LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 634, 30 August 1851, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Hobart Town Advertiser, Aug. 15. j Despatches were sent off on the 21 st of April, for the Governors of South and Western Australia. Her Majesty has proposed to erect a new National Gallery and offers a piece of ground in Kensington Gardens north of the Palace. A camp of cavalry is, says the Constitutionnel being established on a grand scale at Luneville ; the 6th and 9th cuirassiers, tbe 12th dragoons, the 4th lancers, a battery of 2d artillery, and detachments of the engineers, &c., have arrived. These troops have already executed some grand manoeuvres under the orders of General Reyan. The President of the Republic intends it is said to visit the camp, the regiments are to come to Paris and the vicinity. The provincial journals give several accounts of municipal elections, in which the Socialist candidates have been defeated by large majorities. The President of the Republic, on the report of the Minister of Marine, has awarded a silver medal of honour of the first class to Mr. Anderson, a master in the English royal navy commanding the coast guard station at Downderry, for saving, at the risk of his own -1. _ _ jC .1 77T7 jt P T» me, uie ctew 01 me x ieion, oi uayotiue, on the 15th January last. A private letter from Vienna announces that a very considerable augmentation will shortly be made to the Austrian army in Italy. Our letters confirm the account transmitted by telegraph from Madrid and Paris, that Marshal Saldanba had failed in occupyiug the fortress and city of Santarem, which was first entered by the King, and remained garrisoned with 2,500 troops, apparently faithful to the Queen’s Government. Saldanba was atLeira with 1000 men, and Colonial Joaquim Bento on tbe south side of the Tagus, marching from Caruche, intending’to cross the river about four or five leagues above Abrantes to join Saldanha. Oporto had not risen on the 10th instant. Saldanha’s cause was considered precarious, because of his having failed in his first attempt to occupy Santarem. It is nevertheless stated that the King’s troops could not be entirely relied upon. The Oporto Junta party were ready to rise at a moment’s warning from their chiefs, who were understood to be holding back until Saldauha should agree to their stipulations. This he bad at first refused to do, but it was thought his reverses would induce him to agree al once to the terms required. Colonels Franco and iviagalhaes had beeti dismissed from their commands. Other Colonels supposed to be implicated in Saldanha’s plans, still retained their commands in the King’s forces. The Duke of Terceira could not keep the field in consequence of an attack of gout. The run upon the bank of Lisbon had subsided, and its old notes had risen from three to ten per cent, discount.

The Cologne Gazette says that in the highest political circles al Berlin it is generally reported that Austria is ready to make many concessions to Prussia to gain her decided cooperation in making a stand against the protests of England and France on the incorporation question ; and adds, that it is by no means improbable the Prussian army, contninflv nritlk tkof A nctrin rrtmv kn in a Foot /-•-•• J ...... • w* •auOm.u, weeks again called out, as it was a few months ago, should France or England attempt to give effect to their protests. Bayeux Lace. —The Echo Bayeusain gives tbe following notice of a superb contribution to the Great Exhibition, just completed at Bayeux. After alluding to the Exposilion as a grand and noble idea about to be solemnly commemorated, the Echo says :— “ Our own locality will not be backward in the great movement which has agitated all parts of the civilised world. The lace manufacture, so long its pride, and which even in our day, notwithstanding the commercial vicissitudes we have experienced, gives employment to nearly 15,000 women in our own district and those immediately surrounding it,

will be nobly represented on the banks of the Thames, and will, we have no doubt, reflect honour to the town of Bayeux, already celebrated in England for the famous tapestry of Queen Mathilde, preserved in the National Museum. These patriotic hopes will assuredly be shared by those who like ourselves, have been permitted to examine the beautiful fabrics destined for the London Exposition, by Messrs. Lefebure and Pagny. Among tbe articles contributed by this firm is a superb parure in black lace, CODSIStIDg nF a larga square shawl, an ornamented flounce, more than twenty inches in depth, a berthe and a veil. This costume has been manufactured expressly for the Duchess of Somerset, a descendant of the royal and illustrious house of Stuart. Its beauty far exceeds anything of the kind we have before seen. The scarf especially, by its lightness and elegance, appears to be the work of fairy hands ; the shawl, distinguished by the richness of its composition, bears in each corner ♦La cypher of the Duchess of Somerset, and the family escutcheons united to the arms of England. The armorial quarterings, and the motto of the order of the Garter surrounding them, are executed with great ability. The same embellishments are worked on all articles comprising the parure. The designs for this magnificent production were furnished by M. Uouder, an artist of European reputation, who has been most fortunate in having his ideas beautifully carried out by M. Pagny.” The Echo concludes by expressing a belief that this work will be one of the most remarkable objects in the Exhibition, and cannot fail to place Mr. Pagny in the first rank of lace manufacturers.

[From the Lyttelton Times.'] An address has been issued, signed by 22 out of the 26 bishops, (the exceptions being the bishops of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Hereford, and Manchester), recommending those, who may have proposed the restoration of any observances practised in the Church prior to the Reformation, “to take a more just and ~ sober view of the true position of the Church ” to which they belong, and beseeching others “ who, by intentional omission, or by neglect and laxity, may have disturbed the uniformity, and Weakened the authority of the prescribed ritual, to strengthen the side of order by avoiding all nnnecessarv deviations from the Church’s rule.” “It would appear,” says the Express, “that even in the prelacy itself, there are two, and those antagonistic, classes of objections to the spirit, tone, and temper, of' the manifesto.”

A banquet was given at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, on the 2nd of April, by Conservative peers and commoners to Lord Stanley as tbe acknowledged leader of the party. Sir Thomas Baring. M.P., presided.