LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 497, 13 September 1851, Page 4

LATEST ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

The Crystal Palace was opened on the Ist of May, by her Majesty in person. London was in a hustling state as thousands were landing dail/. On the 26th April, 10,400 persons arrived in London from various parts of the world ; the number of passports delivered in Paris alona, to the above date, amounted to upwards of 250,000 ! A great number of extra troops were to be stationed in London during ths Exhibition. An attempt was made on the 24th April, by the Commissioners, to raise the price of admission from 3 to 4 guineas for a

lady's ticket; but a meeting of the authorities took place on the 26th April, at which Prince Albert presided, and at his suggestion, the prices were lowered to the original sura. Parliament was to assemble, after the Easter recess, on Monday, 28th of April, upon which day, the Income Tax Bill would be brought forward. On the Ist May the Navy Estimates, and the 2nd reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill would be brought forward; a Committee of the.House of Commons would sit on the same day on the Income Tax. Monday, sth May, was appointed for the 2nd reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill; on the 14th of May, Sir W. Males worth was to bring forward his motion for the presentation of an address to her Majesty, praying that transportation to Van Diemen's Land might be discontinued. The Protectionists were making vigorous efforts to regain an ascendency in the House of Commons, with a view of returning to a protection policy. Meetings'were being held from one end of the Kingdom to the other, and according to some journals the whole Kingdom was rapidly being converted to protectionism. On the other hand the free trade journals declare that England was never before eo well off. The Times says, "at'this moment the chief complaint of employers is that labourers are demandingand obtaining better wages than employers can find it convenient to give them. The only political chloroform under which British industry is suffering just now is full employment, with abundance of bread, and meat, and drink, and other necessaries of life." A dreadful occurrence took place at Walton on the 22nd April. A clergyman named Smith shot a gentleman named Armstrong, under the impression that he was going to force an entrance into his house. A verdict of man-slaughter was returned against Mr. Smith, who is in such an excited state as to be considered temporary insane.

Much interest bad been excited by the trial of the case Doyle v. Wright, in the Lord Chancellor's Court. The case related to a Miss Talbot, niece of the present Earl of Shrewsbury, who had been brought up under the guardianship of Dr. Doyle, who was appointed to that post by the will of her father, and educated at Taunton Lodge, a school at which most of the higher ranks of Roman Catholics are brought up. There she remained until ISSO. when she attained the age of nineteen. Dr. Doyle now petitioned for an increase of the sum set apart for her maintenance—while Mr. Craven Berkeley, the step-father of Miss Talbot, petitioned for her removal from the guardianship of Dr. Doyle; and the address to Mr. Berkeley's counsel set forth that the conduct of Dr. Doyle was not Tree from suspicion, that he sought to persuade his Jward to takegtheij veil, 'and thus surrender her property to the uses of the Romish Church. In course of argument on the case, a number of strange circumstances were adduced, relative to the seclusion in which Miss Talbot was brought up—an attempt by the Earl of Shrewsbury, her uncle, to bring about a marriage between her and a French cadet counterworked by the design of .her guardian to obtain her hand for a young Englishman, and his subsequent machinations to induce her to become a nun. These allegations were mat by affidavits from the Superior of the conventual establishment, and others, and the decision of the Court was given virtually in favour of neither party; the prayer of Mr. Berkeley being dismissed with costs, and the heiress being removed, and placed under the guardianship of Lady Newburgh. Miss Talbot is about to be married to Lord Edward G. Howard, second sou of the Duke of Norfolk. This ia a complete answer to the assertion that she was a willing postulant. It is said that the pressnt Biswop of Clifton has placed himself in an awkward predicament, he having purchased a site for the'erection of a magnificant cathedral at Taunton, in his diocese, of the value of £1,500, in expectation of Miss Talbot becoming a nun, and the forfeiting the whole of her property to the Roman Catholie Church. The Bishop, we are told, being unable to complete the purchase, in consequence of the awkward interference of the Lord Chancellor, is being proceeded against in a civil court, so that sn interesting expose may be expected. At the suggeuion of Mr. Panuzi, the trustees of the British Museum have ordered that from the beginning of May to the end of August, during the present year, the rooms containing the collection of printed .books shall be kept open for the first five days of the week for the public to walk through, like the gallery of antiquities or natural history. On Saturday and Sunday admission will be refused to all persons indiscriminately. It ia reported that the Government, convinced at last of the necessity of moving the National Gallery from the .building in Trafalgar-square, have adopted the suggestions thrown put in various quarters, and purpose >to, place the pictures in Kensington Palace.— Observer. Messrs. James Holdsworth & Co., of Manchester, have completed, with the jacquard loom, a beautiful banner of English silk, supposed to be the first material of the kind ever sent to the loom. The worms which furnished the silk were reared by Mrs. "Whitby, a lady of fortune, residing in Hampshire. The banner has been eent to the Exhibition. On the 29th April, the [Government were again defeated in the House of Commons, by a majority of 18, on the property tax. Rumours were once more rife (says the John Bull) of an impending resignation of the Ministers. Notwithstanding Lord Torrington's defence of himself in the House of Lords, Lord John Russell and his colleagues have no faith in the motion on the affairs of Ceylon, and have made up their minds to die at last under that Damocles' 6Word so long suspended over their heads.