LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 104, 29 May 1847, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

By the Spec, which arrived on Monday last, \ye have English news, via Sydney, to the 24th December. We copy from the Sydney Herald the .following summary :— [From the London Mail, Dec. 24.] Parliament was to meet on the 10th January, and many conjectures are made as to who are to foitn the opposition, and who is to be their leuder. The opinions of Sir It. Pep I not being at direct variance w it lithe Ministry, Lord George lientinck was spoken of. From the Souili and West of Ireland the accounts continued to be deplorable, and the Northern districts had also t alien the alarm. The following description of the state of destitution in one part (Monaghan, in Ulster) will serve for many others. " In every street, at every corner, lean and cadaverous beings meet your eye — famine in the face, want in the hollow glance — emaciation in |llic wasted frame, and )et they do not die. The able-bodied labourer it no longer so, he is haggaid and famine-worn. There is no power of giving chaiity amongst those who gave ninety per cent, of the alms of the country — the farmers : they are selling hoarded oats at Is. Gd. per stone, to buy meal; the horsen are starved, and the family, like a vessel in a cairn, on half-allow ance. The poor houses are filling with a frightful rapidity — Clones house it 133 above its complement. The Monaghan house is within 200 of its number, and before Christmas, will be full. Castle Blaney is in the same situation. Cootehill house is full $ and all this at a season which uicd to be called Merry Christmas."

But tint is not all— murders arc committed, ol the most atrocious and during diameter. A. Mr Lloyd was shot while standing at his door in the street at Parsonstown, in King's county. He was (he owner of a smull property at Ballough, Tipperary. His tenants were known to he very refractory, und he had often been obliged to resorl lo law to obtain his rent. Mr. J. B Lynch, of Clonlceely, near Tuam, was assailed in his own avenue as he was returning from a fairj firm fired on and wounded, and afterwards hit body wai slashed with a reap hook to complete the murder. One Mr. M'Uluan, a Protestant, a man of excellent character, and respected by all par ties, was waylaid and murdered. The peasantry were arming, notwithstanding the circular lately addressed to the magistrates by Mr. Labouchere, the Secretary for Ireland. At a fair, considerable number of arms were sold by auction. Differences still exist between O'Connell and the Young li eland patty. All the attention of the iVlinistiy is directed to this uiiiortunate country, and measures of a decisive charactei arc to be speedily adopted. The Daily JYeivs announces tha'. a great comprehensive measure of redemption is resolved upon, and is lo be piomulgated by Ministers in Parliament. It ii to be hoped that there is no error either as to the comprehensiveness or the boldness of the measure $ but if there is not, Lord John Russell and his colleagues have resolved to attempt one of the greatest tasks ever undertaken by a Ministry, with a truly " wise hardihood/ We select the heads of the measure, compi essing the text. The chief law at present in operation, for employment, improvement, and drainage in Ireland, ib to be continued ; but to be amended and made more ellicient. The action of the poor-house will be put forward lib a check to (ling back the loiterer, who could find employment elsewhere, from burdening reief funds; but the Wai den of the Poor, (equivalent to the English overseer), will be empowered to give relief in all cuses to the infirm and really destitute. Emigration will be provided. Not only will depots be formed at home, but active and bene nVeul piepaicilions will bo formed in the colonies, so as to insure those who wish to emigrate all the risks of the poor, unprovided, and ignorant emigrant. The peculiarity, however, of the present plan of emigration is, that it will be coupled with u choice of settlement at home. A commihsion will be issued for the purchaie of waste lands j which are to be enclosed, cultivated, and offered in no large lots for sale, with such facilities as will render them a premium for industry and frugality, and the foundation of a class ol Irish yeomen. There are other lands not waste that are but half cultivated, and which in the hands of the poor, encumbered, emtarrassed landlord, aie a» profitless to the community as the hog or the heath. To render these moie available, liberty will be given to 601 l entailed propert). Government w ill be empowered to pro. eed to the sale of a poitiou of these estates indebted to Government, w hich have not paid up the imeiest or" instalment agreed upon.

Considerable apprehension is entertained as to the Erebus and Terror, that tailed on a polar expedition in June, IS 15, tinder the command of Sir J. Franklin, no tidings having been received of them 6ince since December of the last year. No less than 4GO plans for getting off the Great lir/lain had been u'kil in the ollices of the Great Western Steamship Company. Divdikunath Hose, a native oflndia,had p-issed the College of Surgeons in England, with great credit, after remaining nearly two years in attendance upon the lectures and hospital of University College. Several other gentlemen, natives of India, were studying medicine in England, and were waiting to obtain the decree of Doctor in Medicine, which Dwarkanath liose did not desire to possess, France.— Rumours prevailed that a change of ministry was probable. The King and Queen of the Belgians were in Paiis, from whence they intended to proceed lo Engluud, with the iutt ntion it is reporied of acting as mediators between the two governments, and heal the sores on both sides A new Congress was spoken of by some of the continental journals. The bey of Tunis left Paris for Toulon for his own dominions. Jn America much anxiety prevailed as to the tendency of the President's mess-age to Congress, which was to meet shortly. The most strenuous exertions weie making to muster and equip the nine new regiments recently ordered, which are to be attached to General Scott's army, who is (o commence operations on Vera Cruz. In the mean time Santa Anna is not idle ; he hus collected a large army at San Louis Polici, in a position to intercept General Taylors march to form a junction with reinforcements from Tampico. There were indications of disunion in the Mexican cabinet, but according toVera Cruz papers Santa Anna have been bolicited to anume the Presidency, which he declined. Commodore Perry had been successful in capturing the town of Tabarco. Accounts from California, via Mazatlan, reported that the occupation of the territory was not peaceful— 'that insurrections had occurred at several points, and that the French consul at the seaport of Monterey had been arrested for having protested against the American usurpations. An attempt of the boats of the United States sloop of war Cyane to seize a Mexican brig had been repelled . The results of the revolution in Portugal Mas still undecided, The Royalist and Insurrectioni or> Geneials arc more lendy with declamation than with deeds j and, saving some paltry advantages on either side, nothing has occurred influencing the fate of the nation. M. llonge, the founder of the German Catholic sect, was borne time since condemned to one month's impiifaonment for having preaced in public at Lahn, though prohibited doing so by the authorities. He had just received a full pardon from the King of Prub&ia. M. Rouge continues preaching in the different towns of Silesia, and attracts large audiences.

At the recent Radnorshire sessions, in a painful case of attempt of self-destruction, the offender was sentenced to be imprisonedforfive minutes, and then discharged. Philip Lempriere, a quaker, had been imprisoned by order of the Royal Court of Jersey, for refusing to take an oath ; the Bailly and Jurists obstinately refusing to register the Act of Parliament authorising the declaration of quuken to he taken. Since the return of Lord Morpeth from Arne* rira, he had been constant and unceasing in his efforts to cultivate cricket amongst all classes of society, but especially amongst those who are engaged in agricultural and manufactuiiiig pursuits. The wedding outfit of the Russian Grand Duchess, who was recently manied to the Prince Royal of Wurtemberg, was composed of 312 chestß and live carriages, weighing altogether 019 cwt.