LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 16, 13 October 1841, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(From ihe Hobart Town Advertiser.) The debate on the sugar duties was carried against the ministry by a majority of thirty-six. Lord John Russell had given notice of his intention immediately to bring forward his fixed duties on the importation of grain, and in the event of that beiDg carried against him, a dissolution would be the consequence. The cry of " cheap bread" must in the end prevail, and the ministers would gain a majority. The speeches of Lords Russell and Palmerston, and Mr. Labouchere, were highly spoken of. The former made the declaration, that he spoke in the Commons of England, advocating the interests of the great mass of her Majesty's subjects the unrepresented. The speeches of the three ministers above named were printed, at the Government expense, and ciiculated throughout England. Lord Wharncliffe's bill to allow persons to marry within the prohibited degrees, was opposed by the Bishop of London. The majority of the Common Council of the City of London were in favour of the ministerial measure of the new Corn Laws. At a meeting or the Conservative party, Sir Robert Peel relieved the anxiety of his friends by declaring that he wa<= prepared to assume the responsioility of office. Admiral Elliott had arrived from China, and was received at Portsmouth by Lord Minto and other branches of the family. , The papers also state that Lord Palmerston, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Sandford, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, and Mr. Campbell, of Islay were to be created peers. The Leipsic Gazette states that the Prince of Lucca had recently been convened to Protestantism; a circumstance which had created a great sensation at Rome, and throughout Italy. The town of Greenwich exhibits at present a scene of intense interest. Six large steam frigates are being construe ted in this tewn and its vicinity, each of them being 1,500 tons and 500 horse power, being part of the fleet of 14 armed frigates, destined in time of peace to carry the mail to the West India Islands. Lord James Beresford, of the ls>h Hussars, brother of the Marquis of Waterford, committed suicide on the voyage from Ceylon to England. The Times contains an account of Mr. Cooke of Weston, shooting his own son, whilst the latter was robbing his lather's garden. The widow of the Due D'Enghien died a short time sinre * at Paris, after leading a virtuous and exemplaiy life. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of temporary insanitc on the inquest on the late Sir Rufane Donkin. Commodore Napier appears from the papers to be the. lion ©f the day. He has been feted and entertained in every possible way; and has come tor ward for Maiy-le-bone in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. The following is the gallant commodore's laconic address—" My political opinions? are I believe, well known, but to avoid mistakes, shali shortly state them.—l wish to see the vote by bailot become the law of the land ; 1 wish to see the duration of Parliament shortened, the Corn Laws repealed, a liberal cOiumeicial policy adopted ; and a gen rai system of education adopted -ough the kingdom. v *?:, The number of letters posted throughout the United Kingdom averages 750 per minute. The papers state that the health of Pr;nce Albert is rather ala.mmg; his Royal Highness ha- given mduilestatior.s of the strongest symptoms of consumption. The steam-ship Jane, of 700 lons and 280 horse power, had arrived at BUckwall in 20 houis from Hull; the quickest voyage known, This splendid steamer was to proceed to lire Australian Colonies, and she would be followed by two others of equal power. The sentence of the Queen's Bench on the Earl of Walgrave and Captain Duff, was, thai they should be imprisoued tor six months—add that the Earl should pay a fine of £2OO and the Commoner £2O. The noble Karl was followed to prison by his L«-dv, and numbers of the anstocracy, Lieuienant-General Sir" Ric-Kard Bourke, tale Governor of New South Wales, was confined to his house in London from indispositionThe competition of the steamers on the Thames is so great, that the charge from Gravesend to London is only Is,, from Blackwall to Gravesend Bd. '1 here are 17 stearaeis employed on this line, and 14 Irom London to Greenwich, which charge Bd, tare. There are 16 small vessels steaming from jnoruing till night above bridge, and in one day they carried upwards of 55,000 passengers at 4d. each. The motion of Mr. Munt* of Birmingham for an enquiry into Lord Cardigan's conduct wag negatived, 'i he house divided—Ayes—sß. Noes 135. The Queen had given the first state ball for the season at Buckingham Palace, which was a most gorgeous affair. The paper used in one day's publication of the Times, was estimated to cover 10a. 4r. 3p. of land. .The columns of letter press in the same number would extend 440 miles. The Leipsic Gazette announces the death of Galvani, the musical professor, at the age of 104. His father reached the age of 138, and died at Rome. A great sensation was created in Paris by the elopement of one of the Princesses i» the family of the Infanta of Spain, with a Polish gentleman (Count Garvioski), of upwards of 50 years of age. The Great Western, on the last voyage from New. York, fell in with extraordinary, fields of ice in-the Atlantic. Many vessels were advertised in the Times to sail for Hong Kong in China. The Duke of Argyle had brought in a bill for the settlement of the existing differences of the Church of Scotland. The Marquis of Waterford.— His Lordship proceeded . ]a*t week to England, where he purchased twenty-five couple finest and best bred fox-hounds in that country, and returned to Hackwell, his sporting residence in this county, on Tuesday morning last. This truly liberal and highspirited nobleman has now in bis possession three as fine packs of fox hounds as there are in the kingdom, and the spprting gentry of Tipperary anticipate rare sport during the next season. On Tuesday next, Lord Waterford will attend the public ball in our assembly-rooms, when it is expected that a large concourse of fashionables from this and the neighbouring counties will be present. — Tipperary ConstU tution. Prince Ai.BERT.-~lt is understood that Prince Albert is to be created Duke of York in the event of the infant oi which the Queen is now enceinte being a son. The Morning Post says, the Queen wished to confer the title of Duke of Cornwall upon the Prince, but that dukedom being the in- . heritance ot the eldest son of the sovereign, it was not at her Majesty's disposal. Lord Wharnciiffe has introduced a Bill to repeal the Bill which prohibited a man marrying two sisters. Alderman Fwrln of Dublin. —The judge before whom * this ex-alderma* and ultra-Orange corporator was brough on his arrival iu New York, on a charge of having defrauded his creditors in Ireland, has discharged him from custody. Lieut. Scott, of the Artillery, a young officer of 19, is cashiered for striking a brother officer; but, as under circumstances of grejkt provocation-, it is expected he will be restored. General Ramsay, uncle of Lord Dalhousie, has the 70th Regirront, •' —• *ir R. Ferguson, deceased.

