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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 5, 23 May 1848, Page 2

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The defenceless state of our Frontier still continues to be an absorbing topic at home. The Duke of Wellington's letter to Sir John Burgoyne, first brought the subject under general consideration, and that of the Earl of Ellesniere, has by no means contributed to allay the sudden tit of anxiety. Aird it was high time for the nation to be awakened to a sense of the risk it runs. Clouds are gathering in on all sides, and the improbability of their breaking without a •storm is increasing week by week. With this staring him in the face, Mr. Cobdeu is amusing himself with advocating wholesale reductions in Army, Na\y, and Ordnance. This time he has failed to chime in with the feeling of the day, and runs a chance on this subject of damaging the reputation he acquired by the part he took in the Corn-law question. He would have shewn more wisdom had he reposed contentedly upon his laurels. Enormous as the dormant power of Eng'jnd is, it has lately been made too clear that she is but half guarded against sutprise, a calamity of which the magnitude,rathir than the likelihood should be estimated, in liberally providing sufficient means of defence. It looks as if Ministers were afraid to face Parliament with estimates of the cost. For the Duke's plan of defence had been, as he tells us, submitted to three Ministers in vain; and yet his terms were of the most moderate, for he undertakes to secure us with 15,000 militia, and some 10.000 or 12,000 addrtroiral soldiers of the line. The Jiuuninu Ciironicli', however, a ministerial organ, has taken up the subject so stiongly, that it looks as if the Ministry wished such a measure to be pressed upon thein from without, that they might come down to the House and ask for means with countenances less] abashed. Ireland is still the same, each successive post bringing accounts of fresh enormities. Lord Arundel and Surrey, long noted for the ardour of his fidelity to the Roman Catholic Church, has written to Dr. Mcliale, describing the straits to which he rs put as a faithful son of the Church by the impossibility of defending the Irish priesthood from the charge of making inflammatory speeches and denunciations followed by the death of the denounced, and he asks if nothing can be done to remove "the scandal." "An Irish peer," writing to the Times on the state of Ireland, throws some light on the Reverend Mr. McDermott's denial respecting the denunciation of Major Mahon. " Mr. McDeimott says—' I have now to assure the public, by the most solemn asservutions a clergyman can utter, that the late Major Mahon was never denounced, nor even his name mentioned; from any Chapel ahar in Strokestown, or within twenty miles of Strokestown, in ail) direction, on any Simmy before his death.' The leveiend priest is quite light as to the woid 'Sunday.' The late Major Mahon was denounced from the altar on ihe ' Monday' previous to his assassination , that ' Monday' was a Saint's Day, on which the Roman Catholic population attend mass as regularly and in as great rrumbets as on the Subbath. This fact is known in Dublin Castle. I make no comment whatever on this circumstance : I leave the people of England to farm their own judgment on it." The late Mr. Scully, says the Peer, " was muidered near his house, rn the midst of his tenantry ; yet no one has been, found to bear witnes. against the assassins. Hi- brother the prese .t proprietor of the property, has been threatened ; and no doubt he will fall if the villains can get a fitting opportunity. It is given out in the country, that he has made a will, stating that he leaves his property to his brother ; but should he be muidered, he orders that hrs brother shall within two years, eject all the tenantry, or the property shall go to the next brot ler, and so to the next akin. This is called a safety will. By the next mail vie shall probably ream the conclusion of the Hampden affair, and be aide to wind up the whole of the proceedings. All the journals as yet lecerved continue full of them. We have somewhat loaded our columns hitherto with papers and extracts relating to it . but believing, as we do, that many of our leadeis take much luteiest in the question, we were anxious to lay a complete body of lnfoi - uiatioii before them. The dispute is of the highest interest throughout, involving the difhcult and iioublesomc question of Krastianisin, or the light of the civil poweis lo mterfeie with matle.s Ecclesiastical. The character too of some of the jttois 111 It, has eve:i rendered it amusing. Lord John Russell's pithy reply to the Bishop of E\etei\ minaloij lettei, contenting himself Willi simple publication of the uuigi' dVllic in the G unit, u.i.-, a piece of pi.ictte.il humour not easily to b.- matched The subject nl euiigiation rs stili lixing great attention, but h.nd'lv. we feai, in the light qi.jiiei Fioui a semi-official paper m the Edmbu.gh icvievi. on ihe lush i.isis, it niav be iomllld.duoto.ilj lhat the indent Ministers ! have tillallv K-solved to exclude leal coloulAlI tl.m fi im "■heir ll,: ot leuiedlll me.isll.es tol ! 1i.1.m.l but 1h..l tliev ab.ulutelv lelll.-e lota'.e : th-- -id,,. ,< u,'o consideration. ' Ib.u they c ;:l | 1,,,.,Ki1e such .I letu-11. ■ slVsllie Ml.lllh'.l | ,i.b, , lo houe-lv o, decent lulelllgeme in Stu-e.m.u-lup we cannot .mi.-- but the fact j ~,.,. , ; ,|„ 1.,- ~„lj ,„., ~,dcu'. Tho.e id,,, 1,..'11.-a.. Ml ■■■ I ..l.'.M.s ofcMMiallM-. 11.-1:,,,! |li..iii. -iwckili- condl'KNi ma.l till 10..k to

