ENGLISH NEWS TO THE 25th JUNE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 573, 11 October 1851, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS TO THE 25th JUNE.

The fourteenth Anniversary of the accession of her most gracious Majesty was celebrated on the 20th June, and it is gratifying to state that the health of the Queen and the Royal Family is as good as it baa ever been, and that her happiness appears to inorease with the love and loyalty of her subjects— " Growing with what it feeds on." The Court has been stationary in London for the whole period since our last, and it has been more gay than usual ; in particular we cannot forbear mentioning; the great State Ball of the 13th, one of the most brilliant occasions that the Court of England has witnessed for centuries, It was a Bal Costume, and the period to characterise the costume was fixed by the Queen to the last ten years of the reign of Charles the Second. The illustrations of the habits and manners of that tasteful but dissolute period offered by the vir'uous nobility that deck the Court of our day were wanting in verisimilitude. The Court milliners and tailors performed their part of the entertainment to perfection, but nei'her the lords nor ladies looked like rakes and beauties of the period ; though they wore the same titles nnd the same habits, they would not assume the manners of their ancestors. The National Quadrilles (not a dance of the reign of Charles) formed very pleasing features, made up as they were of the most carefully selected persons, and the most fitted to figure in them. The French, the Spanish, the Scottish, were most elaborately sustained, and certainly merited the honours of the ball. Many of of the beauties shamed Sir Peter Lely, and many of the beaux would have frightened De Graramont. The uniforms of the day were the best imitated of all the costumes, and they were worn by those who have dignified the national military and naval uniforms in every part of the world. Prince Albert again distinguished himself greatly by his assisting at the celebration of the third Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at St. Martin's Hall, on June 17. He delivered a speech of very great ability, delicate tact, liberal and enlarged ideas, and of admirable composition, which was most deservedly applauded, and created a great sensation. He beautifully said, " While we have thus to congratulate ourselves upon our temporal state of prosperity —harmony at home and peace abroad— we cannot help deploring that the Church, whose exertions for the progress of Christianity and civilisation we are to-day acknowledging, should be afflicted by internal dissentiona and attacks from without. I have no fear, however, for her safety and ultimate welfare, as long as she holds fast to what our ancestors gained for us at the Reformation—the Gospel, and the unfettered right of its use. The dissentions and difficulties which we witness in this as in every other Church, arise from the natural and necessary conflict of the two antagonistic principles which move human society in Church us well as in State — I mean the principles of individual liberty, and of allegiance and submission to the will of the community, I exacted by it for ita own preservation. These two conflicting principles cannot he degraded — they must be | reconciled. To this country belongs the honour of having succeeded in this mighty task, as far as the State it concerned, while other nations are wrestling with it. And I feel persuaded that the same earnest zeal and practical wisdom which have made her political constitution nn object of admiration to other nations, will, under God's blessing, make her Church likewise a model to the world." The census for England and Wales and Scotland has j been published, and that for Ireland is expected soon. i The comparison, however, between the facts of the I census of 1841 and that of 1851 is imperfect, the latter being taken sixty-eight days before the full period of the former. The enumerators on the 3ist March la«t wero 40,000 for England, Wales, and Scotland j the instructions have been strictly followed, however difficult tho task, and the information required was sent to the registrars on the Bth of April, and to the superintendent registrar, and then to the Central Office, on the 31st of May. By the 14th lawful day afterwards, the