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

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 157, 1 December 1847, Page 2

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

Be just and fear hot: Let all the ends thou aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, and Truth's.

By the " Sir George Seymour," we have received English papers to the 12th August. The elestions for the new Parliament were nearly over. The Times of the 7th August gives a statement of the returns up to that date, dividing the merahers into three classes, Liberals, 241,Peelites,85 1 and Protectionists, 135. The elections were going clearly in favor of the government, which had already gained forty-two seats. Lord John Russell had been returned for London, Sir Rohert Peel for Tamworth. Mr. Cobdenf who is at present on the continent, is re-elected for 53iockport,<and was put in nomination for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lord George Bentick is the member for King's Lynn; The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords,on colonization from Ireland) lias been published ; the promotion by the government of emigration on a grand scale from that country to the North American colonies, is recommended. ' , Immense swarms of the unhappy Irish had set forth during the summer for the Canadas " Many thousands of poor creatures/ 1 says the writer in the Times, "who have been lingering for months on the verge of starvation, on being cooped up in small vessels, aud put on a more nutritious or at least a more concentrated diet, carrying too with them the seeds of disease from their homes, have only found in the Atlantic that grave which death was not quite certain to procure for them in their own soil. A fleet of lazarettos had sailed up the St. Lawrence, bearing on every mast the ensigns of plague. The dying cargoes have been transferred to islands, which forthwith became cities of death. Thej^estir lence spreads on either shore. Whereby the immigrants wander, they, infect their new home. In the neighbourhood of Montreal, we are told, the people are rotting like sheep," We publish an extract from the report of

th© Colonial Land and .Emigration Commissioners, by which it appears that the decision of Captain Fitzroy upon the claims of the Manukau Company, had been confirmed, and that they would be allowed in addition as much land as will complete in all, four acres for every £1 expended on emigration.