English Entracts.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 34, 24 January 1846, Page 3

English Extracts.

Her Majesty and Royal Consort had returned from Gei many, where they were feted with the same enthusiasm that distinguished the progress of their excursion, and the anniversary ofPiiuce Albert's birth was celebrated " with all tJie honours " The expenses of the feles on the Rhine in ho nour of her Majesty are sani to cost 5,000,000 francs, the musicians having received no less a bum than 4Uo,onoiYancs.

Fires «eie very prevalent in different parts of the world, Tiflis, the capital of Georgia having been reduced to ashes : and Egi ipo, betiei known as the Chalcis of antiquity, nearly shared a si* milar disaster. The demand for British manufactures on tha Continent was on the increase. A dreadful famine was devastating Poland, and the low er classes there v\ ere actuallj boiling I ami devouring potatoe si a Iks, and ad'led to this was the fact of aconsideiablefailnie of the crops. By the latest accounts from France it appeared that M. Gnizot was a«jain at the head of foreign affairs, and Count Oucartel's services dispensed with. The new House of Lords was expected to be fit for public business by the commencement of the) ear 1847. The French it wassaid had determined to abandon their possessions in Oceanica the fortitude of pour Queen Pomace, ami the fidelity of her adherents, having at length shamed them out of their base attempts to maintain the Prolectoiate of Tahiti. A gamsoii order had been issued at Gibraltar prohibiting medical officers from practising rnesmeiism. Mrs. Frost, wife of the Newpoit convict, had proceeded to Hobart Town, as matron of a female convict ship. A Light in the East. — A newspaper is about to be established in the city of Jeiusalem. Solomon, wiih all hi« wisdom, never dreamt of such a thing. The cholera has extended iis ravages to Scinde* It is prevalent now from one side of India to the other; Bengal, Madras, Boinba),Sukk;ir, Ferozepore,are all suffering, or have recently suffered from its attacks. By a royal ordinance, dated 2ith ult., Captain I.aryle, of the Navy, and Governor of French Guiana, is appointed Governor of Guadaloupe,in place of Admiral Gouibevie, deceased. It is stated that Major General Sir Henry Pottinger, who is now on ,i tour in Scotland with Lady Pottinger, will receive the colonelcy of the 75th foot, rendered vacant by the demise of Sir William Hutchtnson.

The Jews in Russia — Amis de la Religion publishes the following, dated from the frontiers of Russja, on the 30th of July :— '-On the 4th of June last the inhabitants of the ton n of Saratov?, on the Wolga, witnessed, for the second time this year, a most interesting religious solemnity. 130 recruits, belonging to the Jewish creed, who joined their battalion at the close of May, had expressed a desire to be admitted into the orthodox Greek Church and baptised. Early in the morning the liturgy commenced in the catht-cral. The Israelites who awaited the holy baptism had. been stationed behind the chinch, at the porch facing the west, the tenets of the Greek religion not allotting them as jet to enter the sanctuary. The liturgy being over, they formed in two files in front of the church and matched to the river. A pi oresston shortly afterwards followed them with all the pomp which the Greek church displays on such occasions. The square of the cathedral and the banks of the Wolga werecoveied witli spectators, Httiied in all sorts ol costumes, the town of Saratow being inhabited by meu of all the countries and religions of the east and west After being baptised, the 130 Israelites returned to the cathedral amidst the ringing of all the bells in the town." Russian Cvmpaign in the Caucasus.— The Cologne Gazette has the following Irom the Russian frontiers, August 9:— "Accounts fiom Tiflis to the 3rd August announce that General Woronzoff has been compelled to give up his expedition against the mountaineers, and retire has* tily on the Russian territory. After the general had received a supply of provisions, and a reinforcement of troops, he put the army in movement against Dargos. — For some da)s the mountaineers had appeared to be in a state of inactivity but they had in fact been busily preparing for their defence. The Russians met w ith the most unexpected resistance, and could not advance a step. The balls fell inshoweis, and the biavestgave way. The general gave orders to take possession of some heights, but this was soon proved to be impossible. The Russians continued the combat for some time, and in the end lost 1,000 men (other accounts say 2,000) and 30 officers, among whom were several officers, and a part of theii convoy Tue general then determined on a retreat, which was effected in a very precipitate manner. The rear guard suffeied very severely, and was compelled to abandon many of its men, w ho were unable from fatigue to keep up with the rest of the body. Oa arriving at the fortress of Get setting, the troops w ere in such a deplorable condition that it could scarcely be imagined that they had gained a victory. Their total loss is estimated at from 6,000 to 10,000 men. The answer to inquiiies after the health of Lord Stanley, )esterda\, in St. James's square, was that the noble lord continued confined to his bed from a severe atra<:k of gout. Sir Thomas Wilde M P. who has just formed a matrimonial alliance w itu Mdlle D'Kst^, daoghtur of his late Ro)al Highness the I Hike of Sussex, and sister to Sir Augustus. D'Este, is in his 63 )ear The honourable and learned member was formerlt an attorney, and was called to the bar in 1817, became a sergeant in 1824, and king's sergeant in 1837. A poition of the act of last session, to protect met chant seamen fioin impositions, came into operation on Monday last. Henceforth no peisons are to obtain situations for seamen' unless they have a license from ihe Board of Tiqde. West India Rail Roads.— * The application of Hail Roads to the common purposes ot travelling has at length extended itself to our West India Colonies. Jamaica has been the first to avail itself of the great advantages wh;ch this system is likely to afford iv the lievebpement of the dormant resources ot our colonies. And Mr. Smith will as far railway communication is concerned, be considered in the light of a -benefactor. His oi-iuinal plan, to connect Spanish Town wUh Kingston-, Has been followed up hv the Jamaica South' Midlaud Junction Railway, wlio have carried that original line pu to Old Harbour, and thence to Clarendou Park, as far westward indeed as it it presumed a remunerative traffic can be procured,