ENGLISH NEWS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 53, 20 April 1844, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

The Kate from Port Nicholson has brought up the mail of the Governor. We have perused several files of English newspapers, but their contents are generally speaking uninteresting. The New Zealand Journal appears to have, at last changed its tone towards Auckland, but, although it unequivocally acknowledges its superiority in respect of situation, soil and climate over all the settlements of the Company, it is still of opinion that the Seat of Government should have been established at Port Nicholson, because perhaps a few more persons had been temporarily congregated there than at Auckland. We can assure the New Zealand Journal that that reason will not long continue in existence, " wheresoever the body is thiter will the eagles be gathered together." The superior soil, situation and climate of Auckland will concentrate the population around it. It would seem that the projected Canal across Panama croates considerable excitement among commercial people both in England and France. Anti-Corn Law agitation is still going on in England, Cobden and Bright are delivering lectures on the subject in all the large towns. The Marquis of Londonderry is reported to be in favour of the Anti-Corn Law League. This may account for the return of Bright as member for Durham. The Church dissensions in the North of Scotland are assuming a serious aspect. In Ross-shire a Clergyman has been deforced, and the military beaten off the ground by the mob. Two hundred additional troops have bften ordered to proceed to the scene of strife. Ireland is still in the same state as by last accounts. British Guiana is likely to be made a penal settlement, on account of its being nearer home, less expensive to transport convicts to than Van Diemen's Land, and certainly more likely to be a place of greater punishment. The Demerara planters appear to be rejoiced at the revival of slavery iir this new form, but the convicts themselveswill have little cause to rejoice at the prospect of being obliged under a tropical sun. to cultivate cotton and sugar, instead of tending sheep and cattle in the mild an# genial climate of the Australian Colonies. New Edinburgh is still kept before thepublic, but we can discover nothing to indicate success,

The Church of England Colony is also talked about. And we think it is very likely from the altered tone of the organs of the Company, that their expectations of being able to i-aise the wind rests entirely on their ability to dispose of their Auckland Allotments. Their own settlements will no longer impose upon the English public.