English Extracts.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1092, 15 December 1857, Page 4

English Extracts.

• the Duke of Cambridge is to lay the =■ atone #f (t 4 Crimean monument in j"Sheffield 'early m •October.*' .--•■•<:•■ " «• - ; ; ■''-'• r ' -!l ;: ''' . ' r : vCHf Queen and Prince Consort are to visit the Earl of 1 FiftwTlliam ati'Went worth-house; near Rolhethattt, on the l«th of October, on their return from Scotland. In Septe&ber, 1885, her Majesty; when Princess Victoria, Tj&teti -Wentworth-house with the Duchess of Kent, Cecil Gordon petitioned the county of Taunton, aa an insolvent, a few days ago. His lordship estimated his debts at £2309, the greater part due to tradespeople. -He was opposed on the ground that his petition was -manifestly untrue in several essential particulars, and: ■upon that ground it was dismissed. t . ' 'An announcement from authority appears m the •Frankfort Post Zeitung,' to the effect that, as the British Embassy in that city are continually receiving 'offers to take service in the English army, it has become necessary to state that " the British Government does not intend to form a foreign legion,and that; fofeigners cannot serve in the English army." _ : The gradual yearly decrease of grouse on the Scottish hills has become so serious this season as to threaten, the extinction of the species, unless measures be -ly taken to prevent that result. It appears that there •are many causes for this decline, including amongst -them the advance of agriculture, and the fatal destruction bv sportsmen of the young birds. It has'been suggested", as a means of preservation, to give the birds a rest once in four years, so as to allow the young birds to brwd. ' ' ~ ■ The American papers announce the death o Ui.. Rufus Oris wold, well known in the literary world as the Editor of the •*■ Poets and Poetry of American A curious error which crept into the telegraph, mes- ; sage announcing the contribution of the Emperor to the; Indian fund has just been corrected. According to the original statement, his majesty was made to say that, in addition to bis personal subscription of £looo* he sent £4OO in the name of the imperial guard; it ought to have been £4OO in the «ame ef the imperial family. • It is now ..renerally rumoured, says the Paris corresponnent of the « Standard,' that the Emperor and Empress of Russia will, after the meeting at Stuttgardt, proceed to the campa* Chalons; and there is also a rumour that the Queen and the Prince Consort will visit the camp. On the breaking up of the camp rewards will be given to- all those officers and privates who have distinguished themselves in the military operations. The number ot claimants for the medal of St. Helena, about which so much has lately been said, will, it is said, number no less than 100,000. , ' . ' A sad accident has occurred at Dunbar, by which Mr. William Wilson (brother to James Wilson, M.F., Secretary to the Treasury), his son James, and his two daughters, Helen and Alice, have met their deaths by drowning. The young ladies above-mentioned were bathing a few days since, and the tide running very strong, they were being carried out to sea, when Mr. Wilson and liis son James plunged into the water to save them. Ihe whole four, sad to relate, met with a watery grave. The committee that undertook to get up a series of entertainments "in remembrance of the late Mr Douglas Jmold." have published the result of their labours, it appears that '«the various performances, readicgs, and lectures have realised, after the payment of all expences, a clear profit of £2OOO ;" and that this sum is to be expended "in thi- purchase (through trustees) ofa Government annuity for Mrs. Jerrold and her unmarried daughter, with remainder to the survivor." This statement was published under the signatures of Charles Dickens, chairman, and Arthur Smith, honorary secretary, who added that previously to having undertaken to raise this aid for the assistance of Mr. Douglas Jerrold's family, they ascertained that it was required. This announcement was immediately followed by the following disclaimer from Mr. Douglas Jerrold's eldest son : "Mr. Blanchard Jerrold. the present editor ot » Lloyd's Newspaper.' proffers the following explanation, which he feels due to the memory of his late fktliGr *''""~ ' "My father left property sworn at Doctor's Commons at £ISOO. In addition to this sum, my mother held a policy in her own right, on my father s life, value £1000; other items raise the total sum to £3OOO. The copyrights of my father's plays realise an average income of £IOO. Moreover.the position of the members of rnrfalher's family would have enabled them, had there ] teen need for their exertions, to supply any deficiency j the above property could not cover. It is due to the , memory of mv father that the public should know that j hp left a sufficiency for rav mother and sister; and that the love of his own kindred, in any case, would have insured this sufficiency. In explanation of the ''Remembrance" performances, I, as representative of my father's family, should state that I declined emphatically to receive anything that should wear the appearance of a charity--such charity being needlees. Ihe " Remembrance" performances, I was distinctly asj sured, would be in honour of my father's memory, and be offered as an addition to his estate. If the public have gathered any idea from the conduct of these performances, that they were efforts of chanty I have only to assure them, on the part of Mr Douglas Jerrold's family, that the illustrious dead had husbanded enough against the need thereof-even after the loss of, thousands, for which; in the chivalry of friendship, he , became security.-I thank the earnest friends who have conducted these performance* for their zeal and . kind intentions; but I deline to permit the English j public to remain impressed with the idea-teat there was j need to pass the hat round, however gracefully; m the : name of Douglas Jerrold; a name that shall not want; my exertion, at least, to preserve its independence.

