The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 550, 23 July 1851, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1851.

After an interval, in which we might have complained of the scarcity of news to which we are here periodically subjected, we have now, by the mails of the Daniel Webster and the Maukin, one of those gluts of intelligence by which we are occasionally almost embarrassed—our Sydney files are by the former vessel to the sth, and by the latter to the 12th inst, We had prepared some copious sum-

manes and comments on vaiious of the paiticnlars which had reached us by the Daniel Webster; but the interest of portions of the news brought by the BTauk'm yesterday (especially of the calamitous intelligence from San Francisco) has induced us to set aside for the present what we had written, and to confine ourselves here to a very brief summary, — devoting all our available space to extracts which well merit the reader's attention. Our English news is nominally to the 24th of March, there being a London letter of that date copied from the Singapore Free Press. It contains, little matter, however, and that little is not very clearly stated. The more satisfactory accounts (though still unsatisfactory as compared with what we hope to gather from our own files when the Norfolk arrives) comes down only to about the Bth of March. The "Ministerial Crisis" had terminated in the resumption of office by Lord John Russell and his colleagues. It appears that Lord Stanley, after having had full time and opportunity to attempt the construction of an Administration, had found himself unable to effect it ; that the Queen consulted the Duke of Wellington in the difficulty, and that the Duke recommended that the former Ministers should be invited to return to their posts; — that Her Majesty acquiesced in this advice ; and, as the issue of the whole, that Lord John, with his former colleagues— Lord Grey and all — are again, in the identical offices which they occupied before the " crisis." As this is the most important matter in the English journals, we transfer to our columns reports of the successive Parliamentary statements and explanations on the subject, sufficiently copious to place our readers in full possession of the public history of the movement. It may have had a private history not yet disclosed. The Papal Aggression measure had lost none of its peculiar interest. In the House of Commons, on the 7th of March, Sir George Grey stated the modifications which the Government proposed to make in the Bill. They would not adopt Lord Stanley's suggestion to permit the whole subject to be dealt with by resolutions of both Houses, as those resolutions would not have the force of law; nor would they agree to a committee of inquiry. They had considered and re-considered the suggestion that lieland should be excluded from the operation of the measure, but they deemed it inconsistent with their duty to assent to it, for to do so would be " to admit that the authority of the Queen was less in Ireland than that of the Pope." But as the Bill would, in certain cases of ordination and collation and bequests, have an operation which was not intended, it would be proposed in committee to omit the second and third claustes which related to these subjects. " The Bill would then be a Parliamentary declaration that the authority under -vbieh the title* had been assumed, was one which the country repudiated." A conversation ensued, which indicated that no paity was satisfied with the Bill as it then stood. Lord John Russell wound up the discussion by a short speech, in which he claimed for the Bill the merit of avoiding any interference with religious liberty, while it asseited the Queen's supremacy. The debate on the second reading was postponed until the next Friday. The Admiralty estimates had been carried, but with a decrease of £171,000 in expenditure... The proposition for legalizing Marriage with a deceased wife's sister had been discussed in the House of Lords, and negatived by a majority of 50 over 16.

The New South Wales intelligence had occupied a considerable share of our attention, but our summary of it to-day must be restricted to a few brief sentences. The Gold- Field continued to produce in such abundance, and the auriferous indications had so distinctly appeared in some other localities, as to leave no doubt that the precious metal will continue to be found in quantities sufficient to repay skill and toil, though not sufficient to meet the exaggerated expectations of the generality of gold-seekers. Many were arriving at Ophir and Turon, especially from Port Phillip, but many also were leaving in bitter disappointment and disgust. At Sydney there were continued complaints of the desertion of seamen, and the heartless abandonment of families by their natural protectors, through the gold mania. • .The writs for the election of Members of the New Legislative Council were to be issued on the first of August, but the elections will not take place till October... The libel case — Tiiurlow (Mayor of Sydney) aaainst Kemp and Fairfax (Proprietors of the Mrrning Herald) — had been brought to a final issue on the Jlth inst., when the defendants were sentenced to the merely nominal punishment of a fine of a shilling each... The Key. Dr. Fullerton, Presbyterian Minister, had been found guilty of having illegally solemnized a marriage, where the female was under sixteen years of age, and had not the consent of her father. On the 11th inst., on his being called up for judgment, a protracted legal argument was raised in arrest of judgment. The Court reserved its decision until the following Wednesday... There had been an alarming fire at Stockton, north shore of Newcastle, on the 2nd inst., by which the Tweed Cloth Manufactoiy, including propeity worth about £15,000 was destroyed. Another fire occurred on the following night, by which the building known as the prison of the old stockade, but lately used partly as a ship chandlery stoic and paitly as the Post Office, was burnt to the ground. This was believed to be the woik of an incendifu y. . .

There had been floods to an extent which inundated large tracts of country, and injured the crops in various places. The Hunter* Paterson, and William Hiveis had all risen to an extraordinary height. ..We give in another column an ample Report of the state of the Sydney markets ; first as they stood on the sth inst., and then in the rather moie animated state in which they weie reported on the 12th inst. (last Saturday week)... The cargoes of Wheat sent fiom this poit by the Mauhin and the Emma, were sold by Auction at Sydney, on the 9th inst., realizing from Bs. 9d. to 9s. 2d. per bushel.

The accounts which we publish respecting San Francisco will sufficiently tell their own disastrous tale. It wil 1 be seen that there has been yet another conflagration, — and one which has surpassed in destructiveness all that have preceded it. Property, variously estimated at from seven to twenty millions of dollars (including many of the finest and, as was believed, most securely built edifices) was consumed; and there is reason to apprehend that numerous lives were lost. There had also been an extensive fire at the city of Stockton. Both were believed to be of incendiary origin ; and at a public meeting in San Francisco resolutions were passed charging the guilt oi> convicts from Sydney, and threatening against the delinquents the most conclusive measures of Lynch law, as well as urging the people to " rise in their might" to prevent the landing of any passengers from Sydney, but such as biing a certificate of character from the American Consul.