entire mass, about 6,000,000 of printed forms, weighing 40 tons, were carefully digested and printed. The United States officers required as many months to prepare their census as our commissioners required weeks. France, which takes the census every five years, takes one year to prepare it for publication ; and our last census, save one, required twelve moaths for Us preparation ; last time we were enabled to prepare it in four months, and this year in ten weeks. The population of Great Britain. and the Channel Islands is stated to have increased by 2,212,89' i since 1841, the decennial per centage being 12-10. The rate of increase is less in the last ten years than in the decade ending with 1821, or that computed in. 1831. The balance between them is considerably m favour of the females ; the increase of males in the last ten years being 1,302,213, at a rate of lt'94, and ot females, 1 ,500,679, the rate being 12-15. To emigration, cholera, and diarrhoe a, the irregular and unexpected short-coming of the increase is referred, lhe one melancholy fact apparent in the census is a lamentable deficiency of house accommodation. We wait the publication of the returns from Ireland of persons on travel, residents in foreign parts, and British subjects in the East Indies, and the colonies. # The census gives the population of Great Britain, and tho British Isles at 20,929,531. The males being in number 10,184,687, the females, 10,784,844. The population at the previous census taken on the7th June, 1841, was 18,635,981. The houses to accommodate all the population were at the present census 3,675,451, uninhabited, 165,603, building 29,109 ; and in 1841 there were 5,4(>'5,981 inhabited, 198,129 uninhabited, and 30,384 in building. The increase in proportion to the population is too small, On the morning of nearly every day, the Court had spent an hour in the Great Exhibition, carefully inspecting it, every portion in succession; in the first week of our period, in company with the Princes of the House of Saxe Coburg and Goth&j in the last, attended by Leopold , King of the Belgians, who arrived last Wednesday, with his children, the Duke de Brabant, the Count de Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte. On last Saturday the Royal party appeared to have completed their inspection, for their attention wag turned to the statue of Coeur de Lion, and the objects whicU surrounded the Palace, but remained in the open air. The company, on Saturday last (at five shillings;, was more select than numerous, being under 13,000, perhaps the smallest audience that haa been collected, me sums received too fell a little short of the average, being £1(574 lOt., but yesterday witnessed the laigest assemblage on record, nearly 67,555. The shilling customors gathered in large numbeis I.«t week; on luesday, for instance, the receipts reached £3,1V1 **• *ne four shillings days of the week have each been nearly as full and as profitable as on that occasion. The Itahnn Opera, at Her Majesty s Theatre, and at Covent Garden, nod tho French Theatre, where Mademoiselle Rachel leads, have been honoured with tho presence ol the Royal party.

Her Majesty fixed on tbe 9tb July, for ber visit to the Lord Mayor and the City of Loudoii. The Guild Hall, *nd thp prcpaiafions therein for the Boyal visit, are ODi^cH of mieiost and cunosuy to thousands. "Tb- L<>\ 1 .Mayor entertained ber Majesty, and her Msjn^ty vivits ber chamber of the City of London, in commemointJOH of the Groat Exhibition. It may be expected, theivfoie, that all commissioners and employes connected with the Crys'nl Palace will be invite. On Thursday last, the official* connected with tbe Exhibition went do«n by invitation to Birmingham, to inspect thp nmiu'uctories, and to dine with tbe Mayor. Ihey went down by special train, which tbe railway company did not make froe, as was expected, but, which the Mayor of Birmingham will have the pleasure topay ffor. The commissioners, the executive committee, and many of tbe foreign jurors and other officials, were'of the parly j and >tbey, having seen all that was worthy of note in -Birmingham, aa far as their time would allow, reiurnevl'to'town, arriving at a late hour. The veterau heroes who usually meet the Duke of Wellington at the Waterloo Banquet, assembled this year, on the 18th, to the number of 70. The day was as usual.

