LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 174, 31 March 1847, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian.]

The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at the Isle of Wight on the 18th November. General Paredes, the ex-President of Mexico, arrived at Southampton, by the Thames, West India mail-packet, on Wednesday, the 4th November. The distress in Ireland was increasing, and, notwithstanding the arrangements that had been made for the relief of the people, it was feared there would bs the most extensive suffering during the winter. Prince Louis Napoleon left Brighton on the sth November for London. Previously to his departure the Prince subscribed £50 to the " Famine Fund" for Ireland. The marriage of his Excellency the Earl of Elgin, the newly appointed Governor-Ge-neral of Canada, with the Lady Mary Lambton, eldest daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Durham, took place recently at St. Peter's Church, Ea'ton Square. Colonel Sir George Arthur has attained, by the late promotion, the brevet rank of Ma-jor-General ; and Captains Bush, Jones, and Wilson, of the 96th Regiment, have attained their majorities.

Effect of Railways. — The whole of the coach-yard and stabling of the celebrated Bell and Crown Inn, Holborn, is now being converted into dwelling-houses. The Haydon Fund subscription has now reached £2200. A letter from Naples, of the 7th, states that the city and environs, and many other parts of the territory, had just been visited by dreadful storms. It is said that seven villages, near Messina, have been destroyed by inundations, that several houses have fallen at Portici, and that 15 persons lost their lives. Mr. Gould, the naturalist, who was some years absent on an ornithological tour in New Zealand and Australia, is about to leave England on an expedition to Guatemala and other parts of Central America, in order to explore the natural history of those regions. The King of Prussia has devoted no less a sum tha.n £120,000 to the formation of a covered garden in the centre of that city, to be used as a winter promenade by its inhabitants. A regulated temperature is to be maintained, and rare exotics of warmer climes cultivated.

Italy. — Rumoured Imprisonment of a Cardinal. — Reports of an incredible nature, says the Augsburg Gazette, are circulatingat Rome, as to the arrest of some of the clergy — among others that of a cardinal, whose name, however, has not transpired. So much, however, is certain; some priests under a strong escort, were conveyed to the castle of St. Angelo. The gates were immediately closed upon them, and the greatest secrecy is maintained.

Switzerland. — Basle. — The Catholic party in Basle has taken the alarm, and resigned the government voluntarily. The field is, therefore, undisputed, and the Liberals come in their own terms. The Debats says that the Catholic party was forced to resign by the free corps who came in from the neighbouring country, but this is doubtful. At the last accounts (on the 23rd) the place 'was quiet, and peace had not been at any time disturbed.

Egypt. — Sudden Rise of the Nile. — The last accounts from Alexandria, of the 9th instant, mention that the Pacha still resided in that City. The Nile had risen twenty-four feet, and considerably injured the growing crops. Ibrahim and Abbas Pacha had gone into the province of Sehartrie, where* the floods had done great damage, the embarkments being swept away. All the boats, both at Alexandria and Cairo, have been seized by government to transport the materials necessary for repairing embankments. The "harvest of maize was entirely destroyed, and that of cotton much damaged. More than sixty villages were flooded, and if the waters did not subside, it was feared that Lower Egypt would be converted into an immense lake.