LATE ENGLISH MEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 140, 2 October 1847, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH MEWS.

The arrival , of , the Terror on Thursday last, hat completed our English news to the 2nd June. The intelligence is tuo dajs earlier than our last Wednesdays summary, via Llobart Town. Parliament was about adjourning for the midsummer holidays. Among the measures concluded, or tantamount to having passed, were the Factory Bill, abridging the labour of children to ten hours — the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill— the Army Bill, limiting the term of enlistment to ten years, and effecting other improvements. It was proposed to appoint a select committee to consider the expediency of suspending the progress of all the Railroad Bills then before the House of Commons,, with a view to diminish the drain of money. A powerful squadron was assembling for an experimental cruise at Spithead, under Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier, combining the finest ships of the navy, perhaps in the world, built after the most perfect models, from designs by t the late Sir W. Rule, M. Lang, Seppings, Laird, &c, and comprehending the St Vincent, 120 guns, Howe, Caledonia, and Trafalgar, 120 guns each, Queen, 110 guns, besides two of 84 and one of 80 guns ; also, the Terrible, of SOO horse-power, and nine other war steamers, carrying from 560 horse power downwards to 200. The Queen has ordered medals to be struck in commemoration of British victories by sea and land, from 1798 to 1815, to a fac simile of which any officer and man present at any action of importance, will be entitled, Mr. O'Connell died on the 15th May last, at Genoa, aged 72 years. The closing icenes of the life of this remarkable individual, we give in the words of his medical attendant, Dr. Duff;— "On Monday, May 10, 1 saw Mr. O'Connell for the first time, and he was then suffering from profuse and involuntary diarrhwa, with great pain of the abdomen under pressure, strong rapid pulse, flushed face, &c. Mr. O'Connell had also chronic bronchitis of j tome years standing. From the remedies employed these systems were much ameliorated, and on the morrow, he seemed convalescent. But from Mr. .O'Connell's great repugnance to swallow even the most simple medicine, this state of improvement could not be followed up. On the evening of Tuesday, the 1 lth, the new symptom of congestion of the brain presented itself! Active measures were immediately had recourse to, and from them there was a decided improvement. Again the aid of internal remedies was denied— Mr. O'Connell refusing to take any medicine. Towards the evening of Wednesday, the 12th, the syptoms increased,—Mr. O'Connell was restless, and sometimes slightly incoherent. Our former measures were again employed, but with slight succesa. During Thursday all the symptoms increased, with great tendency to sleep, from which, however, he could easily be roused ; the breathing; wai much embarrassed ; circulation became difficult, and in some degree indistinct, and the iniiid wavered. Thursday night was passed in a state of profound heavy sleep, with increased difficulty of breathing, and in addressing those about him, he imagined himself in London, and spoke to them as if theie. On Friday he was much worse, the breathing very laborious, the voice scarcely audible, and the words half formed ; all the symptoms had increased. In this itate he lingered on till Saturday night, seem ingly conacious of the presence of those about him, but neither attempting to move or speak. My heatment of Mr O'Connell was always in conjunction with Dr. Beretta, of this place, and a young Freuch phy sician, who had accompanied him from Lyons, and on the day preceding his demise, we had the advantage of consulting with Dr. Viviani, the oldest practitioner of Genoa, and of high repute. By his advice, and as a last resource, a further application of leeches to the temples was advised, but all was in vain ; he expired last night at half past nineVclock, apparently suffering little pain. During the whole time of our attendance upon Mr. O'Connell, it was with the greatest difficulty he could be induced to take medicine, or even necess sary food, and he perseveringly abstained from drink for full forty hours. Had thia been otherwise, the period of death might have been procrastinated, but his failing health and spirits with constant tendency to cerebral congestion, rendered certain his death at no very distant period." Accounts tfrom Ireland are still of an improving character. The grain crops were looking favourably, although much distress continued to prevail not alone in Ireland, but perceptibly through the United Kingdom. The Grand Duke Constantine, High Admiral, and second ion of the Emperor of Russia, 20 yeais of age, has visited England, and was, of course, the lion of the day. A very important religious movement has recently occurred in Scotland. The two great dissenting bodies, there, denominated the United Secession Cburch, and the Relief Church, effected a union at Edinburgh, on the 13th May last. Upwards of four hundred of their Ministers assisted at- the solemn ceremony in Tanfield Hall. It was to this Hall that the Free Church Ministers retired at the disruption of the Church of Scotland* in the same month of 1843, and it has thus been the 6cene of two remarkable events in the ecclesiastical history of Scotland in latter dajs— but widely different in their character— the former a burst of long pent up feeling, and the excitement consequent on sudden disruption; the latter the placid expression of subdued enthusiasm—yet both equally marked with deep religiousjfervour,

