LATEST ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 527, 21 August 1850, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Threatened Resignation of the -Ministry. — A meeting of Members of Parliament, supporters of the present Government, took place on Tuesday, at Downing-street. About 160 were present. Lord John Russell addressed the meeting. He told them, that if Mr. Hutts motion for that evening relative to the slave trade were carried, he would certainly resign the office he held. Mr. Hume did not see the necessity of Lord John Russell giving up office, even if Mr. Hutt carried his motion. Lord Palmerston repeated what Lord John Russell had stated as to the course he should himself follow. Lord Henry Vane and Mr. E. Denison both spoke in favour of Mr. Hutt'* motion. The meeting then separated, the general feeling being, that it would prove matter of grave consideration how to vote on this occasion. — Exeter Flying Post, March 21.

The Ministry. — In reference to what appears in the first column of onr fourth page

we observe by this morning's papers, tbat Mr. Hutts motion was negatived last night by a majority of 232 to 154. Thus Ministers retain office, and their threat cannot be looked upon otherwise than an uncalled for display of bravado. — Ibid. Wreck op the Royal Adelaide. — We regret to announce one of the most melancholy casualties which has occurred upon our coast for some years past. The Royal Adelaide, plying between the ports of Cork and London, left the former city on Wednesday afternoon with a full cargo of goods, and about 250 passengers, touched off Plymouth on Thursday evening; left that port for London on Friday morning at three o'clock, and was totally lost on the Tongue Sand off Margate, at eleven o'clock ou Saturday night, when there is too much reason to fear every soul on board perished. The Royal Adelaide was between 400 and 500 tons burthen, and had two engines of 45 horse power each. She was commanded by Captain J. Batty, of Cork, who has been in the service of the Dublin Steam Packet Company upwards ,of twenty years. The crew, in addition to the captain, consisted of three mates, one carpenter, two engineers, two coal trimmers, six firemen, six men before the mast, a steward, stewardess, and a cook. As to the number of passengers on board at the time of the wreck, no certain clue can be obtained until intelligence reaches London from the Company's agent at Plymouth, where a great many of the deck passengers frequently land. The majority of the passengers brought by this route are of the poorer class, and in some voyages nearly three hundred are brought over. — Atlas, April 6.

I The Parliamentary Recess. — The House of Lords adjourned on Monday to Thursday, the 11th of April, and the House of Commons adjourned on Wednesday to Monday, the Bth of April. We believe the government is in a tolerably forward state with its measures for the session. — Leeds Mercury, March 30.

Order of Business after Easter. — Lord John Russell stated, that he hopes after Easter to go through the Ordnance and Navy Estimates on Monday, the Bth April ; to take the Irish Franchise Bill and the Australian : Bill on the succeeding Thursday and Friday '. — getting through the committee with one ' before resuming committee on the other; and < to bring on the Stamp Duties Bill on Mon- ] day, the 15th April. He had no objection, I however, to take the Stamp Duties Bill on •< Friday ; but that would be the utmost altera- I tion he could make. — Spectator, March 30. i

Official Salaries. — Lord John Russell { has announced his intention of moving for a \ committee of the House of Commons, to in- t quire into the salaries of the judges and of 1 such public officers at home and in the diplo- i made service as have seats in either House of i Parliament. The inquiry will do good ; and i though we do not anticipate any very exten- \ sive reductions, it may be hoped that the na- 1 tion will either save its money or receive satis- i factory reasons why it should not. The most £ important thing is, that Lord John shall give t a committee that will do justice both to the r public purse and the public service. — Leeds a Mercury, March 30. f

The Royal Visit to Holyrood. — The Scotsman announces, from a source on which the utmost reliance may be placed, that, according to present arrangements, her Majesty and Prince Albert will, in visiting Scotland in August next, reside at Holyrood Palace for either two or three days ; but whether this will take place in going to, or returning from Balmoral, is not yet decided upon.

Lord Gough. — A magnificent banquet was given to Viscount Gough, by the East India Company, on Saturday last at the London Tavern. Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel were among, the very large number of eminent guests, and were speakers. In proposing Lord Goughs health, Sir Archibald Galloway, the chairman, referred to the "full thirty times and more" that he has fought for his country, and to his gallant Eighty-seventh, "the captors of the first eagle and the first banner of France ;" and he recall d that entire devotion, singleness of mind, and faith, which have been at once his characteristics and the causes of his success. Lord Gough tendered bis acknowledgments with embarrassed warmth ; made kind and hearty reference to his companions in arms, Lord Hardinge of the one service, and Sir William Parker of the other ; and sat down, wishing he had the power to do more justice to his feelings. — Spectator, March 30.

Total Destruction op St. Anne's Church, Limehouse, by Fire. — This splendid structure, one of Sir C Wren's, undoubtedly tbe finest ecclesiastical building in the East-end of London, and which formed so prominent an object for miles down the river, was, we regret to state, totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. As may be generally known, the sacred edifice stood at the

extremity of the Commercial-road East, on the South side, and adjacent to the Black wall railway. At about nine o'clock an alarm was raised by some persons who were passing outside the burial ground in the Commercialroad, that the roof of the splendid pile was on fire, a body of smoke being seen to arise from that part of the building nearest the bel- ' fry or tower. The fire-engines were speedily on the spot, but not in time to prevent the entire destruction of the building. — Atlas, March 30. GreatFireatManchbster — £100,000 Damage. — During the night of Thursday week, one of the largest home- trade warehouses in Manchester, that of Mr. J. P. Westhead, M.P., & Co., (late Wood & Westhfad), was destroyed by fire, and property to the amount of nearly £100,000 was consumed. — Leeds Mercury , March 30. The Weather. — We are here in the midst of a second winter, and it appears, by what we can learn from various parts of the country, that there have been severe frosts ami heavy snow' falls in England, Scotland, and Ireland. In and about Dublin, on Tuesday, the air was intensely cold, and snow had fallen over the whole district. From Scotland we have similar intelligence. In Manchester and its vicinity snow fell on Monday and Tuesday, and the same wintry mantle, we learn, clothes the fields in numerous other places. — Leeds Mercury, March 30.