ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 327, 16 September 1848, Page 4

ENGLISH NEWS.

The christening of the Royal Princess was held on the 16th May ; the infant was named Louisa Caroline Alberta. The Dublin Evening Mail, says " we are enahled to state on authority, that it is her Majesty's intention to visit Ireland within two months' time, and probably to remain a considerable portion of the autumn. Arrangements for the Queen's reception have already been made. Sir William Somerville has brought in a 1)111 to extend the franchise in Ireland ; it is to be a freehold occupancy valued at £5 annually, or an assessment on the poor rate books at the anuual value of £8 ; this will quadruple the number of electors in Ireland, and is likely to pass the house. The Commons have voted £200,000 for emigration to the West Indies. Amoag the obituaries we notice the name of Lord Ashburton. The Hon. Mr. Yorke, M. P., committed suicide on the 14th May. Troops continue to pour into Dublin, and Sir Charles Napier's fleet is ordered round to the Shannon. . The Revds. James Birmingham and John Kenyon have been suspended by their Bishop until they retract their recent repeal letters and speeches. OBrien was tried on the 19th May, but the jury, after being locked up all night, did not agree to a verdict, and were discharged. Mr. Meagher was also virtually acquitted. Mr. Mitchell, editor of the United Irishman, was arrested under the New Treason Act, and was awaiting his trial in Newgate. A step has been taken towards assimilating the police force to the army, the three grades of sub-inspector are henceforth to»be styled captains, lieutenants, and ensigns. The Jewish Disabilities Bill, on its third reading, was carried on the 4th May by 234 to 173. — Mr. G. Wilson, formerly chairman to the " Anti Corn Law League," is agitating the formation of a "league" to reform the taxation, expenditure, and franchise of the country. The Cobden fund has reached £79,000. The " Relief by Emigration" Society recently established in London is likely to receive the support of government, and there is little

doubt but that the " facts for famine" disseminated by our home friends have not fallen on barren ground ; the Sptctator of the 6th May says, " information has reached us from various quarters, that the government contemplates an immediate application to Parliament for authority to raise a loan for emigration. The amount, it is said, will be at least £500,000 perhaps £1,000,000. We are not aware that the project has been finally adopted by the Cabinet, but that it is entertained by Earl Grey and the Colonial office, and that it will be brought before Parliament as a Government measuie, there is, we believe, no doubt."

Wool Sales. — We regret to say that the prices realised at the May sales are fully Xwopence lower than the low rates obtained at the February sales. The depreciation has been greatest in the lower class wools. In Franceahe elections are over, and the National Assembly is installed in Paris. The Moderate party in the department of the Seine stood first upon the list, while the Ultras were in the rear. Ledru Rollin, 25 ; Flocon, 36 ; Louis Blanc, 27. An attempt was made by a large body of the people, headed by Louis Blanc, Barbes, and others, to produce a new revolution — to depose the Executive Council — to demand from the rich a sum of forty millions sterling for the relief of the poor. It entirely failed ; and the result must inevitably be, not merely to strengthen the hands of the Executive, but to purge the Government of a class of men whose sentiments coincided with those of the parties to this movement. Of the resolution of the Chamber, no doubts are entertained ; the fear is, that their indignation may have risen into passionate vengeance, and that they may call for measures not merely severe, but summary in mode and reactionary in spirit.

Italy. — At the moment of going to press says the Nouvelliste de Marseilles, the following important intelligence has reached us. An Austrian division is reported to have violated the Swiss tcritoiy, by marching through the Canton of Grisons to attack the Piedmontese army in the Tear. The seige of Peschiera is actively carried on. General Duranda has retired to the Brenta. The Moniteur mentions the occurrence of a fearful outbreak at Rome, on the Ist May, and a threat of the people to form a Provisional Government on account of the Pope's refusal to declare war with Austria.