ENGLISH NEWS— Sept. 1.
The Queen had left Osborne Louse for Balmoral, her Highland home. On the 29th of August she left Holyrood House under a Hoyal salute, starting by railway en louto for Aberdeen, where she was right loyally received by a large concourse of persons. At 7 o'clock the same evening she reached Balmoral, and was received in quite an unostentatious manner, it heing her own wish to be regarded rather as a regular than occasional visitor to her favourite Scottish seat. Lord John Russell was the ministerial attendant of the Queen. London was exceedingly dull; all the members of the Government were out of (own, with the exception of Lord Palmerston, who was the only cabinet minister in Downing-stieet. The Times, Ist September, in reporting the latest intelligence of the Great Exhibition, states that " the receipts at the doors of the building on the previous Satuiday fell to £1306 lss.j the aatuber of visitors being 13,052. On the 30th August a great fire broke out at Homes' coach factory. Long acre, London, by which much damage was done. Another frightful colliery calamity had occurred at Bedminster, near Bristol, by which six lives were instantly lost, and eight others were not expected to surTive. David Robert Ross, Esq., Governor of Tobago, West Indies, was killed by his carnage upsetting in the dark. The old House of Commons was about to be pulled down. The English harvest was everywhere reported as progressing favourably. Consols 96^. The Roman Catholic Defence Society had been fully organized in Dublin and the first week's lent was announced to be i? 244 13s. Gd.
Latest from France. — The Paris correspondent of the London Timce, m bis letters of the 29th and 30th August ult., announces that throughout almost every department of France a movement m favour of the revision of the Constitution was earnestly progressing. The Councils-General of the following departments had passed nearly unanimous resolutions, demanding the legal revision of the constitution with the slioitest possible delay, namely — the dapartment of the Orne, of whicb Alencon is the chief town ; Bas Rhin (Strasburg); Loiret (Orleans); Am (Bourg) ; Marore (Chalons sur-Marne) ; indre-et-Loire (Tours) ; Vosges (Espina) ; Aube (Tioyes) ; Lot, Maucho, Upper Marne, Upper Pyrenees, Nievre, Upper Saone, and Ardennes. The resolutions of each council are framed m the most emphatic terms most of them demanding that' the Parliamentary elections shall take place with the least possible delay, and that a coitain interval should take place between those elections and that for the president.. . .A plot had been discovered at Lyons, having for its object the destroying or changing the government oftho Republic. Tim ty-seven of the conspiintors had been apprehended and tried by couit martial, of whom six vveie acquitted, six sentenced to be tiansported to Noukabiva, one to the Marquesas, and the remainder &ontenced to vaiious terms of lmpnsonment.
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New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 597, 3 January 1852, Page 3
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