LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian Journal.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 187, 15 May 1847, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Australian Journal.]

Her Majesty is expected to hold a Privy Council on Saturday next. At this Council it is expected that the time for the meeting of Parliament will be determined on, and a proclamation will be issued, summoning both Houses to meet for the despatch of public business. Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., has been named as a candidate for Norwich in conjunction with Mr. J. H. Gurney. The condition of Ireland was, by all accounts, becoming worse and worse. Starvation and destitution are dwelt upon in the public journals in melancholy strains. Deaths, too, had occurred through the want of the common necessaiies of life, or rather of money to purchase them. Where relief was ta come from was not known ; and the consequences of such a state of, things were looked forward to with considerable anxiety. The most severe part of the winter season had yet to be endured ; so that, not only had our poor Irish fellow-creatures to " put up" with the pinchings of hunger, -but had to " bear up" against the inclemency of an Irish winter, in rags scarcely to be called a garment. The news from New York, reaching to the 27th March, was satisfactory, so far as it affeded Great Britain. An account of the war proceedings in Mexico will be found in another column. The state of affairs, to a late date, at Monte Video are also given. It was considered that the war between the Brazilian Government and General Rosas was at an end. The accounts from the manufacturing districts, so far as wool is concerned, are rather cheering.

State of Tipperary. — The Tipperary Vindicator of Saturday has a list of outrages against life and property covering nearly two columns of the paper. The list is headed with the details of the murder of Mr. William Loyd, who was shot at his own hall door, in the midst of the populous town of Birr. It appears that he was shot just as he was entering his hall door. The murderer stealthily approached him, fired the contents of a pistol at his heart, th<^ hall penetrated that vital organ, and he fell a lifeless corpse immediately ! It was not dark at ti c time. Mr. Loyd's house is in Church-land, within a few yards of the most crowded part of the town. The assassin, in making off, struck violently against a large rock, which is placed at the head of the lane to prevent vehicles, as it is undergoing repairs. He tumbled, fell, and was severely cut, blood being found on the rock — and in running off, stumbled again against Mr. Loyd's son, a lad of sixteen or seventeen years of age, who was returning ironi the street to his house, unconscious of the murder of his father, and that his father's murderer had just passed him ! The tenant vi ho was after paying the rent has been arrested on suspicion. We have been informed that several others of the tenants have been also arrested. Poor Mr. Loyd nev-r lived in peace with these tenants. He was ever at war with them. " Rackrents, persecutions, and the misery which prevails, conspired," says our reporter, "to produce this awful crime." An inquest was held on Wednesday, by Mr. Dillon, the senior coroner, when the facts above stated' were given in evidence. This crime has created great excitement throughout the King's county. We should mention, perhaps, that poor Mr. Loyd was a Catholic in religion, and a Liberal in politics — another proof that agrarianism knows no distinction in these particulars.

Dublin. — The metropolitan and provincial journals are teeming with letters from landlords, setting forth the dreary prospects before them and suggesting various modes of saving the country from that ruin which they think inevitable if the present system is continued. A meeting of lauded proprietors in Dublin is advocated by gentlemen but a short time since adverse to such a proceeding. - This day the Royal Agricultural Society agreed to rescind the late resolution, which caused the retirement of the Duke of Leinster and the Marquis of Dowushire, and threatened to break up the association altogether.

Public Works in Ireland. — Some idea may be formed of tbe labours of the Board of Works in Dublin, from tbe fact that they hove to send a hand cart to the post-office two or three limes a day, for letters. On Tuesday the number of letters was 2993. The subjoined passage from a private letter received lately by a gentleman in Brighton, from a relative at Castle Blaney, Monaghan, may be regarded as a proof of the great superstition prevailing amongst the peasantry : — " Since the potato crop has so completely failed, all business is at a stand still. There

