ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume V, Issue 428, 17 November 1849, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

\From '.he 3lelbourne Daily News, Oct. 23.]

The Aden has put us in possession of English intelligence to the Bth of July. Trade was progressively improving, and the harvest most promising. The London Daily News of the 6th July says :— " Neither the increase nor the decrease exceed the limits of the ocillation from year to year, and from quarter to quarter, that must always be looked for. To base conclusions as to national prosperity or, depression upon such data would be to emulate the hypocondriac, whose spirits rise with a rise of the 100 th part of an inch in the barometer's mercury, and fall with a fall of equal amount. A surer index of the state of the country are the reports of pur manufacturing districts and great commercial emporiums. During the first six. monts of 1849, both imports and exports have been large, the latter unusually so. The - quantity of cotton imported during these six months lias been grnater than in any • previous year, and, with a few trifling exceptions, the imports have realised a fair average profit on the whole. On sugars, teas, silks, profits, though not large ones, have also been realised. Notwithstanding the unsettled state of the continent, the Manchester market continues ih a healthy state. The demand for all leading articles of home consumption has been good, and prices have remained unusually steady. The only serious reverse that can be apprehended would be from a bad harvest, of which there are at present no symptoms." Advices of the July Wool Sales are contractory—being reported in some advices as an improvement on, and in others; as but- on a par with tho May Sales.

Hudson is disgorging his illgotten spoil ■Vhe has already refunded £75,000, and is reported to be about to hand over to tho Eastern Counties Railway, .Baron Roths-child has been

again elected for the, City, opposed by Lord John Mannkhs—thc poll was 6'o_7 to 281<i. D' Ikuakili in a(for him) .erv deficientspeech of mere gaudygcneralities moved for un enquir into the State ofj tho Nation. He was well answered by I the Chancellor of the Exchequer and conclusively extinguished by Sir Robert Peel. The motion was lost by 296 against 100.

In the London Journals of 6th Julylast we find an abstract of the net prodd uce of the revenue of Great Britain in the years and quarters ending July Oth 18-18, and July Oth 1849. Upon the year 1849 we find an increase in the customs of £921,780 although there is a decrease upon the quarter ending Oth July, 1849, as compared with tbe corresponding quarter of the previous year of £319*005. In excise, there is a decrease upon the year of £G6,320, and also a decrease upon the quarter of £453,201. In stamps there is decrease upon the year of 345,700, but an increase on the quarter of £62,057. Iv taxes there is an increase in the year of an increase upon the quarter! of £20,597. Under the head of Property tax we find a decrease upon the year of £49,170, but an increase'upon the quarter of £44,839. In the Post Office there is an increase upon the year of £62,000. In Crown Lands there is an increase upon the year of £59,000, and upon the quarter, £30,000. Under the head of miscellaneous there is an increase of £55,158, and upon the quarter, £60,913 ■The total amount of the ordinary for 1849, j up to sth July, was £47,996,242. J On the continent we observe nothing j new, save that the rumour of the destruction of the " Eternal City "is a gross exaggeration. Lord Brougham stated in the Peers that he had received letters from Paris (written since the cessation of the assault on Rome) to the effect that the great monuments of art are not destroyed. The Europa steamer ran down an emigrant ship, 400 tons, bound for America, by which 100 out of 135 passengers were drowned. The. catastrophe occurred at two o'clock p.m. during a heavy storm. The celebrated Sontag (Countess Rossi) has returned to the stage, and appeared at her Majesty's Theatre. Her husband having lost the whole of his property in the recent Sicilian insurrection, is the cause assigned for the return of the Countess to her original profession. The next mail will doubtless bring news of. a decisive action between Hungary and its oppressors. The former seem to.be well prepared to meet the masses. of Russians and Austrians, which were entering their territories at our latest dates.

j We find. the following in the South Australian: —

■. The Cheap-side brinjg's London Journals \ to the sth July. ' '„'.. j We have to report a;continued and decided improvement in trade. There was.the prospect of an excellent harvest all over the continent. The effect of this cheering intelligence was enhanced bynews of the surrender of Rome, and the progress of the Russians, who had defeated the Magyars, and had dispersed them in all directions. The Emperor of Austria had joined the army. In Baden also the insurgents had been defeated.

An extraordinary sensation had been created in Paris by a star in the west, which was seen while the sun was shining in full splendour.

The King of Muscat has sent by the Arleincsia, from Zanzibar, a present to Her Majesty consisting of five Arabian horses, four greys and a bay, of a; small but singularly perfect make. Another died on the voyage.

A London firm writing on the. 3rd. July, says, " Again there are some movements hi favour, of steam to Australia, and the public are favourably disposed: but we see no capitalists taking an interest, aud till they do, or tlie government find funds to tempt the Peninsula and Oriental Company, you will have -no line."

Consols for the opening left off on the sth July, at 92 to -J. They had been during the day as high as 92} to f.

New Zkaland.—The Right Rev. Dr. Pompallier has arrived at Ford's Hotel; from Ireland. We understand ihat his Lordship has succeeded in obtaining several priests from that country to proceed w T ith him to New Zealand, and that he intends to return to his diocese in the course of the next month, attended by at least twenty European priests, should he be able to procure funds sufficient to defray the expenses of their, passage. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith has made him a considerable grant, and some private individuals have also contributed towards the expenses of this mission, which, notwithstanding, are heavier than he can at present discharge. His Lordship has baptized with his own hands more than 10,000/ persons in his extensive diocese.— -Tablet.