LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume V, Issue 390, 7 July 1849, Page 4

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(From the Supplement to the Sydney Morning

Herald, May 22.J

The arrival of the Pcmberton at Port Phillip put our southern contemporaries in possession of English news to the 29th January, which we lose no time in laying before our readers. For the following summary and extracts we are principally indebted to the Daily Neivs and Melbourne Herald.

The principal items of importance are that the progress of improvement is ■unchecked, and the most cheering anticipations are everywhere prevalent. On the 18th January, a day for the commencement of the February sales was fixed upon; it was generally believed the Ist February was to be the date. Larger prices in low priced wools were confidently expected; a brisk demand for all staples is confidently calculated upon, as also a considerable advance in price. Tallow was fiat, owing.to the heavy importations that had taken place from all quarters, and no improvement w r as counted on in this article. The prices realized on tallow shipped by the Posthumous ranged from 405., to 41s. 6d.

All descriptions of produce were in demand, which was expected to be permanent. A general and complete change for the better was expected. Trade in all the manufacturing districts was extremely brisk, and very extensive orders from the continent constantly flowing in. Cotton had risen per cent., and linens 5 per cent. Matters ou the continent were tolerably quiet. The funds on the 28th January rule at 80f. 7-8.

In the writ of error ease of Meagher, O'Brien, M'Manus, and others, judgment has been given for the Crown—the prisoners were sent back to durance. Little or no excitement prevailed. It appears to be generally agreed that the battle of the estimates is to be chiefly confined to the triple defences of the nation—the army, navy, and ordnance. In consequence of the death of Lord Auckland, the Board of Admiralty is now composed of,the Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart.; Rear Admiral James Whitley Deans Dundas, C. B.; Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkley, Esq., C.8.; Lord John Hay, C. B.; the Hon. William Francis Cowper, and Alex. Milne, Esq. The next news from the continent is likely to be important, for it was pretty generally known that dplomatic arrangements were on foot between the principal Roman Catholic Powers to put an end to the Roman Revolution, and to restore Pius IX. to the temporal sovereignty of the Papal States. It is now admitted that orders have been transmitted to Toulon by the French Government, directing the immediate equipment of a very considerable armament, which is generally supposed to be destined to carry into effect this arrangement. On the eve of the opening of Parliament, we have rumours of Ministerial purposes and political projects, but nothing more remarkable than Mr. Cobden's union with the Finance Reformers and theresuscitation of the giant League, in all its members, to war upon their side. The Minister, we are assured, is as maeh in earnest as Mr. Cobden ou the subject of reduction, and the Times premises something like four millions of entrenchment as the act of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A dead set is made against the Woods and Forests, a cry is up against the Ordnance administration, the waste in ship-building is denounced, and a commission has it in charge to economize the management of the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Offices.

The following deaths are recorded :— At Glasgow, Professor Thompson of cholera ; General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, in his 72nd year; Henry Collin, the Scotch marriage factor, who resided at Lamberton, and during his ministry celebrated six thousand marriages; Mr. R. Caddell, the eminent Scotch publisher; the Hon. Thomas M'Cornock Curtis, of the parish of St. Thomas, (East Jamaica) has committed suicide; tho Right. Hon. Anthony Richard Blake, Chief Remembrancer, Ireland, aged 63 years; and the Earl of Talbot, at Ingestrie Hall, Staffordshire. Sir John Frainklin's Expedition. —We regret to announce by "accounts from Mazatlan, under date November 29, that her Majesty's surveying ship Herald, 22, Captain Kellett, had arrived at that port from Behring's Straits, without having been able to obtain any intelligence of the expedition under Sir John Frank- i lin. j A frightful colliery explosion occurred

at Darley Main, .within three miles o Barnsley, (England,) occasioned by fir e damp, in which seventy-eight lives were lost.

In Ireland, the corporation of Dublin formerly so violent against Lord Clarendon, had presented him with an address, in which they express their strong approval of the manner in wdiich he lately exercised the extraordinary powers entrusted to him, for the maintenance of order. The North of Ireland has been the scene of incendiary fires so systematically conducted as to leave no doubt whatever that they are the result of rsgular organization. The better class of the poor have emigrated extensively, and especially from the immediate locality of the fires. Two Roman Catholic Bishops, Dr. Maginn, of Derry, and Dr. Walsh, of Cloyne and Ross, had breathed their last-

The cholera had appeard in Belfast and was expected to be a severe scourge to that unfortunate country—but not to the fearful extent of 1831—2.

We have no notice of the State Trials, but from a paragraph in the Times of the 26th January, it may be inferred that the Irish Bench gave an adverse judgment iti the case of the Queen v. T. F. Meagher; as that journal states it not to be the intention of Mr. Meagher to take his case to the House of Lords.

The Attorney-General had sustained a severe defeat in the case of the man Gogarty, who was convicted of illegal drilling and sentenced to seven years' transportation. A writ of error was sued out, and the full Court gave judgment in favour of the prisoner, who with about twenty others under similar circumstances were discharged from custody.

Mr. Gavin Duffy's trial had been postponed till next commission ; an application to admit him to bail refused.

It is stated, on good authority, that M. Thiers is occupied in preparing a plan of government, which he intends submitting to the President.

Five of the ministers of Louis Phillippe, says the Corsaire, have returned to Paris, and have left their cards at the Elvsee National.