The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 573, 11 October 1851, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

Be just wtl fear not : Let «11 the ends them amis't at, be thy Country*, Ihy Gou's, and Tiuth's.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1851.

The arrival of the Mo a on Wednesday placed us in possession of an extended, though not very clear or connected, summary of English news coming down t o the 25th of June. It.

had been compiled from a mail brought to Geelong by the Statesman, which had made the passage from Plymouth in seventy-seven days. Yesterday, we received by the Evimu a few English papers, the latest date being the 4th of June. We have transferred to our columns the whole of the Summary of General Intelligence received via Melbourne, and add here a few particulars not included in it, gleaned from our moie direct sources of intelligence. The Committee of the House of Commons (obtained by Lord Jocelvn) on Steam Communication between England and Australia had presented their Report, recommending the Cape of Good Hope route to Sydney, in preference to the Singapore or the Panama, as that which " combines the greatest advantages at the smallest cost to the public." The report was adopted in the Committee by a majority of 11 to 5. We find two paragraphs referring to the afairs of the New Zealand Company. They convey little definite information beyond the fact that the Directors are still trying to make the best of their bad case with the Government. The first is as follows : —

New Zevxand Company.—On Friday the Yearly Meeting of tins Company was held at New Zealand House, in Broad-street Buildings, City, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors. 11. A. Agmojtoy, Esq., having taken the chair, the Secretary read the notice convening the meeting. The Chairman advised the adjournment of the meeting, as they liad not yet got the final answer of the Government, ■which he hoped would come within a week or so. A proprietor asked if the shareholders would know the result of that answer before they met again. The Chairman said it would be circulated as soon as possible, so that the proprietors might have about a week to deliberate upon it before they were called upon to decide. General Briggs thought they had better adjourn for a short period, and if the answer did not arrive they must adjourn again. The Chairman, after consulting with Captain Nairne and some other Directors, fixed the adjournment of the meeting for Friday, the 13th of June next. The meeting then se-parated.--Merchant, June 3. The next paragraph throws very little light on the above, but we give it as we find it amongst items of recent news. It has no date in the paper from which we extract it: — The Directors of the New Zealand Company have received a despatch from the Colonial Office, •relative to the proposed abandonment of the charter of the Company, and surrendering the .'property of the Company to the Government for tlie sum of £240,000. The precise nature of the document has not yet transpired, but it is believed it is anything but satisfactory. It will, however, be laid before the proprietors forthwith, for them to consider what course they will adopt •respecting it.'' A very serious and remarkable riot had taken place at Tarn worth. The Protectionists had assembled at a Dinner in the Town Hall, and were conducting their own proceedings in *an enthusiastic manner, when an attack was commenced on the Hall by a mob without; stones were thrown in, the windows and chandeliers broken ; the farmers broke up the furniture for weapons, sallied forth to meet their assailants, and severe hand-to-hand fighting ensued. The •military were sent for to Birmingham, but the Town becoming quieter, the order was countermanded. The affair had been made matter of much;a,nd strong comment, some laying the phief blame on the Protectionists, who had "insulted Sir Robert Peel's memory" by making this demonstration so close to his grave, and by severe allusions to his political career ;'others .denouncing the lawlessness of the rioters, who, it was believed, were instigated by stiangers from Walsall, Stafford, and the Potteries, skilled in getting up emeutes amongst the working classes. Sir 11. Peel had published a letter of thanks to the constituency of Tamworth " for the spontaneous burst of indignation which greeted the musty pilgrims of Protection," and characterising Mr. G. F. Young, the Protectionist champion, as a " miserableimpostor," to which that gentleman had indignantly replied, indulging in almost equally strong recriminatory epithets. Amongst the recent deaths were, the Earl of Shaitesbury, for many years Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords ; the deceased nobleman, who was in his 83rd year, is succeeded in his title by his truly noble son, Lord Ashley, whose elevation to the House of Peers left a vacancy in the representation of Bath: —the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil —whose brilliant oratory had achieved for him a world-wide fame —had died almost suddenly (from an attack of gout in the stomach), at Florence, whither he had only a little before arrived as British Minister at the Court of Tuscany: —Viscount Melville, Lord Dondrum*n, and Dr. Torrens, Archdeacon of Dublin, were also dead. The Curiosities from the Friendly and Fejee Islands taken home in. the John Wesley as <'Mea-ofa," or Thank Offerings from the Natives to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, were to be exhibited and sold at the Wesleyan Centenary Hall, London, in the month of June. The General Assemblies of the Established Church and J,he Free Church of Scotland were respectively in Session. The Sustentation Fund of the Free Church for the year amounted to £91,527, being an increase of £1,703 on the previous year.

