LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 686, 28 February 1852, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Hobart Town Advertiser, February 3.] The Victoria, intended to ply as a steamer between Melbourne and Geelong, had arrived under canvass in 85 days, bringing news to the 27th Oct., of which w« have given all that is contained in the Melbourne Argus of 26th and 27th. It is stated, as not improbable that the Victoria will have to come down here, to get her engines and steam gear put to rights.

By the arrival at Geelong, after a voyage of 85 days, of the steamer Victoria, Captain M'Lean, from Glasgow, we have English News to the 27th October :—

London Funds on the evening of Friday, the 24th October —Consols for Account, 97f, J; ditto for money, 97|, § ; 3| per cents, 97f, f ; Exchequer Bills, large, 53, 56 pm.; ditto, small, 53, 56 pm. The greatest excitement has been produced in England by the early arrival of gold from the Batburst diggings ; and as the reality, if not the actual extent of immense gold-fields must by this time have reached home, the attractions of the island-continent must have greatly increased. Mr. E. L. Montefiore, the Consul at Adelaide for Belgium, has a letter from his correspondent at Antwerp to this effect -“ There will be several emigr mts on board the Surinand, to sail from Antwerp on the Ist November. The news of the gold discoveries in Australia begins to agitate our population. The tenor of our advices from Germany leads us to believe that you will have immense emigration from that quarter.” -The papers are also full of the “ new Goldfieldsof Australia,” and there areunmistakeable indications of a lull tide of emigration setting in immediately towards them. The Australian wool sales were to commence on the 23rd October. The stock in London was little more than 30,000 bales. The Admira'ty, at a Board held on Friday, the 24th, decided on sending another expedition early in the ensuing year, to make further search for Captain Sir John Franklin, the gallant officers, and crews of the Erebus and Terror, the missing discovery skips. Intelligence was received at the South Foreland, by the submarine telegraph itself of its satisfactory completion to the French eva-t near Calais. Communications by the printing apparatus ol Messrs. Brett were kept up by one of the inventors at Calais, and by Mr. Cheshire, at Dover, and also with the double needle instrument, in a most satisfactory manner. Fusees were successfully fired on the order to fire being given from either side of the Channel. Copies of the printed message, announcing the gratifying intelligence had been forwarded to her Majesty the Queen, and the Duke of Wellington, &c. In a few days it is expected that the telegraph line will be carried qiite into Dover by land, the point where communications are now made from being about four miles off.

Wool Market.—The importers of Oct. 9, wool into London, last week, were confident to two hundred and ninety-nine bales from Germany. The contrary winds prevent a - rivals. The demand has been principally in fine descriptions, and is likely to continue so, as combing qualities of colonial wool have been much sought after, and it is anticipated that the news from Australia will most seriously affect the price of that description of wool, which must re-act on English wool calculated to mix with it. This holds out hopes of remunerative prices, and in fact all descriptions of wool being out, this year's clip generally will no doubt participate in the advantages of a good home trade.

The Weekly Times has a paragraph to the effect that, her Majesty was about to summon a Cabinet Council, to take into consideration the propriety of restraining the Australian Colonists from working the gold fields in the present indiscriminate manner. “ We have,” says the Times, “communications nearly 1 fortnight later, regarding the Australian gold fields. The last were to the 25th June, and these are to the 7th July. The subjoined extracts of letters from Messrs. Young & Co., ol Sydney, give details of the progress of affairs between the two dales. (Here follow extracts from Sydney letters). It will thus be seen that the certainty with

