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Daily Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 111, 7 August 1847, Page 3

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Bx tlio Ramillks, which arrived hero on tho 5tii instant, after a passage of 111 days, •with Lieut.-Colonel Bolton, K.E.; Captain Kenny (of the Sappers and Miners), bis Lady and four children j and tho Pioneer Company of the Now Zealand Fencibies, as also a large quantity of Government Stores,— we have received English papers to tho 15th of April. The intense misery and suffering m Treland'was still increasing. A correspondent of tlio Daily Neics, writing from Dublin j tinder date 12th April, states, " Tho city j of Cork is represented in the local papers as most alarming. Not only aro disease ■ and destitution making bavock, Vat disor- 1 gamz&tion threatens to loosen all social 1 obligrtiong. Tho number of individuals! brought before tho Magistrates for break- j ins? glass in the windows of Tradesmen for the avowed purpose of getting into prison, amounted in tho last four weeks to 85. Fever is making many victims, and the dead bodies are not nnfrequently left adjaocut to tho police stations for tho police to oacoffin and commit to the earth. As a necessary, indeed I should say inevitable consequenco, the police force of Cork have hem virulently attacked with fever. To add to tho horrors of this time, small pock is making dreadful ravages among tlio children of the poor." A violent opposition was being_ organised to tbe government schema of National Education, which was to be brought before the House of Commons on tho 10th of April. ""Never was any thing more clearly brought out than has been on this occasion, tho dotermination of tho people not to acquiesco 5n any scheme of national education which is not exclusively secular." A Bill had been brought into tho IIouso of Commons, by Mr. Spooner, for the suppression of the Trade in Seduction and Prostitution. Dr. Bowring had given notice of a motion for leave to bringiii a bill for adopting a decimal system of currency, weights and measures. Arrangements have been completed relalivo to colonial mails, calculated greatly to facilitate tho correspondence) of parties having connections with the colonies. Postago stamps were in preparation, and almost ready to bo issued, by which pre-payment might be effected on letters to any places out of Eu gland ; and will of course bo available for all our colonies, without exception. M. Rongo had been sentenced to a raonth's imprisonment, for having preached at Magdeburg without permission of the fcuthoritie,:)', and had rendered himself up a prisoner. Upward of 2000 persons accompanied him on his passage, crying "Ronge forever!" " Religious liberty for ever!" but no disturbance took place,