English Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 21, 25 October 1845, Page 4

English Extracts.

Her Majesty Queen Victoiia and Piinee Albert contemplate a visit (o Germany in the slimmer. Tiie Augsburg Gaaelte adds confirmation to the report.' It says:— tiie lOng"Tafked of visit of the Queen of England to Germany will take place (unlcas pi evented by unforeseen circumstances), in* the beginning of August, but her journey will be limited lo Coburg, Gotha, ihe Rhenish districts, and Brussels. It is also stated in the above piper "on good authoiity," that her Majesty's stayiu Geimany will extend from the 9th to the 23rd August, and that she will not return lo England by Hanover as expected. The Arctic Expedition — The Erebus, Ciipt.iiu Sir John Franklin, and the Terror, C >ptain Gro/ier, discovery vessels, let t Greenhithe for their destination. Each ship has been supplied « ith 200 tin cylindots for the purpose of ) olding papers "Inch are to be thrown overboard v'llh the statement of the longitude and other particulais worthy of re ord, wnltenin six different languages, and the parties rinding them are requested lo forwaid the imoimaliou to the Admilally. — Times May 20. We peicenein the Mark Lane Express of June 9th, an article on the state of the wool market, which leavesno doubt that the July and August sales of v» 00l would realise prices quite equal to those of May. The higher class w ools have advanced more than the lower class ; but a rise in Hie Idttei may be expected, as from the urea

consumption of mutton in England, it was stated that this year's clip of English wool would fall off one-fourth. The Express consequently expects that there will be an "important advance." There was every prospect of an abundant harvest, which will also have a beneficial effect upon prices. Loid Stanley had introduced a Bill for granting compensation to tenants in Ireland, for improvements made, during their leases. This was one of the measures recommended by Lord Devon's commission. America. — The Oregon question appears to be settled. Intelligence received by a late arrival in England from the United Slates, puts at lest all the Tears which have been expressed, that war would take the place of negociation in the matter of the Oregon Territory, A paper, published at Washington, called the Union, the official organ of the government, and conducted by a peisonal friend of the President, declares that America desires peace with Great Britain, an honourable peace, and that there will be no interruption to the diplomatic intercourse which has hitherto existed between the two governments, on the mooted point. This 7 pacific tone is adopted generally by the press of both parties. A branch of the Irish lepealers at Baltimore, who love O'Connell much, but love America still more, have dissolved their local "Repeal Assonation," because they aver, of the tirades of Daniel O'Connel against America and her institutions." Mexico was at length, urged on by France and England, inclined to acknowledge the independence of Texas, which would put an end to President Polk's annexation scheme. We perceive that there was a proposal in Canada to construct a railroad from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario solely of wood. We shall watch with great interest the progress of this work, if it is commenced The New York Sun relates a frightful wreckthat of the steam boat Swallow, on a rock at night, on its way from Albany to New York. The boat was broken in two, and the remnants took fiie. The scene with 350 passengets on board, many of them ladies, maybe imagined. Of that number, however, 204 are known to have been saved in other steamers and boats: many of the rest must have perished. The Argo (American) packet ship oftheSth April brings the account of the blowing up of a steam packet on the north River, with the I ssof sixty or seventy lives; most of them ladies who were at tea in the cabin when the accident happened. I have not time for more.— Havre Cor - respondent of the Morning Post. France. — Prince Jerome Buonaparte has obtained permission from the French Government to visit his cousin, Louis Napoleon, the prisoner at Ham. The object of the Prince's visit to Ham, is to make a proposal to Prince Louis Napoleon on the part of t»e French Government, which if acceded to, will entitle him to the benefit of an amnesty. The marriage of the Duke de Bordeaux, with a daughter of the Duke ,of Modena is talked of. Spain. — Great excitement was caused jn ttfe , city of Madrid, by the arbitrary arrest of tw,o .editors of the Clamor Publico j Seigniors Coraddi and Perez Calvo ; they were arrested without a j warrant by the mere oi;der of Narvaez. It was on the day following the publication of the Reformed Constitution that this most flagrant violation of two of its principal articles were perpetrated. r l he motive assigned for the arrest, was the publication of an article, headed "A Chapter of theHistoiy of the Hero of Andoz" (General Narvaez). At twelve o'clock at night the prisoners were informed that they were to be trans, ported, without trial, to Manilla, and at three o'clock in the morning they were on the road to Cadiz, under a strong escort of cavalry and civil guards. M. Coradi was not even permitted to take leave of his wife and children, The King of Spain, Don Carlos, had formally abdicated the ,thione in favor of hisson, the Prince of Austuriafc. Don Carlos in sending notice of this act to the King of the French, , demands permission to go where he chooses, there being now no reason to continue him in what he calls a state of captivity. The answer of Louis Phillippeis awaited with some degree of anxiety. 1 Syrta. — A civil war, and one of extermination, reigns at this moment (17th May) in the mountains, between the Druses and the Christians, and during the last fifteen days the horrors we hate seen perpetrated around us are diead fill. On every side the sounds of battle are heard, and nothing isseen but fire and flames ; .houses, villages, churches, convents, being reciprocally a prey to the flames. We have now before us the appalling spectacle of no less than eleven villages and a number of Maionitp churches and convents in flames, and what is worse when the Christians are victorious, they enter the Druse villages, putting to the edge ofthe sword, men, women, and children; the Druses follow their example when they are victorious. All the silk worms of both parties, the sole support, of the Syrian population, have been destroyed. The convents of Maronites and Catholics -have* not beenspaied; they have been burned, and the bodies of their priests after death have been burned I \ the Dtuses. Every horror is practised on their enemies. The poor Christians are much more numerous, and at the commencement were victorious over their enemies j but our pasha, who is out with hi<s legular troops, as soon as he perceives the Christians victorious, points his artillery against them, loeded with grape, and compels the unfortunate sect to take flight. The Druses immediately enter their villages, sacking them, burning "their goods, &c. Fire and battle continue to rage with desti active violence on all sides around us, and the 'ast news we have is, that the Christians have been obliged to fire on the regular troops, which places us in a very alarming po ilion, as we fear a revolution of the Turks against all the Christians, and we are now all of us prepared, weapon in hand, to defend our houses and the lives of our families. trtaty between great britain and France f,or the Suppression of the Slave Trade. — This compact soimpoitant to the interests of the human race, so honorable to the great nations that assume it in their proper place as the guardians of the happiness and liberlies of mankind, has been completed, without