regard to the extent of the yield, is considerably increased, and that at all events quite enough is now known to warrant the adoption of measures for promoting an enlarged emigration to the colony from this country. The most interesting fact, however, by this arrival is, that in the adjoining colony of Victoria (Port Phillip) several specimens have been found which indicate a probability that the neighbourhood may be almost equally rich, and which may consequently have the useful effect of preventing a movement of the population from one colony to another.” Mr. Hobbs, the great pick of-English locks, obtained his final triumph by having his lock restored to him uninjured, after a fortnight’s persevering attempts on the part of Gaelnott, with the report of the committee affirming its impregnability. The following paragraph relative to the arrival of the Victoria delegate, J. C. King, Esq., appears in iho Morning Advertiser: — “The Australian Colonies. —lt seems that the inhabitants of the Australian colonies are thoroughly in earnest on the subject of transportation, the intelligence of the formation of the Australian Anti-transportation League being followed up by the arrival in London of John C. King, who has been delegated by the colonists of Victoria (late port Phillip) to advocate the objects of the League in Britain, as well as to promote the interests of that flourishing settlement in regard to free emigration, steam communication, and other objects of like importance.”

Mr. Justice Patteson has announced bis intention to resign bis office of puisne judge in the Queen’s Bench before next circuittime.

Mr. Kindersley, Master in Chancery, an I Mr. James Barker, Q.C., will be the new Vice-Chancellors. There never has been any intention of conferring a peerage on Sir J. Knight Bruce. The Government demand for the repayment of the treasury sums advanced at the period of the Irish famine has given rise to much disaffection in that country, and laid the foundation of a new agitation. The stay of the Court at Windsor, will be about a month, when her Majesty will pay a short visit lo Osborne House, after which the Queen and the Royal family will return for the Christmas to Windsor, where the usual holiday entertainments will take place, and her Majesty will receive a succession of distinguished guests. The ve.y beautiful porphyry vase, contributed to the Great Exhibition by the King of Sweden and Norway, and which formed so conspicuous an ornament in the Swedish department, has been presented by his Majesty to bis Royal Highness Prince Albert. We have reason to believe, says the Morn ing Advertiser, that there is a strong party tn the Cabinet in favour of making vote by ballot a part of the forthcoming measures of reform, and it is thought not unlikely that Lord John Russell may, after all, agree in the views of those of his colleagues who think the right of secret voting is essential to the voting of the new bill. The expenses of Lord Arundel’s uncontested election fot Limerick amounted to £B3O, exclusive of donations by his Lordship to public charities. The present owner of the yacht America has declined to run her against the Yarmouth yawl Reindeer for a less sum than 5000 guineas. The project of an exhibition at New Yoik has been perfected, and has been minutely described. It has gained the sanction of the Austrian and several other governments of Europe. The Amazon of Kiss, and the works of Monti and other Italian sculptors will be sent. The exhibition is to be solely foreign —no American work —purely commercial—all the works to be priced ; and is to be open on the 15th April, 1852. Kossuth, the hero of Hungary, had arrived al Southampton on the 23rd, and had been received in the most enthusiastic manner ; in fact his reception has been all that the most sanguine friend of liberty could desire. What his reception in London will be, may be inferred fiom the following extract from the Morning Advertiser of yesterday: “ Kossuth was deeply affected, as he could not fail to be, at the extraordinary enthusiasm with which he was greeted on landing on the shores of England. We leave it, then, to our readers to imagine what must have been the emotions of Kossuth, when he proceeds through the streets of the metropolis on the way to Guildhall. That will, indeed, be a day of triumph for the Great Magyar. It will be a day which has seldom been parallelled in this or any other country. London will, on that occasion, be voeal with the music of myriads of voices, all blended in happy chorus —all expressive of the feelings of esteem and admiration which not only pervade the bosoms of the two millions and a quarter of the metropolitan population, but which fire the hearts of the 28,000,000 which constitute the population of the United Kingdom, The voice

of London on that eventful day will be the voice of the country. It will be more. It will be the voice of the friends of humanity and freedom throughout Europe, aye, aud the world also.” Russia.—lt is stated that negotiations have just been opened there, between Austria and Russia, concerning the junction of their lines of electric telegraph. “Amongst the points,” says the latter, “ on which the representative of the two States has come to an understanding, is that private messages may be transmitted from Russia to the Austrian territories, but not vice versa.”