EXTRACTS FROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 415, 25 October 1856, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS.

[We beg to remind our readers that our files of English papers last received do not come within a month of the latest dates of news, by the Joseph Fletcher.]

Medal fob the Allied Armies.—Great activity now prevails in the establishment of the Mint, which, is producing, with as much speed as possible, a new medal, to. be distributed among all the soldiers, or their representatives, who have fought in the Crimea. The original intention was to give the medal to our own army only, and 70,000 were ordered for that purpose; but the Government has recently determined upon presenting the soldiers of France, Sardinia, and Turkey, who had fought beside us, with an English tribute pi* regard and brotherhood. For this purpose 300,000 more medals have been ordered. This beautiful decollation will be nearly the size of a crown, or iive-shilling piece, the material being virgin silver, or silver without alloy. On the reverse of the medal is executed the representation of an ancient Koman soldier, in classic costume and equipments, and whose brow Fame is depicted as encircling with the victor's -wreath, and the word " Crimea" is iueribedat the side. On the obverse side is al:n-ge medallion head of Victoria, the ornamental work of whfesa crown is dclinea-

ted^ with the greatest ai'tistic delicacy and finish. It is calculated that when completed, with the ribbons and clasps, each medal will cost the country 10s.

A number of officers in the navy have presented an elegant testimonial to Sir 11. M'Clure, in memory of his Arctic labours. It consists of a winged figure of Fame standing on tiptoe on the part of a globe representing the Polar Seas, and in the act of blowing a trumpet. The material is frosted silver. Exeter celebrated the Peace by giving a public dinner to ten thousand people. The H.igher and Lower mai'kets were devoted to the dining of the poor; the length of the tables in both markets was 3,500 yards. The quanty of beef and mutton was 10,0001bs.; plum-pudding, 5,0001b5,; bread, 9850 loaves, each weighing three-quarters of a pound ; beer. 2,250 gallons. Upwards of four thousand children, under ten years of age, were treated with coffee and buns, in the Lower Market in the afternoon. The General Post-office has adopted the Saturday half-holiday—a great step gained to the cause. The several offices which, are. not immediately connected with the receipt and the delivery of the mails were on Saturday closed at one o'clock. The moneyrorder offices in St. Martin's-le-Grand and. Sherborne-lane were closed at the same hour. Some persons at Manchester, after the example of London and Leeds, are taking steps to get up a Sunday band, and a committee has been .appointed to'arrange the matter. The Xondon bands in the Regent's and Victoria Parks played on Sunday as ijsual. .Nine hundred.and eighty workmen, in the employ of Price's Patent Candle Company, have memorialised the Directors of the Crystal Palace on the price of admission on Saturdays. They are granted a Saturday half-holiday, and-at the Palace that day is a five shilling day., ■ A bill prepared by the Chancellor of the chequer and Mr. Wilson, empowers the Lords of the Treasury to select such part of the land purchased by the Exhibition .Commissioners at Kensington-gore as may. appear suitable for ; the the purpose of the site of a new National Gal- ■ lery. , .-.- .. . . ," , „ ...;. , ..- ... ,/ . . ;\ At Manchester a feeble attempt was made one Sunday afternoon to revive the Chartist agitation. About one hundred persons congregated round a cart in Stevenson-square, and the proceedings were then dignified with the title of " an openair meeting," speeches being made. A resolution in favour of the Charter was earned. Eamsgate, of which place Colonel Lake is a native, has resolved to present that gallant olicer with a sword of the value of one hundred guineas. The works on the new bridge at Westminister are forthwith to be resumed, the Commissioners of Works having made the required, arrangements. On Wednesday, June 11th, according to annual custom, the children connected with the various metropolitan charity schools attended service at St. Paul's Cathedral. Seats " were erected round the nave, to the number of five thousand, the general congregation occupying the floor. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Lincoln. Some twelve or thirteen years ago, when the Corn Law agitation was at its height, a " portrait" of Mr. C jbdeu was extensively hawked about. Some printseller, it seems, has now got hold of the plate, hammered out the name of Cobden.and inserted that of Palmers, and in that condition the print is now being sold about the streets of Manchester for a penny.. Mr.-W.il. Osborn, of Perry Pont House, Perry Barr, Staffordshire, has a perfectly green rose in flower. The tree was procured from a French nurseryman, and whether it will stand the severity of our winters remains to be proved. George''Watts, an old inhabitant of Stoke Bishop, who ■was formerly a day labourer in that parish, but had by dint of honest exertion amassed sufficient to purchase a number of cottages, died last week, leaving neither " kith nor kin;" and upon opening- his will it was found that each tenant had his own little cottage left to him as a legacy from his landlord, A farmer near Crediton, finding the crows given-to destroying his spring wheat, steepodthe seed in a solution of strychnine, and the crows have died literally in bushels Recent reparations in Hadleigh. Church,.. Essex, have been the means of bringing to light some interesting mural decorations, which, under the- care and superintendence of the llev. YV. E,

