The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1848.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 236, 2 September 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1848.

Vtc just and (car not: Let all tlie'emls thoii aims't at, be thy Country's, '1 by Goo's, aud Truth's.

Amongst a variety of appointments to be Ordinal y Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, we aie happy to observe that her Majesty has been giaciously pleased to include the name of George Grey, Esquire, our own able Governor - in- Chief.

We are in possession, by the Cheerful, which arrived on Wednesday evening, of Sydney journals, to the 17th ultimo, inclusive, and of English intelligence to the 29th of April. The rumoured war, undeitaken by England and fiance, against Austiia and Russia, turns out to be one of those figments for which Port Phillip has already become somewhat celebrated. If she goes on, as she has begun, she may perhaps, in time, lival the news manufactmers of Hamburgh, who, during the late war, were so fertile of questionable intelligence, as to have caused the coinage of an English term, expressive of the value of their information, that term being one now as geneial as it is forcible — Humbug ! War, however, has broken out, and with a great degree of national antipathy ; the belligerents being the Danes and the Holsteiners, the latter aided by the Prussians and Hanoverians. In the first action, the Danes drove the enemy before them at all points, carrying their positions with a spirit worthy their Nelsonic lepute, as " brothers of Englishmen." In another affair, at llendsburg, on the 23rd of April, they appear to have been outnumbered, and to have sustained a reveise. But although infeiior in military array, they possess a compact and well organized fleet, and as their cause is a just one, and as the national

enthusiasm is moused, we trusl"thcy will suffer no national disgiace. We lcjoice lo observe thai English sympathy is with tin 1 gallant Danes, and that English mediation has hecn pioffeicd m settlement of the quarrel. Poland hea\es with patriotic throes. Ilungaiy is calling her thousands to maintain her new-found independence ;— but Russia is not, idle ; although, as yet, she seems lo make no stir. In Lombaidy, the war goes merrily on. Fiom the stand.ud of Radetsky the Italians air fleeing, whilst the Auslia-Germans cling to it with the moie enduring and inveterate constancy. Venice, whilst appealing to the memory of the past, proclaims, at the present, herdeteimination to puisne a policy of defence rather than of offence, hoping that the English—themselves ardent loveis of traditionary greatness — will show sympathy for hers, by a coiuteous salute to her ocean cruizers; and obseive that respect due to a just and independent state, desirous only of preserving its own internal liberties. In the affairs of Spain, Lord Palmerston appears to have taken unwarrantable libertypi of en ing counsel which no minister is justified in forcing upon the consideration of an independent ally. It has consequently been lejected with scorn and indignation — with the lcturn, too, by the Duke of Sotomayor, of the offensive diplomatic note, and a grand einbiogho with Mr. H. L. Bulwer, the Butish envoy. In France, the elections are proceeding '[ quietly. The moderate Republicans will have a large majority, and Lanuutine be chosen by an infinite superiority over all other candidates. But the social prospects are heart-breaking. Poverty and starvation are almost universal. Trade is nearly annihilated. Commcice at a stand still ; and confidence fled. The present is bleak, and the future lowering. In England, Chartism is " scotched," if not " killed"— but distress is nfe— and, if we may believe the public Journals, Parliament is impotent or too indolent to avert, or grapple with measures to remedy it. The Journals, however, are on the aleit. The truths that the intelligent of the colonies have so long been drumming into the English ear, have forced their way at last into the sensoriums of the Press. The remedy for a redundant and starving population, so long apparent to common sense is now becoming clearer to the filmy gaze of British political economists. The Journals have caught the scent— the Times has opened its cry, and thunders away in grand style. Emigration ON A CREAT NATIONAL SCALE IS CERTAIN ! Let the colonists look to it. When the free of Europe are enforcing their social rights, why should the colonies overlook or betray theirs'? Let them agitate, petition, and imploie, till the atrocious land restrictions are withdrawn, and the bounty of God is directed to the benefit of Man. New South Wales has intimated her resolve to be up in denunciation of her infamous land gagging act. Has New Zealand no fetters to cast, or is she too supine to attempt to burst them 1 " There is a tide in the affairs of men." That tide is now a strong flood tide, and we would do w ell to swim with it. Relalh c to Emigration, we shall have much, eie long, to say ; in the meantime, we may simply observe that in Ilamoaze, at Portsmouth, and in the Medway, rot numbers of England's 38, 42, and 40 gun frigates. Let her half man and whole | «rw them: — they will make excellent transport ships, and can convey the people starving for food to these colonies starving for people. — They can, also, debark part of theirgims ; returning armec en flute; and, as they are constructed for war, they maj bring us powder, shot, shells, and all the other munitions of war, of which every Australasiatic Colony is so lamentably deficient. Seamen for the fleet would thus be instructed— Emigration would be less expensive and more National — and Britain would be only doing that which every Briton has a right to expect her to do— Her Duty ! She has, heretofore, converted her cruisers into Irish Provision dioggers. She would do more in permanent relief of misery — ' more in certain aggrandizement of her empire by employing them as colonial transport ships. The state of Ireland continues to be as de- ! plorable as ever. Elsewhere we give an extract relative to the debate on the new Crown 1 and Government Security Bill. During its discussion, Mr. S. OBrien, who was present, on his hopeless return from his French Auxiliary travels, and who took a most lame and impotent part in the debate, crouched beneath the indignant eloquence of Sir George Grey and Sir Robert Peel, and in a snivelling tone deprecated the denunciations he had provoked. Yet this same abject who in the British senate Hung a call's skin on his recreant limbs, an evening or two after, at a soiree at the Dublin Music Hall, donned the lion's hide, and " roared" in all the plenitude of dunghill impertinence. The state prosecutions have commenced. In our next we shall give the | luminous charge of Judge Crampton, together with a succession of deeply interesting and momentous matter. Amidst the depth of the Irish gloom it is, however, consolatory to know that ebullitions ! of loyalty continue to be poured in upon the Viceroy from the influential, the honorable, and the itelhgent of that distracted land. At Sydney, trade was more than dull, and

insolvencies weir, unhappily, on the increase. The Fairum had ai rived al Plymouth, on the Till, in 98 days. She brings a number of the English artisans so recently and so aibitraiily expelled from Prance. A subscription had been raised in England for their lelief, and it Avas highly probable that the entire body would be furnished with means to emigrate to these colonies. J-l. M. ship ITavannaii, 22, Captain J. E. Erskine, also arrived, on the 7th, from Plymouth, Madeiia, and the Cape of Good Hope. She is under fumigation, we are told, but may shoitly be expected here. The AciiKiioN sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Swan lliveronthe 12th of June, and at the date of our intelligence was hourly exj pected at Sydney. We grieve to learn that, during the stay of this vessel at the Cape/ Captain Stokes had the misfortune to lose his lady there — to the great grief of her numerous relatives in New South Wales by whom her ( return was fondly and anxiously anticipated. His Excellency Sir Henry E. F. Young arrived at Adelaide on the Ist. ult, andasi sumed the reins of Government the following day. His own reception and that of Lady Young was of the most cordial and enthusiastic description. His Excellency delivered an eloquent and admirable leply to the congratulations with which he was so rapturously greeted. 1 Captain Young of the 65th Hegt. has been appointed piivate Secretary to His Excellency. Major Ilobe, who has been honoured with a C. 8., was to proceed immediately to the Mauritius, where be has been appointed Deputy Adjutant General to the Poices. He leaves South Australia with the liveliest regard of the Colonists.

Union Bank ok Australia. — We have hecn given to understand that Major Gieenwood has accepted an appointment as Local Director of the Auckland Branch of the ahove Bank.