that future Government of which Lord Lincoln will form a part. Lord John Russell ami his colleagues decline to anticipate their rival, and therefore is that future Government the less distant." The first detachment of the Free Church settlement of Otago has left the Clyde for New Zealand. "On Saturday last," says the Witness, " while the Philip Laing was layin" in the harbour of Greenock, the emigrants engaged in a religious sen ice, conducted by several of the Free Church Ministers of that town. The emigrants, who number about 250 persons, of various ages and conditions in life, assembled on board together with a number of friends, amongst whom were the Rev. Dr. McFarlaii, Rev. Mr. Smith. Rev. Mr. Hoiiar, Rev. Mr. Stark, and Rev. Mr. Burns formerly of Monk-ton, (andson uf the late Gilbert Hums, the well known broihci id'the poet) who goes out as the Minister "f the Colony."

Since the above was m type, still later English News has been received, vi.i Sydney. The National Defences wete the cause of much discussion and distention. The Sri tutor observes, - That theie is in France a chrome desire to attack England . on the only occasion '. of actual dispute between the two n.ilions. that desire lipened at once to intention ; theie anno meai-s , England has - no perfect means of interception by sea ;" has - no means of repulsion by land. ' Lord Ellesme,e, in -i second letter to the Tiuis, dwells upon the palpable necessity of improving these defences Dr. Hampden's election to'tlle see of ileuford was continued at the Church of St. Mary de Areabus (St. Mary of the Arches) Row Church, on the 11th January. The venerable author of the Curiosities oi' Literature, or the Amenities of Literatim-, of the .[uarrels of Anthony, the calamities of Authors, and of the Illustrations of the Literal \ Character, bad gom-to his account. - The best defender of the best of Kings," after life', fitful fever, sleeps. Mr. Isaac D" Israeli died at lSradcnham House, Buckinghamshire, on the l'Jth January, in the S2nd year of his age. The Earl of Povvis, accompanied by Loid Chve, and the Hon. Robeit Herbert Clive, were shooting in the preserves adjacent to Povvis castle, on the Mth January ; a pheasant suddenly rose, at which the latter gentleman tiled . the contents of the gun unfortunately struck the Earl, who was standing on an eminence'a short distance off, and lodged themselves in Ins thigh. He was immediately conveyed to the Castle, w here, notwithstanding all that care and surgery could do, he died on°the 17th. It is believed that the Garter, vacant by his death, will be conferred upon the Duke of Norfolk. The London Market Report, had been u-ceived up to the 2-ltli Jauilaiy. Great want of confidence still existed, but thenweie not wanting some indications of improvement, more especially in the malkrts foi colonial produce. Shipments had increased, and weie likely to increase still more, as huge orders for Btitish Goods were undeistooJ to have arrived. Money, too, was plentiful at libn.il rates, tilst class papei being fieely discounted at from 1 to 5 pel cent, with ciety piospett ot a timber decline, as the Bank of England, at the neM weekly meeting, was to u-duce the minimum rate ot interest to '1 h per cent.