LATE ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 611, 11 June 1851, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

We find the following promotions War Office. Januarv 3 .OOik Vnnt ....T*

M.D., to be Assistant Shrgeon, vice Galbraith, promoted on the Staff. Hospital Staff. Assistant Surgeon Galbraith, M.D., from the 99th Foot, to be. Staff Surgeon of the second class, vice Courtenay deceased. Rear-Admiral of the Red, James Murray Gordon, died on; the 28th Dec. Captain John Toup Nicholas, C.B, obtained promotion by the death of the deceased. ' The Times states upon authority that the window tax will be repealed in the present session, and the paper duty considered. Mr. Hume had written another letter on Financial Reform. Mr. Adderley, M. P., has written a pamphlet entitled “ Transportation: not Necessary,” He holds that transportation is neither efficient nor required. The Order of the Garter had been conferred upon the Marquis of Normanby, in acknowledgment of his distinguished services. Lady Lyttelton had resigned her charge as governess to the Royal Family. Robert Marsland and Co.’s mill at Ancoats, Manchester, had sustained extensive damage by fire. The loss was estimated at £5OOO. The property was insured for I £6OOO. - ’ 1 The United Service Gazette says a brevet will be issued on,the 9th November next, the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Prince ofWales. . It was generally believed that the command of the Mediterranean fleet would be given to Admiral Dean Dundas, who would be relieved as First Lord of the Admiralty by Admiral Elliott.. The Roman Catholics were holding meetings in defence of the establishment of their “ hierarchy” in England. The Rattler of Genoa had arrived at Liverpool with a complete suit of sacerdotal habits for Cardinal Wiseman, and liveries for the servants of his household. ■ Lord John Russell had appointed the second son of Mr. Douglas Jerrold to a clerkship in the Treasury. A pension of £lOO per annum has been conferred by her Majesty upon Mrs. Liston, the widow of the eminent surgeon of that name. A Penny Punch, illustrated by Doyle, was to be published in London, daily, during the exhibition. The whole peninsula of Naples was in a state bordering upon revolt, owing to the tyrannical acts of the King, who was a tool in the hands of the old priest party. \ General Bern, of Hungarian celebrity, had died at Aleppo. Active preparations were in progress in Ireland to get up a great protestant demonstration against the papal aggression. It was to take place the latter end of January. The Sultan, it was stated, had granted the same privileges to the members of the Anglican church in his dominions, as had previously been accorded to the Roman catholics. _^ e States of Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Central America) were at war. Rome was fast returning to a state of political indolence, and excepting prayers and sermons the Pontiff had no business on his hand. . : •• • The Warbler , of Liverpool, has sprung a leak about 1200 miles from the Island of Antigua, where there is an English dock-yard, lhe captain put in to repair, but was not permitted, even upon application to the Governor and with four hundred souls on hoard was obliged to seek another port. The subscriptions for the relief of the widows and, children of the eleven men who met their death by drowning in a fruitless attempt r !L der . assistance t 0 the Lallaßookh in the Worthing roads, amount to £5OOO ; but rn consequence of the disagreement between t-e Brighton and Worthing committees, nothing beyond the temporary relief of the distressed families has been accomplished. The Rev. Dr. Warnford, in addition to former benefaction, has intimated to the trustees at Queen’s College, Birmingham, his intention to place in their hands the sum of £l4OO in addition to the magnificent sum paid over by him, as an endowment for a vnair of Pastoral Theology, the professor to be a clergyman of the Church of England, in priest s ordiers, and a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge? o-. The Arctic Expedition.—Liverpool, Wednesday,— Accounts from the Sandwich Islands, dated October 19, announce the arrival of her Majesty’s Ship Herald, Captain Kellett, on the 16th, from Behring’s Straits, aiter a vain search for the expedition under Captain Collinson. Unhappily the Herald brings no tidings of Sir John Franklin ; and as the season was fast closing, it is to be apprehended that for some time to come we must look to the northern coast of the North American continent in the Canadian route, and to Dr. Rae’s and Lieutenant Noulens’ exertions, for further tidings of the lost expedi-

