ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Times, March 20.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 298, 7 April 1849, Page 6

ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Times, March 20.)

JBy way of India, we have the following 6umnsary of news from Europe to the 24th of N*rember, for which we are indebted to the Bengal Hurlini'u. The overland expresi arrived at Calcutta on the Bth of January, and the Home News was published on the same day. Whilst kings and queens, and constitutional p'lwerg all over the world are found to weigh more and moie light'y in the popular sc le, it u remarkable that n.v.r at any period was a monnrch of England more in the hcorti of ih'J prop'e, than is the Quetu at present. The enli.ipi.jsm which her name knidlci is remarkable ; and wherever her presence comes, it fails no* to call forili ilip str ingest proofs of affection and reveience. Piince Albert, too, has greatly advanced in popular favour; it i« found his heart is flesh and his mind vigorous, when the services of the people of this country rails forth such qualities. The success of the University Reform Governmpnt, is attributed to His Royal Highness, and the public have acknowledged Lis scim'ccs in the Feeurmg 1 of comfortabl<; habuati ns for th» pjor. The life at court is exemplary in all its bearings, nnd the more we know of it, the more it Cftl's for admiration. The practical ability will) which even i he elegant amusements of the Royal pait aie conducted, would be rcmatkable in any rank of life, »nd in tru.h, adds lustre t> n crown. The Rojhl family have sprat a happy time ftt Wind oof> f nnd havo now returned to Onborne, whence they go again to Windsor for a fow clays. On the occasion of the Lord Mayoi's binquer, •which \rasthe Piince's birthday, there was the old En<£H*h feeling, and the assembly or fo'eigneis who viitnessed that M^ht must have felt that to the fret* nnion of citizens, peers, and men of trade, such as are now rare, except on eucn occasions, may be traced much of the character of our countrymen. S ; rJ Barrow, Secretary to the Admiralty, imd the companion of Loid Macartney • on the mission to China, died in November, very suddenly. The second Premier of the Wings, the sucresior of Earl Gcev, the Vis.ount Melbourne, is on hia death bed, and Lord Jolin Russell is said to be in very weak health. There ir«» many rurmms of new poll* tieal arrangements, but nothing so fixed as to deserve a belter name than speculation. Theseatof Lord Mor» peth it not to be filled by a F.tzWilliam ; the patty have cho«en Sir Eardley C. Eardley f.s a candidate, the more advanced or radical parly have engaged their votes to Mr. Roeburk, the ex M.l\ for Bath; whilst the conservatives have invited Mr. Becket Denismi, who grtve way to Mr. Cobden at the last election. Every election appears to diminish the number of aristocratic members in the Home of Commons. There is a strong current cf democracy, which set* especially iv a financial direction, and to such questions the candidates must be prepared to reply implicitly. Religious questions too are more con-idered than tbo^e of political purty, as the next general election will show. The wcatker, a'ter being dry and beautiful, has again become true November, hot and foscy, damp and cold, by turns a change exceedingly unfavourable to public health. The scarlet fever and lyphus are extensively spread, and the cholera begins to assume a more serious aspect ; the entire number of casei repOited up to this morning is 1923, including Scotland, out of these the r&overies are 422, and the deaths 692 ; there remain under treatment, 594. The report of yesterday was 15 ca«es and nine deaths. "We know that this return is a very distant appioximation to the tuitli, innumerable cases occur which are not registered, 'ihe prayer to be read in time of any common sickness, ii now tegulaily read in the