Akaroa.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 43, 28 March 1846, Page 4

Akaroa.

[From the Wellington Independant.] By the schooner Manu, D. Munn, master we have news from the above place, to the 19th ult. The French corvette L'Rhin, Commodore Uerard had arrived at Akaroa, fiom Sydney via Bay of Islands, conveying intelligence of the capture of Kawiti's Pah Rua-peka-peka. The following vessels have refreshed at Akaroa during this season :—: — The American ship Meteor, Sweet, of New London, five months out with 260 barrels sperm, and 150 barrels black oil The A merican ship Commodore, Perry geventeen months out, 1200 batrels black. The American ship Amazon, six months out, clean. The American ship OAicsix months out, clean The French ship Manche, was entering Akaroa Heads, as the Ma%a was leaving. An industrious French mechanic has erected at Akaroa a water mill, capable of grinding four bags of wheat in the 24 hours. Two grampuses were lately driven ashore at Akaroa, which turned out 2£ tuns good oil.

German physiologists affirm that, of 30 deaths of men between 18 and 25, tea oiiginate in the waste of the constitution b) 1 smoking. The vast theatre at Paris, called the Hippodrome, was opened to the public in the month of August last. It is fot chariot races, it 350 feet long, and will contain 20,000 people.

Military Execution at Oran.— On the 24th of March a Spaniard, named Aguilera alias Gomez alias Mustapha-ben-Abdalla, formerly a ptivate in the foreign region, was condemned to death by court martial, at Oran, under the following circumstances :— ln the month of March, 1840, 30 Spanish soldiers out of 50, of which the guard of a farm near Kouba was composed, revolted against their commander, whom they bayoneted, and deserted to the Arabs. Aguilera was the cbief of this act of atrocity. He was received by the Arabs, and incorporated into the battalion of Sini-Embarek, where be was shortly afterwards created Serjeant, and subsequently captain, and received two decorations ; the first for having decapitated a French officer who wa» wounded on the 16th of May, 1840, at Teniab ; and his conduct duringa battle fought with General Changernier. In the month of October, 1813, seeing that the cause of the Emir was desperate, he proceeded to Masacara, declaring that his name was Gomez, that he was of Spanish origin, and that he had served the Emir, by whom he had been scut to Morocco. He gave some precise information relative to the position of Abd-el-Kader, and, to attach him to tbe French cause, he was appointed serjeant in the native cavalry of Oran, under the name of Mustapha-ben-Abdallah. He was subsequently identified by two Spaniards who were captured in a battle fought with Sidi-Kmbareck on the 11th of November, 1843, as the chief of the insurrection at Kouba, in 1840, and was tried and condemned to death by a court martial held at Oran on the 24th of March last. Ou Sunday, the Ist of June Aguilera was informed that the King had commanded that the sentence of death should be executed, which announcement he heard without emotion. Some time afterwards he was heard singing in his dungeon. He eat his dinner with a good appetite, and smoked a cigar. He continued to converse with the jailer untitl afer midnight. "I am not so guilty as I have been represented," said he, "I am accused of having committed 30 murders, whilst I committed but 26. I had athirst for blood from my infancy. At the age of seven years and a half I stabbed a child. I murdered a pregnant woman, and at a later period I murdered a Spanish officer, in consequence ofwhich I w?s compelled to fly from Spain. I took refuge in France, where I committed two crimes before 1 enlisted in the foreign legion. — Of all my crimes 1 regret thefollowingmorethan , all the others :—ln: — In 1841, 1 captured, at the head of my company, a deputy commissary general, escorted by a serjeant, a corporal, and seven men, and I caused them all to be decapitated. Their death is a weight over me. 1 frequently seathem in my di earns, and to-morrow 1 shall see them in the men appointed to shoot me j and nevertheless were I to recover my liberty, 1 would murder others." The following day Aguilei received the consolations of religion. He subsequently informed the jailer that his real name was Juan Gonzales, and that he was the son of a Spanish Colonel, who was shot with Torrijos and some others at Malaga. At half past 10 o'clock he calculated that he had but a short time to live, and from that moment his courage failed him. Before he quitted the prison he asked lor a few drops of brandy, and wilh difficulty he walked to the place of execution. He drank brandy three times on the way: and he was placed, pale, and trembling in every limb, before tbe picket commanded to shoot him. In the presence of the immense crowd which assembled to witness the execution of the wretched man, he did not even exhibit that factitious courage maintained by some convicts to the end oftheir career. After the sentence was read, be fell pierced with 12 balls.

The late Lord Eldon (Chancellor) on the Trinity.— "l have not so far been led astray from the great purposes of human life— of this state of trial and probation— as not to have often and often endeavoured to enable myself • to give to him that asketh of the hope that is in me/ 1 have looked, therefore, into the evidence of these things, and 1 have no doubt of the divine origin of the Sacred Volume. If the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity be not therein contained, I can only ask him who can prevail upon himself so to say, 'How readest thou?, Assuredly not as I read j for unless I am to twist every thing 1 find in revelation till I can represent it to myself not as it is, but as I think it should be, I must read and understand 'as it is written.' If this doctrine is not there revealsd, I know none re specting the being of a God that is there revealed. Indeed, the whole Bible scheme of man's redemption—the whole Bible scheme of this world and that which is to come appears to me very plainly to depend upon it, and w hen the man of re<ison tells me he understands the Godhead belter, if he believes as a Unitarian, than I who believe the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity, 1 am content that be think only as he pleases of my understanding. On the other hand, I pray God to forgive his presumption. When the question was asked, ' can these dry bones live V 1 think the answer was. ' 0 Lord God, thou know est.' When the question is asked. 'Can these three be one V my answer is, 'The Lord God tnoweth.' He has said it if there be truth in Scripture." (See his Life, by H. Tvviss, vol. ii, pp. 62, 64.) Heie is the first lawyer of his age, and one profoundedly veised in the science of proof, avowing his conviction that the evidence of Scripture as a revelation from God "*as complete, and ascerting with no little fervency that the language of Scripture, fairly dealt with, is Trinitarian exclusively. This is important testimony.

Whaling Business.— Few estimate lhe general profits of a successful whaling voyage The Ohio, at Nantucket, brings 2,Blo'barrel's of sperm oil, and sold 80 barrels of whale, valued at 80,000 dollaisj the Potomac, 2,444 barrels 69,000 dollars. The Nantueyet, is also at the bar with about 1,330 barrels sperm (including oil sent home) and 1,300 barrels whale oil and 13,000 pounds bone, valued at about 66,000 dollars. This makes an aggregate of 206,000 dollars for the three ships.