(From the Hobait Town Advertiser.)

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 13, 30 August 1845, Page 3

(From the Hobait Town Advertiser.)

By the Renown,, toLannceston,we have papers to the 13th of April, and o^ie, the Times- of the 15th. we believe contains the latest intelligence received in the colonies. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, had on lhe l4th removed from Claremont to Buckingham. Palace. They as well as all the Royal Family were in good health. The principal subjects of interest in the house were the debates on the grant to Maynooth, which Sir Robert Peel has determined to carry j spite of a poweifu] opposition — that on the the I message of the American President, Mr. Polk, of which we have elsewhere given the substance, and which will show that however anvious to preserve peace, onr ministry is not afi aid of war ! nor to insist upon the assertion of ' unquestionable rights ' A proposition was made by the British Minister at Washington, to submit the Oregon question to to the arbitration of a third power. This was refused by Mr. Calhoun, who has however since retired from office. The Caledonia steamer had been detained two da)s for the purpose of forwarfling to our Minister the resolutions of the British Cabinet on the question. The Earl of E<rremont is dead, and thus one of the oldest families in England, and a very ancient title is extinct. The Marquis of Downshire died suddenly while riding over his estates in the county Wicklow, Ireland. A College of Chemistry is to be established in. London. The celebrated St. Binno, of Spagnolelti, the first painting of its class in the world has been purchased by Mr. Farrer of Regent's Park, and has added anothei to the treasures of ancient art in England. A slight but very perceptible shock of aa Earthquake, was felt at Huntingdon on the 2nd of April. Iron has made immense advances in prices, in. conspquence of the enormous demand for railroad purposes, which seem to be turning England into one vast gridiron. Wrought iron from £5 to £\% per ton and cast fi om 30s to 130s. The Earl of Romney died on the 29th of March in the 6Sth year of his age. The excavations at Pompeii have been lately proceeding with spirit, and several interesting discoveries made, but the influence of the air upon the uncovered parts of the city has been to cause a rapid destruction of many of the most valuable relics. Her Majesty has finally completed the purchase of Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, aucl SOO acres of land from Lady Emily Blachford, for £26,000. Her Majesty and Prince Albert remained there from the 21st of March to the Ist of April. Th^t c appears to be no doubt that her Majesty will visit Ireland fn July, and that the Parliament will rise earlier thin usual, to allow the ministers to attend her. We see by the Irish papers that the Lord Mayor of Dublin had convened the corpoiation to consider the best means of raising the \\a)s and means to give her a suitable reception There are now. according to the Monileur PaMS'ien, 92 French war steamers afloat or building, of whiah 8 are frigates fioin 450 to GOO hosse power, and 18 coivettes Horn 220 to 320 horse power. Nvtional Education. — The Rev. D. Bagot, vicar of Newry,has been appointed one of the Lord Lieutenant's chaplains, in consequenceof the vacancy caused by the resignation of a clerg\ man opposed to the policy of the government in relation to national education. Mr. Bagot is a warm supporter of the national s>stem. This is the only appointment of the kind made by I ord He\te.*b»ry since his ai rival in Ireland. — Globe, March 26. The Pope is to send the Golden Rose this }ear to the King of the Belgians. It is alwa)S a t'ift to the relation of some sovereign remarkable for piety, or an illustnous petson who has rendered eminent services to religion. M Guizot, and M. Thiers. the celebrated oppositionists, have had an interview at the house of a mutual Inend. The comersation wasamical'le — what the result may be, is of coarse unknow n. Wonderful discoveiies are said to have been made by Lord Ross's monster telescope. Regains is said to be a disc, not a sphere, which w e doubt, and the nebula in Orion a s)stem like our own — .i sun with planets moving round it. The Commissioners ofthe Treasury signified to the Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, that the surplus revenue for the year ending sth January, 1815, was £3,356,105 8s 2d. Voting by sPi-ret ballot hds been abolished in the Chamber of Deputies. A posthumous work of Sydney Smith, on the Irish Roman Catholic Church has been published A proposal by the India Government to laise the import duties, has cieated an immense sensation in England, as well as in India. It mo&t probably wilThaveto he abandoned. The French Government has required a loan from the Chambers of 27,000,003 fiancs, or £I,OSO, 000 for the purposes of improving the Baltic, the Atlantic, and Mediterranean, entirely with reference to commercial purposes. The bill for closing the ports has. been postponed to next session. Mr. Willoughby isliortland had an interview with Lord Stanle) on the 15th Feb. Archdeacon Marriott had an iuteivievv with his Lordship on the 17th February. Mr. Hutt has given notice !o ask leave to bring in a bill for extending the provisions of the Canadian Corn Act to our Australian Colonies, Tne Paris Moniteiir announces the formal recognition of the provisional government of Mexico'by King Louis Phillippe, who received M. Garo' in the character of its representative onWediu'sdciy. Tiie Fiench government has ordered reinforce ments of Hoops to be despatched to the Swiss fiontier. It was reported in Paris that theAustnan government had resolved to interfere. Loid Brougham is preparing a life of Voltaire. lie is wining it in English and in French, and the work is to be bi ought out in the tuo languages, simultaneous!) in London and in Paris*

