The New=Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 383, 15 December 1849, Page 3

The New=Zealander.

Be just and fear nott Let all the ends them aims't at, be thy Country «, Thy God's, and Truth's.

SATURDAY, DECEMBERS, 1849

The Hobait Town papers received by the Esperanza, contain a variety of intelligence from various parts of the world, including accounts from England, more full, if not more recent, than those which rt-ached us via Sydney, of which we availed ourselves this day week. The Queen's right royal "progress" through Ireland, and the parts of Scotland which lay on the way to Balmoral, had been completed, having been marked every where by the most gratifying and enthusiastic manifestations of loyalty. A narrative of Her Majesty's journey, in continuation of that which we published on Saturday last, will be found in another column. The Ministry and nearly all the members of Parliament had left London, and the West End presented its usual deserted appearance after the close of the season. It is stated that the deaths in Great Britain from Cholera amounted, within the last twentyfour days of which we have reports, to 5,358, out of 12,373 cases. In consequence, of the prevalence of the disease in the metropolis, the Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr. Wiseman, had, " with the sanction and under the authority of the Pope," permitted the members of his I Church to use animal food of all descriptions every day of the week. ! The Annual Session of the Wesleyan Conference concluded at Manchester on the 14th of August. We have no detailed account of its proceedings, but we learn that the numbers in the Societies, according to the official returns, were, — in Great Britain, 348,274 ; in Ireland, 22,221 j on the Foreign Stations, 90,476; — exhibiting for the year,a net increase of 8,787 church members, under the pastoral care of the British and Irish Conferences. The Conference of 1850 was appointed to be held in London. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist W, Noel had at length avowed the Baptitt section of the church as that to j^vhich he would attach himself. On the 9th of August, he was publicly re-baptised by immersion in John btreet Chapel, Mecklenburgh Square, in the immediate vicinity of the Episcopal chapel, in which he had for twenty-two years officiated as a clergyman of the Church of England. He had not yet determined where his own place of worship should be. Two revolting additions to those atrocities by which unhappily the annals of crime in England are not seldom characterized, had taken place. In one case, at Bath, a woman named Charioite Mauchant, wife of a respectable mason of middle age, (to whom she had borne a child who was still alive), had poisoned her husband at the instigation of a man named Har us, aged 70 years, to whom she was married in three days after the burial of her victim. In the other, Mercy CATHtuiNE Newton, of Bridgenorth, had killed her mother, an infirm old woman, on whose death she was to receive some property. The cruelties which the wretch perpetrated before the final act of matricide, are almost too horrible to be repeated. Lola Montes, (the ex- King of Bavaria's celebrated Countess of Landsfelt), had agaiu figured before the public in one of those scenes of mingled romance and profligacy by which her extraordinary career has been marked. She had inveigled into marriage Lieut. George T. Heald, of the 2nd Life Guards, (a relation of Mr. J. Heald, M. P. for Stockport,) a very young man, who had just come into possession of a property of £7,000, or £8,000 per annum. On the 7th of August, she was brought up at Marlborough Street Police Office, at the instance of Mr. Heald 's aunt, on a charge of bigamy. It appeared that she had been married in 1837, in Ireland, to a Captain James of the 2 1st Bengal Native Foot, (who is now in India with his regiment). She was divorced in 1842, but by the terms of the divorce was not allowed to marry again. After a lengthened inquiry, the magistrate adjourned the case, taking bail for the Countess's re-appearance ; but, in the interval, she escaped to the Continent. Mr. Heald had been compelled to resign his commission. Amongst the notable arrivals in England were, Ledru Rollin, Martin Bernard, and Etienne Arago, Also the Prince Db Canino (Charles Buonaparte), who — when on landing at Brighton, he was informed that no passports were necessary, — exclaimed with earnestness, " Thank God, I am in a country of real liberty !" The seat in Pailiament for Boston, vacated by Sir J. Duke on his election for London, had been obtained by Mr. Peliiam, who defeated Air. D. Wire, in a keen contest. Meetings to express sympathy with the Hungarian cause had been held in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Wakefield, and numerous other places of importance. Indeed, it only needed that the case should be understood to call forth British indignation against the Auslro* Russian attempt to crush the freedom of Hungary. We find it stated— but we known not with what claims to credence, — " The party of Sir R, Pkbl, had been broken up ; the greater part

had joined the Whigs ; Mr. Gladstone would join the Tories." The long promised silver coin called a florin, value 25., had been issued in England. A step was thus taken towards the establishment of the much lauded decimal system. Trade was very prosperous in England, and the crops were excellent every where ; but the potato blight was said to have re-appeared in the west of Ireland.

The "French continued to keep military possession of Rome, without however, securing any fraternization on the part of the inhabitants, who by occasional assassinations, as well as in less criminal ways, still manifested their dislike to the invaders. The civil government had been surrendered to a commission nominated by the Pope, who remained at Graeta, — being, it was believed, unwilling to return to Rome, unless in the plenitude of his former despotic power as a temporal Prince. The reports of the whereabouts of Garisvldi and his followers were contradictory. The Roman refugees had been lefuscd permission to land almost every where, save in England. We give the following important f icts as they are stated by a correspondent of the Mints, under date August 15. Dr. Acuilu is 3uffici"ntly known to very many in England to invest the mater with much personal as well as public iutciest*. — Dr. Giacimo Achilli, nn cuii.ent Italian theologian, and who has bern for five yenri nn avowed Protestant and is well known «■ such to thousands of British Christians of all parties, has been thrown into ihe dungeons of the Inquisition. At 11 o'clock on the night o f the 31th July, and therefore before General Oudinot hud made oTer the GoTemrocut to the Cardinals Dr. Achilli was arrnted by i hi cc men in plain elothe>,and now is in one of the secret cells of the re established Holy Office. They •tated that they apprehended him by ibe authority of the French Prefect. It is however since ascertained they were emissaries of the Vicar-General of Rome, Cardinal Patriti, who had just returned to the city. Dr. Achilli hat never tnedd ed in politics ; I hate recent letUrs from him, stating that he neither had nor would do io. I make no comment ; your right feelings will supply it ; and I feel confident that your influence throughout Europe will be exerted to enforce inquuy (Dr. Acbilli'i friend* a»k nothiuj hut what is just) into the truth of he cue which I hate tubmitted to you. Several conflicts had taken place between the Hungarians, and the Austro-Russian armies ; and, although the issues varied, there was little doubt that the balance was in favor of the brave and patriotic Hungarians. Throughout Turkey, the warmest sympathy was felt for them, as was manifested by the refusal of a passage for Russian troops through a portion of the territory of the Sublime Porte.

Hobart Town was in a state of much political excitement, arising out of the proposed appointment of Mr. Jackson, in London, as agent for the colony, with a view to obtaining the concession of representative institutions, and the redress of the grievances long complained of. The principal points of agitation are succinctly brought forward, in the following Appeal, which appears as a leading article in the Colonial Times of the 20th of November, preparatory to a great public meeting convened for the 21st: —