FOURTEEN DAYS LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 434, 31 December 1856, Page 7

FOURTEEN DAYS LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

AItEIYAT, OF THE OLIVER lAXC,

(From the "Wellington ' Independent,' Dee. 20)

This noble vessel arrived yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, after a quick passage of eightyfive days, bringing the welcome addition to our population of 414 souk. The Oliver Lang left Liverpool on the 2-lth September, and was east off by the steam-tug on the following morning. A constant succession of light winds retarded the commencement of the voyage : the line not being crossed until the thirty -first day. From thence to Tasmania the run was very good, being off that island on the seventy-second day, and from thence to this port hi thirteen more.

Upwards of 200 tons of cargo was shut out, to be brought on by the Indian Queen, to sail on the 20th October. The favourable appearance of the passengers under Government regulations, was warmly noticed by the large number of settlers who visited the ship yesterday afternoon. There have been four births on board and twelve deaths, nine of which were children.

By the Oliver Lam? we have papers to the 24th September. Our Extracts are taken principally from the "' European Times ' of Seotc-mber 21. THE ISATGCKATIOX OF THE XEW ZEALAND LIKE OF CLIFPEUS. One of the most important demonstrations which we can call to mind in the Southern Hemisphere took place in one of the docks of the Mersey, on Thursday last. On that day more than three hundred of the elite of Liverpool,—its merchants, bankers, civic dignitaries, and professional men, —attended a banquet to inaugurate the sailing of the Oliver Lang for Now" Zealand, and of the circumstances attending this banquet wore of a very.gratify ing character. The noble ship to which we refer is the property of Messrs. James Lames Jc Co., the eminent Liverpool merchants, —a firm which. has attained/a eosmopolitau celebrity for the energy and vigour which it has displayed in the Australian trade. Hitherto the efforts of tho firm have been chiefly confined to the colony of Victoria, but they now propose to send them to New Zealand, and certainly the inauguration of the New Zealand line of clipper ship*, of which the Oliver Lang is the pioneer, premises to he an era in the history of ihat young ami rismg colony. The speeches made at ibis l-.:m<p.ict c.'i-c.ot fail but to 'be road wiih intense lal.eve- -..: -'- antipodes.. In these speeches wiii be :., . -.. ' spirit which has nuide l'highmd and ;.'■:.■ ;.. :',-- Stales tho greatest cemmeuial ".:'.'.::'):< wo.'ecu have ever existed on this planet—that love of adventure and that pushing enrerpib-e- which constitute the very soul of trade. It seems to be a beautiful ordination of providence that

