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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume X, Issue 977, 13 December 1854, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

The Cholera in London. — The cholera has vastly increased smce the last returns of the Registrar-General were published. His most recent return has great interest for all. "In the week that ended on Saturday last, 2515 persons died in London. This number exceeds the average/1248, by 1267, but is 2SI less than the number of deaths iv the week that ended September 1, 1849, when cholera was epidemic, and 2726 persons died. The air was stagnant in the early part of the week; but do rain fell; the sun shone brightly, and the temperature of the atmosphere and the Thames ranged from 60 to 70 degrees. 1287 deaths are referred to cholera, 243 to diarrhoea. The deaths from cholera during the last nine weeks have been — 1, 5, 26, 133, 399, 644, 722, 847, 1287.—Spector, September 9. The Harvest. — Tt is now completely ascertained that the harvest will yield an unusually large supply of grain of very superior quality. The fine dry weather which has prevailed for the last nine weeks has enabled the farmers to carry with great success. There have been only two drawbacks — the heavy dews, and the lack of labour. It is calculated that the greater part of the crop in the south, midland, and even northern counties vnll be boused by* the end of the week, allowances being made for the lateness of .particular districts. On the other hand, the potato-di-sease has been more extensive than was at first apprehended ; but the sowing was so unusually

Jarge, that in <:pitp rf llie losses b pood yield is an'iripatpd. — Spectator, September 0. United States. — The Atlantic arrired at Liverpool, on Wednesday, with advices from j New York to tlie 10ih Augus'. The struggle for the possession of Kansas between the frcesoilers and the stave-owners had assumed gigantic proporlions. In many of the Northern state? societies have heen formed to assist emigrants in locating themselves in the new territory. In Massachusetts, the legislature had granted a I Charter to an " Emigrants Aid Company," wiih ! a capital of five mt'ltons of dollars. This Company has sent on a party to the territory, and has alreadyestablished thirty younj; infi) at a place railed Worcester, on thp River Kansas. ]n New York a similar company has heen formed.. These companies propose to forward emigrants to Kansas, and to locate them on (he land, at rates cheaper than can he done hy individual*. The New York Company go much greater lengths : they are building a ln-e of stpamers, and they propose to establish agencies throughout Europe in the manner of the present agencies who shall sell tickets not only for America (as at present), hut for any part of the Western country to whicli the purchasers may desire to go. Thus, with a ticket obtained at Mannheim, or Hamburgh, or Cork, the German or Irish peasant will, as they anticipate, he able to go in comfort, and at a reasonable expense from his home in Europe lo the farthest west of America ; where, planted on land near the possessions of the Company, he will by his industry soon repay more than any possible loss the Company may suffer in his transportation. This "fall" they hope to plant 20,000 men upon (he Kansas territory, drawn from American sources. The origin oi the movement, which speculation has made its own, was to preserve the land from slave owr.ers, and .insure a free constitution to Kansas. The companies, however, look beyond this territory, and talk of planiing free colonies in New Mexico and j even Virginia. — Spectator, August 26. j Affkcting Incident.— -While the 46'h regiment were i.i rank in the barrack square at Windsor, prior to marching out for conveyance to Southampton, en route to Constantinople, a motherless child, six years old, clung to its father's legs. He was preremptorily ordered to send it away, but resolutely answered " 1 will not." Lieutenant Uutton, touched with the scene, took the child, and placed two ten pound notes in its hand, vtiih the hope that some one would befriend it. Tins, however, proved unnecessary, for having afterwards made his own ! mother (who is staying at Windsor) acquainted with the circumstance, she adopted the little fellow, in time to give the father an assutance that the child should be well cared lor. — Bucks. Advertiser. The following new men-of-war have been ordered to be built at Pembroke. They will &oon be laid down— -ihe Revenge, 90 guns, screw steamship, 600 horse-power; the Alert, 16 guns, screw Meamsloop, 100 horse-power; the Cordffia, 8 guns, sc/ew sieamsloop, 60 horse-power. Foui line- 01-baitle ships, four first-clsss heavy frigates, and four sloops are now building or ordered to be built, at Pembroke. Of these, two line-ol'-baiile ships, one irigate, and the tour sloops are to be fitted with the screw-propeller. It is said that au immense gun has been forwarded from Woolwich to the Baltic, for RearAdmiral (/bads. Tnis gun will command a range of no less than 7600 yards, or something over tour miles and a quarter. Cromwellian Gloves. — The Cambridge Chronicle of May 6 says, that there is in the possessiuu of Mr. Charles Martin, of Fordham, a pair of gloves, reputed to have been worn by Oliver Cromwell. They are made of strong beaver, richly fiiuged with heavy drab silk fringe, and reach half-way between the wrist and the elbow. They were for a long time in the possession of a ramily at Huntingdon. There in an inscription on the inside bearing '.he Dame of Cromwell, but the date is nearly obliterated. — Notes and Queries.