is nobody doing well but an old friar at the end of the town, who sells holy water at 3d. a bottle, to be sprinkled fiver the fields to cure theyotato disease! and you would be surprised to see them going in droves, travelling all night to be in time in the morning." The Society of Friends in Dubl n have displayed a remarkable munificence in relieving the present distress. They have addressed an " eucyclical" to all their brethren in Ireland, to contribute in proportion to their abilities. Over £2000 have been contributed by a few individuals in Dublin, of which one family, Mr. Bewley's, have subscribed £700, and the Pirn's £600. At -Lisburn, £500 ii.tve been contributed. The subscriptions, as yec reported, exceed £3000. Philip Lempriere, a quaker, bad been imprisoned by order of the 'Royal Court of Jersey, for refusing to take an oath ; the Bailly and Jurats obstinately refusing to register the Act of Parliament authorising the declaration ot Quakers to be taken. At the recent Radnorshire sessions in a painlul case of attempt at self-destruction, the offender was sentenced to be imprisoned for five minutes, and then discharged. Since the operation of the new tariffs the variety of imports into England has much increased. Fifty bundles of horse radish had been received fiom Hamburgh, and sixteen casks of strawberries had arrived at Hull, from Prussia; but the benefit of the free trade principle had been extraordinarily manifested in the extension of every branch of the glass manufacture since the reduction of the duty. The clear profits of one concern in the plate glass trade, since it became free, have amounted to £30,000 in twelve months. As a proof of the distress which prevails at present amongst the small traders of Paris, it may be mentioned that in one day there were 46 sales of household furniture under judicial dec ees. — Times. Since the return of Lord Morpeth from America, he had been constant and unceasing in his efforts to cultivate cricket amongst all classes of society, but especially amongst those who are engaged in agricultural and manufacturing pursuits. Mr. Brahara is said to be about to retire from professional life, after haviig made another tour of the provinces. Thj death of his daughter's husband, the Earl of Waldegrave, without issue, renders it no longer necessary that he should pursue his labours. He is in his 74th year. At the annual meeting of the Manchester Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the report which was read, stated that previous to the present year the number of copies of the bible distributed in that district annually, amounted to from five to ten thousand ; whilst this year, no less a number than ninety-six thousand have been disposed of, being equal to ten times the number of the previous years. M. Ronge, the founder of the German Catholic sect, was some time since condemned to one month's imprisonment for having preached in public in Lahn, though prohibited doing so by the authorities. He had just received a full pardon from the King of Prussia. M. Ronge continues preaching in the different towns of Silesia, and attracts large audiences.

Madame Vestris. — It is stated that the highly talented and popular actress and vocalist, Madame Vestris, is about to bid farewell to the stage, in consequence of declining health. She makes a parting tour in the provinces, and returns to London, to appear for the last time on the boards of the Italian Opera House, where she made her debut so many years since. A Flanders journal states ihat the British government have annulled the order of Sir W. Gomm, for the expulsion of the Abbe Eggeiruont from the Mauritius, and have re-esta-blished him in all his rights, at the same time censuring the conduct of the Governor. The Abbe is at present with his family at Thielt, whence he will shortly depart to resume his spiritual labours. — Globe. Lord Ashley, it is stated, declines coming forward to contest the r presentation of the city of Bath at the general election. On Fiiday the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh ordained a young Parsee, named Dhanjibhai Nowroji, as a missionary to India. It is the first native convert on whom ordination has been conferred.

Revival of the Bookselling Trade. — At the annual sale of Mr. Murray, at the Abion Hotel, last week, the number of books disposed of wholesale greatly exceeded any demand made for the last seven years. We understand that Messrs Longman had an equally active demand on a recent occasion. These are -symptoms of a returning prosperity to that channel of intelligeuce which has too long been in a declining state. — Observe?. A report has been circulated that it is the intention of government, in the next session of Parliament, to abolish the Window Tax, and raise the Property Tax to 5 per cent., leaving the Income Tax untouched.

The Wellington Statue. — On Monday workmen commenced preparing the footing for thescaffold-polesin the open space west of the Horse Guards, for the purpose of erecting a pedestal for the Wellington statue, which is to be taken down forthwith, and subsequently placed upon an appropriate resting-place in the above locality. — Dec. 20.