LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 298, 7 June 1848, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

It is confidently reported that Mr. Clerk, the present Governor of Bombay, had applied to be relieved from his duties in June next. Lord Jocelyn, Lord Elphinstone, Mr. B. Hawes, and Mr. Villiers, were named as his probable successors. \ ice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald has accepted the command of the North American and West India stations. Barons Pennefatber, Richards, and Lefroy, Judges Moore and Jackson, and Mr. Henn, with the Masters in Chancery, were sworn in on the 18th January to act in commission as Lord Chancellor, during the illness, and in case of the death, of the present holder of the Great Seal. The venerable author of the Curiosities of Literature, of the Amenities of Literature, of the Quarrels of Authors, the Calamities of Authors, and of the Illustrations of the Literary Character, had gone to his account. " The best defender of the best of kings," after life's fitful fever, sleeps. Mr. Isaac D'lsraeli died Bradenham House, Buckinghamshire, on the 19th of January, in the 82d year of his age. Christian VIII, King of Denmark, died on the 19th January, in the 62d year of his age.

He is succeeded by his son Prince Frederic Charles Christian, under tl;e title of Frederic VIL, — who is in his fortieth year. Prince Ferdinand, brother to the late King, is 58 years of age ; he is married to the eldest daughter of King Frederick VI, and has no children ; he will be the presumptive heir to the throne. After him, should the present King not marry again, or have no children, the Crown would pass to Prince Frederick, eldest son of the Landgravine of Hesse, eldest sister to the late King. It is this Prince who married the Grand Duchess, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, who died three years back. His accession will lead to a forced solution of the question of the separation of Holstein from the Crown of Denmark, a question raised at the end of 1846 by a rescript of King Christian VIII., and which has so much agitated men's minds in the duchies and in Germany. Mrs. Dawson, the eldest daughter of the late Sir Robert Peel, and consequently sister to the ex-premier and Lady Henley, died at the temporary residence of her husband, the Right Hon. George Dawson, at Brighton, on the 22nd. The deceased lady's husband has held several prominent situations in the state, and is now Deputy- Chairman of Customs. Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschell died at Hanover on the 9th Jan., in the 98th year of her age. She was sister to the celebrated astronomer of that name, as well as the constant companion and sole assistant of his astronomical labours. Among the recent deaths from influenza, we notice that of Alderman Lucas in the 88th year of his age. The deceased was a native of London, and served his time to his father as a lighterman, and for a number of years toiled as hard as any member of the class to which he belonged. It is stated that he has left landed and funded property to the amount of between £300,000 and £400,000. Being intimately connected with the Tower Ward, by his shipping and mercantile transactions, upon the death of Sir William Curtis, in 1821, he was unanimously elected to the vacant aldermanic gown, and the following year served the office of sheriff, and in 1827 became Lord Mayor. He was also President of St. Bartholomew's, Prime Warden of the Waterman's Company, and twice Master of the Company of Vintners'.

Commercial Intelligence. — Money Market, Monday morning, 24th January. — The upward tendency of the English funds still continues, and another rise of nearly a half per cent, has taken place to-day. Consols, which left off on Friday at 88, opened on Saturday morning at 88£ to both for money and account, and after some minor fluctuations they advanced, owing to some purchases made towards the end of the day, to 88f to ■§■, at which they closed. Bank stock left off at 197£ to 199| : reduced three-per-cents., 88f to \ ; three-and-a-quarter per cents., 89f to \ ; long annuities, 8 15-16 ; India stock, 335 to 238 ; India bonds, 16s. to 20s. premium ; and Exchequer bill, 265. to 28s. — Home N. The Quarter's Revenue, terminating on the sth of January, showed a decrease, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1847, of £1,155,313, the deficit being chiefly in the Customs, Excise, and Stamps departments. The Bishop of London and the Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, have come into collision on the subject of a Fellowship in that College, which was founded neatly 200 years since on the express terms that the holder should, at the option of the Bishop of London, proceed as a missionary to one or other of the British colonies. The present holder of the Fellowship, which is worth «g3OO per annum, is the Rev. T. M. Davies, lately holding a curacy at Rarasgate, who has declined complying with the Bishop of London's order to proceed to the colonies, and the Fellows of Jesus College have determined upon resisting his Lordship's interposition. A letter on the state of Ireland had been written to the Archbishop of Tuam by the Earl of Shrewbury. The Dublin Freeman the Tablet, and the Times of the 24th January had, published the reply of the Archbishop in extenso. It occupied five columns of the Times, The Government had consented to advance a sum of three millions to the East India Company for the construction of a railway in the Presidency of Calcutta, to be repaid in twenty-five years, with interest at 5 per cent., and with a power of purchase on the part of the Government. We are sorry to see the name .of James Sheridan Knowles, the dramatic? 'author./ in the list of Scottish bankrupts. "- ?J? J v From the Globe of 10th January we extract the following : — The Patrie announces that Abd-el Kader bad applied to the King for leave to proceed to Paris. " The letter of the ex-Emir," adds that journal, " has been submitted to the Council of Ministers, who resolved to remove him to Paris, and assign to him as a residence one of the northern strong palaces." It was reported in Paris that the LombardoVenetian kingdom was to be detached from

the Austrian empire, and erected into a separate kingdom, of which Archduke Rainer, the present Viceroy, would be the Sovereign. O'Connell. — Orators sometimes unconsciously become poets ; O'Conuell was a great poet when Stanley said to him, " I love Ireland as well as yvii do;" and the man of men, pausing a moment, replied " I will check myself; I vull not utter another burning word ; he who loves Ireland rannot hate me. Let our hearts shake hands." — Lecture ly Ebenezer Elliott. A tremendous explosion occurred on board the steam-boat Sea Bird, from New Orleans, bound to St. Louis, and loaded with 100 kegs of gunpowder. She took fire near Cape Geraideau, and blew up with a tremendous explosion, which was heard at a distance of 40 miles around the scene of disaster. The boat was, of couise, blown to atoms ; but, happily, the passengers had all narrowly escaped before the explosion took place. Another steam-boat accident also occurred on the Ohio. Out of 70 persons between 20 and 30 perished.