Ova Sydney dates come down to the 29th ultimo. The papers, as might have been expected, are to a great extent occupied with reports of the elections for the tyew Legislative Council, which presented the usual amount and kind of hustings oratory, rich in promises and professions, and spiced with apungent sprinkling of personalities. The contest for the city of Sydney had terminated in the election of Pr.

Lang, Mr. Lamb aud Mr. Wcntwoiitii, Dr. Lang, being at the head of the poll, — a lesult almost sufficient to make the most aiclent lover of Fiee Institutions doubt whether it would not be sound political wisdom to restrict the franchise in a constituency which so recklessly abuses it. The Herald, (while, of couise, lamenting a choice which it tiuly says "the great bulk of our intelligent and virtuous fellow colonists will never think of without pain aud humiliation"), strives, " in some degree to extenuate what it cannot justify," by pleading that the sense of the constituency was not fully taken, only 2490, out of 57 15 names on the electoral roll, having recorded their votes; that the extension of the franchise, amounting in effect to universal household suffrage, has enlarged the influence of the classes leastableto judge intelligently on the case; and that Dr. Ling's eloquence had been employed to flatter and caress the pnjudices of those classes. The pleas may pass for what they are worth, but the fact lemains ; and, as our contemporary observes, " impartial lookers-on will view it with surprise and something worse." One of the views winch inipaitial lookeis-oa will be most likely to take is, tbat, generally speaking the character of the constituency may in all fairness be inferred from the public character of the man whom it singles out to be its representative, and -whom it especially honours, by not only rejecting other men in his favour, but by placing him in a position the highest in its power to bestow. Amongst the unsuccessful candidates in vaiious districts were Mr. Longmore, who was put forward mainly on the Roman Catholic interest, but was rejected by the Sydney and also by the Cook and Westmoreland electors ; Mr. Kimp, of the Herald; and Mr. Thurlow* Mayor of Sydney. — Mr. Charles Cowper was defeated at Sydney, and again in the county of Cumberland, but was finally returned by the county of Durham. We have compiled from the papers the following view of the elections, naming all the candidates for the respective electoral districts and stating the number of votes recorded in favour of each, The names of the successful are printed in Small Capitals, those of the unsuccessful in Italics :—: — City of Sydney, Lvjjg, 1191 ; L\mu, 1015; WkstAVoitTii, 991; Longmore, 900; Omcper, 870. Sydney Ilamlcts, Smart, 256 ; Thurlow, 144 ; Josephson, 91. Cumberland County, Fitzgujiaj^, 306; Darvajx, 297; Cowper, 295; Byrnes, 219. Cumberland Boroughs, J. It. Hotwsy, 123; Bowman, 97. North Eastern Boroughs, Flood, 47 ; Kemp, 37. Argyle County, Dr. C Nicholsox, unopposed. Paramatta, G. Oakes, 120; A. Kennerley, 10. Maneroo, A. JurmKYS, unopposed. Wellington and Bligh, J. B. Bisttington, unopposed. East Camden, IT. Osnoßvi:, 308; Wdshire, 184. Northumberland Boroughs, G. 11. Nichols, unopposed. "Western Boroughs, A. T. llolkoyd, unopposed. Murrhnbidgee, A. Macleay, unopposed. Southern Boroughs, T. A. Mubbay, unopposed. Stanley Boroughs, It. Jonks, 114; Hughes, 102. Cook and Westmoreland, Martin, 94 ; Longntor&f 70. Balhur&l, M. Bi.rcir, 75 : Lord, 53. North u tiberlancl and Hunter, Douglass, 258 ; Bowman*, 236 ; Jlgtm, 200. Durham County, S. A. Donaldson, 237 ; C. Cowper, 229 ; Young, 168 : Hunt, 6.5. ltoxburgh and Wellington Counties, W". 11. Suttok, unopposed. Laclilan and Lower Darling, W. McArtuuk, i unopposed. Liverpool Plains and Gwydir, A. Mokkis, unopposed. King and Georgiana Counties, J. Cmsnoi-M, unopposed. At the last dates, only partial returns for the Gloster and Macquarie, aud the Brisbane, Leigbt, and Phillip Districts, bad arrived; j but,sofar,intbe former, Captain King was ahead of Mr. Simmons, and in the latter |jMr. R t Campbell was ahead of Captain Dumari-sq. The Legislative Council was summoned to to meet for despatch of business on the 14th of this months (Tuesday next). j Mr. Lamb had 6et about the organization of a Reform Club,— a scheme which Dr. Lang warmly recommended to public approbation, in a characteristic letter in the / mpi/e, in which he took occasion to pour a torrent of vhtuperation, in his own peculiar style of vindictive abuse, on the Herald, and on its Editor, personally. - The Gold News will be found sufficiently summed up in Mr. G. A. Lloyd's " Gold Circulars," which we give in another column. It will be seen that the mines, so far from presenting any appearance of exhaustion, were proving yet more productive, as they were more extensively worked. The total value of gold shipped up to the 27th of September was £132,662. Within one week the quantity received in 'Sydney amounted in value to about £22,000. It was calculated that not less than fifteen thousand persons were at the mines, and the most sanguine did not deny that, whatever may be the final issue of the discovery, the pastoral and agricultural interests are suffering present injury. A rather serious embarrassment had sprung up in the difficulty of finding money to pay for the quantities of gold offered for sale ; two or three of the largest purchasers in Sydney had left off purchasing for this reason. It was estimated that, at the rate at which Gold was sent down weekly from the diggings, at least half a million would be required for Us purchase during the ensuing five months. As one mode of meeting the inconvenience, it was proposed by some of the leading traders to issue Gold Tokens of the value of twenty shillings, which, if taken freely, would assist materially in relieving the monetary difficulty. It will be remembered that, in anticipation of the benefits which might result from the in-