Lord Langdale, from ill health, would re- I tire from the Mastership of the Rolls, and be succeeded by Sir J. Romilly. The new Company for steam to India which has been some time in contemplation has issued its prospectus. The proposed capital is £1,200,000, and the title adopted is the Eastern Steam Navigation Company ; Plymouth is to be the port of departure, and the lines to be established are—one to India, (Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta) China, and Australia, on the sth of every month ; another from Calcutta to China, calling at Singapore to enable Indian passengers to proceed to Australia ; and another, if desirable, between Aden and the Mauritius. The navigation to China is to comprise a regular communication between Shangai and Hongkong, touching, when not interfering with the mails, at intermediate ports; and the average rate of speed of the boats of the company is to be ten and a half knots per hour. In connexion with the line from England on the sth of each month, there is to be a passenger route via Trieste, leaving London about the 10th, and reaching Alexandria by the boats of the Austrian Lloyds.— Atlas, January 24. In the obituary we notice that death has been busy in the aristocratic circles, —Lord Burghersh, the eldest son of the Earl of Westmoreland, died on the 22nd January ; Colonel Gartaud, K.H., the 17th; Lord Robert Taylour died at Fermoy on the 19th, from the breaking of a blood vessel in the lungs ; Field-Marshal Grosvenor, one of the ex-Field-Marshals of England and Colonel of the 65th regiment, at Richmond, Surrey, on the 20th. The Marquis of Hastings died in Dublin at the early age of eighteen, on the 7th ; the late Marquis was an ensign in the 52nd regiment Foot. The gallant and highly respected Captain of the Vengeance, Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., was also dead, leaving a wife and ten children to mourn his loss. M. Drolling, the well-known painter, had died in Paris. The Duke of Newcastle died at Clumber Park, on the 12th, after a long and painful illness. The Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, son of the late Duke, succeeds to the title, and a vacancy is thus created in the parliamentary representation of the Falkirk district of boroughs. The Marquis of Northampton died on the 17th, and is succeeded in the Maiquisate by his eldest son, Earl Compton. The Rev. Lord William Somerset died on 10th, at Clayton, near Bath. Sir Henry Claude Loraine, Bart., expired on the 11th, at Ramsay, in the Isle of Man. Mr. Maxwell, a writer, whose genial and sportive pen has delighted thousands, died on the 29th December, at Musselburgh, near the Scottish capital; his generally vigorous health had of late broken down, and he crept into the retirement of that sequestered village to die—in early life he had been a captain in the British army. Sir Willoughby Cotton, G.C.8.K.C.H., late Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, was also dead. The question as to what the law of Scotlana says upon the subject of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister will shortly be settled, as a man was in gaol who would be indicted for incest upon account of having formed such a connection, and the law officers of the crown had refused to release him on bail. Extensive preparations were making to centralise a censiderable number of troops in London during the year. It was calculated that there would be upwards of 40,000 men assembled in the metropolis and its vicinity during January, Every branch of manufacture seemed to be affected positively or prospectively ; there was no complaining of heavy stocks on hand, and prices were looking up. The bullion in the vaults of the Bank o England had undergone a diminution of £2,476,380 in ten months ; the amount in March, 1850, having been £16,486,570 ; and in January, 1851, £14,010,190. The death of the Duke of Newcastle, and the removal of Lord Lincoln, were said to have made way for Mr. Gladstone as leader of the Conservative party. Among the magnificent buildings of 1851 is a mausoleum, of a size and grandeur unexemplified in Britain, now in course of erection near the ducal palace at Hamilton. “ Papal. Aggression” is said to have crossed the Atlantic, and to have made itself obnoxious even in California, where some old territorial rights formerly exercised by the Jesuits have been reclaimed. The lands thus demanded are said to be now worth more than 150,000,000 dollars, but the admissibility of the claims seems anything but assured. In the States they talked of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific as a matter determined on and certain of accomplishment. The opponents of the free trade policy so successfully adopted by the British Governmeat, hsd completely given way. Fraser’s juayaitne mentions the obvious success as a fait accompli. The Peninsular and Oriental Company had

on their line between England and Alexandria, and to perform the distance in 10 to 11 days, instead of 15 to 16 days as heretofore. The following are extracts from Earl Grey’s despatch to Lord Torrington, acquainting him that it was the intention of her Majesty to place the administration of the Island of Ceylon into other hands. It is to be observed that Lord Torrington resigned in the early part of August, and that the despatch, which is dated the 13th of that month, could not have reached Colombo before the 25th September,

“ My Lord, —It is my painful duty to inform your lordship that her Majesty has been pleased, on my advice, to direct that you should be relieved from the government of Ceylon, to which Sir George Anderson has been appointed ; and I am to signify to you her Majesty’s permission, if you should wish to leave the colony previously to the arrival of your successor, to hand over the temporary administration of the government to the acting Colonial Secretary, in virtue of the commission as Lieutenant Governor, which has been given to the officer holding that situation.”

The noble Earl then states his general approval of Lord Torrington’s government, through the medium of which the colony has been elevated from a state of depression to one of financial and commercial prosperity. “ I have to express my sense of the success with which your lordship has laboured to maintain the public peace since the suppression of the insurrection in the year 1848, and my conviction, which remains unshaken by all that has since been alleged against you, that your measures upon that unfortunate occasion were dictated solely by your opinion, founded upon the best information within your reach, and supported by the judgment of those whom it was your duty to consult'—that the steps which you then took were indispensable for the prompt suppression of the disturbances and for the security of the lives and property of her Majesty’s peaceful and loyal subjects in the districts where those disturbances have broken out. “ But while I have much satisfaction in expressing to this extent my approval of your administration, I am compelled to add, that in the course of the proceedings of a select committee of the House of Commons, which has during two sessions been engaged in an inquiry into the affairs of Ceylon, it has appeared from evidence and documents submitted to the commiitee, that your lordship has failed in maintaining among the different persons employed in the public service in the colony that harmonious co-operation with each other, and that respect towards yourself, which are indispensable to the proper administration of its affairs.” The good health of her Majesty and of all the Royal Family may be presumed from the declaration that the Queen seriously intends to visit her Canadian. Provinces, taking New York en route. Her Majesty seems to have added to her previous popularity by strong expressions of feeling in reference to the Papal aggressions. The Sovereign thought the Parliamentary expressions last put into her Royal mouth by her Majesty’s Ministers were insufficient for the occasion.