ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 25, 27 August 1842, Page 99

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

By the arrival of the Sir Charles Forbes we have English papers to the 30th. of April. The Income Tax Bill, which was then going through committee, appears to excite great interest. In the House of Commons, on the evening of the 29th, Mr. Roebuck brought forward an amendment, to the effect that " for and in respect of the annual profits or gains from any profession, trade, or vocation, there shall be levied annually, for every twenty shillings, three-pence halfpenny." It is somewhat unusual to find the Conservative morning papers advocating the same views as Mr. Roebuck ; but the Morning Herald of the following day regrets the loss of the amendment, extols the speeches of the mover and bis Liberal-sup-porters, and exposes the sophistry of the Premier's defence of the original clause. The amendment was lost by a majority of 146, the numbers being — For the amendment . .112 Against it ... 258 Majority . . . 146 As the particulars of this important bill must be of interest to our readers, we intend to give next week a full digest of its provisions. The following is a brief summary of English news, subsequent to that published in our last number, received by way of Sydney ; — Sir Robert Peel has declared that Government were prepared to exact from the Brazilian Government the fulfilment of the treaty for the suppression of the slave trade. Lord Ashburton had arrived in America, where he was well received by Mr. Clay and other distinguished members of Congress; and hopes are entertained that the differences between England and America may be amicably arranged. The Earl of Shannon died on the 23d of April, and the Earl of Ludlow a few days previous. M. Humann, the French Minister of Finance, died on the 25th, in a fit of apoplexy. The French Government were about to despatch a steam frigate for the West Indies, being the first of the French Transatlantic steamers intended to compete with "the English company. The nailers of Dudley, near Birmingham, had bred a riot in resisting a reduction of wages. The military were called in to restore order. The Gazette of the 20th of April announces the appointment of Mr. F. Merewether to be immigration agent to the district of New South Wales, and Mr. J. D. Pinnock to be deputy registrar in the district of Port Phillip, in the room of Mr. Francis Merewether. A grand masquerade ball was to take place at Court, on the 12th of May. The Queen and Prince Albert, as Edward and Philippa, will receive the homage of different baronial courts, headed by the several leaders of fashion, with their followers, in the costume of the epoch it may please them to wear. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to appear as Louis XII. and Anne de Bretagne. Their suite will amount to fifty followers, in the costume of the dignitaries of the court of Charles VIII. The following ships had sailed with troops for India: — the Bussorah Merchant, 531 tons; Glenelg, 876 tons; Royal Consort, 529 tons; Helen Thomson, 544 tons; Thomas Lowry, 409 tons ; Beulah, 578 tons. The latter ship went on shore near Dungerness, and had not been got off, though great efforts were made to lighten her.