ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 688, 6 March 1852, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

The Queen has conferred one of the vacant garters upon Earl Fiizwilliam. The King of Hanover died the 18th of November at Hanover. He is succeeded by his son, who will reign under the name of George the Third.

M. Kossuth and his lady, M. Pulszky, Madame Pulszky, and suite, left Southampton November 20th in the steamer Humboldt on their voyage to the United Stales. We notice the following deaths in addition to those previously announced : —24tb. ViceAdmiral James Noble, at- a ripe old age. He was one of Nelson’s lieutenants, and is noticed in his despatches as one of “ those fine fellows, Hardy, Gage, and Noble.,’ —At the Hankey Institution, in the Cape territory, aged 76, the Rev. Dr. Phillip, for 32 years superintendent of the African missions, and author of a well known volume, “ Researches in South Africa.” The Hon. Mrs. Lee, sister to Lord Byron. Matthias Attwood, Esq., so long well known in parliament, died at bis house in Dulwich-park, on Tuesday, the 11 th instant. He was in his 72nd year, and had for some time past been in feeble health, which induced him to retire from parliament at the last general election, but he still occasionally attended to business in London till within a short period ol bis decease. Mr. Attwood entered parliament in 1819, and from that time till 1847 continued to have a seat in the House of Commons. When the Reform Act cf 1832 created the seaport of Whitehaven, in Cumberland, a parliamentary borough, Mr. Attwood became its representative, and continued to be so until he retired. Mr. Attwood was one of the bankers of London, of the firm of Spooners and Attwood, and the founder of some of our most successful joint-stock companies.—Daily News, Nov. 14. Among the recent deaths are the Duchess of Angouleme, daughter of Lours XVI. of France, and widow of the Duke of Angouleme, son ol Charles X., who died at the Chateau of Frohsdorff lhe 19th October; the Countess Dowager of Mornington; Mr. Beaseley, the architect; and Mr.Wyoo, R.A., Chief Engraxer of the Mint. The death of Mr. Buchanan, who has for so many years been the British Consul at New York, is announced in the New York papers. He died on the 11 th October, at Elmswood, near Montreal, aged 80.

The Osservatore Romano publishes a letter from Cardinal Wiseman, stating that he had received £226 Bs. lOd. collected at Rome by subscription, towards the erection of a great Catholic church in London.

We understand that Father Gavazzi has been advised to enter an action of libel against some Newcastle and Sunderland newspapers, which have published as his portrait, impressions from old stock wood cuts that they had on hand, of the criminals Archibald Bolam and Patrick Forbes.— Shields Gazette.

Advices from Algeria report fresh insurrectory outbreaks.

Mr, Nassau Senior had been appointed to the legal post in India, recently vacated by the death of Mr. Bethune. It is worth £lO,OOO a year. The Bristol papers announce that Mr. Crowder, Q.C., M.P., Recorder of the city and county, wi 1 be appoitned to the Puisne Judgeship of the Court of Queen’s Bench, to be ren lered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Justice Patterson. On the sth November there was a dreadful steamboat explosion in the river Avon, about four miles from Bristol; luckily the crew consisted of only four persons, (all the human beings on board at lhe time), three of whom were killed.

An official enquiry was being made into the conduct of Mr. Ramshay, Judge of the Liverpool county court, for having committed to gaol Mr. Whitby, the editor of one of the Liverpool journals, for contempt of court by publishing placards reflecting upon thejudge’s conduct.

