The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 723, 19 March 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1853.

Be just and fear nut: Let all tlie ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country’s, Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

The “(load season,” in which we wore afflicted by the almost total barrenness of news of which wc complained in our last, has been suddenly terminated for the present by a vast influx of journals from vat inns parts of the world, by the Royalist, which arrived in our port on Thursday from Sydney, on her way to Honolulu ami Tahiti, wo have, in addition to a mass of Colonial papers, English intelligence to the 21st of November, received at Sydney by the oollormooloo , and a few additional particulars to the 2Hh, brought by way of Port Louis and Melbourne. The Will o'the V* isp, which also arrived on Thursday, has placed ns in possession of Melbourne tiles to the 22nd nil.

1 ho Duke s Amoral had taken place on llic 1 Sili ol' November, and was attended by about a indiion and a halt'of people. The Thiics has given a most graphic narrative of national tribute to the greatest man of bis country and his age, which, notwithstanding its length, we transfer in cxlenso to our columns. Even were this not—what it is iiit chief topic ol the English papers, we should not feel called upon to offer anv apology for devoting so large a portion of onr space to a record ol such deep, peeuliai, and affecting interest. This was no pageant or military spectacles it was a scone invested with a” higher and nobler grandeur, which will cause it to live in history as well as in tradition. The subjects ol the British Empire everywhere may sav in the words of the Times,— “ It is as the greatest ol the great, and as extraordinary both lor integrity and power, that we pav Wellington these vast accumulated treasures ol regard. Wo have long husbanded our admiration, and have now found a man entitled to it. Eel the memory of that great man be cherished and honoured; for

by him the Lord hath wrought pur deliverance.”

This national bereavement was, as maybe supposed, the subject of repealed references in Parliament. Mr. DTsracli delivered a “funeral Oration,” which—whether it j )e line or, not (as the Opposition papers affirm) that some of its best passages were plagiarized from a speech by M. Thiers on th e death of Marshal Gouvoine Saim-Cyr, i n ■lß4B—was a brilliant and just tribute to him to whom it was now applied. A very eloquent and impressive speech on ih e funeral was also delivered in Hie House of Lords by the Earl of Derby on the day after it had taken place. An Act was passed making the day of the funeral equivalent to the Lord’s Day as regarded the payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes. The only jarring sound beard during the proceedings came from a small party who were clamorous that the estimates of the expenditure should be submitted to the House. Economy is so habitually Mr. Hume’s day-dream and night-thought that his remarks seemed to have been listened to as a matter of course, but when Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr. S. Carlcr followed with observations coarser than the veteran of Montrose would employ, the House manifested its feeling by “general expiessions of dissent.”

Amongst the Parliamentary proceedings by far the most important was a notice of motion by Mr. Yillicrs, which was understood to aim a blow at the existence of th« Derby Cabinet. It was in the following terms:

“ That it is Hie opinion of this House that (he improved condition of the country, and particularly of the industrious classes, is mainly the result of recent commercial legislation, and especially of the Act of 1846, which established (he free admission of foreign corn; and that that act was a wise, just and beneficent measure. “ That it is the opinion of this House that the maintenance and further extension of the policy of free trade, as opposed to that of protection, will best enable the property and industry of the nation to bear the burdens to which they are exposed, and will most contribute to the general prosperity, welfare, and contentment of the people. “ That this House will be ready to take into its consideration any measures consistent with the principles of this resolution which may be laid before it by Her Majesty’s Ministers.” The Chancellor of the Exchequer had given notice of tSie following amendment, — if amendment that may he called which presents so little apparent variation from the substance of the original motion

