LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Empire, August 4.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 845, 7 September 1853, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Empire, August 4.]

By the arrival of the Walter Hood, late last night, after a splendid passage of 80 days, we have English news to the 14th of May. The Court was at Osborne ; and her Majesty was quite convalescent. Another disturbance of ihe Irish members had occurred in the House of Commons. On the 1 2th of May, Captain Magan appears to have stated that a communication had been made to the Irish members by an agent of the Whigs to the effect that, if the Irish members would assist in ejecting Lord Derby's Government, they (the Whigs) would not impose an income-tax upon Ireland. This was afterwards repeated by Mr. Lucas, who said, " this statement, coupled with the declared hostility of Sir C. Wood to the extension of the tax to Ireland, had, he said, influenced his vote." In the Parliamentary business set down for May 13, we notice that Lord John Russell would move the adjournment of the house till j Thursday the 19th, and Lord Dudley Stuart would move for a " Return showing the nura- ' her of warrants issued by any Secretary of State for detaining or opening of letters in the Post Office, in each year from 1845 to the present date inclusive, and the names of the Secretaries of State who have signed such warrants, distinguishing the reasons for which such warrants have been issued, and the number of persons to whom the warrants were applicable, and the number of letters detained or opened under each warrant (in continuation of a return contained in the report of the Secret Committee \ of the House; of Commons in 1844 on the post office.") Australian land, bank, and mining shares, were reported as stationary. Affairs on the Continent were all of a tranquil aspect. In France the Corps Legislatif were gradually growing bolder in opposition to the Emperor, who appeared to have adopted a smootfi policy by showing every polite attention to the deputies, A telegraph message from Madrid, dated the 7th of May, says :—: — \ " Marshal Narvaez has been appointed to the embassy in Paris."