All accounts concur in stating an nnpiecedented depression in the English n.oney market, caused a good deal, it is to be presumed, by the immense loans granted to government ; for the relief of Ireland. The Emperor of .Russia was about vesting four millions and a half of specie in consols, and French and Dutch funds, out of the twenty millions sinking fund reported to be l)ing in his hands profitless. The amount of gold in the Bank of England, in the middle of May, viaß reduced as low as nine millions and a quarter, but lather rallied early in June.— Savings' Bank deposits weie beginning to be largely drawn out in favor of consuls. The general rates of discount for unquestionable money; bills, are stated incredibly high — so high as ten and twelve per cent. As the harvest was promising well, this stale of the money inaiket could not last. Mr. Hurst, of the extensive publishing firm of Longman and Co., Paternoster How, died on the 2nd June, aged 73. The Queen has appointed Mr. R. 11. Madden to be Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. War Office, May 7. — 65ih foot — Lieutenant Charles P. O'Connell, from 51st foot, to be Lieut, vice Blake, appointed to the Canadian Rifles. Earl Dundonald, fonneii) Lord Cochrane, is to be returned to his former tank in the army, and to be repaid the fine of £10000, which was imposed on him and another many years ago, for a supposed connection with a false report which influenced the funds. The remains of the late Major Sir W. Scott, who expired on the passage hoin India, have been conveyed to Drybourgh Abbey, and deposited in the tomb with thuse of his revered father, "the Author of Waverley." A line of submarine telegraph, connecting the Admiralty with Northampton and the Channel Islands, by a single wire, is contemplated. Mehemet Ali has laid the foundation of the first lock of the Banage of the Nile. The silk manufactories lately built by the Turkish Government, have been destroyed by h're to the extent of damage of £300,000. The American Congress seems to be heartily sick of the expense and protracted nature of their Mexican waifare. Their naval armament in June, comprehended 46 ships, 24 barques, 56 brigs, 1 1 steamers. The Great Britain steam ship which had been tun ashore at Bend ram, rose with one of the highest spring tides, so that by tightening her sides and compartments, hopes weie entertained that she would be floated off during the spring tides following. A female aged 1 06, died lately in the Cheltenham Workhouse, of which she had been an inmate 47 years. Another female died in Wales about the same time wanting but a few dajs of 107 )ears, with faculties unimpaired to the last. A chemist of Vienna, is said to have succeeded in making excellent bread from the seed of the '* Cobra," after expressing the oil, at a cost of one-halfpenny per Ib. Twenty-one arches of the Liverpool viaduct of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, fell to the ground lately in rapid succession, within one minute and a half, causing heavy damage but no injury, as it happened, to the workmeni The span of the first arch which gave way was 3G feet— that of the otheis 30 feet each, The btit- ! tresses to the spring of the arches were 35 feet j each, 23 feet thick of solid masonry. Parliament has granted £100,000 for public education during the present official year, which will terminate sth April, 1848. At a late Queen's drawing-room, the Turkish Ambassador rather astonished the fashionable world, by introducing his wife, the Piincess Callimaki, The latter wore a Parisian costume, — his Excellency, the dress of his country. The installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was to come off in July. William Wordsworth, the Laureate, would write the installation ode, and Walmsley, of Jesus' College— M. 8., prosesor, to set the same to music. Mr. Fraser, lately attached to th« British Embassy in Brazil, has received the appointment of British Consul General at Rio Giande, being the fiist Consulship made there. The French Government following the example of England, forbids its subjects accepting letters of marque from Mexico, under which privateers might be armed against American vessels. The King of Denmark has determined on granting a Constitution to his subjects on such a basis as may be agreed to by delegates from the provincial assemblies. A'Chamber of Commerce has been re-esta-blished at Canton. The income of the English We&leyan Missionary Society, was, at the close of last year 1 , £116,528 18s ; and the expenditure for year, £111,534 Bs. Bd. ; balance in hand, £4,994 9s 4d. A mission to China is contemplated. The Rev- Charles Perry, M. A., of Trinity College, is named as the Bishop of Melbourne, Port Phillip, and.the jßev. Augustus Short, M. A., of Christ Church, Oxford, as the Bishop of South Australia.