ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 48, 28 January 1846, Page 3

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Commercial —Eitract of a letter, dated London, September 5, 1545 :—'• Without any of your favours to reply to since we la't addressed you, we have now the pleasure to report to you with respect to our markets for your exports, that that for wool prtsents tbe s*me and healthy and promising appearance ; -and should the weather continue fine, as it now is, for the getting in of our harvest, we hope to see prices fully supported in our next sales, which will be held in about three weeks or a month. At Liverpool some small sales were held a fos tnigut since, and tbey went off as ours of July. wh?eb look, ing at the onusual extent of the latter, we consider to be highly satisfactory and for the future. Our corn market, which hWadvanced very considerably a month since, in consequence of the then unfavourable state of the weather, has again receded and become dull; but the finest samples of Australian wheat are nevertheless still worth 645. per quarter, and we think that 60s. msy be safely calculated upon as a minimum price for such during the ensuing twelve month?. Talbw has advanced o 395. and 40s. per cwt for the best beef and 4 s. and 425. for the finest mutton, and the market seems firm. Hides are a shade higher, say 2fd. to per ib. Bark is still unsaleable. Sperm oil has declined to JBO and £81 per tun, and is dull. Southern remains steady at £27 and £ J 27 10s. per tun, for first qualify ; and whalebone may be still quoted at about ,£23 • per ton, in the absence of any supply to speak of."—Port Phillip Herald Army. — 96th Foot. ■— Lieutenant Wiiliam Smith Nicbolson to be Captaia, by purchase, vice Brevet Mf.j =r Richmond, who retires; Ensign John Campbell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nicholson ; Frederick Jessop Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vies Campbell. A report was prevalent at Vienna, th .t the Sovereigns cf Europe had expressed an, opinion favorable to the marrisge of the young Queen of Spain with Prince Leopold cf Saxe Coburg. An insurection had broken out on the Frontiers of Persia and Asiatic Turkey, in consequence of the imposition of a new tex, and the town of Kars was in the hands of an insurgent chief named Hamdy Bey. The expences of the fetes on the Rhine in honor of her Mfjesty, are said to cost 5.000 000 francs, the musicians having received no less a sum than 400,000f. Mrs. Frost, wife of the Newport convict, had proceeded to HcbirtTown, as matron of a female convict ship. Lord Stanley was laid up with a fit of the gou\ The Repeal agiution was proceeding steadily, and Mr. O'Connell had intimated his intention of agitating the counies, commencing «ith Tipperary. A regular weeding of the Magistracy was taking place; Captain Archdail, Messrs.' CWlland. M'Keon, and ethers, h v;ng been superseded for taking part in Oiange piocessions:—The national board of education in Irelind received a charter of incorporation. The French, it was said, had determined to abandon their possessions in Oceanica the fortitude of poor Queen Pomare, and the fidelity of her adherents, having shamed them out of their attempts to maintain the Protectorate of Tahiti. A dreadful famine was devastating Poland, and tbe lower classes there were actually boiling and devouring potatoe stslks, and added to this was the fact of a considerable failu'e of the crops. Sir Thomas Wilde, the Whig Attorney General, hss entered into the matrimonial state with Lady Augusta D'Este, the daughter his late Royal Highness the Dake of Sussex. The new House of Lords was expected to be fit for public business by. tbe coai!net.ccmtnt of the year 1547. Sir Henry Pottinger wa* to hi vj the colon.-ley of the 75 h foot, v.cant by >he death of Sir William llutchinsjii.

rcoessavy, and lie did hail with satisfaction the tone and temper exhibited by the C lonial Office. Before he sat down he must advert to one point which had purposely left by the Company till the clos'k"of these discussions—a point of which was important to the Company, and not without its importance to the prosperity of the colony—he alluded to the application which had been made for a loan of money from the Government. He was aware that the application must be considered on public grounds, and he was willing that it should be so considered; but at the same time he hoped that the Government would state that the application should receive consideration without delay. He begged to add, that the success of this application was indispensable to enable the Company to resume its operations as a colonising body, and indispcnsible, in his opinion, to the harmonious working of the arrangement which had just taken pace. Sir It. Pkki, : I do not think it necessary for me to assure the House that the recent harmonious understanding between the Colonial Office and the New Zealand Company must have been to me a subject of great satisfaction ; but I am bound to state, and Ido thus publicly state, that whatever credit is due for these improved relations must be given to my noble friend. I said some time ago, that whatever might be the d flerences between my noble friend and the New Zealand Company, it would be found that my noble friend was not influenced by them. For the purpose of conducting the late negociations a gentleman was nominated who had not been mixed up in the previous tranSactions, and was therefore enabled to take a more dispassionate view of the whole case; I allude to that most distinguished public officer, Mr. Lefevre ; he was culled on to assist my honorable friend the Under Secretary for the Colonies, and was employed by my nobie friend to conduct the arrangements which has just been completed with the New Zealand Company. With respect to the charge that a " cross " has taken pLice between the Government and the New Zealand Company, I think that no man who is acquainted with the respective parties would imagine such a thing could be possible. No secret understanding of any kind had been entered into on the part of the Government. As to the application for a loan, I have no diffku'ty in assuring the honorable gentleman ihat the Government will give an early consideration to the subject. Of course nothing could be done without the consent of Parliament. If the Government came to the opinion during the recess that the loan ought to be granted, they could only give an assurance subject to-the consent of Parliament.