churches. The preat railway junction, or amalgamation of the companies which direct the greatest lines, becomes imoie piobable. It will be a step towards the cent ral* ization of the system, and its foi mation into a government department. It ha 3 been ordered that go'diers in any rank, and single offices s on duty, shall be at liberty to tiavel by any train, and that the legal price for t)m soldier shall not exceed one penny per mile. The further defence of the coast is u.idcr serious conlidera'ior. In Ireland, agitation, nay, threatened rebell : on. has chntiged sides. It is not now the peasantry of the kou h r but the Orangemen of the north, that talk treason ; ai,d toe organs of the rebellion, of the confederation itself, were scarcely more violent than the Orange journals. The cause of all thu U the poor law; a ir.ost i-iarlequate and unjust measure, to excitingly ill-contrived as to have disgusted the best In h pcopiicfcri with even the attempt under its provim <->s to employ and support the poor on their estat.r 'i. llii 1 c hrtvi? beeu riots of an alarming nature on iinoihergro'ind— the people who starve on potatoes out of ihe workhouse, will not eat oatmeal stir-about oi i-i-a-brcd i v.uhin the walls. The levying of poor rate j next to impossible, aud the system thrcateui titles 1 bo'il'inptiy. Tilings are vow in such a dreadful nivi-i, that wors.. can hardly be dreaded, and a change is } ope ' lo: ou c of the very depair. Ihe next st pon the t >, lof tht government, it ii believed, will be au ntti •'»''*; to yiiNion the Roman Catholic clergy, hut Y. " J^isscnt is iv Ei>g'and are alreadr np in aims ag <i'" l it, and thi Rom n Catholic Bishops in Ireland hhvt- ueslaveJ tiierost-lves equally adverse. Dr. MM if has 'ilreridy ln'yan a course of lectures on the KOtti.it; -u») \.t \m ii 3 'eu, n which he thinks it ri^bt to tet b(*ot'.' tue Q.i''e!"! the reasons uiged Id Edward VI. Mi/n! ft^te I'oiittectioa, suy the Diasenters, while at th i. .ci'.iocnc the thought of the Erasti-iiiism of the ( liiiith uri\e? out of .ier borders the Hon. and Uev. B.ipii tN. , who hit; >,iven aotke of bis intent to qua fie f hurch, "ir Ajjpealj in Error have commenced : that in the ca<" e>! Mr. ?/fai*'in, has had an sdvernc resn't to the epijt-iMnt} thejuo^es h j ve decided that none of the aIU-,jt.d et rort> r.re. w ell founded, and they cmnrm the cei/'eoce of t^t* C.'urt— ba'iishment — which, it is laid, will 'jc lmmedutoly can ied into e-secution. The appeal Iv Loid^ would not be prevented by such a step, 'f lit. appeal of S.i.ith OBrien, which will dtcide the f,»'>M)l thy -»thir „i'i3..»ers, was heard iirst on Tuesday, 17. No* n\be», Ui prisoner havin. b-en brouglit up tr. .'J'lblm f-n- (he puipobu. He w.s exceedingly ill, riu.i p muo "d !or l>.< w f o cjuit th 3 Court, a favor v'ih ii u.ul. 1 not be jr-.mtid. On i'uesd iy ai.d^W'tdi.. Jui . t 1 n K>n' an ! lum ■>; pifjee l^.lfs^ wtic ro itinutJ. cl ' in T u - lay, i'lc- j.ic'i'iwg- o , Lv fi jiJwS dt»a"d, OiV c;ui.-il ay . ; '.ecu hc.\td Lr tawi prisoner, lha yu, i) <i *q 'H?ri-. tl. r j ierc w<<s vuy h.tle ex« C'-' I. I iiHV'US^ 01 th« V l ' lB ' 1^" ut ' n t» lirOt^U v, ..u CiOMi;)..: , ami, vi JUuoiin, biui h O'J3r<eu in

moved to and from the Comt with scarcely a crowd to follow 1 im. The court, however, ii crowded throughout, and the interest is all for Ihe prisoner. A correspondent of the Ca'edonian Mercury sayi : I hare just had a conversation with a fihipmai'er, who, within these «hree weeks, | aiscd a day or l*o at Bermuda, where, he informs me, lie saw Mr. John Mitchel waikintt on the quay, und looking very well. Mitchol wore his own clothe*, and my Iriend learned that only once a month, when ihe G)vernor in«pects the convict-, wai he compelled to wear the dren of a convict. He was lodged on board the hulk, but had the. piivilejre of walking the quay throughout the day. Mitc^el hud been abked to aoist in writing up or kre, in? the convict books, but refused, laying he would do nothinc for the Government. In thiieveiy one must think that the hot-headed man acted at Jcait ungratefully, seeing that this same goreinment grants him such extraordinary privileges. In Franc* the regular couise of revolution proceeds but sl">w!y. SoHi«li«t banq^e^, in whicn women t i> d clnldr-n p ay with leading pnits, give the lao-t violent a d immoral t>asts, and hiut at g.llowses ana gui lotines !'