troductioti of the Alpaca into New .South Wales, a sum of XI SOO hail been bub<.uibed to effect the object, and the bai'jue Julia had been specially li'ted up and despatched for ihe purpose. The scheme has ended, however, in an unexpected and mollifying disappointment, the authorities in Peiu having absolutely prohibited the removal of the animal. The reason on which the prohibition is defended is — that the Alpaca being peculiar to Peru, the benefit to be deiived from its rich wool should be retained in the country on which nature has bestowed it. The death of Mr. Gregory, Pi-othonofary and Registrar of the Supreme Couit, had led to some excitement in the legal circles of Sydney The Solicitors had met, and passed resolutions affiiming that the vacant office should be filled by an altorney-at-law, not by a barrister ; and further intimating a desire that the situation should be conferred on Mr. Jlutciiinson, who had efficiency performed the duties (lining the absence and sickness of Mr. GrigoiiY. 'J heir chief arguments were that the number of offices conferred on Solicitors is vety limited, almost all the legal appointments being monopolized by barristers ; — and that the office of Piothonot-uy was one which related especially to attorneys, as the Prothonotary was the officer to tax^their bills, and to investigate charges against their conduct, and should therefore be a man whose sympathies were wit! 1 , them, and who was .icquainted with their piaclice. The appointment, however, was given to Mr. Raymond (Chairman of Quarter Sessions), and Mr. Hutchinson was to get an addition to his salary of £100 a year, with the title of First instead of the Second Clerk; this and other arrangements connected with it being made with a view to economy. The Solicitors were gieatly dissatisfied, and the Herald had taken up f their cause, uiging them to " press remonstrance in. a quarter which will command attention." Trade in Sydney was very dull, owing mainly, it was said, to the extravagant rates charged for carriage to the interior. Flour had fallen £2 per ton, the prices at the last dates being £23 for Fine, and £21 for Second. Wheat was from Bs. to 10s. per bushel, according to quality ; but some from Van Diemen's Land was held at a higher figure.