ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 15 October 1842, Page 127

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

By the arrival of the Adelaide, from Hobart Town, we are enabled to furnish our readers with English news to the Ist of June. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN. [From the Globe, May 31st.]

It is our most painful duty to state that last evening an attempt was made on the life of our most gracious Sovereign the Queen. About a quarter past six her Majesty warreturning from her accustomed airing in the park,' in an open barouche, accompanied by Prince Albert, and attended by Colonel Arbuthnot, the equerry in waiting, when just as the royal party were passing the spot on Constitution Hill where Oxford made his murderous attempt during the year before last, a young man stepped forward, presented a pistol at her Ma- 1 jesty, and pulled the trigger. The result was, most fortunately, harmless — the pistol, as we are informed, having flashed in the pan. The assassin instantly thrust the weapon into his breast, and in a moment afterwards was grasped and secured from behind by a soldier of the Fusilier Guards. He was at once conveyed, under the charge of Colonel Arbuthnot, to the Palace Lodge. From thence he was taken to the police station in Gardener's Lane, and was immediately afterwards brought to the Home Office, where the Privy Council had assembled in great haste. Both houses of Parliament at once adjourned, and the utmost excitement and consternation ensued. It seems to be the general impression that her Majesty was not aware at the time of the attempt which had been made. The prisoner observed an obstinate silence, but of the results of the examination before the Privy Council, which sat till nine o'clock, the public are left in entire ignorance. The assassin seemed to be about nineteen or twenty years of age, rather . slightly made, and with a swarthy complexion,. Jle made no attempt to escape; indeed, he was secured almost before he had time to place the pistol in his breast. It would be difficult, from the personal appearance of the culprit, to form any accurate idea of his trade or station of life. Almost every person who has seen him forms a different opinion; but it seems to be generally agreed that his station is superior to that of a working man. It does not appear that her Majesty was at all aware of the event having taken place until she was afterwards informed. A gentleman who saw her enter the palace states that she appeared quite composed and collected. During the examinations of the persons in attendance who witnessed the transaction, it a £ p^S! e i d that a V01Itn » who happened to be in the Park at the moment of the prisoner's apprehension, had followed him to the station house, and subsequently to the Home Office, j and bad recognised him to be a person of the name of Francis. On the prisoner being pressed as to whether that was not his name, he, after considerable hesitation, admitted the fact. The youth war then questioned as to bia know--j|igeof the prisoner, when he stated that the prisoner's father resided at No. 100, Titchfield Street. Inspector Pearce, of the A divisioo, was instantly despatched to the above address, which he found to be correct The prisoner reunder examination until nearly ten o'clock, shortly before which time bis father arrived at the Home Office, in a highly die-

traded state of mind. He stated that he (the father) was connected with Convent Garden Theatre, and that his son, whom he had npt seen since Saturday night, was by trade a carpenter, but he could in no way account for his extraordinary conduct. He had never heard him make any allusion to her Majesty, or express any dislike to the Queen or the Government.

The Queen's Masque, so long look forward to as the beau ideal of court amusements, fully realized the most extravagant expectations formed by the most sanguine. It surpassed in brilliancy any thing which even history or tradition has preserved. Her Majesty is again far advanced in pregnancy. The Income Tax has passed through the committee on the second reading most successfully. The third reading was to have taken place after the Whitsuntide holidays. Another murder has been committed near London, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. The neighbourhood of Hornsey had for some time been infested with a footpad, who went heavily armed. On the afternoon of the sth of May, a police constable observed a suspicious-looking man following a gentleman across the fields which lead from Hornsey- wood House to London, and on approaching him, he turned suddenly round, and fired a pistol, which wounded the policeman in the right arm. Another policeman, who was near, pursued the villain, but on coming near him, was also fired at, and wounded frightfully in the shoulder. He now fled across some fields, re-loading his pistols as he ran. Being pursued by another policeman, and some men who were working in a garden, he got into a lane, at the end of which there was no thoroughfare. The police-, man now attempted to seize him, but was shot through the heart by a pistol which the villain again fired. The murderer was then secured. HVwas named Cooper, by trade a bricklayer. During his examination the following day, he became very ill, and it was found that he had taken }K>ison. By timely medical aid he was restored, and committed for trial. Good, the Roehampton murderer, has been tried and executed. It is reported that Lady Macnaughten has committed suicide, in consequence of the diabolical treatment she bad received from one of the Affghan chiefs. Twenty-eight itersons have been killed at Baltimore, in America, by the bursting of the boiler of a steamer. So great is the distress at present existing in England, that a Queen's letter has been issued, inviting contributions in the several places of worship, for the more adequate relief of the manufacturing population. Another, conspiracy to assassinate the King of the French has been detected. It was intended to have used an infernal machine in the form of a ball, to be thrown into an open carriage, in which the King occasionally rides, and by its explosion was calculated to destroy everything near.