LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 637, 10 September 1851, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

In the House of Commons, the Smithfield Enlargement Bill had been thrown out on the second readina hv 101 —i .v_ cs_:.i_ — O * astt, aim lUU UHIHUfield Removal Bill carried by 230 to 65. It was said the latter would be thrown out by the Lords.

From a return printed by order of the House of Commons, it appears that 116,925 tons of guano were imported into the United Kingdom last year, being more than was imported in any year since 1841, excepting the yearlB4s, when 283,300 tons were imported. On Tuesday, a return to Parliament was printed, showing that on the Ist of January last, there were registered 299 steam vessels in the Uni ! ed Kingdom, about oue-half of which are built of iron.

The office of vice-chancellor of the county palatine of Lancaster, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Page Wood, will, we have reason to belive, be conferred on Mr. Headlam of the Chancery Bar. Lord Viscount Gough had taken possession of the princely mansion and its lands of Killimoon, one of the first residences in the county Tyrone. His Lordship paid £91,000. It yields £4,500 a-year. Some time since the timber alone would have yielded £20,000. The religious and tract societies of Loudon are preparing to avail themselves of the number of visitors to the Exhibition, to distribute an immense number of tracts ths visitors.

A young girl named Marie Plurieux was acquitted at Perigeux, of having stabbed a man who bad seduced her, and then refused to marry her. > - Great preparations were still in progress*i n reference to the monster exhibition. Th e

Bishop of London and bis clergy were busy making arrangement for the services of the Church in various foreign languors,.and the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge were rendering effective assistance. Thirty-six needlewomen had left for gvdncv in the Malacca. J "Mr. Roebuck, Q.C., received a speciak.retainer of three hundred guineas for defending the Birkenhead rioters. Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and his wife, lormaliy refused to accept the Crown of Greece for their eldest son, after the death of the King Otho, unless Article 40 of the Greek Constitution, which requires that the King should profess the Greek relieion, be modified. A dreadful occurience took place at Walton on the 22nd April. A clergyman named Smith shot a gentleman named Armstrong, under the impression that he was going to force an entrance into bis bousse. A verdict of manslaughter..;Was returned against Mr. Smith, who was in such an excited state as to be considered temporary insane. The anticipations which existed some few weeks since as to the increase which would probably take place in the Royal family during the present summer are uot likely to be realized. The frequent visits of the Court physician, Sir James Clark, to the palace about a fortnight since, will be a sufficient indication of the circumstances which have led to this unexpected result. We are glad to be enabled to add, however, that her Maj'esty is now enjoying excellent health. Much interest bad been excited by a trial of the case Doyle v. Wright, in the Lord Chancellor’s Court. The case related to a Miss Talbot, niece of the present Earl of Shrewsbury, who had been brought up under the guardianship of Dr. Doyle, who was appointed to that post by the will of her father, and educated at Taunton Lodge, a school at which most of the higher ranks of Roman Catholics are brought up. There she remained until 1850, when she attained the age of nineteen. Dr. Doyle now petitioned for an increase of the sum set apart for her maintenance—while Mr. Craven Berkeley, the step-father of Miss Talbot, petitioned for her removal from the guardianship of Dr. Doyle; and the address of Mr. Berkeley’s counsel set forth that the conduct of Dr. Dovle was not free from suspicion, that he sought to persuade his ward to .take the veil and thus surrender her property to ths uses of the Romish Church. In course of argument on the case a number of strange circumstances were adduced, relative to the seclusion in which Miss Talbot was brought up—an attempt by the Earl of Shrewsbury, her uncle, to bring about a marriage between her and a French cadet— counterworked by the design of her guardian to obtain her hand for a young Englishman, and his subsequent machinations to induce her to become a nun. These allegations were met by affidavits, from the Superior of the conventual establishment, and others* and the decision of the Court was given virtually in favour of neither party ; the prayer of Mr. Berkeley being dismissed with coasts, and the heiress being removed, and placed under the guardianship of Lady Newburgh.