The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 214, 17 June 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

V,c just and le.ir not: Lift all the ends tliou nuu&'t at, be thy Country's, 'lliy (iou's, and Truth's.

SATU It DAY, JUNE 17. 18 48.

The Louisa, which has been for some time expected, arrived in port yesterday morning, having sailed from Sydney on the Ist instant. We are furnished by this mail with our regular files of Sydney Journals to the 30th, (and by the kindness of Captain Milton, with a Herald of the 31st ultimo), together with English papeis of late date, from whose several columns we have prepared our customary summary. There had been three English anivals at Sydney, namely, the Sir Edward Pauei, P. 0.?., on the 26th May, fiomthe Downs, 11th February ; the Thetis, the following day, with emigrants, (neaily all English) from Falmouth 11th Feb., and the Honduras on the 30th from London the 23rd January. The masters of the two former vessels had London papers to the Bth transmitted u> them, but with a »iost

I unpardonable dism^ml to (lv intn^-i-; of the colonies to whuh they wew consigned, both of these woif \\vi made away \\i(h (he papeis thus conlided, handing them ovei lo the passengeis of homewaid bound ships which they spoke ! somewheie about the equatoi. Tins is aboininal)l( l , as Pailiament was to reassemble on Ihe Hid, and but foi (bis ncfaiious depiivalion we Diin hi piobably haw leaint (be issue of the second, leading of the bill foi our new constitution. 11. M. steam sloop Acurron, sailed foi New Zealand, \ia Madeira. Cape, &c, on the 17lb .lanuaiy, and, on the 20th of the same month, the Inconspani, 30, sailed from Plymouth, for Rio de Janeno and this colony. The Uavannaii, 22, Captain MnuiiNoiiAM, (1837), a razeed 42 gun frigate of 961 lons, was fitting i'oi this station, at Sheeniess, and, as she was entering her hands \ery fast, war, expected to be ready for sea about the 25th of Fe binary. Captain Herri ngium is an old and a gallant officer, haung l)cen wounded in the Colossus, of. which ship he was a midshipman, at the gloiious victory of Trafalgar. He was, also, a lieutenant of the little Java, when captured, after a brilliant defence, by the stupendous American frigate Constitution. Whilst thus skirting, as it wore, naval affairs, we may as -well mention, that the Timks has a long article on the picsent condition and efficiency of that right aim of England's might, of which the details are most satisfactory, the navy pioving in most admiiablc woikmg condition, the .steam works added to the dockyaids m a most foiwaid state, the ports all being well fortified, and their approaches guarded by heavy batteries. There were 233 vessels of all rates and classes in commission on the Ist February, 88 of which w ere steamers. A yet further augmentation of the army is said'to be determined on. Independent of the artillery increase already announced, the following is to take place ; each company of the guaids 20 men, each coips of cavalry 80 men, ; and every infantry regiment on home service, to 1000 rank and file. By this anangement no increase of officcis is contemplated; but, according to the Dublin Evening Mail, it is generally rumouied that the Lieutenant's pay is to be laised fiom 6s. 6d. to Bs. 6d., and that of the Ensign fiom ss. 3d. to 7s. 6d. per diem. The invasion 'larum bell is still lung; more faintly perhaps, on the British shore, but with increased vigour on the opposite coast. The English peal is looked upon as no " weak invention of the enemy," by the French journalists, the Prksse roundly insisting, that it is an " artful dodge " of the Britannic Ajax, (thus, although, we should ha\c deemed, for a wily move, Ulysses, a type more congenial,) the veteran of Waterloo, who by ternfying John Bull into bustling energy because of imaginary defensive weakness, hopes at the same time to lull .lackey Crapaud into false security by a coriesponding but overweening impression of his own superior aggicssive efficiency. Having discoveied this notable mares-nest, the Parisian editor proceeds to make the most of it, and launches foith into a strain of grandiloquent twaddle, '' signifying nothing." Whilst the major powers of Europe are thus heaving with mighty throes in avertence of any disturbance of the public peace, the minor are buzzing around, some of them singeing theii wings against, the torch of war. Sicily is in open and, as yet, successful revolt against Neapolitan oppiession. This is no racie outburst of serf against seigneur, but a generous struggle, headed by a patriotic nobility, encomaged by an enthusiastic clergy, and earnestly responded to by a determined population. The guns discharged in salutation of His Neapolitan Majesty's birth day spoke the signal of insurrection. The regular troops were driven into the various strongholds of Palermo where they continued to maintain themselves, having been reinforced by nine vessels of war, and 5,000 additional jnen. A bombaidment ensued, which,^after a fire of eight and foity hours 1 , was suspended through the energetic remonstrances of the foreign consuls who appear to have incurred no inconsiderable personal hazaid whilst enforcing their praisewoithy mediation. A provisional government has been established, at the head of which have been placed Prince Pantellaria, Marquis de Rudini, Maiquis de Spedallotto, and Major General Don Kuggeio Scttino, an able man, possessing great populauty. At a little town, called Montieal, two leagues fiom Palcimo, the Benedictine Monks made a successful appeal to arms, having summoned and taken captive the garrison of the place. Piobably an alleged leaning of the soldiery to the popular cause rendered the tiiumph of these church militants less perilous. Aroused by the hazardous state of affairs, the King published an amnesty for political offences, and tried the effect of royal promises, which bis Majesty's Lieutenant, the Duke be Majo, benevolently urged. These however, Spedallotio, in a most un-Osiuc-like vein, stigmatized as "somesteiile propositions," — and in consequence, the patiiots demand entire independence, in conformity with the constitution possessed by the country for many centuries, and reformed in 1812, undei the influence of England, and confirmed by royal deciee of Uth December, 1816. Whilst Ferdinand the 2nd finds his island sovereignty thus " making itself air," his terra firma subjects of Naples appear tv gou-

' snU'i thr chance 100 good a one to ho lost, not to attempt adhoision in thru own f;i\om, and although out hod hy tho piosence of :}.'),()()() 1 loops, they could not u-fiaiii fiom giving a specimen of their tonipci hy loudly hooting tho Lord's anointed, in the theatre of San Cailo, and in the presence of 300 of hi<* police. Uullics too frequently have hackers, and Austna that rotten prop of all tyrannic legitimacy, would fain have sped to the rescue, but, to do so, the Pontifical lenitory must he cio.ssed, and Pius the Ninth said no ! Metternich would ha\e had recourse to force, but, luckily, for the fust time, he was in a minority in his linpui ial mastei's councils, and, so, tin* chances are that this second Feidinand will he allowed the honor of a fair field and no favor ! The bold fiont assumed hy Chailes Albeit of. Sardinia — the determined attitude of the Pope — and a hioad hint tin own out by the Swiss Government of a detei initiation to resent any attempt of other powers to coerce it, by marching 20,000 men into Lombardy, aie said to have been no trifling considerations in anesting the interference of the Viennese. Whatever the cause, we can only congratulate Europe on, the lesult. We may conclude our Continental remarks hy stating, that the political aspect of Spam was as dark and as impracticable as at any penod dm ing the last do/en ycais — that ChuMJan tho Eighth of Denmaik is dead, and succeeded by his son, Fiedeiick the Se\enth — and that the King and the Queen of tho Belgians are on a visit to our own giacious Sovereign, who is in speedy expectation of another interesting event. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury is dangerously ill, and not likely to recover. The attempt to procure a mandamus from the Queen's Bench, on the Ist February, dilecting the Archbishop to enquiie into the charges made against Dr. Ilampdcn, before consecrating him to the office of bishop, had failed, two of the Judges (Lord Chief Justice Denman and Mr, Justice Eilc) being of opinion that the writ could not issue, and two (Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Coleridge) being of a contiaiy opinion. Where the Court is equally divided, no rule can issue, so that the decision was, piactically, a lefusal to issue the writ. In the necrological list we find the names of ihe Countess of Be\erley, the Earl of Moiay, Generals Lambeit, Vincent, Maitland, and M'Lame. Loid Falkland has been appointed Governor of Bombay, and Major-General Bell Lieut. -Governor of Guernsey. Trade was leviving — Consols ranged rather above 89 — Money could be borrowed at 3, and the Bank had lcduced its rate of discount to 1 per cent. The disaiming process was in full opeiatiort in Ireland, but not, on the whole with vciy obvious success. Poveity, privation, and death continued to desolate that unhappy countiy. The tiials by the Special Commission Aveie pioceeding in tbe counties of Clare and Tipperary, and numerous capital convictions had taken place. In Sydney the main topic of the day was the death and funeral of that excellent old man, Lieut. -General Sir Maurice o 'Council, the fatal' termination of whose disoider we, iccently and regretfully, ventured to predict. The Legislative Council did him the last melancholy honour by adjournment on the day of his decease, and the whole colony civil and military appear to have paid every possible respect to his obsequies — a full account of which will be found elsew r here. The Queen's Biith Day seems to have been a disconsolate one, and the Homebush Races have not been permitted to pass without a painful tragedy — one gentleman being killed by the upsetting of the " Age" coach and se\cial others frightfully mutilated. A most disgraceful violation of the Lair, not uncommon in the annals of Sydney mobociacy, occurred on the night of Her Majesty's Birthday. Certain squib and cracker burnei.* having been consigned to St. James' Watchhouse, an Australian gathering ensued — the Watch-house was stormed — the Police well beaten — and the prisoners set at large ! The home market for wool and tallow were both looking up, and with them the hopes of the depressed settlers. The Sydney Chronicle intimates its decease in its late foim, but states its intention ieappear, on Saturday, the 3rd inst., in a new and enlarged shape, as a weekly Journal. The brig William Hiix, and schooner Cheerful, were the only vessels advertised for Auckland.