EXTRACTS. SUMMARY OF ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Home News, September 7 )

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 280, 3 February 1849, Page 3

EXTRACTS. SUMMARY OF ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Home News, September 7 )

The Queen is on the Scottish coast this morning, the Prime Minister in Ireland. Parliament is of course up, and the Queen's speech spoken. The weather is magnificent, as if to prove that the Queen of the ocean is Queen of all the elements ; the sky cleared up as if in anticipation of her voyage, and continues splendidly serene. As the consequence to the country is au'iraraediate and considerable* fall in the price of groin, the poorest peasant participates in the pleasure of the sovereign. Under such aspects, the autumnal mouths promise to atone for the waste and desolation of4he summer. The harvest is nearly an average one, and the potato plague has limited its ravages to a fourth portion of the absolute extent of produce. The last Hashes of rebellion have died out, and there is a slight revival in trade, and perfect internal tranquillity in England. The Queen prorogued the Parliament in person, amidst the greatest enthusiasm of the spectators. When last hi r .Majesty addressed the peers in person, she alluded, in terms of dignified reproach, to her relations with the King of the French. Yesterday there stood beside her throne— distinguished trora the glittering corps of ministers and diplomatists by the comparative plainness .of their attire— the exiled sons of that exiled monarch, whose ruin was precipitated by the fatal ambition which had made him deaf, not only to the precepts of strict honour, but to the promptings ot trus interest. Around her crowded the ministers and representatives of States and Governments, whose existence now trembles in the scqle of destiny. And close to the royal peison, wielding with feeble arm the sword of State, and bowed by the weight of nearly eighty years, stooped the soldier who had helped to rear the crumbling edifice of continental monarchies, and bad put bii seal and sign to treaties and nationalities which he was destined to outlive ! Acid if it were strange for the victor of Waterloo to contemplate the exiled occupants of that throne which Mi oira right arm bad rescued for another, but not >cis

