LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 139, 2 November 1844, Page 1

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The latest . arrival from. England;,in.Sydney was the Garland Grove, on the t 13th;, of October, from the Downs the Ist of June, awL EaJj»o»iL tbfi^Bjtbl,. "V^ have been favoured with! the perusal of a few Englisn papers, and from, these and the Sydney papers we have. collected, the following: — The Paris papers announce the. death of, the eminent banker M. Lafitte. - The pamphlet of 1 th> Prince, de Joinville f on the French and English navy, has caused considerable sensation in Paris. : InSnauv La-Cobi* wiip^sJwr^Maestrasso for Don Carlos since iß33,"has.been taken and shot.

A civil war has broken out in Switzerland. The paper we have seen merely states the fact without furnishing particulars., . - . I The, insurrection at Aux Cayes, in St. Domingo; hajs been put down by the President Rivire. ' ... "TheTEarl of Athlone died on the 21st of May. ' Mr. Serjeant Qoql.bu.ra , succeeds the late Mr. Merrivale, as commissioner of Tjankriuptcy. The weather, throughout Great- Britain .was very unfavourable. Apprehensions were felt for the crops, and a general rue In grain was taking place. ~ ' In the House of Lords, on .the 3d of June, Lord Einnaird asked the. Duke of Richmond if he intended to take any further step respecting the reduction of the duties on wool. He supposed, however, that a recent appointment might have the effect of inducing the noble duke to abandon all further interference in the matter. The Duke of Richmond safd he had given up office himself because hia. opinions did not entirely coincide with those, of' the Government, and he should scarcely allow his conduct on the wool duties, or on any other question, to be influenced by the appointment of ins brother as a Lord of the Treasury. Lord Einnaird said be meant to convey rib imputation on the noble duke. The Duke of Richmond said he would take an opportunity of stating his opinions on the wool duties, but he feared the agriculturists of the kingdom did not coincide in hia.opinions, or they would have had more petitions respecting the repeal of the duty. The Customs Duties Bill was, after a short conversation repecting the wool duties, read a third time and passed. In the House of Commons notice was given by Mr. T. Duncombe that, on the first night of the house resolving itself into a committee of supply, he would move "as an amendment, That an humble address be presented toiler Majesty, praying that the execution of the sentence upon Mr. O*Connell and hkfi^w.prisonCTAmafcb^ suspended until the decision of the House of Lords shall have been given upon the writ of error, which is to be brought before that tribunal. The house had resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward certain resolutions respecting the sugar duties, founded on the principles of policy respecting the slave trade, and imposing a differential duty on slavegrown produce. Lord John Russell opposed the resolutions, on the principles of Free Trade, and moved as an amendment, That the differential duty of thirty-four shillings, should admit all foreign sugars, whether free-growruor otherwise. After an elaborate discussion, the resolutions were agreed to, continuing the existing duties on slave-grown sugars, and.providing for the admission of foreign sugar, not the produce of. slave labour, at the duty of £1 14s. pep hundred weight; together • with an additional duty of £5 per centum on the forementiohed rate. ' ' *• r The Court Circular is engrossed with the movements of the Royal Family and their Royal guests the Emperor of Russia add the King df Saxony, accompanied with the' most splendid demonstrations of grandeur rand hospitality. The Crown Prince of Denmark was making a tour through Scotland. The Queen Dowager had departed on a visit to the continent. Tallow is quoted 40s. 3d. to 40s. 6d. for P. Y. C, on the spot ; and 425. for Toi>wn. The stock in London is 18,70b casks, against 19,568 casks at this time last year. The.delivery last week was 995 casks, and the arrival 781 casks. '". ' -♦ - .

The Qneen and Her "Royal? Consort and Family were in the enjoyment of perfect health, The Emperor of Russia, was visiting, £te» auently incoff., the public institution* of London, - A very extensive conflagration took place at Gravesend on Sunday, the J2& Juney %rhen twenty-five houses were burnt to the>grou*d and fifteen considerably, damaged. Jo JJtart Street, MatthewV Cour£ and Mer»« tfiiky. The -fire-was first seen issuing from a %<fett<Bc» copied by a poor woman naxpod JSandferi. *

dealer in shrimp*. The daughter of a shoemaker, named Hooker, wts burnt to. death, and carried on the shoulders of her father from the burning fabric in whicOthey had lived. The buildings, for the most part, were occupied by small tradesmen, who were, through this calamity, thrown into great distress — to alleviate which the inhabitants, the mayor of the town at their head, had assembled to devise means for their relief, and had placed the sufferers in temporary lodgings. Mr. Entwistle, the Conservative candidate, was returned for North Lancashire by a majority of five hundred. Great excitement existed in consequence of the Government having introduced a bill to secure to the occupiers of dissenting chapels the possession of them after thirty years, without reference to the original intention of persons who v endowed them. The bill was opposed on the ground that a great number of chapels originally endowed by orthodox Presbyterians are now held by Socinians. Its second reading was carried by a majority of 307 to 117.