There is much truth in the following remarks of the Australian & New Zealand Gazette, upon the arrival of the Anti-Trans-poitation Delegate humbug, in England : — “ We gather from the Port Phillip journals that great difference of opinion is felt amongst a section of .the colonists at the appointment of Mr. King, as their delegate in England. We regret this, as it at once nullifies his mission. The Government will in this have a valid excuse for not paying the slightest attention to him, unless, as is the case with some colonial agents we could mention, they turn him to their own advantage by the promise of a berth. Of all men, colonial agents and delegates are of the least use to a colony. They have not, nor can they create, any influence in opposition to the Government, and sooner or later they eventually find it to their interest in adopting the stronger side. We do not say this ot Mr. King, whom we never saw, nor previously heard of; but a pretty long observation of the manoeuvres of these gentry has convinced us of the correctness of our opinion. If the colonists want advocates in England, they cannot do better than confide their case to Parliamentary men, of whom many will be too glad to keep up their cause, from tbe notoriety it gives them, and which they hope may rise into celebrity. The colonists are under no obligation to such, but the contrary is the case, from the opportunities which are thus afforded to parliamentary aspirants.” The same journal thus observes upon the gold (Recoveries: — “ Tbe intelligence from Sydney, relative to the gold disovery, bears a rather more sedate character, as might have been expected ; but the fact, that Australia will speedily become a great gold-producing country is now as certain as that it is now a great wool-produc-ing country. The point to be feared is that till the gold-finding bas settled down into something like steadiness, industrial interests must materially suffer. We are however happy to see that such is not the opinion of English merchants, who are making large shipments on tbe strength of the recent news. We are glad also to perceive that the Local Government bas adojtedtbe system of licensing parties in search of gold, instead of prohibiting them from so doing.” Sir Joseph Paxton, tbe designer of the Chrystal Palace, was awarded £5OOO by the Executive Committee.

The Earl of Lanesborough was shortly to be united in matrimony to Lady Hunter, of Dulaney House, near Arundel. The Journal of Commerce states, “ That on the 29ih October, thirty females left the Orkneys by the Queen steamer for the Sound, all bound for Australia, where they expect to find ready places and good wages, if not husbands, shortly after their landing.” Mr. Hawes’ resignation of the Under-Secre-tary-ship of the Colonies would render his reelection for Kinsale necessary ; and a fierce opposition was being got up against him by tbe Roman Catholic Defence Association and the Protectionist party; Mr. Lucas, the editor of the Tablet, was to be the Roman Catholic candidate, and’Professer Butt, Q.C., the Anti-Free Trade favourite. The Earl ol Muigrave had been appointed and sworn in a Privy Councillor. Tbe Lords of the Treasury had decided that a package of preserved meal sent home from Sydney should be admitted duty free. The Premier’s visit to the French capital is thus announced in the Despatch 9th November Lord John Russell has made a flying visit to Paris, and at the Elysee he had an interview with Louis Bonaparte. It is of

