LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Hobarton Guardian, February 3.]
We have just sufficient space to notice the receipt of home journals per Blenheim, up to the Ist November. Smith O'Brien had been sentenced to transportation for life ; this announcement may be relied upon as a fact. There is no truth in the report that Mr. Whiteside got £500 from Sir Lucius O'Brien, for defending his relative : for Mr. Smith O'Brien did not require any. aid froni any portion of his family to sustain his legal defence, his pecuniary means being abundant. The first railway in Spain, from Barcelona to Mattaro, had just been opened. It is five leagues long. There are 120 regiments clothed at the expense of the colonels. One with another, each regiment yields to its colonel an average profit of £1,000 per annum. The number of evictions at Meelick during last week in October was no less than eighty. The property belongs to the Martjuis of Conyngham, an Englishman, a whig and an absentee. The agent is one Marcus Kane.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 371, 21 February 1849, Page 3
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173LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Hobarton Guardian, February 3.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 371, 21 February 1849, Page 3
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