LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 445, 7 November 1849, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Her Majesty and the royal family left London for Osborne, Isle of Wight, July 2nd. An official communication had been made to the Lord Mayor of Dublin of her Majesty's intention of visiting Ireland in the course of the summer of the present year. General Bedeau had been appointed to the command of the army io Italy, and left Paris, July Ist, for the bead quarters of General Oudinot's army r M. Dupin had been, w-

elected President of the Legislative Assembly, he obtained 349 votes out of 380; Qenera.l Lamoriciere 4 ; M. Ledro Rollin 1. The four Vice-Presidents were Messrs Dam, Baroche, Benoit, and General Bedeau. A fine estate has been purchased in Peebleshire by Mr. William Chambers one of the - proprietors of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. A very interesting debate had taken place in the House of Commons July 2, on Mr. Disraeli's motion that the House would resolve itself into a committee to consider the state of the nation. The debate was .adjourned. The harvest in most parts of England was expected to be highly favourable, but the potato disease was again making its appearance in many parts of the country. The House of Lords having thrown out the bill for admitting Jews into Parliament, Baron Rothschild accepted the Chiitern Hun.dreds, and 1 a new writ was issued for the city of London. The electors vindicated 'their former choice, by re-electing Baron Rothschild by a majority of upwards of 3,500 votes. His oppponent was Lord J. Manners. The question now is, who is to give way — the electors of London or the Lords ? It was believed to be the intention of her Majesty to visit Ireland and Scotland iv the Autumn. • The disturbances in Canada had ceased, no further outbreak having taken place of any moment after those of which we have already given the particulars. The Governor-Gene-ral had however sent home his resignation, but her Majesty declined accepting it. The-latest a intelligence from America announced the death of the late President Mr. Polk at his residence, Nashville, of chronic diarrhoea after a/very short illness. Arrests continue to be made in Paris in consequence of the .affair of the 13th June. M. Louvet, surveyor of the Ponts et Chausseds, and M. Piquet de Belay, Sub-Chief of the Marine Department had been apprehended, and the Police were actively engaged in searching for Ledru Rollin who, it was supposed, was concealed in Paris. The name of M. de Girardin had been erased from the list of Socialist candidates. The working classes express the utmost contempt for their late leaders, and lament they should have been so Jong deceived by them. All the accounts fitom the French Provinces represent the approaching harvest as most abundant. It is expected that the wheat and oat crop will produce at least one third more tbau that of last year. . On the Continent, the affairs of Rome and Hungary were those of the greatest immediate importance. General Oudinot had for two months been fruitlessly laying seige to Rome, which had always been considered an open city, but it was evident that, for several reasons, the French General was unwilling to proceed to extremities, or he might certainly have compelled it to surrender. At length, on the 30th June, the Romans determined to abandon further defence, and the French accordingly took possession of the city. What course the French Government will take is not clearly known, but it is expected by some that it will suffer the Romans to establish a really popular Government, and then protect it against foreign aggressions. In Hungary, no decided blow had been struck. Austrian and Russian armies, to the number of three hundred thousand men, were io the field, and in one or two trifling engagements, the victory had still sided with the Hungarians. Overwhelming as the allied force seems in numbers, it is by no means certain that the task before it is an easy one, and though in the end the brave Hungarians may be compelled to succumb, the struggle may be a fierce and a prolonged one. It was found impossible to come to terms with the Venetians, so hostilities have been recommenced by the Austrians.

The Waterloo Cicerone. — Many Belgic and other tourists who have made a point of visiting the field of Waterloo since the battle will be sorry to hear that the gallant old soldier who for so many years has been the guide over the field, has " shuffled off this mortal coil.' 1 Sergeant Major Cotton, late of the 7th Hussars, who served in the memorable battle as a private in the 7th Hussars, died on the 23rd of June. He had been ailing for some time, but still continned his vocation, and accompanied several parties over the field on Monday the 18th, the anniversary of the battle, and as late as Friday week was again over the field with an English family. — United Service Gazette. Two singular deaths had occurred at Chatham. A man named Marriner, belonging to the dockyard, while employed repairing a leather strap, pricked the forefinger of his left hand with sn awl, which in three or four days caused mortificationof the arm and kill-

Ed him. Two or three days previous to this accident Marriner's daughter pricked her finger with a needle, and while in attendance on | her father the finger caught the infection from him, which also turned to mortification and she died the very day her father was buried. The tide of emigration from Liverpool still continues to increase ; the increase on the last month (June) being in round numbers 5000 persons. The same improvement continues to be noticed in the class of emigrants, many of whom appear to be of moderate substance. Of the parties saved from the unfortunate vessel Charles Bartlett, some stated to have lost, besides baggage, tools, &c, cash varying from £5. which is about the lowest, to one case in which the loss is £800. On the average they appear possessed from £20 to £40.

Loss of Emigrant Ships. — The ship Maria's destruction took place at midnight, on the 10th of May, so suddenly that she went down almost instantly on striking, carrying with her no less than 109 unhappy , human beings, all of whom perished. The Maria was an old vessel, manned by a crew of ten hands, including the master, Mr. Hesligean. It has been ascertained that the master and a portion of the crew of the emigrant ship Hannah, who left the ship when she was foundering, with 200 passengers, many of whom were subsequently rescued, were picked up four days after the melancholy event, and had been landed at Quebec.