Dr. Pepys, brother of the Lord Chancellor, has succeeded to the Bishoprick of Worcester, Dr. Short,-»Deputy Clerk of the Closet to the Queen, succeeds to th Bishoprick of Man. York House, the property of the public, is to be sold, and the proceeds invested in a park at Bethnal Green, in the East end of the town, for trie use of the people of that portion of the metropolis, Mr; Gordon one of the Secretaries r of the Treasury, has resigned his appointment. The reason assigned for his resignation is his irreconcifeahle hostility to the lately announced Budget. Mr. Gordon is an extensive West India proprietor. Mr. Paiker(at present one of the Lords of the Treasury), M. P. for Sheffield,has succeeded. The Augmentation promotion in the 14th Dragoons, on go-f ing to India, has been gazetted. The Lieutenant Colonelcy did not go in the Regiment, Major Havelock of the 4th Dragoons, an old major having the promotion Capt. Harvey has the majority. The troops are given to old Captains Haulfred, of the 6th Dragoon-Guards, and Shaw, from the 4th Dragoons. The Lieutenants are mostly old half-pay officers. General Robertson is to succeedwithout opposition to the vacancy in the India Directors, by the death of Mr. Edmonstone. Lord Minto has appointed D.Christie his piivate secretary, vice Mr. Barrow (who succeeded Lord Melgund), appointed Commissioner of Excise. Colonel Fox, (son of the late Lord Holland) has been appointed surveyor of the ordnance, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Donkin, K.C. 8., who unfoiluaate.y committed suicide on the 6th of May, Colonel Fox was also candidate to succeed Sir Rufane in the representation of Sandwich, but was beaten by the Tory, Mr, Hamilton Lindsay, recently arrived wiih a large fortune .from India The 11th Regt. has been given to Gen, Sir John Wilson, K.C.B. Gen. Pilkington, K. C. 8., has the 82nd Regt, • The late General was only son of the late gallant General Donkin, and first to Miss Elizabeth Frances Markham, eldest daughter of the late Very Rev. George Markham, Dean of Yofk, by whom he had an only soo, who is married and in the army. He was married secondly the sth of May, 1832, ,to Lady Anne Maria Elliott, eldest daughter of the. late, and sister to-the present Earl of Minto The deceased had greatly distinguished himself in his profession. He was at the taking of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and St, Lucie. He was wounded at Ostend during the campaign of 1799, in Holland, and subsequently accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, He was actively engaged throughout the Peninsular war, and had received a medal for his gallantry at Talavera. '1 he deceased had been upwards of 63 years in the army. He was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, K, C. B. and G. C, H, and Colonel of the Uth or North Devonshire Regiment of Foot, to whiph Regiment he was Colonel io Chief many years. lie was returned as member of Parliament in 1832 and 1835 for Berwick, and was returned at the last election for Sandwich. St. John's, the capital of the Island of Antigua, has been destroyed by fire. The Brooklyn f from Liverpool to New York, ran on board a brig at the mouth of the Mersey, on the night of the 10(h May, when the latter sunk instantly, an I all on board, uttering frightful shrieks, perished. The Brooklyn returned to Liverpool mneh damaged. A terrible fire broke put at ihe Great Western Railway. Terminus at Bristol, on the 9ih May, which totally consumed ali the materials there collected to the amount of nearly £IOO,OOO, • The Commander in Chiefof'the Armv has ordered crirketgrounds tobe laid out at each of the Barrack stations through. out the United Kingdom, for the use of the officers a"ridn privates, and has issued especial instructions for the safe keeping aud proper regulation ot the same.