LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, 29 November 1845, Page 154

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert were at out to visit Germany. Great Britain and France have entered into a treaty for the suppression of the slave trade ; the latter power engaging to e< [uip twenty-six vessels of war for the purpose, Great Britain furnishing an equal number. The state of Spain is still mostdeplon ble. There is a talked-of marriage between the Queen and a son of Don Carlos, which is strongly repudiated by the Madrid papers. Money in Madrid cannot obtained at leas than 16 per cent, interest. The Post-office returns for the last year show an increase of twenty-two millions letters posted in Great Britain over the previous year. The total number of letters delivered in Great Britain during the year 1844 was 242 millions. The number before the reduction of the postage was 75 millions. Mr. Thomas Moore is about to become the biographer of the late Sydney Smith. A frightful accident occurred at Yarmouth, on the 2d of May. A Mr. Nelson, the clown at Cooke's Circus, bad revived the spectacle of sailing in a washing tub drawn by four geese; and while exhibiting thii feat at Yarmouth, an iron suspension-bridge, on which were several thousand spectators, gave way at one end, and precipitated a large number of persons into the river, seventynine of whom were killed. In a duel near Portsmouth, between Lieutenant Hawkey, of the Royal Marines, and a Mr. Seton, the latter gentleman was wounded, and died in consequence in i few days. The jury which sat on the body returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against all parties concerned in the duel.

Russia, with an army of 180,000 men, has made another unsuccessful attempt to subdue the Circassians.

The crops throughout Great Britain were represented as highly promising. The Wesleyan Methodists were about to disown any connexion -with those of the United States being slave-owners. A subscription has been set on foot in Manchester for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Thomas Hood. England at present is labouring under a perfect railroad mania. The various lines now contemplated require a capital of two hundred millions sterling.