ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 126, 26 December 1846, Page 4

ENGLISH NEWS.

Another Life Assurance Company has commenced operations under high pat ranage, chiefly for the eccommodation of officers and civlliaas in India of unbound healih. .- • , -. ' ■ ' ' ■ . '■■ Lofesters are imported into Liverpool in great quantities from the Hebrides. Xhe hep duty was better on at from £J6O e OOO to £170,000. ! Many wool-combers and mill hands are leaving Yorkshire under engagement for the United Stateg. The militia question having been mooted hae.led to the dieebvery that the«Clergymenof the Free Church of Scotland, ordained since itsxieparation from the eetablisbment, are not exempt, they not having taken, as Dissenters are wont to do, the oaths of allegiance, and supremacy. fortifications at Dover Cai'le were being increased and improved. Ttio line of coast in that direction was to be placed ' In a perfect efcte of defence, -

HtJDDERSPIELDi —X. CflliD UNDER \ TwWtVB.; Years old Attempting to j , Poison £ Whol? Family.—lt is with j no common feelings of horror that we record the following case, as it appeared before the magistrates at Huddersfield on Tuesday last, and which, the case of Eliza Penning, we believe td be unparalleled Mr. George Beaumont, an extensive manufacturer at |lon3ey, applied to the magistrates requesting them to cancel the indentures of his female apprentice, named Eliza Skyes B .a parish'apprentice, and who (he said) would not be 12 years until host month. He requested hejr indentures to be cancelled in consequenceof her attempt to poisba the whole family.- " He informed the hessch thai himself and most of the family were in the habit of taking oatmeal porridge for breakfest. Some short time since they purchased a quantity of arsenic for she purpose of destroying mice; ihis was mixed wjtb soma meal, and given to the girl to pal under the corn chest, in one of the attics, to destroy the vermin. Upon one occasion, the girl inquired of her mistress if it would poison anything else besides mice. She was informed that it would poison 20 men, and was ordered to be very careful of it. Nothing more was thought of it until Saturday last, when, after part of the family partaking of porridge for their breakfast, two of the children and one of the heads of the family, together with the girl herself, were taken, alarmingly ill; the latter so much that it was found necessary to put her to bed. Baring the day eh® confessed to having put the poisoned meal sbSo the meal bos from which the porridge wae made. Information was sent to the overseer, who endeavoured 4© elicit from her her reason for the acf»- but could gain no.hiog, but that her mistress bad whipped her without any cause; the fact being, that she Imd cut the tail of a favourire bird, and her mistress had-chastised her for it. On be- i ing interrogated by the magistrate?, she said, "X tvhould not hare done co; 1 was! aware that r was liable to be sent to prison for it, bus 1 did not intend So kill them; they had grieved me by charging me with something I did not do.' . As Mr. Beau* mon& merely wished the indentures to be cancelled, his wish was complied with, the magistrates expressing- their surprise and Jjorror at co much depravity in, so young a child. Lord Bldon has sanctified the birth of a son and heir by the donation of £1000 i each tothjee societies for the building of j churches, and the employment of additional curates. Fora collegeJat Hong Kong and the general promotion of Christianity in Chint, nearly h&s been collected ; £10,000 from s brother and eieter, J6,000 by volunts&ry contribution, in answer to a paitoral letter from the Bishop of London, and £2000 by a grant from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The East India Company had voted JgLOO to the Marine Society. The celebrated Dr. Wilson, of Calcutta, preached in the University pulpit at Oxford.-during the convocation of June* Hie health bad been wholly broken by hisjaboup in India, whiShep it was his determination to return fthat hie bonce might rest with those of his sainted predecessor Heber, and the other bishops who have died there before him. TheeloquenC preacher's voice and strength had -much failed him, but sufficient force femained to enable him to deliver a fervent donun* ciation of Fuseyiaro, and warmly to exhort the collegians to hold fast by the Pfotestanjt faith. "

Apprehensions were entertained tbatihe Asiatic cholera wae again about to visit Pngl&ndo It had already entered Russia, and the extreme heat of the season was considered favourable to i»« propogation. The thermometer daring June had risen to a higher degree than it waa remembered to have reached—-standing at 126 in the sun, and 90 in. the shade. Bti« s&roles had been frequent, and the bodies of the suffereri were in, a state of putridity within an hour. A board of health had, been app6inted;at Liverpool, in which iowii a case or.two of supposed cholera had occurred. . ' • . ,' Two boys, aged respectively 17 and 14, were committed at Manchester on the 22nd June, on suspicion, of having deliberately murdered another boy aged 13. ' , A dreadful thunder-storm bad done much mischief in the, north of Scotland, having torn asunder the hill dpposhe Cabracji, called the Tap o'Nath for some hundred feet, and Killed many. The rain fell in such torrents a» to have placed much of the country under water» Poefaga etaripe had been forged in , London to a great extent;'