« the best mun«tm ot justice ; clubs, in vvliii-h the t ct'.oas demand ihe lvads of each other ; rtiicl meetii q , ftt which the rn'm'ty of Maiat is toasted nuh tnthiiMasm, uffo d aiiii^ment* more cjugeuiul than the fe',es of the Constitution on the la:.t two Sundays, on the former of which Cdvpii;n.ic stood shivering in the tent erected for him, with hu inwrtial cloul: pulled closely arourjd him, while thu Constitmion was read, while mass was said in solemn pontifical order, a d while troops, the Nitional Guauia. the Guarde Mobile, and crowds of the people pished by him ; th^re was a grend religious prorcs. hion, Krand sa'vos <>f anillerj, <tnd euo-muus shouts, in honour of the proraiiljr.viotiß ot* the Cons' tution, nbout which, probably, ve'v few among the audito.y iindrT*tood much, and fewer Mill ot tbe aitur- eurel more. The rap pel. 'hs sound of artillery, and the regular mairh of troops, supplied the sympathy and the enthusiasm which such an act shoild have excited, such aa was stirred up among the Romans by the early acts of the present Pope, and among the Prm/uns by the early nctiof the present King. The proclamation of the Constitution over the whole kingdom ha« excited very little euot'on, an<l no violent evidences of hostility. The election of the, president, now only sixteen days distant, absorbs every mird ; the candidates are sMll Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon, for net ween them tbe battle will be fought ; and ■till Nnpokon is, according to tbo last- information, fur i i advance oi his competitor. Tiue ie is that the friends ot Oaviugnac fuht for him most lustily, and employ in his service till the means which lm position pl.irea at their disposal, nnd the contest will, it is believed, he a close one- Cavaignar is courting: the Red Republican*, who find unusual license in all respect*; JJ ot c Leg'titnatns are deserting him, because they look upon the presidency of Napoleon as n probably «hcit and certain Way to the restoratioi of the dynasty in the person i>f Henry Y. Cavaignac complains ol calumny breathed against him by nome of his colleagues in the chamber, and ha» challenged them to a dtecussion on his conduct. He said he ''would a-k M.M. Gamier Pages, Duclerc, Barthelemy St. Hi'a'ne Pagnerre, and all othi?ts who have nuthorssed, by woid or by writing, third parties to u^e their nmne», to accuse him, if not, he would veto their declarations ; but if so, he would as-k them to explain them«plve% and he would wish that these _ exnUnatious should be in presence ot M. M«rie, Minister of Ju»sic?,who-(e piesenco heronaid' rcJ necessary." These obse 1 vations were followed by great agitation in th» Assembly, MM. Garuier Pages an«»erel, tnut 11 If General Carij^nHC complained of being calumui.ited, the Ute executive tommisbiun also cotbj. lain - cd." He said tht>t he " would accept the debate, and hoped M. La'o.irMne woulJ be present. Ir is suj>posed thsit a discussion of great intei^t will arise oat of this challenge, which owe- it-* on ;in to the tue.lo.ii incident (o election squib*. The Pans coire«pontlent sajg— "The collision in tne Assembly is looked t<> wi h deep foreto liii^s." Th^ mater at \f<me n neither more nor ie«s than the iJaim of G nerd C«vaipnac to b° cho»en for that important post, and will be, in point of fact, the liist public uc f oi the drama, to the pioduction of wl)ich we. have been looking iorward to witti apprehensi jn.