LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 630, 16 August 1851, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 21.] Prior to the departure of H.M.S. Calliope' from the Cape of Good Hope, the steamer,

bringing news to the middle of April, had arrived. No English mail has arrived in Sydney, but we have been favoured with a London paper of April 12th.

The ministry was still in office, but was daily getting weaker. It will be remembered that Lord John Russell, on the 24th February, said that it was impossible for him to continue in office when, on an important question, he could only command a majority of fourteen. On the 11th April he had a still smaller majority.

On the motion for going into committee on the Assessed Taxes Bill, Mr. D’lsraeli moved as an amendment, “ That in any relief to be granted by the remission or adjustment of taxation, doe regard should be paid to the distressed condition of the owners and occupiers of land in the United Kingdom.” There was a spirited debate of six hours, when there were— For going intocommittee .263 For the amendment ••....250 Ministerial majority ...... 13 A second resignation was expected. A conservative dinner was given to Lord Stanley, at which be announced what was considered his semi-official declaration, that if again called upon, he was prepared to undertake the task of forming a Ministry. The only other Parliamentary business of importance which we notice is that Lord John Russell had obtained leave to bring in a Bill for altering the oaths taken by members of Parliament, in order to admit Jews, by a majority of 166 to 98.

The Funds remained buoyant at 96. We take the following from the Morning Herald, April 12th:— Wool Market.—This week’s imports of wool are 461 bales from the Cape, 13 from Hamburgh, and 60 from Bombay. The supplies offering in the private contract market are very moderate. Nevertheless, the demand is inactive, at unaltered quotations. Tallow Market.—As scarcely any speculative purchases have taken place this week, our market is inactive, at the late decline. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 395, 6d. to 40s.—the latter figure for fine. Town tallow, 38s. 6d. 395. per cwt, net cash; rough fat, 2s. per 81b. The late contract sales are estimated as 2600 casks. Firm advices have reached us from St. Petersburg. This week’s imports are 25 casks from Antwerp. We notice the following deaths of distinguished persons :—The Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Countess Spencer, Sir Alexander Hood, General Sir D. Hill, and Admiral Nicolas.

[From the Sydney Morning Her aW, July 28.] We regret ts observe that, in answer to a question whether it was intended to send a steamer to endeavour to ascertain whether Captain Austin’s expedition in search of Sir John Franklin was safe, it was replied that upon the fullest consideration the Lords of the Admiralty had arrived at the conclusion that the time had arrived when it was their duty to risk no more lives in that-service. The House was not to gu into committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles’ Bill until the 2nd of May, after the Easter holidays. Sir Samuel Romilly had been appointed Master of the Rolls; Sir A. Cockburn, At-torney-General ; and Mr. Page Wood, Solicitor General.

Un Monday morning, 7th April, a serious fire took place in the Ranelagh road, Thames Bank, Pimlico, London, consuming buildings to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds. These buildings were newly erected by a Mr. Harrison, for the reception of visitors to the Great Exhibition. On Thursday morning, April 10, an alarming fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Gordon & Sons, Seedsmen, Fenchurch-street, London. New York, on the 16th ult., was visited by a severe gale, which continued, accompanied by rain, hail, and snow, until the 18th, without intermission, raising the Hudson River to a higher level than for seven years past. Se--1 veral disasters occurred among the shipping. Madle. Lind left New Orleans on the 10th ult. for St. Louis, where the first ticket of her concert sold for about £3O. From Mississipi we learn that a negro, . having committed an outrage upon the person of a white lady and afterwards murdered her and her son, had been burnt alive by the citizens, who turned out en masse. Princess Augusta of Wurtemburg, third daughter of the reigning King by his second marriage, is about to espouse Prince Hermann of Saxe Weimar, captain in the Wurtemburg Life Guards, and younger brother of Prinr* Edward, who is in the English Grenadier Guards. The first rails on the Panama Railroad were laid on the 24th February. The Siecle, Peuple de 1850, and National Paris newspapers, were sentenced on Friday —the first two to 5001. fine each, and the

third lo 1000 f., for infraction of the law on signatures, A sale of fifteen bulls, of the Durham race, took place a few days since at the experimen- • tai establishment at Pin, in France. The prices obtained varied from 1050 f. to 2110 f.; the average being about 1524 f. for each animal. Ao earthquake .took place at Rhodes on the 28th of February, and along the Anatolia coast of Asia Minor, which has caused the loss'of 1,000 lives, chiefly at Marmorica and Melasjik.