LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 615, 25 June 1851, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Hobart Town, Advertiser, June 3.] Her Majesty and the Royal Family were at Buckingham Palace. Parliament met on the 4th February. Her Majesty delivered the speech from the throne in person, as follows

My Lords and Gentlemen, —It is with great satisfaction that I again meet my Parliament and resort to your advice and assistance in the consideration of' measures which affect the welfare of our country. I continue to maintain the relations of peace and unity with foreign powers. It has been my endeavour to induce the States of Germany to carry into full effect the provisions of the treaty with Denmark, which was concluded at Berlin in the month of July last year, i am much gratified in being able to inform you that the German Confederation and the Government of Denmark are now engaged in fulfilling the stipulations of that treaty, and thereby putting an end to hostilities which at one time appeared full of danger to the peace of Europe. I trust that the affairs of Germany may be 1 arranged by mutual agreement in such a manner as to preserve the strength of the Confederation, and to maintain the freedom of its separate States. 1 have concluded with the King of Sardinia articles additional to the treaty of September 1841, and I have directed that those articles shall be laid before you. The Government of Brazil have taken new, and I hope efficient measures, for the suppression of the atrocious traffic in slaves. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, —I have directed the Estimates of the year to be prepared and laid before you without delay. They have been framed with a due regard to economy and to the necessity of the public service. My Lords and Gentlemen, —Notwithstanding the large reductions of taxation which have been effected in late years, the receipts ■of the Revenue have been satisfactory. The state of the Commerce and Manufactures of the United Kingdom has been such as to afford general employment to the labouring ■classes. I have to lament, however, the difficulties ■which are still felt by that important body among my people who are owners and occupiers of land. But it is my confident hope that the prosperous condition of other classes of my subjects will have a favourable effect in diminishing those difficulties and promoting the interests of agriculture. The recent assumption of Ecclesiastical titles conferred by a foreign power has excited strong feeling in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me expressing their attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumption -should be resisted. I have assured them of my resolution to maintain the rights of my -Crown and the independence of the nation against al] encroachment from whatever quarter it may proceed. I have at the same time expressed my earnest desire and firm deiermination, under God’s blessing, to maintain unimpaired the religious liberty which is so justly prized by the people of this country. It will be for you to consider the measure which will be laid before you on this subject. The administration of justice in the several -departments of law and equity will, no doubt, ■receive the serious attention of Parliament, and I feel confident that the measures which may be submitted with a view of improving that administration will be discussed with that mature deliberation which important changes in the highest Courts of Judicature in the Kingdom demand. . A measure will be laid before you providing for the establishment of a system of Registration of Deeds and Instruments relating to the transfer of property. This measure is the result of enquiries which I have caused to be made into the practicability of adopting a system of Registration calculated to give security to titles, and to diminish the causes of litigation to which they have hitherto been liable, and to reduce the cost of transfers.

To combine the progress of improvement with the stability of our institutions will, I am confident, be your constant care. We may esteem ourselves fortunate that we can pursue without disturbance the course of calm and peaceable amelioration, and we have every cause to be thankful to Almighty God for the measure of tranquillity and happiness which ■has been vouchsafed to us. The Earl of Effingham in the House of Lot ds moved the address in answer, which was seconded by Lord Crcmorne. The address, which was a mere echo of the speech, after a short debate, was agreed to unanimously. In the House of Commons, the address in answer was moved by the Marquis of Kildare, briefly adverting to the topics alluded to by Her Majesty. It was seconded by Mr. Reto, and after some debate, agreed to. ■ ■ - The most important news is' contained iii the following summary from the Home News, of the 24th February :— The resignation of Lord John Russell and his Cabinet is the event of the fort-

night—our latest and most pregnant news. On Friday afternoon he met his colleagues, and after three quarters of an hour of divided councils, left them for the presence of the Queen, and placed his resignation in Her Majesty’s hands. We have had proofs of his growing weakness since the commencement of the Session, and the record we now afford of the loss of Parliamentary confidence and sympathy, as demonstrated in the proceedings of the last ten nights, will sufficiently account for the catastrophe. Rumours or divisions in the cabinet had for some time preceded the opening of Parliament; but when did a session open without such rumours ? However, a disagreement with his subalterns, although it may explain some halting and confusion in their proceedings, does not account for Lord John Russell’s resignation —for his colleagues resign together with him. The anti-Papal bill made him some determined enemies, who resolved on every occasion to oppose and thwart the asperser, as Lord John was considered, of their religion, and the reviver of persecution; but it is not to their hands that his fall is attributable. The conditional rivals of the party in power—all the conservatives and protectionists by common consent absented themselves from the debate and division on which Lord John Russell was beaten by two to one by his own friends and followers ; so that neither the -income tax, nor his miserable Budget, wretched as it is, condemned him, nor any of the various causes which the journals in his favour have advanced. The Court spent the first week of the fortnight at Windsor; since they came to town they have visited the Exhibition once, and witnessed experiments to prove its strength ; they have visited the Zoological Gardens once, and they have devoted their evenings to the theatres, the Haymarket, and once or twice the Princess’s. The difficulty of the present crisis is not the less felt, because it imposes a heavy duty on the Queen, at a moment of peculiar delicacy, in a domestic sense.

