LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Melbourne Express.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 785, 9 February 1853, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Melbourne Express.]

The Funds, Oct. 7.— The English funds have been firm to-day at the advanced price of yesterday. Consols opened at 100g to for money, and IOOf to f for the new account on 11th of November, and remained without any alteration up to the close of business. India Bonds were quoted 83s. to 865., and Exchequerbills, 70s. to 735. premium. A moat extensive conflagration had happened in Spitalfields. Property to the value of several thousand pounds was destroyed. During the past fortnight there have been several |large remittances of gold to the Continent, in addition to the shipments of sovereigns to Australia. This has been caused by the increased importations of the leading articles of produce, as shown in the Board of Trade re-

turns yesterday, and the stocks of which had been suffered to become unprecedentedly low. At tbe same time the arrivals of specie from the United States have been less than usual, owing to the Pennsylranian and other loans lately | taken out on London account.

Nbw Zealand Compant. —A general meeting of the shareholders and directors of the New, Zealand Company, was held on the 7th October, ' for the purpose of receiving and considering a statement setting forth the present position of the undertaking in reference to the Co- - lonial Government at home and the Canterbury Association, and also to determine the best means of meeting the liabilities due by the Company on account of the Canterbury Association, in December next.' According to the report, the New Zealand Company is involved in legal proceedings agaidst the Canterbury Association, the latter ha-ring • repudiated' its liabilities to the Company, on the ground that the Company has taken from the public objects for which sums advanced to it under Parliamentary authority were exclusively intended, and has applied to other purposes a considerable portion of such advances.' The company are also in litigation, with four gentlemen, who had become individual guarantors for certain payments to the company by the Canterbury Association on the 31st December, 1851, but who for the same reason as above had repudiated their debt. The names are ' Lytteiton,' • Richard Cavendish,' ' John Simeon,' •E. G. Wakefield,' guaranteeing £2750 each. The company had made no dividend for the last nine years, but their affairs seemed to require that a further call should soon be made on the shareholders. Tbe recent act of parliament in reference to New Zealand left the New Zealand. Legislative Council, when appointed, at full liberty, if they should see fit, to sell land at 2s. 6d. an acre ; which had t\e effect of stopping the sale of land by the company at £3 an acre. Altogether the affairs of the company appeared to be in a most unprosperous state i however, after considerable Opposition the report was adopted and ordered to be circulated, it being understood that the position of the company now rested in the hands of her Majesty* Government. There were rftmours afloat that the Derby ministry were making overtures to^Lord Palmsrston to join them. The death of the Earl of Somers is recorded. There were vacancies for thirty men # in the police force at Scotland yard, and only seven, were eligible for that service. This is said to be owing to the immense number of young men that have left the country for' Australia. The number of ships despatched from Liverpool during the month of September was sixty two, containing in all 23,280 passengers, including 1770 emigrants, all of whom were bound for Australia. By the Beejapore, which arrived in Sydney on the 6th inst., after a splendid run of 85 days from Liverpool, we have English news to the 12th October. By the Beejapore and the Rattler, which arrived on the same day, the population of Sydney was increased by 1,125 souls. Her Majesty's return from Scotland was expected to elicit strong manifestations of loyalty throughout the country. The royal party would visit the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits. The Daily News says —" We learn from Vienna that an English officer has been insulted by an officer in the Austrian service. We have received no particulars, but are informed that Lord Westmoreland has thought it necessary to demand redress. Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 2d of October state that the whole Russian army had been ordered to wear mourning for three days for the late Duke of Wellington. The first Cabinet Council for the season was appointed to be held on Friday, October 15th. Lord Derby was expected to arrive in London on the 14th. The Liverpool and Rochdale wool markets were reported with ' an average amount of business, without any material change in prices.' The electric telegraph was about to be extended to the Isle of Wight. There had been some very severe weather on the English coast during which a large number of vessels were totally wrecked, and many lives lost. The funeral of the Duke of Wellington was fixed for the 13th November.

France. — Louis Napoleon is received in every place on his tour through France with rapturous enthusiasm. At Marseilles, Montpeller, Narbonne, Toulouse, he had been hailed with every mark of devotedness, and cries of • Vive l'Empereur.' .By telegraph despatch it is announced from Toulouse, under date October sth— The Prince has just reviewed the numerous deputations from the Haute Geronne and of the neighbouring departments, in the midst of the wannest enthusiasm. At no former .period did the department of the Haute Garonne offer such a manifestation. The population assembled at the Polygone is estimated at 200,000 souls. The Prince in going and returning was crowned with flowers. Cries of 'Vive I'Empereur burst forth. everywhere on his passage. A considerable number of arrests for political causes have just been made in the Haute Loire, whether connected with the Marseilles affair is not stated. M. Audiard-Bonnet, former editor of the Ami dv peuple, a socialist journal of the same department has been arrested at Puy, and lodged in the gaol of that town.