ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 127, 17 October 1846, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian.]

Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal family, were well. Her Majesty remained still at Buckingham Palace. She was about to go to Windsor for a few days, but this was contingent upon "her health." Whether this means that her accouchement is speedily expected, we cannot say. Her visit to Paris seems a matter of doubt. All certainly known is that her Majesty has not announced to the King of the French that she will not, and that preparations are making in the Tuilleries, supposed to be for the reception of a distinguished visitor. The attempt made upon his Majesty's life is supposed to be the result of private animosity. It is at least known that Le Compte was discontented, and considered ill used ; that he was in consequence for a considerable time under surveillance ; that he was supposed to have become reconciled to his lot, and that the surveillance had been removed for some little time. Whether he acted on his own notions of revenge, or was iustigated by some person aware of his feeling, is still matter of doubt. The Times of the 15th May contains 1,600 advertisements. They occupy 55 columns of very small print, and contain as much reading as some of the Waverly Novels. The habits of all classes of the British people, in many particulars, both social and domestic, may be accurately ascertained from this daily history of (he pursuits, wants, wishes, hopes, and expectations of their representatives in this strange descriptive diary. On the Lord Chancellor being asked, in his place on the Woolsack, by Earl Fortescue, why he had not extended his Act, repealing the remaining Catholic disabilities farther, he pointed to the Bishop Exeter, and said, " the Right Reverend Bishop there won't let me." (A laugh.) The Right Reverend Bishop made no remark. A Company has been formed in London, composed of first-rate men, as well as common men, to collect the manure of the sewers in London in reservoirs, and carting it out of town for sale, and spreading it on gardens, orchards and fields. They have applied to Parliament for a Bill of Incorporation, and are at present opposed by some members, on the score of public health. They deny that their operations will injure the public health. Lord Bentinck made out a strong case against the Corn Bill in favour of Canada. His data seemed sound, and his inferences rational. But Mr. Roebuck rose, and demolished the whole fabric in an able speech, and showed that, though his Lordship might in time be a good politician, he was at present too much of a veteran in field sports to manage the Corn question against the Government. / It is rumoured that the Queen of Spain was visit the King of the French at Paris. Government are about to send 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, 2 bombardiers, and 20 gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery, volunteers, to Hudson's Bay, for service on the borders •of the Oregon, together with three thousand excavators, all under the command of Captain Bkckwood. The Earl of Cork has given £ 1 000 towards the relief, of the poor connected with his Irish property.

