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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 349, 6 January 1863, Page 3

A succinct, statement of the effect of the cotton famine on the working classes in the north was made the other clay by Mr. David Ohadwick, in a paper which he read before the British Association : — "There are upwards of five hundred thousand persons employed in the cotton manufacture, of which nearly 400,000 are employed in Lancashire. It may convey a better idea of this number to say that it is equal to 25 towns of 20,000 inhabitants each, all wholly engaged in the cotton trade. The engineers, mechanics, and workers in iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, and wood, and the shopkeepers and other tradesmen supported by them, may be reckoned at half that number (200,000.) The women and children and those not able to work a-^d dependent entirely on the cotton operatives, mzy ba taken as half those at work (200,000.) The total number of persons dependent upon the cotton manufacture may therefore be taken at 1,000,000 persons, of which 800,000 are in Lancashire and the immediate neighbourhood. The New Archbishop of Canterbury.— Dr Longley, Archbishop of York, has been translated to the Archbishopric of Canturbury... The Archbishopric of York has been offered to the Bishop of London and declined. A report is current that the Bishop of Winchester is to have the Archbishopric of York, and that the Bishop of Bath and Wells will be translated to Winchester. Dr Longley, who has accepted the Primacy of all England, is the fifth son of the late Mr. John Longley, recorder of Rochester, and subsequently resident magistrate at the Thames police court. He was born at Boley Hill, Rochester, in 1794. He was educated at Westminster School, from whence he proceeded to Christchurch, Oxford, where he graduated in 1815, taking a first-class in classics. We take the following from the Home Neivs of Oct. 27 : — " A detachment of telegraphists and surveyors selected from the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, to proceed to New Zealand, for the purpose of being employed in laying down the electric telegraph and other engineering operations in that colony, took their departure from head-quarters, Brompton, on October 22. The Royal Engineers took out with them a varied and complete set of instruments for use in the work on which they will be employed. The men composing the detachment will be absent from England several years." With reference to the alarm in England on the subject of the small pox in sheep, we take the following from the Home News, of October 27 : — "Professor Simouds, in his introductory lecture of the session at the Veterinary College, Camdentown, made lengthy allusion to the small pox in sheep. As to the origin, of the late outbreak he could give no explanation ; it was, he said, involved in mystery. As a means of stopping the progress of the disease, he advocated the separation of the sound from the unsound sheep, but if that were not effectual, then he recommended inoculation, vaccination being utterly useless. He expressed a hope that the. plague was stayed in the districts where it had broken out, and that there would be no reappearance of it, as was the case in the visitation of 1847." The Southern Cross, of the 23rd ult., reports the following : — Mr. T. Cook on Monday morning proceeded to Soldier's Point for the purpope of having a bath, and entered the water alone — no other bathers being, up to that time, arrived. How long he might have been in the water is as yet unascertained, but whilst close to the landing point he was seized by an immense shark. By almost superhuman efforts he tore himself out of its terrible grasp and struggled to the bank, where ultimately after being twice again bitten and the flesh torn from his thigh, and foot, he succeeded in landing. His escape from the jaws of the frightful monster can scarcely be considered otherwise than miraculous.