ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 44, 9 August 1845, Page 4

ENGLISH NEWS.

It was confidently rumpured that the Queen would visit Ireland during the summer. Lord Brougham is engaged in bringing out

an extensive work on the French Revolution. — Mr. Leader is building a magnificent house near Cannes,, the plan of which is said to be of a size and splendour and elegauce, unknown in the south of France. — It is expected that the building will be finished by the end of this year. Cannes has become a fashionable English colony.

Contemplated Ministerial Changes. — We have heard that the Lord Chancellor will resign his office during the Easter recess, and that Lord Wharncliffe will retire from the presidency of the Council in order to make way for Lord Lyndhu'rst. Sir William Follet, we believe, will be the new Chancellor. It is rumoured also that Mr. Gladstone will againjoin the Ministry as Chancellor of the Exchequer, vice Mr. Goulburn, who will resign his office. — Globe. Report says, that 300 of the senior captains of the navy were about to retire. It was also stated that henceforward the captains' list will never be allowed to exceed 500 during peace, and that it will always be kept a really effective one. The late Richard Leyland, Esq., of Walton Hall, near Liverpool, banker, presented to his brother, Christopher Bullen, Esq., the day before bis death, the enormous sum of one million sterling ; which is supposed to be the largest amount ever given as a present in England. — Westmoreland Gazette. The intensity of the frost in the middle of March was noticed as exceedingly wonderful. The thermometer had been down one night as low as 20 degrees, being 12 degrees of frost. In all the Indian settlements trade appears to be flourishing. A Danish sloop of war had proceeded to Nicobor, and it was understood the Danes wers about to revive a colony that formerly existed there. Prince Waldemar, brother to the King of Prussia, was travelling through India. The Hobart Town wheat market remained without alteration, the highest quotation being ss. 6d. per bushel, and best flour £12 : 10s. per ton.

Colonial Expenditure. — On Saturday, a return procured by Mr. Hume was printed, showing the total amount of revenue received by the colonies, and the expenditure for the same in the year 1842; as also a general abstract of the military and naval expenditure by Great Britain for the colonies in the year 1843. The return extends to 58 pages'; and shows the revenue and expenditure of eafch of the colonies under separate heads, with the exception of that of New Zealand, which appeared in a Parliamentary document printed some months back. The revenue of Gibraltar was 31,454/. 7s. .4d., and the expenditure 31,4457. 7s. 7£d.; showing a surplus revenue of 81. 19s. 8^(1. Of Malta, the revenue was 120,852?. Is. Ofd., and the expenditure, 110,759/. os. 6£d. ; surplus revenue, 10,093/. os. 6d. Of Canada, the expenditure was 476,304/. 1 Is. 1 Id., and the revenue, 465,141/. 4s. 2^d. ; excess of expenditure, 11,163/. 7s. B£d. Of Nova Scotia the expenditure was, 95,899/. 16s. 7d., and the revenue, 84,869/. 2s. Bd., showing an excess of expenditure of 11,030/. 13s. lid, Of New Brunswick the expenditure was 81,920/. 11s. 7d., and the revenue 55,792/. 18s, 4d. ; excess of expenditure, 26,127/. 13s. 3d. Of Prince Edward's Island the expenditure was 19,626/. 7s. 2£d., and the revenue, 13,411/. 18s. Jld. ; excess of expenditure, 6,214/. 18s. Jld. Of Newfoundland, the revenue was 56,686/. 12s. o£d., and the expenditure, 40,7871, 17s. Bd. ; surplus revenue, 15,898/. 14s. 4|d. Of Bermuda, the revenue was 19,342/. Bs. 10d., and the expenditure, 17,435/. Bs. Bd. ; surplus revenue, 1,907/. Os, 2d. Of Honduras, the expenditure was 13,459/. Bs. 10 4-5 d., and the revenue, 12,515/. 7s. 10 4-5 d.; excess of expenditure, 944/. Is, Of St. Helena, the expenditure was 17,756/. 13s, l£d., and the revenue, 17,643/. ss. ll^d. ; excess of expenditure, 1 1 3/. 7s. llf d. Of Ceylon, it appears that the expenditure was 301,791/. ; but, after the estimated expenditure of an agent in London, &c, the excess of expenditure would amount to 28,204 Z. • Of the Cape of Good Hope the revenue was 226,261/. 4s. lOfd., and the expenditure, 226,025/, 17s. 6£d. ; surplus revenue, 235/. 7s. 4£d. Of Sierra Leone, the expenditure was 26,209/. 2s. s£d., and the revenue, 24,165/. 75. ; showing an excess of expenditure of 2,043/. 15s. s£d. Of Bathurst and its dependencies (River Gambia), the revenue was 9,592/. 3s. lid., and the expenditure, 7,472/. 18s. 10d.; surplus revenue, 2,1 19/.55. Id. Of New South Wales, the revenue was 844,265/. Bs, JOd., and the expenditure, 804,982/. 19s. Bd, ; surplus revenue, 39,282/, 9s. 2d, Of Van Diemen's Land the expenditure was 182,622/. 11s. Id., and the revenue, 160,003/. 13s. lOd. ; excess of expenditure, 22,618/. 17s. 3d. Of Western Australia the expenditure was, 18,334/. Is. 4d., and the revenue, 17,031/. 14s. Bd. ; excess of expenditure, 1,302/. 6s. Bd. And of South Australia, the expenditure was 84,531/. 16s. 10d., and the revenue, 81,813/. 19s. 5d. ; showing an excess of expenditure of 2,717/. 17s. sd.