LATEST NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 53, 19 February 1842, Page 1 (Supplement)

LATEST NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

By the arrival of the Government Brig Victoria, we have received our files of English, Irish, Scotch and Colonial journals. The English news to October 4th ; Scotch to Oct. 6th ; Irish to Ogt. 3rd, and Sydney papers to January 27th, 1842. With our present number we present a Supplement, in order to lay before our readers the latest important intelligence. We reprint the speeches of Sirßobert Reel and Lord John Russel upon the state of the nation, which will be read with interest. The distressed state of the Operatives in England had again been brought under the notice of Parliament by Mr. Ewing. The Queen and the members of the Royal Family were in good health. The indisposition of the Princess Royal had detained the Court of Claremont longer than had been anticipated. The state of foreign affairs does not appear satisfactory. Fears were expressed by more than one of the Cabinet Ministers that the M'Leod question would not be satisfactorily adjusted, and that a war with America was almost probable.

France too seems in a very disturbed and revolutionary state. Several ententes had taken place in Paris, and the Due d’Aninale, one of the sons of Louis Phillippe, had been shot at. The French money market was in a very unsettled state, owing to the operations of M. Humaun, the Finance Minister.

We perceive with much gratification that Torres’ btraits are to be carefully surveyed. A sloop of war and a tender had been ordered to proceed upon this service, the careful performance of which is so important to the interests of these colonies.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, one of the principal Catholic noblemen, had published a pamphlet, in which O’Connell is expressly denounced as a dangerous agitator. The Parliamentary news will be found interesting. An adjournment was expected to take place about the 7th October, by which day it was thought that the House would be enabled to dispose of all the business which was then before it.

A petition had been presented to the House by Lord Sandon, signed by 9,000 of the principal colonists of Canada, praying .that no 'alteration might be made in the existing scale of the timber duties.

Trade remained in much the same state as before, exhibiting a slight tendency to improve rather than 'otherwise.

The prize of a handsome silver medal Shad been awarded by the Commitee at Llyoyd’s, to Captain Thomas Watson of the schooner Essington, for his kindness to the boy Forbes, who our readers will recollect was taken by Captain W. from the Island of Timor-laut, in which place he had remained for several years. A great sensation had been created in Edinburgh in consequence of the Rev. Mr. Marshall having seceded from the Presbyterian and joined the Episcopalian Church. The reason which he has advanced for this step is, his disapprobation of the existing contest in the Scottish Church relative to the recent affairs at Strathbcgie. Episcopalianism was stated by some of the journals to have greatly increased in Scotland of late, and an extensive meeting had been held some time previously in Edinburgh, when it was determined to erect a college at Perth for the purpose of educating young gentlemen in that faith.

An official communication had been made by the Board of Trade to the Committee at Lloyd's, announcing that an extensive strata of sulphur existed at Tripoli. It was anticipated, therefore, that the traffic in that article, to and from the above state, would become extensive.

The American news is unimportant, the only material item of intelligence being that the port of Carthagenia de Columbia had been blockaded by order of the State of Manzanares, in consequence of some misunderstanding with the latter. Some very severe gales occurred in London on the 28th and 29th of September. “•Ihe arrival of the Conrad at Hobart Town with tea, has had the effect of lowering the price of this article. Advices have been received at Hobart Town of two vessels being bound to New Sjuth Wales with tea from Canton.