cnic« ,s app.aently of .m unpinpitious kind frecne..tlv bead to eon-oqueneo which, embrace the Wolf ire of the whole human family. Enable to di-poMI of our criminal population at home, we bit upon iho expedient of sending them to the Southern IV.cihV. and what .-it tho time was i\ as a dire noeo.—ify has been productive cfioiilt-. tho m< -l imj oilan? in the hi>tory { f meukind. The thriving oomimmiiioN there are ;h • i»< rin* of future empires, whole exhnustk — lends and all th«» ilements of material pre.-peritv will comet the evih- of po\erty and n redundant population in tho dou-ely packed ovumri»s. of Europe. Our inland instincts make ih by nature sailors a< well a*, merchants, road wKuv<.r commerce treads civilization and L.ij pines- invariably follow. Compulsion neces-s-iu.nd the tivncpou to those di.-mnt lands of the (irim: son- ;md daughter.- of England : but iho-o l.md- vuiv iir-i known and became integral p.uls of the British empire by reason of th.d iiiminnn' habit of exploration which ha.-al-w ey- been on-'of rinAduraeicri.-lie,-of Englishmen. The rxs-ult i- frauudit with a change to the globe vl.bh we inhabit—the second Exodus in point of f' k t —the importance of which future gener./.i >us •will Ktur appreciate them ourselves. Tile lr,.de whk Now Zeal md i= an inerea.-ing and „n import-mi one. Its importance may bo jc-'Uid by the I\;kX that, wluivas the registered Rv..ec;o of the Vt.s;-el- now loading in London ur.d L:v<n«xdfor N«.w Zealand port- is 8, W2 :on». tSi.v loading- in the same ports for South A*>:re.!b >hvr mi aggregate of 5.2i2 tons only, the--- *.: Vr.n Duman'sLouulof 7.151 tons, and tbarf for the Cape of Good Hope of 5,008 L:i-: :.i:d tic the certainty ol ils increat-hiff, we Ljvc amply *u::b:en: warrant in the past progie?s end j re^nt position of the colony—in the rapidity wkl. v.lnch its population has multiplied, in the vontiuued demand for labour, and the- Inluec-ments which New Zealand holds out 1 -jvnd sLmcsl try other British settlement to tin* thrifty :.r.d industrious emigrant. In irLnvhiir t-ft-r the remarks made at this rcn.: r--sb!"' gathering, our Australian readers v, 111 be .-truth with the dissimilarity of character, and yet oneness of purpose visible iv the tyidtx^-.-s of Mt*«r-r=. Smith, Stuart Wortley, :md TrJn. The fir-t-m.med gentleman is a rvpeof the model colonist and merchant, and ev„ry tb.mg which Jill from him was practical, m:d to t;.v purpose. Tim ,-econd. a member of r. :i«d Ie family, who en.igratcd to New Zealand a u\. y-ears h&ek. showed, in the laughable :v - "r.t of the expedients to vibich be was ol lit:, d to rave recourse in a m-w country, wliere i'.i:y iiif.3 I compelled to fcrdp himself, that c< ..ie " iced i- o:b n combmed with gicat powers i: t, "l-:r^::;e t.:A vigour of purpo.-e, aud that 1 \ ..'. •: = t-dr.ing in early li'c :s net ineompatile v :'h r..mly e\'riion when the occ<t-don «•: :Is 5;. i3-.it w e u.n-t ronff'-'- that the ;-_ -rf Mr. Tr«:n o: Melbourne, wa,-. to our t ; .;1 c '_*rut u-alare of the day. It was t - *" "1/ A-.tlcsj: in tone and feeling— 1 r " c ■>'.-,- i: j-'.'':.,: <l <-T;trmou~ c;»piesty for ' > *fi 'y. 'he i .:-•/•_ cf ? purpr-c- wbi<-h has ; ' 1 aT". Tr.dn'- ;: .t:v L L-d. in t!:e course of i - ' i'-r- of i~ < vry. f< r-mo-yt amongst »-' ' " '■"- of lb' < .:-*'!. \\'<- i '.ml to the g \*' "> ■' >_3"\' ,-""" 1 :>• :.!j>^u^ the Ust ■' -"" \ .'\ :'< r il< •..'. jl. v-< vices of «' n .' <■ -c •- . il <. . M it. t<\...:.} y,^ ,-s- - : <a lb- L :• -k C-c-n. M-.. 7..i1. i.d most i-y-u i.- I thi -: 1 , 1b..: bnn.,ll h.bour '.w <b wiil .t} ee'-, ''•:<„:-:-:i.L irrib'.de x' * j h-o; *m* -of ih wold. Tl.e C\,:df rlcry ; *;1,... : 1 <• r.m t iei 10 i<<'s\c ;::i 1:. reense -\; '< 1;. the '-V>- 'J:/m.' '-tiv-' e<m- v.hidi t 'i- V* ' ore.. mil: , ;i"d no"- in.nn dLi< ly :__-/ - "._•__• of 1 1. •" c .:/:m;i:< .tun which j li ■E *7 -> ..nl Co. r.:e j.fiv, c "■"'!:-i'ii<g, ; ':"..' 'Ol *-.]i/ !;....- (- ....■''. 1 fr»,- ijia •, ii jr i',;ij| ;'."b.3"- . »".< 1 -I'm i' ', i .iiMi.bi M.d.ct 1' - ' !-.. id.v Ji'. X(w /...,!. ad/v.hich i • ■..-:*«. ' 1:' ' Ti •. ./the «. ■-\ i „ b. ;.<•. «*:-.ih -..j d ..O'^ . '-j ' 'j t* '- Imt.i - < ','m„'e, tb: I Li-, cr--1 '',<'; .1 t!iJ ] 1' m the O.ir'• 1 mgd'.m *, is ;". ' ] : •*"- , ' t'-e v.! !e of th.c 'I /* b ( * "i. r '" n t!i- b'^oi.. m iiii.dsCyA,y.}. :':-_.- :»_\-i i. '-

