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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 115, 18 November 1846, Page 3

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In the House of Commons on the 22nd •I one, Mr, C. Bulleu asked whether it * a s the intention of tlbr Majbstt's Govfnrnent, in the course of the present eßs »on, to bring into Parliament any mea-

7«Trea-onto,;t' >p ~a ' l,lefe t,,e British Crownhlii , h3 " a,,,,,rit y°f the If.Mise ~f p m " ut ,ho atteuiioii of *»■ L^.i_ l f ly ?r 0,,8 boing 0ft,19 " , «» the Gov,? 1" r o f nT? °, onnea - 1,, d wit, » same day "hi tf 1 ? e . ,,M '»---On the «" the' New Z , e ?^ ,ntoC,,mm "^ £100,000 wa ,V f >'. of »•« New Zealao, O C °" Bol,dltted f «"«l to Tbe On In • Com P at, y was agreed to. sc;; a :r co A nfiiie - i^3 -rted, " y "»n Scotland m August. Tlie had been intense; 80 hot a B um m eV had notions the thermometer had reached

. } he S , latH of Yucatan had declared itself i«'»e„en-l.nt of Mexico. cana,t!ie,f Lord PrancM was called .0 the audit" e,,ythe '! ,ttJo^Ueou !1 ,8r il ck i ev r, 11 wui undem.>ol that Sir Jani.s (xraliam was to he crea.ed Lord Preston 'he .Marqau of AngWa it wa» ex. peeled w ou |d be the new Commander in_nief

A most destrnc.ve fire had taken p| a , P at >'. John s, Newt:,,, dland, at which i, was rep ,rted three fourths of the tow,, was consumed.

By tl,, arrival of ih-, Christina from Port Plul ln , on Saturday |,st, which place she left.sal,seq ue „,| y tv , he arriva , there of the Enu»r,.me from Liverpool we have new, from England to the beginiiinof July j; tew or no English papers Lave readied Svdn-y, h W \ we are indebted to the Port Phillip papers for the extracts we give to-day.

'ihe must important intelligence is the resignation of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, tfiey haying been defeated in tho House of Commons by a majority of seventy three, on the Irish Coercion Bill. Sir llobt-rt had not resigned particularly on this account, hut .bee* us* he feh, that he did noi possess the confidence of the House sufficiently to enable him to carry on the Government in a satisfactory manner. The Right Honorable Baronet's speech upon his resignation will be lound in another column.

Lord John Russell had been sen for by her Majesty .to form a new Ministry, but had not completed his arrangements The Times gives the following list as the probable ra_wstry:—y Fint Lord of the Treasury, Lord John Russell, Chancellor of the Eichequer, Mr. C Wood. Lord Chancellor—Lord Cottenham. Secretaries of State—For the Home DepartmentSir G. Grey ; Foreign Affairs, Lord Palmerston , ColonUl Department, Lord Clarendon. President of the Council—The Marquis of Lansdowne. First Lord of the Admiralty—Lord Auckland. Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster—Lord Campbell. First Commissioner of Woods and ForestsLord Morphet. Bosrd of Trade—Mr. Labouchere. Postmaster-General—The MarquU of Clanrlcarde. Attomey.Genenl—Sir T. Wilde. Solicitor-General—Mr. Jervis. Lord Chamberlain—Lord Granville. rRELAND. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—Lord Besborough. Lard Chancellor of Ireland—Mr. Brady. Attorney. General—Mr. Moore. Solicitor-General—Mr. Monagban, Great excitement of course prevailed throughout England, and Sir Robert Peel was perbap* never so popular as when retiring. It was thought that he would he sure to be called into office again before many months. The Corn Bill passed a third reading in the House of Lords without a division. It was much opposed in committee, but the ministry was always successful.

The Oregon question has been finally and satisfactorily settled. The main articles in the convention are that the boundary line het-veen the British and American territory should be continued along the 49 parallel of north latitude to the Strait which separates the continent from Vancouver's Is and, and thence southerly to the Pacifio Ocean, leaving the navigation of the channel and Straits of Fuca, south of that latitude open to both parties, and that the navigation of the grpat northern branch of Columbia, shall be free and open to all British snbjec s. Captain W. T. Denison, of the Engineers, bad been gazetted Lieutenant-Go-vernor of Van Diemen's Land.

