The New=Zealander.
AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1852.
Be just and fear not : Let a]) tue omU thou (iim'&t^t, be tjiy Country*, Thy God's, and Tiuth's.
We have received by the Owalior immense heaps of English journals, which would have been of great value to us and of much interest to our readers had they arrived two or three months since; but they are now comparatively worthless, as the latest dates are the first week in December. As, how.ever, anything not hitherto published here * s news to us, whatever its actual age may fe, wo shall search through these files, and " we can find Jiny intelligence worth reproducing-, our readers shall have the benefit of our'toil.
OUR attention has boon called to an inaccuracy into which we inadvertently foil with respect to the sum which the last Sale of Crown Lands (on the 26th ultimo) would have added to the funds at the disposal of the Common Council, had that Body retained its corporate existence and been engaged in the performance of its corporate duties. From overlooking the fact that Mangcrei (in which several of the largest lots are situated) is outside the boundaries of the Borough, we considerably over-esti-mated the sum which would have accrued from that sale for municipal purposes. The actual amount which would have been then added to the £1600 declared to be at the disposal of the Corporation when the Deputation lately had an interview with the Lieutenant-Governor, was about £204, — no insignificant augmentation however as the result of a single day's sale, especially when it is borne in mind that, before the termination of the municipal year, several other sales of land within the Borough will most probably take place, from every one of which the pecuniary resources of the Corporation would have been more or less largely replenished It is evident that the error does not in any way affect the principle of the arguments and remonstrances which we felt bound to urge on behalf of the public against the misconduct of the Common Council: our charges of dereliction of duty and culpable disregard of the real interests of their constituents by the so-called representatives of the Burgesses, were stated — and, we venture to think, fully substantiated — irrespective of this particular sale, and indeed weeks before it took place. But we are anxious to avoid even the appearance of exaggeration on any point, however collateral and non-essential to the main question it may be ; and we therefore regret our topographical mistake, and have lost no time in rectifying it — it having come to our knowledge only since the issue of our last number.
The length to which om* summaries and extracts of the Parliamentary proceedings and other more important matter contained in the late English papers unavoidably extended, has compelled us to postpone a few items of general news which require notice, as well as the balk of the intelligence from the Australian Colonies. We now address ourselves to the task of supplying the deficiency. In England — turning for a moment from the affairs of State to those of the Church — we find that another heavy blow and great discouragement had been given to the Traetarian sect. A Declaration (a draft of -which we inserted a short time since) asserting in strong terms the Queen's supi-emacy in tilings ecclesiastical, and expressing thankfulness for the judgment of the Privy Council in the Gorham case and condemnation of the attempts made to bring that judgment into contempt, had been signed by 3562 of the clergy, and forwarded to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Both the Archbishops had replied in terms of such entire sympathy and concurrence as might have been expected to silence the Traetarian schismatics on these points at least, if we were not aware that the tactics of that party have always been — to extol extravagantly indeed the rights of the Episcopate when it suited their purpose.— but to treat Bishops with utter disrespect and disregard when their opinions were not in accordance with the Romanising movement. The important correspondence to which we refer will be found in full in our next. The subject of National Defences maintained its hold on the public mind. The Government had ordered 25000 of the " Minie rifles," — a French invention, the vast superiority of which over the old musket had been clearly pointed out by Sir Charles Shaw in the Times. Orders had been received at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to pack up fifteen thousaud shells ready for service to be immediately sent to the different ports, — and a still larger order was daily expected. Volunteer Rifle | Corps were being established in the Southern and Eastern Counties. A furious eule had swept along the Channel and JUasterii Coast during the whole of the 24th and 25th of January. The disastrous results are stated to have been almost incalculable. At some points as many as a dozen vessels were driven on shore, some of them being dashed to pieces. A frightful catastrophe had occurred at liolmfrith, near Huddersfield. The Bilberry Dam reservoir burst its embankments and deluged the country, sweeping away an immense mill, and whole rows of houses. The loss of life was supposed to be not less than one hundred persons,— sixty corpses having actually been found. The pecuniary loss amounted to some hundreds of thousands sterling. The disputes between the working engineers and their employers continued unsettled. Negotiations between the parties had wholly failed, and the operatives were j making every effort to set up for them- i selves. A great meeting with this object ; had been held in Manchester on the 12th of February. , The Ocean Penny Postage Scheme seemed to be growing in favour. Mrs. Chisholms Family Colonization plan had been warmly taken up by parties connected with the colonies ; and it was in- I tended to form a branch of the Society at Sydney, similar to that which Captain Chisholm has initiated at Melbourne. During the year 1851 eight hundred emigrants had been sent out by the Society, and it was expected that two ships would be despatched early in this year. Several Australian Gold Companies were advertised, — most of them probably bubble schemes, designed to practise, for the benefit of the schemers, on John Bull's credulity and love of gold. Some of the leading newspapers had taken up in a tone of indignant remonstrance the censures pronounced in Parliament by Lords John Kussoll, Grey, and Derby, on the severity with which a large portion of the English press had condemned Louis Napoleon's coup (Vetat. The disorganized condition of the disturbed districts in the North of Ireland had been strikingly exhibited in the frustration of a Special Commission for the County Monaghan through the impossibility of
getting juries to agree. The sittings having been opened at Castleblaynoy, under ; the protection of a guard of dragoons, two men named Kelly were arraigned for the { murder of Mr. 13ateson. After a trial which lasted three days, the jury was dis- j charged without agreeing to a verdict, having been locked up for twenty-four hours. The prisoners were again tried, but the second jury exactly copied the conduct of the first. The only issue of the Special Commission — which engaged the services of the two Chief Justices (Blackburne and Monaghan) and cost the country some £3000 or £4000— was the conviction of the two men found illegally possessed of aims, who were sentenced to two years' imprisonment. And yet, though this is the state of things, wo observe by the Parliamentary Report that the Government declared they did not deem it necessary to apply for any extraordinary powers to repress crime in Ulster ! A new feature had been given to the internal state of the Roman Catholic Church by the confidently asserted fact, that the Pope had communicated to Archbishop Murray in the kindest language his cordial approval of the course taken by the Archbishop and the moderate portion of the hierarchy on the topics of ecclesiastical commotion agitating Ireland. This would necessarily be a heavy blow to Dr. M'Halo's party, and a great encouragement to the friends of education by means of the Queen's College. Mr. John Isaac Heard had been returned without opposition to fill the seat in Parliament for the borough of Kinsale, j vacant by the retirement of Mr. J3. Hawcs. A frightful hurricane had visited Nenagh on the the 24th of January, sweeping away windows, chimnies, roofs, &c, uprooting great trees, and leaving many parts of the town a complete wreck. At the latest dates emigrants were leaving Watcrford for America, via Liverpool, at the rate of 200 per day. We have already given some of the principal items of Foreign news. We this day copy a more detailed, and very well digested, summary of intelligence, especially relating to France and Spain, as given by the European Times of the 14th of February.
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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 644, 16 June 1852, Page 2
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