The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 576, 22 October 1851, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

He just iiiul fear not • Let all the ends tlion .unis't <U, be thy Country's, Thy Goo's, and Truth's.

AUCKLANdT "WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22, 1051.

By the arrival of the Cashmere we are placed in possession of English journals extending — we speak of our legular files — from the 26th of May to the 12th of June. The position in which this places us with respect to Home Intelligence adds another to the countless illustrations of the anomalous and unsatisfactory state of what is called our direct cornmunicauon with England. Through other channels we have received news to the 25th of June, — a heterogeneous and, in some points, scarcely intelligible medley of scraps, it, is true ; hut still, on the leading points of public mipoitance, de-

Kingdom, fiom the Aichbishop of ("anierhlry dounuaids. expiessions of apprehension and disappiobation. But the vcteian troubler of the Anglican Israel held on his own way with as much seeming composure as if the Piumaie had appioved of the step, and as if all the clergy and laity of his own diocese desired it, — whereas the fact was that forty-four of his clergy had published a strongly woided repudiation o f it, and numbers of the laity had met to piotest against it. We have marked for inset tion several extracts exhibiting the character of the movement. .. .The Tiactarian Educationists had experienced a defeat at the Annual Meeting of the National School Society on the 4th of June, at which they had hoped to pledge the Society to an immediate and final struggle with the Government on the question whether pecuniary aid from the State should not be granted to schools under exclusively clerical influence, — over which the ( ommitlee of Council on Education could exercise^ no superintendence. The Rev. G. A. Denison, the piactised champion of the Tractarians, proposed Resolutions embodying a distinct assertion of this right on the part of the clergy ; but, after a long and warm discussion, the Aichbibhop of Cani'i'rjvury, who piesuled, declared Mr. Di'Nison's motion negatived by a laige majotity. The contraiy was not equally clearly affirmed, however, as Sir J. Makington, who had proposed an amendment deprecating a renewal of the agitation, and expiessing a desire that the Society and the Government should co-operate in a friendly spirit, withdrew it on the persuasion of the Bishop of London, who earnestly implored the Meeting not to give a triumph to either party. The subject theiefore seemed destined for future a»itation. The Record observes that the rejection of Mr. Dknison's resolutions is " a matter of satisfaction, for had they been carried, it would have augured ill for the Protestant character of the Church of England. On the other hand, matters have been so arranged after the the usual policy of the Bishop of London, that thete should be no ' triumph' for the friends of Protestant education. The candles are to be on the altar, but must not be lighted." The intelligence of General Pitts death had been received at home, and was noticed in the English papers in terms of befitting respect. It seemed certain that the Pope had confirmed the decisions of the Thurles Synod in opposition to the Queen's Colleges. But we shall devote an article to a seperale summary of such news as we can collect on the affairs of Ireland.

We have found in the Times of the 23rd o* May. (which has come into our hands since we received our regular files by the Cashmere,) an article on the claims of the New Zealand Company, which we publish as very opportune just now, when the importance of that subject is pressed upon our more immediate attention by local discussions. The idea that a Company founded and conducted in the most intense selfishness — a Company every step of whose progress has been marked by injury to the Colony which it hypocritically professed to benefit — should now, even from its giave, be permitted to spread a blighting influence over the prospects of New Zealand, is one so repulsive that only necessity could compel us to contemplate it in connexion with an Act of the British Legislature. The fact, however, stares us too plainly in the face, that, not satiated by the spoils of this Colony on which the Company gorged for years, its representatives, even now, notwithstanding the dissolution of the organization, retain a legal hold upon the Land Fund for the enormous sum of two hundred and sixty-eight thousand pounds, with interest. It would in our opinion be a great hardship that this sum, or indeed that any amount for such a purpose, should be wrung even from the Southern Province ; although ther , if any where, the claims of the Company must have a foundation because there exclusively its " colonising" operations were carried forward. But that the Land Fund of New Ulster— a Province for which the Company never even pretended to do any good,— towards whjch on the contrary it not only showed no favour, but against whose progress (as clashing with its own sordid interests) it directed er"ry influence it was able to command—that New Ulster should be crushed into ruinous embarrassment to fill the pockets of the griping Broad Street monopolists— would be so monstrous an outrage upon all justice tßat we cannot believe it will be actually pe^etiated. Our Land Fund in this Province would in such case have to bear even more than a moiety of the legalized spoliation, for the Sale oC Crown Lauds within its boundaries will necessarily be more productive than those in New Munster, where there is comparatively little valuable Land to brt sold by the Government. But we entertain a confident hope that, when the case is fairly set before the Home Government and Parliament, this great and flagrant wrong will be averted. It augurs well that so powerful an organ of public opinion as the limes has taken views of the question so just as those which are forcibly expressed in the subjoined article :—: — The relations of Government to the New Zealand Company are especially worthy of attention at the present moment, not only on account of their own intrinsic importance, but of the warning they afford of the folly and impolicy of mixing up the duties of the Executive with the concerns of any trading company whatever. In spite of reason and experience, Ministers have determined to create, under the patronage and surveillance of the Executive, a vast company, to whose bands is

other, we should lie culled upon 1,0 mortgage the domain of the Crown to secure lo persons thus bonofitlcd at urn" expense an additional quarter of a million from tlie funds of fi diMunt and helpless colony. The net for the colonization of New Zealand, nnd a Joan to the New Zealand Company, should have been entitled "An net to prevent New Zealand from bein<* colonized and ibr a "iff, to the New Zeahmd Company."