LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 535, 27 November 1850, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

We are indebted, says the Launcesfon β-eiiminnr , to a mercantile friend for the "an of the Liverpool Mercury, of the 23rd '"ly. from which tho following intelligence is extracted :—

'"flic Queen and Court, on tho 18th of [irtvlleft Buckingham Palj.cc forOdborne Ol ',the season. is supposed that tho Court will re-. "«n at Osborne till tho 20th August, "en it w Jii remove to Balmoral, to which '■ace the royal party will proce.ed by rail- '"?» &c, journey (it is" said) r "m Osborne to that place in a day. J lr. Stuart Wu-rjloy's Mnrringo Bill

, W been read a third UiueTiTtho HouJo" of Commons, Two convicts Ud committed suicide in NQWKtUe,,narrielv Watts, the late lessee ot tttj Ofvmpic Theatre, and DonoVun UMiler.sJtitonoo of death for throwiii" hi,' wile out of a window, i Pailiailieut was to be proiogued on the otti August. War \h to be resumed between Deninurk and the Duchies. A formal nrocUmiUoii has been issaed by Denmaik advising all tradcis on the coast to retire to places of safety. The Poi tiguese Government has admitted the American claims. The American ships of war weie leaving the Tagus. The Grand Jury, at New "Orleans, found bills of indictment against General Lopez, General Quitman, Governor of Mississippi, Judge Pinkie Smith, of the same state, ex-Governor Henderson, and others, for their,insane attempt at creating insurrection in Cuba. AtMpmphis,Tenhessee,ftdispute arose in a Court of Justice, respecting the assets of a Bank, when four people were killed, and two wounded.

The Queen of Spain was delivered, on Friday, the 12th of July, at four o'clock in the afternoon, of a male child, which lived "only a few minutes. The telegraph despatch, communicating the intelligence to the French Government, states the "health of the Queen is good." The aspect of commeicial affairs was The wool sales had concluded, and did uot exhibit so rnaiked a decrease as was reported at the commencement of the sale.

Robert Pate,,who assaulted the Queen, had been tried and convicted before Baron Alderson,' He was sentenced to be transported for se,ven years.

■ The vacancies occasioned in .the parliamentary representation of the country, by the lamented death of Sir Robert Peel and by the recent law changes, have been fillpd up. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., takes the place of his-revered father and grandfather, as one of the members for Tumworth; Sir John, Romilly, the new Attorney-general, has been re-elected for Devonport;.arid A. E. Co.ckburn, Esq., the new Solicitor-general, has been again returned" for. Southampton. The place of Sir John Jervis, at Chester, has been filled up by the honorable W. 0. Stanley, a liberal and freo trader, who was returned by a triumphant majority of 344 over his Tory opponent, Mr Egerton, the numbers being—for Mr. Stanley 986, for Mr. Egerton 645.

Ho.use of Lokds.—Last night, Lord Trufo took his seat on the woolsack, and immediately afterwards-the three persons— Joseph Byrne, Hine, and Dutican M'Arthur, who were charged with having forged a number of signatures to a petitibu against the waterworks Bill, appeared at the bari Each party admitted their guilt. The Lord Chancellor then recapitulated the case, and after some evidence liad been shown by the short-hand writer, moved that they be committed to the custody of the Black Rod, and sent to Newgate for a breach of the privileges of the house. The motiou was carried nem. con., and after a short discussion it was further resolved on the motion of Earl Grey, that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which the persons now committed were : employed to get up the said petition.

France is divided between a boyish " attempt to assassinate the President," aud a recent " scene " in the National Assembly.

One George Alfred Walaer—not the author of "Gatherings from Graveyards," but thfi son of a compositor on an Anglo Gallican paper—stalks about near the palace of the Elysee, with a pistol in his breast, and claims to have intended the bullet for Prince Louis Napoleon. The Ministerial papers and Officers at once discover that Walker is a Socialist, a Red Republican, and a reader of inciting publications; as if the fact that a fool of a boy resorts to strong meats, proves anything'for or against the doctrines of either side. It is even doubtful whether lie meant to make any contribution to thp graveyard, or was only bent upon being arrested and figuring in tho drama of a state trial; like the "determined Chartist" in London, whom Mr. Salomons has sentenced—to find bail.

The " scene " in the Assembly was highly characteristic. The Assembly is successively registering tho decrees of tho Government for/tho suppression of various public rights—election meetings, political meetings, universal suffrage, &c. and it was working away, in patient turbulence, at the passing of a new decree against newspapers. But M,. Rouhcr colls the revolution of 1848 & " catastrophe ! " —a poignant epithet has been , used! — that is unbearable; and M. Emile de Girardin, pale with indignation resigns—of threatens to resign. The more resolute and deliberate bulk of the Opposition—protests! The people shrugs its shoulders, criticizes the style of the oratorsi takes exception to the abstract epigrams that ,fly about so plenti-fully-'in tt French crisis, and. quietly lets the' Government go on with its task of reaction.

Union Bank of Austkalia.—At the'n;eetii)g to-day, a dividend Q.f tljree

per cent for the half-year was declared, with ft bonua.of 7s. CJ. per share. The death of the Prurient or the United States has had no elFect on the stock exdunge, hut is generally regiuttcd

Poland.—A telegraphic message had beeii tecoived at Hamburg liom Berlin, i announcing that a dreadful (ire had bioken out ou the 18th at Cracow, winch laid wuste a groat pait of the city, and consumed the archbishop's palace, besides other public buildings. Fhancu.—The Government lias received intelligence ol the arrest and imprisonment ot a Polo, on a charge of a plot for the assassination of the King of Piussia. No papeis weie found upon him. _ The Times coi respondent sajs it is believed the plan was concocted in one of the nutneious secret political societies for some time past establishulin London. No other news Fives dime at 96}. " - Phusm\—Tiie Danish co'ninodore has announced to the consuls of neutiul nations at Kiel, that the blockade of that port will bo commenced forthwith.

The Goiham case has at length been brought to a conclusion in the law courts. \l the Couit of Arches, on Saturday, the Bishop of Exeter brought in the letters of presentation of the Rev. George Cornelius Goiham to the vicarage ofßampforl Speke. An attempt wa*> made by the Bishop to enter v piotest on the iccords of the court to the letters of presentation, with a view to ulterior proceedings, in the Couit of Chanceiy; but Sir Heibert Jenner Fust, who piesided, and rejected the protest, which was torn off, and here the matter ended. Mr. Gorhatn will be instituted to the living by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury next week. There was no further information respecting the Australian Bill. It does not appear to have come before the House of Commons on the 17th July.

It had been at length determined that the legal and political duties of the' Cha-ncellorship-should beydivjdpd between a Chief Judge in Equity and a Lord. Keeper, the latter presiding in the House of Lords. This office has been conferred on Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who had been created a Peer by the title of " Baron Truro of Bowes, in the county of Middlesex." The Attorney-General, Sir John Jarvis, had been promoted to the vacant seat on the Bench, Sir John Rom illy becoming Attorney-General, and Mr. Cockhurn, Solicitor-General. . It was rumoured that Sir John Romilly would be made ViceChancellor in the place of Sir L. Shadwall, who intended to retire, and that Mr. Roebuck would be made SolicitbrGeneral.

The Honse of Commons has resolved upon erecting a, monument to the memory of Sir Robert jPeel, in Westminster 'Abbey.

The electors of Tauiworth had invited Mr. (now Sir) Robert Peel, the eldest sou of the departed Baronet, to come forward as a candidate for the Borough, so long represented bv\his father. He had consented, and would" be returned without opposition.