REMOVAL OF LIEUT.-GOVERNOR ROBE.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 157, 1 December 1847, Page 3

REMOVAL OF LIEUT.-GOVERNOR ROBE.

His Excellency Major Robe has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and appointed to succeed Major-General William Staveley, as Deputy-Quarter-Master-Geueral, at the Mauritius, an appointment which includes a salary of £1000 a year, a seat in the Legislative Council, and other agremen; and his Excellency is understood to be highly gratified at being nominated to an important post which his predecessor Major-General Staveley has occupied about twenty years. Lieut -Governor Robe's promotion and appointment were gazetted ou. the 28th May. His Excellency's successor in the government of South Australia, is Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Knight, Lieut.-Governor of the Eastern districts of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, who has not been many mouths in that government, and is considered an able and a rising man. He formerly occupied an office tantamount to that of Colonial Secretary in British Guiana, and there displayed official ability and couduct which procured' him the approbation of the Home Government, the honour of Knighthood, and placed him on the high road to preferment. In the South African papers, Sir H.E.F. Young's acts of administration are mentioned in terms of warm commendation. His official appointment to thii province appeared in the London Gazette of the 11th June, and as his instructions arc to proceed to his new seat of government with all convenient speed, he may be daily looked for. The general prepossession here, at elsewhere, is in favor of a married civilian, as the Governor of a remote British dependency like South Australia, but as. a choice is not permitted to the Colonists, they must even be content with a ruler of her Majesty's selection; and as, in the present instance, the probability r>, that the new Lieutenant-Governor will be accompanied by his sister, the w dow of General Peake, who accompanied him to Graham's Town, our leading Colonists may hope to seethe hospitahes of Government house occasionally dispensed to their wivei and daughters by an accomplished Lady, closely allied, to her Majesty's repreientative.— /fc/e/emfe O£server.

Succbss.— The most important element of success is economy— economy of money and economy of time. By economy we do not moan penuriousness, but merely such wholetome thrift as will disincline us to spend oar time or money without an adequate retuca either in gain or enjoyment. An economical applica? tionoftime brings leisure and method) and enables us 10 drive our buiiness, instead of our business driving us. There is nothing attended with results so disastrous as such a miscalculation of our time and means as will involve us in perpetual hurry and difficulty. The brightest talents must be ineffective under snch a pressure, and a life of expedients has no end but penury. Worldly success, however, though, universally coveted, can be only desirable in so far as it contributes to happiness, and it will contribute to happiness very little, unless there b* cultivated a lively benevolence to every animated being. ness,' it has. been finely observed, ' is in the, proportion of the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us.' To this sentiment we most cordially subscribe, and we should with to see it written on the tablet of every heart, and producing its fruits of charity. The man, whatever be bis fame or fortune, or intelligence, who can treat lightly another's woe — who is not bound to his'ftllow-men by the magic tie of sympathy, deserves, ay, and will obtain, the contempt of human kind. Upon him all the gifts of fortune are thrown away. Happiness he hat none. His life is a dream, a mere lethargy, without a throb of human emotion ; and he will descend to the grave 'unwept, unhonoured, and unsung/ Such a fate is not to be envied ; and I«t those who are intent upon lucceii, remember that sncceis is nothing without happiness.— Newspaper paragraph Thk StudyofNatur*.— The sneen of superficial men upon the weakness which has appeared in tho conduct of some inquirers into nature, ought to havo no influence to discourage us from thoie researches. If some few Have spent too much time in the study of insects, to the neglect of the nobler parts of creation, their error ought to suggest to us, not a total neglect of those inferior parts of nature, but only to avoid tke, mistake of giving ounelves wholly to them, There is no species which infinite Wisdom has thought worth making and preserving for ages, that is not supremely worthy of our inquiring into its nature. And it is certain that there is more of curious workmanship in the structure of the body of the meanest' reptile, than, in the mo-t complicated and most delicate machinethat ever was or will be constructed by human hands. — Jame* Burgh, 1754. National Prejudices.— ln estimating the worth of nations, justice requites that, whjle their vices tiro puti n to one scale, their virtues should as conscientiously be poiied in the other. Individuals' and na« tionkate equally stung with a sense of wrong when their ■ crime.* are acrimoniously recapitulated, and their great and good actions are all forgotten. This fatal forgetfulness is the origin of that rancour which hat so long desolated tbe earth. It distracta private families, confounds public principles, and turns etea patriotism itself into poison. Let those who have but the smallest love for the happiness of mankind, beware how they indulge this pernicious propensity. He who i» every man wishes to mret a brother^ will very rarely encounter an enemy. — Holcro/t. Matrimony and Meal.— A. buxom country girl in Ayrshire left her place last Whitsun terui with tbe merciful determination of putting a matrimonial period to the doubts and sighs of her stalwart swain ; but, having tUe bump of caution large, she read of high markets, and sagely pondered thereon ; and, ultimately, the last week arrived at the dwelling of a civic functionary, in whom she placed reliance, and requested as a most paiticular favour that ha . would give hei his advice as to her marriage with Alexander. The question she put was,, whether maikets were likeb to lise or fall ? "for" added she, in a whisper, «< Alick and me in lend it to gang thegither at this time, but I oaiuia ,mak up my mind tot wi* the meal at ?s. 3d. a peek. Alick, I see. wad risk it at Iwa shillings; but faith I'll no try't aboon aughteen pence. An Early Rising Society has recently been formed in Whitehuven, in uonne\ion with the Mechanics' Institution. The Members meet every morning at live o'clock, and einpl'uy their time in holding open air discnssioi «, gymnastics,, and searching afler the various orders of. pla,u\a, in (he locality.