LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. From the Suppl. Sydney Morning Herald, May 11

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 193, 5 June 1847, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. From the Suppl. Sydney Morning Herald, May 11

House of Commons. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter to two o'clock, and Lord John Russell entered at two precisely. There were present on the Ministerial benches, the Premier, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Gibson Craig, and Mr. B. Hawes. We observed on the Opposition side Sir James Graham, Mr. Henry Goulbourn, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir F. Thesiger, Lord Lincoln, and Mr. Cardwell. Colonel Sibthorp was also present on the same side. Mr. E. Bankes was seated by Sir James Graham. The Speaker in his robes attended by about fifty out of the 150 members present, proceeded to the House of Lords. On their return, at twenty-five minutes to three, the Speaker announced the reading of the speech, and the House adjourned till a quarter to four o'clock. The leader of " Young Ireland" was ranged on the Opposition side, while Sir R. H. lnglis, and several members of the Protection party, was seated beneath the gangway. The Speaker again took the chair at four o'clock, and informed the House that he had during the vaca'ion, issued his writ for the election of a new member for North Lincolnshire, in room of Lord Worsley, who had lately been raised to the House of Peers, as Eail of Yaiborough.

Ministerial Measures. Mr. Tuffnell rose to give notice, on the part of the tirst Lord of the Treasury, that he should on Tuesday next move for a committee of the whole House to consider the question of the laws relating to the importation of corn into this country. He would also, on the same day, move that the House do resolve itself into committee on the navigation laws. He would also move on Friday next that a Select Committee he appointed to consider the law of settlement. On Monday the noble Lord would bring the stat. of Ireland before the House, and on Friday week he would announce the order in which the business of the House would be taken. Mr. Parker, on the part of his Right Honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave notice that on Tuesday next he would move for a committee of the House on the Customs and Excise Laws, and on an early day he would move the Sessional Orders of the House, and the Committee on Standing Orders. Mr. Fox Maule said, that on an early day he would bring under the consideration of the House a law relative to limited enlistment in the army. Mr. Hume gave notice that on an early day he wonld put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury relative to the intentions of Government as respected the Poor-law Commis-

sioners, consequent on the proceedings of the last session.

Treaty of Vienna. The honorable member also gave notice that on that day week he would call the attention of the House to the violation of the treaty of Vienna by the seizure of Cracow, and he would move the suspension of the payment of £100,000 per annum which this country at present pays to Russia, in order to preserve that treaty inviolate. Mr. Poulett Scrope said, that at the earliest opportunity he intended to bring forward a resolution that Ireland should have the benefit of similar laws with England, more particularly as respected making provision for her suffering people. Mr. Williams moved for a return of the quantity of corn, wheat, butter, and other agricultural produce, also the number of cattle, sheep, and swine imported into this country from Ireland during each month of the yeur ending December 31, 1846.— Motion agreed to.