Heygate and Mr. H. W. King, will furnish the ecclesiastical antiquary with curious examples of the modes of adorning our churches in the middle ages and with examples of the artistic skill of the designers and decorations. The paintings in Hadleijjh Church are of at least foxir distinct periods—the oldest and the best in style being of the thirteenth century. The latest of the fifteenth century, upon the north wall, is a demi figure of the " Virgin Crowned and a Woman in'the attitude of Supplication." Near this is the entire figure of "-St.-.George and the Dra-gon,"-with all accessories -necessary'to the full comprehension of the story, such as the "King and the Queen, and their beautiful daughter, who ■was gire.n up to be devoured by a monster, which is represented as pierced through, the head by the spear of the Champion of Christendom."" On the staircase leading to the roodloft is a figure of Becket in pontificals, .and, -in L-omhardie characters, "BBA.TtrsTo.MAS." It is to be feared that it will be impossible to preserve all these curious paidfcings; but Mr. King is making careful drawings, and Mr. Heygate is sparing no pains in order that they may be fully uncovered.— Times.

The death is announced of Mr. Samuel Gurney. the respected head of the firm of Jlessrs. Ovorend, Gurney, and Co., at Paris, on the sth of June. Mr. Ohirney -was in his seventy-first v<»a.r.

•A calamity even more distressing than that which recently afflicted the Dean of Carlisle has occurred in the family of the Rev. Mr. Cwyther (brother to Lord Milford). The whole 6f his children, a son and four daughters, were swept away by scarlet ferer in less than a weak. The

son was heir presumptive to the extensive estates of Picton Castle.— Bristol Times.

A second person has died from an accident sustains! while looking at the Peace fireworks —an ajred female, named Whitfield, a spectator in the Victoria-park. A rocket-stick fell upon her head, inflicting a serious wound, which has ultimately proved fatal.

The Archbishop o£ Lyons has issued a mandate, in which he attributes the inundations to the violations in his diocese of the law of the Church respecting the observance of the Sabbath.

"Two days ago," writes the Paris correspondent of JOe'lfordj"" there died at Versailles,in camplete obscurity, a personage who has a name in history—Count de Bombelles, who, after Napoleon I. and tne Count de Niepperg, was the third husoand of Marie Louise."

The well, known French, art critic, Gustave Planche, "has just*-been fined 500£ by the; Tribunal of Correctional Police, for opinions respecting a picture expressed in the Revue dcs Deux Mon-des. He wrote a condemnatory criticism on a picture that had not appeared in the exhibition.

2>l. Bergougnoux. formerly the editor of the Emancipation of Toulouse, was lately sentenced to tv.-o years' imprisonment for having spoken, ill of the Emperor of the French in a public carriage. The public prosecutor appealed against the sentence as too light for the offence, and the Imperial Court at Agen has now condemned M. Bergougnoux to five years* imprisonment and five years deprivation of civil rights.

The Risorjimen-to of Turin, of the 30fch, states that Mazzini has Issued a circular to his agents, declaring his intention of withdrawing entirely from politics, and leaving London for New York, or some other city of the United State.?. His agent- lias been instructed to sell iha prop?rty he possesses in Piedmont. At Catania, a few days I>ack, a native of Messina, who was seen in the streets with that proscribed ensign of a revolutionist, a beard, was ordert-d "by some police-agents to come with them to a b $rber to be shaved. Upon his refusal and rc-«istanc-?, a row ensued, the mob taking part with ill 3 Mussina man against the police. 'There w?rc broken heads on both sides. When the .Neapolitan Government heard of tiie occurrence it pent teliigraph'c despatches to all the principil towns in Sicily, ordering the authorities for the i'Viiure to let every man w»ar his hair and board as might plt^ase himself, without molestation.

