The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 260, 25 November 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

Re lust and fear not: Let ai! the ends thou aims't at, be thy Covmtry's, 'lh\ (ion's, ami I'mtlr*.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 5, 1846.

Tub i beautiful clipper brig Phantom, (built after the model of the famed sla^e cruiser, Black Joke,) came into harbour, m gallant style, on Thuisday after nooii, after a passage -f twelve days fiom Sydney. We aie, thus, ,mt in possession of our usual files of Colonial, togethei with a batch of London journals • — and, through the courtesy of Captain Fox, we Ivxst been fa\oured with a Sydney Herald of the date of his departure — the 11th .instant. The ship Emperor, with two hundred and seAenty -seven English immigrants, from Plymouth, the 24th July, ai rived at Sydney, on the Ith instant. The intelligence she conveys is of a lamentable description, leaving, we feai, scarce a doubt that the demagogues of Ireland, have, eie this, plunged that unhappy land into all the misenes of a civil and internecine war. Treason in speech was rapidly approaching to Treason in act. Club confederations — Drillings — Armings — were progressing with marvellous lapidity — and, in older to anticipate, and, if possible, to crush lebelhon in the bud, the most enetgetic measures had been adopted by the Irish Government ; Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Drogheda, and many other cities and counties had been proclaimed -.-f-and not one moment too soon ; since the Dublin Evening Herald of Thuisday, the 20th of July, asserts that 20,000 stand of the discarded Tower flint muskets had been purchased in London, and

were arriving, in batches, in Dublin. The manufacture of pikes was in a state of unexampled activity. Duffy and Martin had been committed to take their trial for felony — Meagher for sedition — and, upon their conviction, the signal for rebellion was to be sounded. The Habeas Corpus act was about to be suspended. The army was being materially augmented, and every indication of vigour is perceptible in the means adopted to crush the" outbreak, which will, no'doubt, prove a savage and a sanguinary one ; as every diabolical method has been resoited to, to inflame the passions, and every craven expedient — which a dread of the nation they seek to drive to extremity — for the destruction of the soldiery they must resist, has been devised. Dr. Murray, and many of the Irish Roman Catholic prelates have warned their flocks against joining the clubs, but when we perceive one priest admonished by his flock for not leading, instead of deprecating their presence at treasonous assemblies — and when we observe otheis encouraging and blessing them for perseverance in the good cause, it must he plain that Bishop Murray's warnings are all " too late." It is well, perhaps, that matters should thus be foiced to a point. The decision of the Government will, no doubt, animate and reassure the friends of order, and demonstrate whether the nation has to cope with a people or the brawling bullies of a noisy though numerous clique. It will cut the knot of many a Gordian difficulty — a knot which has become complicated by toleration, but which sooner or later must of sheer necessity have been severed. It will prove whether mob valour dare confront disciplined courage. In fact, it will solve an enigma which has too long disturbed the peace and propriety of the Empire. If the remedy required be sharp, God grant it may prove shoit. We rejoice to observe that the loyal men of the Noith are still staunch; and that "No Surrender" will ever tarnish their oft tried fidelity. The 12th of July was celebrated with unusual animation. Under ordinary circumstances, we should delight in the abstinence from party processions , but, at a moment like this, they are omens of grateful and welcome promise. In England, trade was improving. Commercial distress had passed its culmen, and, but for the fearful condition of the sister isle, the prosperity of the country might be deemed to be reassured. The Chai List leaders weie convicted, and rewarded with two years and lesser periods of imprisonment. On the sales of wool, a " decided improvement " is stated to have taken place, and Australian tallow, we are glad to perceive, was firm, and in demand, at 445. 6d. per cwt. Mi. Hume's motion for further Parliamentary reform, was negatived by a majority of 351 to 84. A suspicious squadron of fourteen large ships of war, had been seen off Gozo, an island close to Malta; at the back of which island, the French war steamer, Monette, was reported to have been observed sounding. That nnpoitant place, acquired with so much gallantry, and, since fortified with so much cost and skill, was put on the gui vive. The Admiral had i.ssued the most energetic ordeis. The fleet was kept prepared for any emergency ; ciad eveiy measuie concerted to guard against surpiise. When we state that the siloes contain two years piovision, we think there can be no reasonable fears for such a fortress possessed by the mistress of the sea. The French, it seems aie negociating with the Sicilians, for permission to establish a steam depot in some of their ports. We may, perhaps, as well remark, that a Russian squadron of fourteen or fifteen sail, having obtained leave to pass the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean, the fleet descried oft Gozo, may have been quite as likely to ha\e been Russian as French. France was still in an unhappy state. Outbreak, it is true, had been quelled ; but, the country was beginning to perceive with uneasiness, that quiet hail been purchased at the price of a Military dictatorship. The Pope and his parliament had fallen out; and his Holiness was alleged to entertain like political sentiments as those of the Royal Assassin of Naples. The march of a French army on Italy, in suppoit of the liberals, was therefore deemed probable — especially as Charles Albert was no match for the Austiians, unless in talk. His Prussian Majesty had failed in his great ambition ; the Archduke John having been appointed Regent of Austria and Administrator of the German Empire. His Highness is a man of intelligence and popularity. The Danes continue manfully to assert their rights, m the quarrel into which they have been forced by certain of the German States. The Count de Miraflor and Senor Isturitz, entered Madrid, at the moment the last of the British legation were leaving. Cabrera reappeated in Spain on the 20th of June, followed by his Aides-de-Camp, a numerous | staff, and an escort of cavalry. He issued an ! animated manifesto, in the name of Charles J the Sixth. He was joined by Boquica with a ' thousand soldiers. His party were full of en- ! thusiasm ; and the moment was deemed auspicious because of the political despotism of Narvaez — the confiscation of all liberties — the financial rum of the country — the quarrel j with England — and the indifference of republican France -. — neither of which powers will now lend ships, money, or men. [

