The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 232, 19 August 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

Lie (list and fear not: Let all tlie'endf. tlimi aiuib't at, be thy Country's, 'Jhv Goo's, antlTiuth's.

~fa AT URDA V, AUGUST 19, 18 48.

From our recent files of London Journals we perceive that on Thursday the 9th of March an Act of Parliament was issued by the Queen's printer in reference to the Government of the New Zealand Islands :—": — " This Act suspends for five yeais so much of 9 and 10 Vic, c. 108, as authorises the constitution and establishment of two separate assemblies within the islands of New J^j-Und, and to the constitution and establishment of a general assembly. The logisLithe tounc.l is levived and authorised to make such laws and ordinances as maybe lequired for the peace, order, and government of Now Zeaknd. Power is given to the gover-nor-in-chief to increase the number of the legislative council ; also, if he ahall think fit, to constitute provincial legislative councils ; also to lfgulate the qualification for burgesses in coipoiate districts. Power is reserved to the ciown to disallow any orders, &c, of the go\einoi. The act to take effect in New Zeafand ten days after it has been proclaimed theie." There can be little doubt, we imagine, that the Dido is the bearer of this Act to His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, \\hos2 return to Auckland it will in all probability expedite

The more diligently we investigate the rise and progress of the existing French Revolution, the more positively do we fear that it will teiminate — ere its destinies he accomplished — like its terrible precursor of the former century. What avails it to dwell upon its piesent Woodless character— its vaunted magnanimity, and pacific protestations % Are these the genuine sentiments of the factious, (and it may have been the bitteily oppressed) sovereign people ? With libe t ty and equality, their fra - temul piecept, do they not, in piactice, indulge the most intolerable despotism and injustice ? Contumacy on the one side, and accidental circumstances on the other, conspiied to elevate the disgrace of rioUnlo the dignity of rebellion, made negative by the success of 1 evolution. A pio visional government follows! Composed of w hat matei ials ? Appioved and experienced statesmen 1 Diplomatists, adepts in duplicity, skilled in device 1 ? — or Soldiers habituated to discipline, trained to command, and fitted to coerce ? No such thing ! The reins me c-nti noted to the guidance of poets and philo&opheis — of litteuiteius and lomancers ! And how have the duties of Government been fulfilled q Manellously, as yet; if we consider the men, and the means they have to work ■withal. It is true that then reputation, in then lebptclive sphcies, has thiovvn its halo around then present aiduous position — but will it last? Will the beautiful imaginings of a mind like LamaifrVs suffice i'oi a people, who, however susceptible to the eflect of .sentiment, have still a sawuinaiy thirst ai'tei poiver 1 Our advices aie yet but young •, but aheady the) bear evidence that internal uissension and exicmal di sn'.i^eUw are tending towards.

a comulsum. Theie have been, and there could l)e, no practical acts of the picscnt pitch foiked authoudes. They ha\e done wisely and well to ciuh excesses. Yet at what a l'lighlful sacufice of health and peace of mi iid — it may be. evcrtually. of life — has {hut i eo-;Vv\e good been ac!ue\ed. To compass it, one demonstration has followed another with lnoie Ilian scenic celeiity —in fact, the existence of the Government has depended upon their slcill in ?ninislcring 1o di&matic effect 0 , their inle having passed in a continued exhibition of the most imposing tableaux vivants. What a fine situation —as Alfred T3unn might term it — that must have been when, m solemn council, in the Hotel de Ville, Gamier Pages clapped the fraternal pistol to the head of Ledru llollin, witli the polite intimation that should he presume, in defiance of the opinion of his provisional brethren, to address the mob, their masters, he would disperse his brains ! What an exquisite exemplification of liberty and equality the summary expulsion of English -workmen, and the dishonest and disgraceful spoliation of their hard-earned wages ! Frenchmen have, from time immemorial, been remarkably dcxteious at such shifts — and the pirse-ji, i is'ance of tV knavery of the nation forcibly lcmiids us of that of one of ils ftigiiioe «i.uiioi;> — iLe lamou 1 ? Capiiaine Lejoille, who having escaped with his ship the Giavheux, seventy-fo.tr, from the battle of the Nile, subsequently foil in with and captured, after six houis close and bloody conflict, the British 50 gun ship Leahot.r-— whose officers ahd crew he scandalously plundered ; and when remonstiated with, anwered in nearly similar* terms, however dissimilar from the sentiments of the high-minded men. now at the helm of Fiance,"! am son y for it, Captain Thompson, bat the fact is, the French are expeii pillagers." With an Executive at the beck of a mob. With a population existing in the dreams of the day. With labourers without employment, and yet, demanding small work and lar^e wages. With an exhausted exchequer and a prostrate commerce — w hat are the projects of Fivince— what thooe of Europe ? As perilous as they are perplexing ! M. Lam uihne is married to an English lady ; and M. Marrast (Mayor of Paris), when in England, in 1834, also united himself to an English lady. A young English journeyman printer, named Geoige Good, was slain in the attack on the post of the Chateau d'Eu, wheie he and seveial other Englishmen fought along with the Frencb people. The hero of the Trafalgar Square Revolution has been sentenced to six months duiance \\ ith haid labour. The clde&i son of Lord Stanley, the Hon. E. H. Stanley, has been defeated in the contest fo.: Lancaster by Mr. R. B. Aimstrong, who was elected by a majority of 1 6 votes.