LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 370, 17 February 1849, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

The Queen arrived in London on the afternoon of the 3rd October. From the boisterous state of the weather, her Majesty preferred travelling by " rail," to the sea voyage from Scotland. Four of the London Chartists — Lacey, Fay, Cuffey, and Dowling — had been convicted, and sentenced to transportation for, life. Many of the others had pleaded guilty, and had been sentenced to eighteen months' or two years' imprisonment. The sentences on the four- named above were considered severe. ', There is not much news from the Continent. There had been no further disturbance at Frankfort. A new German Ministry had been formed. In Baden there had been an insurrection; but the insurgents had been .defeated, and their leader, Struve, shot. The Croatians had been defeated by the Hungarians. . Louis Napolebrj had taken his seat in the National Assembler of France, and the Assembly had decided, that there shall only be one Chamber in the new constitution. ' [From the Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 24.] e - ' We have received via Port Phillip, English news to the 9th October, five days ■later than the Thomas rfrbuthnot dates. • ' The trial of Smith OBrien and hip confederates had concluded : the verdict was guilty^ with strong recommendation to mercy^' The damnatory facts relied upon by the prosecution, -mere the papers discovered in Mr. O'Brien's portmanteau on his arrest, and the evidence an informer, named Dobbin,- who represented himself as having acted as a spy, upon the members of the Red Hand Club, .with a.view of bringing tlie -leaders to justice for their treasonable pracjtices.f -For thjs, prisoner,' an extraordinasy letter from Mr^ Thomas Young, to" Colonel Napier, written- evidently under the dictation , of .rthe~\^J?ig agitators, at

the time of the struggle, pumping the).y,eteran as to his views, should it have? beehriiecessaiy to stir up a rebellion, was offered in evidence, but,not' accepted." This was intended to sfibvf that the Whigs when out qf poW&f were willing to do that which was .considered treason in Mr. O'Brien'sl'attempt to coerce' the legislature.' We haVe not 1 seen a full report of Mr. Whifeside's speech' for the "defence; it is described as most master,ly ; wneri'We receive it we shall publish it entire ; we give enbugli to show the line of argument used. Mr. O'Brien's relatives were suing out a writ de lunatico inpuirendo'; and were, itwas said, prepared to show that he had been insane for many months. 'There' was no doubt his life would be spared": • '. ' ' Several cases of cholera 'were 'said' fb have taken piace in r >the cohyict hujks in the Thames. - . 7i The most , important item of Foreign news is, that. the ultra-republicans had carried, by a jEaajorily^pf 367, a vote that the election of the. President of the French Republic shall not,be by the Assembly, but by the entire people.

Dublin, Tuesday Evening, October' 3. MORE ARRESTS. On Saturday, ,Mr. Robert Lambkin, of Cork, was arrested in that city, on a warrant' charging him withtreasonable practices. Mr. Lambkin was president of one of the Cork confederate clubs, and, like his own " eye snuff," celebrated for Vis pungency in the oratorical department of the late conspiracy. Shortly after the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Mr. Larabkiu went to France, where he remained until he conceived the viceregal wrath was appeased, and a couple of days ago appeared publicly on the Mall. Poor fellow, he discovered his mistake rather late, and he is now a prisoner in the same gaol with Michael Barry, proprietor of the Southern Reporter; Mr. Denny Lane, barrister ; and the Messrs. Varian — all similarly charged with little deviations froai the paths of duty to their Sovereign. — Correspondent of Morning Herald.