YOUNG INDIA AND YOUNG IRELAND. (From the Examine/.) The 'Times' draws Nena Sahib's portrait in the character of Young India. We are told he is quite an accomplished gentleman, an Asiatic Coningsby a preaux chevalier of the jungle. He speaks English fluently and well,-pays us the complement of flattering and betraying us in our own tongue. No more constant visitor at Cawnpore. It was only his last visit there that he paid with fire and sword. The smiling villain was a bosom friend of our officers ;. joined them in their picnics ; was the companion- of their field-sports; went with them hunting beasts less savage than himself. As many of our readers: were probably ignorant that a Young India existed,, we have given these few features of its .reptesentative man. _ But who has not heard of Young Ireland ? We had hoped indeed that this wicked folly was extinct, but we were mistaken, for it stills, exists, if it cannot be said to and yearns of course to Young India, even as the heart of David yearned to Jonathan. Here is a hearty/cheer for the sepoys fioov at least one voice in the British islands : ••Sweeter than the voice of love, sweeter than the warm accents of friendship, dearer than the mellowest sunshine of the heart,, is the news of English discomfiture inlndia to the breasts of the Irish people. They are delighted, rejoiced,, and gladdened beyond measure, when they hear of and humiliation of their ancient foe. There is not a vessel of hers which is wrecked, there »9 not a general of hers who is slain, there is not a battallion in her service which is routed arid overthrown, that the people of Ireland do not gloat over with the greatest satisfaction and delight. From the deepest/recesses of their they wishher defeat and misfortrine in whatever enterprise she is engaged. Loyalists, slaves, sycophants, and W>st Britons, may seem astounded by all this, but from our knowledge of the ppqple, .we can assure them ,lhat what' we have stated ib a fact. The Irish millions wish to see England her insolence chastised, her barbarous and,tyrannical broken to pieces, her domineering and brutal disposition tamed and sobered down, and her outrageous desire to annoy, bully, ihsnlt, and plunder weaker nations, rendered impotent and powerless for evil for all time to come. They are consequently delighted by the intelligence received from the East,where the forces of the Great Mogul are pounding the armies of Great Britain. Wherever England draws the sword or lights the match, Ireland prays for her defeat, and at no time has. she prayed more fervently in that way than sftp does now, when the patriot sepoys of India aresn- •■ deavouring to strangle the British power, and sweep it root.and branch from the fair and fertile fields of Hindostan." '.',.. We may well leave this to be its own commentary ; but are. there no strait the maniac that indites this offensive trash ? How completely the writer falsifies the genuine feeling of Ireland from Dingle to Derry. will appear from the following quotation from the •Freeman's Journal,' the-journal that is perhaps the brat minor of the spirit and sentiments of the Irish people:—. ."The feeling on the Indian news in the mercantile world is very strong. - Any idea of jealousy between-English and Irish interests seems quite Xo be lost in a feeling of intense indignation and disgust at the atrocities which would have disgraced-even'the most noble cause for which ever arms were taken ; and though it might be supposed that an East lid'an question would have little sympathy here, the outrages committed have completely divested the cause of . thtfinsurgents of the slightest sympathy, and, as far as regards the mercantile classes of this city, Protestants or Cathav.cs: Liberals df Conservatives? we find,but' one feeling —thai of a indignation against -the savages who have«o autra'ged 6lir countrymen and courijrywonien, as wehas tboWdf the sister country, and an enthusiastic admiratron bftb# heroic; courage' displayed 'By' so many of. wWm*relitod«i» welVaVEnglandhis cause to be^proud."; and THE fatterl|&V ofjiast.year'i ; dwp£t%;oc'cjun?ed,2»t Holt,

