The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 131, 1 September 1847, Page 2

The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1847.

He just mill fear not : Let all the ends thou nims't at, be thy Country's, Thy. God's, and Truth's.

This week the Debates in Council have not presented any remarkable feature. Some routine business has been proceeded with, and the Impounding Bill has been introduced. Copies of it had been alrea.Jy distributed among the country sottleis; and as no voices have been yet lifted up against it, we may presume that it gives general satisfaction. It was read a second time without comment, and has passed into committee. Wo have observed for the last two sittings of Council, an unusually lar^e attendance in the ga'lery, hitherto almost deserted. " What went they out for to see ? A reed shaken by the wind ?" It is not upon that arena that the battle will be fought.

By the 'Neptune' schooner, from Hawkes* Bay, we regret to learn the untimely death of Captain Richards, of the Government brig, ' Victoria,' caused it is stated by the upsetting of his boat, on tl.e bar at VVanganui. The crew were all picked up however, by the boat of l-l. M.S. Calliope. The' Neptune' brings no tidings direct from the seat of war in the south, but we are left to infer from the tenor of the reports gleaned from the' Kaie' (spoken by Capt. Macfariane of the 'Neptune,') th't the state of affairs at Wang.inui, is any thing but pacific. 11. M.5. 1 Calliope,' is reported to have been cairying fiiewood Irom Port Nicholson for the use of the forces at Wanganui, — a pretty evident syrapto n that the military have no very ready access to the country inland. The * Neptune ' does not report the Bay whaling as being remarkably successful as yet this season. She has brought up some oil, pork, &c, An anival from Wellington may be looked for in a few days.

Native Craft. — The return of vessels belonging to natives of the northern part of this island, ns detailed in a tabular form in our paper of Saturday last, exhibits very gratifying evidences of the state and growing importance of their trade. Nothing tends more to foster the amicable relations among people differing otheiwise in habits and in language, than the sense of mutual interest, and to this the natural acuteness of the New Zealand aborigines, must render them feelingly alive. What a pleasing contrast this maratime array presents to the scenes of savage warfdie which used to prevail in times prior to the establishment of British supremacy. Example is catching,— and it is not unfair to presume, that a disposition for cultivating the arts of peace, and a friendly understanding with our settlers, will gradually be spreading among the coist natives, along to the southward, simply from the many beneficial results attending the lucrative exertions of those io the north. The number of vessels busily engaged in trade about the northern coasts, as far as can be ascertained, according totho official returns, is — forty five. These compiehend one (cutter rigged) of 25 tons burthen : four (schooners,) of 20 tons each ; one (ditto) of 19 tons ; thie? (schooners and cut'ers) of 16 tons each ; and thirty six t (of both rigs) varying from 15 tons down to 10 tons each. Of the whole, Paora, of the Ngatitematera tribe owns three; Rangimatanuku, Wakatohia tribe, owns two ; Huna arid others, Ngatiawa tiibe, owns three ; Kaugitokino, of the same tribe, two ; Tara, Kgatipaoa tribe, two ; Pomare, Ngapuhi tribe, two; Kangipai, Mgatiavva tribe, three; other owners, one each. Twenty of these vessels belong to the Bay of Plenty; twelve to Auckland and ihe Thames ; two the Bay of Islands ; the remainder to Coromandd harbour, and places adjacent to this Port. The total average burthen of this musquito fleet exceed 600 tons. Supreme Court— The Court will open at ten o'clock this morning, for criminal business. '1 here, are but three cases on the calendar for trial.