ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Hobart Town Advertiser.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 52, 4 October 1845, Page 4

ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Hobart Town Advertiser.]

By the Renown, to Launceston, we have papers to the 13th April, and one, the Times, of the 15th, we helieve contains the latest intelligence received in the colonies. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, had on the 14th removed from Claremontto Buckingham Palace. They, as well as all the Royal Family, were in good health. The principal subjects of interest in the House were the debates on the grant to Maynooth, which Sir Robert Peel has determined to carry in spite of a powerful opposition — that on the message of the American President, Mr. Polk, will show that however anxious to preserve peace, our ministy is not afraid of war nor to insist upon theassertion of ' unquestionable rights.' A proposition was made by the British Minister at Washington, to submit the Oregon question to the arbitration of a third power. This was refused- by Mr. Calhoun, who has ! however since retired from office. The Cafe- j donia steamer had been detained two days for the purpose of forwarding to our Minister the resolutions of the British Cabinet on the question. The Earl' of Egremont is dead; and thus one of the oldest families in England, and a very ancient title is extinct. The Marquis of Downshire died suddenly while riding over his estates in the county Wicklow, Ireland. A College of Chemistry is to be established in London. The celebrated St. Bruno, of Spagnoletti, the first painting of its class in the world, has

been purchased by Mr. Farrer of Regent's Park, and ha? added another to the treasure* of ancient art in England. A slight but very perceptible shock of an earthquake was felt at Huntingdon on the 2d of April. Iron has made immense advances in pricesi in consequence of the enormous demand for railrdad purposes, which seem to be turning England into one vast gridiron. Wrought irop from £5 to £12 per ton, and cast from 30s. to 130s. The Earl of Romney died on the 29th of March in the 68th year of his age. The excavations at' Pompeii have been lately proceeding with spirit, and several interesting discoveries made, but the influence of the air upon the uncovered parts of the city has been to cause a rapid destruction of many of the most valuable relics. Her Majesty has finally completed the purchase ofOsborne House, in the Isle of Wight, and 800 acres of land from Lady Emily Blachford, for £26,000. Her Majesty and Prince Albert remained there from the 21st of March to the Ist of April. There appears to be no doubt that her Majesty will visit Ireland in July, and that the Parliament will rise earlier than usual, to allow the ministers to attend her. We see by the Irish papers that the Lord Mayor of Dublin had convened the corporation to consider the best means of raising the ways and means to give her a suitable reception. j There are now, according to the Moniteur Parisien, 92 French war steamers afloat or building, of which 8 are frigates from 450 to 600 horse power, and 18 corvettes from 220 to 320 horse power. National Education. — The Rev. D. Bagot, vicar of Newry, has been appointed one of the Lord Lieutenant's chaplains, in consequence of the vacancy caused by the resignation of a clergyman opposed to the policy of the government in relation to national education. Mr. Bagot is a warm supporter of the national system. This is the only appointment of the kind made by Lord Heytesbury since his arrival in Ireland. The Pope is to send the Golden Rose this year to the King of the Belgians. It is always a gift to the relation of some sovereign remarkable for piety, or an illustrious person who has rendered eminent services to religion. M. Guizot, and M. Tbiers, the celebrated oppositionists, have had an interview at the house of a mutual friend. The conversation was amicable — what the result may be, is of course unknown. Wonderful discoveries are said to have been made by Lord Rosse's monster telescope. Regulus is said to be a disc, not a sphere, which we doubt, and the nebula in Orion a system like our own — a sun with planets moving round it. The Commissioners of the Treasury signified to the Commissioners foi the reduction of the national debt, that the surplus revenue for the year ending sth January, 1845, was £3,356,105 Bs. 2d. Voting by secret ballot has been abolished in the Chamber of Deputies. A posthumous work of tbe Rev. Sydney Smith, onthe Irish Roman* Catholic Church has been published. A proposal by the Indian Government to raise the import duties, has crealed an immense sensation in England, as well as in India. It most probably will have to be abandoned. The French Government has required a loan from the Chambers of 27,000 003 francs, or £1,080,000 for the purposes of improving the Baltic, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, entirely with reference to commercial purposes. The bill for closing the. ports has been postponed to next session. Mr. Willoughby Shortland had an interview with Lord Stanley on the 15th Feb. Archdeacon Marriott bad an interview with his Lordship on the 17th February. Mr. Hutt has given notice to ask leave. to bring in a bill for extending the provisions of the Canadian Corn Act to our Australian colonies. The Paris Moniteur announces the formal recognition of tbe provisional government of Mexico by King Louis Phillippe, who received M. Garo in the character' of his representative on Wednesday. The French Government has ordered:reinforcements of troops to be despatched- to the Swiss frontier. It was reported in : Paris4hat the Austrian Government' had resolved' to interfere.