by the localt magistrates for taking rabbits froni-a com-, moil near the town. I'he 'Norfolk News' commented *ather sharply'on the-conduct of the magistrates, of whom Lord [Hastings was one; and on the day the! first artii-le appeared on the subject his lordship pro-' ceeded to the residence of the editor, Mr. J. H. Tillett, df Norwich, and had a warm personal altercation with him. Proceedings were commenced against the noble lord for endeavouring to induce Mr. Tillett to fight a duel, and it was expected that the matter would have been investigated at the approaching Norfolk assizes A day or two since, however, Lieut-Col. Astley had an interview with Mr. Tillett on the part of Lord Hastings, and the following "minutes" were drawn up of the conversation which took place:—" Col. Astley stated that Lord Hastings had authorised him to say that his lordship had no intention of sending a threa-tening-or offensive message to Mr. Tillett, mentioned in the 'Norfolk News,' of the 29 hj November last, and that his lordship having had no such intention felt that the article Of the 29th of November last, was an unjustifiable attack upon him, which led to the warmth exhibited by his lordship in his interview with Mr. Tillett on that day, for which his lordship expresses regret; .and his lordship withdraws the offensive expressions on that occasion applied to Mr Tillett; Mr. Tillett, upon his lordship's disavowal, withdraws any remarks offensive to his lordship in the article above alluded to, and expresses Vis regret that any unpleasantness should have arisen between Lord Hastings and himse.f." The .quarrel is, therefore, now at an end. •Vtw. On pulling down the walls of Covent-garden Theatre the workmen discovered the foundation stone at the corner of the building in Hart-street and Bow-strep'. In a hole in the stone was found a brass box, in which were several of the coins current at the time the stone was deposited. The box, which was about. 4 \ inches square by 2, was sent to the Duke of Bedford, the landlord of the estate, in consequence ofa condition of sale, to that effect. The inscription on the foundation stone was "Long live George, Prince of Wales." It is stated that the box will be sent to her Majesty. Early Life of the Rev. G. Chabbe.—Up to the epoch of manhood Crabbe'a life was almost as cheerless and inauspicious as my own. He, fortunately, had a firm foundation laid in better education ; had a home to reside in, and parents to resort to for counsel and sub-, sistence. His apprenticeship, however, after leaving that home, was like my own, ungenial to his mind ; and his masters —country apothecaries—seem to have been ill calculated to afford him comfort or instruction. Still he had time and opportunies to read—that nevertiring solace, and cheering occupation—and thus improve and ripen his mental faculties. Not only dissatisfied but disgusted with the business in which he had wasted so much time, he left it at the termination of apprenticeship, and, after lingering hopelessly about his native place, he at last resolved to cast himself on the wide ocean of London, and tempt the fearful dangers that belong to the career of a literary adventurer. Here he struggled and starved for a year. During the first three months of his London life he sent manuscript poems to the booksellers, Dodsley and Becket, which they civilly declined. He addressed verses to Lord Chancellor Thurlow who informed him that 'his avocotionsdid not leave him leisure to read verses.' He sold his clothes and his books, .and pawned his watch and his surgical instruments. His one coat was torn, and he mended it himself. He was reduced at last to 8d , but the brave man never despaired. He had a strong sense of religion, and was deeply attached to one whojaecame his wife after thirteen years of" untuning constancy. His faith and his love held him up, and kept him out of degradation. At last he wrote a letter to Edmund Burke. It contained this passage:—'ln April last (1781, aged 30) I came to London with three pounds, and flattered myself this would be sufficient to supply me with the common necessaries of life till my abilities should procure me more; of these I had the highest opinion, and a poetical fancy contributed to my delusion.' Burke saved Crabbe from the fate of many a one who perished in those days when patronage was dying out, and the various resources for the literary labourer that now belong to the. extension of reading had scarcely begun to exist. Burke persuaded Dodsley to publish 'The Library,' and the Bishop of Norwich to ordain the author without a degree. His lot in life was fixed. Thurlow invited him to dinner, and, telling him he was as 'like Parson Adams as twelve to a dozen,' gave him two small livings. He published 'The Village' in 1783, and 'the Newspaper'in 1785. From that time to ISO 7 the world had forgotten that a real poet of very original talents had appeared for a short time, and was no more heard of When Crabbe was fifty-three years of age he published 'The Parish Register.' 'The Borough' speedily followed. His 'Tales' were in the same vein. Their success was triumphant. The author, whose worldly means were reduced to Bd. in 1780, sold the copyright of his poems, in 1807, to.VIr. Murray, for £3,000. — Autobiography of John Britton.

