LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 67, 17 June 1843, Page 267

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

In the absence of direct news from England, we have looked though the Sydney papers for extracts, and are indebted to the Colonial Observer for the following, which, however, is not of later date than the 1 6th of December: — A beneficial change in our home trade is be- » coming daily more observable, and the effect is widely extending itself throughout the kingdom. From Lancashire and the north of England very ti^heemng accounts have arrived. The advance in the prise of cotton is about a halfpenny per pound, with an active and increasing demand. In the several articles used in the manufacture a decided improvement has taken place, and several vessels have been taken up for China, and more will, of course, be hud upon the station. The wool market at Leeds has been revivified, and the hitherto desponding minds of many of our manufacturers have been cheered by the prospect of a brisk trade ■* during the ensuing winter. At Manchester there has been a surprising change. Some manufacturers, especially of cloths suited to the Indian and

Chinese markets, and of which cloths there were previously no stocks, asked as much as 9d. per yard advance, which was equal to from 10 to 12 per cent. Some~buyers refused these termg, but the general opinion is that 6d. may be fairly quoted as the amount of improvement on previous rates. At Liverpool, the revival in trade, which began to show itself last week, has received an increased stimulus during the present, and much of hope mingles in the feeling which now pervades the manufacturing and mercantile circles; And, independent of the beneficial effects which the restoration Of peace cannot fail to have on trade and commerce, by removing suspense and uncertainty, a most extensive field for British enterprise has been opened, and the entire Eastern world, with the exception of Japan, is now laid open to our merchants, In fact, it is impossible to estimate the height which trade will attain in the altered circumstances of that populous and productive hemisphere. — Atlas.

" The Anti-Corn-Law League " continues its course of moral agitation. Little doubt seems now to be entertained respecting the sum of £50,000, which the League requires to be raised, and its members are therefore, just now, in high spirits. We are deeply grieved again to state that incendiarism is still at work in our English agricultural counties.

Grkbnock. — Procession or the Unemployed. — Last week the unemployed in Greenock held a public meeting, at which the appalling statements of distress made were of such a heartrending description as caused those present to pass a resolution, viz. :— " That, as the allowance of the relief committee was only three farthings per day to each individual on the list, and that not being sufficient to keep soul and. body together, this meeting resolve to walk through the town, and go from door to door and solicit charity." In accordance with the above resolution, one hundred and ten men and stout young lads proceeded on this begging mission, and at night the proceeds were divided, and found to be fourpence to each individual in the procession. To-day they assembled at eleven o'clock, and after forming themselves into procession, again commenced going about from door to door collecting money. In the meantime the magistrates are indefatigable in their exertions to procure funds to support the unemployed, but the distress is so great that shopkeepers and tradesmen of every description are in desperate circumstances, and have not the means to relieve the destitute. Trade is daily getting worse, and there is not the smallest prospect of its being better for no one can tell the time. — Glasgow Chronicle.

The Earl of Mulgrave and the Earl of Caledon have been on an excursion to the country of the Red Indians, near Hudson's Bay, where the noble lords had abundant sport in buffalo shooting, and thence they returned to head Quarters at Montreal, whence Lord Caledon was to embark for England.

It is said that Sir Robert Peel intends at the next meeting of Parliament to propose a six shilling fixed duty on wheat. It is stated that Lord Lyndhurst will shortly retire from the Woolsack in consequence of ill health, ia which high post he will be succeeded by Lord Abinger, Sir William W. Follett becoming at the same time chief baron of the Exchequer. There are rumours in the City that the Chancellor of the Exchequer contemplates reducing the three-and-a-half per cents., and striking off £1 ,000,000 a-year from the public charge. Sir Robert Peel's new tariff is exciting much dissatisfaction through, the country, as large numbers of cattle and sheep are consequently imported from Germany, Holland, and Spain, to the great detriment of the home producer. The Queen's letters patent arrived in Dublin, appointing Mr. Blackburne master of the Rolls, Mr. Smith Attorney-General, and Sergeant Greene Solicitor-General. Mr. Blackburne was sworn into office before the Lord Chancellor; and on the same day Mr. Litton, the new master in Chancery, took the oaths of office. The vacant quoif has been conferred on Mr. R. Keatinge : Mr. Brewster retaining his office of Law Adviser at the Castle, by the express desire of Lord de Grey and Lord Eliot.

It is rumoured that Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.G.8., Q.C.M.G., will strike his flag as Commaader-in-Chief at Portsmouth on the Bth or 10th of January, and will be succeeded by Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, G.C.B. and G.C.H., who will hoist his flag on the following morning. Thb Late Vicb Admiral Sir Richarp Hossby Hussey. K.C;Bi— This gallant naval officer expired at his seat in Huntingdonshire on Sunday last. He was second and youngest son of Mr. Robert Mowbray, of Cockairny, and brother of Sir Robert Mowbray, Bart., and was born in 1776. On the death of his cousin, Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton Hussey, he succeeded to the estates of that distinguished officer, and in consequence assumed the name of Hussey in lieu of that of Mowbray. In November, 1781, the deceased admiral catered the navy, and was actively engaged during the late war with France. The gallant admiral was a deputy lieutenant of Huntingdonshire, of which county he served as sheriff in 1839. In April, 1833, he was nominated a Knight Commander of the order of the Bath, and was Junior Knight Grand Cross of the most distinguished order of St. Michael and St. George. ,_ The news from Spain has been looked to with intenie anxiety. The rising of new towns and cities to join the revolutionary movement at Barcelona has been much talked of, and two regimenti were said to have revolted in Arragon. At Barcelona the foreign consuls have interfered to prevent a threatened bombardment of that place by the Queen's troops. The streets are barricaded by the insurgents. Upwards of 500 soldiers have been killed, and the popular cause has also lost great numbers of partisans by death. The junta has taken measures to preserve order. The marriage of the daughter of the Duchess de Bern with the Archduke Stephen, son of the Palatine of Hungary, has been decided on by the court of Vienna. A marriage between the Duke of Bordeaux and a daughter of the Emperor Nicholas is on the fapis, and is the favourite project of the Duke d'Angouleme. The JVeur York Freeman' u. Journal, a very able paper, informs us that Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield had carried his election for Beauharnais county by a majority of 737 over his opponent