The Anglo-Maori Warder. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1848.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 17, 17 August 1848, Page 2

The Anglo-Maori Warder. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1848.

The Emma, bringing the March and April mails, arrived on Sunday morning. She left Sydney on the evening of the 26th ultimo, and had a favorable run of eight days to the North Cape, after which she experienced a constant succession of light winds from the southward and calms. The Emma spokj the Mauris, hence for Sydney, on the 2m' • ■!' August, in 33-45 S. and Kit) K. The latest English neu are up to the 13th of April. No declaration of war had been made: but the Times of (ho Bth seemed to think it not improbable. Chartism was becoming troublesome, but the precautions taken by Government had prevented any serious outrages. England, indeed, seems hitherto to be little affected by the extraordinary excitement which is running like wildfire among the Continental states. The strongest anxiety to maintain quiet and good oruer appears t« 1 iwau\j all classes, from high to low. Tbv cwil-v.hippers of the Thames, 2,500 in number, had applied to the government to be enrolled as special constables, voluntecring. their services to protect the public peace Manchester offered 10,000 special constables, Glasgow £O,OOO, and Liverpool was p -pared, if necessary, with a similar force. Leave had been given in the House of Commons to bring in a Sedition Bill "for the better security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom," without which Lord Clarendon stated that he should be unable to stem the tide of sedition and treason swelling around him in Ireland on every side ; the numbers being, ayes 2b3, noes 24. The Irish confederation had sent a deputation to France to solicit aid in procuring a repeal of the Union, but received the following rebutf from M. Lamartine :

11 We are at peace, and are detirou* of remaining on good tcrlHs of equality, not with this or thn p »rtio» ot but u'itl. Great Britain entire. We uelie&ttjU I'oee to be useful and hunourable, n>touly to (>£a\Bntaiii and the Htpudc, but to ILe whole humaji tau. We trill not commit an act—we will not utter"awwordj— we wilt rot breathe an insinuation at variancevith liiesd i-nnciples of tbe reciprocal inviolability of nation* nl.ich we proclaimed, ai.d of which the continent of fc'uro, e is already gathering tbe frui'B." The English ambassador having demanded friendly explanations with respect to the fact of an Irish flag having been presented at the Hotel de Ville, the Minister of Foreign Affairs replied to him that France did not recognise any other flag in England but that of the three United Kingdoms! He added, that in replying to the Irish, he m«ar£tao use of any expression which was notTtrfVboufurmity with that thought, at the samefluaie that he could not but manifest the sympathies of France for religious andlileral Ireland. ~'* As to the test of Europe, its whole system, as it subsist? I by force of the treaties of ISI j, is broken up, anil—to use a beautiful expression of the SrECTATort—like the figures in a kaleidoscope, the Continent is falling at a turn into new combinations. '• Austria, which held the nominal" ohieftainWiip of Germany, is breaking 11 pieces, and Tier elements decomposed, seek new atlinit(|>. Hungary's independence is daily expected—perhaps to be the nucltus of that central state imagined by some ]\msla\onians. Lombard)' will revert to Italy perhaps the price to Charles Albert for the loss of Savoy, ahesjjy coquetting with France. The residue of naturally fall into its place as tSSJjrJcfymd aiming the German states. There is a disV'sitton to simplify the political geography of Europe, by cots illdating

those states that possess a'commoa tofague-1-Italian, French, and German: The German people have been suffered to ascertain their owir independent'power, and will no doubt assume a unity if it 1 he not accorded to them. But the movement which ostensibly limits the powers of the sovereigns, opens the way for King Frederick William to an imperial station, and instead of being the victim he becomes the leader of the movement."

