ENGLISH NEWS TO NOVEMBER 28.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 557, 6 March 1858, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS TO NOVEMBER 28.

By the Mountain Maid from Hobart Town, we have received a single copy of the ' Mercury' of Feb. 12, in which we find the following English news, eight days later than that previously received. As will be seen it is not of much importance. Launccston, 11th Feb., 9 a.m. Tho Black Swan arrived at 7 o'clock j last night. She brings no English mail,

but 8 days later news from England brought by the Norfolk. ° ' The Blackwall liner Norfolk anived at the Port Phillip Heads on Monday morning having made the passage from Gravesend in 70 days. Our intelligence from India and China is later than that published in the English papers. • " - Her Majesty was to open Parliament in person on the 3rd of December. News of the death of General Havelock had not reached England. Titles of nobility have been conferred, on him and on General Wilson. Havelock as Baron of Lucknow, and Wilson of Delhi. Great distress prevails in the manufac- ' turing districts. Several new failures are announced, although confidence was being gradually renewed. Consols, however, ranged on the 27th of November from 91 § to 914. India Stock was in increased demand owing to the announcement that the government is henceforth to be exclusively in the hands of the Crown. All questions regarding a funding of Exchequer Bills or a loan in any shape were set at rest. The Waterloo bridge mystery had not been cleared up. Several reinforcements for the Indian Army had been despatched. The European continental intelligence is not very important. Intelligence from New York to 12th Nov. reports the" commercial panic as subsiding, but great distress prevailed amongst the labouringpopulation, who were making riotous demonstrations.

The Central Government had given up the idea of invading the Mormon territory for the present. The Mexican Constitution had been suspended, and Comonfort was declared dictator.

The problem that occupies most attention is the future of the Principalities, which has assumed a new phase in consequence of the excitement breakingout in all parts of Wallachia and Moldavia. The clergy urge the people from the pulpit to insist on their demands and to be ready to maintain them to the death. Unity and independence are the watchwords of the movement which becomes more alarming every hour. The Divans are said to have drawn up a memorandum to be submitted to the consideration of the European powers, and the compromise is already talked of. In the meanwhile the excitement has spread to Turkey, where the whole Mahommedan. population is said to be making preparations for war. Troops are concentrating in Silistria and moving towards the Danube.

The King of Naples has discovered or imagined a new Mazzinian conspiracy and put 400 people into prison upon suspicion. The Divorce Act is threatened with a Parliamentary attack by the Tractarian party. The Pope has forwarded a petty subscription (one thousand francs), to the Indian Belief Fund. The Emperor of Russia is now the only sovereign who has not subscribed. The recruiting service for India was very successful. The gloomiest news from the East was received, and the hardships of the soldiers were fresh in every mind. j

The applications for enlistment were at their height, the proportion of well educated young men being eighty per cent as compared with the uneducated. A new system of working the Australian Mails was about to be commenced by the Post Office authorities. A staff of officials was Ito leave Southampton by the Australian packet for Alexandria, to open the mail, and divide the letters in their transit to England. On the Stock Exchange, mone} r was still offered abundantly at 5 per cent. Foreign stocks were in moderate demand, and nearly every transaction taking place was at an advance. In the corn market, business was on the increase with prices advancing-. The Bextsi, with our mails ex Emu, arrived at Marseilles on the 27th November, and they were expected to reach London on the 29th. A subscription was entered into on the Hamburg Exchange for a guarantee fund for sound mercantile bills. It amoun- j ted after change to about a million sterling.