LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 697, 18 December 1852, Page 3

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

The Port Phillip and Colonial Gold MiningCompany obtained its charter on the 13th of August. The Liverpool Standard t August 17th, thus remarks on the state of the wool market : — " Our market has been rather quiet this week, in consequence of the assortment offering by private sale being small ; there is, however, a good healthy tone manifest, and it is confidently expected that, should the harvest prove an abundant one, we shall have a good autumn trade, with prices of wool higher." The same journal has the following paragraph : " The advices from Georgetown, Demerara, confirm the report of the discovery of gold in that colony. Two persons had ai-rived at different periods within the last few weeks, bringing accounts of the existence of the metal in the interior, together with specimens, which sold respectively at 240 dollars and 800 dollars. A party of twenty young white men had already set off on a digging expedition, and the planters were in great alarm, as it was feared that the general business of the country would be thrown into confusion." i The American Fisheries Question was likely ' to be satisfactorily adjusted on the condition of absolute reciprocity. " The Americans are to be at liberty, to fish in all British waters ; the British to fish in all American waters ; subject on both sides to the general law which prohibits the vessels of foreigners to fish within less than three miles of the shore of any country to which they do not belong — the three miles to be measured from the nearest land, without distinction of bay or open sea. The American Government acknowledges that no offence has been offered to it, though it slightly complaines that a notice had not been given by the British Government of its purpose" of protecting the three miles border oi the sea with more vigilance than before." A. political dinner was to be given to Mr. Frederick Peel, M.P., by the electors of Bury, to come off on the Bth of September. Among tl c guests invited wore Sir James Graham, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Bright, which may, perhaps, be considered as an indication in the present unsettled state of parties. A correspondent of tbe Daily News says that a circular letter from Cai'dinal Wiseman wns read on Sunday, the Bth, at all the Roman Catholic chapels in London, requesting the congregations to contribute towards tbe expenses of the late trial. The means to be used for carrying out this object are left to the discretion of the priest, and in most places a collection was to be made after each of the services of Sunday, the 15th. The letter states that Dr. Newman's expenses amount to 7,5001, and that o£ this 2,5001.has been already collected. Sir James Parker, one of the Vice Chancellors of England, died on the night of the 13th of August, at his country seat, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. We notice also the death of LieutenantGeneral Sir T. Downham, which took place at Woolwich, on the 10th of August. The trials of the Stockport rioters had terminated. The prisoners of riot were severally sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for various periods from two to eighteen months. Matthew Mulligan, who was convicted of manslaughter arising out of the riots was sentenced to be transported for 15 years. The Banish Exhibition of Industry had been opened at Copenhagen by the King of Denmark. The Emigration mania did not show much symptoms of abatement, , and advices from the Australian Gold Fields to the middle of May had i been received via Singapore. Nothing definite was known of the future intentions of the Derby Ministry. Wong Fun, a young Chinaman from Hong Kong, had carried off the first prize in the junior division of the botanical class under Professor Balfour, at the Edinburgh University. The Duke of Hamilton was dead. lie expired on the 17th of August, at his house in Portinnnsquare. The late Duke for more than thirty years held the position of Premier Peer of Scot- ■ land. Personally he occupied no very large space j in public estimation, but lived and died as much a private man as was possible for one of his rank. His grace was born on the sth of October, 1767. In 1852 he nursed the prejudices which he had imbibed before 1789, and he lived throughout the intervening period well -deserving to be called the proudest man in England. In his ease it was mere pride of birth, being descended from the royal line of Scotland. The deceased Duke is succeeded in his title and estates by the Marquis of Douglas, who is married to a daughter of the late Grand Duke of Baden, and first cousin to the President of the French Republic. The present (and 11th) duke has several children. The health of Mr, Macaulay continued in a state which would not permit his intended visit to Edinburgh. The statue of the late Sir Robert Peel was inaugurated at Leeds on the 19th Aug., amidst an immense concourse of people. Mrs. Chisholm held a farewell emigration meeting at Southampton on board the Ballingeich, on the 17th, previous to the departure of that vessel for Australia with 270 emigrants. By a circular from the Horse Guards, commanding officers of regiments are instructed in future, m composing regimental boards, to take the three senior officers on the spot, instead of the three senior officers of the regiment when any of these maybe at a distance. This regulation is j to save the travelling expenses of those senior officers who may be at out stations. The Morning Chronicle had by some means got hold of a secret Minute of the Northern Powers against the presumed establishment of the Empire in France by Louis Napoleon, and had published it. This had given rise to much discussion, but the Ministerial organs in Paris j had not been able to disprove its authenticity.

The wonder was how it had come into the Morning Chronicle's possession. Sunday the 15th August was the day on which it was expected the Empire would be proclaimed, but there was some doubt as to (he effect the publication of this Minute would have. A grand ball was given, preparations for which on a largo scale had been made. The detailed accounts of the fete, from Paris, August 16, state that it passed off admirably, and without accident. 300,000 persons are said to have come from the provinces, and one report gives the total number of spectators at 1,000 000. At the conclusion of the review, the President rode into the crowd ; and the multitude, composed of almost every class, formed his only escort, with the exception of a troop of Lancers of the National Guards, avlio, with some diffiiculiy, kept a passage open for him until, amid cheers, ha reached the palace. Dr. Lang had written a letter to the Daily News, upon the growth of cotton in Australia. The Globe states that Parliament will assemble about the third week in November.