Th,e London Gazette (June 22) ai\» nonnces the rifitnes of 2$ bankrupts, many of whose failures had arisen, it was said* from railway speculations. At Ihe meeting of'the -Pastoral Am Sodety, on the 12th' Iflay, ijwas stated, by ihe Bishop of Chester jhat in.the populous part of Lancashire they were fifteen years ago 208 churches, and 2*70 clergymen for 120,000 jiereone 5 but thai in 1845, there were 313 churches and 520 clergymen fpr 160,000 persons. The fumle ot the Society had risen in ten years from £1,600 to upwards of 4231,000-

A woman named Pimlott has been committed at Runcorn, for the tfiiful murder of two 6f her children, an J an attempt on the life of a third, between the 6tfi March and the 37th April. She had procured their naniee to be entered on the books of a burial society, and is suppose! to have been tempted to crime by the hope of receiving the suras to which their deaths would entitle her. Her husband is suspected of having been her accomplice, bijt.no sufficient evidence could be obtained againss hitaa. The child, yet living, was caved by the cara of the medical attendant, *ho discovered the presence of areenio ia its eSoraach. The other 4wo were disinterred, and their stomachs were found So contain the same poiscn.

The merchants of London, Manchester, and Glasgow, have petitioned the Earl of Aberdeen to establish a British naval etation at the Eelatid of Labuan, which has been freely ceded So England by the Saltan of Borneo. Labuan ia in a very central situation, being almo'eg equidistant fro:a Hongkong, Singapore, Siatn, and Manilla; and in the direct route of our Chinese chipping. It is said to abound in wood of various kimle, coal, and in the ores of gold, iron, tin, and antimony. The last Condon mail had reached Calcutta ia 42 days.

The fortifications of the harbour ore gtill engaging attention at Bombay. In she -Mauritius esertiona were being made of steam communication with London. ■ ■-

The legal profession and the public of the Mauritius were petitioning against the introduction cf thd English language in the Courts of law. '

The lease of" Crockforde" has been sold by auction for £2900. The purchaser's nime aid not.iranepipo.

The now Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rev. Samuel Groat, irae shortly eipected in town for hi 3 consecration by the Arch* bishop of Canterbury. Floating churches have been launched en the Clyde; one ie of iron, and will accommodate 700 persons. Ititfin connesion with the Fjree Church of Scotland. »

On the 2let JFune, Dr. UUathorne wa» consecrated at Coventry aa an additional Catholic Bishop. -.

JgWISfT FBBBMASONi,—ISCPOSTAHr DBCIBION o? trb Gband Lodge ov England.—-On Wednesday, the 3rd instant, a quarterly cohimunicetion of the Freemsione of England was holden tt the Hall, in Greet Qneen street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The rightlaoa. the Eirl of Zetland, Grand Matter of England, ia the chair, tupported by the right boo. Lord Wriotesly, M. P., Dsuuty Grand Master, &nd &.namerpud eoite of other Grand OfScere, &c

After the usual routine of business, tha Earl of Zetland requeltei the terioas attention of (he Grand Lodge ta • rnoit important subject, viz. the result of the correspondence which had taken piece between the Grand Lodges of England and Pro«ia, s on the (object of the refusal of the latter to admit" Jewish Freemason* to masonic meetingt. The Grand Secretary tfeen reed the correipoadence. In reply to a question from th» Grand Lodge of England, whether eperton profeieing the Jewish re» ligion, end holding s certi6cate or diploma of th« Grand Lodge of England, can Vβ admitted to iheir aseemblieo in Pras»ia,,darinf the time or working their maiionic meeting, the Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship, of Berlin replied that any brother professing the Itraelitith orlMahometan, feith cannot, by thecqaetitotieo of their epuntry, be admitted to any-pf their maoonic meetingi, not eren to a eabordinate one, who. are bound by allegiance to their eoperior maeonic authoritiea strictly to enforce such exclusion ;and ihonld the dirictor of the ceremonies, whoie duty compel* him to ag.' certain the religion of a visiting brother prior to hi» admiinion, neglect to do co, and en leraelite thereby gain admittance, on the fact, being aicerthe Israelite wonld be ordered to withdraw, andehonld he refuie. to do io, the meeting would bfl diisolved initanter. After the reading of this reply, the Grand Master stated, that he considered, as Freemasonry wag universal in it* brothe/haod and neither knew nor acknowledged any distinction of faith, that he shonld not be doing hie duty if he did not withdraw the repreientatife of the Grandj Lodge of England ; from the Grand Lodge RoyJf York in Berlin, whose principle were at varianll with true Freemaoonry. Theretfpon tha Graa? Lodge unanimously agreed, on the' jeeolution of the Gran 4 Master. "To withdraw at once their representative from the Grand Lodge Royal York in Berlin, aad that thelrepresentative of the latter to. the Grand Lodge of England, viz., Brother Chevnlier Hebeler be acquainted, through the Grand I Secretary j that he could no longer be tfcknowleged: or take his seat, in the' Grand Lodge of England, «»the repreeentative from the Grand Lodge Royal ■ York of friendship ia Berlin.*' ' -' -