The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 263, 6 December 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

f'.e iust and fear not; Let all tlu- cuiK thou aiuib't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, iuu\ Truth's. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1848. We had a positive glut of news on Monday. — Fiom London to the lOlh August ; from Sydney to the 22nd ultimo, by the Deuoraii. Im om Welli'igion to the 22nd and from Nelson Jo the illl), by the Eliza. From llobait Toun, to the Hth, by the John Bull; and from the same place, to the 22nd, by the Adelaide. From England, the principal intelligence is the disconccited Irish revolt which appears to J have caused a comparatively trifling sensation, j and to have had no effect upon trade, still on the improving track. 11. M. steam sloop Scourge, with Mitchel on board, arrived at Eeimuda on the 20th of June. Wool was slightly on the advance. A motion for Vote by Ballot had been carried in the Commons by a surprise, S6 voting for and 81 against the measure. Steam, according to the Times, was likely to be extended, via Sincapore, to Australia. An Australian Railway Company had put forth a prospectus in London. France was quiescent. The Danes and Germans still contended. Charles Albert liad been out-generalled and out-numbered by Austria, and Italian affairs were in a deplorable state of retrocession, France had been implored to assist, and, in reply, offered her mediation with that of England. Sir William AJohsworlh had made a noble stand in behalf of the Colonies, to which we shall, in due time, ad\eit. We need only, meanwhile, observe that his expositions have dealt another home thrust at the vile Colonial Office system, the ft u its of which, as the Sydney Herald justly remarks, are immediately discernible in a " golden despatch" ameliorative of the Constitution of New South Wales, and conciliatory of Colonial lights. In the Southern Province earthquakes and their consequent terrors had subsided. The cditoi of the Wellington Independent, whose blanderswe weie iccentlycompelled to expose, — finding that the Northern Province and the whole islands of the Pacific had not been overthrown, now vents his spleen against this settlement in the following strain of pitiful mendacity :—: — tty private letters received from Auckland, per overland mail, we have received intelligence to the 2!ird October. Shocks of Earthquake had not been experienced there, but we rogret to state that the inhabitants weie more or less afflicted with fever.— Many were leaving the settlement, and the site of the Capital was considered peculiarly unwholesome. The town of Auckland, is in fact deserted, for the country. Yet this veracious Journalist, in his issue of the 1 Sth ult., has the effrontery to write — " We have frequently wondered at the spirit displayed by the Noithem settlers towards this place (Wellington). But, as is generally the case, when envy and malice are the moving impulse our ci dfcvanl friends have overshot their mark." — We retoit his admiring wonder upon himself. We entertain not the remotest envy or malice towauls Wellington or its inhabitants. In their happiness and prosperity we deeply and most sincerely sympathize; — and for the best and most selfish of reasons, because we feel convinced that it is intimately identified with our own. Our replies, therefore, to calumny have been purely defensive ones, wrung from us by jnistatemenls as flagitious and as false as that of which we now complain. We hope to give fuither extiacts in our next. The Duke of Portland was to sail from London for Auckland and Wellington, and the Susan for Wellington and Auckland, in September.

On Monday morning, our little capital was thrown into a state of the most feverish excitement, by the arrival of the Deborah, from Sydney, whence she sailed, with very important English intelligence, on the 22nd ultimo. Prior to the delivery of the mail, " deeds of dreadful note/ were grave] y whispered. Tidings of dheful import weie passed from mouth to mouth — and predictions and predications of ominous sagacity, were despondmgly indulged. The long piomised Irish Rebellion was averred to have come off. " The men of Tipperary " were in the field. The "motley rag" had paled before the " green." The British soldiery had bit the dust -, else, judiciously fraternized. In fine, to quote the exquisitely classic phraseology of Mr. Yankey - Irish Mooney — " the hloody old British Emphe was being broken up, and scalteied to the winds of heaven !" This— however piquant to some appetites — we must confess was raj,tkr too highly sea-

soned foi our swallmv — fovti(it\l, as we ha\c e\ev boon mlo complacent belief, that " KiC the Queen's crown ,;o down, tlicie are ctowns must be biokt?." Despite, theiefoie, the praisewoithy solicitude of one or two " good, easy men," to illuminate our opaque undei standing, and to demonstialc the incresent piowess of niodein mob chwahy to overthiow,, with baineis and knueades, the iiWf/V/impuissanee of militaiy combinations — despite of these aveiments — plentifully illustrated with foreign examples — such dogged sceptics aie we, anil so inflexible is our reliance on the morale of the Biitish A 1 my, Unit not even the Irish admixture, of which oui ([UmiloilS instiuclois enlcilained uneasy doubts, sufficed to shake oiu confidence in its i integrity — being satisfied that in the hour of difficulty and danger, England would find her Nclsonie motto, as heartily responded to by the red jacket as the blue, the sole emulous desire of either, being to show how each best might "do his duty !" Sanguine, as we have ever been, that law and oider would maintain their own supremacy, still, we did not anticipate theninviolability without a sad and serious effusion of blood. The rebellion has been so biazenly and so brutally organized, it has been in such loud and lengthened piepaiation. It has, engiossed so much incendiary talent. It has been so romanced in prose. It has been so hymned in- lyric vci se. It has strained so after inspiration of a fictitious patriotism. It has laboured so hard to inculcate an Alsatian ferocity. Its leadeis have been so daring in invective — so clamorous of wrong — so inventive of engines of torture — and so rampantly denunciatory of the deeds then were to do — that we must have been the most impassable of unbelievers could we have doubted their determination to "do or die 1 ?" But, Ichabod! How are the mighty fallen ! The rebellion has perished in the moment of its attempted existence — expiring without even the dignity of a street row : — scared into nonentity by the apparition of some half-hundred resolute Peelers,who,unintimidated by the roar of its ciaven leader — the Munster Bottom — stripped the one of his illassumed Lion's hide, induing him in the more appropriate calf-skin ; — and extinguished the othei with a heroic constancy above all praise. It is most gratifying to know that the triumph of the law has been achieved by the arms of the law. That the conquest was one of Irish loyalty. That it was no strife of creeds — and that the Roman Catholic clergy of the district were, with a zealous and truly Christian-like spirit, engaged in contiolliug the hateful outbreak. The revolt has heen worthy of Smith OBrien, its dastardly leader, and the leader has been worthy of the despicable revolt. The battle of Boulagh, if memoiable for nothing else, will be for ever famous because of the masteily position taken up by the rebel General among the cabbages of the Widow Cormack — a position the most admirable for personal security, however fatal to personal reputation. The feats of General Smith OBrien surpass in ante-heroics, all that have heretofore been sung or said. To him Sir Andrew Ague Cheek was a Hector — Captain Bobadil an Achilles. " Shall I surrender," axed he of his pikemen, when he caught the first glimpse of Trant and his determined handful. " The men of Tipperary" deciding in the negative, and the balls beginning to chirrup, the General most conveniently made himself scaree — and so remained , until Widow Cormack, discovering his plant, collared and dragged him to her window, where he shook hands and endeavoured to ingratiate himself with the police, suggesting to them the propriety of giving] up their arms. When his eloquence failed in this, he withdrew, and, with a dexterity worthy of Gouffe or the Gnome i Fly, dodged, by a trick of all fours, the bullets of the constabulary — hastening to tax his band with cowardice! — doffing his " splendid green uniform and '82 club cap," and disencumbering himself of his " long pike, and four pistols in his belt." We next rind him confronting a mounted policeman, but whether to cause him to surrender, or to yield himself, was a matte* to he decided. Ultimately, however, he settles the point, by doing a bit of | horse-flesh felony, and bolts — evading, with fox-like sagacity, the hot pursuit instituted for his capture, but eventually rushing into the snare set for him with worse than childish imbecility. We cannot resist the Dohenyish example, and Meagherian inspiration. The fytte is on us, and in lyric adoration of these noble warriors thus we fulminate our fragmental thunders : — W e stand on famed Slievenamon's mount. Base Sasieaacfj, prepared to dare ye! Tremble, »ile dogs, while we recount Tit intended feats of Tipperary I We'll bring our gloriom Mitchell back, With bis three hundred rum 'i;ns scare ye ; We'll lick your red coats blue and black, We \vill~so help me— -Tipperary 1 * * * * O'er Boulagh waved the gay green flag— The Saxon of the red was chary— Trant's Spartan band could charm the brag, And " squelch" the bourne of Tipperary ! No rebel blood soiled Saxon blade, The craven Gael of Ins was wary ; OBrien found war not his trade, So cut his stick from Tipperary ! Om extiacts aie so. ample that we shall

j nlisUin fiom enbigmo fmlhei. ll may bo that the Tush rebellion i\ but '',/,</>, not killed,'" and thai imthei and nioie diteumiu'd mitbieaks may ensue. Bui, one fact, iv % tbmk has been completely and mo»l satisfactory established . and that is, that the treason is confined to a poweiless, however numerous, section of the people, and not, as was beginning to be assumed, to the bulk of the nation. (I has moieovei, been demonstrated lhat Ihe lionian Catholic cleigy aie untainted. That Ilvat invaluable foice, the lush constabulary j are tt ue to their allegiance, and devoted to the j cause of oidei ; — -and thai the vile insinuations attempted to be thrown out against the fidelity of the soldieiy aie but wild and wicked delusions, ft has fuither been shown that the bailors have no men of conduct or of courage to lead them — and that ihe mere ill legnlalcd desire of revolution is unequal to ensure its accomplishment. The ou tbieak has been a contemptible, a worse than inglorious one, but it should not, therefore, be despised. Indeed, from Lord Hardingc's having taken the command of the army, and from the additional counties and baronies proclaimed, it is evident it shall not be so. We hope that whilst there may be no vindictive pioseculions, weakness will not be mistaken for meicy. In judicious clemency becomes injmious cruelty ; — compassion for the criminal, impairing encouragement to the crime. " War cuts through every thing," writes Lamaitine ; and, it is clear that the Irish felons were of the same opinion. " They hailed it as a solution to .the difficulties which they felt were crushing them. When there is no longer any hope in the legular older of events, there is in what is unknown. They had studied Machiavel, and considered the disdain of the just as a proof of genius. "They littie heeded the blood of the people, provided that it cemented their ambition," The Irish traitors have played their stake, and a wholesome prudence will no doubt, exact the forfeiture.

We beg to call the attention of the public to an advertisement in our columns of this day, fiom the Commissioner of Crown Lands, intimating that no assessment will be demanded for Stock despaslured within the boundaries of proclaimed Hundreds, provided that despasturing licenses be taken out previous to the first of January next. Supreme Court. — As there is only one case for trial at the ensuing Civil Sitting of the Supreme Court, on Tlnusday next, the 7th instant, and that to he tried by a special jury — those parties who have been summoned on the petty jury will not be required to attend. Cricket. — On Friday next, the Bth instant, a ciicket match is to be played ou the barrack giound, between the Garrison and the Albion Club. Both bides have for some time been in good practice, and no doubt it will pro\o a well contested match. The Albions were beaten last yeai — the first match they ever lost — but it is hoped they will ledeem their character this season, though we are informed the Garrison are the favourites in the betting room. There will be tents for the accommodation of the ladies, and we anticipate a charming attendance to smile encouragement on this noble game.

Programme.— On Thursday, 7ih December, the Band of the 58th Regiment will perform the following pieces of music, within the inclosura of the government giounds, from half-past three to half»past five o'clock :— Overture— Op " Les Diamens " Auber. Cav.— -0p. .. " Norma ". ." Casta Diva '' .. Bellini. Waltz '• Hommage a la lleine" Strauss. Cay. Op "I Paritani" Bellini. Quadrille " Zampa" Jullicn. Polka "The Annan" Jullicn.