EXTRACTS FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 13, 4 July 1840, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS.

The* debate in the House of Commons on Sir John Yarde Buller's resolution declaring want of confidence -ann her Majesty's present Ministers, the commencement of which we mentioned in our last postscript, was brought to a close at a late hour on Saturday morning ; when the division was 287 for, and 308 against the motion ; so Ministers had a majority of 21. The state of English parties is thus shown to be unaltered ; and there is^ little prospect of change in the present session.

Prince George of Cambridge has been appointed to a supernumerary LieutenantColonelcy in' the Twelfth or Prince of Wales' Royal Lancers.

It is rumoured that Lord Minto will sail in a few weeks, in the Pique frigate, to succeed Lord Auckland as Governor-General of India.

Mr. Macleod, being about to retire from the representation of the Inverness Burghs, Mr. Morrison, the London and American merchant, is expected to become a candidate.

At a meeting of the London, and Brighton Railway Company, on Thursday, the Engineer reported as his opinion, that the line might be opened to within seventeen miles of Brighton in the autumn of the -present year.

.'. At the close of the late election for Birmingham, the following resolution was unanimously carried — " That this meeting enter- , tains a most grateful recollection of the eminent talents and virtues of their late faithfuland beloved Member, Thomas Attwood,- Esq. ; and that it is the bounden duty of the burgesses and inhabitants to express, by .some* suitable memorial, their gratitude for his disinterested and patriotic services both in and out of Parliament."

A meeting of the working men of "Manchester, called by the Operative-Anti-Corn-law Association, was held on Monday week, in the Pavilion erected for the Anti-Corn-law banquet. Between seven and eight thousand mustered. Speeches describing the injury they suffered from the Corn-laws, and setting ■forth the injustice of dooming three millions oi adults to "political slavery," were delivered. Resolutions were passed in favour of "Equitable Adjustment" and Universal Suffrage. An address to the Queen and a petition to Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and an address to the Queen for mercy to Frost, Jones, and Williams, were carried unanimously.

On Thursday, the Court of Queen's Bench made absolute the rule for an attachment for

contempt against the Sheriff?; of London, for not paying over to Stockdak the damage and costs levied in the case of Stockdale versus Hansard. Lord Denman said, the plantiff had as much right to that money as any Member of the House of Commons to his estate. This was a mere civil proceeding ; and whatever might be the consequences, the Court must see that the plaintiff had what the law awarded ; and they had no discretion in the matter. The Committee appointed by the Court of Common Council to watch the proceedings against the Sheriffs of London, held a meeting at the Guildhall on Tuesday. It was agreed that a Committee be appointed to draw up " a remonstrance and petition " to the House of Commons. On Wednesday, another meeting was held, and the " remonstrance and petition" adopted. On Thursday, a meeting of the Common Council was held, and the petition adopted, after a sharp debate, by a majority of 97 to 21. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Hey gate, and four Common Councilmen were directed to present the petition to the Houie of Commons, instead of the Sheriffs. The Judges came to the following decisions on the point raised for Frost, Jones, and Williams — ' Ist. On the proposition " That the prisoner had not the list delivered according to the statute, and that the objection was good if ma le before the prisoner pleaJed," ten Judges voted in the affirmative — LittleJale, Patteson, Williams, Coleridge, Parke, Erskine, Alderson, Rolfe, Coltman ; in the negative, five — Lord Denman, Lord Abinger, Chief Jus f ice Tindal, Bosauquet, Gurney, Maule. 2nd. On the proposition " That the objection ought to have been made before the prisoner pleaded," nine voted in the affirmative — Lord Denman, Lord Abinger, Chief Justice Tindal, Bosanquet, Gurney, Maule, Alderson, Rolfe, Coltman ; in the negative, six — Littledale, Patteson, Williams, Coleridge, Parke, Erskine. The Attorney- General and the SolicitorGeneral, with some of the Judges, had an interview with Lord Normanby, at the HomeOffice, on Wednesday evening. A respite was sent off to Monmouth*. An immense number of petitions from all parts of the country, imploring mercy for the prisoners, were received at the Home-Office. On Saturday, it was announced that the lives of the prisoners would be spared. About one o'clock on Monday morning, they were taken out of Monmouth Goal, placed in the prisoners' van, and escorted by a troop of Lancers to Chepstow, and thence to Bristol. From Bristol they would be conveyed to the hulks lat Portsmouth. They were jiot permitted to j take leave of wives, children, or any relative. On Sunday week, an attempt was made by the Bradford Chartists to create some disturbance in that town ; but the Police were on the alert, and dispersed several armed bodies marching from various quarters to the marketplace. Eight prisoners were taken. A party of artillery arrived at Bradford from Leeds on Monday. The vote of the House of Commons on the annuity to Prince Albert has had its influence on the Commission of the French Chamber of Deputies charged to examine the £20,000 a year for the Duke of Nemours. If the .sum is not to be diminished, a clause is to be inserted, it is said, limiting the provision to tlie death of the King. When the demise of Louis Philippe takes place, the private pro.perty of the Orleans family goes to all the sons, independent of the Duke of Orleans, •provided for as King, and of the Due d'Aumale, heir of the Conde property. The " Commerce " estimates the Due de Nemours' share at £2,000,000 sterling. Madame Adelaide, the King's sister, is said to possess £160,000 a year revenue. Some of the papers plead that in Prussia the King's landed property suffices for family expenses, and nothing was taken from the public purse at the marriage of the i Princesses. | After a long trial, which excited very little interest, the examination of witnesses showing merely the same fact which appeared on thelast trial, the Court of Peers on Friday | came- to a decision, and sentenced Blanqui to the punishment of death, Quignot and Elie to fifteen years' imprisonment, five more to ten ■years, two to seven, and sixteen others tofivo years' imprisonment. On hearing the sentence of death, the wife of Blanqui hastened to the Tuileries.' As the King consented to receive her on Saturday, it is supposed that the sentence of death will bs commuted. The Portuguese brigantine Uiysses was brought into Portsmouth on Thursday; by the schooner Skipjack, commanded by Lieutenant Wright. The Ulysses was captured off the Isle of Pines, on Sunday 'w\sek, with -529 slaves on board. ■ She was run ashore by the Captain; who, With thirteen -passengers, six blacks, and about B,ooo ' dollars, escaped.