A TO'ints from Basle jrive disastrous news of the Hie,Us ),i','iwol by the late r«iins in that p i'jfhboH^'^Tl. A. pjit of *h(> vi(j ( » of thf mout^a' . i' 'Lee mrruneof iio\t'is. li^b hlippd, 'iom '< in^ «'i +ur t a'i i*)lh \-.'.'M\. Sfvcj.il Jiouses i' il' ■ !vn ie.t/o/c', 'in<l cultivated omuls ii'" » Leen covered with tre.^s. A nis2iii ri; c hurri&inf', of <jre..t violi'tue, lias !»/•«.. /.fnwi, .fufl at JJatistou. " A loud v. Uifct-

ling sound was heard in tho air, the clouds literally ilew, the atmosphere was loaded with sand, and tiles and slates began to fall from tho roofs of the houses. Hail fell as large as pigeons' eggs. All the trees on one side of the town were either torn up by the roots or broken in the middle. Everything in the fields was completely destroyed* by the hail. A waggon heavily laden with corn, and the Munich 'Eilwagen' (diligence) were hurled into the town-moat; people were thrown down in the streets, and di'iven before the blast. The beautiful stained glass on the so\ith side of the cathedral has sulfered much. The telegraphic wires are destroyed. The Euphrates Valley Eailway Company is advertised: capital £1,000,000. The promoters hope to obtain a six per cent, guarantee from the Turkish Government. The object is to connect the Mediterranean with the Euphrates by a railway eighty miles long. Communication with India would be perfected by means ■of steamers on the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf. .■-..'

The navigation of the Danube has recommenced with new spirit. A French company at Constantinople has established a new service of steamers between that city and Galatz; and the steam company of the Danube has also organised a direct weekly service: between Galatz and Odessa.

AJtetter from Madeira last month says — " Wines are being sold at very high prices, and not more than irom 5,000, to 6,000 pipes of good wine remain on the island.". - ■" A treaty of extradition has been signed between Holland, and America, which is :the first treaty of -.the kind that has ever been signed by the latter Power. The American papers record the successful picking of Hobb's " unpickable lock."

Advices from British Guiana inform us of the trial and-'conviction of Orr, known hereabouts as the "Angel Gabriel," for sedition against the Crown, in having excited the dreadful anti-Creqle and anti-Catholic riots of the 19th of February last. About fifteen of his dupes have also been convicted for different crimes, such as sedition, riot,: and robbery.

; On the 6th of June, the-Queen attended a grand fancy dress ball at the Hanover-square-rooms, got up for the benefit of the Royal Academy of music, which is understood to have needed a fillip to its funds. No persons were admitted except in fancy dresses, uniforms, or Courtsuits, and the festivity altogether was very splendid. Distinguished ladies took part in the dances, pf which the most- interesting were two sets of " illustrative quadrilles." The first organised by the Countess of Westmorland, was supposed to represent the elements, four groups of dancers being emblematically costumed so as to figure respectively as Fire, AiiY Earth, and Water. The other set got up under the superintendence of Lady Jersey, was intended as a symbol of "Night and its surrounding Stars." The Duchess of Wellington, as the Moon, was attired in white, studdei with silver crescents upon her forehead. The Countess of -Jersey, as the Queen of Night, wore a dress of blue over black, with silver stars, and a dark blue veil, also covered with silver stars. The head-dress was composed of diamond stars. The other ladies composing the quadrille represented the Stars, and were all dressed alike, in light blue dresses and silver stars, with a large diamond star on each of their foreheads. They also, wore large pale blue veils, with silver stars. This quadrille was danced a second time by the express desire of the Queen. Two oilier " illustrative" dances followed—one, under the direction of the Countess of Harewood, entitled the Siecle de Louis X.IV., the other'nnder that of Mrs. Charles Mills, representing the Alliance. In addition to the hirtre sum of upwards of £'2,000 which was realised by the hall to the funds of the Academy, £390 has been forwarded to the treasurer by Lady Molesworth, the widow of the late Ri^ht Hon. 'Sir W. Moles-worth. It will be remembered that Lady Molesv/orth, na Miss Carstairs, received her professional education gratuitously at the institution.

The royal lodge in Windsor Great Park has just been put in a fitting state for the reception of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, now in hi* twelfth year, in order that the young Prince may uninterruptedly pursue his studies, more particularly that portion comprising engineering, under his tutor, Lieutenant Cowell, of the Royal Engineers. The estiiWif^innent will be liuuted to merely the necessary number of ser-

