The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1848.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 172, 22 January 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1848.

Be just and fear noc: Let al! the ends thou diinb't at, be thy Country's, Thy Goo's, ami Truth's.

By the arrival of the Sophia, Capt. Tanner, from Sydney, "»e have received papers to the 3rd curtent. The Kelso, post-office packet for September, had arrived on the 2nd. We copy the following from an " Lxtraordirmry" to the Sydney Morning Herald of December 27 :—: — The Walmer Castle bringa us London papei£ to the 7ih Si-phniber. The Queen was still in the Highlands, and Her Ministers were enjo) ing the sports of the season in different parts of the country.— There ie, therefore, no political news.

The harvest was nearly completed, and the crops were most abundant. Trade was dull, the continued failures of the speculators in com and sugar having a most depressing effect upon the money market. Notwithstanding this, the price of the best Wool is quoted at from 5 to 1\ per cent, higher than the last London sales. The Steamer Great Britain, which was wrecked in Dundrum Bay, on the coast of Ireland, had been, after many unsuccessful attempts, got off and towed to Liverpool. His Excellency, Major-General Wynyard, the new Commander of the forces, who arrived this morning by the Walmer Castle, landed at 12 o'clock under a salute from that vessel, and proceeded to the office of the DeputyAdjutant General. Some fair samples of New Zealand Wool were offered, but, as is usually the case in a Dew colony, were very unevenly packed, and consequently realized unsatisfactory prices. There is no intelligence of importance — the local papers were occupied in discussing changes in the representative institutions of the Colony, projected by Earl Grey. We shall give further extracts in our next.

In our columns of this day will be found a letter addressed to us by the Rev. Mr. Kissling, on the subject of certain observations made in our journal of last Saturday, on a pamphlet which has been some time before the public, and entitled — " Plain Facts relative to the War in the North.*' In his anxiety to correct the errors into which he says we have been betrayed, Mr. Kissling makes a very strange mistake, in thinking that we had attributed any part of the authorship of the pamphlet to the Editor of the Southern Cross If Mr, Kissling will take the trouble to read again the paragraph in question, he will see that we have said,— " the few threads supplied by the Archdeacon have been woven in the loom of the Southern Cross, by the ingenuity of his Aucklaud editor/ &c , &c. ; we are at a loss to understand how or why the Rev. gentleman should have interpreted these sentences as he has done, the pronoun his can refer only to the Archdeacon, and not to the public journal Besides, we are conscious of no such " fact," as the Editor of the Southern Cross, we are not acquainted with any one who has seen him confessed; both the editorial shrines in Auckland are veiled ; the breathings of the oracles are heard from the penetralia, but whether the genius of the temple is "a spirit of light or a goblin damned/ the public can only conjecture. With regard to our observation, that the work in question is political in its tendency, as that is a matter of opinion purely, we take the liberty to hold our own. It is not shaken by the statement, that the pamphlet was compiled as early as last May, for long previous to that time, it was publicly known, and that upon authority, that these land titles of Captain Fitzroy's granting, would be questioned. In line, we think that Mr. Kissling has descended somewhat unnecessarily from his '• peaceful vantage ground." The honor of the Venerable Archdeacon was not assailed, We repeat again and again, that the reports of which he complains, were looked upon as absurd and false, and so little interest did the public take in the matter, that the pamphlet remained unsold upon the publisher's shelves, until it was forced into circulation through the post office. So far from intending directly, or by implication, to cast aspersions upon Mr. Williams, or any of the missionary body, if it were required in our opinion to make a defence against these idle reports, they would find* no more strenuous advocate than ourselves, no one more sensible of, and more ready to acknowledge the value of their labours, and the deep obligations of this community for their services, and exertions in the cause of religion and of civilization.

Hobart Town Markets. — Wheat has had another downward tendency since our last ; the highest cash price offered within this day or two is ss. 6d., bu t holders are demanding 6s, and do not seem inclined to sell ; oats are looking up, and are selling wholesale, at from 3s. 9d. to 4s.— Tasmanian, Dec. 18. Lauwceston —Wheat, 5s per bushel. Port Phillip —Wheat, 4s. to ss. per bushel.