bickerings, without protocoling, without any of the perverse follies and foppery of diplomacy — lias been completed with the ease with which wise and good men execute such a task, when they are inspired, as wise arid good men always will be, with a cordial'and single-minded desire to bring their work to a good end. The main purpose of the treaty , isa glorious one, and even the means by which that purpose is secured are scarcely less tit subjects for exultation and gratitude. Great B litain and France, lately in jealous separation upon this very subject, are separate no longer } they are, combined — "comrades in arms" — for the protection of the helpless and oppressed ; .and who shall resist the united arms of Great Britain and Fiance ? What is there that indeed " holy alliance " in the cause of freedom cannot accomplish ? Were the object an indifferent one, the alliance of Great Britain and France is a guarantee for the peace of the world, as well as a pledge for the uninterupted prosperity of the two mighty nations concerned : and this is the work' of Sir Robert Peel and M. Guizot— long will posterity delight to associate' in honorable union the names of these great benefactors to our race.— Morning Herald, June 2. A Word in the Ear. or Mr. Polk.— Hearken, Mr Polk, President of {he United States of Ameiica, to a friendly whisper of advice from Punch. You have been lately expressing an intention of seizing on the Oregon territory $ and in defiance of the British Lion, appropriating the Lion's share. You have thereby caused the said Lion to wag his tail, and roar. Attend to that roar, Mr. Polk, mark that tail — be warned, and beware! Run not \our head into the Lion's mouth. In other words, do not engage yourself in a contest with Great Britain. In the fiist place, you want money to buy powder and shot ;' you have no notional uncle, nor any body else, to lend )ou a six -pence, for those who lend sixpences expect to see them again. Secondly, Mr. Polk, there is a circumstance on which it behoves you well to ponder. Among your glorious institutions that of slavery is very conspicuous. You have a large negro population. That's a, fact sir, as your countrymen say, a great fact.! You will hardly venture to arm your negroes.. You dare not trust your slaves with arms. It' would not be against the friends of freedom that' they would direct those weapons. Would you expect them to fight for their chains and drivers, and to defend the law of Lynch ? Do you calculate that they will rally round their whip-ping-posts, and be faithful to their colors — the stripes I On the contrary, does it not occur to you that England might present them with their freedom in cartpuch; boxes? We should need to send few men to Kentucky, if we sent plenty of muskets. Libei ty, remember, is inscribed on the British flag ; it would be awkward for you were we to hoist that flag in America. You are yourself a slave-owner,, Mr. Polk. What would be the effect of a proclamation of the O'Connell species, addressed to your, " hereditary niggers?" Think of that, Mr. Polk; No, sir, vapor, hector, bully, bluster, swagger, as much as )ou please. Shake your fist, cock your chin, make faces, take sights across the Atlantic at the " Britisher," and welcome. You will only divert us— ourselves <f specially — by affording us subjects for jokes and caricatures. -In a word, talk as loud and as big as you like about going to war ; but don't do it. If)oudo, depend upon it that, as Richard 111, says, " A blackday will it be for torn ebodj," who that somebody will be, } oil may pretty particularly considerably well guess. — Punch.