The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, September 5, 1844.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 57, 5 September 1844, Page 2

The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, September 5, 1844.

By the 'Prince Albert,' brig, G. Craib master, which left Sydney on the 21st of August, we have received Sydney papers English news to the 2nd of May. From the former papers we learn that business is very dull in New South Wales, and fresh insolvencies were being announced up to our latest dates. By those papers we learn that a Public Meeting had taken place, at the City Theatre, (which was crowded,) on on the Evening of the 19th of August, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the Governor to afford relief to the working classes, at which the Right Worshipful the Mayor presided ; a series of resolutions, and a petition to His Excellency were proposed and adopted.

Mr. Thomas Burdskin died on the 18th of August, aged 43 years. Dr. Bland, M.L.C., was, elected president of the Sydney College in the place of Sir J. Jamison, deceased. Sir Thomas Mitchell, Member for Port Phillip, had resigned his sr the Legislative Council, and Mr. Boyd had forwarded to the electors of Port Phillip, an intimation of his readiness to be put in nomination for the seat in Council, in the event of their finding any difficulty in securing a candidate pledged to the support of the pastoral interests.

The Chief Justice of New South Wales was about to visit England having obtained leave of absence for that purpose.

By the Hast accounts from England we learn that the Queen and all the Royal Family were in the enjoyment of good health. The Queen of the Be'gians was on a visit to her Majesty.

Prince Albert had been on a visit to his brother, the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. Lord Chief Justice Abinger died on April 6th, aged 76 years. He was to be succeeded by Sir F. Pollock, Sir W # Follett of course becoming Attorney General. It was supposed that either Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, or Mr. Thessiger, would be the new Solicitor General. In the H°use of Commons, on the 19th of April, the sum of £ 7,565 was voted for this colony, upon which a discussion arose, which will be found in our columns, respecting the salary of the Bishop of New Zea'and. The London "Times" says:

ft No one who knows anything of the colonies and their wants will be astonished at the tone of flippant petulance in which the radical member for Bath opposed the vote to the Bishop of New Zealand on Fridayfnigh! ; nor will any one who is at all acquainted with the character and attainments of that most admirable prelate feel much regret that he should have provoked the splenetic rancour of Mr. Roebuck, The miserable parsimony of that paltry section which the learned gen» tleman so aptly represents might have prepared us for such an outburst of economical zeal, as the perverse peculiarity of their religious notions was ca'culated to preclude surprise at the manner and occasion of displaying it. The Treasury was bound by [(solemn engagement to pay the sum of £6OO a year to a Bishop of the National Church in a remote colony : how could a liberal of Mr. Roebuck's stamp refrain from cavilling at the observance of such an engagement? To attack a Bishop —even a colonial Bishop —was an object cheaply purchased by the advocacy of repudiation. Of Dr. Selwyn little need be said. His erudition, his industry, and his singular judgment, are fa niliar to a numerous assemblage of friends, who witnessed the triumph of his aca lemical career at home ; his zeal and si.igleness of purpose are testified by the prompt alacrity with which he abandoned the high road to honours, and sacrificed every prospect which could gratify ambition or stimulate exertion to enter on the self-re-warding labours of a missionary Bishop in a new and remote settlement. There have been few instances in modern times of selfdevotion so noble and so unostentatious as that by which Dr. Selwyn has signalized the "establishment of the Christian Churchln the Islands of New Zealand. With Lord Stanley we expressing our belief that it is wholly superfluous to argue the question of maintainingecclesis astical institutions in colonial dependent cies. No one, we should think, who has paid any attention to the vast subject of colonial settlements an d their government, can doubt that it is not only expedient, as a matter of police or of social order, to in a colony a branch of the national ihurch, but that it is a grave and preposs erous error to neglect a duty the fulfilment >f which has been the foundation of all Jhristiaa kingdoms." We can say very little of Bishop Selwyn; it is seldom the Europeans in this part of New Zeal and have an opportunity of hearing or seeing his Lordship, shis time is, we believe, chiefly occupied with the natives. On the 30th of A pril a committee of th e House of Commons was appointed to en' quire into the state of New Zealand. We are sorry to say, that by our last ad* vices, matters s till continued in a very unsettled state in, Ireland, O'Connelj and the other Traversers were not ced.

Mr.O'Connell had received vaiious invitations, to partake of public dinners, some of which he had accepted viz . at Cork, Liverpool and Coventry, as a tribute of respect paid to him. We are sorry our space will not admit of giving the excellent speeches delivered on these occasions* In our columns will be found the Protest of the •' Lords," against the late proceedj ngsin Ireland; Mr, O'Connell had made

every requisite arrangement for an ap* peal to the House of Lords, and Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy, have been retained for the Traversers. Some delay took place at the home office, in allowing the usual license for these Queen's counsel to appear for Mr, O'Connell, but it was at last concluded, and he will have the services of as strong a bar as could be brought to bear in his behalf.

It was generally reported that Lord De Grey, Viceroy of Ireland, was about resinning iu favour of Lord Westmoreland, Ambassador at Berlin,

Her Majesty's war steamer Black Eagle, arrived in the Cove of Cork from England,having on board the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Lord of the Admirality, Captain |Brandereth, of the R>yal Engineers, and Rear Admiral Bowles. These gentlemen landed at Haulbo vline Island to inspect the stores, water tanks, &c. The committee of the late public meeting held at Cove, on the subject of the naval establishment there, had forwarded to them a copy of the memorial addressed to Sir Robert Peel on that subject.

Government have it in contemplation to place war steam boats upon all the large lakes in Ireland. A number are now bein£ erected in Liverpool for this purpose, and we expect one upon Lough Corrib early in spring.

We believe it was intended during the present session to adopt measures for the renewal of the charter to the Bank of Ireland, and upon principles similar to those which would govern the charter to the Bank of England. The Limerick Chronicle says, that the 72nd Highland Regiment, Colonel Lord Arthur Lennox, was under orders to proceed to New South Wales as soon as the whole of the 58th Regiment had sailed.

Sir Robert Peel stated in the House of Commons in reply to a question, that it was not the intention of government to introduce any law on the subject of duelling ; but said the Government were practically discouraging the practice :—and that Mrs. Fawcett had been refused the pension to which she would have been entitled, had not her husband died in a duel. Mr. Duncombe asked whether, in that case, the practice of the army in trying officers for not fighting duels would be discontinued ; and Sir 11. Peel begged that all discussion upon the subject might be postponed until the introduction of a motion of which notice had been given. The number of deaths within the bills of mortality in London, has lately been considerably above the average* During the week ending the 24th of February, no less than 1,115 persons have died. A very extensive and destructive fire had broken outin Manchester, — in which property to the extent of at least £IOO,OOO has been destroyed. Cheapside is to be paved with wood.