LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 108, 12 June 1847, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

The arrival of the Pandora on Thursday, and H. M.S. Racehorse on yesterday, has put us in possession of English news to the 28th January, brought to Sydney by tlie barque Prince of Wales, which arrived on I lth May, after a fine passage of 100 days from Plymouth. The Bussorah Merchant, post office packet for January, having also arrived, the Racehorse tias brought the English January mail. The new charter of Government for New Zealand, under the late Act of Parliament has been issued and is to be brought out by Lieut. Governor Eyre, who has taken his passage in the Glentanner, February packet. Having been already published in the London Gazette, it has reached us through the Sydney Morning Herald. We give a portion of the charter in the paper of to-day, but, owing to the great immediate press of matter, we are forced to defer the publication of the rest till Wednesday. The Charter provides for a Governor-in-Chief two Governors, and two Lieut.-Gover-nors; but, for the present, Captain Grey himself holds the office of Governor-in-Chief, Governor of New Ulster, and Governor of New Munster; and Mr. Eyre is LieutGovernor of New Ulster, and Lieut.-Governor of New Munster. It may be likewise interesting to know that "the Governor in-Chief will fix his own place of residence according to his own estimate of the greater or less demand for his presence in one or in the other province. But, wherever he may be, lie still acts as Governor of the province in which he may be resident, and as Governor-in-Chief of the whole of New Zealand, directing and controlling the acts of the Lieut.-Governor as often as he may think any such control or direction requisite." Parliament was opened by Her Majesty in person on the 19th January ; we are unable in our present number to publish the Royal Speech on the occasion. A Bill for allowing grain to be imported duty free, for suspending the navigation laws, and allowing sugar for distiller's 1 use to be imported duty free, had passed both Houses, and received ihe Royal assent. The distress in Ireland continued to increase, and bad reached an appalling extent Deaths from starvation were of common occurrence. Her Majesty made special reference to the dearih of provisions in Scotland and Ireland. The great amount af distress had seriously affected trade, but the amount of traffic caused by the importation of provisions had prevented so much depression as might have been expected. The judgements of our own local Supreme Court have occupied so much space, that we are obliged to keep back much important intelligence for our Wednesday's number.