The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 229, 9 August 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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The inhabitants of Auckland were doomed to expeiience a bitter and an unwarrantable disappointment on Saturday last. It was known that the packets for March and April had arrived at Sydney, prior to the sailing of the Deborah ; consequently, when that vessel entered the harbour oil Saturday afternoon, there was a feverish impatience manifested for the landing of the English mails. The indignation that was evinced when it became known that the Post Office authorities at Sydney had presumed to tiifie with the public convenience of the New Zealand colonists by detaining both wails for a Sydney trader, whose date of depaiture had not even been ascertained, was as general as it was just ; and, we trust it will not he suffered to evaporate without such a public expiession of opinion, as may for the future lead the Postmaster General at Sydney, to pause ere he ventures to tamper with matters of such vital consequence to our coinmci - cial interests. Had the English mails an ived, as they ought to have done, on Saturday, direct answers could have been leturned by the Cn> of Poonaii this day. We have instituted the most diligent inquiries lespecting the pi etext of the Sydney Postmaster for not transmitting the mails, as he was imperatively bound to do, by the first ship ; and we have learnt from Capt. Nagle, that he himself drove out to that gentleman's private residence, to report the Deborah's being on the point of sailing, and to intimate his desire to convey the Auckland mails to their destination. To this, Mr. Raymond gave a prompt negative, stating that he had already decided to send them by the Emma, as it was not the practice with him to confide mails to ■cattle ships. This is mere evasion — a mischievous trifling with time, since a reference to the manifest of the Deborah will shew, that ten horses and twenty beasts, on deck, were the entire live stock of this alleged cattle ship. With what face can Mr. Raymond venture to asseit that he confides no mails to cattle ships, when it is notorious that the Hunter's River Steameis, (which carry the mails), are fiequently very heavily encumbered stock ships. We would suggest to our mercantile community, the propriety of an address to his Excellency Lieut. -Governor Pitt, praying that he would bring the subject under the notice of the Governor of New South Wales, in older that a recurrence of such unjustifiable inter- ' fcrence may be summarily prevented.

The anival of the Deborah (notwithstanding the detention of our English mails) enables us to enter upon a resume of the deeply interesting events which are giving an altered character to the whole of Europe. The spark, enkindled in France, is firing, as we predicted, an extended and widely diversified trair>. In Ireland it has elicited a blaze — as far as words avail — of the wildest and most ■wanton revolution. To speak in their own language, the demagogues of Dublin — amidst the extatic shouts of deluded multitudes — have drawn the sword and thrown away the scabbard ; dating, in unmeasured terms, the dungeons, the scaffolds, and the bayonets of their oppressor, England. The avidity for arms has been encreased in a tenfold degree ; and unheard-of prices have been paid for their acquisition. Rifle clubs, — where weapons are supplied, and their use inculcated, — were springing up in every quarter. Pikes were being manufactured, and every physical accessory to rebellion, — every incentive to its commission were being prepared to the hands and dinned into the heads of that rash and excitable people. Whilst collision, it is to be feared, can scarcely be aveited, it is yet gratifying to know that the movement is (as the Morning Chronicle justly terms it) a popular, not a national one ; and that not only the wealthy and intelligent, but the staunch yeomanry and the sterling peasantry — they who possess a stake and a station in the land — are testifying their loyalty to and rallying round the constituted authorities of the Sovereign. They see clearly that the struggle, if successful, would rob them of all they hold dear. Not only •would they be stripped of their earthly possessions, but, were the anarchists triumphant, a State Religion, — the most intolerable the world ever saw, — would be forced upon the prostrate Irish Protestant, with all the concentrated vengeance of long pent hate. This perception so keen and so correct in 1798, is still as acute in 1848. Half a century has neither impaired the vision — weakened the reasoning faculties — nor withered the physical endurance of the Irish loyalists, who, if driven to extremity, will wield their good swords in the righteous cause quite as manfully, and, we doubt not, quite as triumphantly as their ancestors before them. We have no heart, however, to puisne the harrowing theme, but trust that the bold and uncompromising attitude assumed by Go\ eminent ,the disposition displayed by some of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the loyal Roman Catholic gentry, coupled with a few salutary exomples of wholesome tenor, may

have sufficed to crush the seditious hydra, ere it spiang into the monster shape of positive rebellion. THe next intelligence will be fearfully interesting. Di. Hampden, in defiance of the protests of fouiteen hundred and sixty non-content clergymen, had been duly consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of Landaff, Worcester, and Norwich, to the episcopal see of Hereford. H. M. Ship Havannah, 22 guns, Captain Hemngham, was advertised to receive mails for Sydney and New Zealand on the sth of April. Her arrival here may, theiefore, be shoitly expected. Public feeling ran very high in Sydney, with respect to the approaching city elections, and every precaution was being taken towards the preservation of the public peace. The New Military Barracks were taken possession of by a detachment of the 11th regiment, who marched into them immediately upon their debarkation from Hob art Town.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to the following address to Captain Fitzlloy which lies for signature at the shop of Mr. Williamson, 800 kseller, Shortland Street. The address, it will he perceived, is free from every political tendency and conveys but a complimentary expiession of satisfaction at the vindication by Lord Stanley of Captain FirzUoy's personal character.

