LATEST FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 6, Issue 284, 20 March 1862, Page 3

LATEST FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

;■ The brig Louis and Miriam arrived At Wellington on the 16th, from Sydney,' after a - passage ; of mine days. ‘ ; The’ English mail had not. arrived, but a ves- ! set, the Thomas' Brown, had arrived at; Melbuurne on 27 fe1l Feb., from Mauiitius, bringing English news to the 26th Dec.; The: eAlbrecht : .Oswald had. arrived at Melbourne on March 3, 'from-; San Fran-; cisco, bringing American intelligence to / 15th January. j The following is a summary of what has been brought,by these two routes . j The Prince Consort is dead,’.haying been cut olf by Typhus fever on the 14tli December. .No particulars of his illness are given; he was buried oil the 23rd December, in as private a manner as his position allowed. I j The Sydn.y Morning Herald lias the (following remarks on the event. “ The [mournful intelligence of the death of (the Prince Consort will fill many hearts [with sorrow. Cut ofl' in the midst of [life, in the height of human prosperity, 'possessed of all that could delight and ‘satisfy the highest aspirations, he has 'been , taken away by the violence (of one of those diseases which (rarely enters the precincts of a palace. Illow unsullied a reputation he has left behind him ! From his first appearance ■in the British nation his name lias been (associated ■with every institution: which Icould elevate the so dal condition of the (poor, extend ' the boundaries of science, (or promote the welfare of mankind. “If - a momentary• misunderstanding (cast the slightest shadow over his name, fit never extended beyond official diiib(rences of the most temporary nature. As the husband of-the Queen and the father [of her children, Priuee Albert presented fa pure example of domestic virtue. ReSlieved by the peculiarities of our Constitution Iroin the care of the State, he consecrated his-time to ■'the culture of the (minds of those who in England, or in [other parts of tile world* would bear the |w eight or inlluence the morals of emipii'es. The loss of the Royal Family, in [the removal of its domestic head, will be [realised in every British dwelling with jtlie intensity of a great kindred sorrow, sit is told of the Queen that on many occasions she has thrown aside her Royal ’State to give her sympathy, as a wife [and mother, to the widow ancl orphans. [That -she lias confined this manifestation [of human tenderness to no class, but felt [and manifested her feeling for the.humSblest dependents in the great straits and [agonies of life. It will be the earnest [prayer of all our readers, that'God, whose [office, as the Father of the fatherless and [the husband of the widovq is as necessary [often, amidst the pearls of a palace as in [the cottage of the poor, may preserve the [mind of the Queen from the pressure of •insupportable grief,, and compensate, by [public and private consolation, the imI'mense : bereavement which has befallen Slier.” With reference to the American outrage on the Trent, we are .inforned that the Cabinet took the opinion of the ablest lawyers in the kingdom. The opinion of the Continental lawyers was also taken, and they declared the act of the captain of the ‘ San Jacinto’ was a gross violation of International Law. A dispatch was therefore drawn up by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs; calm, moderate, and energetic. “The gentlemen taken from the • Trent ’ steamer were to be given up, and an apology made ; or Lord Lyons would be ordered to leave, and war would be declared.” This decision was approved by France and Austria, from whose governments dispatches were sent to America expressive of their opinions. In consequence of these dispatches consols rose and were quoted on the 26th at 91 1-8 to -|.j ! The Governor of the Mauritius had received instructions to prepare for war. he had sent to Seychelles for a man-of-war. ! There was a rumour in Paris that the American ministers there had received a communication that the Cabinet of Washington had decided to surrender to England the Southern Commissioners. | . . __ i AUSTRIA. | The affairs of the kingdom till continue in a very unsatisfactory position.; From the south of Hungary advices re-| port that one functionary refusing to' eo-operate with • the Government will have eighteen soldiers lodged in his house n ntil he re?-timed his functions. On the; 14th the Upper House Eeichsrath voted the laws for preserving the inviolability, rf letters for assurance of personal liber-' ty, and for maintaining the right of lomicile. AMERICA. 1 The master of the American ves e; reports that the Northern States hive nade an apology to Great Britain and' had given up the Southern Commissi; ners, but the statement is not believed. j St. Louis, Jam 8, 11 p.m. | On the 6th, Colonel Dunning, at the head of a Federal regiment, met a force of 2000 rebels in Blue Gap, about 70 miles east of i'olnney. Colonel Diumi.ig immediately attacked the rebels, and Hffer a shoi t engagement com-; pletely routed them. The Federals captured a number of prisoners, and all the cannon, waggons, and camp equipments in possession -of the foes, who recreated in- disorder towards Hancock on the Potomac. The icLei loss in killed was liftoen. None of the Federal troops were killed. Preparations are making for an immediate movement of Federal forces

I" from Cairo on Nashville, Tennessee. I ' The news of tlie movements of the 1 opposing armies transmitted by telegraph |is not important, and is evidently, the 1 carefully garnered result" of an* industri- | ouS Reporter. The most notable fea|ture is the ’preparations made by the 1 Confederates to repel the . reported ad I vance of the;great Mississippi flotilla, at |Columbus. Chains have been stretched r;a'cross the'l'iver, and very extensive preIpa rations had been . made to:,defend that jjmost important, position lrom the anticipated attack of the United States forces.