SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1848

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 240, 16 September 1848, Page 2

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1848

"By Hie Sistfrs, which arrived on Wednesday jmeinoou, we have intelligence ffom I J oiL Ficholson to the 2nd instant ; and files of the fckr/vrvjoß and Independent from the middle of June to that date. Their contents are meagre of local matter. Our Southern GVitempoicuies, appear to he mere political Pagiisinw. They play but one .string ; winch, unlike thai of the gifted Italian, di?,cotu i ;es h.'usic, eloquent to then

Since writing the above, we learn by the Fisherman, armed at Manakau, that, whilst that ves&el lay wind-bound at Kapiti, intelli-

pence had boon iccehwl, by the whale- bouts, of Ims Kvcdlency ihe (jlovernor-in-Cluef Jiavmg been at OLiki, on the (itli instant, whoie he had an intenicw with llangihaeU. On tlio 9th he passed on horseback thiough Waikanc loAv.xuls Wellington.

By the Sisiius, ami, subsequent!) , by the Fann^ "Fishier, no have received intelligence from Van Dumuimi's Land to the 2nd instant. Theie is little of domestic interest. Comicts and Exiles appear to be overrunning the land, and the Gomnoi seems still as much at issue as ever with the colonists. 7V magnificent faieuell ball Tins given in the Theatre to the 06th llegt. The Colonial Secretary presided at the suppei which followed. Speeches weie /lush and fluent. Col. Cumberland was qi ke pathetic about quitting "dear Hobari Town," whilst Colonel Despaid detlaied that a spread so supcib would pi o^e a poweiful incentive to the good behaviour of himself and coips, in the hope that when their turn came they might be similarly regaled. The news fiom Europe is to the 21st of May, and most important. In France they have arrived but at the beginning of the end. Matters, we fear, will be worse eie they get better. In England distress is life. Emigration is looked to as the only valid means of relief, and we are credibly inibimed that New Zealand will come in for a fair share of the stream. Go\cmment, it is said, were about to apply to Parliament for a loan of a million for Emigration pm poses. In Ireland, the Crown prosecutions had failed, but Mr. Mitchel was suddenly arrested, and committed to lake his tiial under Sn George Grey's new act. The offence, with which he stands charged, is having written a treasonable letter to the Piofeslant farmers of the North, Mr. Milchel is the son of the late Rev. John Mitchel, Piesbyterian Clergyman of Newiy, and inteunarried with a niece of Sir William Vemer, Bait., M.P. for Co. Armagh.

The Draught Horses sold on Wednesday last by Mr. Joseph, realized an a\erage puce of £37 each.