GREAT BRITAIN.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 964, 11 July 1855, Page 2 (Supplement)

GREAT BRITAIN.

Queen Victoria has invited the Emperor and Empress of (lie French to visit England, and the Royal guests arc expected about the middle of the present month (April) at Windsor Castle, which is being redecorated. The suite of rooms intended for the imperial visitors will bo finished in u style of unprecedented magnificence.

The houses of Parliament, on Friday, the 30th, adjourned to the 17th of April. On the 20tli, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir W. C. Lewis, will bring forward his annual budget. t 'flio Earl of Hafrowby has been appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. This, with Mr. Bouvcrie’s appointment to the Vice-Presidency of the Hoard of Trade, and Mr. Brand’s acceptance of Junior Lordship of the Treasury, leaves but one office . —the Colonial Secretaryship—vacant in the adtumis- ; tratiou. Mr. Brand will undertake the English de- 1 'pertinent of the Lord Mouck succeeding Mr. Fortescuc as Irish Lord. The quarterly returns of the national revenue, , which, for the first time, have been made up to the 31st March, instead of to the sth of April, have just, been published. Upon the quiuter there is an increase ol £4384,308 arising from cveij item but miscellaneous, the respective amounts being as folio tv : Customs increase . • £221,000 Excise ditto . • 211,284 Stamps ditto • ■ 54,944 Taxes ditto • • 95,595 Property tax ditto • • 3,798,612 Post Office ditto - • 45,932 Crown Lands ditto . . 1,000 AHseellaneous decrease . 44,109 tjpon the year’s accounts there is a net increase of 312,624, the respective items being—Customs, 7., ~ Excise, £1,077,57 8 ; Stamps, £170,131; - Property Tax, £5.137.334; Post Office, £230,15(5; ■against which there is a decrease on Taxes £100,608 ; ■ Crown Lands, £123,310; and Miscellaneous, £375 E’ti. Compared with the expenditure, there is a deficiency on the 31st of March of no less than Araontrst tire noticeable events of the month is the election lor a Representative tor Liverpool m place efdwHooonbte T. H. LWdlo, who has boo,, w» ferret! to the House of Peers by the death of his Other Lord Ravensworth. Liverpool has hitherto been considered the stronghold of the Tory party ; but on this occasion, Mr. J. C. Ewart, a native ot tbc’town, a Liberal in politics, and a man of large Mercantile experience, was returned by a majority ot “a l.™oo vo.es over SicS.G. bonham, tho lory -candidate, -tho sumo Sir s G. Bonham who filled the olii. es of Governor of Singapore and Hong Hong. The victory of the Liberal party is generally attnbmed to the new election law, which prohibits, under severe penalties, all bribery and treating, means whereb/the votes of a large poition of the ‘•freemen" had been previously gamed by the Tones. The result of the election has been regarded with considerable surprise, though with general satisfaction by the entire colony. From Etvpaloria wc have received the intelligence that the son-in-law of 1 rince PaSkiewitch was Killed in the last aflair there. _ . * KUoi The Sultan has conferred the order ot Abdal Medjid on Field Marshal Lord Raglan and Lieut-tenant-General Sir F. Burgoync, G.C.B. . , The French Consul at Edinburgh has rccciyedatt official communication from his Government, intimating that an agricultural meeting will lie held a Paris between the Ist and loth ol Juno next, to which, for the first time, foreign live stock will be '^Th Tnoersenhalle, of Hamburg, states, apparently on official authority, that the la e visit of the King -of Prussia to Dresden, had no political objec.. He merely went, like a good husband, to fetch the Queen back to .13 01 1 in • , . .i 4 letter from Hamburg, of the Lbh of March, smuts that the English Government is building bare racks in the island of Heligoland, off the mouth of the river Elbe,large enough to contain a garrison ot ■five thousand men. A Iftree quantity of Mr. Hale’s war-roc' cts are now being manufactured, by order < f Government for tho use of the British army m the Crimea. Ihese missiles can be projected a distance of three miles, with the Certainty of atm of the Mime tm.let. Captain Hall, of the Nemisis, has presented to her Majesty the guns captured from one of t.ie tores at Eckness. The Queen ordered the guns to be placed in the Park fronting Osborne 1 alacc.