vants required to attend on tho Prince and his tutor. Lord Ranelagh's proposal for 'expelling from the Carlton Club certain of its'member's"who support the present Government was on Saturday withdrawn, the leaders of tho Conservative party themselves regarding it as ill-timed and inexpedient. Government* has commissioned statues } of Burke and Cui'ran for St. Stephen's Hall. The Emperor of the French has intimated hia intention of presenting his portrait and that of the Empress to the Court of 'Directors' of the East India Company. Two more of tho Rogers pictures were exhibited in the National Gallery last week. Rubens's "Triumphal Procession of Julius Csesar," after Mantegna, and " The Horrors, of War,". by the same master. . . -. Messi's. Reid and Co., brewers, have offered the Board of Works of the Holbom District to remove so much of the premises in Portpool lane as projects beyond the line of throughfare, and to give it up to the public, upon condition that they shall be allowed to pave, light, and cleanse Union court, the freehold of which they state to be their own. The Board have accepted the offer. _ . ' ,p The Lord Advocate promises to Introducfc^i bill for the union of the two Universities of Aberdeen, and carry it, if possible, this session. It will not be conducive to public interests, says Lord Pahnerston, to withdraw our representatives from, Hanover, Munich, Stutgard, and Dresden, and have only one for the whole of Germany at 'Frankfort. The Government have, therefore, no intention of following the recommendation of the Select Committee on Official Salaries made in lßso> " The Premier replies to Sir De Lacy Evans, that "'No authentic information has been received by her Majesty's Government, but a report has reached us through the usual channels of information, that a part of the fortifications of Kars are to be blown ' Up, and that some parts of the fortifications of Ismail will also be destroyed." A new project is announced at. Paris, under the title of the . Anglo-French Company of the Champs-Elysees, with a capital of one million sterling, subject to increase to two millions, in £4 shares. This company proposes to build upon, beautify, and lay out the Ghamps-Elysees. New hotels, houses, and villas are to be built, and new streets and squares formed. .Two of the projected new boulevards are to be named respectively the 'Alma'and the ' Imperatrice.' Lord Clarendon has declined to permit'the jurors and exhibitors who received from Louis Napoleon the decoration of the Legion of Honour, to wear the order, because, ■' according | to the established regulations respecting foreign orders, no British subject can be allowed to accept or wear the insignia of a foreign order unless they shall have been conferred for active and distinguished service before the enemy either at sea or in the field, or unless such British subjects shall have been actually and entirely employed beyond her Majesty's dominions in the service of the foreign Sovereign by whom the order is conferred.' The * Daily News' was seized in Paris a fewdays ago, foranar ficle defending Lord Raglan's memory against the aspersions of M. de Bazancourt's new work. The claims upon the insolvent Tipperary Bank amount in the aggregate to £430,000, and to meet these'the assets are probably not over one-fourth or one-fifth of the amount; the overdrawn accounts amount to £350,000 of which the greater portion has been taken by Mr. Sadlier. An Anti-tobacco meeting was held in the Corn Exchange, Manehcsteivafewevenings ago, at which resolutions were passed declaring that the properties of tobacco, in all its forms, are 'highly injurious to ihe human system, and that smoking has a tendency to encourage the drinking usages of society; the Rev. Canon Stow ell presided. M. Kossuth is . understood to be amassing a considerable sum by his present.lecturing tour throughout the United Kingdom; in Edinburgh and some other places he realized upwards of £300, while at scarcely any that he has yet visited has he obtained less than £100. It is now satisfactorily established that the present drain upon the coal fields of tho country is considerably above 54,000,000 tons a year, yet there seems to bo no diminution ; in the supply.

It ia worthy of remark that iidrd Chief Justice Campbell, who presided throughout the protracted trial of William Palmer, and in slimming up must have Spoken almost continuously for ten hours on Monday Week, is ndw iti the seventy-seventh year of his age—art instance df that extraordinary prolongation of mental and bodily vigour which is not uncommon on the Bench.

The Emperor of the French shows a great disposition to imitate many English habits and English institutions; lie is understood to be devising a scheme for the fcreatidn of a territorial aristocracy like bur owii1; and 'the ' Itoniteur' prints the programme of the great cattle show of the Ist df Jiine'in a Svay which reads like an advertisement of the Royal Agricultural Society. When M. Bubl "arrived at Brussels, on his return to Vienna from Pai'is; it is said that he had an interview with a high personage there, who expressed his surprise at his so soon quitting that city of enchantments; "City of Enchantments," replied M.-Bubl, "Why every hour was an age to me ; arid the last hours Were no enchantment, to me 5 the very pavements were as coals of fire to my feet!

