The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 284, 17 February 1849, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

le just and fear not: Let all the ends thon aims'fc at, he thy Country's, Tliy God's, and Truth's.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 18 49.

The long expected Deborah came into harbour on Wednesday; but, much to the disappointment of the public, Avithout the English mail — that for September having been shipped on board the Colonist, which sailed four days previously and has not yet arrived. Our intelligence, in consequence, is not only meagre, but disjointed j the last thiee numbers of the Sydney Herald, together with sundry odd copies of the London Daily News, and Morning Chronicle, of ancient date — the latest to the Ist of September — being the bulk of our budget. From these we glean that the state of Ire - land was the very reverse of improving. Famine threatened to aggravate faction, and a winter of unalloyed misery lowered in perspective. Tipperary continued to be in a lamentably disturbed state, and flying reports of insurrection, in different and at distant points, had been got up to harrass the Jly ing column — revolt being intangible wherever tbe military presented themselves. The special commission for trial of the leaders of the July outbreak, was opened on the 21st September, at Clonmel. The trials of Smith OBrien, T. B. M'Manus, Dennis Tighe, Patrick O'Donnell, and James Orchard were pioceeding : and bills, had likewise, been sent before the jury against Meagher and Leyne. We have a rumour, but are unable to trace it to an authentic source, that O'Biien had been condemned to death, but had received a commuted sentence of transportation for life. Doheny is variously repoited to be in

France, and in America, whilst others insis he is keeping up a stir in the Minister mountains. " His manner of life," Aviites th< Dublin Evening Mail, " his hair breadtl 'scapes by. flood and field — an inhabitant o mountain caves and wild forests — now surrounded by a band of armed despeiadoes, ant anon a fugitive flying before his eager pursuers ; his history of late has been full of the wildest adventuie, It is most extraoidinary that he has escaped arrest so long, notwithstanding the large reward offered by governi ment, and the unremitting vigilance of the ! police." A paper to be called the N vtional, was contemplated as successor to the Nation. The authorities however, squashed the meditated treason, by rei'u:ing to grant l!\c stamps. The visit of Lord John Russell to Dublin is hinted by the Evening Herald to have been in consequence of certain correspondence found in the portmanteau of Smith O'Brien. That correspondence is said to implicate tae Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical body to a far greater exlent than was pi i manly supposed. " Fol not only does it compionuse to the full extent of high treason certain simple parish priests and coadjutors, but in a less degree, four of the Popish prelates. One of these mitred traitors, h an archbishop, and all of them are discreditably known to the public already. Their names have been stated to us upon good authority ; but of course we do not publish them. We have been informed that between Lord Clarendon and the noble lord at the head of Her Majesty's government, a disagreement has arisen as to the course to be puisued under existing circumstances. The Lord- Lieutenant, it is alleged, stiongly urges the wisdom of a firm and impaitial admiuistiation of the law in the case of the clerical lebels, while, Lord John Russell, it is said, insists upon the expe diency of an amnesty, as respects that class of offenders." Arrests continued to be frequent ; nay, they i have been extended to the fair sex: Miss Power of Waterfoid, and a Miss O'Ryan, have been committed to durance, for harbouring and aiding in the escape of rebel relations. Sir Harry Smith, gave intimation in Nov. last, that the Cape of Good Hope had been selected as the place of deportation for Irish political convicts. The requisite order of the Queen in Council, constituting that province a penal settlement, would, His Excellency affirmed, be received by the next mail. Earl Grey had felt the South African pulse in reference to his cherished " Exile" perversity : but the fiat which degraded that noble colony, had aroused an universal feeling of indignation, and a public meeting had been convened to denounce the outrage and to protest against its being carried into effect. Quiet leigned on the frontiers ; ne\ertheless,shouldthe besotted Whigs pursue this project, and send to the Cape con* victs of such a turbulent stamp as il the men of Tipperary," have proved to be, they may find fraternization with insurgent Boers, and a Caffre agitation the probable fruits; and very pretty work, at a much prettier cost, cut out for our soldiery. The Cape colonists will then require even a more stiingent militia bill than that now under consideration. The Court had returned fiom Scotland, the boisterous state of the weather inducing Her Majesty to prefer the railway to the yacht. - The death of Lord George Bentinck had been painfully sudden. His loidship set out on foot, from Walbeck Abbey to Thoresby Park, where he was engaged to dine. Not arriving, apprehensions began to arise ; a search was instituted, and his body was found by his servant, lying near a gate of one of the fields he had been crossing. The verdict of a Coroner's jury pronounced death to have been caused by a spasm of the heart. The Chartist trials were over. Lacey, Fay, Cuffey, and Dowling, a young Irish poitrait painter previously convicted, had been sentenced to transpoitation for life. Cholera had found its way to Hamburgh and Paris, and three cases had occurred on board a ship, the Pall\s, at Hull. The Colonization Society continue to be indefatigable in their purpose, and aie daily extending branches of their body. They aie making many converts, and forwatding numerous emigrants. At Southampton, which is to be one of their principal ports of embarkation, they held a great and influential meeting on the 23rd September. The Mary-le-bone vestry have agreed to pay for the outfit, and five pounds towaids the passage money, of a number of female pauper children of from twelve to sixteen years of age. Th " Banker's Magazine," for September says, " There can no longer be any doubt as to the fact of a deficiency, more or less, in the' kinds of human food procured from the harvest. The question as to the extent of the deficiency is a matter still very much involved in. conjecture." Potatoes are again a failure ; repoit stating nearly three fourths of the crop in Ireland, and one half of that in England, to have perished. The wheat crop is calculated at much below an average. The land planted with potatoes in li eland is estimated as four times greater than that of the piovious year. Bailey and oats are declaied to be luxuruul.. It is said that Lieutenant Mumou ill i-hoitly be restored to the rank whiv.li lie iononly held in the army, but \wTh me umleiFor contuiunjj", s=e Su^i li-nn3.it.

