ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 54, 11 March 1846, Page 4

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The Gkuat Britain eteamer returned safely lie RKA ,o tl f September, having to Liverpool on tue ,OUI . ~{, , p.. om ffi ade ihe liomewa d passage in 13* »■ J ™ SSSSSftc* premises of Sir Charles Price and Co , oil and colour merchants, Mackfrwrs, wu;, SsCed by fire on the 16th of September. One life A °t al Cont m pstea d , in Devonshire fifty dwellin" houses and a vast amount ot propertj Zi Srttojed by fie on the ISih of September Sir William Mkswo.th has b«n returned for Southvraik with a very large majority. A statue of Crowwdl i« to have no place with those of the other crowned beads in the new houses of Parliament. Seven men emp oytditi breaking up rockets in a shed in the Koy,l ar.enal at Woolwich, «ere suffocated on the 17ihSepteinUer, by a mass ol the rocktts accidently taking fire. . The harvest was likely io be more favourable in England than at one time was expected. There is however, we ate sorry to find, an almost univer- j saVtailure of the potatoe crop in Great Britain, as well as on the Continent. So great is the injury sustained -by this plant on wet .lands, lhat the aop is totally destroyed. The St. Ledger was won by Mr. Watt s Baron ; Major Yarburgli's Miss Sirth, the favorite, beiuij second A dreadful event occurred near Vienna, early m September. Two hundred Italian soldiers, wuile crossing a ruinous bridge, were precipitated into the river by the bridge giving way, and every soul drowned. The officer in command, who was sligluly in advance, escaped. The disorganized state of Greece has brought into existence a host of piratical craft of every size and description, which are now infesting the Archipelago. The Austrian and French Governments have each sent a war steamer against them. The fortifications of Amsterdam have lately been dismantled, and the site close to the water converted into a public promenade. The same had beea previousely done at Utrecht. Decukum at Sydney.—Sydney has a population not far short of 30,000 ; aud though it has one and sometimes two of her Majesty's regiments stationed there, and a great many sailors from all parts of the world are always to be seen in it, yet it is one of the most orderly towns a traveller can *isit, I witnessed neither the brawl or drunkenness nor the shameless prostitution which so often shock and offend-in our own streets, whilst the only beggars I met were the two blind men previously mentioned. Another proof of the prevalent order of the town is the general decorum observed on the Sabbath. On the whole, great credit is due to the authoiities for the excellent government of a population among whom might be expected much disorder and unseemly immorality.—Baker s Sidney and Melbourne. Paging Machine.—The machine designed to page account books has been recently pateiiteed by Mr. W. Shaw, of Liverpool. The machine, which occupies a space less than three fett square, is bo constructed as to number the pages of a book, ■whether bound or unbound, progressively, from one to ten thousand j the simple moveiLeut ot a lever performing the combined operations of taking and distributing ink, transferring the same to the figures, makiog the impression, and changing ihe figures to the succeeding number, 'ihe machine, it should be remarked, is equally applicable to the numbering of Laak notes, lailway-ikktts, &c. Mr. H. Buller, the British Minister at Madrid, was sworn of the Privy Council on Monday; so also was the Hon. B. Baring, Paymaster ot the Forces. Admiral Sir W. Otway, Colunel Sir J. Dennis, and Rear- Admiral Sir E. C. Strode, were made Knights Commanders of the Bath j and Prince George of Cambridge, Knight Grand Cross of ihe Order of St. Michael's and St. George. Atlas. National Debt.