ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 63, 13 May 1846, Page 4

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

[From the New Zealander.]

By the barque Samuel Boddington, which arrived in our hnrbour yesterday inorninz. we have received Sydney newspapers up to the 26th March. The St. George, Post-office packet of the Ist December, had not arrived at Sydney; but intelligence had been received from England up to the 29th of November, per the Triad, which had arrived at Hobart Town, that is highly interesting—although we can trace no mention whatever of New Zealand alFairs, or any account of-the depasture of the troops and men-of war, from England, so long and anxiously expected. It is with deep regret wepr ctive that her Majesty's insanity is the topic of discussion in the public journal*. It appears that the fact has existed for the hist two years, hut now it-has became notorious, as well as that her recent excursions to the continent, and to the seats of different noblemen, in England had been ordered by her medical attendants. Lord Stanley had not retired from office, and nothing more whs known with reference to a coalition between Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russel. The Globe newspaper mentions that differences exists between the Duke of Wellington and other members of the minis-try, and that his Grace is anxious for the introduction of-Lord Elienborough into the cabinet. Tjie fortifications of Sheerness are to be greatly strengthened, and seventy gum are to be placed on the old butteries. It is also stated in the English papers, thut the British cruizers, stationed off the ■west coast of South America, have sailed to the north, under sealed orders, with reference to the dispute- with America on the Oregon question. In the American cabinet there exists great difference of opinion not only aa regards Oregon, but also as to the Tariff.

It seems that ladies, not content with speculating in railway shares, huve now begnn to attend puhttc meet'nge of the proprietors. It is suggested by Punch that a Professorship of Hillingsgate shonhl be founded in one of the nevv Irish colleges, and offered, with an adequate salary, to Mr. O'Cimnell. The Smyrna Journal states that a vessel, bcund from Latakia to Smyrna, was stopped by pirates, snd plundered of GO 000 pittstres. The Queen has been pleased to appoint J. A. Taschereau, Esq., Solicitor-General-for Lower Canada. The last great dignitiry of the Polish Crown died in October, «t his country seat, a shurt distance from Potcn. His name was Her yon Czarnecki; be was the royal carver of Stanislaus Augustus Pouiatowski, the last King of Puland, and he had attained his 90th year. . Her Majesty's Commissioi era of Woods and For-sts have given notice of their intention to move fore leave, dv ing the next session of Parliament, t> bring in a bill toform a new royal park at liittersea. Mr. snd Mrs. Chales Kean reaped Jaring eleven flits' peiformances at New York. The corporation of the city of London forwarded the sum of £105 in aid of a found for building a church for seamen in the port of London. The Amerecan Woman is the title of a new. pnnjr publi hed in Philadelphia. .It is devoted to the American republican cause, and-is printed and published exclusively for woman, The Duke of Mon; rose sold in October 8,000 fine larch trees, from his growing timber, at tue rate of Is. 3d. per foot. In 1844 tlure were sixteen hundred cottages in P.eston empty. In 1845 there was saarely one to be bed. In Paris there are 396 newspaper, with 700,000 subscribers; and in the departments of France 89i, with about 350,000 subscribers. By the death of Earl Spencer, a pension of £\,Z 10, granted to the late Edmund Buike and his representatives, for the Uvea of the Princess Amelia, the ~lale Earl Spencer, and the late W. Cavendish, Esq., determines. A project for a grand central terminus for -all the railways entering Leeds, near the>Commercial Buildings is under consideration, John Gladstone, Esq, of Fasque, has recently purchased a large piece of ground in Hope-street, Liverpool, on which, it is said, he proposes building a philanthropic institution, which he intends to endow and present lo the town. r The library of the late Dr. Hershel, chief rabbi of the Jtws, consisting of upwards of 4,000 Hebrew volumes, nas been purchased by the committee of the Hebrew College for J3OO. Lieutenant-Colonel Warne, late of Bath, has 1 ft by his will £20,50, to be divided among various hospitals and other institutions. There was an advertsement in the Times in October, for seventy surveyors. Rachel, the French actress, has refused an en. gagement to go to London, for less than two hun- ; dred guineas per night 1 It is announced that her Majesty purposes viaiting Liverpool next summer. While guano is being imported into England as a manure, soot is being exported, as a manure for the sugar cane in the West Indies. The Jamaica Dispatch states that Mr. Whitmarch has been remarkably successful in the rearing of silkworms, and that the finest specimen cf Jamaica silk would be forwarded to England immediately. [Why not introduce them to New Zeuland, is not the climate well adapted for them, and motteuitable for the growih of the mulberry? Rise in the value of Land.—ln the " Scots Magazine, for 1792, it is sfated that the estate of Kelly and Finnich Bog, in Renfreshire, was sold in that year to the late John Wai ace, Esq, for ,£10,750. The snm of £65,000 was lately given for the same estate. ; During six weeks the inhabitants of the Faroe IsKnils captured no fewer than 28' JO. The whale, bone, a whole cargo, was despatched from these islands to England, intended for manure. A Mrs. King, who takes the title of the Lion Queen, has been exhibiting her daring at Glasgow, by go ng into the dens of the lions and tig< rs at "WombweH's menagerie, and compelling them to obey tier like so many tame animals. The number of negro slaves in the civilised and Chrietian world is estimated at 0",659,000 : \iz — "United States, 2,6C0,000 : Bnuil, 2 510,000; Spanish cjlcnies, 800 l 0 0; French colouie?)

