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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1852, 7 April 1863, Page 5

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LONDON, Jan. 25. The Neveraber Australian mails were defivered in London on the 15th and 19th of January. Her Majesty remains at Westbourne, in strict seclusion, to the regret of all classes of her subjects. The marriage of tbejPrince of Wales is announced to take place on the 12th March. The Prince and Princess Alexandria were to make a triumphal entry into London previous to the ceremony. The marriage contract was signed at Copenhagen on the 15th January. The distress in the manufacturing districts is decreasing. The number receiving parucbial .relief lessened in two weeks '>y 26,880 persons. The total amount subscribed to the Lancashire Belief Fund exceeds one million steiiing. The destitution of the London poor is lament* ably on the increase. Mr Gladstone, in a speech at Chester, esti mated the loss to the revenue through the suspension of wages in the distressed districts, at the rate of one million and a half per year. The Metropolitan Underground Railway has" been opened with the most complete success, A fearful hurricane had passed over London, causing great damage to property. Lamentable accounts of shipwrecks and loss of life on the coast bad been received. The Bank forgers had been found guilty, and sentenced to lung terms of penal servitude. Garoltiog is decreasing io London, but is in full rigor at Manchester, Prison discipline in England is now carried out with vigor. Transportation to Australia is scarcely alluded toby the press this month. Another Euglish cricketing eleven intend visiting Australia, 1 ] including George Parr, (captain), Messrs Jackson, Daft, and Grundy. of Nottingham ; Carpenter, Hayward, and Farrant, of Cambridge; Anderson- of Yorkshire; Willsher of Kent; and Caffyn and Stepheuson, of Surrey. The couteßt for the championship of the Thames, between Evershed aud Chambers, excited great interest. luakes place on April 14. Plymouth theatre has been destroyed by fire. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have offered to run fortnightly to Australia for an udditionalsubsidy 0f £60,000 per aunum. It is staled that the British Government faror the measure. It now rests with the colonies to decide it, as it has been suggested to place all responsibility in the hands of Victoria, leaving her tp make the necessary arrangements wjth the. other colonies. Public! feeling in England is against (the prosecution of .war in New Zealand. L Teujporiziog expedients are recommended.J __ a

The Times, commenting upon an address to the Queen from the New Zealand representatives, says :— " We have never seen a public document less convincing in its statements, or moie entirely divested of the graces of modesty and self-respect." Sir Daniel Cooper of New South Wales is created a baronet. Obituary. — Governor of Mauritius, Sir W. Stevenson* Mr Richard Green, of Blackwall, shipowner ; Ex Justice Crampton, Sir Duncan Cameron, Mr Charles Dunce, Admiral Temple, General Power. •