ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 796, 23 March 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

News reached Southampton by telegraph on Thursday, that the Emigration Commissioners had decided upon making that port a Government depot for emigrants going to the British Colonies, and a port of departure for ships employed in this service. It is understood that the terms on which the Commissioners have accepted the tender of the London and South-western Railway Company for constituting Southampton an emigrant station are, that a depot capable of accommodating 2,000 emigrants is to be built at the London terminus and in the Southampton docks. This would afford great advantages, and practically Londonwould still be the central starting-point for emigrants. Dr. Cotton, Provost of Worcester College, is the new Vice- Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He took the oaths of the office on Saturday. The Queen has issued a proclamation limit - ing the legal tender of British silver coin to forty shillings in " Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Hongkong," in order that their currency regulations may be in harmony with those of the United Kingdom. Mr. Nobbs, the envoy from Pitcairn's Island, was ordained at Islington on Sunday last, by the Bishop of Sierra Leone. Military mourning ceremonies in honour of the memory of Wellington have been performed at Venice and Milan. General Lamoriciere has been visiting the German battle-fields. He was at Jena on the 21st.