course impossible for us to state the object of this visit, although we may guess it was to ascertain how far France is pledged with the despots of the Continent, and moreover, to suggest to the President the modification of certain views developed in his Message. A leading article in the Globe of last° night, (Friday), may throw some light upon the matter. There can be no doubt, that the bullying attitude of Austria can no longer be borne by civilized England, and that an attempt will be made—let us hope a, bold one — to curb its despotic spirit.” A statement is going the round of the . England journals to the effect that a very influential company has been formed in England, his Royal Highness Prince Albert being at its head, for the purpose of buying up lands in Ireland, and of course, by the application of capital, skill, and enterprise, making them what lands generally there are not, that is, rich and productive beyond the extent to which Nature renders them. It is said (GlobeJ that the prompt and decided tone of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s monitions served on a large number of Puseyite clergymen in his Grace’s diocese has had the desired effect, and that the whole of the gentlemen alluded to have signified to his Grace their intention of discontinuing the practices objected to. . ' The grand jury of Devonshire, at the late quarter sessions, presented a written request to the magistrates to use their influence to procure the abolition of the institution, as being of no utility in the administration of justice. Prince Albert has forwarded a letter to each of the Foreign Commissioners, acknowledging the services which they have rendered in the promotion of the Great Exhibition, and stating his intention of presenting to each of them a gold medal, accompanied by a certificate. The session of the French National Assembly had commenced, and the president’s message occupies five closely printed columns of the Times. The new Electoral law would it was thought, occasion much alteration and long discussions, The president of the United States had issued a proclamation cautioning all American citizens against joining the threatened Mexican expedition. The Times remarks that Dr. M’Hale, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, had laid aside the signature of “John, Archbishop of Tuam,” adopting in its stead the more simple one of “ John M’Hale.” The education question was creating much discussion in Ireland; and a division of opinion existed amongst the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, as to the working of the “National” or Lord Stanley system. At Syracuse, in the State of New York, twenty of the prominent citizens of that place have been arrested by order of the President, and will be tried for resisting the United States’ Marshal, and enabling a fugitive slave, who was in his custody toescape from prison. The advent of Kossuth is looked to with much interest, and his reception in all parts of the United States will be such as never was conferred on any oUier foreigner. A long letter of bis addressed to “ the Editors of the public press ;” has been copied into all the papers and commented upon greatly to his credit. The emigration from Ireland to America is reported to be increasing to an extraordinary degree; and we are glad to find that many are beginning to turn their attention to Australia. The Times makes the following remarks upon the resignation of Mr. Hawes, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies ; —“ The Right Hon. Lawrence Sullivan, after serving his country with credit for more than forty years, has retired with a pension from the place of Deputy .Secretary-at-War, and into that peaceful haven has retired, from the storms of the Colonial-office, that most excellent and amiable gentleman, Mr. Benjamin Hawes. We are quite sure that the public in general, whatever their opinions, and whether they have colonial property or not, will rejoice to hear that a man of exemplary good temper, so strong a sense of duty, and such unwearied diligence, has effected his escape out of purgatory, rather sooner, perhaps, than any member of the Colonial office had a right to expect. In his present position he will be able to effect important administrative reforms, without raising the ghosts of a Caudian dynasty, without bringing down on the unfortunate colonists the vengeance of Heki, or Sandilli, without throwing a tropical Legislature into a state of permanent revolt, or meeting in every street the haggard and threadbare victfiiis of an inconsistent philanthropy. Mr. Hawes has our heartiest congratulation on his escape from the combined operation of fifty plagues—for that is somewhere about the number of our colonies. Mr. Hawes’ successor in the Colonial-office, is Mr. Frederick Peel, who thus enters office much as his father did before him, with some little difference to be

smoothed over between him and his colleagues. That difference in this instance is one more of association than feeling or opinion. No point can be mentioned that we are aware of in which Mr. F. Peel, inheriting as we suppose him to do, the political views of his father in theirlatest stage of development, is not perfectly at accord with her Majesty’s present advisers. The memory of the parent will impart to this change the appearance of a coalition ; and if there be a Peel party, and Mr. F. Peel is at its head, a coalition which rather sets the seal on the past than throws any light on the future. In following his roughshod rider in the Colonial-office, Mr, Frederick Peel will have little spare strength or time to revertjto the great questions that divide party from party. As the only chance permitted to the unfortunate colonies, and the only bit of new blood introduced into a Government which has done nothing hitherto but breed in and in, we beg to tender to Mr. F. Peel our very best wishes, praying in particular, that he may be more successful than his predecessors for the last fifty years.

A despatch from Dr. Rae, one of the American expedition in search of Sir John Franklin has been published. They found no trace, and could learn no intelligence of the missing party.

The Cork Constitution says:—“ It was stated at the Commercial-rooms, on Monday, that a well known firm engaged in the passenger trade had failed, having in their hands some £50,000 or £60,000, lodged with them by emigrants or friends and relatives in Ireland.”

