ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 29, 26 April 1845, Page 1

ENGLISH NEWS.

(•From the Sydney Papers.) By the arrival of the Sultana on Thursday evening, from the Downs November 21st., we have English intelligence to that period. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were in good health, and were on a visit to the Marquis of Exeter, at Burghleigh Hall, Northamptonshire. Trade still continued brisk. The of wool remained steady, but there did not appear any prospect of any further advance taking place. It was asserted that Prince George of Cambridge was to be married to the Archduchess Olga of Russia. Mr. O'Connell had announced his intention of impeaching all who were concerned in the state prosecutions. Among the private Bills of which notice was given in the London Gazette, was one to give other and further powers to the New Zealand Company, and for regulating the sale of land' by the Company. The Morning Post announces the probable re- ■ moddelling of the Ministry. The first Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Haddington, the President of the Board of Controul, the Earl of Ripon, and the Postmaster General, the Earl of Westmoreland, have expressed their desire to retire from their high offices. Lord Stanley, it is rumoured, is likely to succeed Earl Ripon, and Mr. Gladstone to pass from the presidency of the of Trade to the Colonies. The Earl of Dalhoasie, Vice President of the Board of Controul, to be President; and Mr. Caldwell, member for Clitheroe, to fill up the vacancy. Lord Ellenborough to be the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Great Britain, steamer, has at length been liberated from her long confinement. This vessel is a proof that bulls are not all Irish ; having afforded a most gigantic one, in the fact that she was built in a dock, the gates of which were too small to allow of her exit. It cost £10,000 to remedy this little blunder. She is the largest steamer in the world. i The elections in Canada have given Sir Charles Metcalfe a good working majority. By late advices from Havannah, we have the gratifying intelligence that the captain general has issued a proclamation, notifying that, on and i after the first January next, all vessels, under whatever flag, arriving at any of the ports of Cuba with slaves, will be confiscated. At the Pennsylvania election the people voted by a majority of nearly 30,000 to sell the public works, towards paying the state debt, but it is expected that no buyers will be found. Accounts from Alexandria state thatMehemet ; Ali had determined on monopolising the transit ! through Egypt to Suez. On the Midland railway several lives were lost by the collision of two trains, near Nottingham ; one of which was incautiously placed on the wrong rail, without sufficient notice. We state, on what we conceive to be good 1 authority, that her Majesty's ministers have \ advised the Sovereign to confer a high distincj tion on Sir Henry Pottinger for his diplomatic services in China. — Times. i For some time the peasantry of Lithuania have been much excited against the nobility. They want the abolition of slavery (serfdom). j Letters from Bremen announce that this disaf- ! fection had caused in several provinces a serious , ! outbreak.