ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 562, 1 March 1851, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

The Queen'hai! 1 retiirned from Scotland, arid, with t|tte tfther'inembers-dF the Royal' Family, in: good bfealth. The Queen of Ihe Belgians (eldest daughter of had died at the early age of thirty-eight. In the list 6f deaths we notice the names df the Countess of Lanesborough, Lord Stanley (of Adderley,) Generals Sir J. S. Barnes, Wangrove,'and Slosser, and Sir W. H. Fteemantle. \ Vice-Chancellor Wigramhad resigned, from ill-health. '"^'Mr. Hughes was the «ew Sblioitor-Geiftfttf for Ireland. • It iS : proposed' r tb'*.'biiild a hew street froiti the south Sidobtthe GoftTiExbhaijge in Miark Lane' to 'Tower' Hill.f-The*fei.-graphic cotali-uhicaitbn bstwe'eii JUriglund and'Frauo. jtetbebn' as'tablished hut th& partibs Bf whom the late" suodessr ful expei-iriverft was "made of transmitting an eleotrio oommunioation from Diovej* to thd Frbrich obisst 'are; understood to have btimpl&tedstich /final airangoihen'ts as we.c withtlje &uthoriti£s at Pa. ris oi_;the subje'oti iind to be nbw'prepared tS'proirhote'the hstablishment of tße'obmlritiiitoirtibn fc

specimen'o£rppo, or rather -'coil of,iron.. w.ire,...has.beeii ..constructed, .which, it is pfficrned, will be. of sufficient strength to Resist every cause of accident to which it could be liable, whether arisiug from rOcjts, anchorage, orrotherwise;. j The cost-of this, will amount to about £50,000 of which one-half is proposed'to be raised in Paris and the remainder in London. A. few months, .it is said,, will suffice for! its construction, aud it is therefore contemplated that it should be laid down early in the spring of 1851. The concession obtained by the company gives •them the exclusive privilege of communicating between the two coasts for a period of ten years.-—The " crop-lifting" system is in.full play throughout the greater part of Ireland.—.The Tenant League does not seem to prosper.—Another dreadful murder has been perpetrated- on the per. son of Mr Roger North, J.P., of Kilduff House, near Phiiipstown. The unfortunate gentleman was shot between 4 and in the afternoon, on the.public jbigfywny. The assassin or assassins are -.unknown, as-.likewise • the cause ofthe are landing hundreds ooi;i_.h,pjEuiperiijri'Loj.-don and Liverpool at Xs. 6d. per head.—The Roman Catholic Synod are making every effort to es-* tablish a National Roman Catholic University in opposition to the recently established Protestant ", Godless Colleges." Failure of the Cotton Crop.— State of Trade.—Manchester, Tuesday. Hibernia we have dates from New York to the 17th ult., and by telegraph two days later. The evidences of a failing. cotton crop, it is painful to observe, become more clearly manifested each succeeding mail. The following extracts from a private correspondence show the general tenor of the advices with regard to cotton :—" In a few weeks we expect higher prices in Liverpool than have been this season, when they become satisfied, as we now are, that the crop will be as short as last year's, even with favourable weather from this time and a late frost. Every day we jire receiving accounts from the south, pourtraying the] adverse influences at work against even a moderate crop. .The weather of the past week has been remarkably cool. Frost is already in some of the northern states." Snow fell in Morgan County, Virginia, on the 26th of August." "The advance here has been made entirely in •consequence of the unfavourable prospects of the new crop. These continue worse and worse. We now consider that without an, early frost we shall get no more cotton than last year.— Times, 2nd October. ... In France, the rumoured fusion ofthe Legitimists and Orleanists is as far off as ever. The Duchess of Orleans isunwill'mg to compromise the rights of her ;SQ»I 5 the_ptlX§r Princes of her house are willing to make sacrifice." " The bitterness of compulsory banishment even in the most favoured land is not to be easily borne."—The Prince de Joinville will be a candidate for the Presidency of 1852.— Louis Napoleon has disclaimed openly any attempts to follow the example ofhis uncle.—The prosecution of the French press continues, and upon the most trifling provocations, if indeed the samples quoted by the English journals can be dignified with such a name.—Warner's long range has met.with a competitor in the invention of a bullet by a M. Lagrange of a most destructive nature. The experiment has been witnessed by a Government Commission, and its success said to be "complete; each bullet on strik-1 liig.the object against which it was directed j exploded with a detonation as loud as that of the gun from which it was fired, and produced a-most destructive effect. Itbnrsts instantly on striking any object which opposes resistance —whether it be .earth, wood, or stone. At the conclusion ofthe trial, the members ofthe Commission, addressing the inventor, said, " Sir, your name ought to be inscribed amongst the members of the Peace Congress, for after your invention it will be impossible to think of making war." The inventor affirms, that a gun-boat armed with four pieces of cannon could sink a 120 gun ship ih 20 minutes. *He is in treaty with the government for the sale of his secret.