[Continued from the third page.] standing, of course, that he forthwith dispose !"of his commission. It will be remembered that at the time of the duel with Colonel Fawcett, he was adjutant of the Blues, with the rank of lieutenant. Two Dee Pilots, Thomas Bethell and John Kennion, had been examined at the Liverpool Bolice office for robbing some passengers of the y 'Ocean Monarch," who sought shelter in their ' boat. A suspicion of the murder of one of them had also arisen. The robbery was clearly made out, and they were remanded on the charge of murder. France is still in a terribly unsettled condition — the civil not appearing to be so familiar as the military department of the state to General Cavaignac. He has swayed the Parisian Press with an iron rod. Some prominent journals have been suppressed. The " Constitutionnel" was prophesying its own nterdict, and abstaining from its customary jading articles. Intrigue, it is evident, is ctive, if not open. A Legitimist outbreak ad<- occurred at Montpelier. Mobs had been ispersed in Paris at the point of the bayonet : -considerable reinforcements had entered that ty, and the men in all the barracks were ept ready for action. Louis Napoleon had aken his place in the National Assembly with a sort of quiet triumph. His speech from the tribune was curt and cautious — but its very brevity was suggestive of suspicion and alarm, causing him to be regarded as the puppet of more experienced tacticians in whose leading strings he is pronounced to be. Eight military commissions were dealing with the June insurgents. Five thousand eight hundred and seventy prisoners had been tried, of whom two thousand nine hundred and forty-five had been dischaiged, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-five sentenced to ransportation, and one hundred and ninety ;nt before courts martial. Only the gravest ises were thus dealt with. And yet the most ngular part of tlie affair was that whilst the jmmissions had transported for an unlimited ;rm nearly three thousand of the most culpa[e, the courts martial had sentenced some of lose brought before them merely to short eriods of imprisonment. About four thou4iousand cases had still to be disposed of. By what we can gather from the straggling jondon journals in our possession, Austria rould appear to be playing an evasive and a lazardous game with France and England, in .he matter of their joint proffer of mediaion in Italian affairs. Even the moderate and influential Parisian prints make no secret of the national disgust, and a French army across the Alps, and a French squadron in the Adriatic, are very complacently spoken of. S~ idetzki, though successful, may meet a unter check, for Austria is by no means so impotent as she has been. Venice, at prelt the theatre of conflict, is unsubdued, and s proclaimed her determination to hold out extremity. The Neapolitan and Sicilian war was raging th a barbarity scarcely to be paralleled by ; atrocities of the worst of savages. Canbal orgies had been indulged, the comtants on either side roasting and devouring ;ir enemies. Messina had been shelled first, d carried by storm afterwards. So far the Neapolitan arms had proved triumphant — but it is a conquest which must evidently be again achieved, if it be to be lasting. Spain is about to make a vigorous effort to re-establish relations with England. Is she in hopes of gulling another British Legion to take service against the Carlists, once more pushing triumphant revolt towards Madrid? The Duchess de Montpensier had been delivered of a (laughter. Inevitable ruin appears to have involved the West Indies. Jamaica was about to stop the supplies, the feelings of the planters being exasperated to the last degree against Government on account of the mockery of measures proposed for their relief. The abandonment of cultivation was rapidly proceeding ; fejteroduce sugar at existing prices being found An estate in Demerara called ing's Lodge" had realized only some Sixteen years ago it would have considered a great bargain at £70,000 A rising of the negroes was in several of the islands, Danish as Euglish. In fact, at St. Croix St. Thomas, they had occurred, but were down, and several of the ringleaders B^lteani between England and these colonies Kegins to assume somewhat of a tangible shape,

if we may judge by the following extract from the " Sydney Herald" of the 16th ult.— It has been on many cccaiions our duty to communicate to our readers information respecting the intro. duction of aline of steam-packets between Austialia 1 and England, but we have never had to make an an nuuncement which had a more businesslike appearance than the one we have now to bring before the public. On the 21st of September, the Lords of the Admiralty issued an advertisement calling for tenders to carry her Majeity's mails between Sydney and Singapore: the tenders were to be sent in by the 2nd of November, to state tho expense of * monthly conveyance each way, when and where the Tesiels would be ready far survey, and when re»dy for sea. As the Peninsular and Oriental Company had prevwuily announced that they had tonnage roady to undertake the line, there is no doubt they would tendei, and should their tender be acreptedi we may very shorty expect to see the Biasanza and Lndy Mary Wood in Sydney. Th. j f« T Siels are not very fast, and are not equal to those re . crntly built, but they will do very well for a beginning-. They were originally in the Peninsular trade, and were sent out to India to open the line between Ceylon and China, while vessels for that line were being built. Should the experiment prove lucceisful, we have no doubt that boats will soon be provided expressly for this line. The announcement could hardly have been made at a time whin it would be more glailly received, for we are now, on the 15th of January, without the mai's despatched from London on the Ist of September. In Sydney, there has been a general flatness in business, except for provisions, which are in great request for the vessels loading for California. Flour was getting scarce, those vessels finding a difficulty in supplying themselves. Still, there was no alteration in price. Wheat, at the mills, is quoted at 3s. 6d. to 4s. per bushel; maize, Is. 6d.; potatoes, £3 ss. to £3 10s.; butter, Bd.; bacon 4d.; cheese, 2fd. to 3^d. per lb. Wool and tallow, we regret to say, are again a shade lower in the English market. The brig « William Hill," with three passengers, sailed for California, on the 20th ultimo. The barque " Lindsays," also with three, and the " Eleanor Lancaster," with fifty one passengers, sailed for the same place, the following day. Fifty seven obscure individuals, out of a population of at least fifty thousand souls, and these, too, when the Californian delirium is at the full, does not argue much, in favor of the popularity of the movement. The " Columbine," schooner, brig " Louisa," barque " Volunteer," and U. S. ship " Inez," were advertised for the gold region. They will all arrive a day after the fair, the interdict of which we premonished them, having already gone foith against intending diggers, as will be seen by our extract from the Herald of the 23rd January.

The Queen v. the Kawau Company. — His Honor, the Chief Justice will sit this morning, at ten o'clock, in the Court-house, to hear the arguments of counsel in the suit of scire facias.

A misprint occurred in our notice ot the meeting of intending emigrants to, California at the Victoria Hotel, on Monday evening, " F. Ring" should have been printed T. King, in the list of signatures.