ENGLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 317, 25 December 1862, Page 6

ENGLAND.

The Pkikob of Wales returns to England for his birthday, although not for its public celebration. He will remain in seclusion with her Majesty at Osborne But^we are. happy to say that his Royal Highness has declared hi 3 mfentioa to appear in public early m the year, when he will preside at the distribution of medah and eertißcates of honorable mention at the Intyrnational Exhibition. No form or ceremony of any kind will be observed on the 31st October when the doors will be eloi-ed. The buildm* will be afterwards thrown open at a higher rate of entrance for a f rtoight, to.enable the contributors to cuect the sale of their goods. Tub New; Archbishop op GANTERBCrRr.--Dr Longley, Archbishop of York, has been translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.... Ttie Archbishopric ot York has been offered to the BishoD of London and declined. A report is current that .the Bishop of Winchester is to have the Archbishopric of York and that the Bishop of Bath and Wells will he translated to Winchester. Dr Longley, who his accepted the Primacy ot all England is the fifth son of the late Mr John Long'ey, recorder of Rochester, aad subsequently resident magistrate at the Thaxne3 poiicefe- rrHe was bom at Boley Hill» Rochester, in 1791. He was educated at Westminster School, from whence he proceeded to Christchureh, Oxford, where he graduated m 1815, taking a first-class in classics An Absurd Übport.—A journal of Dresden his it trom a ccrt;uu source " that it " has been resolved, at a family council, held at Rheinhardtsbrunn,' that Que2n Victoria ista offer her Imperial diadem as a marriage present to her eldest son. The same absurd report was lately circulated by the Paris Patrie,

The Revenue Returns for the year and quarter ending the 30th September, have been published. Ihe total amount of revenue- in the year was 1.69,685.540, aaaiastL69,BoG.l6oia the year endingSeptember 30,186 L The revenue for the quarter was Ll4 600,933, a-ainst L14,601.G32 in the quarter eudma: September 80,1861. Thsre.is thus a de-rea^e on the year of L12.),620, and on the quarter of L2i9 Ihw decrease is owincto a falling ort'in the exci«-and property-tax. The d- crea-e in tiie year iv the excise K5 1.1,194,000, and in the property tax L<50!,000. Under all other bends there is a respectable iucrease ri^n^ 0^ sllow an increase "ia the year of L 375.000, of which L219,0i)0 has been received durin^ the I-isb quarter. The revenue from stamps also has mcreise iin the year hy U93,775, and from miscellaneous sources by L 776,53&. The amount of expenditure dunngMhe quarter lias exceeded the revenue by-L3,429,9J2.

Tna Disikess ix the North.—As the days become shorter and more trioomy, the number of unemployed halt-stavei operatives in the norch steadily increases,- and their prospects gefcmore and more wintry and bleak. Genuine alarm is now felt on the subject, and a large amount of sympathy and comniiseriitio 1 13 manifested. And th>y r.-quire it all. From"the' latest _ report .of Mr Farnall, ths poor-law special commissioner, it appears that out of a boJy ot 302,2-i0 operatives in the cotton manufaetnriug districts no fewer than 143.172 are whoiiy out of employment, and that 129,414 suns working short time ltttckouing tbeir wives and children, the number of the coiupulsorily irile and destitute probably reaclns half a million. Week by week, too, ifr-is.ioVea^i-ig", while th-j resources u-om the rates must necessarily Ui diminishing. In fact, many of the poorer c!a~s of ratepayers have been them^ves reduced by the pressure of: the rates and the falling off of business to "a state of destitution. The small tradesman, depsn <lent upon the spend:ngs of the population, are rapidly disappearing in the general ruin. The savings of years nad such -other independent resources are nearly all gone: and hun^-eds of thousandj of l)eople,_ acsu^tomed by means of theif honest in lustry to live in comfort and in houses displaying taste if not e'e.ganca, are now reduced to coM, 1 are. comfortless rooms,"with, ou aa average, is 31 to ls 6d a we^k to pa^.h per.-on to buy food, fu«l, and ck thing, and p"iv rent.

A succinct statement of the effect of the cofton fam ne on the working classes in the north was mad** the other day by Mr David Ciißtlwick. in a paper which he read before the British Asseciauo.i : —" There are upwards 0. .: five hundred thousand persons einp'ojvd in the cjtto 1 manufacture, of which marly 400,000 a^e employed in Lancashire. It may convey a barter idea of this number to say that it is equal to 25 towns of 2 ) fyj'j inhabitants each, aU wholly engaged iv the cotton trale. The engineers, mec'ianics. and workers in iron. -steel, brass, copper, tin, and wood, and the shopkeep-rs aad other tradesmen suppdrt3.ll by them may be reckoned at half that number (250,000). The women and children and those not able ti work and dependent entirely on the cotton operatives may be taken as half those at work (2-50.000), Tag total number of persons dependent upon the-eottoa mauufaeture may therefore t>3 taken at 1,000,0)0 psrson? of which 800,000 are in Lancashire and the immediate neighbourhood. v •-.■.■.