pa-sed The Funds.——Tuesday evening, June 24.—The market for Public Securities to-day has not presented any new features, the business continuing to be limited, and prices without fluctuation. For the account, Consols have been done at 9G£ and f, and the Three per Cents. Reduced 9?J $, and the Thiee-and-a-quarter per Cents. 98$ £. Bank Stock ha« been sold at 213. Exchtquerßills.are a shade •firmer, all denominations being quoted 435. to 4Cs., ludia Bonds 535. to 555. pi em. Lieut. S. M. Hawkins, of 97th Foot, fought a duel with Viscount Maldon, of Royal Horse Guards Blue, on tbiß (lay week ; Lord Maldon received the fire and discharged his own pistol in the air. The seconds, Mr. E. L. Denys and Captain Brownrigg interfered, and the aflair of honour terminated. The case of Helsham v. BUcfcwood, for a libel in the Magazine on the captain, is an account of a trial for BiuioVr, in &u article against duelling. The writer evidently was not awareof the fact that Mr. Helsham was still alive when tbe alleged libel was published, and the judges decided! bat an opportunity should be alFmoed to tbe defendant to offer an apology to t-e plaintiff, which was agreed to, and the case was adjourned, the Court offeriogno opinion on the leave to amend. Another hbel case was brought against the Time*, and it was deferred till tbe examination by Mr. Humphrey satisfied him that a libellous report givea by the Tunes, as having been used in Court in the case of in Re the Bishopsgate Distillery, bad not been so used, and lad never been filed ; it had been palmed on the reporter by some interested party; and the Times agr> t d ! at once to pay ali costs, and to accept a verdict against | them for 40s. damages, this was the judgment of the j Court. On tlie ~th June, a fearful accident, which caused thp loss of many lives, occurred in the King's Wood CoU 'liery, iifar Brighton, from the neglect of the engineman in not supplying the boiler with water. He and bis son Bere were among the killed. The Neptune, tbe vessel chosen to bring from Russia tbe matterb to be displayed in that department of the Great Exhibition, on her return voyage sustained a wreck at Elsmon 1, and was entirely lost. Crew and all feafe.

passengers Comjiander-in-Chief in Madras.—At a court of directors held at the India House on the Ttb June, Lieutenant-Generol Sir Richard Armstrong was svrorn in as Coinm»nder-in-Cbief of the troops at Madras, The 51st Light Infantry, serving at Madras, has received oiders to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, should its services be actually required, and is beld in re admass accoidingly. Mr. James Hartley and Mr. Thomas Cotterell had been p.ected sheriffs oi London for the ensuing year. The prisoner arrested on suspicion of Bleating gold dust from a railway, was committed on tbe 9tb for tr al, •by the Mayor of Winchester and a bench of magistrates. An ex-policeman, of the V division, living at Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, was committed for the murder of his wile by stabbing her with a knife at cupperIt has been clearly shown that the dreadful accident on the Brighton and Lewes Railway, at Ealmer, was • caused by the idle curiosity of a peasant boy, named Boakes, who resided close to where the accident occurred, and who removed on to the line a sleeper from a number which were kept near for repairing the line; he was anxious to see what effect it would produce on ' the train. He was fearfully alarmed when he saw what lie had done. j

Latest News or the Exhibition. The <numbets admitted on the 23rd of June to the. Great Exhibition exceeded all precedent, and-were not short of 67,592! It was stated that Mr. Paxton has a plan for making the Crystal Palace a self-sustaining Winter TJarden, at an almost nominal charge to visitors: it is almost ready ! for publication. But an Act of Parliament will be ne- J cessary to sanction it. Yesterday morning the workmen employed by Messrs. Doulton and Watts, at the Lambeth Pottery, about 200 in number, with their wives, were conveyed to the Exhibition in twenty covered vans (provided by the firm), accompanied by a band of music and flags, a banner being placed at the head of the procession with the words "To the Great Exhibition." Each man was presented with 35., and each boy with 25.; those men who were accompanied by their wives Teceived an extra shilling. These manifestations of good will between the employer and employed are getting every day more common, so also are those of charity to the poor children in public schools, and kindness to young persona in the condition of students. The first purely public performance of the Guild of Literature, in aid of its funds, took