"To Robert Fitzßoy, Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, &c, &c. " The landersigned residents in Auckland, and its vicinity, are anxious to express to Captain Fitzßoy the pleasure and the satisfaction which they felt at reading Lord Si-anley's defence of his personal character, as reported in the House of Loids' debates. The expressions of Lord Stanley to which they more particularly allude, are these: that 'although the late Governor was recalled, yet never was there a man influenced by more honourable, more high, and praiseworthy principles than Captain Fiizßoy. He took the government of New Zealand at a great personal loss to himself; by taking it, he sacrificed the position which he had previously held in England. He relinquished much, which few would willingly give up, for the purpose of doing that which he believed would be for the public good.' " They lequest Captain Fitzßoy to accept the assurance of their full coincidence with Lord Stanley's sentiments ; and they request his Loidship to accept their thanks for having spoken them. " While they do not affect to forget that many differences of opinion once existed between themselves and Captain Fitzßoy, which in the heat of political discussion, may have been sometimes expressed in strong terms, they wish him to believe that no feeling of acrimony towards himself has remained ; that he left the colony, having earned and acquired the general regard of the northern settlers and their sincere good wishes for his future prosperity and happiness in life."

Inquest. — Yesterday afternoon a Jury was erapanneled by the coroner, Dr. Davies, at the Caledonian Hotel, Fort Stieet, to inquire into the cause of the death of William Hobbs, a tine young man, late a seaman of the City of Poonah. From the evidence of Capt. Nelson, Henry Morris, a seaman, and Mr. Barr, the surgeon of the ship, it appeared that the deceased, whilst aloft with Morris, loosing the main topsail, had been precipitated on deck. In letting fall the hunt of the sail, Morris observed the deceased leaning over the yard, and laying hold of the buntlines, and cautioned him to hold fast ; to which the deceased replied, " All right." " I let go the topsail," said Morris, " and away he went along with it. He struck the foiebrace, and I saw no moiie of him. He was the only person on the yard besides myself; we were at either side of the tie. It was about nine o'clock in the morning, and he was perfectly sober." Mr. Barr, the surgeon, " was standing at the cuddy door, when he heard a heavy body fall upon the deck. On looking round he perceived William Hobbs to be lying with his back across the cable, and his head on the combings of the hatchway. He was taken into his cabin, and upon examination, it was discovered that the breast bone and several ribs on the right side had been fractured. He was perfectly insensible, and labouring under symptoms of concussion of the brain. I deemed it useless to make any attempt at recovery, as he survived the injuries he received but ten minutes." A verdict of Accidental Death was returned. The coroner's warrant for interment was issued — and he, who, at sunrise, had turned to the duties of life, " gay as a lark," was, ere that sun had set, turned into an insensate clod ! Oh that we were wise — that we would reflect, that "in the midst of life we are in death" — we might then profit by the holy warning— " Be ye also ready !"

Church of England Meeting. — Yesterday, pursuant to adjournment, a meeting of those members of the Church of England, interested in the extension of spiritual aid to the town of Auckland and Archdeacomy of Waitemate, reassembled at the School House in Eden Crescent. The Bishop, having been voted into the chair, his Lordship opened the proceedings of the day with prayer. The minutes of the pevious meeting were then read, and confirmed]

The Committee nominated to collect subscriptions, weic next called upon to present then report • and, in obedience to the call, Mi. FitzGeiald stated that they had, as a matter of courtesy, and of duty, wailed upon his Excellency the Goveinoi-in-Chief, who acquainted them of his intention to augment the stipend to Mr. Churlon, as Colonial Chaplain ; by which means the sum paid by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel would revet to the disposal of the Bishop. His Excellency, further observed, that ho deemed an application to the public, under such circumstances would be unnecessary. Mr. FitzGrerald proceeded to explain that, from what he and his colleagues had been able to ascertain, a very liberal feeling appeared to pervade the minds of the Episcopalians of Auckland, but that their views in subscribing were directed more towards repair of the dilapidated fabric called, by courtesy, the church of Saint Paul, (but which from its disgraceful desolation, in our opinion, might justly be termed a purveyor to the Churchyard) than towards any ulterior and more spiritual views, and in these sentiments, Mr. FitzGerald expressed a congenial reciprocity. A most amicable and Christianlike explanation of differences of conception, not discordance of views, ensued — the result of which was a resolution that subscriptions from the members of the Clnuch of England br> solicited — that they be applied, as far as they could, to th (^spiritual requirements of the town; and the excess, if any, towards maintenance of the Chapelries of the Archdeaconry of Waitemata. As for Saint Paul's, a sum of from between £60 to £70 in hand, and the current receipts derivable from reserved seats were available, and should be dedicated to the rendering air tight a fane at which the Bishop and every other speaker, dealt just though facetious blows. Mr. Berry and Mr. Hallamore having been added to the members of the Committee, the Meeting was adjourned until Tuesday, the sth day of September next.