Summary.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 8, 13 June 1848, Page 2

Summary.

We have received our file of Sydney papers, up to the 26th of May inclusive. By the Hero intelligence had been received at Adelaide from Singapore to the 3rd of March, and from China to "the middle of February. The H.C. steamer, Aicm-and armed at Hongkong on the 10th of February, with detachments of the East India Company's Artillery from Penang, forwarded at the uigent request of Sir John Dams, but was immediately ordered back, all disputes having been settled without an appeal to arms. The H.C. steamer Tena'sserim ar-

rhed at Singapore on the 18th February, in nine days from Madras, with 265 rank and file of the 25th Regiment, destined for China, but Sir John Davis having countermanded the despatch of troops and vessels of war previously to her arrival, she was not expected to proceed further. When the Tenasserim left Madras, it was confidently reported that the H.C. steamer Bentinck. was taken up by the Bengal Government to convey the 18th Royal Irish from Calcutta to Hongkong. The H.C. steamer Enterprise left Madras for Singapore on the 17th February, with a portion of the 94th Regiment, and on her arrival there was to take on board the remainder of the left wing of the 25th Regiment, and proceed to China. Sir H. Fox Young, the New Governor of South Australia, was expected to arrive immediately, some of his furniture having preceded him by the Bolton. A preliminary enquiry had been held at the Water Police Office before a bench of Magistrates, respecting some transactions said to have taken place at one of the South Sea Islands, while the Portenti\ and Velocity were procuring labourers for Mr. Boyd. The enquiry I was strictly private, but it was believed that information procured by H.M.S. Dioohad been forwarded to Su-Charles Fitz Roy, who handed it over to the magistrates. The Legislative Council had been discussing Lord Grey's constitution, but by some extraordinary mismanagement of their own proceedings, had fixed themselves in what the Herald calls a quandary, a kind of technical scrape. Mr. Wkntworth, on the 2nd instant, pursuant to notice, moved a series of eight resolutions, declaratory of the opinion of the Council on the several questions raised in the noble Secretary's despatch of 31st July, 1847. On Tuesday, the 9th, the Council resolved itself into a committee of the nhole House; whereupon Mr. Cowper moved a series of eight resolutions, as an amendment upon Mr. Wentwortb's. With the exception of one, which was withdrawn, the resolutions, with a few slight alterations, were alt adopted. The business had thus been disposed of, nothing further remaining to be done but to report. But just at that critical moment, Mr. Wenthorth took it into his " freakish" head to undo the whole, by moving " That the Chairman leave the chair, report progress, and ask leave to sit again this day six months." The committee divided: ayes, 10; noes, 5. The House then resumed, the chairman reported, and obtained the desired leave to sit on Thursday, the 9th day of November next en-s-ting, long before which day the Council will have been dissolved. A lame and impotent " conclusion," from the absurdity of which the Council seemed hardly to know how to escape. Various devices were proposed, none of them satisfactory, until at last the honorable member for Cumberland gave notice of his intention to move that the vote of Council above mentioned be rescinded! The Sydney press accordingly view this self-stultification " with feelings of indignation and alarm," lest Earl Gbey should conceive that his measure was 'railed against only by the rabble, and that the " collective wisdom" uf the land was of another way of thinking on the subject. A petition had been presented to Governor Roue, praying that the town of Adelaide might be incorporated. The exports from that town during the first quarter of the present year amounted to £172,542, of which £79,000 was for wool, and 78,000 for ore. The Melbourne Observer mentions a report that Mr. Attorney-General Plunkett is to be appointed Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land.