ENGLISH NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 2 October 1852, Page 8

ENGLISH NEWS.

By the " Mary" we have received, viA Nelson, Sydney Papers to the 6th Sept. From the Umpire of that date, we extract the following English News to the 2nd June. We have English news to the 2nd of June, for which we are indebted to the Melbourne Journals. The Mail Steamer, " Australian," arrived at Port Phillip, about noon on the 2nd instant, and was literally crowded with passengers. The ships " Lady Head," and " Eoxburgh Castle," previously arrived, had brought news to the same date. The Ministry still continued in office. The rumour was that Parliament was to be prorogued about the end of June. The debates were not of importance, except the passing of the Income Tax Bill, and a long discussion on the New Zealand Bill. Lord John Kussell had addressed a long letter to the electors of London. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company had announced that their new steamship " Formosa" would be despatched from Southampton on the 7th August for Sydney, calling at the Cape of Good Hope and Port Phillip. The " Queen of the South," a screw steamer> belonging to a private company, was to leave England for Australia in the middle of June. The Wool Sales were going off very favourably. The following is an extract from a letter to a mercantile firm in Melbourne :— " It is said the " Eoxbourgh Castle" will be out before the E.M. steamer " Australian," and therefore I drop you a few lines by the former, to state the advance in wool of 4d. per lb. on February rates. Sales commenced on 20th May —the first day a penny up, and kept stiffening gradually till sth day of sale, when I sold 800 bales of Port Phillip wool, all fine favourite clips, at 4d. per lb. advance ; the owners were present and fully satisfied with the result. " Emigration has now commenced in earnest, and you will probably receive between this and Christmas 30,000 souls, half of whom are to be females. Government alone takes up twelve ships per month—eight for Port Phillip, two for Adelaide, and two for Sydney, with the above proportion of sexes; besides, all private emigration going on at same time by Mrs. CmV holm, Sydney Herbert, Sec." Prince Albert had become the patron of an emigration society, the object of which was to transfer the redundant and destitute population of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to Australia. The Government Emigration Office in London was completely besieged by applicants anxious to procure a passage to Australia, " Emigration," says the Liverpool Mercury, June 1, "to the gold diggings of our Australian colonies, is rapidly progressing. From a statement in the London papers, we perceive that thiry vessels, of 23,000 tons, have been laid on for Port Phillip and other places in Australia. At this port there are fifteen vessels, of 14,950 tons, now loading for the same destination. Every ship which sails from this port is filled with emigrants." The New Zealand Bill had been read a second time in the House of Commons. Emigration.—The demand for passage to Australia on the part of independent emigrants has during the past few weeks become very active. All the best sailing ships are speedily filled at high rates, and it also appears that the steamer " Australian," which is to start from Plymouth on the 3rd June, has already the whole of her berths engaged. Among those who are joining in the movement to the mines are many of the junior clerks in the London banking establishments and counting houses, Several have already made their arrangements, and others will follow, either immediately or as soon as they shall receive accounts from those who are now leaving. The extension of the shipping trade, and especially with screw vessels, is likewise becoming more observable,irrespective of the impulse imparted to it from Australia. On the first day of the Epsom there was no house, in deference to the races—a circumstance on which Mr. Anstey remarked, alluding to the adjourned debate on Mr. Spooner's Maynooth motion, that "in the Conservative mind the

Derby (or sporting) element preponderates over the Protestant." The London correspondent of the Oxford Herald states, that the return of Mr. (ex Archdeacon) Manning1 from the Church of Borne to the Church of England may he expected to take place shortly. The electric telegraph operations which have for some time been in progress in the Bank of England are now completed, and a perfect system of communication is effected between the various offices. The immense docks at Great Grimsby were opened on the 27th of May, with much ceremony. The " Gladiator," steam-ship, Capt. Adams, arrived at Spithead, on the 30th May, from the Cape of Good Hope, having on board General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8.. late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of that colony, and Lady Smith. The Eev. J.P. Gell, the newly elected Bishop of Christchureh, New Zealand, recently gave a lecture ou the colonies, embodying his own experience in Australasia, to the members of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. Mb. T. F. O'Meagher, the Irish State Prisoner, who escaped from Van Diemen's Land has arrived safely in New York, where he was publicly received by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen on the 10th of June.