Mr. Willis's appeal to the Privy Council had been partly heard. m Haydon the artist has committed suicide;

h s *ttait#ned Hrcutosronw are th* aliog to ?£"?*} pr , eVi " U!J to ~i 8 d ° ath he appealed fo tl c liberabt, of-everal persons if rank, b.rltob.n Peel alone answered the an. and though overwhelmed with huJine««, whioh the close of hi s p 0 | )liP;ll areer, nC urred,fo,in.|tinieandgener,i en;.nisli to re'ieveibe unfortunate artist Hie bxeciitivo Council of the Corn Uw Leag.|« have resolved that the League he Co n Laws , n 1849. A testimonial to he leading muiber , of |he v discussed by a f -w priva(e { J a prec.se nature of ~,« testi ra ,,ni.,l was no nely- arranged. The Queen and the ; In'ant Princess were doing, unpommo.dy well. On dit that the latter was to be named Elizabeth, afer the Viroi,, Queen ■ The Tow_a,--o„ Mornhv 'afem >oni b" nie.ropo .tan police look possewi'.n of the Power of London, for the firnt time. .he old ordnance watchmen, and will do duty day and nM.t w.th.., the fortress. A a.a.ion-house has »-en erected for the arcouim d-uion of one urgent and thirteen ■ man.

Cardinal Ferretti, Bishop of lrola, ha 1 been tW and had taken the name of Pius IX.

Ibrahim Pacha has been lionized immensely since he came to London on the Bth ,„« lai „ Tha p t , ie Thamw lunnel, the Tower, the Mint, the Home of Lords, Ascot, tlie Chiswick Gardens, the Society of Art?, were 'visited by him in the course of a single week, and he then went do*n to Birmingham and Mancheater, where he ha* since been rushing about, viewing manufactories, and astonishing the gaping multitudes with the rapidity of his movements, and the intelligence of his observations. He returns to town afier going to Scotland, and will then be received by her Majesty, and treated with a review of as many British troops as can be brought to London. He was, it is said, much struck with the ap pearance of the detachments of the household troops brought out for his inspection 1 a day or two after bis arrival, contrasting as they did with the small men of the French infantry, and the indifferent horses of the French cavalry. Fortune has not been cons'ant to Mexico in her frontier warfare with the United Stales. General Taylor ha* more than retrieved the earlier disasters of the campaign, by completely beating the Mexicans in two baitles, and taking the town of Matamoras. His success is in some respects to be lamented. America, proud of her victories, will grow more bellicose and less inclined to listen to sug»esiions for the pacific settlement of the Oregon question. Liverpool, 27th June, 1816. A series of public sales of wool commences he re on the 24th Inst., and terminated last evening. There was a fair attendance of dealers and rnaoufacturers, all of whom observed great caution in their biddings, owing to the near approach of the London sales, which are announced for next week, \ and will reach 23,000 to 30,000 bales of colonial wool, which, in the present stata of monetary affiin, is looked upon as likely to cause a farther redaction in pricei. The Sydney wool was a good fair average, lot, and in tolerable condition, but rather heavier then last year. A few good clean parcels sold at Is. 10Jd. per lb. which is about 2d. below last year's prices ; the inferior and worse conditioned parcels were from 3d. to 4d. lower. Tat Port Phillip wool was generally heavy In condition, and many of the flocks were irregular in quality. These remarks also apply to that from Port Adelaide which was generally ill-conditioned. The growers in these districts have during tbe last two ye* r» looked more to the weight and quantity than to the quality and condition of their w->ol. Many of the flocks require a fresh introduction of Merino blood, and greater attention to their condition and claisification. A small parcel of New Zealand wool was included in these sales ; it very much resembles that from Port Phillip, and we think the climate is well adapted for growing good healthy staple wool; it scours very white, which renders it better for fancy goods, but, like that from other new countries, the condition is bad, and the classing irregular. The assortment of low wools was not good, and the sales few, at a reduction corresponding to tha* on the finer kinds. The buyers' means appear to be still much contracted. This imay be attributed to the railway speculation af last year; the weather, however, is favourable, and the crops highly promising. The new Corn and Customs Bills have also now become law; and we trust that confidence will soon be restored, as a great amount of the present depression in the mercantile circles has been attributed to tbe unsettled state of the tariff. Abraw Gartpidb _ Co., Wool Broken.,

Tho Sugar Dutfe« Rill !,*« m^„( ) t h,. Commons, and been read a fir-t time in the Lords.

