LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 66, 10 June 1843, Page 263

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

[From the Sydney Herald, April 13.] The Van Diemen's Land papers which came to hand yesterday contain a summary of English news to the 6th January, hut so brief that it adds little to the intelligence already received. Upon the intelligence of the treaty of peace with China being confirmed, a salute of thirtysixguns was fired from the Tower of London. The Queen was in good health ; she was expected to give birth to a child in the month of January. A company is about to be formed in London for effecting a communication between England and India by means of an aerial steam-carriage. A patent has been taken out, and the proprietors calculate upon performing the distance from London to our Indian possessions in four days. The patent was formally sealed on the 29th September last, and systematic arrangements are in progress to complete the design. Mr. Miles, the East Indian agent, has seen and approved of the plan, and invites public scrutiny to the first carriage, which was to be ready for inspection in February. On the first day of the grand experiment, to be made inthe presence of the chief merchants in London, the inventor proposes to confine his aerial trip to Liverpool and back. Greece. — Under the head of Greece, the Malta Times says : — " Our letters from Athens, to the 7th instant, continue to give the same unsatisfactory accounts of this country. The new customs law has driven away the Ipsariots, who have returned to Turkey. The Greek press cry out loudly for a constitution. A Patras paper, the Echo, gives a deplorable exposition of the Greek population, and pronounces the poverty of the people greater than at any former period. The Government taxes amount to 18 millions of drachmas, to which must be added six millions more local imposts, making a total of 24 millions, or £833,000 sterling, levied from a population of less than 800,000 souls, or nearly 225. per head." The state of the labouring population was most distressing : thousands of people were actually starving. It was hoped, however, that the impetus which would be given to trade by the opening of the Chinese empire to the British merchant, and the cessation of hostilities in Affghanistan, would afford some relief. It is stated in the Hobart Tenon Advertiser, but the authority is not given, that the price of wool had risen one penny per pound.