unproiperous rate, it fell not lest itrangely on the e«r» of the descendants of Capet when the Queen of a constitutional monarchy gave her fiat to the deliberate will of her English Commons in the traditionary lan« guage of the Norman William. Not lets curious it it that while France is " taking the lead in civilization," by enunciating the dogmas of her twentieth constitution, MM. Guizot qnd Lpuis Blanc, the authors and victims of two rival revolutions, by a curious coincidence should attend at the sitting! of a Parliament which hat preserved its unwritten usages without the necessities of dogmas or the dictation of revolution I At ten minutes pait two o'clock the Queen returned to the palace, and at twenty minutes past three her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, were again seated in their carriage and starting for Woolwich, where they embarked, amid the firing of a salute from the Boat Brigade, drawn up above the Fisgard frigate, the booming of the batteries, the guard of honour of the Royal Marinet presenting arms, and the shouts of innumerable crowds on the river and iti banks. There it no country in Europe at the present day that could present bo loyal and so spirit-stirring a scene. At forty minutes past four the royal yacht, with its precious fr.ight, left the moorings and dropped down the river, followed by the Black Eagle, the Vivid, the Undine, and Trinity yacht steamers; at the Norethe squadron was joined by the Virago, steam-sloop* under Commander Harris, of the Ganges. They are now probably off the pork of Aberdeen. Parliament is at length prorogued. Since our last, eleven parliamentary days have passed, and there has been double sittings and Saturday sittings generally in the one and occasionally in the other House. The following is a rapid resume of what had betn done On Thursday, the 24th August, in the House of Lords, Lord Denman presented a petition from Jamaica wit 4000 signatures, praying for the suppression of the slave trade. Earl Grey, in reply to Lord Monteagle, defended the proposed grant of Vancouver's Island t the Hudson's Bay Company. There was a brief discussion on the corrupt practices at elections bill, marking tbe Home's hostility to that measure. In the Commons that night Lord J. Russell said, that if extraordinary injures should be required for Ireland, Parliament would be summoned specially for such purpose. In the House of Commons, the Diplomatic Relations Bill again consumed several hours in debate, and when the Hou.e resumed the Chancellor of the Exchequer set forth his new budget. He said the expenses of the year, as compared with its probuble income, would lrave a deficit of £3,500,000. For onethird of this sum he would provide by an excess, and the remaining £2 000, 00 he must raise either by a loan or the creation of new stock to the amount. On Monday, Earl Grey, in an explanatory speech, introduced the second reading of the Sugar Duties Bill, which he hoped would be taken in good part by the colonists, who mu>t see that, to the free-trade principle Parliament was irrevocably pledged. Lords Redeidnle, Grenville, and Denman, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord St. Vincent, took part in the debate, and the bill was re id a second time. Thi Commons discussed the state of tbe West Indies and the Mauritius in the morning sitting, and in the evening a new writ for Cheltenham was ordered, vice Mr. Craven Berkley, unseated by the Committee. The Spirit Dealers' Bill tnd the British Spirits Warehousing Bill went through committee, and received amendments. Lord G. Bentinck earnestly opposed the Copper and Lead Bill as injurious to Cornwall, and useful only to the monopolists who had investments in foreign mines. On Thursday last (this day wtek), nn immense number of bills received (he royal assent by commission. The Marquis of Lansdowne laid on the table returns of agricultural produce in Ireland, a paper chiefly due, be said to Major Larcom, and the valuable aid of tbe police, who were as efficient in such peaceful service as tuey were gal ant before a rebel enemy. On tbe third reading of the Savings' Bank Bi'l, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said it was intended to confine the operations of this measure to Ireland. Lord G. Bentmck would have been very glad if this announcement had been made a few nights ago, and saved the House fiom a debate that lasted till towards four in the morning. Mr. G. Thompson then treated the House to another lengthened statement of the claims ot the adopted son of the late Rjah of Sattara. Sir J. Ilobliouse assured the hon. geu'leman that agitation could not aid tbe cause he espoused ; there was no claim in the piot6ge of the hon. gt-nile-man to property which was not in him who was stated to have left it to a successor. He would recommend the hon. msmber to observe the career of those officers who, like Lieutenant Edwards, were trading in tbe steps of Clive and Wellesley, and give to them their meed of praise rather than stigmatise the character of officers who had performed arduous duties in India, and conferred upon the people of that country the most lasting benefit. Mr. Thompson replied, in a House ot half a dozen members, and withdrew hi« metiou. On Friday the House of Lords read the Copper Ores Bill ; and, to mark their sense of the conduct of the House of Commons, where the bill had been introduced in May, and was not forwarded to tbe Lords till September, they postponed the second reading. In the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to Mr. Wodehouse, said the Government had no intention to repeal or mitigate the Malt Duties. In reply to Lord G. Bentinck, Sir G. Grey stated that the " convicted felon" Mitchel had been sent to Bermuda on board the Scourge, to prevent the delay which a transport ship would have cquted. He was alwajs watched and guarded. At Bermuda he was reported too ill for hard work, and was employed in waiting on s'ck officers in the convalescent ward of the hospital. Lord Palmers'.on in reply to Mr. Hume, .said he had heard of tbe ratification of the armistice between Schleswig and Denmark, and the raising of the blockade. Mr. Newdegate asked for returns showing the market value of all exports ; this was refused. Tbe Marquis of Lansdowne said, the refusal to grant taxes had toreed the Government to ask a loan. At to Ireland, all that could would be done to tranquilize the country, and encourage its prosperity. The unfortuonte case of Sir T. Turton, and the dismissal of -Judge Willis in Australia, the sugar duties returns, Vancouver* Inland, and tbe state of crime in Ireland, o< cupied the House till a late hour. On Tuesday, very little worth reporting occurred in either House, except the great and welcome event — the prorogation and Her Majesty's speech, which, as the Times remarks, " breathed the spirit of peace ; it nunridied the principle of order. It set at rest the unquiet forebodings of those foreign po.iticia is who profess to see in England nothing but a Minerva ready armed to disturb the hurmouy of Europe. It appealed to tbe ancient loyalty of Englishmen, and their love of Englith institutions. In whichever way it is regarded, it is an indication of the most pacific intentions and the most unimpaired confidence on the part of the illustrious personage who delivered it." The trials are approaching ; OBrien will be brought before a special commission on the 21st, who will decide on all the cases of treason. It appears that before the battle of the rebelliqp, a council of war *as called at SlieYeaajaon, and that on the vital question oJ the

commissariat, OBrien alone opposed the motion to make " the enemy" tupport the patrioti. Thii opposition, and perhapi hiijincreas ing aberration of mind, disgusted the more ardent of bit accomplice!, who immediately scattered themselves here and there, and the concentration of the rebel force was thui prevented. It ii very well to get up plausible reasons for the failure of the rebellion, but the only true one ii that the people were not with its leadere. It is only in America that the Irish rebellion has had grand results, according to the "best informed" journals of the city of New York, our troops have bled and fled ; " 6000 have been taken or killed, and the rebels hare triumphed all over the country. It is no wonder, if these accounts be believed, that the conquerors of Mexico give money and fit out expeditions to thare in the glory of defeating and expelling the English out of Ireland. The wetther is now fine, promise of plenty returns, and Lord John Russeil is in Dublin. To this great event high hopes are traceable. His Lordship is to see for himself the evils of Ireland, and of himself to find the remedies. jLurd G. Bentincki it is said, will follow with a similar purpose, so that both parties in the House, of Commons will be animated with the eager desire to serve Ireland next session. But for the rebellion the Queen might have been now a visitor to the Isle of Saints, instead of a voyager: tcr the " Land o' Cakes." In Scotland all is tranquillity and fair promise, tlie harveit (s unuiually early, and the country fruitful beyond its wont ; now the radiance of the Crown is to be added to the splendour of the sunshine. Ireland is preparing against another anticipated adversary—- the cholera, and list the Queen is expected. Unhappy Ireland ! The country is quiet on the surface, but there is still an under current of ngitation.