It is not generally known (says the Times,) that there is an act in force called Lord Campbell’s Act, under which all courts can order an indictment for perjury, including the Courts of Bankruptcy, Insolvency and County Courts. It is important that tins provision should be known, now that parties and their wives can be examined in civil causes. Some difficulties have been removed from indictments for perjury by the same act. The following is the officially announced list of Louis Napoleon’s newly formed French Ministry:—M. Corbin. Attorney-General of the Court of Appeal; Minister of Justice, M. Turgot, Ancient Peer of France—Foreign Affairs, M. C. Giraud, Member of the Institute —Public Instruction, M. D. Thorigny, former Advocate-General of the Court of Appeal of Paris—Minister of the Interior, M. de Casiabanca—Commerce, M. Lacross Public Works, General St. Arnaud—War, M. H. Fortonl—Marine, M. Blondel, In-spector-General of Finance—Minister of Finance. . M. C. Giraud performs the functions of Minister of Justice in the absence of M. Corbin ; M. Turgot, Minister of Foreign affairs, is charged with the Finances in the absence ofM. Blondel; M. Maupas, Prefect of the Haute Garrone, is appointed Prefect of Police in the place of M. Carlier. Spain.—The concordat with the Pope, lately concluded, has been so carefully withheld that doubts of its existence were insinuated ; the document has therefore been published in Madrid. Its retrogressive spirit has provoked an outburst of criticism, betokening that its complete execution will be full of difficulty and danger. It declares that the Roman Catholic Apostolic religion shall rule and dominate exclusively, as of yore, in the whole kingdom of Spain, so that the calamities of the times shall cause no detriment to it, and all other faith be excluded it gives those of the sacred office power “ to remove all difficulties and obstacles ”; it promises a new division of dioceses, and bints—in the words “ we trust to behold things restored to their primitive state at the restitution of religious orde s ; it ordains the sale of deteriorated Church property; and, “ in compliance with the prayers cf our beloved daughter the Catholic Queen of Spain, that we do have a cart for the tranquillity of her kingdom, which would be endangered if an attempt were made to recover the property of the Church already disposed of, ’ it decrees that completed purchases and present holders of such property shall not be disturbed. In reference to the hint of restoring the regular orders, especially, the tone of the journals is so hostile and bitter as to imply, that if the thing be attempted it may cause a total sweeping away of all remaining Catholic Institutions. The Naples correspondent of the Times writes, on the 19th October—” I am sorry to hear that the indulgence granted to M. Poe»io has been stopped by a new officer appointed to the command of Ischia prison, -and that though M. Poerio still remains in the Infir. mary, bis chains have been replaced. By the Humboldt steamship, from New York on the 18th of October, we have news of the solution of a Colonial Cabinet crisis. The Canadian Lafontaiue-Baldwin Ministry, had, after long increasing signs of decay, resigned, and tbe following new ministry had been formed. President of the Council, Dr. Rolph, of Western Canada; InspectorGeneral, Mr. Hincks, who held the same

office in the defunct ministry, and whose differences with the late Premier caused the break-up of the retired Cabinet ; Provincial Secretary, Mr. Morin ; Postmaster-General, Mr. Malcolm Cameron. The AttorneyGenerals for Canada West and Canada East are Mr, William Morris and Mr. W. B. Richards ; but it is said that these officials are not in future to have seats in the Cabinet. It is announced that Mr. Louis Joseph Papineau is resolved to retire from public life. The American Ministry has been completed by tbe addition of Mr. Young, of Montreal, as Commissioner of Public Works, and of Mr. Tacbe, as Receiver-General. We perceive by the papers before us that piracy is reviving along tbe African coast. On the 25th Oct. an engagement took place between some of the crew of H.M. steamship Janus and some Moorish pirates off the Morocco coast. The pirate boats fired upon the steamer’s boats and wounded seven of the crew, when the latter were obliged from overwhelming numbers to betake themselves to their ship without capturing any of the aggressors. Reparation was about to be demanded from the King of Morocco for the piracies of his subjects. The Manchester Exchangeis, by permission of the Queen, to be called in future the Royal Manchester Exchange. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Pau shortly after five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd ult. At Bagi eres, also, a shock was fek at about the same time; it lasted about two seconds. This is the third time, the same phenomenon has been noticed in the valley of Bagneres, at the same period of the year.