The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 231, 16 August 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

lie lust and feai not: Let all tlie'eiids thoii aiins't at, be thy Country's, Tliv God's, and Truth's.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 18 48.

The long expected Emma has come at last. She ai rived on Sunday morning (having been nearly a week becalmed off the North Cape) , bringing the English Mails for March and April, and Sydney Journals Lo the 26th ult. We have, alieady — through the medium of waifs and strays, in the shape of an odd newspaper obtained heie and there — anticipated the gist of the passing European events ; w e can therefore merely now consolidate our structure by the fillings in ■which the receipt of our legular files enable us to accomplish. For these we refer to another page. The rebuff, given by Lamartine, to the deputation of the Irish Confederation would have the effect, it was hoped, of cooling the rampant desire of martyrdom expressed by the Doiieny gang of patriots. Whilst, however, the high and nobleminded of the Provisional Governmeut cherish sentiments of peace and, good will, it is but too clear that the scum of the revolution indulge in aspirations of a very different kind. They seem to assume an attitude of self-sufficient audacity, — arrogating to themselves a soit of right to be considered the European lion of the ] lorn> — the steam, as it were, wherewith the mighty engine of the old world must be moved, inmerthrow of all established order. Upon the Italian, the German, and the other Continental revolts the Parisian canaille appear complacently to gloat ; much after the fashion of the riblad sire who pats, with ruffian glee, the head of his pert and prurient child. But upon England they continue to cast an evil eye. Her immobility, whilst all around is shaken to the centre, is a subject fruitful alike of envy and revenge, and may eventually — as we have already ventuied to surmise — lead to a recurrence of national hostility, such as formerly aimed a Voutrance England and France against each other. Already — if we may credit the statements put forth— the heart of the Piovisional Government is diseased — its life's blood circulates through disordered veins, and a sad moral rupturq is to be feared. The General Assembly, say the Moderes, will find a panacea for all state evils, whilst the Exultes, with a smirk and a shrug, anticipate the continued domination of the sovereign people in all the plenitude of impracticable power. The people of the provinces, meanwhile, are becoming opposed to the despotism of Paris, and are beginning to discuss the propriety of marching upon that city and reducing it to reason. The " organization of labour," and the disoiganization of every civil institution, are problems more difficult of solution, -than the riddle of the Sphynx, and are working their way upon the souls and bodies of the Ministers. As the Spectator, most felicitousiy remarks — " The paramount and appalling difficulty, the immediate deficiency of employment, appears without solution. The theoretical movement helps the practical difficulty ; by iucreasing the general unsettlement. The ' competitive system,' is taking revenge of its censors, by witholding its employments. It looks as if labour would sit down to legislate for itself in hungry idleness." When y e add that the Bank suspends cash payments — that great commercial firms stop — others wind up — capitalists emigrate — and national bankruptcy impends — we think we have a perfect picture of the glorious effects of revolution. We fear that we have got but to the begining of the end, unless, indeed, a war against the continental oligarchy shall find food for the cannon and vent for the hot blood of France. Whilst revolution ravages the continent — •whilst sedition is rife in Ireland — whilst Chartism would fain attempt to uprear its hateful head in England, it is delightful to know, that not only they who have a stake in the land and the funds of the country, but even its very day laboureis have come manfully forward, to tender their service in defence of the most rational system of liberty ever devised by human wit, by human integrity. The infamous attempt to disturb the public peace of England, had, elicited a glorious damonstration of devotion to its matchless constitution. Two thousand five hundred London .coal whippershadunanimously volunteered their services to protect the public peace. Manchester proffered ten, and Glasgow twenty thousand special constables, for the like holy purpose. Liverpool, if necessary, would contribute a similar force ; and the most uncompromising determination in suppression of incendiary outbreak, animated the great body of the English nation. With respect to the incipient Irish treason, a powerful cathartic, judiciously administered, and a little phlebotomy, sharply applied, would produce a wondrously sedative effect upon the overgorged organs of that diseased body. In removing a pestilent gangrene it is good practice to cut a little beyond the sore. Our readers will perceive with pleasure, that a New Sedition Bill calculated to impart strength and vitality to the arm of the Irish Viceroy, and to enable him to curb the language used in the frantic hope of sub-

