LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 939, 2 August 1854, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

The Commodore, which sailed from Auckland on the 31st of December with Governor Sir George and Lady Grey, and the Bishop of New Zealand and Mrs. Selwyn, had arrived on the sth of May. The Great Britain steam-ship, sailed from Liverpool for Melbourne and Sydney, with 380 passengers, on the 29th of April ; but after a few hours it was discovered that the screiw was deranged and that injuiy had been effected so as to admit water. It became expedient to put back, and as the position of the defect would render it necessary to unload the cargo and coals, some weeks would probably elapne before the ship could again go to sea. The owners offered to return the passage -money, and several of the passengers had taken passages in the Lightnizig, which was to sail in a few days. A conflict betweeH Sir Charles Napier's fleet in the Baltic and the Russians, was hourly expected ; while, the presence- of-^i Russian squadron in the China seaa is corroborated.' From Odessa, the fleet under Admiral Dundas wassailing towaid Sebastopol, which was probably destined to become the scene of a second struggle. Nearly 40 Russian vessels had been captured by the English cruisers in the Baltic. The English ilag has been hoisted upon the various Russian and Finnish merchantmen in Kioge Bay. These ships aie now all of them manned by English sailors, while th.i Russians are placed as prisoners of war on board the English men of war that are on the eve of sailing from the Danish to the English ports.