LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Melbourne Morning Herald.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 766, 4 December 1852, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Melbourne Morning Herald.]

We have news from home to the 12th of August, or five days later than our previous dates. Our files of papers are very defective, and the following are the only items we find worth extracting : — The Queen and Royal family had sailed for ! Antwerp, where they arrived on the 11th of August. They were to be met by the King of the Belgians, and their return was not to be prolonged beyond a day or two. The Daily News, 12th of August thus reports the money market of the preceding day: — " The tendency of the English stock market is still strongly in the direction of a fall. From 99%, at which price they stood in the morning, consols fell to 98f-, and closed heavily at 98| to 99 for money, and at 99 to % for the new account of the Bth September. After the .regular business hours the feeling was extremely heavy." Mr.'W. Henry Oliphant had been declared a defaulter on 'Change. I The Daily News reports the arrival of i £26,000 of gold per Tasmania from Portland, and £22,000 per Agricola, from Sydney.

The Daily News thus continues : — "Bank shares are firmly supported. The Australian Bank shares which lately showed syraptons of receding from their advanced rates, are rallying again. During the sales of the week are recorded, Australasian (£4O paid) 56, |, 58 ; Colonial (£25 paid) 15f ex div. ; Union of Australia (£25 paid) 46£, 45, 44|, 46, 45£, 47, ex div." Despatches were received at the Colonial Office from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, on the 11th August. The Daily News, 12th August, says, "the emigration movement is beginnirig to tell. At a fair held in Wiltshire, where labourers are hired, there was a great scarcity of the latter, in fact, not one half equal to the demand." There is not much news from France ; the Prince President was starring it in the capital. I The elections were still proceeding, and in favour of the government candidates. It is stated in the French papers that Cardinal Hohenloe was expected at Vienna on the part of the Pope, to treat on the subject of the evacuation*of the Roman States by the French and Austrian troops, the re- organization of the pontifical army being nearly completed. General Falangieri is again Lord Lieutenant of Sicily, having triumphed in the Qouncils of Gaeta. The excitement consequent upon the death of the six men shot bjs the soldiers in the county of Clare at the election had not subsided, and, up to our latest dates, the protracted proceedings before the coroner's inquest had not concluded. Two fine young men, (sons of Archdeacon Power, Ardmore, county, Waterford, Ireland), were drowned on the 10th. August, by the upsetting of a boat ; the Archdeacon himself owing his preservation to a life-preserver which he put on previous to embarking. The celebrated Italian convert, Father davazzi, was preaching an anti-catholic crusade in North Wales. A great meeting had been held at the Mansion House, London, for the purpose of organizing relief for the sufferers by the great fire in Montreal. The Government had issued a proclamation prohibiting Orange processions in Liverpool. The progress of the fatal potatoe disease in Ireland had received a check. The French Government were instituting some very valuable researches at Nineveh, and some curious relics of the famous city of the past were daily expected in France. The following gentlemn, who held office in the Russell Ministry, are now without seats : — Benew, R. M. (Lord of Treasury,) Craig, Sir W. G. (Lord of Treasury), Dundas,Sir D. (Judge Advocate), Grey, 'Sir George (Home Secretary), Hatchell, J. (Attorney- General for Ireland), Hill, Lord Marcus (Treasurer of the Household), Lewis, Cornewall (Secretary to the" Treasury), Paget, Lord C. E. (Secretary to the Master- General of the Ordnance), Parker, J. (Secretary to the Admiralty), Somerville, Sir W. (Secretary for Ireland), Stewart, Admiral (Lord of Admiralty). To these may be added. Mr. Bernal, the Chairman of Committees. Some incendiary fires were occurring in England. The dispute between America and England, respecting the fisheries, was not yet settled ; and fears of a rupture were intimated. The Derby Cabinet is strongly censured by the Times for complicating the affair. In public affairs, with that exception, there seems to have been a dead lull. The ministers were recreating themselves at their country seats. Sir J. Pakingtou's gaieties at Droitwich are specially noticed. The Times says that immense quantities of siver coin are shipped for these colonies. The City article of the 12th, discusses the subject of a Mint for Australia, and approves of the project. Louis Napoleon has permitted many of the banished citizens to return to France. The prospects of the potatoe crop in Ireland were decidedly gloomy. Some accounts represent the failure as universal. The electric telegraph is completed to Plymouth from London. The draining of the Lake of Haerlem is accomplished ; all that remains of what was before a sea is a little running water, which -jwill soon be drained. The Tottenhham Mills, near the Tottenham Station, of the Eastern Counties Railway, have been burnt down. A case that occupied three days, and excited great attention, was a charge of cruelty brought against the superior of the Convent at Norwood, for cruel treatment of a girl named Griffith. The verdict was for the defendant. Emigration to Australia.. — Notwithstanding the thousands of " fortune seekers" who have sailed the last few months for the " golden regions" of Australia, from the ports of London, Liverpool, Glasgow, &c, the tide of emigration does not appear to have murh subsided, as from 30 to 40 first class ships, varying from 500 to 2000 tons, are entered to sail during the present month, either it am London, Plymouth, or Liverpool, for Melbourne, Geelong, Adelaide, and Sydney. The greatest activity prevails in the St. Katberioe's, London, and East and West India Docks, in fitting up vessels for the accommodation of the adventurers. The following are the names of the ships which leave the port of London this and next week : — For Port Phillip* &c, the South Sea, 2000 tons ; the Waterloo, 900; the Atlanta, 1300; the Moselle and Gloriana, 1200; Bree, 1050; Velore, 1100; Wandsworth, 896; Countess of Elgin, 1200 ; Ballarat, 1100 (arrived); Blackwall, 1100 ; Prince Alfred, 1400; Cdrnelius, Windermere, Prince of Wales, Hydrabad, 850; Victory, Louise, Blorenge, lulhch Castle, Syria, British Isle, Galway Ark, Duke of Norfolk, JEliia, and Enchanter, 800 ; Brlghtman and Sir Walter Raleiyh, 600 ; Beulah and Sea Park, 835, and those not marked varying from 500 to 700 tons. The following are a few'of the vessels to sail from Liverpool :—^Una, 1500; Orestes, 1100? El Dorado, 2000 ; Ben Nevis, 3000/, South Sea, ISOO'; Great Britain, iron screw steamer, 3500 tons, and 500 horsepower, with berths for 1 000 passengers ; the Sarah Sands, steamer of 1300 tons, besides several others. — London Times, August 9. Query — Whom did RobinsonCrusoe meet on his being cast ashore on the desert island ?—? — Answer— A Great Swell on the beach, and a Little Qove running inland. — Punch.