LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 852, 1 October 1853, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Empire office, Thursday, 2 o'clock, p.m. By the arrival of the P. and 0. Company's steamer Shanghai, which dropped anchor about 1 o'clock, we have English news to the date of the India mail, July Stb. The intermediate dates by the Shanghai are, Singapore, August 15; Bataua, August 20 ; King George's Sound, September 2 : Adelaide, September 9 ; Melbourne, September 12. From the various sources of information afforded by this arrival, we supply the following summary of European intelligence. The Court was at Buckingham Palace, and her Majesty continued in the enjoyment of health. The Prince of Wales had been sulYoring from an attack of measles, but was recovering. The Home News says ; — " We understand that Prince Albert is suffering from an attack of measles, caught during his constant attendance on the Prince of Wales. The circumstance has not publicly transpired, but the absence of his Royal Highness from the Court circles during the last few days, nppears to give probability to our information." The infant Prince was christened at the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, on the 28th June; all the Cabinet Ministers find Foreign Ambassadors were present. Her Majesty gave a state ball on the night of the l^t July, at which two thousand peisons attended. The royal arrangements for the Queen's visit to the Dublin Exhibition were so far completed, that her Majesty wus to lc.ue for Ireland on the 152 th July. Lord John Hu&h&ll v.vis laboiuing under severe illness. The new Income Tax Act was tn ha\e a retrospective effect to the sth of April 1 ist, from which day incomes beginning at £'100 an ill be taxed ; for the first two ypais at 7<l. in the pound, for the next two at Od., and for the last thiee at 3d. The Act exphcb on the Oth April, 1800. The soap duty expired on the sth of July. No further effort -would be mafic in the present session to carry the aJmUsion of Jews into Parliament. Eighteen Tory and twelve Liberal members had been unseated for improper practices at elections. The eighteen Tories were all unseated for bribery, ten of the Liberals for the same, while two Liberals had been unseated for rioting and intimidation. There had been 21 unsuccessful petitions against Liberals, and 4 unsuccessful petitions against Tories. Mr. Mowbray, the Tory candidate, had been elected for Durham. He had a majority of 520 to 434 over Sir Charles Douglas. The Liberals allege numerous cases of bribery. Mr. Wh alley, a Liberal Conservative, had defeated Mr. Hankey, the Governor of the Bank of England, for Peterborough. The Earl of Dalkcith had been elected for Edinburgh county without opposition, and Mr. Horsman for Stroud. r l he "ward of Billingsgate" had asked Baron Rothschild to resign his seat for the city 'I ho Baron said he was in the hands of the Liberals of the whole city, and could not comply with the request. We find the following in the latest intelligence from Ireland : — After a sharp contest, Mr. Cornelius O'Brien and Sir John Fitzgerald, both supporters of the present Government, have been elected for Clare. Great preparations are making in Dublin for the reception of her Majesty on the 13th instant. Mr. Daniel O'Connell had been elected for Tralee. The contest for Sligo between Mr. Saddler and Mr. Somers is going on amidst riot and uproar. Mr. Somers is violently opposed by the priests, and will probably be defeated. Mr. Duff had been prosecuted for a libel in the Nation, upon Mr. G. Wyse, brother of the British ambassador in Greece. The damages were estimated at £] 000. The jury gave the plaintiff a farthing, with sixpence costs. It was, rumoured in London that General Sir de Lacy Evans would be appointed to the Government of Bengal, The rupture between Piussja and Turkey was, as will appear from the foreign intelligence, fast coming to open hostilities. The Home News says : — " We have nothing to add this morning to the intelligence we have elsewhere .collected respecting the affairs of Turkey. The conduct of the French Government, in the frankness and firmness with which they are supporting the Sultan, is felt in this country to.'be highly creditable to them, and will have'a most salutary effect in .strengthening the bonds .of amity between J England and France.- The whole subject is expected to come under discussion in both. Houses of Parliament on Monday next — a constitutional course from whiph the best results may be anticipated. The voice of the English people speaking through their representatives, will strengthen the hands, of Government, and may, if it yet be possible, mediate in the interests of peace."

I Mr. Henry Barkly who had lately returned I from a successful administration of the affairs I of 13ritibh Guiana, had been appointed G-ovcr-1 nor of Jamaica, | The last intelligence from America narrates ' the 1 particulars of a conspiracy of the slaves to destroy the city of New Orleans by fire, The city was to have been fired in three places, by 25,000 slaves. Ihe chief movers were in custody. > Arrivals of Colonial wool were on the increase. The South Australian Banking Company declared a dividend of <i per cent, at their annual meeting on the 27th of June, with a bonus raising the whole sum diuded for the current twelvemonth to ] 2 per cent. The funds closed on the 6th July, three per cent, consols 98f ; three per cent, reduced 92| ; long annuities s|. On the 7th the closing prices were, three-per-cent. consols 98; for account 97| ; reduced 98| ; long 1 annuities s|. Wool Circular. — Liverpool, July 0, 1853. — Since our last monthly circular was issued the wool market has undergone a change, and a falling off in the demand has been apparent, caused by the unsettled position of affairs between Turkey and Russia, and the fear of an impending war. It is satisfactory to notice that the probabilities of a rupture, from recent advices, are more remote, and as there is no scarcity of orders in the manufacturers' hands, wirh very little abatement in the consumption, the prospects are, that in a short time the returning confidence will be fully established. In some instances the alarm created induced several parties to realise at a slight reduction, but the principal holders have been firm in their demands, as the high prices given abroad, together with the high 3 ates of freight, leave thorn no range for submitting to lower value : this, coupled with only moderate stocks, induce the idea that manufacturers must soon again enter the market. London Wool Market. July 8. — Australian and V.D.'s Land : Combing and clothing, Is. Id to 2s. 9d ; lambs, Is. 3d. to 2s. o£d. ; locks and pieces, 7d. to Is. lfd. ; grease, 9d. to Is. i|d Lambs, Is. sd. to Is. s^d. ; grease, 9d. tolled.