despatched their representatives to Moscow in order to transmit to their employers full and ample details of this event. The work, too, in almost every .instance, has been capitally executed, full,"graphic, and picturesque. In the case of the leading London morning journal,tho fame which its Crimean correspondent secured before Sebasiopol with the army has been fully sustained by the ability which pervades the eleven columns of descriptive matter transmitted to Prinfinghouse-sqnare, and so pleased was tho great organ with this noble effort of intellect that a special leading article was devoted to a becoming eulogy on the writer. In a political point of view the Coronation is without significance. We knew beforehand that the voting Emperor, like his father, possessed a tall and commanding figure, that his wife is young, beautiful, and virtuous, that the Kremlin is a building admirably adapted "for the display of the pageantry of which it was the scene, that the Russian nobles are showy and extravagant, and that all the resources of a great empire would be put into requisition to make the occasion impressive. Wo knew, also, that Alexander the Second was popular with his people,who regard their Czars with a love and homage characteristic of a semi-civilised nation—the representative of the Divine power on earth,and that the Coronation was intended to stamp with the fiat of that high authority the compact between the ruler and his subjects. But although all this was known before, we get an insight, through the medium of the London reporters, into the inner life of high Russian society, as it appeared on this occasion, which will afford pleasure to all persons who study with interest the manners and habits of a peculiar nation. The traits of character which the Coronation evolved place the character of Nicholas's successor in a very amiable point of view. The imperial manifesto, on the occasion of the Coronation, confers favours and an amnesty for political offences.

The Free-trade Congress at Brussels, which met on Monday last, received representatives from nearly all the commercial nations on the globe. England was represented by the Hon. Mr, Cowper, Ivlr. W. Ewart, and Mi\ Chadwiek; and on Thursday last the Chamber of Com-

mcrce of this town,anxious that Liverpool .should be specially represented on so interesting an occasion, appointed delegates; to proceed to "Brussels in the persons of Mr. Wm. Brown, the members for the borough, and other gentlemen—a very proper and praiseworthy act, which would have been more highly appreciated, we doubt not, in the capital of Belgium if it had taken place a week earlier. To arrive so long after the commencement of the proceedings is not a very seemly act; but we are glad, nevertheless, that the merchants nominated are the highest in station in the town, men, in that capacity, of world-wide celebrity. It is also pleasing to find that Protectionist Liverpool, which ejected Mr. Cardwell from its representation because of his Free-trade sympathies,and sent two members to Parliament to support Lord Derby's government, is now so reconciled to the new order of things that a whisper of regret for the dead body of Protection is rarely heard. So it has been with all the reforms of past years,'so long strenuously opposed by the same political party. Once carried they have worked so well that nobody thinks of disturbing Ihein. We see it slated that the Bishop of Ilipon will be promoted to flic see of Durham, and that the Detin of Carlisle will be the new Bishop of London.

under .C:iO, but two; tho rest forming lh o n>-" gregate from £20 upwards. In dispo*in.* 0 f personal property, I have sacrificed to tho Tied In domg so I have tested the' »tato of the money market. To get even half value for niiv general lotyou may have to oiler h out of fluquestion, albeit the lot be a picked one, and otherwise, should be saleable. To wit! a geld watch in good going order, with a full kmdh gold chain, sold the other day at Messrs. Nolle Campbell aud GV» (and previously advertised ) for the sum of £3 Ls. Od., the chain itself beirA valued for £4. What call you this ? With such for a fact judge for yourselves. This case is one of many I have lately been concerned iv. Under these circumstances I have stared my position in tho face, and have come to this determination, (subject to your approval, but not otherwise,) to go to England and make such arrangements as dm only be made by me on the spot. My wife and child in the meantime I would leave here. You may say that if I have money to go to England then I should have so much to pay towards my debts: but this I tell you honestly and openly, if I can succeed" in making arrangements for a passage, that it must be pn terms until I arrive there. To delay, or hitV ruptmy going, can only damage the cause W would both serve. In placing matters thus before you, I feel that I have done my duty, although truly a trying and disagreeable one. The bar of secresy has been removed from mv door, and I have bid you enter. Do now witb me as you think fit, and recollect that I am at your service any time you like to call upon mc. Shirk you ? I never shall! To badger and worry a man under my avowed and challenged circumstances seems to me unmanly and without any desirable purpose. The man that can pay, should be made pay, and the man that will when he can should have time. Although in a way so novel, yet do I prefer giving publicity to ray intentions thus rather than have them misunderstood by private circulations or road side gossip, so that you can stop me if you think fit. Go without telling j-ou I would not: albeit, I went to return within a twelvemonth with your inone}'. Yours very obediently,

WESTBY 11. PERCIVAL

Governor's Bay, Dec. 29th, ISSG