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Wellington Independent, Issue 43, 24 December 1845, Page 3

la the House of Commons the following eilract of a despatch lately transmitted to Captain Fitzroy dated Apiil 3\), ISI S, vf.ts read by Mr. Hope :— "The concern with Which I announce this decision is greatly enhanced by the remembrance of the public spirit", and disinterestedness with -which yon assumed this arduous duty, snd of the persona] sacrifices which you so liberally made on that sccount, nor can I omit to record; that in whatever other respect our confidence in you may have been shaken, her Majesty's Government retain the most implicit relitnce on your persona! character, and ou your zal for the Queen.* seivjce. You will, therefore, readily believe that I have acted on this occasion in reluctant submiss ; on to wh«t 1 regard as an iudispen»able duty.". The London Examiner in one of its late num. bers, finds treat fault with Lord Stanley's letter to Captain Fitzroy. and -*>ays that a schonl-boy would have concocted a better p uduction. This talented journal remarks that the only minister who can express himself properly on foolscap is Lord Aberdeen, and thatevin (be prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, writes like a footman ! From China, it Is stated, on the authority of the Pekih Gazette, that the Emperor has consented to tolerate the Christian religion in his dominions. A. letter from Milan, of the 21st of April, states, that the Pope, a few dnys previously; had called tog< ther a congregatio i or meeting for secular purple in Home; at wlrch it was determined not to allow railways wiihiri the Papil States, either those having their origin there, or as connecting links with the adjoining countries.—Times. The old bridge over the Shannon at Aihlone, on' which the armies 6f King James and King William contended for victory, wie lately demol.shed by gunpowder. The new biidje has been open to the public since last autumn. • When we recollect thnt Napier has had his leg broken by a musket-bell—bis side grazed by a cm-non-ball—bajonetted on the back—cut down on the head—his face perforated with a ball, wh'ch carried away pert of his jaw—the c'tlf of his leg torn by a rocket—hat be o«t of thirty -f.ur of his people struck with cenpds-soleil was the only survivor— that he has had a paralytic stroke—is sixty-three years of age, and is actively engrged in governing the country he has conquered, we are perfectly astonished at the man.—Naval and Military Gazette, ... ,„ Children' Grown by Electricity.—We can hardy form an idta of what the world is coming to—we thought it strange that plants and vegetables should be ' hurried up' by electricity, and rather hard withal that Nature, that kind old soul, should be forestalled in her operations; but it is not to stop here, it seems, for a correspondent of a Baltimore paper states, and confidently too, that children can be made to grow by the same means, so that, by arid by, a giant will cease to be a curiosity, and young men will, like Larry 0 Brien. be able to light their cigars by a street lamp, as the most convenient means. He says,' that introducing into the coles of his boots and shoes thin pieces of copper end zinc, terminating at the heel in sharp pointed wies, not only restored the healihof a friend, but that the galvanic fi'ird thus generated had a remarkable and unexpected influence upon a child, wearing a pair of shoes so prepared—an increase in ctuture and weight, rapid and unnatural! Ihu certfcinlv eeems to require a stretch of credulity ours will hardly yield to—howover, there it no knowing wlwt will happen in the*: (l«y» of mehMl en igbttn-ment.-N.Y. Mirror. . . . ... .