany, 40,000 deaths from delirium tremens; in the Zollverein alone 360,000.000 quarts of brandy are sold and consumed, and in Hesse one-half of th'e grain produced is used for distillation.