LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 93, 16 December 1843, Page 372

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

[From the Sydney Herald, November 27.]

The steamer Bentmck, which is intended as a regular trader between Calcutta and Suez, having arrived at the Cape of Good Hope prior to the Bangalore leaving that port, English news to the 23d of August has been received in Sydney. No regular files of papers have come to ,hand, but we have been favoured by Captain Nelson with a perusal of a Standard of August 23, and an Eveniny Mail of August 14, from which we gather the following information : — The harvest in England promised to be most abundant; trade was tolerably brisk. We have not been able to find a word about the price of wool.

The insurrection in Spain, which had been so long threatening, had at length broken out. Espartero, the Regent, had been compelled to take refuge in England. The Christina party had declared the Queen's majority to have arrived (although she is only thirteen years of age), and were governing the kingdom in her name.

The Repeal agitation still continued; immense meetings were being held, but there had been no actual outbreak.

The Queen and the Royal Family were well. Her Majesty was to prorogue Parliament on the 24th August. The Queen was about to take a series of trips in the new steamer. A .number of convicts were about to be sent to the Falkland Islands.

Dr. Pusey. — Two hundred and thirty nonresident members of Oxford University Convocation have addressed a memorial to the Vicechancellor, deprecating the treatment of Dr. Pusey in censuring his sermon without setting forth the reasons. The first signatures are those of Lord Dungannon, Lord Courteney, Mr. W. E. Gladstone (President of the Board of Trade), and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Dr. Wynter refused to receive the memorial; tartly rebuking the memorialists for an attempt to overawe the Governor of the University. Ireland. — The great meeting on the hill of Tara, which has been looked forward to for some time, took place on Tuesday. The number estiraated by one person at 500,000 ; by "An Old Military Friend " of the Dublin Pilot at 1,000,000. Whatever the numbers, the scene must have been the best got up of all the " monster meetings." The road to the hill was thronged with passengers, in carriages, hired cars, and a-foot. A grand procession assembled at Danshaughin, fourteen miles from Dublin, at half-past ten o'clock: but people left Dublin for the rendezvous before dawn, and even over night. The site is thus described : — The hill of Tara, when it came in view, presented the appearance of an" encampment. The southern side was completely covered with the canvass of tents, over which fluttered banners with Repeal mottoes ; and beneath the canvass and on the field outside ample viands seem to have been provided by thrifty dealers. The ascent to this celebrated hill is so gradual by the southern road, that one is not prepared for the extended prospects which, on the top, break upon the sight on all sides. The view is only limited by the horizon, and, passing over lands of the richest pasturage, is said to encompass portions of no less than twelve counties. The plain, on the summit of the hill, comprises fifteen acres; but on these it is in vain you seek for any sign or relic of that extensive regal residence so proudly spoken of in Irish history; if we except two mounds, one of which a peasant pointed out to us as ' the spot where fifty of the boys were buried in one grave, who were shot at'the battle fought there at the time of the troubles in '98.' To the north of the hill were erected two platforms ; one for the accommodation of ladies ; and the other, capable of containing five hundred persons, for the speakers and other leading characters." — Spectator. New Presbyterian Marriage Bill. — The Belfast Chronicle contains the following important statement : — " W t e have every reason to believe that this long-disputed and important question will very soon be settled in a manner which will give satisfaction throughout Ulster. A bill is to be brought into Parliament by the Lord Chancellor — of couise having received his sanction— which, we feel satisfied, will remove all just grounds of complaint. We have not seen the bill, but we have authority to state the principal provisions contained in it. By it the right of Presbyterian clergymen to marry members of their communion to Episcopalians is completely recognised, and the most perfect equality established. There is, however, to be a publication of banns, as in the Established Church ; the ceremony, also, is to be performed in the meeting house, within canonical hours, and a marriage registry is to be kept. This is the gist of the bill, which is quite brief. The bill was introduced into the House of. Lords on Wednesday evening, and was then to remain over for consideration during the recess ; and we have excellent authority for stating that every expectation is entertained of its becoming the law of the land, unless some, at present unanticipated, obstacle be interposed."