ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 47, 24 February 1864, Page 5 (Supplement)

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A short time ago the divers engage in searching the pool where the Eoyfc, Charter broke up four years ago cam] upon a Aery rich store of gold. The;, found in the same spot, in the cours of a feAv days, about £1200 fc sovereigns and a bar of pure goli weighing 9|lbs., which was brought ,v] to London. The treasure _ was, fa] , from being exhausted, when a stora. came on and put a stop to the diving operations for the season. ' Messrs Gibbs, Bright and Co., the owners oj the vessel, sold, about a year- ago, tc ' some persons in Anglesey, all claim td the treasiire found on the spot, and iij is said that the speculation has already paid 300 or 400 per cent. . profit] although the cost of Avorking it is vers considerable. ' . n _ j The declared value of exports' froiu Liverpool tp the YAustralian colonies for the month of October, 1863, :was ' £293,095, against £195,347' for corre-; sponding month in IS62} and'-"for-ten months ending- October 31, 1863, £1,803,953, against £1,647,309,' £1,71/,037Vand'£2,303,629 for corre-' sponding months of years 1862, 1861,' and 1860. Erom a return just issued by Mr. Tie Pratt, it appears that in the year 1862 he has examined and certified* the rules of 1227 societies ;- and it is a someAvhat singular coincidence that he ! has certified alterations in the rules of exactly the saine, .number of societies, making a total of 2554 certificates.' Nineteen societies have ' deposited their rules Avith the registrar, and 137 have dissolved, It is computed that the nicotine produced by one year's groAvth of tobacco of the Avhole Avorld would' destroy every living creature on the face, of the ' "globe, ?if* its proportion were; ; adminis- \ teredin a single dosey » y.*--:.. -**y ■--- A pane of -plate glass, in the dihing- | room of a gentleman, mf Sussex,, one- ! sixth of an ■ inch •in -■ thickness, i. and S\ measuring nearly four feet ins breadth, \ by three* feet six inches in' depth, has j been broken by a. sparroAv-hawk, A The • force of the blow: was such, that not { only was the plate cracked in all' direc- j tions, put pieces Of glass ■ were 'broken 1 away, leaving an irregular .hole; four ■) inches long by three/ inches wide.;,; The i haAvk, Avhich Avas killed on. the spot, i Avas a female iri fine 'plumage; and measured nearly fifteen ihcn'es'ih ex- ! treme length. V YY- V Y.'/WV •! The Neio .Hampshire Gazette,, claim- ' ing. to be the oldest newspaper in \ America, completed its 107 th;*? je'ar on - the lst of October. ," 'ii "HHy. \ It is proposed to commence the | restoration of the Abbey Church iat^ j Bath, known as the ■'. 'YThe/Lantern of | England," at a cost of between £6000 ]. and £7000, under the superintendence \ of Mr. Gilbert Scott as architect, and I a local committee has been formed in ,* furtherance of the object. "•*''■■' IMr. William Woodham,. for .many „i years sergeant ofthe 15th f regiment -of .; Eoot, died in the village of Westoe, ; near Southfields, on Sunday, in' the ! ■ 87th year of his age. Woodliain had \ seen much service, and was among^the. j oldest soldiers 'draAving pensions in the | north. He was one of those Avho bore A the remains of Bobert.Burns, the poet, j to his grave, on July 26, 1796 ; Burns, I j Avho Avas a member of the'« Dumfries . \, Volunteers, being interred withmilitary \ honors. ';yy -z\ A meeting of the most eminent i members of the legal profession took j place on the 2nd December,- in. the hall of Lincobi's-inn — the Attorney- Grene- ; ral in. the chair— to consider '; the f present system of preparing iand publishing the reports of decisions inthe '; various courts of law; arid equity. A committee, Avas appointed to insider : the question. ,S, >, r ,. y AS. Atthe late Machesster Sessions, Avhen the Court was about to assemble, andthe names of the jiirqrgAvere being called over by the : clerk of thepeace, a juror . named Carr, y mistakuig-, : his ' name for that of John Clarke, another juror, took his seat in the juryrbox, and sat there the whole day 'in jf>lace of Clarke. On. the following mronirig, Avhen the names were called, 'the mistake was discovered. The' question arose as to whether the previous day's cases Avould not hy,ve tq b'etiied ; 6ver again, but the deputy-recorder,: Mr. Higgin , afterwards ruled ' that A they must stand as thjey had been decided. There are, 20,000 friendly speieties in England, of which not much -inpre than • half are- registered: y Ay-Ay-During the last few days ;the r divers employed on^.the siiukenf^eclrof the American packet-ship Amazon, sent up fifty bars of railway iron : and : three pigs of lead: The divers report; that they can. feel more lead uridet "the iron knees and other rnbbish ; ,"yfliich,'have fallen in. When this has been cleared away they expect to inake' 'quieter progress. ' - yy -Ayy-zzzzzAy In the Avindow of a shop in London a violin is exhibited, ai a high" price, being " the property of a gentleman in fine condition." y ' ; . A gamekeeper in the service' of the Duke of Sutherland at YLilleshall, a feAV days ago, ti*apped a hawk: of the buzzard kind,; which measures 4 feet 5 inches acrOss ;the Avings. fThe* bird is very slightly inj tired, and (feeds, freely from the hand. , This keeper has within the last twelve months taken" fiftyseA r en bhxls by g;in and trap^ . AnionUment, corisisti^'of fa column about thirty feet f high, jwitl^; /suitable inscription at the ; base, YJhas ; been erected in Darfield-ehui'chyard, in memory of the 189 persons who" lost their lives mi the Lundhill Colliery explosion in 1857 . V ''yi A young woman 6f (Manchester, who had been unAvell for some .time, went to tiy the efficacy of the application of the dead hand, or holy hand, at Ashton, of AA'hich she; had heard- a great deal. On her return, she died ; suddenly at St. Helen '((Eail^^itati&.Y." V 5