ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 564, 8 March 1851, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Flying Dutchman.—Lord Eglintou's Flying Dutchman, has been sold for the princely sum of £7,000. This splendid racer is the winner, of fourteen large stakes, having realized the sum of £17,725 altogether, for his late noble proprietor, exclusive of plates, cups, and other trophies of the turf. He will be kept in future only for breeding purposes, it being the intention of the purchasers never to start him on the turf again.

The Exhibition of 1851.—A central Committee has been formed at Vienna for the purpose of stimulating Austrian industry to take the greatest possible share in the productions to bo exhibited. The committee have established branohes in. the produces t° decide °. w tlje objects

to be submiited, and to undertake the transport to England. The Austria, the commercial journal, states that 750 manufacturers having given notice of their intention to compete, of which number 208 belong to Lower Austria, 160 to Bohemia, mid 108 to Upper Austria. Hungary, Croatia, Kclavonia, theßanat.and Transylvania will furnish 70 competitors; Loinbardo Venetia4l, Moravia, and Silesia 40. Galiuia has as yet only produced 3 manufacturers who have given notice of their intention to exhibit.

London Docks' Wool Waekhotjse. —A recent number of the Illustrated News give 3 a drawing and description of the department appropriated iv the London Docks to the storing, inspection, and sale of colonial wools. To us this is particularly interesting. The journal refered to says :—" The vastly increasing importance of the colonial wool tnuiu, for some years past, has induced the Directors of the London Dock Company to enlarge very considerably the warehouse appropriated to the reception of this article, and to provide therein long ranges of glass roofing, whereby most superior ac-commodation-is gained en all the floors for the advantageous inspection of the wool when placpd on show. The public sales of wool occur every six weeks, and are attended by dealers "from Yorkshire and other counties, as also by buyers from the continent. Every hale when on show is inspected by drawing out a portion of wool, which, after examination, is thrown on the floor, and which, to a stranger has a most extraordinary appearance, so much lying- on the gangways that the parties inspecting it frequuntfy walk knee deep in the wool. T|je sales of wool in the London Dock warehouses alone vary in quantity from 10,000 to 20,000 bales atone time. The machinery employed is capable in housing 3000 daily, and the accommodation for delivery will admit 1500 to be disposed of in one day. These operations give employment to 200 men, exclusive of clerks and foremen. The importation of wool, annually, at the London Docks, is 130,000 bales, the value of which is £2,600,000."

The Financial Reform Movement in England has produced the appointment of a Select Committee of the Commons, to report upon the reduction of of salaries of State officers. As yet, it has confined its attention to—lst, The Cabinet Ministers, of which the Secretaries of State, having £5,000 a-year each are not to be affected. 2nd. The Undersecretaries and Lords of Treasury and Admiralty, on which tlie reductions are mere cheese parings. 3rd. The Judicial Officers ; one of which, the salary of the Lord Chancellor is retrenched 40 per cent. And 4th. The Diplomatic Service, relative to which, it recommends a maximum of £0,000, and a revision of the consular aud minor diplomatic missions, in accordance with this maximum. The administrative offices of the Colonial Establishment are not even alluded to ; this is an unpardonable omission, considering that Governors are now receiving from £5,000 to £20,000a-year, fordoing one-tithe of the work, under one-hun-dredth part of the responsibility of the President of the United States, whose official pay is only £5,000 per annum, while Lieutenant-Governors are receiving from £800 to £3,000 ff-yearwitli nothing earthly to expend it upon, calculating that they are provided over and above their salaries with town houses, country residences, kitchen gardens, under the guise of botanical gardens, and forage, and guards of honor; besides the means of locomotion in Government vessels and mails free. Take the Civil list of Victoria, under the last charter. We have to provide £2,500 a-year for a Lieutenant-Go-vernor, with all the enumerated perquisites, in a country in wbieh living is cheaper than anywhere else in the world, and charity makes no permanent pull upon the purse. Were it otherwise, we cannot for the life of us discover in what extra taxes of this description Mr. La Trobe will have to spend his income now that his saslary is £2,500, more than lie had to meet with £800, his original salary as Superintendent. There is but one remedy—Federal Government, and Local and Colonial Self-Goverameut.

An aged couple in Liverpool, named Splatt, had two sons settled in Australia, who, after repeated invitations, prevailed upon them, though it was late in their day of life, to transfer themselves and their four daughters to a home in the Antipodes. But their four daughters were in business, which must be relinquished, and then , little property converted into cash, or merchantable commodities for export, before the important change could be made. This was done, and about eight hundred pounds iv cash, and rather a large amount of suitable goods, were prepared for the voyage. Affairs being arraugcd, the whole party of six took leave of their friends in Liverpool,: where, on the last Saturday evening of their sojourn, mingled feelings of regret and affection were indulged in by a circle of social and attached friends. They were to embark for Australia on hoard a vessel in the Clyde ; to reach which they proceeded on the Monday in the Orion, In a few hours five of the six met with an unexpected death, and the whole of their valuables were lost; leaving the aged gentleman (about seventy-one years of age) stripped of his wife, daughters, and property " all at one fell swoop."

Colonial Exquiujes.—lt is an eyir deuce of " the good time coming," that Parliamentary Enquiries are made, and can. be obtained, into.the administrative directions of colonial governors: howv ever, foj; &$■ present, the intoler^bjg