ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

| The memorial of the Great Exhibition qf I 1851 is now approaching completion. It hais been suggested that it should be inaugurated on the sth of June, and application has been made to the Prince of Wales to officiate at the ceremony. General Knollys wri es, in answer to the application, that his royal highness will gladly inaugurate the memorial on the day named. "About one young lady a day," says the Speoia'or. " is reported burnt to death, and the papers are full of suggestions on the best means of preventing catastrophes. One idea is to mix tungstate of soda with starch, when the muslin will only char ; but that suggestion evidently came from a man, for fine muslin dresses are seldom starched. Gauziness, not stiffness;, is their recommendation. Another notion is to abolish low grates; but a** they are almost univeraU and fire-plac-3 have been built only vo hold them, that one looks a little extravagant A tliird is to purchase a guard, and insist on its use, except when anybody approaches the fire, to stir it, or • it, or ra^ke it up, that is, except when prc7 ction is wanted. Perhaps the best is to extend to young women a little of the care^ by w' ich children are prevented from tumbling into the fire-place, the watchfulness to last till the Princess Alexandra appears without crinoline, when that dangerous 'necessity' will disappear in a week." General Tom Thumb is about, for the t-Mt time, if puffs are to be believed, to be married. .Mr. Barnum has announced to the public of New York that the future bride of the famous fomu «.'.';« i Miss Lavinia Warren, 21 mc hi jh, and granddaughter of General Warren who was killed at the battle of Bunker's Hill ! As the diminutive couple can in future only be exhibited to " the crowned heads of Europe," the beneficent Barnum offers the New Yorkers a final opportunity of attending the general's levees at the American Museum, and at the small charge of 25 cents, a head. Arrangements have been made, by consent of the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the immediate creation of another Australian bishopric, the seat of which will be at Goulburn, between Sydney and Melbourne. The new diocese will embrace an extensive though thinly inhabited region, which, however, like other parts of Australia, is rapidly progressing in population and wealth. The endowment of the new see has been provided by a prosperous client. Convocation met on the 11th February. When the formal business was disposed ot Archdeacon Denison brought forward a motion for the suspension of the standing orders in' order that convocation might consider wha* steps it ought to take in the matter of Bishop Colenso's book. The motion was agreed to. Archdeacon Denison then moved that an address be presented to the Upper House, praying them to appoint a committee to examine the works of Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch, with a view of reporting whether or not those, books contained heresy. Two amendment* were moved and lost, and eventually the original motion was carried. The Upper House of Convocation was engaged on the 14th in discussing the above request of the Lower House. After a lengthy discussion, the Bishops of Lincoln, St Asaph, andLlandaff voted for granting the prayer of the Lower House, and the Bishops of London and St David's against it. The request was therefore complied with. Bishop Colenso has been formally repudiated by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. On the 20th February a resolution was passed at a meeting of the Society, passing over his name as one of the vice-presidents. This is equivalent to a vote of censure. Amendments were moved, but they were rejected. Si-iiious Railway Accident. — Great Destruction of Property. — On Monday morning, shortly before six o'clock, a very serious accident happened on the Bow Extension of the Blackwall Railway, which, in addition to causing a great destruction of property and serious injury to the works of the line, occasioned the complete stoppage of all the up trains on the North London, Tilbury, Southend, North Woolwich, and Woodford lines to Fenchurch-street. It appears that a heavy goods train from the Camden Town station 'of the London and North- Western Railway was on tbe way to the Haydon Square goods depot, and had reached a point some 300 or 400 yards on the Bow side ofthe bridge which passes over the Regent's Canal, when a truck about the middle of the train left the metals. The train was then going at a speed of 25 miles an hour, and owing to the obstruction offered by the train which had left the rails, most of the wagons in the rear got off the road, and the couplings holding firm the trucks were dragged along in the most dread ful confusion. The line runs on arches, and as the upturned trucks were carried along, they came with a fearful crash against the coping or wall of the line, and carriad away a portion of the brickwork. The engine driver as soon as he felt the extra strain or drag, did all he could to bring the train to a stoppage, but as the goods engine employed by the London and North Western are of great power, some distance had been traversed ere the trucks which had left tbe rails had become de ched from the portion of the train in front. A scene of the most indescribable confusion and wreck tl* n presented itself. Some of the trucks were toppled oyer and crushed, and overhanging the parapet, and the line and road beneath were strewed with the contents of the waggons — cheeses, flour and other merchandise. The permanent ".ray was torn up in say havoc, and a heavy piece of brickwork at the Bow Common Bridge, where a line of rails run in, had been shirvered by one of the trucks which had dashed against it. In another part of the coping a couple of truckwheels, with the axle entire, had been forced through the brickwork of the wall and had fallen into the road beneath. The coping up the K. gent's canal bridge appears to have been torn away by the waggons as they were hurried along, but the bridge does not seem ' - have sustained any damage. Information of the mishap was immediately eommunie ted to the Bow works, and a laTge number 1 the work people proceeded to clear and r^pai- the road, but it was some time ere that could be done. Trains in and out of the City on the London and the before mentioned railways were prevented running, thereby occasionin' 1 * the greatest inconvenience to the large number of travellers who were occupied in the city. In tho course of the day the permr ent road was restored so as to admit of the passp-'eof the train, but a large portion of the brickwork will have to be rebuilt. Notwithstanding the