ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 84, 20 December 1864, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

:- „, —■. . . ■» — — — .- .. „ „ ;• We extract the following items from the Home>l?eivs :— ■•■■■■;'■' ■ "'■ • '' ' ''/"", liO^-d Stanley has delivered a lengtTiy and-inter-esting address to his .constituents at' Lynn. • He dwelt on the prosperity of. the country, and the quiet -which reigned: in it. With respect. to the; Dano-German debate in the House of Commons,, he avowed that his object in] entering into it, and the objects .of, others, was.tp procui'e a declaration , in favor of ; non-intervention, , and in ttiat they ■ succeeded. He referred to' America,, and to variou^ foreign topics, "and -then reverting to home 'affairs' ' declared thafc, inhJs opinion, , a large s ineasure o£ reform was^impjosaible. ' ' He also alluded to__many_ , measures which he thought worthy qi the attenItipn of Parliament. In reference to the question^ of Australian * transportation ! his ' loHiship "~ used' these memorable words;:^- ; V:-. ,']..".: ; './.. " The case is^ thiST^Wo/ continue^ to, send a, certain numbet, of "convicts to' Wes'terh' Austrai|ia,_ as vre have an undpubled ;right to [4°,: * n<^ tlie Australians ? tberaselye.^ \dd f . ndfc, comnlaxn. Butiwiietf the sentences;of:,tlie^conyicts-afe^ex-pired they migrate to the other colonies, and introduce tliere a'dangerous- ;aud ; degraded] population; . Against this the Australians complain andsay,.as I think with perfect truth/ that if you turn these men loose upon- :any ; part ofvthe oontinfcnt they are sufb to find their way/ to /.every other. Jfow there t is, some, irritafjion— -1 am.afraid-jlj-must;-,say a great deal'of 'irritation— upon the subject, 'and I think-not unreasonably.' I m'erition ; it becausV I think it'is^a!, matter in which, it is mere" folly for England'tb stand' Upon, her "legal. rights. We know' that .'before;l6ng' the. Western -'Austraf : Hans themselves will object, ; - as the other colonists have done, to receive' our felons, -and- when' that happens we must discontinue to send them. "It is only, therefore, a question of sending them f"or : ja ■few years. Under these circumstances,- : I' thinkit would be wise for tlie Englisll Government !'t.6yield at once, aiid. declare '' that : trarispdrtation to ! Western Australia, sliall , cea»Q. ".(Hear;, ., liear)'!" 1 They will have to" make' 'that " conces'sibri long, an'd'it islshfely wiser and better to do- so ; when they can do it freely and whilst we can do it with a; good .grace. : (Loud cheers.); O Anfaccident.ofa ,fearful._nature, and-attended-with serious loss qf;life,.-:occurred at a colliery midway between vlronbridge and Madeley. :: The^ pit in,questiori belongs.to.the Madely .Wood C 6m r psmy, and is known' by the name of the "Lane J Pit." It appears that shortly before 6 o'clock in the evening, the last 'band of men were ascending from worky when those on the bank were alarmed by- the sound of a heavy 'body falling t6~the bottom. .- An ibuEcry cwas< made, and hundreds^ of people were quickly on the spot. A number of miners volunteered to rieScend, andoh theu'reaching the bottom it was found. that the " scaffold '\ had been broken tlivough, and the bodies of the poor fellows were 'lying in "the water ..beneath, . which had become" tinted^with blood.- The scaffold was composed of 6-inch oak, and, this. was, broken -'through 1 as if it had been merely paper." As soon as possible the bodies were brought to the bankj 'and conveyed" to a public-hoiise near, to await the coroner's inquest. The pit was - about " 250 yards deep. .:'■'■'■'■ ' The quedtiouofr'the'deprivation of the Bisliop of Natal by the Bishop'of Capo Town, metropoliton of South Africa, will come before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council immediately after the forthcoming Michaelmas Term. ' Tlie question . is ; in the form of an appeal, but it is not yet duly before the Council, inasmuch as the Lord Chancellor announced that their lordships would first have' to decide whether they have any jurisdiction m the matter. The Bishop of Cape Town insists that there is no appeal to the Committee .of Privy Council against his decision, which was a purely spiritual sentence, and that. the only appeal he at any time acknowledged was to tlie Archbishop, of Canterbury, as "patriarch" of tlie Church. -In the event of the Judicial Committee deciding that ■they have no jurisdiction, the Bishop of Ca^ie Town will forthwith memorialise her Miijosty to nominate a bishop for the vacant diocese of .Natal. Bishop Colenso, will, of course, resist. Lord Wodehouse lias definitely accepted the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland in - succession to the' Earl of Carlisle. This step on the part of the noble lord will involve probably one or two other changes, as the Under-Seeretaryship 'of the 