250,000; Du'eh, Danish, and Sweedish colonies, 100.000; South American Republics, 400,000. A regular establishment for the fabrication of spurious bank notes has been discovered in one of the suburbs of Vienna. The principal delinquent is aged 74 years, and, up to the time of the discovery, lived in first-rate style. I-- was thought at fmt that the notes were forged in England. The second child born in Cincinnati is still alive, and has not yet reached the mid.ile age ; and during this time the city has acquired 80,01)0 inhabitants. The first pioneer who went to that part of Ohio, when it was a howling wilderness, now walks a hale and hearty mm among two millions of inhabitants. The ditch which used to surroend the Millbank Penitentiary has been filled, as well as the low ground by the side of the road; and, it is said, it will now be used as a florist's garden. -A society-has been formed in Paris for establishing a winter garden, from which, it said, flowers of all kinds may be obtained in the depth of winter, at a cost not much higher than in other gardens during the summer. Mr. Morrison, bookseller, Perth, has discovered a method by which every variety of colours may be printed off at once j *ilk, velvet, and paper are fitted for - the process, and the wordmanship is unrivalled. Evil Effects of Smoking.—Geiman physiologists affirm that of twenty deaths of men between 18 and 25, ten originate in the waste of the constitution by smoking. Slavery in Russia.—Some of the richest men in St. Petersburg, whose word is good for ,£IOO,OOO on the Exchange, are slaves, who, with their families, may be sent by their masters to herd swine or dig in the mines. The French, journalists evince much jealousy of the combined measures in the river Plate, and take up with eagerness the differences supposed to exist between the Cabinets of Washington and St. James' in reference to the Oregon question. From the African Colonies the jeports are by no means improving : the French troops being obliged to stand on the defensive, instead of availing themselves of the permission accorded by the Emperor of Morecco to pursue the rebel Emir through his territories. -At Vtra Cruz much anxiety is felt as to the result of the quarrel-with France. The French Minister had demanded bis pasports, and It ft with his whole suit by the Medway, Government packet, for Havannab, where he is expected to remain until he receives instructions from-France as to the course heis to pursue. The Rio Janeiro papars state that a Commissioner has been appointed tj arrange with our minister, Mr. Hamilton, the terms cf a convention bttw.en the Brazils and Great Britain, for the effectual &uppiessioa of the slave trade.