LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 681, 11 February 1852, Page 4

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Lyttelton Time?, February 7.] The English newspapers just received contain much interesting news. Much of our paper having been necessarily in type previously to the arrival of the English vessels, we are precluded for the present from giving more than a brief g'ance at the intelligence. The Queen had visited the principal places in Lancashire on her return from Scotland, and had been everywhere enthusiastically received. The Exhibition closed to the public on the Utli October. On the Wednesday following Prince Albert went through the ceremonial of receiving the reports of the Commissioners and the Jurors. The speech of his Royal Highness on the occasion was characterised by philanthropic spirit and good taste. A prayer by the Bishop of London, and sacred music as at the opening, and this museum became one of the things that have been. A large surplus fund remains in the hands of the Commissioners, and the people were looking anxiously for their decision as to its disposal, the general belief being tha l it would be applied to revive and perpetuate the Exhibition idea in perhaps a better form. Ihe work ol clearing away the goods was rapidly proceeding. The total receipts at the doors amounted to £500,000, the number of visitors to six millions. Knighthood had been offered to Mr. Paxton, Mr. Cubitt, the Engineer, and Mr. Fox, the contractor. The awards of the Jurors have been published. The following are extracted as relating to New Zealand :— MEDALS. x>rown, ■>■-,, ;oj- kauri Gum. Tao-nui, for Woods, &c. HONORABLE MENTION. Carrodus, J., for Flax. Collinson, Rev. J_, for Flax. Fox, W., for Woods. Hooper & Co., for Malt. Johnson, J., for Woods. Levin, J. M., for Sideboard of New Zealand Woods. MacVay, J., for Turning Substances. Martin, Hugh, for Barley. Renwick, Thomas, for Barley. Robertson, J., for Flax. Smith, J. A., for Oils. Tyrrell, —, for Flax. le!1 h E. Mfor Cordage from New Zealand Flax. Whytlaw & Son, for Flax. News from this settlement up to April 26‘h had reached home, and from Wellington as late as June 23rd, Ihe gold news had been abundantly confirmed. The Illustrated London News publishes sketches of the Bathurst “ diggings.” ' No ship was actually laid on under the Canterbury Association for this place, but it was intended to chatter a vessel to sail about the 20th December. The Bishop Designate had arrived in England in the Thomas Arbuthnot, from Sydney. We cannot ascertain the date of this vessel’s arrival, but she was reported off Beachy Head on Sept. 24th. The Castle Eden's safe arrrival at Calcutta on Aug. 12 is notified, setting aside at once the late rumour of her loss. The William Hyde and Marmora have proved how accurately the “ highway of the seas” to New Zealand is known. The schooner sailed, we believe, three days before the Barque ; they came into company a few degrees south of the line, since which they saw nothing of each other until they anchored, on the same day, in Port Cooper. ’ The passages appear to have been unvaried and unbroken by any occurrences of remarkable pleasantness or unpleasantness. The fawn brought by the William Hyde, the longest survivor of two sent out to Mr. Godley’s care, unfortunately died in bringing it ashore, either from fright or strangulation, it having been lively enough until removed trom lite vessel. Ol the oilier live stock, some fine geese and Muscovy ducks, a single hen pheasant, and a goat, remain. The fine schooner Marmora, late of Dover, is, we learn, the properly of Mr. Duke of Wellington, and is about to proceed to Wellington and New Plymouth, and thence to Sydney, in the trade between which port and Canterbury she will then be regularly employed.