A legal opinion against the validity of the Royal Commission has been obtained by the university authorities of Cambridge. A case for Oxford was before Mr. Bethell, Q.C. Among the deaths of the fortnight are Xaveria, the mother of the Cardinal Arch‘bishop of Westminster, on the 7th, at the house of her daughter, the Countess Gabrielli, at Fano, in Italy; Sir W. Winnectt, Governor of the Gold Coast; the Viscount de Gardinville aged 113 years; Burns’s friend Thompson, at 92; Mrs. Drummond, mother of the late Secretary for Ireland ; Major-General Power, R.A., after 5G years’ service; John James Audubon, the Ornithologist, and several distinguished persons are among the lamented. The most violent agitation is rousing Ireland against the Ministerial Bill upon ecclesiastical titles. The earliest outward demonstration beyond the voice of the press, was at the Rotunda, Dublin, on Thursday last, and it was remarkable for the presence of the Earl of Milturn and Henry Grattan, M.P., Protestants, to join their Catholic brethren in a strong remonstrance against a wrong offered to all Irishmen. The venerable Catholic Archbishop had circulated a letter to his clergy asking the prayers of their flocks against “ a persecution under the pretence of resisting Papal agression,” and it was stated by Archdeacon Hamilton that the Archbishop of Dublin (he would persist in calling him by that title in spite of the bill), had also called on the priests of his diocese to denounce from their altars the Ministerial measure. A conference of the whole hierarchy is to be held on the subject. The Commission for the examination of the Dublin university includes no Catholic name, to the great disgust of the organs of that side. In France, the rumours of the illness and even the death of the Count de Chambord (Henry IV) have been very satisfactorily negatived by the appearance of a letter to M. de Berryer, an autograph of the prince, proving his great ability and his patriotism. It highly praises the speech of M. de Berryer on the Changarnier question, and hints a programme of large concessions and conciliation on his restoration. The sensation it produced on its appearance in a journal in the interest of the Elyste was singular, and it is expected that Napoleon will answer it in a public appeal. The coalition has been renewed; and the President s dotation refused by a large majority to whose will he bows, absolutely refusing offers of a subscription from many quarters. has given rise to hints of pay from nussia, and from other families, whose interest it is thought to be to prolong the present state of things in France, as telling ultimately to their advantage; but this foolish scandal is contradicted' by

the direct and quiet way in which he is reducing his household, dispensing with state appearances, giving up his public receptions, laying down his carriages, and selling his princely stud of horses. Muzzled and cabin’d as he is, he has arranged the magistracy and other local agencies of the Government on a footing no longer hostile to himself or devoted to the enemies of order. The high commands in the army he is removing, and placing smaller divisions in the hands of his devoted partizans; this is a policy merely defensive in a personal sense, and he is not unmindful of the dangers to which France is exposed from the powerful coalition in Germany and the threatenings against her neighbours. Forces are marched regularly and continually on the frontiers of Germany, Switzerland, and Piedmont. The real cause of all this evil to their native countries are the fugitives from the recoil in Germany and other countries, from the excess of revolutionary license in 1848, and their renewed intention to attempt another crusade of liberalism in 1851. Mazzini and Garibaldi, the embodied spirits of the administrative and war like merits of the Roman Republic, are arranging and devising a new invasion of, and revolt in, Italy with a view to the overthrow of the Pope, and the restoration of the republic I How fearful to think that such conspiracies find support and assistance from men of power and wealth in countries that have been providentially saved from the curse of revolution. All the evil passions, also, arc aroused in their support, and their plots must lead to much mischief, of which the threatened coercion of the Foreign Powers is certainly not the least.

A quarrel that more nearly concerned us and India, is that between the Porte and Pasha of Egypt, of which later news than ours will precede us in the East. As we are informed from Vienna, the Sultan has peremptorily demanded of the Viceroy of Egypt the reduction of his army to 20,000 men, and to place his fleet at the absolute disposal of the Porte ; to reduce the landtax by one third ; to accept a resident General Inspector from Turkey, and to regulate the revenues of the Egyptian princes. Abbas Pasha, it is said, answered these demands emphatically by an order for the levy of 40,000 land troops and 15,000 seamen, and the expression of a determination to resist Turkish aggression. Our “ancient ally,” the sublime Sultan, is in a position by no means enviable. Russia pursues with inveterate constancy her insidious advances; the turbulent Pasha defies his Suzerain, and may repeat the experiment of Ibrahim. Another expashalic, renowned Greece, which the Palmerstonian policy has bound to Russia, is in a state of absolute revolt; and Austria, unforgiving, threatens encroachment. It seems that England will be called upon to protest once more.