It is stated that the pyrotechnic display in and near the metropolis was plainly visible with the naked eye by numbers of individuals at about thirty miles from the scene of operations; A story is running the round of the clubs to ' the effect that, the notorious Barnum has Written to the Earl of Shaftesbu'ry, enquiring whether it would be possible to induce the persecuted . Italian Protestants, the Madiais, to visit America, and be exhibited, and offering Lord Sha'ftesbury ; a commission on the profits, oh condition that he'interested himself in the undertaking1. A person. named.Fisher, coachman to Colonel Smyth, M.P., for York, has committed suicide in consequence of having lost a large sum of of money batted on the (probable acquittal of Palmer; he has left a wife and four children. It is stated.that sufficient money is already paid into the hands'of a most eminent London banker, for the re-building of Coveht Garden; Thedtre. .. The serjeant of Royal Artillery tried by garrison court-martial at Limerick last week, for' insulting a Popish procession there, by placing a mock straw mitre upon his head, has been, acquitted, it having been proved that he was. amusing liimselfwithout reference to the procession, which accidentally happened to pass at thfetime. : J < Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard -S..Dun-; das, X.C.8., is to keep his flag flying on board the Duke of Wellington, and to have the command of a channel squadron of exercise and ex- , periment. In a recent American publication the beautiful and simple f petition iii'the Lord's pi'ayer, ' Give us this; day our daily bread," is modernised into " Confer upon us during this nrundane sphere's auxiliary revolution our diurnal sustenance! " Mummy of Nebuchadnezzar.- I—lt1 —It is stated that Colonel Rawlinson, who is at present engaged in prosecuting the discoveries commenced by Layard and Botta, and in exhuming from the mounds of the long lost rival cities, Nineveh and" Babylon, the instructive remains of this once gigantic power, has lately discovered in a state of perfect preservation, what is'believedto be the mummy of Nebuchadnezzar. The face of the great monarch of Babylon, covered by one of those gold marks usually found in Assyrian tombs, is described as very handsome —the forehead high and commanding, the features marked and regulai'. This interesting relic of remote antiquity is for the present preserved in the Museum of Ihe East India Company. , Of all the mighty empires which have left a lasting impression on the memory, none has so completely perished as that of Assyria. More than two thousand years have gone by since the two •' great cities," renowned for their strength, their luxury, and their magnificence, have crumbled into dust, leaving no visible trace of their existence, their very .sites forgotten.

How Statues are Made.— The chisel is no longer the tool of the raaator-sculptov—his instrument is an odd bit of\tick, with which he scoops away the-figure of clay, or ' at the nmd,' as he wil] tell you himself. When finished as neat as such material can be, a mould is taken, and from that a cast of plaster. If necessary, this cast is still further finished and sandpapered, and it is then lianded over to the cutter, whoise duty it is to make an exact fac simile in marble. The sculptor proper may never touch

