LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 232, 20 October 1847, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Hoibart Town Courier, September 29.J By the kind attention of Mr. White, we have been favoured with the Home News of the 7th and 24th Jane. These papers are brought by the quick sailing schooner Osprey the property of Messrs. Burns & White,., She performed the distance from Llewin to Hohart Town in the short space of six days. She brings a valuable cargo, consisting principally of fine sugars and coffees. We subjoin the most interesting items of intelligence : — The protracted debate on the Prison's Bill had terminated. The Ministers were triumphant, carrying the measure by a majority of 124 to 76. The Juvenile Offenders' Bill passed through committee in the House of Lords on the 18th June. The second reading of the Poor Removal Act Bill took place on the 23rd June. The measure was lost by a majority of 105 to 102 votes. Sir E. Fox Young, the lately appointed Lieut.-Governor of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope, has been elevated to the Governorship of South Australia. We congratulate our fellow colonists upon the appointment of a gentleman who has had a good official education, and is therefore likely to govern well.

Sir Colin Campbell, late Lieutenant-Go-vernor of Ceylon, died on the 13th June. Ibis creates a vacancy in the Colonelcy of the 72nd Highlanders. -:'■■■ Another vacancy has occurred in .the direction of the Hon. East India Company, by the death of Major-General Robertson. MajbrGeneral Caulfield and Captain Eastwicke are the candidates. Mr. Bunn's action, against Jenny Lind, for breach of engagement, nas been made a special jury case ; damages are laid at £10,000. The property of Tawell, the murderer, valued at £8,000, has been escheated to the crown. It is considered a great hardship on the suffering widow. The civil war in Portugal may be considered as virtually at an end. The amnesty and articles proposed by Colonel Wylde had been agreed to, and an expedition of the insurgents, consisting of vessels containing 2,500 men, with the Conde das Antas .at their head, preparing to attack the south, had been caplured hj the, British squtdron. - „,, -^-..s It is stated that the King of the Belgians is deranged. Dr. King had addressed a letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, volunteering to go out for the relief of Sir John Franklin's exploring party in Arctic America. He proposes that provisions should be sent out to the western corner of North Somerset, where the party arc likely to be found ; that, food should also be placed in various depots ; and that he should also convey intelligence of the stores to the lost party, with Indians as guides. The personal property alone of the late Sir Charles Price, banker, amounted to £100,000. The Mexicans, having sustained a complete defeat at Cerro Gordo, seem to have abandoned the open field and commenced guerilla warfare. The consecration of the four, new .colonial. Bishops was fixed to take place at Westminster Abbey on the 29th June. The news of the death of Sir Eardley Wilmot is acknowledged by the British press. The Spectator observes " that his decease of course terminates the discreditable criticism on his personal conduct, though probably it will not prevent the publication of an official letter which is said completely to exonerate his character." 4_ 4 _ Major-General Wynyard proceeds to New South Wales as Commander of the Forces. He will be accompanied by his son, Captain Wynyard, Adjutant to the Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards, as Military Secretary. JBy the change, the Hon. Mariners Percy'wilf be adjutant of the latter." C. Anderson, Esq., is appointed Chief Commissary of Police for the Island of Mauritius, and T. J. Hugon, Esq., Protector of Emigrants in the same colony. Dr. Candlish was expected to succeed the late Dr. Chalmers as principal of the new'college of Edinburgh. A statue of the late Doctor was about to be erected. Distillation from sugar is being extensively adopted in Glasgow. , Major-General George Pollock, G.Cß., landed at Margate on the 14th June. .He was in very delicate health. - . j , The dissolution of Parliament was expecteji about the 20th July. . m / Consols 88| to f . The Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Bart., expired on the 31st May, at Brighton, where he had been sojourning for the benefit of his health. The baronetcy devolves upon.Jhis brother, Mr. Thomas Beckett, the emmejit, banker of Leeds. The anniversary of the " glorious first of June" was deemed the most auspicious occasion for the announcement in the London, Gazette that her Majesty had been pleased to confer an honorary medal on each of those brave officers and men who fought with Lord Howe and other distinguished heroes, naval and military, and won the triumphant battles of our country. " Two brothers, of the name of HeUgaesb|ir r^ ger, are now astonishing the great metropolis with their performances on the violin. It is said that Mr. Crosse, of electricity notoriety, has succeeded in obtaining pnre water from sea water by means of some process of electricity. He is, it is added, in town explaining it to the Admiralty. Colonel Persse, of the 16th Lancers; who for 52 years served with such distinction in the Peninsula, America, and India, retired from the army in May, receiving 11,000 guineas by the sale of his commission. In the Committee of Supply of the House of Commons on the 28th May, the sum of j £36,000 was voted to ' defray the charges of ! the Government of New Zealand, when Lord Ingestre took occasion to recommend a survey of the coast. * ,

[From the Hobart Town Courier, October 2.] It was considered a significant sign of the break-up of parties which had lately taken place, that the leading magazines avoided the quicksand of politics., Lord John Russell was left master of the field : and the Britannia says, "he may be as despotic as he please^

for the nelt-seven years : it will require some very startling act on the part of his Government to consolidate and give strength to a new opposition." •"• Prince' Oscar of Sweden arrived in London on the 4th June on a visit to her Majesty. His Royal Highness is a lieutenant in the Swedish navy, and he hid landed from his ship in the morning. Guido Sorelli, thj»"ttanslator of " Paradise Lost,'' died on the 28th Ma jr. The Queen Dowager and suite were to be conveyed to Madeira in a ship of war, where she intends to pass the next winter, in compliance with the advice of her physicians. , Among the significant facts which had transpired at Mark Lane in consequence of the sudden decline of prices, it was stated that there was on the stands a sample of a large quantity of/ wheat which had been imported ' from America some weeks before. The speculator, fancying that he could procure better prices in Frabce than in England; declined to accept net qu&rfcer, and ordered- the yes- ■■ •Sel^ff-'toi&avre. Sne arrived there just in time to be too late. The market was found to be abundantly supplied, and prices were giving way. The " good ship," with the speculator's prayer for a prosperous voyage, was ordered to start forthwith ior London. She arrived in the Thames. The wheat with which she was laden was tendered for sale. No offer was made for it. There were no buyers in the market ; and if the owner had found it necessary to press a sale, he would not get more j than 755. for bis wheat, being a reduction of 35s.*o*n what he conld easily have obtained a month before, had his avarice been satisfied with, the price. The Cdbden Testimonial Committee have taken steps to bring the affair to a close. It appears that the total amount subscribed is £80,480, and of this about £13,000 remained unpaid. The expenses of collection were nearly £3000. Fever is prevalent in Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. The Rev. Dr. Miley and Mr. Daniel O'Connell arrived at Rome by the 27th May, with Mr. O'Connell's heart. It is stated that a triumphal arch had been prepared for the I great Irishman's entry. Marshal Grouchy died at Etienne c n the 29(h May, in the eighty-second year of his age. He had been to Italy, under advice for a long standing disease of the lungs ; he was much better, and was on . his way to Vichy, the waters, of which bad! been recommended for nis wife ; at* St. Etienne he was seized with the illness which proved fatal. He leaves three children — a General, a Colonel of Hussars, and the Marchoness d'Ormesson.