ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 49, 17 January 1843, Page 3

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Ferment among the Bishops. —We understand that the serious illness of the Archbishop of Canterbury has occasioned an extraordinary ferment among the Bishops, all of whom are as busy as a certain notorious personage is said to be in a high wind. Exeter has laid aside his intention of paying a second visit—at the public expense —to the Scilly Islands, and is preparing* instead, a pamphlet, whose object is to prove that the present Government is the best of all possible governments, and Sir R. Peel the best of all possible Premiers; while London, equally on the alert, has been seen frequently, within the last few days, flitting uneasily to and fro between Whitehall-gardens and Downing-street, and yesterday had not even a spare hour to himself to count the atheistical wherries that floated past Fulham on a pleasure voyage to Richmond. The Episcopal Bench has not been so active as it is now since the death of the last Archbishop, or rather since the majority of the ghostly Prelates combined to throw out the Reform Bill. The news of the Pope’s landing at Dover with a cargo of faggots would not occasion half such an excitement among them. We sincerely trust that to-day’s bulletin of the Archbishop’s health may he favorable, for he is really a kindly and tolerant clergyman, and his convalescence will tend to calm the affectionate and disinterested disquietude of his expectant successors.

Archbishop oe Canterbury. —We announce, with regret, that the accounts received from Addington Park are unfavorable. A bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was exhibited this morning at Lambeth Palace : “ His Grace the Archbishop has had some hours of restless sleep, and is much weaker this morning. “ Addington Park, Monday Morning, 7 o’clock, Aug. 29, 1842.”