SCRAPS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1309, 27 January 1868, Page 4

SCRAPS BY THE MAIL.

(Fro.-n late Papers)

Her Majesty tho Queen, who is ;a excellent, health, is at present ut Windsor, w.th tlio younger members of thu ityy.il Family. The health of t.'io Prineeos Royal, now Crown of Prussia, his become sach as to prevent her intended visit to England in lier present interesting state. •■ : ■ The Queen.has fbtad in the palpit of the Clinpel Boya!, riaroy, a sandglubs of tho measure of eighteen minutes. It is devoutly to be wished that all Ii Majesty's clerical subjects will accept this wholesome hint, and that all " ag-giicvjd parishioners " will hu'oecribe to' supply the pulpit of their churches with this admirable e:rmon moter. . . ■ 'i'lio agricultural etatistice juet issued by tho Board of Trudo show that the extent of land under'corn crops of all kinds this year whs 7.931;578 acres in England und Wales, and. 1,857,012 aeroa in Scotland, being i,v each caio a,Blight increu3G on the flgnres for'lß6o. Die nturns of cuttle and eheep show a very considerable increase, j-ho new contracts obtained by the Ponineulur and Oriental Steam Company for tho India and China mails will come into operation in February next It is for a term of twnlve years, at £400,000 minimum to ho incrouaed to £500,000 when the dividend does not exceed 6 per cent.; lind whan it ronehcH 8 per cent, one-fourth of the ere'ese is to go to the Tost Offic . : ■ . . -..':■.. •, ■ Mi. Leopold do Rothschild, third eon cf Baron Lionel do Rothfehild, head cf the London firm of J-ioiheob'l-1, vna, oa tho 20th admitted into that IIOVBP . : . . . .