LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 38, 28 June 1845, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.]

Politics seem to be almost at at a stand still, and will probably remain so till the meeting of Parliament, with the exception of some public meeting, called by the Anti-Corn Law League. The Queen and the Bishop op Exeteh. — We hear it is stated, upon authority which we believe to be good, that a communication has taken place between Sir Robert Peel and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting his recent charge to the clergy of his diocese, and that an intimation has been conveyed to the right reverend prelate, that if he persist in the rubrical — innovations or restorations — there prescribed, the Queen, as the head of the Church, must interfere. An English diplomatic agent has been sent to Rome for the purpose of entering into a concordat with the Pope respecting the Catholic Church in Ireland. This measure had excited very great attention in Ireland, one portion of the Bishops being favourable, and another opposed to it. The Honorable Mr. Petre is charged with the mission.

Albert the King. — A report is abroad that a message from the Queen will be delivered to Parliament shortly after the opening of the session, asking the Legislature to authorise her to confer the title of King upon Prince Albert. The precedents are Philip and Mary 1., and William 111. and Mary 11. The Prince of Orange may be said to have won his title by the sword. On the other hand, Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, never received the title nor enjoyed the dignity of King. Sir R. Sale has again proceeded to India as Quarter Master General of the Bombay army. Amongst the deaths we notice the names of Sir C. F. Williams, Chief Commissioner of Bankrupts; Sir Colin M'Kenzie, Gen. the Hon. Sir G. Grey, Earl St. Germains, Dowager Lady Floyd, mother of Lady Peel, General Sir William Nott, G.C.8., and Captain Huskisson, brother of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Brussels, Tuesday Evening, Jan. 14. — The Eclair (ministerial print) of this evening announces for a certainty the death of the Emperor Nicholas.

Eakl Grey. — We record, with pleasure, that the health of this venerable nobleman continues to improve. The Hon. W. George Grey, his lordship's youngest son, has been appointed attache" to the British Embassy at the Court of Vienna, under Sir Robert Gordon. By the last accounts from Persia, it appeared that Dr. Woolf would be called upon to make a protracted stay at Tehran, until the settlement of the pecuniary obligations he contracted on withdrawing from the territory of Bokhara.

Abolition of Duelling in the German Universities. — A letter from Konigsburg states that the students of the University of Heidelberg have abolished the custom of duelling, and have decided that henceforward all differences that may arise amongst them are to be determined by a jury of honour, composed of ten of their comrades, chosen by the two adversaries. This example was at once imitated, by the students of Konigsberg. A person named John Tawell, who formerly resided in Pitt-street, Sydney, where he kept an apothecary's shop, had been committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of a woman named Lawrence, who lived with him as servant, and by whom he had had two illigitimate children, by poisoning her with prussic acid, in the beginning of January last. It was stated in the Che.bourg Journal that a company of French infantry were about to proceed to Tahiti, and a company of grenadiers for the Marquesas Islands-

The Troop-ship "Anns." — Sir T. Wiltshire X.C.8., the Commandant of Chatham Garrison, received instructions to hold in readiness for embarkation on Monday, January 6, on board the freight ship Anne, for New South Wales, detachments of the 51st, 58th, 96th, and 99th regiments - f in all, 6 officers and 281 men.