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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 41, 17 December 1842, Page 163

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Lord Brougham, on the 18th of July, introduced two bills into the House of Lords ; one to enable a debtor, on surrendering his property, to obtain the protection of the Court of Bankruptcy from personal arrest ; and the other to facilitate arrangements between debtors and creditors, the consent of a certain majority of the letter to be binding on the dissentients. Mr. T. Duncombe, on the 21st of July, brought forward a motion for an address to her Majesty, praying that in the event of the continuance of the distress, she would be pleased to re-assemble Parliament at an early period. It was of course lost; Sir J. Graham asserting that " the effects of the Tariff has already been to produce something like increased activity in the commercial world." The inhabitants of Liverpool have held a public meeting, to petition her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament until remedial measures have been adopted to relieve the existing distress. A meeting of the bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of Leeds has taken place, " to take into consideration the present appalling state of trade and of the country, with the view of making another appeal to her Majesty's ministers and Parliament on the subject before* the close of the session, irrespective of all party feeling and party measures." Meetings for similar purposes have been held at Coventry, and other manufacturing towns, and a most influential one of the merchants and bankers of London, convened by the Anti-Corn Law delegates, at which a resolution was passed unanimously, " that the Corn Laws are the chief cause of the present distress." At Manchester, a memorial to the members of that borough to stop the supplies until the restrictions on the food of the people be abolished, received 30,000 signatures in one day. Bolton, Salford, Chorley, Bilston, Dumbarton, Edinburgh, Gateshead, and the coal districts in South Wales, are also making known the distress under which they are labouring. Tie time named for the prorogation of Parliament was the 10th or 11th of August. Lord Ebrington has given notice of his intention to bring up a clause on r the third reading of the Poor Law Bill, to enable the Custom House to remit the duty upon all corn and flour to be used in the maintenance of the poor. The East India Company are still despatching troops to India. Several large vessels had been taken up to convey troop* to Bombay, Calcutta, and Hong Kong. The small toWn of Rzeszovr, in Gallicia, has been entirely destroyed by fire. The Royal Agricultural Society have held their annual meetingr at Bristol, at which the Duke of Cambridge attended. .

In order to afford relief to the distress in Scotland, several gentlemen are employing large numbers of labourers to improve their estates anrl reclaim waste land. There appears to have been every probability that the harvest would be a good one. The King of the French has awarded a gold medal to Dr. Davies, of Port Jackson, for assist-, ance rendered to the crew of a French corvette, who had become dangerously ill from eating poisonous berries. The Times has discovered that the Tory administration has not the confidence of the Church of England, more than its Whig predecessor, and predicts its downfall. The Duke of Orleans met his death on the 13th of July, by leaping out of his carriage, the horses of which had run away. This event is unfortunate for France, as the Prince was much esteemed. His infant son is now heir to the throne, and the Duke of Nemours will be regent, though there has been some talk of repealing the Salic law, and appointing the Duchess of Orleans. Tho only other piece of important continental news is, that the Circassians have gained an important advantage over the Russians. General Grabbe was attacked in a forest, and lost 1,500 men and 25 officers. The Marquis of Lansdowne and his son have presented to the church of Calne, Wiltshire, a splendid organ. The Admiralty have given instructions for the building of two steam frigates, of 1,650 tons burden, and 800 horse power. These, when completed, will have each a crew of 300 men, and will be the largest steam frigates in the world. One is to be built at Woolwich, and the other at Sheerness. Sir Charles Bagot, the Governor-General of Canada, has lately appointed no fewer than 1,200 justices of the peace in four districts of the Lower province. Sir Charles is said to be attempting to carry out Lord Durham's policy so far as giving the two races, English, and French, a fair participation in the Goverment is concerned. Tory Gratitude to Mr. Huskisson. — " We believe that if, instead of rising to high ministerial station after he wrote his rather sensible letters of 1814, Mr. Huskisson had fallen to the condition of a Spitalfields weaver, it would have been very well for the industrious classes of this country." — Morning Post. French Southern Expedition. — " A large French frigate," says the Journal dea Debate of the 14th July, " having on board 100 marine cadets, sailed on the 20th April from Valparaiso, bound fcr Callao. She has been joined by several other French ships provided with the materials necessary for the establishment of a new colony in the Pacific Ocean. It is presumed that New Zealand is the place of their destination, but the strictest secresy has been observed on the point." The Journal dcs Debats might as well presume that they intend to colonise Calcutta. New Zealand is a British colony, and no attempt to colonise it by a foreign power could be permitted. We should also like to know what the Journal -dcs Debats means by the materials for establishing a colony. With us " materials " means three or four cargoes of young men and women — materials which could not have left France without obviating all ground for presumption. There has been another story afloat about Dutch troops being sent to New Zealand — we doubt if even Captain Hobsou would risk his commission by permitting them, to land. — New Zealand Journal.