■ The nevr bathing house and wash houses for the poor, in Glasshouse-yard, are crowded every day. Fifty bathers may be seen at a time, and one hundred and forty females washing in a separate range of buildings. As soon as they have finished, others take their places. The charge is a mere trifle. The accommodations, consisting of hot and cold water ad libitum, drying rooms &c, are complete. The health and comfort of the poor around have been greatly promoted by this novel and admirably managed institution. At Nenagh, (Tipperary, Ireland), Indian corn meal had risen to £15 per ton of 2240 lbs., or three half-pence per lb. ; a price far beyond the means of the poor. Potatoes, bad, were 11s. a barrel. In parts of Galway, famine stalks abroad. Subscriptions in favor of " the Waghorn Testimonial" were going on prosperously. Mr. Waghorn has only the rank of a Lieutenant in the Navy, and has a private fortune. A subscription has been commenced in Scotland, for the erection of a monument to Wallace, on the Abbey Craig, near Stirling. The steam packets between Boston and New York and Liverpool are to be doubled, and Mails are to be made up weekly at each place for Liverpool, and weekly at Liverpool for the other places. Agricultural produce is on the rise in both England and Scotland, and to the astonishment of the Protectionists, farms that now fall out, are letting at an advance of rent ; a proof that all fears of Sir. R. Peel's new tariff, have evaporated with such new tenants. It is now universally believed, that none will be more benefited by the abolition of protection, than landlords and farmers. A London paper of the 14th of May states that " news from the United States has reached us by express from Liverpool, several days later than that we published yesterday, by which we are informed that the House of Representatives has agreed to the resolution to give " notice, as amended by the Senate." In the Times of the 15th May, we tind an advertisement, announcing that Lieutenant Waghorn, R.N., F.R.A.S., &c, was about to publish, through Smith, E'der, & Co., a pamphlet, addressed to her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, " setting forward the incalculable advantages that will be derived by that vast colony (New South Wales) from steam navigation in every point of view, as connecled with the best interests of Great Britain, India, China, &c." The limes of the 15th, with reference to the rumoured second visit to the King of the French, states — " Notwithstanding that uninviting incident, the attempt on the King's life," says our private letter, " preparations are still in progress at the Tuilleries, St Cloud, and Versailles for the reception of the Queen of Great Britain. It is even said that her Majesty will sojourn for 15 days in Paris, but that the Royal visit cannot take place before the month of August, because of the bustle and excitement that will be occasioned by the elections." j Emigration from Ireland to the United States of Canada, was likely to exceed that of any previous year. From every outport, vessels crowded with emigrants were daily departing for that part of the world. In the House of Lords, on Monday, the 11th May, the Bishop of Exeter brought forward his promised questions upon the subject of the Religious Opinions Relief Bill, and censured the idea of resorting to the dangerous experiment of repealing those parts of the Acts of Elizabeth which asserted the supremacy of the Sovereign, in opposition to the Pope. -The right rev prelate suggested that those questions should be submitted to the Judges. The Lord Chancellor stated that the common law was quite sufficient to reach any Roman Catholic who might deny the supremacy of the Crown. Lord Brougham gave a similar opinion. Lords Campbell, Denman, and Beaumont, made a fey/ remarks upon the subject ; . fcfter which the Bishop of Exeter persisted that the bill in question would make a dangerous breach in the constitution ; but withdrew the notice for submitting his questions to the Judges. The East India Company have settled a pension of £5000 per annum on Lord Hardinge, and £2000 on Lord Gough, being the first instance of a Coramander-in-Chief receiving a pension while on active service. These are irrespective of the pensions granted by the Crown, and made without any communication with the Government. Sir Robert Peel had informed the House of Commons that the families of Sir R. Sale, Generals Dick and M'Caskill, would be provided for. Lord Lincoln has been returned for Falkirk. Affairs in Ireland look rather better. The importations of -Indian corn have lowered the pries of provisions. Employment on public works has raised the rate of wages. Still in in the West labour, money, and provisions are scarce. One of the extraordinary fentures of relief was, that oats were exported from Deptford to Ireland at £18 per ton, when it

could be purchased in Ireland at £15 per ton. ' In America we may consider the Oregon question decided. It now appears to remain with our Government whether the 49th degree of latitude will be agreed to. Another most untoward affair has however arisen in Congress. A set has been made against the orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, the pride of the Americans. He is accused of appropriating the secret service money to corrupt the press and to meet his own exigencies. The matter has been brought before Congress. They have ordered returns on the subject. It is, however, generally believed that this deadly charge has been made to destroy his influence, if possible, and revenge the war party for his pacific policy. Mr. Elihu Burritt, Lord Morpeth's"learned blacksmith" of the United States, has responded to the international addresses from divers English towns, deprecating war and recommending arbitration, A pension of £3000 a-year to Lord Hardinge and his two next surving male heirs, and another of £2000 a-year to Lord Gough and his two next surviving heirs male, have been voted by Parliament, in conformity to the royal messages.

The Corn Bill. —We believe that we may now rest satisfied that the Bill will progress, as nearly as possible, through its various stages, in the following order —if, as we suppose, at the latest, it is sent up to the House of Lords on Monday the 11th : —The first reading will be on Monday, the 18th ; the second reading will probably be on Thursday and Friday, the 21st and 22nd ; it will go through committee on Monday the 25th ; the third reading will take place on Tuesday the 26th, or Thursday the 28th ; and the royal assent may be given on Monday the Ist of June. And if, as we are still disposed to hope, the third reading may be concluded in the House of Commons on Taesday next, aud the bill carried up to the House of Lords on Thursday, then the various stages of the bill may be expected to be a few days earlier. At all events we have at this moment the fullest confidence that, in the first week of June, this measure, which has so long kept the country in the utmost suspense, will have received her Majesty's mostwilling assent. —Economist. Among the persons recently deceased we notice the names of the Hon. and Very Rev. Louis Hobart, D.D., Dean of Windsor, aged 75, at his residence, Nocton Abbey, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire; Viscount Hood, on the Bth May, aged 38 years, at his residence, Bryanstone Square; and Dandeson Coates, Esq., Lay Secretary to the Church Missionary Society, on the 23d April, at Ladbroke Villa, Notting Hill, in the 68th year of his age.

