ENGLISH NEWS TO FEBRUARY 1.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 40, 3 April 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

ENGLISH NEWS TO FEBRUARY 1.

The 8.8. Storm Bird, Captain Mundle, arrived in harbor last Friday evening, bringing the English January mail. The mail steamer Bombay , with the Dec. mails for Australia, left Point de Galle on the 21st January, and has not since been heard of. Whether she has run into some port in the Indian or Java seas, in a disabled condition, or is totally lost, is not known.

Telegraphic news had been received at Sydney to the Ist February. The Confederate Commissioners arrived at Southampton on the 29th January. Their reception was quiet. Mr. Slidell had gone to Paris.

Her Majesty is stilHn the Isle of Wight, and her health is improving. The same telegram states that the Cabinet had resolved on the acceptance of the sovereignty of the Fiji Islands. American news had been received in London to Jan 21. The Confederates had been defeated in Kentucky with heavy losses on both sides. Congress had appropriated some G,000,000 dollars for fortifications.

Earl Russell has issued a circular laying down stringent rules regarding the treatment of American war vessels entering British ports. The Queen, Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, and all the members of the Royal 1‘ amily in England, were by the side of the late Prince Consort when he died. He was sensible, and knew the Queen, to the last. The following arc the most interesting items of news received by the regular mail: — England has despatched to Canada 11,000 troops, and a large reinforcement of steam frigates to the North American station, at an expense of two millions.

The Federal Treasury, New York Banks, and all other Banks, of the Northern States have suspended cash payments, and the Banks have declined to take up the third 50,000,000 dollars of the national loan. The King of the Belgians was on a visit to the Queen. Addresses of condolence to Hex' Majesty, from all parts of the United Kingdom, and every place where the English were congregated, continued to be sent. The public mourning for the late Prince Consort would terminate on 9th February. The Prince of Wales was to proceed on a tour to the East.

The necessity of all British Colonies providing fortneirown defence is strongly urged in England.

The Prince Consort willed the whole of his property to the Queen, for the benefit of his children. Prior to his death, he had collected a quantity of game, a present to the colony of Victoria. Father Daley, of Galway, has been suspended from his ecclesiastical duties by Bishop M‘Hale, on account of too much interferance at public

meetings. Mr. W. Smith O’Brien has got into difficulty about his property getting into Chancery. The O'Donohue is likely to be expelled from the Reform Club in Dublin, for attending a seditious meeting at the Rotunda. Prince Louis, of Hesse, is at Osborne, on a visit to the Queen.

The following, names appear in the Obituary —The brother of the late King of Portugal, the Earl of Yarborough, Sir Charles Burrell, Rev. Sir Hugh Molesworth, Admiral King, Sir C. Marshall, Mr. Blumere, Colonel Colt, Mr. John Masterman, banker.