On the 7th February, Lord John Russell obtained leave to bring in a bill “to prevent the assumption of certain Ecclesiastical titles in respect to places in the United Kingdom. The subject was debated three days, and on the division on the 14th February the numbers were— For the introduction of the bill 395 Against the introduction 63 Majority 332 On the 20th February, Mr. Locke King moved for leave to bring in a bill to “ Eqmu lize the Franchise in Counties and Boroughs, by giving a right of, voting to occupiers,of tenements of the annual value of L 10.” After a debate, the house divided, and the numbers were for Mr. King’s motion 100 against 52. In consequence of this defeat, Lord John Russell announced his intention of postponing the Ways and Means on the Income Tax until the 24th February, and on the 22d the Times announced the resignation of the Ministry. The Home News on the absorbing topic, says—“ It was by Lord John Russell’s advice that the Queen sent for Lord Stanley, Who attended her Majesty with Mr. Disraeli, but in a few hours these parties were understood to have declined the task of forming a cabinet. At a late hour on Saturday, Sir James Graham and the Earl of Aberdeen were summoned, and hopes are given and entertained that personal differences will be sunk m the earnest desire to form a strong ministry for the good of the country. If the new ministry fail, however, it will not be tor the reason to which the Globe assigns the failure of the Russell ministry, they will not perish “for the want of opposition." it appeared that it was Prince Albert who wrote to the Earl of Aberdeen, at five 0 clock, that the Earl was absent, having left- town for Blackhcath, and it was nine

o’clock in the evening before I could present himself at the pJ? ' Lor <! The Advertiser gives the f o n | at two o’clnnk nn oil °Wln? J. ,1 We a re-u M^;rf X~« 6 correct information may be expecuj? that there IS every reason coalmon ministry will be framed<l Russell still retained the offi ce ter of the Crown. The Duke of £<| Sir James Graham, Mr. Cardan e 'M,| Sydney Herbert are, it is saidT u anii K nent members of the new mink. BiJohn Russell and Sir James Grah^ 5 it is said, to an understanding on ? of a new cabinet, at a late hour on evening, and afterwards had an aJ; M, l the Queen. audle »ce»il[ So well have all the gaged m the conference kept thei that it is still disputed, whether Si T" 1 ' Graham has been charged with the tion of a cabinet, or whether th! confined to Lord John Russell "LT? deen, or Sir J. Graham. It is’curr P d i ported that Lord Aberdeen has roV? toke office at all. Mr . GW X expected, and his speedy arrival may 3 portant in the present conjuncture of a fe >e Times remarks on the awkwardi the time for a turn out.” “ Busi neS! for to have been over by the Ist of Antill the shows of the Exhibition were to st J but what is to be done now when it is Ail conjectural whether we shall get a J Parliament together before the first shipd of visitors disembarks at Dover ? ers may see more of our institutions thamU reckoned on or we either.” The Herald boldly announces ** the factk that at the hour at which we write, the missions to form a Ministry remains i B H Stanley’s hands.” This is the sum of the news connected wii the resignation of Ministers. At the tfe the post closed, the new Ministry was att formed. The funds suffered a decline in consequecn of the resignation of Ministers, but slightk recovered before the close of business. Th last quotations were 96 to | for money, ui 96| to | for the 11th March. OnthelBth February, Sir William Mok worth presented a petition, with 1,700 si>. natures, from the northern division of Vn Diemen s Land. It emanated from the Bisbj Archdeacon, Clergy, Magistracy, and othe: inhabitants of that Colony. The petilioi complained that the Colonial Office had brota faith with the colony by continuing transyntation. They stated that the breach of H was derogatory to British honor, and o’esltslive of all attachment to the Imperial Gover* ment. They prayed for the cessation of® sportation. lie then gave notice that h should found on the petition a motion for lie abolition of transportation to Van Diemeo'i Land. The house was counted out al a early hour, and adjourned. Her Majesty and the P.oyal Familj visited the Crystal Palace on the 15th February. The packages for the exhibition are begining to arrive rapidly. The ph® of admission have been fixed as follows Tickets of the first class are to be saleable at three guineas for a gentleman’s, and lw for a lady’s, ticket, and these vouchers will procure admission at all times when the Exhibition is open to the public. On the first day of all, the right of entrance willbe long to the holders of these season tickets exclusively, no offer of money whatever being receivable at the doors on this co casion. On the second and third days® price of admission for the day only will W Fl ; and on the fourth day ss; at wb' f sum the entrance fee will continue station' ary for three weeks. On the 22nd the price will fall to 1s; so to remain ing the period of exhibition, with thej ception of Fridays and Saturdays week, on the former of which days the ‘ of admission will be always 2s. 6d., 81 on the latter ss. , The Army— 99th foot W. gent to be ensign by purchase vice Gap promoted. The Troops in the Colonies.--regiments stationed in the Australian onies and New Zealand are to be ie to six service companies each, and to a four company depot for duty at , It is expected that the greater nu jQ aI1 j the men instead of returning to hn D will be induced to become — ■ . -—— -- n-fl 11 f