LATER ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 110, 19 June 1847, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

By the Niagara we have received Liverpool papers to the Ist February, The announcement of the Premier, ihat so large a sum as would be required for Ireland, had had the effect of depreciating the funds trom £. to 1 per cent. Great complaints were being made at Liverpool, Manchester, and other large towns, of the immense number of paupers who were daily arriving from Ire« land, which had had the effect of increasiug the poor rates to a degree that it was impossible could be loug paid. Provisions were slowly but gradually increasing in price, and it was feared, that before the winter was over, there would be almost as much distress' in England as in Ireland. The hon. Henry F.scourt Addiugton, son. of Lord Sydmouth, had committed suicide, at his father's residence, Albury, near Guild*ford. The deceased was only twenty-four jhe had suffered foe some time past from meutul aberration. [Ftom the John Bull, Jan. 22.] The sum contributed by ibe congregation of the Uev. Dr. Raffles' chapel for the relief of the destitute Irish, amounts to £331. Ttie royal mail steam ship Hibernia, took out lo the United Stales, on Tuesday, upwards of one hundred passengers and specie to the extent of £390,000. Sir Robert Peel.—Sir Robert Peel disclaims, we understand, the circular addressed to cert in members of the House of Commons belonging to the parly of which the ex-Piemier was the head, by his lato Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. John Young, in conjuncthn with other sul oidimiies of the lute Government. The right hon. baionet further desires it to be distinctly undeistood. that he does nut wish to be considered as the leader of any political parly in this country.—Obseroer, of yesterday. The Established Chuich of Scotland has already raised £6,500 in aid of the destitute Highlanders. Provisions have got up to frightful prices. Evei) thing 'has risen save labour: that remains stationary. On Saturday new potatoes were selling, in Covent-gaiden Market, London, at Is. the pound; biucoli,3s. a bundle ; asparagus, 10s. a hundred j rhubarb, 4s. a bundle } cucumbers, from 3s. to 13s each. The last papers received from Ireland slafo that the people have been killing theit dogs and. donkeys, selling the skins of these animals for a Hide, and subsisting upon the flesh. The account appears incredible, yet it is, nevertheless, attested by eye-witnesses. Handsome Collection for. the Irish Poor.—Yesterday, in the Presb\terian Church, Islington, after two feeling and impressive sermons by tbe Rev. Veiner White, the sum of j£22o" 9s. was collected in aid of the distressed poor in Ireland. In addition to the übo-ve amount, two gentlemen belonging lo the congregation have sent £75, and a lady, in clothes and money, £12 : making a total sul scribed lor this charitable purpose by the above congregation of £313 9s. lhi's must be considered a large sum when it is recollected that this is a new and comparatively small congregation. The Parish Office.—The numbers of Iriili paupers now in the receipt of bread and soup ut the Paiish-office may be estimated at 4,000. This time last year they did not average more than about twenty-five daily, so that the public are now in a position to judge of the greatly increased amount of poor-rates which will have to t be levied to meet the expenditure. The influx"^ of paupeis from Ireland is greater than ever it" has been, and there appears no chance at present of its becoming less. On Friday an elderly deaf man, a widower, with no fewer than eight children, came over from Sligo, and the whole family are likely lo be a burden upon the inhabitants here for many a long day. O/i Friday, the Roman Catholics of Liverpool intend to hold a meeting at the Concert-hall,, Lord Nelson -street, Mr. liichaid Shiel ia the chair, lo raise funds for ihe support of ihe famish" ing people of Ireland j and on the following Sunday sermons will be preached in all the lloman Catholic ChapeU of Liverpool, uud also, at llirkcnhead, for the same object.