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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 79, 15 July 1846, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

According to npvrs received from Iceland to the 12th. of October, f the eruption of Muunt Hecla still continued with the game violence: the lava ran from the south-west crater without intejmission, and had already covered a space of three miles, and heaped Up a ma?s in a plain at the foot of the mountain thirty to forty cubits in height. Thomas Tranter, an old and eccentric farmer, has been murdered in mid-day. He resided in a lone cottage near Berks well-parish; a thinly peo. pled region. Early in the morning he set a boy to work in the fields, and then returned to bis house. When the lad came for his dinner he found the shutters closed and the doors fastened, but from the strange ways of the old man he thought nothing of it. The farmer noc appearing the next day, the place was entered forcibly ; and in a wooden house and adjoining the kitchen the body of the old man was discovered, on the floor, bathed in blood, with a carpenter's axe sticking ia the back part of the skull; a bill-hook was also found covered with blood. The place had been ransacked ; the motive of the crime having been, apparently, the reputed wealth of the victim. Russia.—Accounts from St. Petersburg stat e that an ukase is about to be published which will do' away with the last remaining boundary between Russia and Poland, and incorporate the latter entirely in the Russian empire. The custom-houses between Russia and Poland are to be put down on .the Ist Januarp 1846 ; so that the produce of the two countries will circulate freely. "There is no doubt," observes the * Morning Chronicle,' " that the measure will tend much to the advantage of both countries, and especially to that of Poland; and although it is probably in contravention of the treaty pi Vienna, we cannot help thinking thßt if Poland and Russia are to continue under the same government, the measure is a wise one. It it said that the Emperor has resolved to make a branch line to Warsaw from the great railway, which is to join St, Petersburg and Moscow, and prolong the main line to Odessa." The following advertisement ia copied from the Times :— •* Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made by Parliament in the ensuing session by the New Zealand Company for an act or acts to enlarge and amend the pows.-s given to the said Company by certain letters patent of incorporation, bearing date the 12th day of February, 1841, and also by certain other letters patent, bearing date the 4th day of August, 1843, or by either of them, and to grant to the said Company further and other powers, rights, and privileges, and also to regulate and facilitate the conveyance, transfer, and assurance of lands in New Zealand to and by the said Company.—Dated the Ist day of November, 1845.—Few and Company, Corent-garden, London.