this iriarble, and when lie is tbid it is done, he is ready to deliver it to its owner. The workmen ifl. Mr. Power's studio have executed nearly 50 Prosperities from one plaster, Which is originally composed l3y the master, and the Greek Slave has in the same way been reproduced three or four times. The best bust inakerin Italy never touches the marble. He iriay suggest or order hair strokes here and there, but he does not handle the scraper himself. In all this the workman, though he may execiite unassistedly the statue, the head, or the groupe, is no more the author of this work, than is the clerk who copies the Prime Minister's rough draft, or the caligrapbist who engrdsses a set of resolutions. -^-JSnglish Paper. Who Invented THEEiECTKicTEi.EGBAPHp —A controversy has arisen between Prbfessbr Wheatstone and Mr. W. Pothergill Cook, his former partner, as to their respective claims to the invention of the electric telegreph. The same question arose a few years after their partnership commenced, and it vras then submitted to arbitration—Mr. Isambard Brunei acting as arbitrator on behalf of Mr. Codk, and the late Professor Daniel On Behalf of his friend Professor Wheatstbrie. Their answer was to the effect, that the application Of the invention, as a practical part, was due to Mr. Cook, whilst Professor Wheatstbue was ihe scientific man whose numerous appliances arid reputation had^ materially assisted in the succesTul result. Both parties were satisfied with the award, and matters proceded amicably between them until the invention became lucrative, and their "money, the source'of all evil," caused a renewed dissension. Professpr Wheatstone considered himself not fairly dealt with, and his firiends were' not backward'in asserting, that \vhile to him was due all the merit of'the invention, Mr. Cook had seized the lion's share of the spoil. Mr. Cook Was thus gqadea into print; the Professor replied, arid now Mr. Cook has rejoined at greater length, arid threatens to .publish a great book, with illustrations, which will prove that'he was not only the mab of business who;put an invention into practical form; but that most of the arrangements of the apparatus and of the irisu- ! lation of the wires, by which the telegraph could Ibe rendered useful, were continued by himself. To the merit of practical realisation, Mr. Cook contends he has, from the first, maintained a consistentclaim. The money part of the question is, however, the principal cause of difference j between: the former partners in th>: telegraph patent.. Professor Wheatstone had for his share £30,000 in cash. Mr. Cook had £96,000, principally in shares of the company, and dependent on the success of the enterprise. The undertaking fortunate!}' proved successful, and he has realised the 96,000, whilst professor Wheatstone obtained less than one-third that sum. Professor Wheatstone charges the Electric Telegraph Cdmpany with having failed to develop tlia great invention of which they were the foster-fathers. He says they have endeavoured to' check the j progress of improvement, because the applicacation of new systems of transmission would involve expense, and render their present appai;atus useless. To prevent the introduction !of new plans, Professor Wheat stone says the i coriipany have bought patonts for the sole purpose of suppressing promising inventions. The needle telegraph, which the compnny employ, has been generally discarded on the' Continent, as inforiov to rew.'Hng: instruments and, as it is well known, instruments have linen invented, which transmit nrintod, and even written messages, with equal rro<] even greater facility than the present hieroglyphic marks arc transmitted, it is not unlikely that, before rmother ten years have elapsed, the notion that the . needle telegraph "answers every pvncinoal purpose." will be altogether nbaridoned. A Parliamentary return, l.ifoly presenterl to the House of Commons, ennfa^ns a tren'jral abstract of the colonial oxpeiifl.itvro of (xreat -Britain'for the year 18f>■'., ov Tor tlio V'st vpt; for which the same can hn votido up. Tho tninl expenditure incnvredby Ovopt E-U 'in o*i •5<ie:> iHit of the whole of her cnlr.nicvi oprj^rr^ to be £3,288,338 5?. 2n.; of w'-.vh sum 'tbe Aus<r::lian colonies sire chavgod :=r. fWII-nvs :— SoxJTir Afstkat.ta.--Milii <:V oxp"vdi(Tiv« f £10,248 4s. Id.': civil expcu'litur?, £2 9s. 3d. Total, £10.250 13s. -M. New Zealand. — Miln-nvy cynorclih'.re, £84,683 12s. Sd.; oiv;l cxpoiiaituvc, £2,642 17s 2d. Total, £87,326 9f. 10. _ New Souxrc Wales.—Militaiy expenditure, £61,193 17s. 10a.; civil JBJtpoj^ditui-o,1 £10,036

6s. Id. j naval expenditure, £83 6s. Bd. Totai,; £71,313 13s. 7d. „ . ... Tasmania.—Military expenditure, £55,110 4s. Bd.; civU expenditure, £209,176 16d. lid. Total, £264,287 Is. 7d. Western Austealia. —Military expenditure £35,711 11s. 3d.; civil expenditure, £98,123 15s. 11. Total, £183,835 7s. 2d. Showing a grand total of expenditure by Great Britain on account of the Australian colonies of £567,013 15s. 2d.

