LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Southern Cross, August 6.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 735, 18 August 1852, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Southern Cross, August 6.]

By the Moa, Captain Norris, which arrived in port, yesterday afternoon, after an all but unequalled passage of less than seven days, we have Sydney papers to the 29th ; Maitland to the 24th; and Hobart Town to the 16th ultimo. The news from Europe is not of a particularly interesting character. There appears to be a lull in the French invasion panic. And whatever the ultimate aims of her Majesty's Opposition, — there seemed to be no active hostility evinced against' the present occupants of office, who had very obligingly adopted the estimates, as well as some other measures of their predecessors. Steam communication between England and Australia was, at the date of the Moa's sailing, a feat yet to be accomplished ; — for, notwithstanding the assurance that the first Mail Steamer was to have left England for Sydney on the 3rd of May, there had been no sign of her appearance given, except" a notice of a postponement of her sailing to the 3rd of June, which was*. positively to be the day of her departure. The latest arrival at Sydney was the Tartar, which left Plymouth on the 16th of April, and conveyed London intelligence to the 14th. Sir J. Pakington, in reply to Mr. MaDgles, said it was his intention early after Easter to move for leave to bring in a bill to Gonfer representative institutions upon the colonists of New Zealand. The Sydney Herald of July 9, in reference to an interview with the new Colonial Minister, sa y S .—»«. — »« We must not omit to acknowledge, in terms of the warmest gratitude, the prompt and able manner.in which our anti-transporta-tion friends in London availed themselves,/ in ourbehalf, of the change in the Ministry. Sir John Pakington had scarcely had time to look round him in his new -quarters in Downingstreet," before he was brought to feel that the Australian colonies were labouring under an intolerable grievance, were, banded together in a firm struggle for redress, and were powerfully backed by influential men at home. We have now good hope." The right honorable baronet promised to give our case a calm and unprejudiced consideration, and this was all that could be expected, and perhaps, under the circumstances, all that could be reasonably wished." Prince Schwartzenberg died in Vienna, early in April, of a stroke of apoplexy, induced by anxious jealousy that an older, and more courtly knave than himself-— Metternich— was undermining his influence with his ImperLl master. Commander H6season, R.N., who was here in command of H.M. steamer Inflexible, about four years since, has been appointed to* the command of the ' Australian, steam ship. She was advertized to leave the Cape about the 7th July for Adelaide, Melbourne,, and Sydney.

We copy with very sincere regret, the following obituary notice from the Sydney Herald of the 23rd July — Died, in London, on the 7th April, Mary Henrietta, wife of Capt. Robert Fitzroy, R.N. Mn Sydney Herbert, by the death of his brother, has become Earl Pembroke. » "We {Sydney Herald, July 22nd) have received later news from England, India, and the Cape of Good Hope. From England the news is very unimportant. As there were rumours of a dissolution of Parliament in May, there was but little political news unconnected with the approaching elections. At the Cape affairs still remained in an unsatisfactory state ; the Kafirs only retreated before the soldiers to return as soon as the pursuit ceased. In India there had been some sharp work. -Rangoon had been stormed and taken, but it had been determined not to push on to Ava until after the rainy season. In the interim the army would be encamped in Rangoon and its vicinity." The Daily News of April 14, announces that Major General Campbell, K.H., (late of the 95th regiment) is to succeed Lieut. General Wynyard, C.8., as Major General on the Staff at Sydney, New South Wales. Primate Cullen had been appointed Romau Catholic Archbishop of Dublin in succession to Dr. Murray by a large majority. .