He seems to have begun in earnest, by his conduct in recognising the nationality of Poland, and in yielding up his claim to the Prussian partition of it. In France the Provisional Government is fast getting into difficulties. It is almost powerless ; the " creature of a street-riot, it is forced to run the gauntlet in a reciprocation of equivocal courtesies, like a Parliamentary candidate at election time, and the only sur- ' prise." is that it does not fall into more mis- ' takes." The financial disorganisation is en- , creasing; a bank restriction act has been laid on—in othc words, the Bank of France has stopped payment, and the depreciation of paper currency has begun. Fifty-one political clubs had been formed since tie revolution. Those who are f«'nd of philosophising on the enduring characteristics of nations, will be pleased to learn, thrtt a Frenchman still makes ' good his claim to the title which Voltaire long since bestowed upon him—le Tigre - singe—the tiger-monkey. His best jokes are generally iu the worst of times; for itistance, the following characteristic epistle, taken from the i Emancipation of Toulouse. I i Citizen Editor—Malevolence has attributed to ni*» j language which I have not used. It is false that I j ! have demanded 800 beads. There exists no branch of, fade or manufactures which has more need ot* heads lhsn mine Cazalas, Hatter. At St. Petersburg!!, the Emperor Nicholas has published a manifesto, callingon his sttb- ; jcets to respond to their ancient war-cry, l ■ " For our faith, our Sovereign, and our Cj'.ui- | try," which has been received with enthusiasm, j Russia has'probably little to fear as yet from popular- demonstrations. She has not yet arrived at that of political existence. I Her danger will arise from another (punier; out of the ranks of her own nobles. The aiistocratic revolt, if we may judge by the past history of nations, must always precede ihe insurrection of the people. The movement at Vienna had assumed the character of a revolution. An engagement between the people, headed by the students, and the troops, was obstinately waged for a considerable time, in which some 300 fell; it was at last put an end to by the news of the resignation and the flight of Metternich. The loyalty of the people, in the midst of all this | ebullition, is decribed by a writer on the spot, as unimpaired. I '■ His Majesty, surrounded by several mem- | bers of the Imperial family, appeared on the balcony of the court library, on the Joseph : Platz, where the National Guard was drawn, tip in ranks, and was received with enthusiastic I shouts of the assembled multitudes. Slid- j denly the national anffißm was struck up ; j whose tones neve>- before sounded so solemn arm impressive. They are not mere words whenj we say that tears of einotion and inexpressible joy fell from etery eye, and every heart was deeply moved.*' Prince Metternich himself was supposed to be upon the loud for England. The Presse had undertaken to confirm a rumour that the,, Anstrians had been expelled from Cracow, anuUhat the Poles of that city had proclaimed a repiJblic. ( The news from Italy •is perhaps the most 'important of all. On March the l'Jth the Italian flag was hoisted ' throughout Northern Italy. The only terms! secured for the Anstrians were, safe removal of all their troops from the Lombardo-Venetian I teiritory. |

I The Port Philip District election, or rather what ought to have heen the election, has terminated in an unprecedented manlier. July ■ the 20th was the day fixed for nominating gentlemen to represent that district in the Legislative Council, hut the electors refused to nominate any candidate whatever. At the appointed titoi', the returning officer, Mr. Pohlm.m, the proceedings, Mr. FuSter was 'proposed- for re-election, when Sir. Faulkner c;; me forward and begged to be hea.d before the show of hands shanld take place.— He gave it as his opi'iiou that if they returned thi* ablest men ever sent to a Legislative Council, that their efforts would be rendered of no avail by the member*, of the! Sydney district. He said that they were plun- J dered e\e>y year in spite of all that their so- I called members could do; and that thfy could ' only suffer the same loss if they sent up no | representatives at all. By ,o doing they would . distinctly show that they had lost all conti- j deuce, and l. ke away even the pretence of saying that they v»e.e represented. Mr. Foster exp eased h.b of the course proposed, point t.ig out. tint the present refusal to elect, might not imp ob.ibly%Sddle them with a nominee couuel i.iiu deprive them of free institutions for y \ro to come*. After much discussion, the Retiming officer asked if there vi.t. any candidate to be proposed, which being responded to by loud cries of none, he declared it his to make his return accordingly. Mr.

Fawknef proposed a vote of thanks to the Returning officer, but as he had nothing to return, a general laugh-ensued in which Mr. Pohlman joined. It now remains to be seen whether Melbourne will follow the example of the Fort Phillipians. Rejoicings were gteat in that district at the breakdown of the attempt to reserve minerals for the use of the crown, or to sell the public lands clogged with a royalty. The "question was decided by the Judge of the Supreme Court, sitting in Equity. We believe that it had already, been referred to the Law officers of the Crown at home, who gave as their opinion, after some hesitation, that the imposition of royalties could be legally made. We lcani from Hobart Town that Sir W. T. Denisen had gone into the interior, to prosecute enquiries as to the extent of the newly j discovered coal strata. The 99th regiment dis- j embarked on the 11th of July. They pro-' ceeded to the MilitaJy Barracks, preceded by die band of the 96th. «. Inch had been dispatch- ; ed to meet them. The latter regiment is to resume its old quarters at Launceston. The appointment of Francis Burgess, Ksq., to a seal in the Legislative Council, had been approved by Her Majesty. At Sydney there ivas nothing of much interest to us. The columns of their journals are principally occupied with mutual exchanges ! of courtesies —of a peculiar description, on the ! subject of the coining elections. \