ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Times, Sept. 8, 1849.)

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 361, 29 September 1849, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Times, Sept. 8, 1849.)

Thb female prison-ship Stately, which arrived on Sunday, failed on the morning of the sth June, but the latent intelligence ia up to the 3rd. Our own papers are only to the end of May, but we have been favoured with a paper of the 2nd June, by W. Knight, Esq. As the new* is only a few days later than that by the TVilliam Jardine, there is nothing very important ta report. Her Majetty and the Royal Family had returned to Buckingham Palace from Osborne House, and were to proceed to Windsor on the 2nd Juae, to remain, thero during the Ascot racei. The House of Commons met again for business on, the 3 1st May. The Lords would not meet until* week later. Nothing of importance had occurred in the Commons, the piincipnl business being the voting of the Navy Estimates, The Clergy Relief Bill paised trough committee on the 31st May. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was to make his financial statement on the 1 5th June. Major Hope is appointed Auditor-General at the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. James Duncan is to be the he id of the Botanical Gardens at the Mauritius < It is stated that Lord Ducie and several active and intelligent men in London are endeavouring to raite » Joint-Stock Company for the purchaee of the famous; " Martin Estate " in Galway, of 200,000 acres, in order to cirry out Sir R. Peel's idea. William 11 Mitchel l , brother of the Irish patriot and exile, John Mitchell, lias been appointed by Secretary Ewintf .i clerk in the Home Department at Washington, and has left the city to enter upon the duties of his office. Sir David Dundas, Knight, has received the appointment of Advocate-General or Judge Marshal of her Majesty's forces. The Irish journals give a most cheering account of the progress of the oops. Tue potato crop is likely to be an excellent one. A memorial from the County Court Judges lias been presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, complaining that their salaries have been permanently fixed ut j£looo per annum. The new Legislative Assembly of the French Re»> public- has commenced its sittings. It remains to be seen whether the new Assembly will be more tractable and less presumptuous than the old one. In the meantime it it found necessary to guard P.rts from the mob wuh bristling boyonets. I Fioin Rome there is nothing later than the 23rd May, at which lime the armistice had been prolonged for ten days further. La Rrforme say» — " We find in a letter Irom Rome a fact of much importance, namely, that the Constituent Assembly, having energetically rejected the propositions of M. Lesseps, had given authority to the Triumvirate to treafc again, and that the Triumvirs proposed to the French Plenipotentiary the following coiiclitioiii : — First, the people sh ill again be called to exercise their sovereignty by means of universal suffrage. Second, the Auslrian«j the Neapo'itans, and the Spaniard! shall immediately evacuate the tenitory of Republic, as universal sufr f i axe would be a mockery under the pressure of foreign bayonets. Third, the French shall move to a distance Irom Rome. The Republic, always generous and fraternal, will grant them for gnnisoa a place ex. empt from fever, where they shall meet with the reception mutually due to each other by republican brethren. They shall remain there as friends, not as protectors, for the Democracy of Rome will constitute itself with« out loreign influence. Fourth, when the Republic iIihII be again proclaimed by universal sufl'iage, the French shall lalutc it as their sister, and pledge thenasehcj to cause it to be recognized by the belligerent Po veers." We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter received per Stalely: — " Special meetings in behalf of the Bible Society have been held to aisist in raising money to spread Bibles on the continent ol Europe. Hvt printing pressei have been set up in six of the principal cities of the Roman states, and are at work, printing the Bibleeven in Rome itself one is at work. Gunpowder has been placed under the principal buildings of Rome, anil the people declare that if the French advance to take their city, and re establiih the Pope, they will set fire to them, and blow up all together. All over thc|continent the Bible agents open their shops, and even ad*, vertisc in the local papers their sale of Bibles uncontrolled. 70,0J0 Bibles have been sent out from England." Thb Convict Mitchel —The Neptune convictship, in charge of Dr. Deal, as superintendent, landed 82 of her cargo of convict! at Bermuda, and having filled up from that place her number to 289, among whom was the political convict John Mitchell, sailed for the Cape of Good Hope from Bermuda on April 22. Instructions were given to keep Mitchel apart from the other prisoners, partly on account of the shattered •tate of hit health, as he suffered tevercly from asthma,

and alio for political rensoni. To carry out these orders, the steward's pantry had been converted into and fitted up as a berth for the convict, and a separate entrance had beeu made to it, 10 that he was entirely cut off from contact with the other prisoners. All the convicts on board the Neptune on their paisage to the Cape were " ticket-of-leave men," their position in the colony depending upon their conduct on board,— United Service Gazette.