The Fibeworks in the.Gjbeen Paek.-t-Since the celebration of the Peace in 1814, theGreen Park has not witnessed a spectacle at all' similar to that of which it was the scene oa Thursday night. A few minutes before the commencement of the fireworks, the Queen, the. Prince Consort, the members of the Royal Family, Piince William of Prussia, and other distinguished personages, took their seats in a pavilion erected at the north end of Buckingham; Palace facing the park. Her Majesty was. received by those demonstrations of loyalty and enthusiasm with which the people always greet the appearance of their Sovereign in public., The Royal party had an admirable view of the fireworks, and seemed fully to participate in the admiration which they excited. Punctually at. the appointed hour the entertainments began with a series of illuminations and a discharge of maroons; The fixes were white, red, green, and yellow, and the effect was something like that which would be produced by a chemical manufactory in flames. For upwards of two hours, the air above the park and for some distance around, was luminous with the blaze of suns, stars,' comets, and streamers—the flight of rockets, shells, and Roman candles—the descent of meteors, parachutes, and showers of pearl, silver, and golden rain. Shining serpents and fireflies chased each other through a sea of light, resting on a bed of upturned human faces, and ingenious contrivances which, had technical names, flamed against and athwart the sky in every variety of movement. The eye was dazzled with the intensity of the light, the biilliancy of the colours, and the complication of lines and ciirves described by the flying rockets = while the ear in turn was assailed by the whizzing of . .wheels and revolving stars, the -.bursting of shells, and the discharge of mines and batteries. The programme was a rather long one, consisting of no fewer than twenty-four " divisions." and was not exhausted till near midnight. It comprised almost everything'that is either new, curious, or beautiful in pyrotechny. The stars, hoops, and crosses elicited the most enthusiastic • expressions of delight; and, indeed, nothing could have been finer. Those rockets, which exploding in the air,. threw out clusters of coloured stars, were always much admired : while loud -cheering arose from all sides when a number of shells, discharged together, burst far above the heads of the spectators, changing into graceful and glittering forms which charmed the eye and filled the air with light. Cascades, fountains, and trees were represented with wonderful exactness; and perhaps one of the most beautiful features of the display was the formation in the air of sheaves of yellow corn. But the great triumph of the night wr>s that winch concluded the exhibition, which consisted of1 five fixed pieces, all of the most ingenious and jror^eons construction,with the words 'God sfive the Queen' illuminated in the centre. At the same time there was a grand discharge of Roman' Candles, batteries of pearl, streamers, touvHUions, and rocket;- in red, green, blue, and yellow. The eii'ect was most magnificent. Tixi) SorKD Dues Paid rxr,o Pectest by am A?.;Eiiioak Mekckaxtjja? . —The trctty of eonvnurce between Pemrisrk ;-.nd (he United States luivirsg expired on the 14th instant, the first American vessel thr.t Lar. app^-.'eu in the Sound* sh:co that event, is the £r::-h Bryant, C'aoh'in Gellersou. which arrived at llsircre en tV\l7th. bour.d froui CmifetacU to Key: Yak. wilb a cf.rp-o of .Russir.rt produce. £he paid the Sovr.d. Cn?r, but r.u;'er ]'ictef.t. Mo3mok JC-.\:u-.i{A#no;s-.— The emi-raiien ot' the trhn])iiJ!i-;fs of Pre:tou inuler the M^pii-f s o!'vbe ISloviiionif-es is n-oft oxton^ive. 1: is r.t* uimsuul fc-r l:us' ;m"s to rotur;: hotro ixi -rnght. .incT find Avife. d; H'cUter, an! eliiiuivn I'td, the lu-use stiipped. ai.d : 5 i;irtiy loi!- i;«t of dt-Ms, incurred on the c\e of de}iv'ure left nrpaid. Traflo:>iuen, too, m .Ntokii.^ iJ'tiT ileUors, ;:ro astonished to find those who promised to pay oiF to the "land of promise."— -Preston Pajper,

