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Colonist, Issue 17, 18 December 1857, Page 3

FROM LATEST ENGLISH PAPEftS.

The Prince of Wales arrived at Cologne on the 31th of July, and thence proceeded Tip the Rhine to Konigswinter, where an hotel has been engaged and fitted up for him. The Hereditary Prince of Naples has been bethrothed to the youngest daughter of the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, sister to the Empress of Austria. Vesuvius is in eruption; a stream of lava is flowing from the side of Ottajuno ; it does not endanger any villages or towns. Though not officially announced, it has transpired that the intended wife of the King of Portugal is the Princess Stephanie Frederique Wilhelmine Antoinette, eldest daughter of Prince Charles Antoine of Hohenzollern Sigraeringen. She is in her twentieth year. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the JVew Prussian Gazette, says:—The great reductions in the army, which have been long talked, of, will be carried out immediately after the grand review at Krasnoe Seloe next month. Her Majesty laid the foundation stone of the schools of the Patriotic Fund at Wandsworth, on the 11th of July. ■ ■■ . . The Netherlands'- Government paddle-wheel steamer Cyeloop, bearing the royal Dutch ensign at the main, arrived at. Woolwich dockyard on the 14th July, having on board her Majesty the reigning Queen of Holland and her second son, Prince Alexander of Orange, attended by a suite consisting of 21 persons. Her Majesty had assumed the incognita of Comtesse de Buren, and the young prince, who is only six years of age, travelled under the title of Le Comte Alexandve. The rumour that the Porte has remitted a diplomatic note to the English cabinet, protesting against the occupation of the Isle of Periin, is confirmed. This note, it is said, undertakes to prove that, since the time of Soliman 11., who in 1535 established his authority over all the islands in the Red Sea, the Porte has continued in uninterrupted possession of Perim, and that the Barbary chiefs with whom the East India Company treated had no right to cede the place. Her Majesty and the children went in the Fairy to Portsmouth on the 28th of July, to meet the Prince Consorton his arrival from Brussels. A letter from Rome states that the conclusion of the convention between the Holy See and the Grand Duchy of Baden is now only delayed by the question as to the right of nominating to ecclesiastical functions and benefices; but it is believed that an arrangement will soon be come to on the point. The intelligence brought by the last Indian mail has hardly disappointed any persons in this country who are well acquainted with Indian affairs; and General Barnard is applauded, rather than censured, for delaying the attack upon Delhi until the arrival of sufficient reinforcements should have enabled > him to strike a decisive blow. The apprehensions which this outbreak would entail upon the Imperial Treasury are beginning to abate. It now appears that the monetary position of the East India Company is so strong as to enable them to defray the whole of the charges likely to be incurred, without, casting any pecuniary burthens whatever upon this country. Lord Palmerston having on the 3rd of August presented, by command of her Majesty, certain supplementary armynestimates, said—These are estimates for the, service^pf such ;povtion of the militia as Parliament may authorise her Majesty to embody, and as her Majesty may be advised to embody during the course of the year. .My noble friend the Secretary of State for the War Department will present to-day to the other House of Parliament a bill to empower the Queen, though there be no war or insurrection within the realm, which are the conditions requisite at present for the embodiment of the militia, to embody between this and _ the 24th of March next any portion of the militia which it may be advisable to call out. The Mmiteur publishes an imperial decree granting a medal to every French and foreign soldier or seamen who served in the French army or navy from the year 1792 to 1815. The medal is" to be of bronze, and will bear on one side the effigy of the Emperor, and on the other the words, * Campaigns of 1792 to 1815—To his companions of glory, his last thoughts, sth of May, 1821/ N The farmers of France declare that'there has not been so abundant a wheat harvest as the present for ten years. According to accounts from various parts of Germany, and from Sweden, an excellent harvest may be expected. . The tfoops on active service in France are to be employed, where needed, in assisting the fanners \ tocet in their crops. - In two months and a half about 12,000 sheep vrere .sent from Algiers to Marseilles; and greater supplies would arrive in France but from the scarcity of shipping. , The election for the city of Oxford took place | 6h the 2lst 6f July/when Mr. Card well was returned by a majority of 67, the numbers being— Cardwell, 1085, and Thackeray, 1018. Sir E. Perry haa given-notice that, early next Morion, he will move .-a resolution to the effect that th« recent erenta in India rendered it expedient

