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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 133, 7 November 1846, Page 4

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Melbourne Argut.J Ibrahim Pacha, his two sons, and suite, landed at Portsmouth on the sth June. A revolution in Portugal had ended in a compulsory change of ministry. The Grand Duke Constantine in a Russian man of war, touched at Spithead, and sailed thence to Lisbon. The grand Duke entered the Tagus while the insurgents were triumphant, and his ship gave the usual salute. He was ranch mortified on finding that he had paid such a mark ofrespecttoa revolutionary government. Prince Louis Napoleon had arrived safely in England. Narvaez had been expelled from Spain, and was an exile in France. At Monte Video, another revolution had taken place. At Valparaiso, serious riots occured at the election of a president : nine persons were killed and 87 wounded. The weather had been excellent in England, and a good potatoe crop and harvest were expected. The hay crop was very abundant, ■and had been nearly all secured. War was still raging between the United States and Mexico; a skirmish had taken place 'at Point Isabel and Matamoras, the Americans had been defeated and 150 men taken prisoners. General Taylor had been nearly surrounded and his supplies cut off. There was great difficulty in getting volunteers at 'Louisiana, and a conscription had been resorted to. The British Government had declared that they would not interfere ; this had given much satisfaction in England.

[From the Auttralian.'] We extract the following, particulars from; the South Australian of the 29th Sept. The Pauline, from Bremen, 17th. June, arrived on Sunday, after a remarkably fine passage of 101 daysi; she brings German papers (with a few of which we have been kindly favoured) up to the 13th June, giving London news to 10th June. In the House of Lords, on the Bth June, the Duke of Buckingham moved, that the new sliding scale be permanent. In the Commons, on the same day, Sir W. Somerville moved the rejection of the Irish Coercion Bill on its second reading. In the debate, Lord G. Bentick said he and his party would join the Whigs, and that the moment was come to bumble the Peel administration. In the Globe, of Bth June, it was stated that Ministers would be defeated in the Slave Grown Sugar, and the Irish Coercion Measures. The writer prophesies that the Ministry would be out of office before the Corn Bill passed the Lords, and goes the length of saying that the Feel administration would not last more than ten days. The expectation of a change of Ministry was general, but it was said that Sir R. Feel, for the sake of the country, would not retire till the Corn Bill had passed the Lords. The Whigs had framed their plan of opposition ; they denounced the Coercion Bill and differential duties on sugar. With reference to the Budget, the most surprising results bad been in the Post Office department. The net revenue was rapidly approaching its amount previous to the reduction in postage, and the number of letters was now 400,000,000 against 75,000,000 in 1838. Since 1842, the interest on the National Debt has been reduced by £1,500,000 per annum. Pope Gregory XVI. died at Rome on Ist June, of fever. Immediately previous to the Pope's illness, Austria had proposed to occupy Civita Vecchia, and it was expected that his death would have important political consequences. The new Dean of Windsor, in the room of the late Hon. and very Rev. Dr. Hobart, is the Hon. and very Rev. George Neville Grenville, youngest brother of Lord Braybrooke. He read himself in on the 7th June. The manufacture of glass bottles and ware in Great Britain, since the new tariff, has greatly increased, as was expected. Lecompte, who attempted to assassinate King Louis Phillippe, was executed at Paris on the Bth June, at half-past six, a.m. On the sth June Consols were at 97.

South Australia.—Our Adelaide papers received on Saturday extend to the day of the Dorset's sailing—the 29th ultimo. The passengers per Pauline; from Bremen, are described as very respectable people, chiefly from Prussia. There were seven deaths on the passage, and one man fell overboard and was drowned.

Colonial Manufactures.—lt is pleasing to find that the manufacture of sheet lead is rapidly progressing in the colony. Mr. # Daer of Noith Terrace, in order to meet the increasing demand, has been obliged to enlarge his apparatus, and to call in another hand. With his enlarged machinery, he will be able to throw off 112 square feet of lead at a single casting.—South Australian, Sept. 25.

Adelaide Markets, Sept. 25, 1846. — Wheat, 6s. 6d. to 6s. lOd. ; flour (fine), £18; seconds, £16; bran, Is. 6d. per bushel of 20lbs; barley (English), 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; malt, 7s. per bushel of 40lbs ; oats, ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per bushel; hay, £2 10s. to £3 10s. per ton ; oaten ditto, £3 10s. to £4 10s.; potatoes, £4 10s. to £5 per ton.

Western Australia. — The following items of news are taken from tbe Adelaide South Australian of the 29th September. They put us in possession of news from Swan River two months later than our previous advices. We have papers from this colony to the 2d September. The news is very important. Good coal, copper, and probably lead, had been discovered, and the colonists were almost beside themselves with joy. An expedition had started to explore the North Eastern interior. We must, however, reserve particulars till our next. The Mount Remarkable, special survey, of twenty thousand acres of mineral land, has been paid for at the rate of £1 per acre. The proprietors, besides the £20,000 of purchase money, have subscribed £5000 of working capital. The proprietors will hold a meeting on Thursday next, to elect office bearers.