AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1852.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 642, 9 June 1852, Page 2

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1852.

Be just and fear nol : Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy Country's, 'I )iy God's, and Truth's..

By the arrival of the Moa "which reached our port yesterday, we have received Sydney papers to the 25th of last month, containing English Intelligence to the 14th February. We are compelled to reserve for another day our usual summary and comments on various of the matters which have thus reached us; but we lose no time in laying beiore our readers such extracts as will place them in possession of the most important particulars, especially of the opening and early proceedings of the Parliamentary Session. It will be seen that the proposed constitution for New Zealand was deemed worthy of a prominent place in Her Majesty's speech, — the terms in which it was referred to being of course general, but its introduction in the Royal Speech affording a security that the subject will receive due attention. On the 10th February Earl Grey stated, in reply to a question, that " the Bill for conferring a constitution on New Zealand would be brought forward in the House as soon as the state of public business would admit." From this it would appear that the measure is to be originated in the Upper House, — a course which not < improbably will secure for it a fuller discussion then it might have obtained had it been brought first into the House of Commons. The Address in Reply to the Royal Speech was moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Albermarle, seconded by Lord Leigh, and that in the Commons by Sir R. Bulkeley, seconded by Mr. B. Carter. Both were the customary echoes of the Queen's Speech, and were agreed to without anything that could properly be called opposition. Several of the speakers necessarily referred to New Zealand, but we have no detailed report of their observations, nor is it likely that much worth reporting was said on that occasion. The Nestor had brought to Sydney intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope to the 25th of March. Mr. HL Darling, the newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor, had j arrived on the 24th ; and General Cathcart, who was to supersede Sir Harry Smith, was hourly expected. The LieutGovernor is to reside at Cape Town, with authority to carry on the civil government while the Governor himself is engaged on the frontier. Sir Harry Smith was pursuing operations against the Kaffirs with such success as again to raise an expectation that hostilities were drawing to a close. A despatch from Karl Grey expressed his Lordship's great surprise at the conduct of the local legislature in postponing the full consideration of the daft of the Cape Constitution. H. M. Steamer Megara had arrived in Table Bay on the 23rd of March with the Rifle Brigade. Louis Napoleon had increased universal odium by confiscating the property of the several members of the ) Orleans Family. An attempt to murder the of Spain had been nearly successful. The assassin's knife was aimed at her side, which, however, it only slightly wounded, her arm having interrupted the force of the blow. We refer to the subjoined extracts for further intelligence, and shall, in our next return to the papers now come to hand. [From the 'Sydney Morning Herald,' May 24. 1 The Nest or Tiavlng put into the Cape of Good Hope, obtained there English papers to thel4lh February. Trade was good. The Funds shewed an upward tendency. The Wool Sales were to commence on the 18lh, and were expected to go off •well. Her Maiesly's Land and Emigration Commissioners had issued circulars to their agents, declining to grant any more passages to candidates for the Australian settlements from Ireland — staling, as tlie reason, ih&t Hie quota already drawn from that country exceeded by thousands the proportion allocated to the United Kingdom. The prospect of having Steam Communication was a little brighter, the Australian Steam Company [mil the Cape of Good Hope) having announced that their first iron auxiliary steamer, of about 1000 tons registry and 300-horse power, would be ready to slart for Port Phillip and Sydney, early in April. It appears that (he company have purchased two boats out of six which have been recently built at Glasgow,, for the CvJiard Company, with the view (since entirely given up) of establishing a cheap line to New Yoi k, in conjunction with their present steamers, and that at the same time the option has been obtained of taking two more. |

Another expedition was being (Hied out on an extensive scale, to search for Sir John Franklin. The following appointments had been made :—: — Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B. (1841), to the Assistance, discovery ship, and to be cbm-mandcr-in-chiefof the whole of the vessels of the Arctic expedition of 1832, fitting at Woolwich. Captain Henry Kellell, C. 8., (1842), to command the Resolute, discovery ship, fitting at Woolwich. Commander George IT. Richards (18<i5), to the Assistance, fitting at Woolwich, Commander Francis L. M'Clintock (185 i), to command the Intrepid, screw steam vessel, filling at Woolwich. i Lieutenant Shcrard Oshorn (184G), to command the Pioneer, screw steam vessel, fitting at Woolwich. Surgeon Robert M'Cormick (1827) will proceed with the expedition which is ordered to be made fully ready at Woolwich by the 15th April next ; but he has permission to act on his own judgment with a beat parly on llie arrival of the expedition at Wellington Channel. Meetings were being held in Ireland for (he purpose of petitioning for the release of Smith OBrien and his associates. Lord Stanley, of Alderley, had been appointed President of the Board of Trade ; ,and llcar-Ad-miral Sir James Stirling a Lord of ijie Admiralty. Mr. Barry, the architect, had been knighted. I Lord Broughton had resigned. his office as President of the Board of Control, and was succeeded by Mr. Fox Maule. As the Indian charter was about to lapse, it was necessary that the work of reconstruction should be placed in the hands of ,an active man of business. Mr. Vernon Smith, who some years since held the appointment of Under-Se-crelary for the Colonies, was the new Secretary of War. — Lord Cowley was to proceed to Paris as Ambassador ; and the Marquis of Normanby was to be Governor-General of India. The Marquis of Lansdowne would shortly resign on account of the increasing infirmities of old age, and would, it was reported, be promoted to an Irish Dukedom. Mr. Cromplon was to succeed Mr. Justice Pattison on the Bench. — H. Darling, Esq., had been appointed Lieutenanl-Governor of the Eastern Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope.