The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 205, 17 May 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, IS4 S.

Till (ioM'RNMI'Nr G \7ITIT, which Was publinlhhl on ftlonda) , contains a lcpetition of the Land's Sale Pioel'amalion l'oi the Ulh July next. Thcseveial lol>. aie still adveitised al the sami 1 a tan idly exoibilant upset puces, — piices, one would imagine, far moil 1 than sufficient, to detci any attempt at competition. In Austialia, a compaiative teuitoiy might be obtained, by pi hate sale, foi the sum demanded by government for a cabbage yaul heie. and e\ en in this nc-ighbouihood we aie awaie that many of the exchange giants are puichaseable I'iom pii\ate individuals at less than a tenth of the government exaction. What soit of policy then is this? Is tlv* piocl.iinied auction but a mock one 7 Or is it desned to duvc capitalists to olhei colonies vvheie land may be obtained at .1 puce to ) ie)d something like a return'? We cannot fathom the motive. The G A/r 1 it. also contains a confnmation'by the Queen of the " Weights and Mcasuies Ordinance," as v\ell as oi the ■'Oidinance to legulalc (lu 1 appoindiieni and (he duties of Slx'iills in (lie Colony ol Keu Zealand. "' A public Pound lot the town oi Auckland, and the ral|oinmg di.hitt has l>een elected on lols 2 and 3, of section 15, on the west side of Queen sticet. A wooden building on the beach at Russell, belonging to and occupied by Mr. Hugh McLivei, lias been approved as a bonded stoic. The liules and Regulations for the conduct and management of the Auckland Savings Uank have been appioved by his Excellency the Governor. As soon as the noccssaiy pieinmnaiics can be ananged, the Bank will be opened for deposits, agreeably to the Oidinancc. Mi. Alexander Kerr is appointed Accountant to the Auckland Bank. The Supiemc Couit will commence its criminal session on the Ist, and its civil on the 7th of June next.

YlsiilUpay foieuoon, thebaique Ann, SOO lons, Captain S. C. Walker, an nod fiom Belfast, w hence she sailed on the '2 3th Doc. She left the loud on the 7th Januaiy. auived at Table Day, Cape oi Good Hope, on the 12th April, and sailed again on the 17th. She brings a detachment of the Royal New Zealand Fencible Coip:>, compiling Assistant Surgeon R W. Racot, andse\enty-seven men under the command of Captain Hickson, whose lady and family aie amongst her passengers. Theie me, likewise, sixty-six of the pensioner's wives, and one hunched and foity-fhe of their childien, thiily-se\en of whom aie adults. The Ann has not escaped the all pievailing influenza, that trying epidemic having carried ofl' a few \ ictims. The deaths were twelve, and the biiths four. We were gieatly pleased with the general appeal ance of the new comers. The men seem to be hale, heaity, fellows, and with their whes and families likely to prove a valuable accession to our population. They are chiefly fioin the noith of Ireland. The Ann sailed oiiginally fiom London, and in consequence of her having touched the Arklow bank, without damage, on hei passage down the lush Channel, was erroneously repoited to have put hack. She has a variety of government stores on boaid. She conveys no latci European intelligence, but we leain, with infinite plcasuie, that our gieat modern hero, Sir Harry Smith, had proved completely successful in the pacification of Cafi'teland. He had made the tour of the colony in three months. The colonists were in raptures, and a statue in honour of the tiiumphant Viccioy Avas to be elected foithwith. We regret our inability to piocure a Cape paper, 1 he only one on board having been transmitted to our own Governor-in-chief.

When an ingenious pickpocket is detected in his mystery, it is no uncommon expedient, amongst the membeis of that ambidexterous fraternity, to attempt a stale, but '• aitful dodge," vociferously swelling the cry of " stop thief," in the anxious hope of thereby throwing the indignant pmsuers upon a false scent. To such abject alternative is our unhappy contemporary of the Cuo&s 1 educed. Stung to the quick by the exposure his wanton attack upon us provoked, and furious at the merited ca&tigation his discourtesy and his dishonesty deserved, he noAV clumsily attempts to turn the tables, — with lack-a-daisical affectation of injured innocence, " Our contempoiary the New Zea lander, seems anxious to <iuairel with us !" Disclaiming " pugnacity," <md affecting to despise our " pueulities " the while, he writhes* and wiiggles and roars as though we had inhumanly nailed him to the i otten crab tree on which he would fain have crucified us. Now, we beg to assure our contemporary that although we have no desiie to wage war with him, or with any one else, we have unquestionably no intention to bide the blow, and withhold the buffet, ncveitheless, when compelled in self defence to hit out, we shall j do ,->o, not With " ill lcmessed hate,"— -hate,

accoitlinnr io out idea, impljmg (lie prccxislcnu 1 of esteem, — but with as gu-at a. degree of \igour as 0111 " puoiile unfit ness ! foi contest" with tlu 1 Southern Goliah will penult. Our contempoiary denies thai he impugned our nanati\e. because — as he has the egiegious i inipeitinence to [insist — he knew that vie had no means of ascertaining fiom inde])endent I souices, the facts connected with this journey, — (the Go\crnoi's recent northern tour.) — these being disHtercstrdly and exclusively manufactured for himself, whilst ours were " gathered fiom some of the fawning satellites who accompanied his Excellency," into whose trap our compassionate contemporary, with tuily paternal solicitude, regietted we should ha\e fallen. If however, in despite of our conlemporaiy's affectionate objurgations, we shall continue wilfully perverse, and adhere in attaching to our informants a superior degree of cieilibility to one sided declarations, emanating fiom an enraged and libald clique, then^indeed we must he content to he impaled upon the horns of one of tw r o dilemmas, and to be mercilessly gored to death by this mad bull, either as the uttercr or the forger of false notes. But whose are the false notes — our's or our contempoiary's 1 ? Who is the uttercr? — who the foiger ? lie or We ? The public, ho am'ims,wilh his wontedpiesumption,//asdecided the point, — and as a matter of couise, in his fa\oui, but we beg most lespcctfully to remind our contcmpoiaiy, that The Cross is not the public, nor he New Zealand, how em* much he may feel inclined to constitute himself its Polynesian Louis Quatorze. Our contemporary doggedly persists in declaring that Governor Grey's northern tour was undertaken for the express purpose of visiting Heke. Supposing it to have been so, the question then is, in w Inch light does our contemporary dcsiie that \isit to be considered, — as a public or as a diplomatic one ? He has bandied and blended the terms until his brain appears to have become addled, otherwise he ignorantly assumes publicity and diplomacy to be synonymous. If, however, our contemporaiy would only inquire the impoit of wouls ere he hazards their application, he would spaie himself the disgrace of exposure, because he might perchance, be able to disco\cr, that diplomacy is an elaborate science whose fundamental principles are of necessity based on scciecy and address, and that "to be a pei feet diplomatist, in the present state of the world, a man should be w r ell acquainted with the municipal laws of different countries, versed in the sciences from which industry and aits derive their splendour, and a state, its strength, and equal to any of the tasks to which those with whom he is brought into contact might put his learning and sagacity." If then, the Govemoi's \isit to Hhke weie, as the Cross insists, of a diplomatic character, the persevering intrusion of the missionaries sons was not only a piece of intolerable rudeness, but a most unpardonable attempt to stultify the Queen's Envoy in the execution of a delicate and peiplexing duty. The would-be parrallel of the Kaikohe visit and that of her Majesty to Guildhall is utterly ridiculous. Had the London mob been as importunate, or had it been within their power to have " pressed upon the heels of our beloved Queen," in the manner in which those of her deputy were dogged, we know quite sufficient of the spirit of the Royal Victoria, lj feel perfectly assured that the intruders would have infallibly been accommodated, in the compter, w ith the lodging their audacity would have deserved. Our contemporary is outrageously indignant that we should have daied to breathe a spirit of independence and impartiality. This he terms vanity ; and proceeds to censuie us for professing what we did not profess, " consistency," a phrase, coined by himself for the nonce, but not employed by us, because we esteem iindeviating consistency to be an impossibility. It is a fine sounding chimera, much preached but little practised in this world of inconsistency and chauge. Let our contemporary challenge what we do write. He must be a pitiful disputant indeed, who seeks to put words into an antagonist's mouth. We willingly accord him all the advantage he can snatch from a temporary inconsistency in the conduct of the New Zealander, arising from circumstances over which its proprietor had no control. There are blemishes in the fairest picture, and without pretending to that immaculacy, that moral superiority claimed by our infallible contemporary, we fearlessly court investigation of the New Zealander's conduct throughout its entire political career. Whether we shall do oui " best to whitewash His Excellency," — as the Cross elegantly expresses it, — will depend upon circumstances. — One thing is certain, that having no personal spleen to indulge, — no private ends to serve — and no clamorous, petty, clique to pander to, we shall at least endeavour to render justice to his merits, and abstain from hounding his defects with the hydrophobic virulence of our, in that particular, most consistent, contemporary. We duly appreciate the magnanimity of our contemporary's " little friendly advice." We can, he says, " gain nothing by entering into war, and therefore, it would be wisei to keep on the even tenor of our way, and allow him to do the same." Shall we, in gratitude foj, this disinterested counsel apply to our con-

