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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 628, 9 August 1851, Page 4

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From, the Hobart Town Advertiser, July 15.] : We have received a file of English papers; to the,l2th ; Aptjl, by the' way of the Cape of Good Hope. • ’* Her Majesty and the Royal Family, were at Buckingham Palace, and all in the enjoyment of excellent health. They were to leave for Windsor on the 16th to remain a fortnight. The Lord Mayor gave his annual bariquet to the Ministry on the 9th April at the Mansion House. ; .17;;:?:

Mr. Chubb has received instructions from the executive committee of the Great Exhibition;' to' manufacture an. apparatus (according to a design submitted by him) for the safe custody of the Koh-i-nor diamond. Theplhri adopted, while providing for the complete security of the gem, will allow a perfect view of its;lu?ttrius beauty to be had. '' ' The income tax, has been renewed for xroiarQ lati/va* ’.J t/L if I;’? •< Louis Napoleon has most indefat.igably continued his attempts to construct s Parliament iar/Cabinet, but each new combination falls to pieces at the very moment triumph sqems certain. It is' asserted that he had nearly succeeded in framing d Fould and Baroche Ministry, o. In .Austria and Bavaria the Roman Catholic hierarchy are making great exertions to extend and consolidate their power ' , The differences 'between ‘the ’sardiiiihn' -overnment and the Pope are, it is said, about' to be amicably arranged. ' ' ~ ! u e 5^ r ® at Float at Birkenhead was operied on the 10th April. It covers a space of dbout Z oOjcres and is capable of affording more 'acthan, any dock in Europe. • The'Morning 'Advertiser of the lOth'kpnl “ e . nl * on J ® a rumour > that the Duke of folk'bad' been converted -to the' : Presbytdiian religion. . v.-' - J T?. In t^. e Ji? D “, se Commons on the 10th Wiiljatn Moleswqrth, moved<*»Tha'' ,t . 13 T“ ion of lliis House, that steps should benaken to -relieve the country from its present civil and military; expenditures on account of .the colonies, and at the same time, to give, tq:the inhabitants ample power

for. their, self) government from .hat Imperial affairs which 118 ,inseparable,,, iruhuty i oocupaflonlf - Atte, . , '" the motion wqs adjourned. William Grey Smythe, a B ttr „ . practice, about 60. years of X 8 “ the Central Criminal, Court fo?. r ’ - WM M«<K and seducingi found guilty and transported for n?. 81,Is ’"»t Mr. Pago oral, has been .returned for Oxf«.i i opposition., j ; •. . According, to the News : O f!\ t C the 6th April, tffiThe Roman CatuT°? l( < abilities Bill” paased by a i The. SultanofTurkey had refuse to the demands of Austria to and his companions in exije >from thel°’ B,,ti of liberatioto, and 4hei Austrian . ferred.to Vienna, for afresh instructions te ‘ Marshal Soult is dangerously ii]-,* slight hopes are entertained of bls r«o In case the reigning Duke has no children, dies -witboutheirs the L* son of Prince Albert succeeds to the £ ment of the Duchyj ; ? . ; The frequent visits.df Sir James c-A Her Majesty indicate the approachv event “in which: the nation feels deenk! esU” ; In the House of Commons, ontheSi March, Lord John Russell stated that it** not the intention of Ministers to alter o--dify the order issued in 1847 by lirdZ relative to the precedence of the R o |2 taholic prelates in the colonies.

A strike among the workmen at the Cm. tai Palace occurred on the 10th April. TiL room would soon bo filled by others’ and ft painting and decorations would be .with rapidity; - - ■ . . The large crystal decanter from France fe' the Exhibition was broken being ’J shipped at Folkstone Harbour; ’- : The 75 packages for thx Exhibition Iron Van Diemen’s Land are ackhowledgedin th papers of the Ist of April. : ps-i s. Consols, 11th April; 95f to |, closing t| the last figure. , . Some discussion had taken place respecting Ceylon. Lord John Russell declared till, until Mr. Baillie’s charges against theW istry bad been disposed of, he would notgj on with the'budget; but as the original evidence taken on the matter had been sent U Ceylon without a copy having been takeii, th hon. gentlemap declined to proceed in the matter. Lord Torrington bad given notict of his intention to move for a Committeeol the House of Lords to enquire into his conduct. ' .••

The following letter has been written by the Queen’s Command, by Sir George Grey Secretary of State for the Home department to the Archbishop of Canter*, bury:—: "Whitehall, April 1,1851. “My Lord Archbishpp,—l have received the Queen’s commands to transmit to your Grace the accompanying Address, which ba been presented to her Majesty, signed by a large number of lay members of the Church of England and Ireland, includingmany members of both Houses of Parliament. “ Her Majesty places full confideuce.in s your Grace’s desire to use such ; meant as are within your power to maintain the purity of the doctrines taught by the clergy of the Established Church, and discourage and/ prevent lunovatious in the ruude of conducting the services of the Church not sanctioned by law or general usage, and calculated to create dissatisfaction and alarm among a numerou body of its members. ' ; t .. ; , “I am, therefore, commanded to place tbit Address in your'Grace’s hands, and to reque»i that it may be communicated to the .Ajtbbishop of York, and to the .suffragan bishop in England apd Wales who, her Majesty? not. doubt, will concur with your Grace io wl endeavour, by a judicious exercise of tbw f authority and ' influence, to uphold the and simplicity of the'faith ariff worship.« W Reformed Church, and to reconcile differs® among its members injurious id its peape 8“ usefulness. ' ' '■/ '.'-'t, ■ ‘M have the hqnor to be, . ?My Lord - “ Xou F Grace’s,obdt..sß.rvh,.r''': ?.. . -/■ ft O- “ His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury