The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 204, 13 May 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

f'e just and fear not: Let all tlic ends tliou aiuib't at, be thy Country's, Tliy Goo's, and Truth's.

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1848.

In llic simplicity of oui heait we had been led to imagine that since the houi in which New Zealand became a Biitish colony, her present and prospective pacification was ne\ei based upon moie solid foundation than now. We hay, we had imagined this, because, within om own immediate ken, we can discovet nothing have peace, and plenty, its allitoiative, but not mvanable concomitant; whilst, fiom a combination of testimony, deiived fioni the mo.st ci edible souues, a like slate ol aflaiis is icpicsented to prevail both in the noith and m ihe south. In the one (jmnter, Heke leposing him on his lam els. In the othci, tlie toitnous minded llaupaiaha, — acting upon Hamlet's dechuation of the sole way in which a gieat man may hope his memory to outlive him — " Buildjng Churches.' We had indulged in these our peaceful ihwqiniiiqs, until, like (we believe) the genclahty ot out fellow colonists, we had Wined U> consider them mcts, when 10, \,]ia.{ was our disappointment to learn, that we had been encashing an idle delusion' The film howe\ei, has been lennned fiom our eyes. — the a cil lias been withdrawn, — and to the ''Sydney Morning Herald" we aie beholden toi pointing out the übj is mtu which (i H H much to be

', ieared 'wo aie about to be plunged. Our i icadciswill do well to mailc that Journalist's ! auguiy. " We have papeis from Auckland and Wellington, to the end of March. " The infoiniation tlioy contain shows that the natives at both ends of Ihp island are I unsettled, and it is much to bo feaied that the I wintei will not pass o\er without an outbreak. I The coniedeiation cnleied into by the duels ot the noilhein disli id, shows a coolness and detenu mat ion of puipose, which will cause u>iy sci fou-, tumble if an attempt is made to tie at (lie lands as the demesne of theciown, without pin chasing them fiom the natives, and the only hope of patenting bloodshed, 'v, that Gou'inoi (iiry will not tiy to cany out his instiuciions. " ilangihaeta's attempt to proem c ammunition shows what he intends lo d,>. and now (hat old liauparaha i.s in the district, theie is sine to he mischief. '•In the (owns of Auckland and Wellington, all is of cour.se, prosperous, and will piobably continue so, while the British government consider it woith while to pa) C 1 2 per head, pei annum, for the protection of the settleis in that colony." We of coui.se, weie natuially solicitous to aseeitam fiom what " papeis " the S)dney editoi had culled such disaslious "bodements," and tinned over his pages, with a feveiish nnpatienee, until our eye encounteied an extract, of the \U of April, from our contempoiaiy of the Cross, — a practical oilering, we presume, to the facctia of that time honomed day. The extract contained the declaration of the so called Conm^ikracy ov Fi\r, with the Cross's comments upon " this state papei"' (') which he says, " was very carefully concealed fiom geneial inspection," — and, although " faithfully translated, considered to he of doubtful meaning," — as doubtful, wi: incline to think, as the portentous shake. — so lucidly expounded by Pn-i-, — of Loul Bmleigh's silent but sagacious pate. If the meaning be indeed doubtful, it lies too deep foi us to penetrate; but we fancy that a single glance at this " bill of lights,"' and the construction of one individual sentence, must suffice to show , " that it contains within itself, the strongest internal evidence " of having been supeivised, if not piepared, by othei than the Five. Aie the following meie woids of kindness ? Convey they no other meaning than that which meets the eye '? Let oui leadeis ponder them and determine. Let them weigh the past, — consider the present, — and estimate the future, — and they may possibly detect some of the latent springs which caused the Governor to be dogged at e\ery step of Ins recent tour of inspection. " The rule of our old Europeans, who duel! m oiii midst, is, that they are to be kindly entieated by us, upon The plvcts th \t u,\\e jm:i:n givln 10 miai ijy ls '" Suiely this " lequires no comment ; — it speaks foi itself."' It would be well for Colonial alarmists, whose nenes are faintly developed, to pause ere they gi\e publicity to questionable statements, and to imbue those statements with a colouring deuved from idiosyncracy, penersity, or piejudice. Could their representations, or mislepiesentations, be conliued to the locality w hence they issue and wheie their accuracy could be investigated, that publicity would be a mallei of little moment : but as injurious statements, travel far and are much more leadily leceived by strangers than those of a favorable tendency, it becomes the impciative duty of eveiy honest writer to sift Avell the authenticity of all intelligence in any way calculated to damage the land he has found it advisable to make Ins home. On 1 own estimate of mischief to be apprehended from this miscalled confederacy, and the document said to be issued by it, is widely diil'eient fiom that indulged in by the Cross, and given cunency to by the Herald, whose Editoi found Ihe colouring matter piepaied to his hand and applied it without possessing the lequisite tests to prove its virtue or to expose its vice — and thus, away to the woild, under the influence of a weightier authoiity than the oiiQinal, go, as malteisof fact, details which we will not stigmatise as inatteis of fiction, but which we conscientiously belie\e to be of the giossest, if not the most wilful, misapprehension. It were well that these cruel misstalements were checked. Differ in politics — differ in opinions as the Journalists of Australia and Tasmania may, they have ever been agreed on one point, — to advance and lo aggrandize their various piovinces, and to depict their capabilities and then claims to consideration in the most favourable and glowing colours — an honest and a praisewoithy object, when truth, devoid of puff, guides the pen. Is New Zealand so powerful — her population so redundant — her resources so commanding that she can despise all these rational accessories ? Is she anxious to scare intending emigrants from her shores % If so, she musters sumhy untiung writers, active zealots in the patriotic cause. To such we would say, that, even in the adjacent colonies, there is quite sufficient of a '•' raw head and bloody bones" impiession of New Zealand to deter the timid, whilst in England that malign influence operates most piejmliciou.sly against a confident enugiation to hei potis, Her not yet extinct cannibal re-

put at ion. — The sack of Koioiarika, and tin 1 deadly subsequent sin lV. still linger m men's minds — and if local Journalists will assume that a lecunence of such calamities are imminent, and pioclaim that a confedciacy of Chiefs is already organised, and sedulously extending its connexion, and that for a clear although nn-nanied purpose, it is no less clear that the piogiess of the colony will he delayed and that her poits and .settlements will lemam the eonipaiathe gamsons which ceitain paities delight in do.sciibmo them lo he. Away, say we, with all such disingenious delusions. New Zealand .contains withinitself the sn i- 1' lequisitc to make a gieal Colony. — llei peace is not rmirui ni o in the mannei the querulous \\ouldha\ethewoild belie\e — and in full continuation of this our asseition we shall adduce one mconlestible fact, which is — that there are applications, m the Colonial Secietaiy's office, induced by the Emigiation Notice of the 2nd Decemhei, IS 17. foi passages lo tins count! y of friends and relatives moie than sufficient to till up two laige ships. Weie oui prospects doubtful or lebelhon imminent would so general a desire to in\ol\e fiiends or kindled in Us penis be exhibited ? Quite the contrary — and they who uuse the loudest clamoui know full as well as we that in New Zealand Oiider is the nile and Ouini. 1 : the nire exception, and thai with the laithful oljsenance of the tieaty of Waitangi. the doubts which ha\e shaken the natne heait willabsuredly disappear.

In our last, we presented as copious a variety of British and Foreign intelligence, as our columns would pel nut ; we, again lesumc our summary, illustrating our cursory letrospect fiom the most recent and available sources. Europe appears to be in anything but a prosperous condition, either moially, physically, or politically. In each se\ oral phase, she w cats a cheerless, lowering, aspect. Throughout her length and breadth, disease has been tenibly pre\alent, Influenza and T)phus— those appalling scourges — having committed the most dreadful ravages and assumed a degree of inAeteiacy bordering almost upon pestilence. Out of her population of 100,000 souls, Marseilles had SO,OOO confined fiom influenza. In London, the business of some of the public offices had been impeded, not less than 140 of the Post Office clerks being absent at once. Many of the public seminaries weie necessitated to anticipate the usual holidays, and, in Pater Noster How , " Magazine Day " had, with the utmost difficulty, been accomplished. Dining the week ending 4th Decembei, the deaths weie 2.254, being 1,008 in excess of the conesponding week for the past n\e years. Edinburgh and the East Coast of Scotland had been semely usited ; the education at mimeious schools and academies haung, in conse- j quence of the all pievalent epedenuc, been co'npulsoiily suspended. In the Koilh of England, typhus i aged with equally fatal uuilence; whilst, as a climax to this catalogue of calamities, the London Observer of the lv)th Dec, thus staitingly announces the appioach of a yet j more tenible visiter ; " TheCholeia is coming, the fact is undeniable. It is equally undeniable that its destuicthe power is as gieat as e\er." It had reached Venice and Wai&aw, and was travelling in parallel lines, so that the British Islands could scarcely hope to escape its dieaded usitalion. With destitution in the Highlands, — famine in Tieland, and a sad amount of misery and pmation in England, the dawn of 1848 must ha\e been cheeiless indeed. In Ireland, how c\er, the horrors consequent upon destitution and disease, aie light in comparison with the appalling and seemingly hopeless moral degradation oflhat most unfortunate and impracticable country. Midnight assassinations, and midday mmders, are the sanguinary themes of e\eiy day discussion. No Assurance office, (said Sir William Verner, emphatically, in his place in Pailiament), will effect a policy on a life in Ireland ! Throughout the whole of the country, (obscnedLoid Fainham), theie existed a deep looted conspiracy against the rights of piopeity. Some of the ciimes committed in that unfoitunate couutiy weie such as would disgiace the lecouls of New Zealand. [We ventuie to assuie his Lordship that New Zealand would sin ink fiom the odious association. But three of the countless minders that deluge Ireland with innocent blood, defile her annals ; and those three abhorent examples aie the assassinations of Mrs. Robciton, the Gillespies, and the Gilfillans.J The money rendered by bene\ olence to w ant, is applied by unnatural uiffianism, in pui chase of powder and ball to lepay thebenetactoi. In a lecentalarming not at Kanturk, a donation of 40s. to buy bread, was instantly expended in the piocurement of ammunition. Eight baionies in the counties of Galway, Cavan, and Fermanah, ha\ c been proclaimed. Rockite notices were numerous ; and a frightful amount of agiaiian uolence and intimidation pre\ ailed. At Limerick, there were 161 persons for tiial, 35 of whom were for murder, aiding and abet- \ ting, harbouring, or conspiring to murder, upwards of 30 for attacking houses, and a large number for uhiteboyi&m. These are dark shades on the moial and physical portrait. We fear the political picture is scarcely less clouded. The affairs of Italy are still pciplexing, the movements of he