Kast Indies. — The health of the troops in Scinde is admitted to be generally good. Sickness was diminishing in the 78th Highlandeio, which u as coming to Bombay from the mouth of the Indus in a steamer. — London Alias. Chin \. — Trade w as dull, in expectation of the beginning of the Chinese new year. Another instalment has been paid, and the port of Kolungsoo had been given up. Hongkong is desenbed as very sickly. — Ibid. Affairs in Switaei land are in a very precarious state. The free corps aie forming themselves in all directions. The most remote cantons are joining- the movement, and the officers and men called underarms by the Government of Lucerne had either refused to obey the call or joined the lnsui gent ranks. — Ibid i The new Arctic expedition under the command of Sir John Franklin is appointed to sail about the first week in May. '1 he intended route is tluough Barrow Stiaits, between Cape Walker and Bankes' Land, and I hence to the Continent of Ameiica to the westward of Woolaston Land. They vi ill still be able to take two \ears provisions, though the steam apparatus and coals will not admit of (heir taking three years' complete, as on former arctic vojages

Fr kern a son u v.— Tne differences which ha ye j existed for some time among the members of the higher degiees of masoniy in'lreliind have been brought to a satisfactory termination; a complete union being effected through the especial intervention of the Duke of Leinster. This is the most important event in the masonic annals since the union of ihe grand lodges of York and England was effected by their Ro^al Highnesses the late Dukes of Kent and Sussex.

FheUev. Sidney Smith. — We regret te announce the death of the Rev. Sidney Smith who, after an illness of some weeks' duration, evpired at his residence in Green street, shortl) before 11 o'Clork on Saturday evening. — Dr. Holland and Mr. Hibbeits (sons-in-law of the deceased) were both in attendance on their lamented relative at the time of his death. Mi. Smith had attained his 74th year. By his death a canonry in St. Pauls Cathedral becomes vacant. Mr. Smith was partly educated in Edinbuighj v/here he resided for some tune, in company with Lord Brougham, Lord Jeffrey, thelato Sir James .Macintosh, and -others, In conjunction with the above eminent men, hecommenced the Edinburgh Review, which was under his editorship fora shoit period, and to which he contributed during the most part of his life. During the early peliod of his life Mr. Smith was not in very affluent circumstances, and for all the advancement he obtained was indebted, in a great measure, to his own mdustiy. Most people will recollect his own joke of his residing in Edinburgh, and "cultivating literature on a little oatmeal " Mr. Smith's ltteiary labours were principally bestowed upon the Edinburgh Review, his only published work of any note being " Peter PlimJej's letters." Mr. Smith's loss will be especially frit by the whiy party, to whom he was always attached, and to the interests of which he contributed in no small degree. The rev. gentleman gave the following-descrip-tion ot himself some time ago in a lettei to a correspondent of the New York American : — " I am seventy-four ) ears old ; and being a canon of St. Paul's, in London, and rector of a parish in the country, my time is equally divided between town and country, lamlmngamidst the bcstsociety in the metropolis, and at ease in my circumstances, i in toleiable health, a mild whig, a tolerating churchman, and iriudi given to talking, laughing, and noise. 1 dine w itu tue rich in London, and physic the poo* in the country ; passing from the! sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus. lain, upon the whole a happy man, have found the •world an entertaining world, and am hearlil) thankful to Piovideuce for the part allotted me in it."

CanonryinSt Paul's Cathedral. —The Key. Mr. Tylei , rector of tit. Giles's, has been appointed to the canonry of St. Paul's, vacant by JliiMiedtli o! the Itev. Sidiiej Smith. It is said to bet .c i.itention of Government to make a retired list for the navy, in all its grades, after each officer ha& teached his GOth )ear. Among the pailiamentary notices we perceive one from Dr. Bow ling, for a committee to enqune inio the mode of keeping colonial accounts. A Roman C<uholi<* cathedral, lately erected at Nottingham, had bpen consecrated and opened ■with much pomp and ceremony. Filtcen Llomdn Catholic Bishops, and more than a hundred priests weio present, biul so gorgeous a spectacle is siid not to have been witnessed m England bince the Uelormation. A new Human Catholic Chapel had also been opened with gieat magnificence at Newcastle-upon-'i^nej nine bishops and seventy pnests being in attendance.

Land neau London — A piece of building land on the Uxbridge-ioad, with not a very dvMidble frontage, was sold lately after tlie iato o! £8,000 the Bcre. Summary of News — Lord Lonsdale lids staled, in the House of Lords, that the number oi newspapers returned to the Dead Letter office, i'om the loss of their envelopes and f id di esses amounted to 456,000 ! . . .Mercury has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Adelaide, in South Australia, hut it is not \et known whether it e\is:s m such quantifies as' (o be piofitabloto woik for a mine. ... At the Middlesex Sessions last week, a pcibonof highl) lespeciabie appeal - ance ckiuied exemption fiom serving on the jun on thegiound of having being convicted of felon;., and tendered documentary evidence to thu effect amidst roars of laughter. . . .A butcher at Nottingham has succeeded to a fortune, variously estiin Ucd at from £S,OOO to £16,000, by the death of his mother, who was transported for ulteiing base coin about thitty } ears ago, but afteiw ids leformed, mained again, and amassed ocnsideiable v\oalth. . .On Thuisday morning, Edward Stoi), keeper of the lodge at the principal entiance at Claiemont, belonging to the King of xii(> I^Wgiant, committed suicide ... A. man named Cnapman, being left in charge of Mr. Norton's mill, Lincoln, dislocated his jaw by gaping: the poor fellow was. found with his month wide open, and unable !o evplaiu what was the matter v ith him. lie was taken to a medical man, and the jaw put right, and liien he stated that it had been locked by yaviiiii'g, , . . On Satin da)

week, before the Hull borough magistiates, Mr. Pietce, an attorney was fined £10 for conveying half a pint of nun info the gaol. , . . Mr. Abraham CoAtes, land agent to Lord Stradbroke, is to be tried at the next assizes of the county of Waterford, for administering an oath to a man named Connors, to give up his house on the Ist of May next, and also for presenting a pistol at him to compel him to take the oath. . . , The manulactureis of plate glass aie already issuing circulars to the trade, ottering their commodity at a reduction of 25 per cent on the preseut prices. . . , Twelve German writers have been ordeied by the French government to leave Pai is A dispenscii) is about to be erected at Northampton, in commemoration of her Majesty and Prince Albert passing through that city on on their late visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burleigh L-Jouse The Great Western Railway shows the enormous lise in value of £2,145,000 j within the year. ..The Governor-General is 'proceeding in his measures ts promote education among the natives of India; and a hundred | schools are forthwith to be put in operation in Bengal. . . . The political friends and admirers of the late Loid Holland have subscribed £5,000 for a monument to his memory, to be placed tnl Westminster Abbey. ... An inquest was held at Birmingham, oa the body of a ctiild, live months old, named William Humphries, whose death aiose from suffocation by a lemon drop.