ENGLISH NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 38, 20 April 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

News reached Southampton by telegraph that the Emigration Commissioners had decided upon making that port a Government depot for emigrants going to the British co» lonies, and a port of departure for ships employed in this service. It is understood that the terms on which the Commissions have accepted the tender of the London and : South-western Railway Company for constituting Southampton an emigration station are, that a depot capable of accommodating 2000 emigrants is to he built at the London terminus and iv the Southampton docksThis would afford great advantages, and practically London would 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 offico on Saturday. The Queen has issued a proclamation limiting the legal tender of British silver coin to forty shillings in " Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Ilongko.ng," in order that their cunency regulations may be in harmony with those of the United Kingdom. Military mourning ceremonies in honour of the memory of Wellington have been I performed at Venice and Milan. General Lamoriciere has been visiting the German battle-fields. He was at Jena on the 21st. It is stated that a son of the Bishop of Exeter has recently gone out to Melbourne, and that a son of Mr. Baptist Noel is gone to practice at the Australian bar. The Craig telescope on Wandsworth common s has enabled the observers to perceive the third ring round the satellite of Saturn, whose existence ha 3 long been a

matter of doubt,

A college or school for the children of indigent officers — a fitting memorial of England's mighty duke— had been proposed. Her Majes'y and Prince Albert had severally subscribed £WOO and ,£SOO. £10,000 had all cad y been subscribed. Abd-cl-Kader had beon invited bytlie Marquis of Londonderry to pay a visit to London. The excess of income over expenditure on the ycat ended sth July, amounted to £1,745,442 15 4; and on the year ended 10th October to £1,904,341 97. The balances in the Exchequer on the 10th of October were £8,764-,522 10 5. The Pope had refused to visit Paris, at the instigation, it was said, of the Austrian