The New=Zealander. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1850.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 462, 18 September 1850, Page 2

The New=Zealander.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1850.

Be just and fear not : Let all the ends, tliou atms't at, be thy Countiy's, Thy God's, and Truth's.

By the Oliver C romxvell, which arrived in our port on Sunday evening, we have received Sydney papers to the 4th of this month, and a number of other colonial journals. Much of what now reaches us as home news we were enabled to publish weeks since by the arrivals via California ; and indeed the principal part of the intelligence which the Sydney Herald gives as most lecent, was obtained not dnectly

from England, but via Hobart Town, by tbe Maria Somes convict ship, Avhich sailed from Portsmouth on the Glh of May. We have however, a fortnight's later news, and some portions of it are \ery interesting. The Qulen safely gave biith to a Prince on the first of May. The official account of this interesting event will be found in another column. The Times of May 4, say — " We understand that it was notified to the Duke of Wellington upon his birth-day, that the infant j Prince having been born upon that day, it was Her Majesty's intention that he should be named " Arthur" in compliment to his Gr vce." Another well- earned laurel added to the many-laurelled brow of the " Great Caplain of the Age" ! The interest of the Parliamentary Proceedings {so far as we have reports of them) was almost entirely confined to the discussions in Committee on the Australian Colonies Bill. We have taken some pains to prepare from the rather scattered and disjointed materials before us a summary of these discussions, which will be found as a separate Article- It will be seen that, after encountering many forms of opposition, the Bill had passed truough Committee. Even supposing the pioposition that it should be re-committed to have been agreed to, (which was very uncertain), theie could be no doubt, from the ovei whelming majorities on previous divisions, that the measure would be carried triumphantly thiough the House of Commons. In the Lords another trial awaited it ; but there also, supposing the Cabinet to have continued as united and determined as it was in the Lower House — the success of the Bill was secure. Indeed, unless some wholly unforeseen difficulty should have arisen, we may assume that it is now firmly placed on the statute roll of the Imperial Laws. The effort of the Bishop of Exeter to contravene the decision of the Committee of Privy Council, (the nature of which we stated in a former number,) had proved unsuccessful. An abstiact of tbe judgment delivered by Lord Chief Justice Campbell, will be found in another column. The pugnacious " Lord Harry" seemed resolved, however, to] light it out to the last. He was again raising captious quibbles and cavils in the Aiches Couit. Strikingly characteristic of the man is the following statement, quoted from the Illustrated London News, of May 4. The Gorhum case his been twice brought bffore the Arches Couit wi'hin a few days — ihe last tune o> Tuesday, when an order was asked for to enforce tlu Bishop of Evrter's obedience to the monmon to induct i\Jr. Gorham. The Bishop, by his attorney, declared that he had no intention of disobeying bnt that he h,ul pressing reasons for not immediately complying. The Court oidered the matter to stand over till nevt court day. A case analogous to that of Mr. Goriiam had arisen in the diocese of Gloucester and i Bristol. The Magistrates had appointed the Rev. Mr. Simfson to the chaplaincy of a Bridewell, but the High Church Clergy memorialized the Bishop, praying that he w r ould withhold a license from that leverend gentleman, on the ground of his holding " the heretical opinion that Baptismal Regeneration is not a doctrine of the Chinch of England." His loidbhip's answer had not been given; but, fiom what we have known m past days of Dr. Monk, Aye shall be painfully surprised if he is found treading in the steps of Dr. Phii.lpotts. The " May Meetings "' of the great religious and benevolent Societies were in progress. The Anniveisaneshad so far passed off delightfully, except that, at the Meeting of the Wesley an Missionary Society, the adherents of the three Ministers expelled by the Conference of 1 81 9, created a distmbance which all the energy of the Chairman, .(the Right Hon. Secretary at War, Mr. Fox Maule), could not lepress until the police were brought in. ' Our limited space warns us however, that we must reserve a portion of our general summary till our next issue. In the mean time, we may note that Paris had committed the act — ominous, we apprehend, of much future evil to i France — of returning the impure Socialist romancer, Eugene Sue, by a majority not far short of 9000 : — that Sydney was in a turmoil, paitly on account of a reactionary movement in favour of Sir Ciiarlfs Fitzroy, with respect to his too famous despatches, and the Transpoitation question generally, but yet moie on account of Dr. Lang, on whose conduct the Legislative Council had pronounced a bitter and biting censure, which his friends and dupes were trying to countervail: — and that the session of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land commenced on the 6th ult. To some, if not all, of these matters, at which today Me have only glanced, we shall return more fully on Saturday.