LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 20, 22 February 1845, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Parliament which had been adjourned in August to the sth of September, pending the settlement with the French Government of the Tahiti and Morocco question, was prorogued that day by commission ; the loyal speech, as usual, sa\ing as'lidle as possible. Mr. Hope moved ior a nuw writ for North Lancashire, Lord Stanley having been created a peer. in reply to a question from Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir R. Peel stated that Lord Stanley's position in the Cabinet was not in the least affected by his elevation to the upper house. The reversal of the sentence on O'Connell, by the House of Lords, was considered the most important legal decision since the acqnital ef Hardy and Home Took?. It is usual in appeals to the House of Lords, 10 leave the decision in the bauds of the law lotds, but on this occasion the Earl of Stradbroke an { Lord Winchester were desirous of supporting the decision of the court below. Lord Wharneliffe earnestly begged these noble lords to abstain from voting, or the authority ,of the house, as a court of justice, would be very greatly lessened throughout the country. On the questioning put by the Chancellor, if the judgment should be reversed, Lords. Coltenliam, Campbell, and Denrnan, votod in the affi mitive ; Lord Brougham hi the negative. The French fleet, under the command of the Prince de Jujtiville, has bombarded the town of Mogadore, as well as that of Tangiers. The destruction of his two principal towns, induced the Emperor of Morocco to accede to the terms of the French Government. The French commercial class showed some scruple as to the propriety of bombarding inoffensive commercial towns, but their feelings were calmed by the assurance of the press that three-fourths of the commerce of these places was in the hands of the English. The English Government is loudly censured for, its passiveness in this affair. The Royal Prince was christened on the . 6th of September, by Che name of Alfred Ernest Albert. The harvest in Ireland was more abundaat last season than it had beeu for many year*. ' Early on the morning ot the 10th of September, the mail iron frteamer» Iron Duke, »v down in the Irish Cjbaaiiei the brig Panama,

Ipund from Liverpool to Montreal. The brig was nearly cut in two, and went down so rapidly that six out of a crew of eleven were drowned. A statue has been paced in S\ Paul's -Cathedral to the memory of Sir Astley Cooper. The Doncaster St. Leger was won by Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-Ballagh. The Queen paid a visit to Scotland in the month of September. Sir Andrew Agnew had the impertinance, in a letter addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen, to admonish her Majesty on her proper observance of the Sabbath duiing her visit to the north. Mr. Berry, one of the clcwn's at Astley's theatre, sailed from Vauxhall to Westminster Bridge in a washing tub drawn by two geese. The Duke of Grafton died on the 28th of September, and the Earl of Donegal on the sth of October. The revenue returns on October 10th, gave an increase on the year of .-61,395,349, and on the quarter, £523,944. It has been proposed to connect the opposite shores of the Mersey, at Liverpool, with a stupendous iron bridge. One hundred shares in the Thames Tuniiel, on which £50 each had been paid, were recently sold at the auction mart lor £30, being 6s. per £50 share. The long-talked of visit to England of the King of the French took place on the Bth of October, when his Majesty landed at Portsmouth. The reception which Louis Philippe received was most enthusiastic, both from the Queen and the people. The French opposition press manage, however, to prevert the hospitality of the English into studied insult.