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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 145, 14 December 1844, Page 163

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The duty hitherto exacted on the importation of coal in Sweden has been entirely abolished.—Members of Conservative politics have just been returned for the boroughs of Chirst Church end Hastings. — Bailly is engaged upon a statue of the late Duke of Sussex, for the Masonic Hall, Freemason's Tavern. — The British Association for the Promotion of Science will hold its meeting for 1845 at Cambridge. — Captain Matthews, late M.P. for Shaftesbury, has been appointed Governor of the Bermudas. — At Adrianople, an inundation has destroyed about 2,000 houses, the Europeans being severe sufferers. — Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart, has been elected a member of the French Institute. — The French Government hits promised' to spend twenty millions of francs in improving the harbour of Marseilles. — The Duke of Devonshire has sold his magnificent collection of coins and medals, which cott him £50,000. — In Scotland there were fifty-nine furnaces in blast and forty-seven out of blast. — The Potteries were again in a state of confusion, owing to an extensive turn-out of the colliers. — Her Majesty has appointed the Rev. Edward Field to the bishopric of Newfoundland. — Several ancient surgical instruments have lately been dug up at Pompeii, which bear a strong resemblance to those used for lithotomy in the present day. — The Bankers' Circular stales that some Scotch banks have given:

their adhesion to the project entertained by Sir Robert Peel, of establishing a sole bank of issue. — A bill is before Parliament for making a new suspension bridge across the Thames, from Church Street, Lambeth, to Market Street, Westminster. — The magnetic power of the compass needle, says the Magazine of Science, may be entirely destroyed or changed by being touched with the juice of an onion.-— Mr. Scott Murray, a disciple of the Rev. Mr. Newman, and one of the members for the county of Bucks, has conformed to the Roman Catholic faith. — New Edinburgh, St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, has been declared a free port from the Ist of May, under the colonial law.— A galvanized wire rope. 123 miles long, had just been completed in London. _ It is intended for electrical communication upon one of the railways.— At a church in Greenock, " the prayers of the congregation were requested for the Edinburgh and Glas-* gow Railway Directors, and a blessing on the opponents of Sunday travelling." — A fancy fair has been held under the Thames. The decorations of the interior of the Thames Tunnel, and the general arrangement of the stalls, were excellent. The number of visitors v/hich the fair attracted was almost beyond credit. — A piece of land, consisting of more than three acres of rock and earth, with forty oak trees growing upon it, has slipped down Oadnor's Hill, Herefordshire, a distance of two hundred yards, into the valley beneath. — At the Chelmsford Assizes, three men were each sentenced to ten years' transportation for trespassing; in pursuit of game. Another offender was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with, harJ labour. — Mr. Thomas Steele, "the head pacificator," has brought under the notice of the proper officials a project for erecting a suitable monument to Sir Isaac Newton, in the neighbourhood of Leicester Square, London, where the house and observatory of the great astronomer are located. — The people of North Wales, of all classes, were strenuously exerting themselves to obtain a repeal of the act passed in the last reign, for uniting the dioceses of Asaph and Bangor, and transferring the revenues of the former to the supports, of a bishop in the populous manufacturing town of Manchester. — At the last levee, a petition was presented by Mr. Atcheson, signed by 15,600 magistrates and freeholders of Canada, remonstrating against the removal of the seat of Government to Montreal. — A valuable collection of curiosities made by Captain James Ross and his companions, in their expedition to the Southern Seas, has been added to the British Museum.— Mr. Kemp, the well-known architect of the Scott monument in Edinbnrgh, was found drowned in the canal, into which it was supposed that he bad fallen in the dark. — The packet ship Great Britain, on her voyage to New York, was wrecked on the 30th of March. The crew and passengers were picked up by the Philadelphia, bound to Boston. — The Colosseum, in the Regent's Park, has been sold by Mr. George Robins for 23,000 guineas. — A committee of secrecy, consisting of nine members of the House of Commons, were investigating a charge recently made against Sir James Graham, of having, in conjunction with the postmaster, opeued letters belonging to an Italian named Mazzini, and a Polish refugee, in their transmission through the Post Office. — Lord Haytesbury had been appointed to the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of Earlde Grey. — The Queen Dowager has returned from her visit to the continent. — The City monument to the Duke of Wellington has cost £10,500. — Birmingham had returned a Conservative to Parliament. The candidates were— Mr. Spooner (Conservative), Mr. Sturge (Complete Suffragist), and Mr. Scholfield (Whig Radical). At the close of the poll there were for Mr. Spooner, 2,095; for Mr. Scholfield, 1,735; for Mr. Sturge, 346.— The Earl of Kintore died at his seat, Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, on the 11th July. — Thomas Campbell died in the latter part of June. His body was interred in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The pall-bearers were Sir R. Peel, Lord Brougham, Earl of Aberdeen, Duke of Argyle, Lord Campbell, Lord Dudley Stuart, Lord Morpeth, and Lord Leigh. — The Senate of the United States had rejected the treaty for the annexation of Texas to the Republic. — Another instalment of the Chinese ransom, containing nine tons and a half of Sycee silver, had reached Britain by H.M.S. Childers. Seven of her Majesty's artillery vans were required to convey the money to the mint.— The claim of Sir Augustus D'Este to the Dukedom of Sussex had been disallowed by the House of Lords. Their lordships were unanimously of opinion that the members of the Royal Family could not contract marriage either at home or abroad, without the previous consent of the Sovereign in Council.— The new Royal Exchange was to be opened on the Ist of October. — O'Connell has commenced writing an account of his life and times to while away his leisure hours in prison. Mr.- O'Neill Daunt is,his amanuensis. The Irish Statb Trials. — The proceedings on the writ of error have commenced in the House of Lords ; the case for the appellants was opened by Sir Thomas Wilde. The arguments were pursued by , Mr. Peacock, Mr. Hill, and Mr. Kelly. So numerous are the points advanced, and so clearly are the many inaccuracies, inconsistencies, ami irregularities, pervading not only the indictment, but the whole course of the proceedings, made manifest, that, whatever may be the result of the plea now pending, these " monster trials" will ultimately be pronounced a monstrous batch from beginning to end. The general impression, however, is, that the judgment must be reversed. The Lord Chancellor, in an observation to Mr. Kelly, conceded one important point advanced by Sir Thomas Wilde. The latter contended, that, whatever errors were brought forward and allowed, the bouse had no power to alter them : they had no alternative but to reverse the judgment. The Lord Chancellor said, in effect, that, if errors were exhibited, their only course would be to quash the verdict. Thus it may be presumed the ground is clear, and the counsel for the appellants have nothing to do but maintain the points which they have advanced ; for it cainot be doubted that they have already established a case which is irresistible. The general impression seemed to be, that the whole sentence would be remitted as illegal, and O'CoaneU liberated. Should such turn out to be the case, the cry ffer Repeal will be greater than ever. .-%. The Government have instituted ■Bother State prosecution ; the , proprietor, and printer of the Limerick Reporter, a Repeal paper, Is the defendant. • " . •