The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 157, 4 December 1847, Page 2

The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1847.

Be just and fear not: Let nil the ends tbon aitns't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, aud Truth's.

In our columns this day will be found a copy of a despatch from Earl Grey on the subject of the Government arrangements with the New Zealand Company, in which is set forth the design of Her Majesty's government in their final settlement with that body, and in which pains are taken, by holding out prospective advantages, to dispel that jealousy cf the Company, of which the noble Earl u regrets to perceive so many and such various symptoms in the more recent advices from the colony," The skill of the Company! and the success

which attended its earlier operations in collecting and packing oft' bodies of emigrants, induces Earl Grey to think that the same Company will have no difficulty in procuring successive parties of equally efficient settlers, to be planted in tlie colony in such positions as "that they shall not injuriously interfere with the interests cf those previously established," thus authorizing and eucouraging the dispersion of settlements, which a fatal experience has proved to be ruinous to the unfortunate individuals who have been entrapped into them, dangerous to the peace, and subversive of the interests of the whole colony. Wanganui is a desert, Taranaki is threatened* Nelson is almost abandoned by its original settlers, whose admirable industry, enterprise and energy, most certainly merited, and under different circumstances must have secured complete success ; and yet heedless of tbese examples, careless of the disappointment, misery and destitution which its policy has brought on thousands, the Company, •« a body of gentlemen associated together to promote an enlightened plan of colonization," will steadily proceed to drop new settlements at any points of the coast where space can be found for a sufficient number of town allotments, the absence of a harbor for shipping being considered, as at Wanganui and Taranaki, a trifling inconvenience, and the want of a, sufficient quantity of cultivable land, within forty miles of the settlement, to satisfy the holders of orders, being looked upon as at Nelson, as a matter of no importance. Otakou is in progress, and Otaliou will be a flourishing colony, when the Indian market is supplied with horses from thence, but we greatly fear not till then. It is for these purposes that thousands of the public money are advanced to a trading Company, the exclusive right to a whole pro. vince granted, and debts «nd losses to tt e amount of a quarter of a million of money guaranteed. Fervently as we hope that the event will prove us in error, we cannot shake off the conviction, that the future history of the Company will be but a repetition of the errors of the past, and that the dispersion of its settlements will prove the ruin of each and of all and will retard the progress, not of the southern province only, but of the whole colony of New Zealand.

The u Gazette " published yesterday contains the important and cheering announcement that funds being at the disposal of the Government for that purpose, immigration to this colony, which is about to be immediately resumed, and requesting all parties here, who are desirous of having their relatives brought out partially or wholly at the expense of this fund.... to make -immediate application at the office of the Colonial Secretary. This announcement has come upon us, we confess, suddenly and with surprise, which its ambiguous wording is well calculated to encrease. Nothing is said of the source from which the money is to come. Whether it is that portion of the proceeds of sale of the public lands, which should have been devoted to purposes of immigration, and which having been absorbed in the expenditure of the local government, is now being refunded and applied to its legitimate objects ; or whether it is a special gift from the imperial treasury, in order that we may have no jealousy of its liberality to the New Zealand Company, and that systematic immigration and colonization may recommence limultaneously in both portions of the colony, we are left in doubt. Why the advantages to be derived from it, should be exclusively confined to the relatives of those parties who are already here, is another puzzle to us. From whatever source however this fund is derived, we hail the announcement joyfully, that the Government is in a position to resume immigration; and trust that those persons now established here, who having improved their own condition by coming to this colony, can honestly hold out inducements to relatives and friends to emigrate, will not be slow to avail themselves of the advantages of the Government proposal, and secure to those in whom they are interested, free passages to a country which holds out certain and unequalled advantages to the industrious and persevering man. The following is the notice to which we refer :

Colonial Secretary's Office. Auckland, 2nd December, 1 847. HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that Funds being- again available for the purpose of promoting Emigration to this Colony, applications will be received at this Office, by all persons anxious to have their relatives sent out to this colony) either wholly or partly at the public expence. It will be necessary for applicants to forward the names and addresses of their relatives,— and as emigration will be immediately resumed, applications should be sent in with as little delay as practicable. The preference will always be given to those persons who defray a] portion of the cost of their own passage to this country. By his Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary,

The " Eleanor Lancaster " bringing the detachment of the sBth Regiment from Wanganui, arrived on 'Ihursday last; All was quiet there. From a letter published in the Wellington Independent from its Wanganui correspondent, we learn that the rebel chief, Pehi Turoa, had addressed the Rev. Mr. Woon, Wesleyan Missionary at Waimate, requesting that teachers might be sent to in- > struct kis people at Pukaheka in the doctrines of Christianity. We have heard that the said Pehi or Pakoro has since started for Taupo, on a mission of no peaceful purport.