veiting the National institutions " under which the people enjoy mote constitutional liberty than any people in the world," was likely to be passed. No ruler was ever more geneially and more deservedly esteemed than the present able and eneigetic Viceroy. No Lieutenant of the Queen ever found himself more strenuously supported. All who have aught to lose confide in him. The protestants of "the North are with him to a man — and all reflecting Catholics, prelate, priest, or layman, repose with confidence on his justice and sagacity. It will he perceived, that leave to introduce the bill in question was given to Sir George Grey, after some petty opposition from Messrs. John O'Connell, Feargus O'Connor, Wakley, and others, by a plurality of two hundred and eighty three voices against twenty four ! We have no confirmation of the war which was said to have heen declared by England and France against Austria and Russia, although English intelligence had been received, at Port Phillip, to the 13th of April. Nevertheless, the collision which had taken place between the troops of the Italian States and those of Austria rendered such an event — the manifestoes of England and France considered — extremely probable. A few days more will set the matter at rest. We observe, by the Sydney Herald of the 25th ult., that H. M. Ship Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, (not Herringham) had sailed from Poitsmouth for Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, and Sydney, on the 6th of April. If this paragraph be correctly quoted it would look as if the Havannah were destined for the Sydney station. At all events, if commanded by Captain Erskine, she will not be our senior ship, Captain Erskine having attained Postrank seventeen months subsequently to Capt. Maxwell. There' was little news stirring in Sydney. — Trade was excessively dull, and both the commercial and pastoral interests in a state of unwholesome depression. The excitement preparatory to a hotly contested election, gave a life-like energy, the antipodes of the actual condition of the inhabitants. There was a good deal of uneasiness felt, the native and the Irish party indulging a rancorous animosity towards each other ; the consequence was the apprehension of something very like a faction fight on a large scale. The number of paid Special constables had been augmented from sixty to two hundred, and the Superintendent of Police had issued an invitation to " all respectable householders and residents to enrol themselves for" the preservation of peace." The nomination of three opposing candidates for the representation of Paramatta, took place under feelings of much excitement on the 25th. The show of hands was in favor of Mr. George Oakes, but a poll was demanded by Mr. W. Macarthur. Some seats are contested by four and five candidates. Others are going a begging ; and at Port Phillip, on the day of nomination, but one member, Mr. J. L. Forster, was proposed, only to be induced to withdraw; the constituency of the about-to-be-independent province of Victori\ having determined to send deputies no longer to the Councils of Australia Proper, whose domination they denounce and whose jurisdiction they detest. In concluding this great Electoral farce, Mr. Curr " congratulated the electors on the greatest act of public justice which he had ever seen : in the present case every man was willing to give up the object of his own ambition," and his ambition in favour of his friend ; every man had nobly done his duty." " Gentlemen electors," said the Returning officer " have you any other candidate to propose in obedience to the writ?" " None ! None ! None !" was vociferated on all sides, and thus, having, in the language of the playwright, formed a tableau, amid cheers for Port Phillip, the curtain falls. We give the following —

From Our Own Correspondent. The Election is coming on, but, there are few offers to stand. I fully expect that some Counties and Boroughs will go a begging ;—; — indeed, I feel confident of being solicited to permit myself to be put in nomination for some half dozen seats, guaranteeing me free from all expense. If elected by two or three constituencies — as I firmly believe I shall be — I shall, of course, give the preference to the Metropolitans. Chameleon Lowe is in a like fix. He wooes the " dear charmers" of Auckland and St. Vincent, but has not the heart to be deaf to the blandishments of the Syrens of Sydney. He has denounced, as incompetent, bully Went•vvorth and "one ideaed" Bland-. — the first,because of his utter selfishness of political vision; the latter, because of his monomariacal "crotchets" on the question of emigration. Lowe is the admired of all admirers : just as much as Old Nick would be Avere he to pop amongst us with ready made orations in favour of virtue! Generally speaking the colony is dull. It is not exactly going down, but it is standing still. The people ate not m heart. Every body is poor— from the Merchant and Grazier to the Labourer. The labourer, it is true, gets plenty of food aud tolerable raiment ; but that is all. He enjoys an elysium compared with the British poor— But what is that 1 The Squatters feel themselves to be on a precipice, and I am afraid feel correctly ; — their shepherds are devouring their capital; — the

consequence is that .wool is deteriorating. — They cannot afford to take care of and.improve this long standing staple. Convicts, in the disguise of Exiles, are arriving. We shall not do well until we have plenty of incomers, in equal proportions as to sexes. The Squatting question, I think, will end rightly — i. c. as I, humbly, call right — but, perhaps, it will be a couple of years first. Ad interim, we shall, both politically, and as farmers and traders, be in an uncomfortable, unprosperous, transition state. Our Market is overloaded with goods, many kinds of which are selling below the imported cost. The last twelve months all purchases made in Sydney, have been followed by a steady fall (monthly, and gradually, and evenly) in prices. Hence nobody has sold for profits sufficient to make them prosperous. — Many are breaking. Sir Charles, poor gentleman, has not yet got the better of Lady Mary's death. Some consider him to be too good natured and deficient of talent. This, in my opinion, is just what we want, because we have in our Council, and in our society in general, ample ability and abundance of ill nature. We do not desire a Viceroy, all head \— we require the reign of a heart for a season. For nob work we can furnish ample materials, especially those of a knavish quality. lam therefore, an ardent admirer of Sir Charles. He has more than sufficient comiuon sense — no inconsiderable share of Colonial experience, and with a Deas by his side, there can never be any lack of judgment. ,

In consequence of the Northerly gale, which set in so strongly yesterday morning, the Mails for Sydney by the Deborah and Kingston will not be closed, until this day at noon.

H. M. Ship Dido, with despatches for his Excellency the G-ovemor-in-Chief, is expected (wind ,and weather permitting) to sail for Wellington at daybreak this morning.

We are happy to observe that the address to Captain Fitzßoy has already assumed a practical shape by the appendage of numerous respectable signatures. A copy, we hear, hasj been forwarded to Russell, where we doubt not,' it will be equally well subscribed. , t i