0010- ' nies will become vacant. Lord Wodehouse has filled several offices with credit and efficiency, having been Under-SecmtfU'y for Foreign Affairs and ambassador to Ttussia from 1856 to^ISSO. while not many months since he again proceeded to the north of Europe, to adjust, if possible, the Schleswig-Holstein complications. The New York World reckons tho cost of the present war thus : — Expenditure on army and navy, 3,000,000,000 dols. ; bounties paid by states and towns, 450,000,000. dols. ; loss for life of the labor of the killed and maimed, 2,000,000,000 dola. ; loss of three year's labor of other soldiers, 8,000,000,000 dois.; property destroyed on the ocean, 300,000,000 dols. ; loss of profits of commerce, 702.000,000 dols. ; property destroyed on land, 200,000,000 dols. ; pensions to -vvounclecl and widows for life, 400,000,000 dols. — making a total of 15,000,000,000 dols. Tlie betrothal of the Czarewitch to the Princess Dagrnar of Denmark was formally announced on tlie evening of 2Sth September, at tho Castle Bei-nslorff. The re-opening of the IVTalta and Alexandria telegraph ■ for the transmission of messages to Egypt, India, China, Australia, &c, luis been announced. ■ The meeting of the British Association at Bath has realised )a "profit of .£2,222 17s. . " , On Thursday, October 20, Lord Palmerston completed his fourscore years. He was born on the 20th October, 1781, and entered Parliament in 1806, in his 22nd year. He has therefore been 5S years in Parliament. Of these 46 have been passed in office, and for seven of them he has held the post of Prime Minister, during which time more pati'ohagq has fallen to his lot than pi'obably ever before fell to be administered by a Minister of the Crown. Accounts from the several cotton districts do not present a reassuring aspect, of affairs. The official return from the Poor Law Board, up to Oct. 21, exhibits a further increase of pauperism in 20 unions, .amongst which are the principal seats of the industry. Tworunions (Chorlton and Saddleworth) have the same number of paupers, and in six the numbers has decreased The maximum number of paupers was in December, 1862, when 274,860 were in receipt of relief, from the guardians, and the mimimum was reached in August last, when the number was 78,730. From this date the increase set. in. ... .During September '7760 were added to the lists. The first week of the present month added 4610, the second week 6580, and in.the third week a further increases of 3970 took place, giving a total of 101,680 now in receipt of relief from the poor rates. The total sum expended in out- door ; relief last week was £6071, which was £230 more than in the week preceding. . . /"'..- A country magistrate lately inflicted a punish:!ment of six months' imprisonment withliard labor ' for stealing six walnuts from a tree, or one month's imprisonment per nut ! The fact was brought before the. Homo Secretary v wlio reduced the prisoner's sentence to one month's imprisonment. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Tele(]r;aph says; •that^an-, illustrated edition of ' Les Miserables,' -lately produced, went off so quickly tliat 30,000 were sold in a few days, and 1500 more ordered. : , ' The following Peers, it is reported, refused the I^rd-Lieutenahcyiiofcijlreland; :-^The \,;Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl; of Bessborough, Earl Gran ville, Earl of St.- G-ermatis, Lords Taunton, Houghton^Eversley, and Toi rington. Lord Wodohouso, with truo official spirit,

. f . ■ accepted, though liia tenure may be brief, as there is very little doubt that a determined movo will be made in the House of Lords for the abolition of the lord-lieutenancy, which will meet with the hearty support of the aristocracy across the' Channel. The move -in the Lords will receive a unaninious approval from the Commons, as all parties aru agreed the time has come for the abolition of an office so utterly useless as a mode of administration, and, what is far worse, so miaclievious and corrupt in every detail. A series cf extensive frauds has been discovered in the Bankruptcy Courts. In April last the Lord Chancellor requested the commisioner at Leeds ..and a London accountant to examine the books of the Leeds Office, .and many errors were detected. .The inquiry was then extended to Birmingham™ Manchester, and laverpool, ■'and : tlie result has Been the discovery of sums "improperly .retained "_ by official assignees and messengers to the ampunfc }of £14,000.' Tlie' inquiry is to be ' immediately extended to theiLoudon Courts. The only -marvel is that the officers having made up their minds to i'l retain " any retained so littler . ;: It is ;; nobody's interest to look after them except the creditor's, and 1 creditors ,are regarded , by „the T officials. .of. bankruptcy "courts as' persons l whose 'business is to 'take what they can get and be thankful. '