various pelt) Males, — each A\itli conflicting interests, — and Hip leviathan pietensions and amis of Austna, lendeiing the piesenntion oi peace, or the appeal to anus, a men- mallei of loss- up. The Kiug of Saidmia, m the doubtful emeigency, is augmenting Ms foices and warning his allies. Austria is also concenliating her 1 loops, and encouiaging liei depend(Ml Sj { — ami, at this inauspicious moment, the Aiehdiiehess Maiia Louisa, Duchess of Pai ma, dies-, hei piineipality, by a mmivais conlretemps, descending to the ex Duke of Lucca, an obsequious tool of Austria, and 51 wOlw 01 shipper of the loyal right di\ inc. In consequence of this inheritance, the Duke becomes possessed of a small teiiitoi) named Ponticmoli.mueh coveted by Au.stiia, lo whom it was denied by the Congiess ol Vienna 111 1815, because it is the key of the passage between the Stales of thy King of Saidinui, and those of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and fiom its commanding military position calculated to swell the power of Austria, already too gieat 111 Italy, and oveiawc that of Saidmia and Tuscany. Ileie then, we ha\e a pretty apple of discoid, which may bear the seeds of much disaslei and. many eventful calamities. That the Duke of Wellington has long entertained many an anxious misgiving, has been shewn by his Grace's staitling lettei to Sir John Buigoync. That letiei, which may be consideied as a seasonable seqtutur to the grave and w holesome tiuths so flippantly expounded in the Prince dc Joinvillc's celebrated steam invasion pamphlet, conclusively points out the utterly defenceless state of the English coast, and the great consequent temptation held out for a sudden wailike dash from acioss the channel. The Duke avers that the 50,000 tioops that garrison Paris, with the augmentation of 50,000 French Militaiy volunteeis, could pass o\er to Southampton in sixty hams after a declaration of war, without the English government being able to muster 10,000 regulai troops to encounter them, and. pi event their matching upon and sacking London > '•I have demanded," says His Grace, "150,000 militia, and 12,000 additional soldiers of the line, fiom three successive administrations, but in \ain." And, in enforcing his patriotic remonstiances, the \eleran warrior is stated I o ha\e employed the following powerful expressions :--*'! AiM NOW UOROr.RING ON SEVENTY- SEVEN "S HA US OK AGE, PASSED IN HONOUR. I HOPE Tiir, Almighty may puori:cr me hiom beinu a -witness OF TUB Tr\GKUY I CANNOT PERSUADE MY CONTEMPORARIES 10 A\ERT !" The '' Times "—the Protean Times— at ono moment the denouncer — at another the elaborate panegyiist — of the brave old Duke, has discreditably, hut most unsuccessfully attempted to laugh down his judicious warnings. Let us hope they will not prove wholly fruitless — Poitsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness, aie heing, (if not already) heavily armed. An armed harbour of refuge is rapidly progressing in the isle of Poitland, and a trivial augmentation of the army, it is said, is contemplated. Other defensive preparations aic also, (if we may credit the papers,) under way. We quote the following from the Tabi.ttt, as a. specimen. " The urgency to have the works of the numerous steam vessels preparing for &ea at Woolwich finished with e\ery expedition, has caused the whole of the shipwrights to be taken from the Nankin, 50 gun frigate, and from all the new works, that the otheis may be ready hist;" and again, our attention isailested by the Linited Service G<vzErrK, which states that the Admiralty Cl aie about to make more impoitant alteiations in their establishments abroad. The first step decided on is an increase of aitih'cers to all the stations. Volunteers ha\e been called for, to proceed to Bermuda, Jamaica, and the Cape of Good Hope. At the latter establishment especially, an increase of dockyard men will be immediately made." The same journal likewise affhms the intelligence we lately gave the public, namely, that it was determined to make Auckland a naval station, and to foim a naval depot there. The failure of Messis. T. & J. Sands, & Co., appeals to have put a stop to the experimental screw propeller steam voyage from London to the Cape, and these colonies. Of the long and earnestly desiied colonial steam extension, we can obtain no tangible information, — the monetaiy crisis, has, we fear, given the coup de grace, for the present, to each and every line. Among the obituaries, we find that of Mr Thomas Cohbctt, the elder bi other of the Cobbctt ; he died, on the 30th November, in his 87th year, at his son's house, at Islington. He was the last sutvivor of foui brothers. The last gieat debt has also heen paid by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Usher, C.8., K.C.H. of the Irish Station. Sir Thomas was an old and distinguished officer, and in command of the Undaunted frigate, had the honour of conveying Napoleon to Elba.

