LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 19, 31 August 1848, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

By the Cheerful which arrived from Sydney, yesterday evening, We have English news to the 29th April. The following Summary is from the Sydney Herald of the Bth instant. Our readers will learn with satisfaction that the report of England being engaged in war with Russia and Austria was wholly without foundation. It will be remembered that the Captain of the ship Mahomet Schah, which arrived at Poit Phjllip with immigrants about a month since, stated that he had boarded a French brig, the captain of which informed him that war had actually commenced. We hope the authorities at Port Phillip will inquire uito the circumstances, and if, as there is reason to believe, the whole story was an invention, and the reportwas put into circulation from mere love of mischief, they will take steps to prevent the Captain from being employed by the government in future. We are not certain of a person circulating reports of this kind is not punishable for a misdemeanor. The elections in France had gone off quietly. The results were not all known, as the scru* tiny of tbeVote»-**i(puld occupy some days, but there wasMittfe doubt that the moderate had--a Targe majority. A determined attempt wis made by the ultra-democrats to create a disturbance on the 20th April, but the promptness of the National Giurd prevented anything very serious from taking place. The other portions of the continent remained in the same unsettled state. The Danes and Germans, or rather the Prussians, were at open war, but England had offered her services as a mediator,which it was expected would be accptcJ. The liimi Conspirators continued to apout treason with as much wiuleuce cs em, but no

actual collision had taken place. The Repealers were gradually deserting the old association and joining the war party. The bill rendering seditious writing and speaking felony had passed hoth houses with scarcely any opposition. In England the Chartists were endeavouring to create disturbances, but the total failure of their intended great half million meeting had rendered them so ridiculous that they were not moking much headway. The continued excitement which prevailed had an injurious effect upon trade, which was very dull, when at that period of the year it ought to have been exceedingly brisk. Some of the Englishmen driven out of France by the liberal party will most probably be sent to these colonies, to prevent them from becoming chargeable to the parishes. We perceive another scheme for entrapping settlers for New Zealand was afloat. A very flourishing advertisement for a " Church of England Settlement," to be called " Canterbury," is published, which contains the names of the Frimate,several bishops, and a number of influuuml churchmen as promoters, and who havefenowed their names to be used in a matter of which they know very little. The Queen and all the Royal Family were well, the Queen Dowager had returned from Madeira with renovated health.