Allusion has more than once been made to the probable, and indeed almost certain continuous importation of Australian wheat and flour into this country. We have now to report the arrival of the St Michael, from Port Adelaide in the London Docks, with a considerable quantity of Adelaide flour. It is not the quantity which draws our attention, but the fact that she had an unusually long voyage of five months ; yet, notwithstanding, the flour was in the best possible condition, and is expected to realise so lucrative a figure that heavy consignments will be induced for the future. This long voyage has successfully tested the peculiar dry properties of thi3 flour, which, it is well known, exceeds any other in quality. The St. Michael brings also a large freight of Bnrra Burra copper ore. A paragraph which has gone the round of all the journals, and to which wc gfi.ve admission in our last, to the effect that Sir John bean Paul, Strahan, Bates, Robson, Redpath, Saward. and Agar, had all left England in the same convict-ship is, we understand, incorrect. Sir John Dean Paul and Mr. Strahan are still at Millbank, and Mr. Bates is at Pentonville.

A local paper states that, the name of Mr. John Fro9t, the chartist, and ex-mayor of Newport, appears on the town-hall door, as claiming to be restored to the list of freemen for the borough. A Swimming Feat. —A swimming feat of rather a novel character, which occasioned considerable excitement among the undergraduates and others who assembled to witness it, was performed in the river Isis, at the conclusion of the University eight-oared races on Monday week. That feat originated in an offer to lay £25 to £l, that an uudergratuate, well known in the University, could not, clothed in thick trousers, heavy boots, and a iersey, swim from the Chrish Church barge to the white willow opposite Wyatt's, at Iffley. The wager was made, and at exactly eight o'clock, the swimmer, accompaniedby friends of both parties, in boats, commenced his task. As no specified tinie was named for its accomplishment, the gentleman swam very quietly, occasionally resting his arms by floating on his back. The weather had been very warm during the day, but a fresh breeze had now sprung up, and rendered the air very chilling. Soon after passing the long Bridges, he experienced an attack of cramp, which it was feared would compel him to resign his task. By a great l effort, however, be oveTCjjtae it, as he did also one or two ! subsequent attacks, and continued leisurely on his course, | arriving at his destination amid the hearty chears of the j assembled spectators, having completed the distance—one ' mile and a fifty-six minutes. The gentleman, on landing, showed but little signs of fatigue, and; without stopping to change his clothes, started back to Oxford at a brisk run.— Oxford Chronicle. Fatal Boat Race.—A young man, named Edward Mewton, aged 21, clerk to Mr. Hackett, lost his life while engaged in a boat race. - He had agreed to; row a fellow clerk from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge for ss. The start took place about six, and on approaching Blackfriars, Mewton was considerably ahead of his competitor. On reaching the bridge, the ebb tide being very strong, he had some difficulty in rounding his boat, and at the same moment the swell of the Lotus steamer sent the water into his boat, and washed off one of the sculls. In his attempt to reach it, the boat capsized, and before assistance could be rendered, the pr.br fellow sank and perished. His body was not recovered, owing to the rapid.ty of the tide.— Observer.

CHILI. Telegraph Communication between Chili and EonoPß.—The press at Santiago discusses a project for forming a telegraphic line between the Pacific and the Atlantic, from Valparaiso to some point on the river Platte, and from thence to Brazil, where it is to connect with, a line projected from Lisbon to Rio Janeiro. . It is said that European capitalists will construct the line if the Government will guarantee them 6 per C6nt. on the cast. PERU. Peru remains verv unsettled. Castilla, the President, had left on board the steamer Santiago with 2000 troops 'for--the-South.-" Huanchacoand Lambayeque were in possession of Castilla's troops. Paita was in possession of Vivanro. The frigate Apurtraac, steamer Santiago (alias Huaras}, arid Chili steamer Auroca, were lying in Paita Bay. The. Huaras was captured on the night of the.Bth,by the Apuririiac, just after Castilla had landed his troops. Aura'po has been detained by the Apurimac for .!cause's unknown. -Before leaving Paita the troops of Vivarico, with himself at their head, had entered the town, and, were jbeing embsirked on board th'e' r 'frigate, and Yalsothe captured Huaras,' arid were to'sail that evening for C.allao. ... Vivan'c'6's:trbops were' frdril 600 to iOOO strong. ! .