London Missionary Society. — Yesterday the annual meeting of the members and friends of this Society was held at Exeter Hall. Sir Cullen Smith presided, and was supported by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Rev. Dr. Cummings, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Mr. Hindley, M. P., and several other ministers and gentlemen. The chairman having spoken in eulogistic terms of the society, more especially adverting to its unsectarian and Catholic character, called upon the Rev. A. Tidman to read the leport. It stated that success had attended the missions in Polynesia, India, China, and the West Indies. None of the missionary stations had been abandoned, but several new ones had been formed ; and although death had deprived them of seventeen missionaries and agents, the broken ranks had been efficiently filled up. Connected with the society there were 165 European missionaries, and 700 native pastors. The directors were gratified to state that the theological seminaries established in India and Polynesia had begun to realise their best hopes. More than fifty young men were at present under ministerial training. They were required to remain in the college four or five years, and many had gone forth with the highest testimonials from the college tutors. The missionaries had much to contend with from the agents of the Church of Rome, more especially in South Africa, where their strength was increasing. In the Mauritius a batch of young Irish Roman Catholic priests had just arrived to cope with the missionaries. One of these young men was such a zealot, that he scarcely ever ate any thing, lived constantly in the church, wore a belt closely studded with small nails, and slept in a coffin half filled with ashes. The progress of missions in China had been satisfactory. The receipts of the year were £80,000, and the expenditure £74,000. The report was adopted, anf 1 several interesting addresses were delivered. — Morning Chronicle, May 15.

The Wellington Group. — Passers-by will observe that boarding is in the course ot erection round the Palace-gate entrance at Hyde Park-corner, and we are sure that the whole capital will rejoice to learn that it is preparatory to the placing , of Mr. Wyatt's splendid equestrian group, in honour of the

Duke of Wellington, upon the arch. Of this work of art we have often spoken. It will now soon be seen by the public at large, and our opinion of its transcendent merit be brought to the general test. At all events, if not allowed to be the noblest, it must be allowed to be the greatest, bronze sculpture ever produced in the world. The height is 27 feet, and a mounted Life Guardsman might ride under the belly of the mighty, hero's mighty charger. But it will, we are convinced, be deemed as splendid in art as it is unrivalled in dimensions. May we see it in its place on. the anniversary of Waterloo.—Literary Gazette.

The Fortifications at Sheerness — The improvements now in progress at Sheerness, under the direction of the engineers of the Board of Ordnance, are very extensive, and are rapidly completing. The Dockyard and lower part of Bluetown will be entirely within the forts, and be enclosed with heavy batteries and a deep moat, into which the sea will How every tide. The water can be retained, and additional security thereby attained if required. The batteries, when completed, will have a very formidable appearance. Guns of large calibre will be mounted along the entire line, from the entrance of the Medway to the line commanding the Nore. — Globe, 11.

May Naval Intelligence. —H. M. Sloop Hazard arrived at Penang on the 18th April from Borneo, in search of the Admiral, insurrection having broken out at Sarawack, (Borneo). The Rajah, the British ally, had blown himself and family up, dreading the Sultan. Mr. Brookes, besieged by the Sultan, shut himself up in his fort. H. C. steamer Phlegethcn has gone to his assistance from Singapore. Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochran, C.8., at Madras, proceeds to the Straits immediately. H. M. steamer Spiteful ordered to join his Excellency at Penang. H.M. Brig Cruizer returns from Madras to Moulmein, to relieve the Spiteful. —Calcutta Star, May 4.

Canada. — An important debate is in progress in the Canadian Legislature as to the opei ation of the proposed reduced English Tariff on that colony. It Iks been resolved in the House of Assembly, that an address be agreed to "praying for the reduction, to the lowest specific sum, of the duties in Britain on Canadian wheat, flour, peas, oats, and barley." — Morning Cfironicle.