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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9, 18 50.

By the arrivals of the Moa and the St. Michael we have received English news coming down to the 18th of September. The Queen continued at Balmoral, where

Lord John Russell and Earl Grey were in attendance. London was deserted by Ministers, Members of Parliament, Judges, and officials of all grades above that of a Police Magistrate. This arose chiefly from the general desire to turn the recess to the best account for purposes of recreation, but partly, no doubt, from the unhealthiness of the metropolis. The ravages of cholera steadily and fearfully increased. In the week ending Sept, 8, its victims in London numbered 2000 ; in one day, in the next week, the deaths were 450, and it was apprehended that the total for that week would exceed 3000. In all the large towns also the deaths were exceedingly numerous. The epidemic was proving itself no respecter of persons ; it invaded alike the houses of the rich and poor ; and it has been specially remarked that the "slaughter it had already caused amongst the leading members of the metropolitan medical profession, was unparalleled since the great plague of 1655." At the Court at Balmoral, on the sth of September, Her Majesty in Council ordered the preparation of a public "form of prayer [to Almighty God on account of the great mortality caused by the Cholera." This order had been practically anticipated in various instances, however, both by Churchmen and NonConformists. The Bishop of Norwich was dead. It was rumoured that Dr. Whewell would be appointed to the vacant see. News of the opposition of the Cape colonists to the introduction of convicts, had reached England, and a steam -sloop was ordered to sail immediately for that colony, with despatches which were expected to be ready on the evening of the 18th of September. The Times of that day had an article on the subject in which it was denied that there is anything in the past history, or present position of the Cape to entitle it to " peculiar consideration at the hands of this country or its Government," and declared that " the discontent of the Cape colonists is disproportionate to the cause, if not wholly baseless." If, as this article seems to some to indicate, the Government are so infatuated as to attempt to force " the Purists of the Cape," to receive convicts, we cannot but dread the most disastrous results. The Prince of Wales was Gazetted "by the name, style, and title of the Earl of Dublin." From Rome we learn that amongst the first effects of the triumph of the Pope's friends was the re -establishment of the Inquisition in full vigour — the persecution of Protestants — and the seizing and burning of copies of the translation of the Scriptures into Italian. At Villetri, the Spanish allies of His Holiness were committing, in the name of religion, the most atrocious cruelties on the inhabitants. The French President had remonstrated against the Papal acts of tyranny, urging certain concessions to the Roman people, and it was believed that the Austrian Government had expressed itself to a similar effect. The Times of September 18, gives a letter from its Paris correspondent in which it is said, " I learn that accounts have Very lately reached the Government from Rome, which, if confidence can be placed in them, would go far to show that, after all its vicissitudes, the Roman question is in a fair way of settlement." On the other hand, however, it was asserted that the President's letter would only complicate the case, and that the Austrian Cabinet would " hardly lend a helping hand to any attempt to coerce the Pope into measures that might prove distasteful to him." Meanwhile, the Pope had conferred on General Oudinot the title of Duke of San Pancrazio, with a pension of 6000 crowns. Garibaldi was a prisoner, and a letter from Genoa of the 11th September stated that he had been placed on board the frigate " Saint Michael" to be conveyed to Nice, his native place. The war in Hungary was regarded as definitively concluded, further resistance to the Russio-Austrian power appearing altogether unavailing ; and the Emperor of Russia had issued a manifesto stating that as the Hungai rians were defeated, his object was accomplished, and he should withdraw his troops in* to his own territory. We have no clear information of the course which the successful oppressors of the Hungarian patriots were likely to pursue. It was reported that the Emperor of Russia had put a price of 60,000) roubles on Kossuth's head, and that Kossuth's wife and family had fallen into the hands of the Austrians. The Sydney City Election had issued in the return' of Dr. Bland. The affair is represented as having excited little public interest ; only 1075 citizens took the trouble to vote, out of *• 4611 entitled to that privilege. The numbers were, Bland, 601 ; Bogue, 256 { Wilshire, 219. This choice of the leader and champion of the advocates of transportation is an additional evidence of the hollowness of the noisy opposition to the introduction of convicts made at Sydney a few months ago. The Legislative Council of New South Wales was further prorogued to the 12th of February. The Sydney markets were overstocked by the unusually heavy supply of nearly all British goods poured suddenly in by the regular traders and emigrant ships, Prices were ac« c.ordjngly very moderate,

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New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 390, 9 January 1850, Page 2

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9, 1850. New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 390, 9 January 1850, Page 2

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9, 1850. New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 390, 9 January 1850, Page 2

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