English Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 5, 5 July 1845, Page 4

English Extracts.

By the arrival of Sir John Franklin, schooner, from Hobart Town, intelligence has been received from England, by the Ann, which arrived there oiv the 21s>t May, having sailed from England on the 12th January, and likewise by the Kinnear, arrived at Launceston, bringing news Ito the 29th January from England. We extract the following from the Hobart : Town AUoerliser. Her Majesty was in excellent health, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathh'eldsaye. The Queen Dowager is quite recovered and enteitained several persons of distinction during the holidays. j Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Governor General ( of Canada, is in very delicate health, and has lost the sight of one eye. It is feared that he must letire from the fatigues of government, and Sir Henry Pottinger is spoken of as his successor. Sir G. Metctill'e has been mised to the peerage by the title of lidion Metcall'e. Our readers will regret to learn the death of General Nott, who has been for some time in a most precarious state of health. He died on the lot of Januar\, 1845. General Zurbano has made his escape into Portugal The Government of the Papal States has refused consent to the int i oduction of railroads in that country. Tue dispute between the Russian Governme it and the Pope remains yet unsettled. The statue of the Duke of Wellington, has been erected opposite the Ltoyal Exchange. It beais the simple inscription of his name, and the date of erection. History contains the record of his actions. Prince Altie i, the Pope's Nuncio at Vienna, has been elevated to the Cardinulship Ismael Bvy, grandson of Mehemit Ali, was at Vienna, and nearly recovered from an attack of opthahnia' to obtain the assistance of European medical science, for which he visited that ciiy. The amount of Gold coin and bullion in the Issue department of the Bank of England on the 10th Jan., was £12,493,414; of silver bullion, £1,593,61 1. In the banking department, of gold and silver coin jg7 14,565. Her Majesty has allowed out of her private puise the sum of £1,000 per annum to Sir Au"iibtus D'Este, being the amount lost by the death of his father, the Duke of Sussex. The Due de Nemours is giving a series of brilliant somes, and thus la)ing the foundation of popularity against the time when as regent he will have the supreme power in France. The claim of the King of Hanover to a ronsidoalile poition of the Crown jewels, was to h*ive come on before, the Lord Chancellor on the Ijta. Tliis claim arises from the fact that George I, brought over from Hanover, between i,30 and j£6U,O»O of Crown jewels, but w Inch, uuriuo the juuetion of the kingdoms under one head, had been bet and re set bo often, as to i enuer it impossible to identify them. Colonel Jupp, of the 9Sth, has an i veil in England, from China Tliegiid.no, on the Island of Ichoboe, is nearly half gone, and according to the estimate of Sir John Marshall, Captain of H.M.S. Isis, now there, will all have disappeaied in six months. The quantity is from 90,000 to 100,000 tons. Admiral D;i Petit Thouar») a had aimed in Puiib.

