LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 56, 1 April 1843, Page 223

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The Queen and Prince Albert were on a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle. The Archduke Frederick of Austria was in Eneland. . 6 The Government model farm in the Phoenix Pork, Dublin, has been sold off, the project turning out an entire failure. The loss to the Treasury is estimated at £1,000, although free of rent and taxes. It was expected that Parliament would meet for the despatch of business about the third week in January. An extraordinary case of incendiarism has taken place at Abbey Dale, near Sheffield. A scythemanufacturer, named Dyson, had a grinding wheel, turned by water-power, in order to destroy which, a barrel, supposed to contain one hundred pounds of gunpowder, was placed near it and ignited. The explosion was terrific, but not sufficient to accomplish the mischief intended, although the building was much shattered. Several persons are in custody on suspicion. An unparalleled case of infant murder has been made known by the confession of the principal culprit. A woman named Bennett, residing atRuardean Hill, in the Forest of Dean, communicated to the Reverend H. Formby the fact that she had murdered six infants which she had given birth to. Five, by holding them under watev immediately after their birth, and the sixth by poison when a few days old. A man named Yapp, with whom she had cohabited for eight or ten years, was privy to the death of the first five, but the last murder was without his knowledge. The whole of the skeletons were found beneath the floor of a brewhouse, where the bodies had been burned. The large cotton manufactory of Messrs* Pooley, in Ashton Street, Manchester, was destroyed by fire on the 3d of November. The fire broke out .about half-past six in the evening, at a time when nearly five hundred persons were at work. All were fortunate enough to make their escape in safety, with the exception of six poor creatures, who were consumed in the flames, and a boy who, in leaping from a window, fell on the edge of a water tub, which injured him so much that he died immediately afterwards. Dr. Turton, the newly-elected Dean of Westminster, was installed on the 9th of November. Dr. Stopford, the Bishop of Meath,was installed on the 6th of the same month. The whole of the inmates of the Fleet Prison have been removed to the Queen's Bench. Dr. Charming, the truly great American writer, died in October. Sir John Cross, judge of the Court of Review, died suddenly on the sth of November. Hone, the well-known author of the "Every Day Book," died on the 6th. Sergeant Spankie is also deceased. Sir James Graham has issued a commission, to inquire into the state, discipline, and dietr<> of the Houses of Correction in the county of Gloucester. The cause of this was a memorial ' to the Home Office from the jury who sat ow the body of a man who died on leaving Northleach prison. Very heavy gales of wind were experienced on the English coast in the latter end of October. On the night of the 29th, a collision took place between the barque Jackson, bound from Liverpool to Dundee, and another vessel, name unknown. The Jackson went down almost immediately, and five of the crew were drowned. On the night of the 30th a vessel named the Louisa came in collision with a Swedish brig off Orfordness. The crew of the Louisa,* conceiving that their vessel would sink in a short time, escaped in the boats, but some days afterwards she was seen drifting about in the German Ocean, with no one on board, and taken in tow by a steamer and brought in safety to Gravesend. On the 4th of November two schooners came in collision in the channel, and one, named the Reform, went down immediately. The crew escaped. On the same day the Hope was ran down at the entrance of North Shields harbour. The steamer Isis was lost on the 9th of November, on her voyage from New Providence to England. The steamer Medway being at hand, all the passengers and crew, excepting one boy, were saved. "* Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire, having onboard two companies of the 3d West India Regiment, struck on a reef about seventy miles from Belise, Honduras. Out of 200 souls on board, only one man, a private, was lost. The rest, after many hardships, arrived safely at Belise, but with the loss of all their baggage. The Marquis of Breadalbane has been formally reinstalled Lord Rector of the Glasgow University. The personal property of the late Earl of Leicester has been sworn under the value of £60,000, which is principally bequeathed to his vridow and children. This amount may seem small, but the late earl, by his will, states that he has lately expended the sum of £500,000 in the improvement of his estate. Large quantities of live stock and salted provisions have been imported into England from the continent. A public meeting of the shareholders of the Great Western Steam Ship Company lately took place at Bristol. The object was to take into consideration the + affairs of the company and discuss whether it was advisably to continue running the Great Western, and to complete the large iron steamer named the Great Britain. It appeared that the Company was in debt about £24,000, but that there were assets to the amount of £17,000. To complete the Great Britain £14,000 more was neceuwy. After a long discussion it was determined that the Great Western should recommence running in^ the Spring; and that £20,000 should be borrowed to complete the other vessel. It was shown in the course of the meeting that the Great Western had lately yielded a profit to the Company. The^appeals against the assessment for the income and property-tax on persons in the City of London are expected to be very numerous and protracted. The first court for the above purpose will be held on Monday, the sth of December. Incendiarism prevail* to a large extent in many parts of England. The distress in the manufacturing districts is ■till very great