fearful character of the accident no one was seriously hurt. Had ifc been later in the day, when numbers are pouring . along the road beneath, some sad catastrophe must have happened. The damage to the trucks, goods, and line will involve a serious loss to the two companies. — English Paper. Since August, ships in commission have been reduced from 322 to 232. The reduction amounts to 90 ships and 12,851 men. The Speaker of the House of Commons has appointed Sir F. Baring, Mr Walpole, Hon. A. Herbert, Sir W. Miles, Mr H. K. Seymer, and Mr J. B. Carter, to be members of the general committee of elections for the present session. The Globe's Paris correspondent says that orders have been sent from Vienna to reduce by 2b,000 men' the troops quartered in the north of Italy, nearly all lh6< cavalry being included in tKMr^lution. ' £ The Putiit. Fr^fwiijannotmees of Mr Henry Todd, one of the.semorjwtoeT*; of the eminent house of Todd, .Bnnf% «» Co., of that city. ,In ere& ipetal jrabUC; project J &r* Toad toolc m" he&r& _jvtt -mj many-years. t , ~ ' * '? * >->. « , ~- c yr »* . 'V

A. King's JoKK.^r-The; late. Mr, Payne mentions in his Wine and Walnuts, a conversation between tbe r King;and' a famous German General, whose everlasting theme was the bravery of his English- subjects. George (loquitor) : ".*>« But mein General, dere is von thing thatthe Briton is afraid of." "Your Majesty is under von mistake; der Englishman is not afraid of nothing at all." « But I tell you dat he is ; and I if you keep it ein' great secret, I vill tell you." "Most honored, • Your Majesty.'* ••* Den you vill* never tell it to one at all." " I vill not, your Majesty." "Come closer, den, far fear of any von hearing it —-der Englishman is afraid of him's vife.'* —Dublin University Magazine. The "Times, observes that with difficulties arising in Greece, and' increasing in America, Lord Russell had better act on Lord Melbourne's shrewd' question, "Can't you leave alone" this incurable and hopeless obi stinacy ofthe Papal 1 Government? The Brus-els journals, referring to the health of King Leopold, mention that Dr Langenback performed another operation a few days back on his Majesty. The King is in good spirits, and is not prevented from cor inuing his customary occupations. The France states that the English Government censures the language ut;ed by Mr Christie, the English Minister at Brazil, in t. c dispute which has occurred there ; and and bas officially notified the Brazilian Government of its having reprimanded Mr Christie. Beport says that Mr Flatow, who gave the commisson to Frith for. the " Railway Station" picture, has sold that clever production to a London publisher (Mr Henry Graves it is stated) for the large sum of L 20,000, including copyright in the engraviag of the picture. The manager of the Scinde Railway says machine pressed bales of cotton and hemp were arriving. A consignment of 411 bales of cotton and hemp had been received from Ferozepore for shipment to England. It was the first that had ever come down the Indus. General Flaury has just addressed to the Emperor a report upon the condition of native horses in France, wliich he describes as having attained a very high degree of perfection. It will be no longer necessary, he says, for persons seeking handsome horses to buy them in foreign markets. Mr Colley Grattan, well known in the literary world, as a pleasant writer of fiction, has been appointed Consul at Teneriffe. A London literary journal states that Messrs Strahan and Co., the enterprising publishers of "Good Words," have placed L 5.000 at the disposal of the Rev Dr Guthrie, to enable him to make a tour in the Holy Land, with a view of writing a commentary* on the Bible, to be published in periodical numbers. The Paris correspondent of the Post wi es ; — " The Confederate government of America have, I learn, succeeded in concluding a loan for about five millions sterling, through the Paris and Frankfort houses of Erlanger and Po , in conjunction with leading capitalists in London and Liverpool. The ock is about to be eight per cent., and the price to the contractors is said to be 80 per cent. Another. Explosion at Aberdaxe. — Intelligence had been received that an explosion has taken place in a coalpit -at Mountain Ash. On Saturday night it would seem that there was no night shift, fortunately, and only a relay of men went down after the day-men ascended to repair the pit. It was when they were at work that the explosion occurred. Two men lost their lives, and the others were rescued. A correspondent of a London journal states : — " On tendering this morning a £5 bank note at the head money-order office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, in payment for an order I required, it was, to my great surprise, refused. Not on the plea that it was bad, nor that my name and address l wore not legibly written, but on tbe ground | that since the bank-paper robbery the money-order office held itself no longer bound to give change." The Austrian Government are said to be in possession of a gun cotton secret. By experiments they have overcome the difficulties which the nature of the material as at first discovered by Schonbein, opposed to its use in artillery practice. The Austrains, moreover, liave discovered a metal — iron, copper, spelter, and tin, which, in certain proportions is tougher than any gun metal hitherto devised. The incumbency of the large and important pariih of St. Thomas, in the city, of Salisbnry, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Greenly, who had held it for a period of about 40 years, has jnst - been conferred by the patrons (the Dean and Chapter of Sarum Cathedral) on the Rev. W. Renaud, M.A., one of the prebendaries of the cathedral, and for many years the much respected curate of the parish. Mrs Hnliah, wife of Mr Hullah the noted teacher of music and musical director, died recently. Mrs Hullah was a first-class pupil and one of the earliest educated at the Royal Acadamy of Music, whence she took a public position as a pianist with recognised success. Turning from this vocation to that of helpmate, in the best sense of the term, to her hnsband, her loss cannot be otherwise than severely felt by him and his family. It has been said that the Volunteers would, in some cases, act as guards of honor to receive the Princess Alexandra. It appears, however, from a memorandum addressed to the commanding officer of Ist Batalian of Kent Rifles that this cannot be "true. The memorandum makes known that the LordLieutenant of Kent regrets he cannot accede to the wish of the battalian because " there is a rule that no guards of honor are ever furnished by volunteers to the Royal Family.