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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 43, 31 December 1842, Page 171

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Dr. Maginn, well known atife Conservative periodical writer of considerable talent, died on | the 20th*of August. Five men have been committed for trial at Swansea for the murder of an Irishman who had worked under price. A notice has been posted at the Custom House, Dublin, warning intending emigrants to New Brunswick that a great redundancy of labour exists there, and consequently great distress. Lieutenant Burton and Lieutenant Meech, of the Monarch line-of-battle ship, died towards the end of June at Athens, of fever caught in the marshes, while engaged with other officers in the removal of Grecian antiquities to be sent to England. They were hucied with military honours, Sir Edward Lyons ami General Church being present. A most praiseworthy effort has been made to supply the poor Italian boys who wander about the streets of London with an elementary education. Between two and three hundred are taught every evening at premises taken for the purpose in the neighbourhood of Hatton Garden. Another young woman has committed suicide by throwing herself off the Monument. A fire broke out on the 17th of May on board the Oriental steamer in her passage out to Malta. By great exertions little mischief ensued. President Tyler has caused a great sensation in the United States by putting a veto on a tariff bill passed by Congress. Lord Auckland, the late Governor-General of India, has returned to England. The Corporation of London will have to contribute £370 7s. Bd. yearly under the income tax. The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer has commenced his efforts to convert the Protestants of Ireland to the Catholic creed. - The last Russian papers announce officially the recognition of the present Government of Portugal by the Emperor of -Russia, and the appointment of Count Stroganoff as Russian Ambassador at Lisbon. We have heard that a hundred of the oldest Captains in the navy, not under 60 years of age, are to be allowed to retire with the rank of rearadmiral, on 20s. -per diem.- I—United1 — United Service Gazette. Some of the gentlemen of the Bank of Ireland? employed in the payment of dividends upon the various kinds of stock, complain of the great trouble imposed upon them by Sir Robert Peel's tax upon the Irish absentees, which is likely to realize a round sum in due time, provided the truants shall continue to sojourn in foreign lands. A man was lately beating and ill-using his wife at Stafford, when some of the neighbours took him to a pump and pumped upon him until he was fully brought to a sense of the folly of his conduct. Typhus fever had prevailed in Paris for six weeks or two months, with an intensity equal to, if not surpassing, that of the epidemic of 1831. It is not only common among the poor but alqo among the middle classes. Several of the wards of the hospitals are crowded. The cases are said not to be so fatal as usual. Small-pox has destroyed great numbers. From Texas we learn that the President had vetoed the War Bill authorizing offensive war against Mexico. The navy is to be kept afloat, and appropriation is made for the purpose. The Congress of Texas has passed a law granting 2,982 acres of good land to every woman who will ftkrty during the present year, a citizen of that republic, who was such at the time of the declaration of independence. The Courrier Francois, on the authority of a traveller recently arrived from Bombay, unfolds a tremendous plot : — " There exists in the British army in India a secret association, whose object is to render that country independent of England. This association, which is very numerous, is chiefly composed of Captains and Lieutenants, wich a few superior officers, and one or two Generals. A few officers of the Navy and several civil employe's of the Company likewise belong to it. According to the plan of the society, the entire of British India is to form itself into an aristocratic Military Republic ; the President of which is to be elected for four years, and chosen from among the General Officers. He is to assume the title of Marshal-President. A council of InspectorsGeneral, appointed by the Marshal- President, are to act as Secretaries of State in each county. There are to be two Military Chambers, the one consisting of Generals and the other of Officers. The territory is to be divided into shires or counties of 1,000,000 inhabitants each (and no more) — governed by a General and Council, nominated by the Marshal- President. The limits of the Republic are to be the Ocean, Tartary, Persia, and China. The possessions of the French, Portuguese, and Danes in Hindostan, are to form part of the Republic." The Autocrat of all the Russias seems determined to return evil for good. What will our Liberals think of this monarch and the resources of his empire, when they are told that, to build a bridge across the Neva, he is compelled to lay a tax on all imported foreign goods of It per cent., to hist for 37 years? and that all goods in store on the Ist of January next, shall be made liable to the impost. Recollecting that a bridge across the Neva is for the almost total convenience of the subjects of the Emperor, is it just that he should lay a tax to build it on the goods of foreigners, to raise the funds for such a work, necessary, though it certainly is ? When it is stated that of the foreign commerce of Russia Great Britain enjoys the largest share, this indirect mode of impost is extremely shabby, especially after the relaxation in our New Tariff in favour of Russian tallow, timber, and other articles we receive from Russian ports. — Sunday Time*. Emigration to the United States.— Thousands'of working men are out of employ in New York and its vicinity. As connected with the subject of employment in this country, a stronger commentary cannot be adduced than the fact that three packets, which have left New York for Europe, within the last few days, have carried back again to their home* nearly five hmudred emigrant* who had recently arrived. The Andromache, also, left New York, on Thursday for Liverpool, with 220 returned emigrants.