tcmpoinij tin 1 -> national pio\eib," which lie says no sonic lime since mi^appied — Piobably Ik- is in tin 1 light, and il may be"Bettei (o (leech look than fight them ;" uiulcr that impulsion we a\ onltl willingly oblige our contempoiaiy by adoption of this proveib in his on n peculiar favour, did not one of e\en greater authoiity recommend "a rod for the fool's back." Our obligations to the Cross for its c/entlcmaali/ exposition of our multifarious deiiliclions and defects are inexpressible. At a convenient season, we may be tempted to return the compliment. Mean time, were we to credit the unbiassed dicta of our peace preaching monitor, we have deserted the bright field of honour to surrender it to his finer keeping. We have " degenerated into a meic puffing machine of his Excellency until the indignation of the public was aroused and called ins luminaiy once more into existence." Veiy naughty and very knavish all this, if true ; but we rather incline to think that the public, as well as we, could ghe another leading to our offence and its consequent Cross infliction. It is just possible that to our resolute incorruptibility by a small and venemous section, more than our alleged degeneracy, is attributable to the resuscitation of this soi-disant Li'Minary, — (TjUcus a non lucendo?) this preternatural specimen of a moial coipse-candle, to emit, as it were, its baleful gleam upon the face of its own conuption. " It is a wretched thing," says the Latin proverb, '• to depend upon the fame of others." We quarrel not with our contempoiaiy that he eschews such dependence, or that he stiives to build his reputation upon the sandy foundation of his own assertions. Let him exalt his horn and sound his trumpet as loudly as he may, we shall meiely look on admiring spectatois of that peculiar and unexampled modesty which lauds its own meiits and assumes prodigious credit not only " for the good it has (not) done, but for the evil it has prevented." For oui selves we have chosen our course. We abhor and detest controversy, and seek to quarrel with no man, but, if rudely assailed, we shall, we trust, be the last to cry Craven.

Programme. — The following pieces of music will be pel formed by the Band of the sSlh Regiment, on the space of ground opposite the Council Chamber, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, May 18. Overture — Op. — "No-ma 1 ' C. Rapcr. Cay. — "Annaßolina" -Comelnnocento Donizet'i Chorus and March — Op. — "Nine" Verdi "Olga" — or the " Princes Walt z" Julhen Valce and G.ilop— Hallet of "Alma" Costa Quadrille— " Heal Scotch" Jullien