LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Times, June 7th & 8th.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 435, 3 October 1849, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Times, June 7th & Bth.]

Her Majesty attended Ascot Heath races, on Thursday, 7th Juoe, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, and were most enthusiastically received. There was a most numerous assemblage on the ground including some of the principal nobility. The piece of plate given by the Emperor of Russia was won by Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp, Chanticleer being second, and Cossack third ; the race was run in 4 mm. 52 sec. The new stakes were won by Blarney, the Duke of Richmond's William the Conqueror being second, , and Lord Chesterfield' Penang third ; run in 1 mm. 17 sec. The President of the French Republic had delivered his first message to the first National Assemby of France. It is very long, occupying four columns and a half very closely printed columns of the Times. M. Proudhon had been arrested at Paris. The heat at Paris had occasioned a considerable increase of cases of cholera. On 3rd June (Sunday) there were 208 new cases in the hospitals and 119 deaths. The whole number of patients in the various hospitals since the commencement ef the epidemic exceeds 700. Marshal Bug'eaud and Lucien, Murat had both been attacked with cholera, but were pronounced to be out of danger. The Count de Montemolin has offered his band to the daughter of Spencer de Horsey, Esq., and the marriage will shortly be solemnized in England. The Queen of Spain has consented to make an adequate provision for his Royal Highness and his bride, in consideration of the renunciation by the Count of the claims of the male line to the Spanish Throne. It is stated that Prince Paskiewitsh will in all probability assume the supreme command over the united Russian and Austrian troops in the north-east of Hungary, and Haynau over the united forces acting in the west. Venice had been bombarded on the evening of the 29th May by Marshal Radetzsky, who had l.imself directed the operations. The insurgents kept up a hot fire from the bridge and the Bort St. Secundo which only served to exasperate the besiegers without doing them any damage. A fatal explosion had taken place at Hebburn Colliery on the Tyne, about a mile and a half above Jarrow, by which thirty-two persons, men and boys, were killed. The exact cause of this lamentable catastrophe was not known. Sir Moses Montefiore had embarked from Marseilles for Malta on his way to the East, he was accompanied by his wife, six domestic servants, and a rabbi. Mr. Smith OBrien, Mr. Meagher and the other convicts found guilty of being engaged in the recent outbreak in Ireland and whose sentence bad been commuted to transportation for life, were to be sent to Sydney in the Mount Steuart Elphinstone. Several cases of cholera were reported in Dublin, one or two of which had terminated fatally.