The New Popr —"Ith ■« Wn ani 1," says the CorisMMttiortel, "Uiu th>» ..e-v Pope wan band-nine imh». rh,» A \ri dk lv R_Lioioiv publishes a hurer fr m K...m0, which stales, indeed, that he unit, t in hi-i person 'all the external qiialisiM »hicrt delight the eye, and all the eminent \ irtna* which makes t»reai Popes.' * * • 'There ara "lated already, siys a correspondent, of his Holm es, two Hti-cdote* which prove that on ascending the Pontifical ihrotie he shuts his soul t. all ambition for his family, and thinks only of jhe great and holy obligations imposed on him by t'le triple crown. Two of his nephews being at Rome, he ordered ooe of them, wl„, was his bather's go n, to return to Minigaglia, and iell lih f a , n j| y t h ?l |,„ would not have them establish themselves at Home. To the other, a son of one of i"« a young offi ? er of the Pontifical army, he declared that no promotion jould |c a-corde.l t> him hut w.iat was rank and merit. This conduct so different to what is generally t'»tliu despoti.rn of Popes, only nnnfirnn what was previously conceived of his great merit. The two secrecies of state nave not set been appointed. The Pope tU c ared that before makirg this important choicd ho wished to rnt-di aie several days m the presence of God. His Ho!ine«< Im confirmed in th,i r titles and functions tl»e differed dignitaries who formed the Fo-tihcd household/ "—i'im,. s , j„| y L Pope Pious IX—Mis Holiness is"tbe brother of the Counts Gabriel, Joseph, athf traeiano Masta Ferretti, nt Sinigiglia. Th • division of the Irish Coercion 811 was as toilows :— For the second reading ........... 219 Agaiostit ................ ..*, 292 Majority against tbe Government.. "~73 The Duke of Wellington, on the 20th June, in the House ot Lords, formally announced ihe resignation of the Ministry. Strong efforts were being made to induca Earl Grey to join the New admh-stration, but with what success was not known. LoM Elgin, the Governor ot Jamaica, bad arrived in England on leave of absence On the 18th June, his Grace the Duke of Wellington gave his customary banquet in celebration of the victory ot Waterloo. Prince Albert was one of the guests on the occasion. The Presbyterians of Ulster have ex. pressed some indignation at the condemnation of tbe begidm donuk byt he Scottish Free Church Assembly. The way to deal with Lady Thieves. —A young lady, whose name, on account of her respectable connections, we forbsar to hint at, lately caller! upon a milliner in Edinburgh, and, having made some trifi. ing purchase, was about to depart, when one of the assistants whispered to her mistress that she had observed the lady secrete a valuable lace collar. The milliner instantly charged her customer with the theft. She denied it; the milliner insisted on her being searched, when the missing article was discovered in her muff. " Now, madam," said the milliner, " yon hare be >n gtiil yof a most disgraceful act, and I am determined you shad not escape unpunished I give you the choice of two things—either I will have you given up to the police, or you must submit to have a sound whipping." After many.attempts, to mollify the anger of the dressmaker, the fair thief at last, with no very good gtace, consented to submit to the latter alternative. A servant having been despatched for a pair of taws, with which she quickly returned, and all obstacles having been removed, the mi liner proceeded to administer the well-meriied punishment, which she did with a heart andwiil, in the presence and much to the entertainment of the assembled women, who in turn took the taws. All parties being tired with tbe exercise, lady, whose complexion was considerably heightened, was permitted to withdraw, and stepping into a noddy in which she had come, (the cushion of which, we dare say, she by no means found too soft), was driven home, having got a lesson which, no doubt, will operate as a warning to those ladie6 who cannot distinguish between raeura and tuum. — Euiuburgh Chronicle.

Prince Albert was asked why he went so rarely to an English theatre, and visited so often the French plays. His answer deserves to be engraved over tbe stagedoor of every metropolitan theatre. "My reason," he said, " is this : nearly all tha fclnglish pieces are taken from the French, and do you ihink 1 would g i to the translation ot a piece as long as I can see tbe - original?"