SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1848.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 224, 22 July 1848, Page 2

SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1848.

Ai a late lioiu. yeslei day afternoon, we weie ["avoided uilh a copy of the London Ti\ii-so( tlio Ist of Waich. containing Ihe Debate of the picMims i ) i £> ' 1 1 , 111 the House of Louis, on t lie New Zealand (Jo\ei nmenf Hill. We have, 1o Ihe exclusion ol olhci mallei, deviled all out available space to the publication of flul debate, in outer diatom icadeis may be put in possession of a discussion so locally iiii'Mesdii". Om comments we must icsei \c. pi I ! Tone, until out next. In die meanwhile, (o lay beloie om subsciilieis the utmost possible of Kiiiopean ,iml South Aliican intelligence, we ha\e bad iccom&e U> a supplemental y sheet.

Fium the GovhiuNMrNr Gazi iik, published jeslciday, we give the following sunuuaiy of notices and pioclamalions. lloi'.i:iir Kki.i.y, Fsq., has been appointed llegisliar Gencial ot Ijuths, Deaths. andA'huuages, for the Piovince of New Uhtei, and Deputy llegistiar of the same (ol the distnct of Auckland. This gentleman is fmlhei noniiiuiled to be Registiar of Deeds foi the county of Kden, The three several appomtments to bear date fiom the 1 3th instant. The loyalty lowed upon mincials,is declared l)y Her Majesty in council, to be reduced fiom fifteen per cent on the value, to one fifteenth portion of the material raised. An act " to amend the acts for reudciing effective the set vice of the Chelsea and Griecnwich Out-Pensioners," is likewise recited. Notice is given of vaiious pre-emption claims having been disallowed, and of compensation being aw aided to Messrs. Polack and Biigham. We u-joice to perceive from a long and inteiesting correspondence, that the public schools at Nelson were effecting much and impoilanl benefit to the clnldien of that settlement. The attendance of .scholars was not only steady, but i no easing so rapidly, that it has been found necessaiy to enlaige the school houses, and to piovide enhanced means of instiuction. This is indeed gratifying. We l egret it should be so strongly in contrast with our educational facilities heie ; but in Auckland, it is an unl'oi lunate fact that the childien ol the operative classes experience the utmost difficulty in selection of a seminaiy suitable to then religious and social requiiements. We trust tiiat to obviate these difficulties, and to promote the mental cultuic of the young, tl c J local government u ill duect an eneigetic and philanthropic consideration. The letuin ioi the quailer ending the 30th Tune, states the total number of nnmigiants to lune been 101),— of emigiants 7.5. From a reiuin of Lie\enue and Kxpcndituie of Auckland, duung the same quaiter, we perceive that the cxpendiliue is m excess of the revenue by the sum of XI, 121 Bs. 2d.; the fbtmci amounting to XI 1,005 19s. Od. — the laltci to XI 0,781 10s. lOd.

Autr a ugorous and protracted struggle! — during which they had to contend against the most obstinate and perverse opposition of their own once pet repiesentative — the inhabitants of Sydney have succeeded in fiocing themselves of a noxious and noisome nuisance, alike disgiaceful to the city and piejudicial to the health of the citizens. The existence of .Slaughter houses within the precincts of Sydney, it is determined .shall cease. The days of those disgusting abominations have been numbcied, and within twelve months, the sights, the sounds, the odouis, and all the long line of pestiferous disoideis of which they aie ihe i'eitile souice will be banished to such a distance as sanitaiy lequhements deshe, and to such a spot as cleanly facilities demand. This enactment js of paramount intpoitatice 1o c\eiy town and city, nithm whose vitiated atmo>pheics numheis aie penned m close and unwholesome contact. The example set at Sydney will, we ti list, be ptomptly followed in Auckland. Amongst stiangeis and visitois our lepulation for cleanliness, is unhappily, at a very low ebb. Tothat unseemly defect a superabundant nioistine opcuiting uptm unibnncd and nmcli tiavclled stieets is, unquehtionably, a material and an mti actable contiibutoi , neveitheless the evidence of oui own senses and the waihngs of numbeiless complanung coirespondents convincingly assuie us that we have other causes of filth not less obstinate but much more contiollable than our ways and our weathei. Of these grievances our epistolary columns have furnished lecent and \exatious examples ; and, we aie credibly infoimed that, at this vciy time, that dangeums soiuge seal let fever, is pie\alent to a painful degiec amongst Ihe young. Attention has aheady been invoked to the existence of several most repulsive and infe&Uious nuisances which call loudly foi supnicssion. In a town such as Auckland wheie the generality of the dwellings are hastily and carelessly constructed; where even the slightest provision for diamage, does not exist ; and wheie a sovereign contempt of ventilation is almost invariably exemplified, it must needs' be that health is moie impeiilled than m cities

v, hiM' 1 I hose beneficial jii'Tnulions .uc eufoicd a:ul uhete. in all piolubihly, these is less mhcienl, morstuir than thai which so fiequent!) soddens the New Zealand soil. It I his be so, as we firmly believe it is, it the )noie nnpeialively behoves the custodians of the public weal to keep a slucl watch upon e\eiy puvale establishment which may in its opeiations he all ended wilh injuiy io the public health. We have not, it is true, to contend with the many and delete! ious sleams übich aye engendeied )>y iiilinik 1 \<n leiy of u'oiksand m ami facto lies , we have still. howe\ei, too many and too foitile soiuees ol complaint to which, as a matter ol public and nnpeiative duty, we would fain diaw the con eel mg eye ol authonty. The honible stale of the numeiousslaughlt'i houses demand a piompf and plenaiy investigation. — Then iillh cneumbcistheeailh and their clllu\ia pollute tin- ail. The redress uhu h the citi/ens of Sydney have compelled is no less coveted by the inhabitants of Auckland, and as olldl houses have ben thrust indignantly from out the purlieus, of the one, A\e tiust they will 01 c long cease to empoison the thoioughfarcs of the otliei. A propos of thoroughfares. We rejoice to perceive that the suggestion of our conespondeut '* Jeienuah Stuck i' the Mud," with lefeience to the '■ louei and business end of Queen Slice!,'' i.> now in com.se of practical adoption, some few loads of metal having been buued m the depths of its countless mny chasms. This is as it should be. On the load mender depaitment we earnestly invoke " more power to their elbows."

OIUMANI-K DKVAUriMKNT. Oil Thllisdoy, a meeting ol the Board of Ordnance, at which His Excellency the Governor-in-chief was present, was convened for the purpose of determining the most commanding position foi whereon to construct a fort in defence of the haibour. No site has yet been decided upon, and ore a niattet of such moment be finally lesolved, we trust that the gentlemen with whom the decision rests will give to the several localities their patient and most searching investigation. We hope they will eschew such mutilations as those which, at Sydney, deform the wi etched isle of Pinchgut, and such cuttings and mannings as those to which Bradley's llead has been so nithiessly subjected. — We tiust they will lteithei copy the \agaiie.s of a Barney, nor imitate the onginalitiei of a Kelsall, but that they will show the woild that Auckland's fust battery was the conception of a competent and practical engineer. — It was dctci mined, at this meeting, that the .Squaie of the Albeit JJai racks should be considerably enlarged, the walls extending towaids Queen Sheet on the one side, and towards the (Joy eminent domain on the other.

Tiik Ku\au Mines. — We ha\e been inloimcd thai that vexuin quatio, the claim of Mos'sis. Whilalcci and ILcalcto a pmtion of llie luidat Kawau has, at length, been finally adjusted — lbs Kxcellency the Govemoi -in-Chief, in obedience to an older from the Secieiary of State, having determined tiiat those gentlemen shall be put in occupation of the land they claim, and 1 hat compensation shall be an aided to the Kawau Mining Company foi the loss accruing to (hem, in consequence of any buildings they may have erected upon the disputed teiiitoty. The Surveyor General has proceeded to the Island, in the Government Schooner, to put Messis. Whilaker and Heale in possession. Wi:slkyvn District Meeting. — Several Missionaries fiom vaiious stations, NoLth and South of Auckland, anived during the course of last week to be present at the Annual District Meeting. The Rev. 11. 11. Turton preached on Sunday morning last and the llev. James Wallace in the evening, a numeious congregation being assembled on both occasions. To-Monow the Llev. John Wlntcly will conduct the morning and the Rev. James liullei the evening seivices.