ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 603, 14 May 1851, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Lord Torrington, late Governor of Ceylon, has arrived at Southampton. It has been definitely arranged that a bronze statue, mounted on a granite pedestal, shall be erected near the Court-house, in Leeds, to the memory of the late Sir R. Peel.

The lady, whose husband was shot by Rush, was married at Dover on the 10th Dec. to Mr. Beevor, eldest son of Sir T. B. Beevor, of Hargham Hall, Norfolk. M. Soyer, so celebrated for his magic cookery, nas taken Gore House, formerly the residence of the late Lady Blessington, for the six months of the Great Exhibition, at a rent of £6OO for that time. It is to be fitted up as an hotel, and the beautiful grounds are to be laid out for entertainments in the style of those afforded to the public at Cremorne. The Daily Nervs says that a German manufacturer, represented by an agent in the City, is constructing a musical bed for the Exhibition of 1851, Directly the occupant of this bed presses it, soothing airs will be emitted ; and, thus lulled he may sink luxuriously into the arms of sleep. A bill has been introduced into the North Carolina Legislature taxing northern manufactures brought into that State. The celebrated cantatrice Parodi continued to attract large and fashionable audiences at the Astor-place Opera-house, in New York. The Boston Post says the paying of 640 dollars for one of Jonny Lind’s tickets by Col. Ross, of Providence, is the greatest act of Jenny Ross-ity on record. . The name of Jenny Lind is destined to be imperishable. In two churches in New York the clergymen “ have done nothing but christen children with that sainted name for the past two weeks.” One threatens to resign unless the custom is abated.

Several actors of the Theatre Historique applied to the Tribunal of Commerce to declare Alexander Dumas bankrupt. They grounded their application on the fact, that he was personally interested in the management, of the theatre, which had stopped payment. The matter was placed in deliberation. Germany has lost one of her most popular poets, Gustavus Schwab, at the age of only 58. Schwab was the friend of Uhland. His death was awfully sudden. On the morning of the day on which he was summoned, he had entertained a party of his friends at breakfast, and read to them passages of a translation into German verse which he was making of the poetical works of M. de Lamartine.

The Rev. J. VV, Pennington, a coloured clergyman, of New fork, recently received the title of D.D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany ; the first African who has ever received this honour from an European University. He visited Heidelberg to accept the diploma.