LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, June 6.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 509, 19 June 1850, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, June 6.]

The Ministry were firm in their seats. The Protectionist amendments on the Address to the Queen were defeated by large majorities in both Houses. ' Lord John Russell had evidently taken colonial matters into his own especial charge. It was the intention of Government to push the Australian Colonies Bill through Parliament, if possible. This is the Bill which was criticised in the colonial papers last year as the "Australian Colonies Bill No. 2." It constitutes a Legislative Conncil similar to the one at present in existence, and gives power to the legislature thus formed to make any changes in the constitution of the colony that may he deemed desirable. The first reading of the Bill was opposed, and on the 18th February Mr. Scott made a substitutive motion that the further consideration of the Bill be postponed until papers were laid upon the table. A summary of the first part of this debate reached Liverpool by the electric telegraph in time for the papers of the 19th ; but unfortunately the result was not given in time for publication : but there was every probability that the motion would be rejected and the Bill be proceeded with. Mr. Adderley introduced a Bill, giving Parliament the power to declare to what colonies convicts should be sent ; but he met with very little support. On the 15th February, Mr. Hayter, in reply to a question from Mr. Scott, said that no contract for conveying the mails to Sydney by Steam had been entered into, although the subject was still under consideration. In the obituary we notice the names of Lord Godolphin, Lord Jeffrey, Sir Gordon Bremer, and Dr. Ebrington. Trade was remarkably good for the season. The manufacturers in wool, cotton^and silk were all busy.. The price of wool was maintained. The February wool sales had commenced. The Liverpool Standard of February 19 says ; — "Our wool market has been rather quiet this week, owing to the buyers being attracted to the London sales. As we anticipated, these sales are progressing at an advance of Id. to 2d. per lb. over the prices obtained at the last series. Imports for the week ending 18th instant — Foreign 13; Irish, 129; Scotch, 16; total, 158 bales." It must be remembered that but a small portion of the wool which arrives in England in January and February is first class, for the prices do not appear to be so good as a further advance of two pence a pound would lead us to expect. Tallow remained dull, and had a tendency downwards. The price quoted was 375. 6d. per cwt. The Foreign news was not very important. The French government had a large majority in the chambers. In all parts of Europe there was a strong desire for peace, and an anxiety to support any government that could ensure it. The conduct of the Foreign Office towards Greece was much disapproved of. It was not considered that the cause assigned by Lord Palmerston was a sufficient justification for the extreme measures tha^had been taksn. Colonjsation. — The word " colonisation" in the advertised contents of the Edinburgh Review lent considerable anticipatory interest to the number out to-day, the expectancy being that it would indicate some intention at the Colonial Office as to dealing with the new confederacy for the overthrow of that establishment. The article in question, however, though extending to upwards of sixty pages, is entirely silent on the desired point, being only so far valuable in that respect as to foreshadow a government resolution very largely to assist emigration from state /unds during the coming session. No allusion, however, is.

tntde 'to the Sydney Herbert scheme, the money towards which has as yet reached only 3517,000 ; a vast sum, certainly, all things considefed, but adequate only to the shipment of one thousand of the class whom it has been raised for, and that minus their outfit. There is a variety of interesting suggestions as to the means of raising national funds for national emigration, through the instrumentality of the "Poor-law, by arrangement with the landlords of the districts to be relieved, and with the colonies to be benefited, and otherwise ; and seeing how many of the Ministry have subscribed to the Herbert project, there can be little question that colonisation in the sense here implied will form a very prominent item in the legislative attempts of the Parliament of 1850, be the issue of the conflict with the " Office" what it may. The writer makes no reference to the dismemberment ; but winds up bis encouraging paper with the cheerful and pregnant axiom — u the consummation of our colonial empire is necessary for our domestic peace." — London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, Jan. 14. The Treacherous Georget. — The widow of the Austrian General Hentzi, who was killed in the siege of Buda, of which fortress he was the commandant, has published some memoirs, from which it appears the General was in secret communication with Georgey, and that Buda only held out to give General Georgey a pretext for beseiging it, and so destroy the plan of Dembinski, which was to march on Vienna, and cause insurrection in the hereditary states. — Globe. Narrow Escape. — In May, whilst the •ship Ayrshire was crossing the line, her captain fell overboard. As an attendant shark -made towards him, a gallant Newfoundland dog jumped into the waves, siezed the captain, and dragged him to the ship's side in the nick of time. AH the prey obtained by the shark amounted to half the dog's tail. — Liverpool Albion. The use of Chloroform. — Rumour j says, that within the last ten days a lady in labour, near London, has perished from under such peculiar and affecting domestic circumstances that it is probable the history of the case will never be recorded in the public journals. From the coma produced by the inhalation of the poison it is known that she never recovered, but soon died in the state of insensibility which it had produced. — Literary Gazette, Our contemporary narrates an instance of insanity arising in the case of a young mother from a similar «ause.