LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 53, 11 March 1843, Page 212

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The arrival of the Posthumous from Sydney enables us to furnish English intelligence up to the 28th of October, being uearly a month later than what we were previously in possession of. We are indebted to the Colonial Observer and the Australian for our extracts : — Lord French, a Roman Catholic peer, has avowed himself a repealer. He is, we believe, the only member of the peerage who has done so. Mr. George Thompson, the corn-law lecturer, was to accompany the highly- honoured Baboo Dworkanauth Tagore to India. They were to leave England in December. The treaty between Great Britain and America was ratified by the Senate, by a majority of thirtynine to nine. The Eutau, from New York, arrived in the Cove of Cork, on the 18th October, with two hundred and fifty emigrants returning to their native land. Parliament was on Thursday afternoon, by royal commission, further prorogued until the 10th November. The Queen is again " in a delicate and interesting situation." The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Prince Albert, are in excellent health. A proposed marriage is on the tapis between the Princess Augusta of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the eldest ion of the reigning Grand Duke, George V The Princess was born on the 19th July, 1822 ; the Prince on the 17th October, 1819. A strange story has reached us, of so painful and delicate a ntture, that it is with extreme reluctance we allude to it at all ; but as the matter involves royal and public as well as private considerations, we should consider that we had failed jin our duty to the public, were we to preserve total silence on the subject. The " mishap," we are informed, relates to one of the most noble families in England, and the other party involved is of still higher rank. The Queen, we understand, has been appealed to, as the circumstances of the case imperatively demand that the injury should be atoned for by a speedy marriage. * The father of the " irrttittible'' is said to be on tW point inexorable. But we must refrain, in the present stage of the proceedings, from saying any more on so delicate a subject, involving as it does, consent enr»sso important— -social, political, and royal. I '— Eauh Queen. The above mysterious extract is said to relate to an intrigue of Prince George of Cambridge. Three German princes, her own and her Royal Consort's relations, were visiting her Majesty, and the usual festivities prevailed. Barmen Lehzen, who nursed the Queen, and had possessed, from having been about her person from infancy, extreme influence, has, it is said, at the instance of the Duchess of Kent, being conge* d to Germany. The Royal Household all rejoice at this, the Baroness having been a second Madame ScnweUenburgh. The disturbances had wholly subsided but the great cause, extensive distress, still unabatedly existing, their renewal was only kept down by the strong hand, and the excellent disposition of the troops. A slight emeute had broken out at Newburgh, which was promptly quelled by the decision of the magistracy. The recently-discovered frauds in the Customs have been ascertained to have been of much deeper extent than was imagined. Many officers of high station have been suspended. The Treasury has taken the investigation into its own hands. The fire had broken out again the third time at Liberpool, and much loss had been sustained. A verdict of manslaghter had been returned against the keeper of the Northleach gaol, for overworking a man, named Beale, on the treadmill, and then, when dripping with perspiration, putting him into a cold cell, which brought on ague, and death ensued. Twelve new commissioners, under the new Bankrupt or Insolvent Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Act, have been appointed ; they are all barristers of eminence; amongst them are two Queen's Counsel, and Sergeants Stephen, Ludlow, and Goulburn. Archbishop Stopford is the new Bishop of Meath. The sudden death of that celebrated general, Sir Lowry Cole, had created much regret in the military circles. The 27th Regiment, the Government of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort, and a Grand Cross of the Bath are at the disposal of Ministers. The question of the abolition of pews in churches had become the subject of active and warm discussion,— the Bishop of Exeter, supported by several of the «ost eminent prelates, and the " leading journal of the world "—the great Time*— leading the Anti-pew party. The Spectator of the 15th October declared the pew system doomed. That influeatial journal has adopted the Pew party, although, it would seem, rather despairing any hope of retaining that symbol of aristocratic superiority in a place of worship, where, if scripture is to have any weight, there should be none. The Oxford tract! have been somewhat revived in a new periodical published at Oxford, styled The Eeektiobgut. The Neapolitan Government has authorized the construction of a railroad from Naples to the frontier of the Papal doaumons; the expenses will be defrayed by Baron de Rothschild and other bankers.

Miss Martineau and the Civil List.— -We learn, from a correspondence between Mr. Charles * Buller and Miss Martineau, which has now been published, that Lord Melbourne, previous to going out of office, was desirous to place this lady's name on the civil list, with a pension of £150 a-year, as a proof of his respect for her writings and her character; and accordingly made such offer to her through Mr. Buller. Miss Martineau, in reply, declines the offer, and does so in a marJ uer highly creditable to her head and heart. Among her reasons for declining, the following! stands prominently forward. Speaking of thS working classes she says:-" Such services as I may have rendered them are unconsciously re J ceived by them; but I cannot accept reward H any expense to them. If this provision be not designed as recompense, but as aid, as a pure rift I cannot take It: for they who provide the me** hate no voice in the appropriation of it to me pSPsonally. Whenever we obtain a just system of taxation, the time may perhaps follow when, among other considerations, some plan maybe discovered by which the people's representatives may exercise the power of encouraging and rewarding merit and services working through the Tress ; and even then the most scrupulous, with no better views of their own claims than I have may be happy to receive, in their time of need, aid from the public purse. Meanwhile, I seriously and truly feel that I had rather, if need were (to put an extreme case), receive aid from the parish, and in the workhouse, where I could clearly read my claim, than in the very agreeable manner proposed, where I can see no excuse for my own indulgence. If it be true that, in the case of gifts, we do not nicely measure the grounds of claim, surely there is an exception in the one case of gifts from the public purse."— Morning Chronicle.