Novel and Important Enterprise.—On Thursday, May 29, about twenty-five agricultural labourers, with their wives and families, left the Broomielaw, Glasgow, by the Beaver, steamer, "en mute for Liverpool, whence they ' sailed on Saturday for Turkey, by the screw steamer Arcadia. They are under the charge i of, and are oecompanied by, Mr. Gibhie. lately farm overseer to Mr. Dixon, of Govan Ironworks, and are to be employed, under him, in | introducing the Scotch system of farming i among the Turks and Greeks, upon a beautiful ! and extensive estate acquired by Mr. Thomas i Parry, situated about twelve miles from Con- ! stantinople. Mr. Parry bas long been domiciled, j in the dominions of the Sultan: and. seeing the I slovenly and unproductive mode of agriculture ! pursued by the natives, he resolved to offer the j example of a better system, both for the im- j proveraant of his own property and for the \ benefit of the ignorant Turkish cultivators in j general. He accordingly sent a commission to j Messrs Edmiston and Mitchell, of Glasgow, *o secure a competent overseer and a number of industrious and intelligent Scotch peasants, and to send them, with agricultural implements <fee., to Constantinople. This commission, so far as we learn, has been executed by these gentlemen with great success and ability. In addition to the human freight already alluded to, they have sent off' agricultural implements of every variety and of the very best description, consisting of ploughs, harrows, spades, rollers, &c, which Lave all been supplied by Messrs. John Grey, & Co., of Uddingstone. They bave also forwarded a large quantity of most valuable agricultural seeds, which iave been furnished by Messrs. Alexander Cross and fcon, of The extent of the consignment of tools and seeds may be understood when we state that three spacious railway waggons ;: were filled by them to the roof. Another detachmsnt of agricultural labourers is soon to follow. Of itself, this consignment may be -of little amount when compared to the vast magnitude of the exports of the Clyde, hue its consequences are likely to be of" the most. beneficial character, when"we look to the effect naturally to be produced by the planting of an intelligent agricultural colony in the midst of an ignorant but tractable people, who enjoy a soil and climate so rieb and rare that: three-.'drops, of hay,for instance,may be produced m the coarse of the year. There is reason to believe this consignment of men and material is likely, in doe.course,.to be followed by others.— Glasgow Paper. ■Effects or the Teiax of Paxmee ttpon the Press.—The most notable incident (of the month of Ma}') —causing as much excitement as the Derby, aad raising more interest than tie peace—has been the trial of William Palmer. It nearly doubled the sale of some of tiia penny papc-rs, and the size of others. One of the newspapers printed for circulation in India, Y>-as wntarged ro sixty-four pages, and contained, by nit-asuraTsent, * between 800.000 and 900,000 letters. It has also been the occasion of an angry dispute between Dr. Taylor and Mr. 31-iyhew, of the • Illustrated Times.' The former gentleiran considers that he has been caricatured, raisrepresanted and rnisreportrl in the Kngeley number of that paper; j and_Mr. Muy'icw is indignant at the charge of \ h;;viug dorr.' so. Altogether, newspaper writers .-nd n-j-.y ,]';ir),;r readers, as well as lawyers, physiologists and chemi.sts, have learned to simulate upon the ii!y:iiene:; of toxicology, till th'/ir very ;<<-j „->i hs.s Veto disturbed by the idea «*' rtt'rr.j]:i,ii-, v.HiViUhi, ;md prussic acid.— '/!.'/ V-'-'T'-'--^ r:r''v?ir, ihv June. 1v s ;;j:,! rscj.; v <-k iilue th« last week in May. T!:i; \)y •<; V.-,s \.-i.ij ,jy Eiliii^tor;, out of a field <>2 1 .v>.;it_."-' :x '.fjv> -,s : -I'l- c;d.! i-gainst him at >■»■■!)•<:■:;,' :*<"■■;• D to 1. V/yntworth. the i';r.-our: t-. v; .s •' n., w!r:iv." On Friday Mince])L- W.-.i v.i; .).x.;t. •>■!• ■..;■;>. ii-.-ld often. A or;'.so •!;.'•.•■.i •*.- of r-ithc-r a serious nature hfts i -.!; -n ,;! :-f, fc-; rJ.in;.; soirio of the i)rr,c;-ci:!in^.-5 h.-i'>re ihe Chelsea Conrir iii's:*ir>:i ; L).-i Lm-hh st.-ittcl before flu* bo-:rd tli.it \\:' : Ci-imoaii coinrnissioriors' n-jrjrt li.i'J bf.-u "' i;v.'»nit':icfured" between the •■oui:jiiri>-:i'jn'-iN rus'l ibe S'.-en-t;iry of State for A'.ir; Ijjy?' P,43-i riiV < all; ntj^n Lord Lacan to n-ir:u:t: w'lv.]-.* Tj"pJ Lu-;in refuses, and it is i>rn;v.!.L' c-\<- ju.ulsjr may coiac before tl>e iiiililarr ;i-.itl:o;-i;' •- Thu niij:/'-'"oi" Ji<.>-!j)s:) jjvK-1!*-; in Dablin is said to bsJ !«>• ;"lv.(jii A '-'> t!i:'t yf't'lycwJiMiiastiw* ;:i thj: ii.iy -o' ii-jtlie, and no -."uuhr, when ilie

richest country in the world contributes £30,000 a-year for their education.

Some of tKe Calcutta and Bombay papers bi-ought by the last mail state distinctly that orders have been sent out to India for the annexation of Hyderabad, in the Decean, as soon as the Oude arrangements are complete. The date of the despatch of the Court of Directors, with all its details, is given by the ' Calcutta Citizen,' and quoted, with acceptance, by the * Bombay Times.' The circumstantiality of the story will probably obtain for it general credence in India ; but, says the f Times,' we are enabled to state, upon the best possible authority, that no such despatch has ever emanated from the Court of Directors, and that there is no truth in the statement of the Bombay papers that the preliminary steps have already been token towards the absorption of Baroda. The ' Times' again says, "We are authorised to state that no such measure has ever been ordered, or even contemplated, and that this story is as destitute of foundation as the other."

Canada Gbakd Trunk Railway. — The application of the Grand Trunk .Railway of Canada to the Canadian Parliament for assistance is said to be favourably received. The American directors'of the Grand Trunk have decided to take 500,000 dollars of the Grand Junction, East Boston, at par, and measures are now in progress to obtain the sanction of the English board to their measures. No doubt is entertained of their assent, _and if the Grand Trunk obtain any money from Canada, a portion of it will go to improve East Boston in general, and the Grand Junction road in particular. The value of the goods exported from ths United States to Canada in 1855, under the Reciprocity Treaty, was 9,500,000 dollars. The value of the goods exported to Canada, in 1855, of United States product or manufacture, was £4,138,761. The total value of goods imported into Canada in 1855, through or by the United States, was £6,000,000. The exports from Canada, to the United States in 1855, were £4,184,319.— 805t0n Tost.