place last Wednesday in the Hanover-square Rooms, where the pieces were ncted with the peculiar ability of the amateur company, and the audience were 500, at 10s. a-bead. j Jenny Lind has quarreled with Mr. Barnum, and her < future engagements in America will be independent of: him. j On the 22nd, the afternoon service at St. Paul* was experimentally performed in the nave, where it is to be \ hoped an extra service will hereafter be regularly per- , formed. Among the accidents and offences of the fortnight, the ; body of the son of Major Stupart, one of the survivor* of the heroic< fight of Waterloo, has been found in a cleft of the rocks on the coast, near Portmoon, where be bad visited Imb cousin on the sth, and was not found till -the 10th. Mr. Dyce Sombre Hea seriously ill at Mivart's Hotel, i in Bond-street. I It was stated yesterday that the two new Vice-Chan-cellorabipc will be conferred upon Mr. Bethel, Q C, and Mr. Calvert, Q.C., an offer of one having been ! made to, and rejected by, Sir W. Pags Wood, M.P. j Mr. and Mrs. Graham's disastrous balloon ascent from Batty's Hippodrome at has marked the | fortnight with a lamentable interest. A correspondent of the Times, an American resident in Paris, complains with some reason of the ridicule showered by tbe presß on tbe American contributions to tbe Exhibition, and sayß that while all Americans are gratified by the courtesy with which they have been personally received in England, they all lament that anything should be written m a spirit calculated to revive any eril feeling existing between such near relation! as the people .of the two countries. Lord Grey has addressed despatches to the Cape of 'Good Hope, suspending indefinitely the free constitution recently granted to the colony, and ordering in lieu the appointment of a Council with only two unofficial mem- \ bers, ' Mr. Adderley had given notice that on the 24th June he ihould move an address to her Majesty, that relief might be affoid"d to those suffering classes of tbe people referred to in her Majesty's speech, by such retrenchment of public expenditure as was incurred for wars with savage tribes in South Africa, and submitting that such retrenchment might be obtained at once by bestowing on the colony of the Cape of Cood Hope tbose means of self-government which her Majesty had already offered them. Tbe 12th Lancers having received orders to embark for the Cape of Good Hope, is to receive aa augmentation of ninety-two men, to be volunteers from other cavalry corps. No additional officers are at present to be appointed. Tbe men are to be supplied with dou-ble-barrelled carbines, giving up the lance, are te give up their horses at Winchester, and embark in about a >fortnight at Portsmouth. On the subject of the-Cape of Good Hope, the Atlas Mys,—" Although tfee Government are well aware that Sir Harry Smith is placed at the Cape of Good Hope in great difficulty, and muob inconvenienced in bis movements by the want of a sufficient body of troops, it can Hcarcely be believed that the detachments, for regiment* at India, consisting of 230 men, which are ordered to embark on the 14th proximo, have been directed to proceed straight to Calcutta, instead of stopping at the Cap© to ascertain if their serf ices would be requued; if that .were done, it might possibly save the necessity of sending another infantry corps to that colony, and t beir presence be of essential use to the General in repulsing tbe Kaffirs,"

The Peninsular and Oiipntal Company's steamer, , Sultan, Captain Joy, at rived yesterday at Southampton. ] She brought ship letter bags from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar. Among- tlip passengers were the distinguished Lieutenant-General Loizar Measures, 49 other Huugaiirui officers, and 40 Hungarian soldiers, j I M. Francoes [zsoHoaLy, Kossutli's Secretary, was a passpngrtr on board the Sultan from Constantinople to ftlalu, bat be was leit at the latter place in consequence of being in ill health. Messaros took leave of Kossuth at Kutayah, on the 6th of May last. Tha great Magyar w»8 then in bodily heallb, but much broken in spirit, owing to his long captivity. He hna again been promised bis liberty in September next, by the Turkish Government ; but faith "has so repeatedly been broken with him, through the machinations of Austria and Russia, that there is no certainty when he i will be Buffered to go at large. JKossuth's vnfo and ; cbild were with him, and about twenty-five Hungarians, j who are still prisoners at Kutavah. There are now remaining prisoners in the Turkish dominions about 40 Hungarians. Messaros ia a tall, handsome man, baldheaded, with an immense beard. As soon as he landed