that the Government of India should be transferred from the East India Company io the responsible minister of the Crown. -: Lord Sussex Lennox, the brother of the Duke of Richmond, applied to the, Insolvent Debtors Court for bail The debts were about £1900, and the income was-.£375, allowed™ by the Duke of Richmond. The insolvency was in part attributed to railways. There was no inquiry. Bail was accepted in .£631, and the discharge ordered to the 11th of September, the day appointed for the hearing." At a village near Malmoe in Sweden, a band of armed peasants have attacked a number of Moi'r mons; the saints were armed and resisted. Several of the combatants were wounded. Before the Aliqnis left Portsmouth on the 25th of July, with a portion of the .3rd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade for India, the Prince Consort—who is 'colonel-in-chief of the brigade—went on board and inspected the troops and the fittings of the ship. Mr. T. Gollan, our vice-consul at Pernambuoo, has been assassinated ; he was found dead on the roadside at midnight, with 14 wounds on his body. At the last accounts the murderer had not been discovered. Mr. T. C. Cox, late "Grand Master of the Ordet of Oddfellows (M.U.), was lately brought before the Mayor of Southampton, charged with fraudulently embezzling the sum of i' 223 of the Widow and Orphan Fund, and other portions of trust moneys belonging to the Order. The prisoner was remanded, but admitted to bail on his own recognisances. " The ceremony of inaugurating a public park, at Halifax, Yorkshire, took place on the 14th of August, amid great popular demonstration. The chief, pact. of. the 'demonstration*consisted in conveying the-park over to the Corporation,'as trustees of the public. The park has been presented to the town by Mr. Crossley. , It lias been determined to abolish the rank of | Major in the army, and all who are now Majors are to become Lieutenant-Colonels. There are to be only the two ranks of Colonel and LieutenantColonel for -Regimental Field Officers, and the Commanding Officer is to be Colonel, and the other two Lieutenant-Colonels. The Colonel is to have his pay of 17s. raised to £l, with 3s. com-mand-money as before, and the two LieutenantColonels of Regiments, each 17s. instead of 16s. as at present. The pay of Captains to be increased from 11s. 7d. to 125.; that of Lieu tenants from 6s. 6d. to Bs. 6d., and that of Ensigns from ss. 3d. to 7s. 6rK Adjutants are to have 12s. a-dny. It is further recommended that all officers shall be relieved from. all the existing charges for a band, and that the cost is in future to be defrayed by the public. Miss Anne Cook has died at Folkestone, at the great age of 104 years. She had lived under five sovereigns, from George the Second to Victoria. At the Maidstone assizes, Samuel Baker, a publican of Deal, was tried for the murder of Lieut. M'Carroll, of the 44th Regiment. M'Carroll went to Baker's drunk, at lin the morning; Mra. Baker refused to serve him ; he was violent, and Mrs. Baker tola1 her husband that the lieutenant had thrust his stick into her mouth, knocking out two teeth. Baker was naturally exasperated with this. He appears to have armed himself with a poker—he said he had only a stick—and he followed M'Carroll; between Deal and Walmer he struck M'Carroll on the head, inflicting a wound which ended in death. The officer was found insensible, and never recoverd consciousness; so that no account of the assault could be obtained from him. No one saw the meeting of Baker and the deceased; Baker asserted that M'Carroll struck him first. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine urged that all the circumstances of the case reduced the act of Baker to manslaughter; and the jury convicted him of that lesser crime. Sentence, penal servitude for life. The Bidhop'of Bath and Wells has addressed a pastoral letter to his clergy, inviting them to offer up earnest prayers on behalf our fellow-country-men in India. There is no district in England which has greater reason to mourn the horrible massacres that have taken'place than that over ' which he spiritually presides." . J • The heir to the' Grand Duchy- of Baden .was baptised a few days since,"' the Queen of England being godmother by.proxy. The godfathers were the Emperor of Russia, the fCing of Prussia, and the brother of the reigning grand duke. The inauguration of the statue of O'Conncll, ! from the chisel of Hogar, the eminent Irish sculptor, and erected on the Crescent, Limerick, lately took place. There, were about 100,000 persons present. The procession, consisting of the congregated traders, with banners, the band of the Limerick Regiment, and the Young Men's Society, the Earl of Dungannon, the Mayor and Corporation in their sashes, occupied more than a mile and a half. The Mayor presided. The proceedings were begun by Caleb Punch, Esq., late M.P. for the county of Limerick. The Earl of Dunraven made the inaugural address and reviewed the labours of O'Connell and the changes he effected in the laws by which the people had been oppressed before. The proceedings passed off without any irregularity and in the most admirable order. The Dutch Government is about to abolish slavery in the West India Islands, by an indemnity of 34,000,000 thalers to the proprietors of slaves. The late insurrectionary movements in Spain have led to the arrest of nearly 2000 persons, of whom 98 have been executed, but others condemned have been respited. The Italian States have agreed to a convention to guarantee each other against revolutionary attacks, but Sardinia does not join the movement. Dr. Hale, Archdeacon of Adelaide, has been consecrated to the bishopric of Perth, Western Australia. Riots are now chronic in New York, and both mob and authorities fight with fire-arms. The last two sectional insurrections were an attack by the oyster-men on the' Quarantine station and a rising of the Germans against a prohibition to vend their beloved lager-beer on Sundays. In all the rows the insurgents attain at least one common end. They combat the detested " new police." Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred and the Princess Royal, went from Osborne- over to Portsmouth in the Fairy, on the 4th of August, and inspected the 34th regiment and the 42nd Highlanders under orders for embarkation ■■ for India. The Queen and Prince afterwards went over the Lady Jocelyn and the James Baines, transport ships, which were fitted to receive the above troops; At the Derby Assizes, an action for libel made a conspicuous figure. The plaiutiff was the Rev. F. N. Highmore, Vicar of Elvaston; the defendants were the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the slander being imputed to the Countess. Among other things alleged against her in the | evidence, she was represented to have said that she never took the sacrament from " that man Highmore, because he is such a wicked man;" that she alleged he kept the sacrament-money ; that he was always playing at cards; that he and his wife were constantly rolling drunk on the floor; and that he told lies". The defence was partly justification, partly disclaiming of the aspersions ascribed to the Countess by the principal witness, a curate to whom she spoke; but although the Countess herself appeared in the witness-box, and denied some of the precise terms she was alleged to have used, the jury were of opinion that she had failed to establish her plea of justification, and found for the plaintiff—damages, £720. The sugar crops in the West Indies appear to have been bountiful; and the high prices now ruling have led to an increased cultivation, so thatstill larger crops are looked for next year. A coroner's jury, sitting at Quebec, has recently returned a verdict of manslaughter against the owner, the master, the pilot, and the mate of the Montreal, the steamer which was recently burnt with a fearful loss of life. ■Thk Catti.k Mtrmurjt,— The -Limerick- CJironicle states tlm.t this dreaded disensejias made its nppeurrtiice it-tth filial eflyct in that district;.. A gentleman, who hold* * farm witliin'n fcw,mi!i»s of the. city-of Limerick, Ims inst, within the last month, twent.v'-t<i<r|it head of fine cattle, valued at jESOOf... The Chronicle adds that private : accounts from Limerick, Tippernry. and Clare, have ako •nstained seribtta losses by the malady.