LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 758, 20 July 1853, Page 3

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Prince Albert is among (he contributors to the New York Industrial Exhibition. He will exhibit the portraits of himself, her Majesty, Prince Arthur and the Duke of Wellington, by Winterhalter. Baron Marochelli will send a colossal statue of Washington, and Mr. Carew of Webster. A deputation of medical men waited upon Ihe Earl of Aberdeen on Ihe subject of the enfranchisement of Ihe London University, when his lordship in reply, said, “ I have no hesitation in acknowledging Ihe very strong claims you have urged for the favorable consideration by the Government of the object yon have in view, and 1 readily admit that the consliluency which would he afforded by I lie University of Loudon in such.a one as it would be most agreeable to the Government to organise. You will not 1 suppose, expect me to give a final answer 10-day but I assure you that so far from llirowing cold water on Ihe subject which was deprecated by one of Ihe deputation, 1 do with Ihe utmost sincerity assure you, and I beg you to believe that in so doing 1 am not by any means making use of words of mere formal courtesy, that the subject will he taken by Ihe Government into their most serious and friendly consideration.” Mr. Disraeli. — It is no secret that Mr. Disraeli has been virtually deposed from the leadership of the so-called Conservative Opposition, and that the most respectable of the large-acred squirearchy, whom he has by turns coaxed and quizzed during the last seven years, have pretty well made up their minds to accept Sir John Pakingloa as their chief. —Morning Chronicle. University of Edinburgh. —Sir Edward Lylton BulweT Lyllou, Bart., was elected president of the associated societies of the University of Edinburgh. The Duke of Argyll, whom il had been proposed to nominate in opposition to the honorable baronet, wrote, in answer to a communication addressed to him. I cannot allow myself to have any participation whatever in the interruption of an arrangement so well calculated to give satisfaction to the students as the election of Sir E. B. Lytton.” National Defences.—Conveyance of Horse Artillery by Railway. —An experimental removal of troops and artillery took place on the 4Glli of March, from the Bricklayers' Arms Station of the South-Eastern Railway, for the purpose of ascertaining the lime required to load and unload heavy artillery, with horses, ammunition, £ c., for conveyance by railway. A portion of a battery of the Royal Artillery, with the full complement of men, horses, guns, ammunition, waggons, &c., were loaded in a train at the Bricklayer’s Arms Station, conveyed to Woolwich, an<J there unloaded—all in two hours and thirty-eight minutes ; thirty-five minutes of which were occupied in constructing a temporary platform to unload the guns. It is said that Mr. Wm. Jackson, M.P., is about proceeding to Canada, with 13,000 laborers, to carry on (ho railway undertakings in progress and projected there. A deputation from the Free Kirk of Scotland headed by Dr. Candlish, was in London, for Ihe purpose of conferring with Ihe Government on the subject of national education. The Railway in Egypt. —The railway progresses satisfactorily. The laying down of the rails and sleepers has now been for nearly a month in active operation, and il is expected that in a few months il will be completed from Alexandria to the Nile, when the passage to Cairo, will he effected in nine or ten hours instead of twenty-four, as now required. Mr. Borlhwick, Mr. Stephenson's partner, arrived by last packet, and has been actively employed in surveying the progress of the works at different points. Other transit improvements are in contemplation. In order to increase the means of transit across the Desert, it is said that the Pacha has ordered no less than a thousand mules from Syria. —Alexandria Correspondent of the Daily News. Death of General Haynau. —A telegraphic despatch received in Paris, from Vienna, announces I lie unexpected death of the notorious General Haynau, in the Austrian capital. The accounts from St. Petersburg respecting the cholera are satisfactory. Il was gradually diminishing. On the 21st Feb. (here were only seventeen new cases, and the number of cases under treatment was reduced to 139.

Government were to appoint a Commission under the new mercantile law of the three kingdoms, and they were at work on the revision of the statutes, which Ihe Lord Chancellor slated he expected would he comprised in six or seven Volumes.

New Copper Coinage. —The public will, no doubt, be gratified by the intelligence communicated by Mr. Wilson in the House of Commons, last Monday night, that it has been determined to issue a new copper coinage. In place of the old and extremely imperfect one at present in circulation. It appears that the Mint is so much occupied with the increasing demands for gold and silver coin, that it has become necessary to contract with private firms for a new copper coinage, amounting to five tons.— Atlas, 21*/ March. FRANCE. The Paris Moniteur announces (hat a Universal Exhibition of Industry, open to the whole world, will lake place in Paris in 1835. The exhibition will open on the Ist of May, and close on the 50th of October, The Pope’s Nuncio has intimated several members of the corps diplomatique that His Holiness was coming to France for the Emperor’s coronation, and that he might be expected to arrive about the end of April. On Thursday week the Emperor entertained Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and several of our countrymen at dinner at the Palace of the Tuileries. The Emperor had a long private interview with Lord Stratford. It was remarked (hat neither Lord Cowley nor M. de Kisseleff had been invited. Prince Napoleon Bonaparte (Jerome's son), refuses to accept the viceroyalty of Algiers, and is to be sent on a mission to Italy. Domestic Life at the Tuileries. —The Paris correspondent of a weekly journal gives us a peep into imperial privacy:—“ The ordinary days at the Tuileries, when (here is no reception, pass off monotonously enough. The Empress works embroidery, or needlework, part of the evening. About ten o’clock Bonaparte plays vwgt-etiun with the ladies and gentlemen of the court and after a few tours de banquier, retires with the Empress. He continues to display the warmest proofs of attachment to his bride; all that she asks she obtains, except in matters of public policy—there he is impregnable. You know that she met with a first repulse with regard to the properly of the Orleans family. Lately she returned to the charge, entreating the recall of the exiled generals. Bonaparte shook his head, and hogged her not to repeal such applications.” AMERICA. A well informed writer in Washington says, "There has been a good deal of feeling here during the last few days with reference to (he Cabinet appointments, Jefferson Davis has been conscientiously opposed lo the compromise acts of 1850, and has persisted in his opposition, with an honcsl consistency, to the present hour; some of his more timid friends feared that the very strong endorsement of the compromise made by the President in his inaugural address was designed lo force Mr. Davis lo decline a Cabinet appointment.

A great fire had occured at New Orleans, m which more than 18,000 bales of cotton were destroyed, of which the Liverpool and Koja Liverpool Insurance Companies will have 10 sustain a loss of 90,000 dollars, as their propoi lion of the damage. J. C. Bales, Boston, has failed, with liabilities to Ihc extent of 300,000 dollars. By the way of New Orleans, Galveston (Texas) dales to the 251h, and Indianola lo the - i February, have been received. A ? t us gale look place at Galveston on the 22nd u., commencing about three a.m., from the i ■. moderating towards the evening, and omg immense carnage.