from the Sultan, be waited on the Mayor of Southampton, to ask if any assistance could be rendered m this country to his coinpattiot", some of whom were destitute. He stated to the mayor that they bad been treated with tbe j utmost kindness by the captain, officers, and .crew of the Sultan. It was affecting to see this man standing before the mayor, with his head uncovered, and with a voice trembling with emotion, beseeching hospitality. He spoke English pretty well, lie bad learnt it, he said, in bis youth, for the purpose of studying English literature, and never thought that he should want it for the pnrpose for which he was then employing it. The mayor offered to place him and the principal Hungarian officeis at one of the chief hotels, at bis own expense, and to see that assistance was ren- I dered to tbe re-t of his companions. Messaros, however, respectfully declined the fo:mer offer, and said he would prefer remaining with the Hungarians. He had suf- I ficient to provide for himself ; all be begged waa some temporary assistance for those of his companions who were destitute. After his interview with the mayor, he burned down to the docks to acquaint the Hungarians that lie had been successful. The mayor sent immediately a telegraph message to Lord Dudley Stuart to announce tbe arrival of the refugees, and instructed the town clerk to wine io Sir George Grey to inquire if the Government could render any assistance to tbe Hungarians, and facilitate their transit to America, wheie they were disposed to go. Tbe superintendent of po' ice was instructed also by his worship to allow each refugee assistance to enable him to get temporary bed and board in the town. (Daily News, June 6.) Lord John Russell uas aanounced that tbe Government will defray the expense of the passage-money of the ninety Hungarians to New York, and of their sub>isteuce during tbe time they may remain in Southampton, waiting for arrangements to be made for their passage to the United Stales. Punch has committed an error ; the " best good fellow" as Punch certainly is, has been induced to publish a libel, imposed on by some coi respondent perhaps, or the confusion of the Irish papers, which are enough to puzzle even Punch himself. He has referred to the Ret. Peter Daley, o( Galway, a most un-English and malignant speech, pronounced by a layman at a meeting of which he (the priest) was chairman, and against which he protested. The prejudice of tbe moment no doubt affected the mind of 'Punch, as it did every other mind, and made him anxious to expose tbe spirit of unholy warfare evinced apparently by a preacher of peace. The prießt, however, does not quietly pocket the wrong done to his character and usefulness, but prosecutes for lihel and Punch apologizes and pays tbe coBts. Tbe Observer of the 6th, in speaking of the Queen's proposed visit to tbe city of London, says — "Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs (Mr. Alderman Carden and Mr« Hodgkinson) waited upon tbe Queen for tbe purpose of receiving her Majesty's answer to the humble application of the citizens of London that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to visit tbe Guildhall upon the occasion of the celebration of the Grand Exhibition of "A^ Nations. His lordship and tbe sheriffs wer» most graciously received by her Majesty, who was pleased to state, from respect to tbe memory of a late statesman, tbe day of her Majesty's visit to the city should be postponed from Wednesday, the 2nd, to Wednesday, the 9tb of July. It may' be remembered that the lamented death of Sir Robert Peel occurred on the 2nd July, 1850. It is at present understood that the entertainment to her Majesty at Guildhall will be an " evening party." The Rev. Philip Bland, perpetual curate at St. Martin at Oak, Norwich, has been preaching at the Unitarian chapel in that city, and bos published bis sermon, with a preface vindicating bis conduct. Since then, however, he has tendered his resignation of his benefice, nnd tbe bishop has accepted it. Cardinal Wiseman has nominated the Rev, John Wyse, vephevr of tbe Right Honourable Thomas Wyse, C.8., British Minister at Athene, t® a living at Fulham, near London. This gentleman, two years ago, was an officer in the 57th regiment, serving on Sir vHarry Smith's staff at the Cape. Tbe first stone of a Roman Catholic chapel was laid on Thursday, at Withara, in -Essex, by Cardinal Wiseman, when Don Miguel assisted at the ceremony. Cardinal Wiseman has set his seal to the project of tbe proposed " Catholic University," and given his authorisation to the 'Rev. Francis M'Ginty to solicit contributions for that purpose within tbe circuits 'of bis spiritual jurisdiction.