LATEST ENGLISH EXTRACTS. [From the South Australian Gazette.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 481, 13 March 1850, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH EXTRACTS. [From the South Australian Gazette.]

By the Sibella, Captain Coleman, from Plymouth, we have our regular files to the 27th October ; and, by the kindoess of a friend, a copy of the London Times of the 29th of that month, received by the Alfred, from Hamburgh, which touched at Plymouth two days after the Sibella had sailed. The anticipated rupture between Russia and the Porte was likely to be settled without an appeal to arms, and the state of the continent generally was not such as to create any serious apprehension of war. The fact that English funds held steadily at 92f confirms these views. It was reported and believed that the Government had despatched orders to the Cape of Good Hope not to land the convicts in the Neptune, and had also intimated that the proposal to send convicts there had been abandoned. The Nej.tune, it is said, was ordered | to Van Dieraen's Land. Her Majesty the Queen had been attacked with the disease called the chicken pox, but was convalescent at the latest dates. The Queen Dowager Adelaide was ill, and not expected to recover. By the Alfred we have to announce the arrival of an English officer, Captain Stanley Carr, and a young German nobleman of royal blood, Prince Frederick of Augustenburg, travelling as Lieutenant Gronwald. The Prince is about nineteen, and is highly spoken of. He is a cousin of Prince Albert, and a nephew of the Queen of Denmark. It is his intention, we hear, to visit the Australian colonies, and perhaps New Zealand. Captain Stanley Carr is well known at home and in Germany for the attention he has paid, since he left the army, twenty-four years ago, to pastoral and agricultural pursuits, being a member of most of the Agricultural Societies of England and Germany, in which last named place he possessed extensive tracts of country, where for the period mentioned he resided with his family, devoting his energies and fortune to the introduction of the most approved systems of husbandry and wool-growing. Recent political events determined him to sell his estates, and having chartered the Alfred, he is now on a visit of inspection here, accompanied by a number of his people, with a view to a permanent establishment either in South Australia or Port Phillip. Captain Carr

brings oat especial official introductions to Sir Henry Young, and we believe hia Excellency has also received a private letter of introduction from Earl Grey, in which Captain Carr is spoken of in the highest terms. We shall not much regret the political tempests of Europe so they bring us occasionally enterprising and intelligent settlers well versed in the growth and preparation of our staples ; and we trust Captaiu Carr will meet such a reception among us, and be so satisfied of the wealth and capabilities of our country as to induce him eventually to become a South Australian.

Corn Exchange, Monday, October 29. — Price of wheat remains nearly the same ; the best Kent and Essex was quoted at 51s. per quarter. Wool. — The latest advices, 24th October, speak of the wool market as having sustained a decline in ordinary wools of nearly one penny per lb.; but trade was brisk, and no further decline anticipated. Tallow had fallen three shillings per cwt.

The Cholera. — In the week ending the 26th October, the total number of deaths throughout Great Britain were seventy- eight.

The Queen Dowager. — In the early part of Thursday night her Majes'y had some refreshing sleep, but towards morning was greatly exhausted by the violence oi her cough, and remains rather more feeble than on Thursday.

Royal Visit to the Citt. — The inhabitants of London will hear with great regret that, by indisposition, which is fortunately not of a very serious character, her Majesty the Queen will be prevented from honoring the city with a visit to-morrow. On Saturday, in consequence of the reports in circulation respecting her Majesty's health, the Lord Mayor proceeded to Lord John Russell at Richmond, and subsequently to Windsor, where he was honoured with a personal interview with Bis Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Lordship was then, informed that her Majesty's medical advisers consider that it would be imprudent to expose her Majesty to the excitement and fatigue inseparable from her intended part in the proceedings of Tuesday ; and the loyal citizens of London will, therefore, have to endure the disappointment involved in the non-appearance of their Queen on that occasion. Her Majesty, it appears,, has been suffering from the complaint called the chicken-p'bx, but is now pronounced by Sir James Clarke to be convalescent.