—The Commissioners for the reduction of the rational debt state that the Treasury has ctrtified to them that the actual surplus for the year ending April 5, 1845, was £6 432,485 175., and that one-fourth of it £1.58J,608 19s. 3d., will be applied it the duction of the debt. Mbjor- General Sir John F. Burgoyne, chairman of the Irish Board of Woiks, has been appointed iaspector of fortifications in lingland. There are two other commissioners of the Board of Woks in Irehnd—Messrs. Otiley and Radcliffe. The chairman must be an engineer. It is rumoured that Captain Larcom, R ti M Superintendent of the Ordnance survey of Ireland, is to succeed Sir J. Burgoyne at the Boaid of Works. Sam Slicks " .Benefits of a Bazaar." The gals in Parson Longtext's church got up a rag fair last fall, for the benefit of ihe poor. Made up a whole lot of contraptions ; hearts stuck full of pins, paper baskets, and other queer notions; the consarndest lot of trash you ever did see. Then you see the chaps all went a shopping paid a dollar for sixpence worth, and had a good stare into the bargain. Its a positive fact that forty-nine matches (not locofoco's, but genuine love ones) were concluded on the strength of that 'ere fair. J oe Lutes ring a dreadful nice young man in the dry-goods line, fastened on Old Sail Sparks, kasehediskivered she had a slick way of taking the fl :ts in. They do say her dad thought the S u. Be thing, for the piece of goods had got kindershop-worn, and the old man hought he d never get her off his hands; but gnls keep up your hearts, gals, every Jack h«s his Jill ' At a moment," says the Courier Francais, when the society of Jesuits attracts so much atten' tion, the following sketch may not be uninteresting • Ihe Jesuits have h.d, since the foundation of the order to the present period, 23 generals, of whom U were Italians 4 Spaniards, 3 Germans, 2 Poles, 2 Belgians, and 1 Dutch. The order was suppree sed in 1773, under the General Ricci, but c Sued o be tolerated in Russia, where it was go m d by th,ve administrators, Poles by birth. Dur ng the year 1799, Pope Pm ß VII, re-established the slcie ty, who appomted u s 18th generali Pr , QcU x ° c £ Caren, a Pole, in 1799. A t the period of th t k 2 pression, in 1773, the Jesuits possessed 24 p r "f3

Steam Link-of-Battlb Ships.—We u n <j c I ttand thut it is intended to have sixteen li ne '/ I battle ships, und eight or ten frigates, with B nr e » I uropellere, as block ships tor our seaporte, -jn 1 armament of the 72-gun ship will be twentyJ! I 42-pouriders. 'twenty-six S2-pounders, and f ou I 50-pounders. She will have the masts an 1 yard I of a f"<?ate, and a'crew of 568 men, whJ! i will include officers, seamen, marines, and stokers I Each ship will only ttfke six weeks' provisions an ',i I water, ami be made to act both offensive and d» I fensive. The engines are to be horse.p Owe * 1 Tlie 42 gun frigate will have the masts and yard 1 of a 26-gun frigate, and be armed witlj'twpnty 42! I pounders and three 56»pounders, with engines <jf I 303 horee-power, and a crew of 306 officers, Se4 , | men, marines, and stokers. Tendersfor 1 are to be advertised for; the other part of the 1 work will be done by the dockyard.-—United I Service Gazette. | Recent accounts from Switzerland Hate, that jf numerous tourists and artists are visiting'the Ber. I nese Alps. About a fortnight eince a you n > 8 Englishman accompliahfd the ascent of Moot I Wetterhoin, which hall Litherto been considered I inaccessible, less on account of its height, which is 9,000 feet less than Mont Blanc, than from tho h great dangers which attend the attempt. ° f Naval Intelligence. —The Sidon steam. P vessel, ordered to be built upon a plan of Comrao! k dore Sir Charles Napier, is to have engines of 56ft 1 ■horse power, and she will carry 800 tons of coal in I her coal-boxes, being 25 days' consumption. I There is to be no castiron used in the machinery I above the light-load water-line, the material 'to be i used in the parts liable to injury is t> be gu n t metal. The engines are to be made upon thft '! direct action principle and the boilers in'the tabular * form. The whole weight of the machinery, &. f will be nearly 4t)o tons. Messrs. Seaward and Co* '' have contracted to supply the engines at a , cost of f ' £30,000. The Phcenix steam-vessel is in the • West-dock, having suine alterhtions made in'the ' propeller fitted to ber by Mr. Steinman. Two of ' Na-tmjth's steam hammers are to be fixed iin t' ae * smithy of t ie Woolwich Dock-yard, one of 2£ tons I and the other of 15 cwt. b