The Great Britain steamer, since her liberation, has been fitted with her Six masts, she has made a trial trip, and averaged against a head sea ll£ knots an hour. She was worked at not quite her full power. The St. Patrick, a new packet, had arrived in Liverpool, on the Bth January, 1845, bringing news from America, to the ISth December, 1844. She bronght the important news, that according to the suggestions of the new President, Polk, the Congress had passed the first stages of a bill for placing militaiy posts in the Oregon territory. It is however, supposed that it will be thrown out by the Senate. The frauds practised en the election of President are likely to cause a change in the naturalization laws. The republican party require 31 years* residence, the Whigs 10 or 12. The annexation of Texas was undetermined for the present, and likely to remain so. Dreadful liots and murders had been caused by she facilities given by the abolitionists for the escape of run-away slaves. An imtirreeiiou in Mexico had threatened to destroy the power of Santa Anna, but he had marched with 6000 men to suppress it. It is rumoured, and generally believed, that very large additions will be made to the Navy Estimates next session, and that the surplus revenue will be devoted to this purpose. Some preparations at Cherbourg seem to have led to this determinatiou. Hayti seems to be settling quietly down under its new President. On the Spanish side the law which prevented a white from holding freehold property has been abolished, and every encouragement is given to immigration. The Vindictive has been commissioned as the flag-ship of Vice Admiral Sir F. Austen, Sir C. Sullivan is her captain. On the 2nd of January an attempt was made upon the life of thesoidisant Duke of Burgnndy, hy a shot being fired into his workshop, where he was experimenting on that amiable pursuit, which seems, s\t present, to be a perfect mono* mania, — the discovery of destructive projectiles. Devenport dockyard is to be fortified. The works will consist of heavy batteries for red hot shot, and cost upwards of £18,000. £5,000 has been subscribed towards presenting Lord Ellenborough with a testimonial of respect for hit services in India. Some trifling misunderstandings have taken place with the Turkish Government, but a little firmness on the part of our ministry has put them all right. Among others, Sir Baldwin Walker, lata Admiral of the Turkish fleet has received the compensation for his services, which was guaranteed him. Earl Grey, who has been for some time in a most precai ious state of health, is now fast recovering. Trade was flourishing and steady. Capital is abundant, but so are the raw materials jo employ it. The February sales of wool are 12,000 bates. The testimonial *to Rowland Hill already amounts to £[5,000. Several additions to the naval accommodations of Portsmouth, are now in progress towards completion. A new steam hasin, four new slips, and a mast and paint hout.e, all of the largest size. Another gigantic spinning factory has been elected at Bradford, which oc-upies altogether nearly two acres of ground. One shed is 240 feet long, 130 wide, and lighted with 12,000 feet of glass. A report was in general circulation that the Emperor of Russia had died.

MrrcrsTßßiAL ApporNTMENTS.--The Globe says> — '»The following has been recoived by us from a source likely to be well informed, as arrangements which have been made for important changesin the present law officers of the Crown, —Lord Chancellor, Mr. Pemberlon Liejrh, (with a peerage,) vice Lord Lyndhurst ; Sir Frederick Thesiger, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, [ozreSirN. Tyndai, who retires; Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Attorney General, vice Sir W. Fnllett, M-hose impaired health foi bids the hope of his | being able to resume his official or professional duties ; and the lion. Mr. Woitley, Solicitor General, in the place of SirF. Tliesiger." A rumour obtains increasing credit, that Sir It. Peel intends to submit to Parliament a scheme for taking the power of governing the British territories in the East, out of the hands of the Hon. East India Company, and placing them immediately under the Crown. — Globe.

Chinese Agriculture. — We passed the batteries which had so recently been the scene of such dreadful slaughter, and stemming a srrong current, proceeded rapidly up the rher. The country through which it wends its way was a perfect flat as far as the e)e could reach, and in as high a state of cultivation as the market gardens around London. Small farmhouses I stood in every diiection, neatly encircled with flower gardens, the whole presenting apeifect picture "of wealth, fertility, industry and comfort 5 and when we were informed (a circumstance m c had every reason to believe perfectly true), that the same state of things existed, not only throughout the whole of this, but of all the neighbouring provinces, any one of which, as regards extent, vonld make a handsome kingdom for a European potentate, some slight idea may be formed of the endless internal agricultural wealth of the Chinese empire, and the little concei n the Emperor of this, mighty countiy has been accustomed to bestow on foreign nations, their commerce, trade, or any thing else concerning them. Numerous implements of agriculture, « Inch we supposed only to be known to the most scientific and highly instructed European nations, were discovered in qi eat numbeis, and in constant use among them, from the plough and common hairow to the winnow and thrashing machine, with which scarcely any farmhouse, however small, was unprovided Added to which, for the purpose of irrigation, scarcely any considerable field that did not possess its chain-pump, Jor the purpose of in igatiiig their crop*, by drawing water from the lower levels, with comparatively small labour to themselves ; fi om w Inch models, I have not the ; If ast doubt those at piesent in use in our navy or merchantmen were taken. — Recollections of Service.