Intelligence from India to the 4th of Julyhad ,beeh received in Sydney. The Moolraj's army had risked an engagement, in which, after nine hours fighting, they weie completely broken, flying heller skelter, and leaving their guns, and other trophies, in the hands of the victors. We have purposely condensed our own observations, in order lo afford as much space as possible for the interesting exliacts which we give in our pages of this day.

By the schooner " Mary's," arrived on Thursday, from Launceston, we have seen copies of the " Examiner" to the 25th ult, and have received the " Hobai't Town Couiiei" to the same date. The Tasmanian Nominee Council was in full session, and affording his Excellency Sir William Dennison a congenial opportunity of astounding the Colonists with the profundity of his intellect, the immensity of his liberality, and the undeviating astuteness of his consistency. It is disgusting to wade through the details of this colonial make-believe of legislation. Well may the " Examiner" denounce it "as this most contemptible of bocuds." We should be inclined to pionounco it something woise -. — to stigmatise it, as a species of political fraud — as a sort of crape-faced buiglar stupping the colonists of their rights of representation, and, through its present magnanimous president, striving to preclude its puppet members their little libeity of speech. Van Diemen's Land is, probably, the most infamously used of all the ill -used British colonies. She has been ground and goaded to the extremest pitch of endurance. She has been crushed from without. Hurled from the I prosperity she had compassed from within. Defiled — degraded — ruined ! Rendered the Imperial and Colonial convict sink ! We feel heart sick when we recal her wrongs. — They are legion. — Her colonists, according to (he report of the committee on colonial expenditure, " pay for keeping the convict population in order — they pay for prosecuting them — they pay for the support of catechists and ministers of religion — they pay for the suppoit of the aboriginal natives — they pay for the judges and officers of all courts — they pay for the expense of surveying and measuring crown lands," | The papers before us are full of voluminous despatches from the agent in London, Mr. J. A. Jackson, who continues to devote himself to the Colonial interests, with a zeal and intelligence worthy of the confidence so strongly reposed in him. Launceston had been visited with a terrible fire, which broke out on the premises of Mr. S. Solomon. Five shops and dwellings, with the stock in trade, and furniture, weie consumed. Some of the unfortunates have lost their all, but, fortunately no life has been sacrificed. Upwards of £4000 worth of property was burnt, the half of which only was insured. A meeting had been held by the Coroner, in accordance with a neglected custom, to inquire into the cause : — which appears to have been from the snuff of a lamp, (left incautiously without a shade,) having fallen upon and iguited certain articles of haberdashery. We lament also to perceive, that " the residence of Michael Fenton, Esq., M. L. C, Fenton Forest, was totally destioyed by fire. Captain Fenton's valuable library, together with other property, is entirely lost. It is j said that the fire was purely accidental, and caused by a foul chimney. Mrs. Burgess, the wife of the Chief Police Magistiate, was on J a visit to Mrs. Fenton when it occiured. The only aiticles preserved were the plate and bedding. No portion of the property is I insured."

Native Advancement. — A sample of flour, from wheat native grown, and native ground, at the Mill, at Rangiawhia, erected by Mr. M'Mullan, near the Rev. Mr. Morgan's station, and of which we have already made favourable mention, now lies at our office. It is a most creditable specimen of a shipment of 1359 lbs., which was brought by the native owners to Onehunga, from Waikato, on the 20th instant, and which fetched 13s. per 100 lbsr, being but one shilling per hundred less than the best Tasmanian. It is a matter of unqualified pleasure to be enabled thus to chronicle the honest and the honourable fruits of native industry. It is a source of the truest gratulation to themselves and to us ; and we trust, year by year, to be called upon to make many similar announcements of their progress in the social and serviceable arts. The sample is a very excellent one, and we shall be most happy to submit it to the inspection of all who take an interest in the advancement of the Maori race

Cattle Sale. — Mr. Hyam Joseph's sale of cattle and horses, by the " Elizabeth and Henry," proved a satisfactory one. The beasts were in good order, and the prices obtained commensurate with the quality of the animals. 32 bullocks fetched £7 10s. each ; 34 steers, £4 65.; 11 cows,- £5 12s. 6d; 36 heifers, £3 12s. 6d. ; 22 yearlings, £2 10s. 6d. Of 30 horses, 5 realised £40 each j 1, £39 ; 1,£37: the lowest figure was £13, and the average of the whole above £24,