We have Adelaide Journals to the Bth ult« An active German emigration was going on '■ the Pallink and the President having hoth arrived from Bremen, with upwaids of 300 passengers. From the Observer of the 25th March, we copy the following .—". — " It is reported that I lei' Majesty has confened the honour of knighlhooil on Go\ernor Giey, despatches having been leceived here by the last mail, addressed io His Excellency Su_Creorge Grey,"

Wk p;i\ o below the Comparathe Population llctiuns of oui vaiious districts, from 1815 1o IS'l7, inclushe, as published in the <! Goveinnient Gazette." We incline to considci the estimate for Auckland, at least, some 800 below the maik. Whether this may be attributable to exclusion of the pensioner force from the Auckland list, oi Avhether it be owing to the superficial way in which the numerical details aie gatheied, we ha\e no means of ascertaining. We coincide, liowevei, in opinion with ouiVontempoiy, 'I'm: SovmriiN Cross, m jjiipposing oui dibtiict to number urnuuds ol (JOOO soii Is.

The Gale ok Wldnlsday.— On Wednesday last, w e w ci c visited by a gale of w ind of much inoie than common seventy- About Ha. in., the wind shifted to theN.E., accompanied by rain, which fell fast amidst fierce and fieqiient squalls, their violence inci easing as day closed. By S a. in., the gale had become a peifeot tern pest, which laved and raged with tcinfic I'my throughout the entire night, and a considerable pan of Thursday morning. Its ravages are much less desti uctivc than might have been expected, the chief damage, that we have heaid of, being the complete boulvo scmenl of that once familiar ldiid-maik, Smales' Boarding House; the blowing down of a small brick tenement, the ptostiationof sundiy ill-constiuoted fencs, and the swamping of seveial canoes and boais along the beach. It was truly laughable to noie the coniiast produced on the Native and Einopean wateimen by these mishaps— the lattei grumbling and growling over theii shattered &kifls, while the former flourished their tomahawks ami chopped up their shipwrecked canoes, which, m the t>h,ipp ofluewood, they piomptly convened to cash. The diflereiit ships and vessels diove more 01 less, but without the slightest damage, their tickle proving good and the ground excellent. We ieg let to hear that a seaman, belonging fo the "Calliope, 1 ' lost his life dining the gale, ife was passing, in a small punt, accompanied by another poison, fiom the fiigate to the shore, ■when the punt capsized, and the) were precipitated into the water. The seaman (lecently mat lied to one of the pensioners daughteis) was unfortunate!) diowned, his comiade being saved with considerable difllculty.

The Sydney and Auckland Cattle Trade. — As might Imvc been am icipated fiom the leccnt anivals of so in.my vessels, namely, the William, Ralph Rental, Hydetabad, Mar(hioness of Douylus, P'dmyr.i, Tasmania, and Eleanor Lancaster, together with those expected, namely, the Fanny, Hydciahad, Ralph Rental, and Lout Hobcul, the Stock maiket has ruled so low as s<atce!v to pay importeis. At first, llie lieifeis, per Wit hum, sold, by private sale, at £$ 10s. ; her wetheis, at 9s. 78 head of cattle, per Ralph Rental, sola, paitly at auction and paitly by piivate sale, at about £1 15s. the males, of which the contractors got at £1 2s. 101 head, per llyde/übud, aveiaged at auction, £4 10s. to .Cl Ijs., and the result induced the importers per Maichtoness oj ' Bovylas, to withdraw fiom public sale their cargo, consisting chiefly of cows and laige cattle, which were delivered to the contractois at Mointapu, for a sum which must l>ave left the adventure a losing one. Iho Palmyra's stock, being a small and well-selected Jot, sold at auction at fair prices : — cows aveiaged £6 10s.; heifers, £5 10s.; calves, £3 ]55. ; and JG bullocks, were taken by the contractors at £S. The Eleanor Lancaster managed to land, in pi line order, 27S head of really good cattle, and they were at once sold to Mr. Buckland, for £i 10s all round — the importers preferring a •wholesale transaction to the risk of public auction, at present. The Tasmania's stock, landed also in good order, and wet c put up to auction yesterday, but after the disposal of 10, the sale was stopped by the importers. The William, London. andßobeitSeyeis, which were expected lieie, we learn, fiom private advices, have gone t o Cook's Straits. —Commumculed>

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