a That this House acknowledges with satisfaction that the cheapness of provisions, occasioned by recent legislation, has mainly contributed to improve the condition and increase the comforts of the working classes ; and that unrestricted competition having been adopted, after due deliberation, as (he principle of our commercial system, this House is of opinion that it is (he duty of the Government unreservedly to adhere lo that policy in those measures of financial and administrative reform which, under the circumstances of the country they may deem it their duly to introduce.” No doubt there is so much seeming accordance here that, as the Times says, u 4 When Ponipey is so like Caesar and Caesar so like Pompey,’ the only question is which is the more like of the two,” and “ if the debate was really to go into the respective merits of the two compositions, it would be rather a philological than a political controversy.” The difference was understood lo consist in an implied reference in Mr. DTsrncli’s rcsction lo an intended compensation to the agriculturists for their losses by the repeal of Protective duties. At all events, there was lo be a call of the House on the 22ud of November, when the question was to come oi, and it was confidently asserted that Ministers would resign if Mr. Villiers’s motion was carried. Meanwhile the Free Trade journals were exulting in the aband mment of Protection, which the Chancellor o'’ the Exchequer’s own resolution was understood Ip <SjMn;ey. The news brought byNyay of tbgl*ljfemalins, coming down to the 54th, some account at least of the opcnnlfcof the debate; but it contains no allusion to it. The next intelligence will be looked for with much interest. Committees had been re-appointed on Indian affairs, the treatment of criminal and destitute juveniles, and other matters; but we can find no reference lo Sir William Molosworlb’s promised motion for a committee to inquire into the misdeeds of the New Zealand Company. Shortly before the -meeting of Parliament, however, the Times had done good service by devoting a leading article to an unflinching review’ of the “frauds” of the Company, and a warning to Sir John Pakington that 4i the thing cannot be hushed up : the colony will be beard on its own behalf: he may mix himself up with the misconduct of Lord Grey, as Lord Grey did with that of the New Zealand Company ; be cannot save them from exposure, but bo may if he will share it with them.” Bui ice (with the Times) “sincerely trust that belter counsels xvill prevail.” We observe in Messrs. C. and J, I). Jacomb’s Report of the London wool sales (dated London, 10th November,) the following encouraging mention of the quality of New Zealand wool;

“ Wc arc glad to notice the marked improvement in grow th and condition of many flocks from New Zealand; the combing properties of which give great promise for the production of that colony ; more care, however, is required in sorting and packing the various qualities, which perhaps can hardly yet he expected until the Hocks become larger and quality more uniform. ’

Ihe quantity of wool from our colony offered at the sales of which this is a report, amounted to 1789 bales. Wc trust that the quantity will rapidly increase, and that the Auckland district will ere long have its fell share in this profitable export. Such sheep as some of those exhibited at the "Agricultural Society’s Show on Tuesday might well sustain or make a character, for the wool of this district. •

liie Tunes of October Ist gives the following paragraph—in the large type and prominent position that, in its columns, usually indicate that it is speaking from authority :

“ Wc have reason to believe that the statement of some of the Canadian and American papers, (hat Lord Elgin has been recalled from

Ihc Governor-Generalship of British North America, and tin* he is succeeded by Lord Harris in that office, is unfounded, or at least premature.” The “statement”.referred to is, no doubt, Ural which has excited sonic attention here from the connection with it, in the same paragraph, of a statement that Mr. Dominick Daly was appointed Governor of New Zealand. But, so far as our examination of our present files has gone, we have not found any allusion whatever to this latter report. There had been extraordinary floods in various parts of England. According to the Hampshire Telegraph of Nov. 50, in the neighbourhood of Windsor “ ihc waters covered the land so far as the eye could reach,” and “the South Western Railway was brought to a stand still; near Gloucester, “all was one wide-spreading sea, and some of the houses were submerged to the tops of the roofs;”—from Oxford the report was, “ the whole of the surrounding country was Hooded, Oxford stands literally in a sea of water;” —from Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, Ely, Bristol, and other places, there were similar accounts, and the destruction of properly was widespread and most distressing. * The intelligence from France comes down to the 21st of November, being the first day on which the popular vote on the question of re-establishing the Empire was to be taken. The result, so far, was all that Louis Napoleon could desire, and it was expected that he would be elected Emperor by an overwhelming majority, and proclaimed as such on the snd of December, the anniversary of the coup d'etat. It was slated that he had overcome the difficulties in the way of his matrimonial designs, and that his betrolhment with the Princess Garola, ol Vasa, might be regarded as a certainly. General Pierce had been elected President of the United Slates, and William R. King, Vice-President. The Hon. Edward Everett had been appointed Secretary of Stale in the place of the late Mr. Webster. Our intelligence' from Sydney is to the srd of this month. The Legislative Council of New South Wales had been further prorogued to the loth of Mav, then to meet for despatch of business. Mr. Alex. Park had been elected for Maitland, in place of Mr. S. A. Donaldson, resigned; and Mr. Richard Joseph Smith for Morelon Bay, in the room of Mr. S. Biggs, resigned. One of the scats for the City of Sydney was vacant by the resignation of Mr. Lamb: there were two candidates in the field,—the well-known Alderman Thurlow, and Mr. Henry Parkes,_ the enter- ' prising and public spirited proprietor of the Empire newspaper. The nomination was to take place on the Oth instant., and the polling on the 10th. The new Act for the Management of the Gold fields had come into operation on the •Ist of February, and was extremely unpopular. The features particularly objected to yrc —the imposition of a license fee on all residents in the mining districts except those actually engaged in agricultural and pastoral pursuits; the charge of a double fee on aliens; and the penalties inflicted for non-compliance with the provisions of the Act. Several meetings of the diggers had been hold to remonstrate against the measure, and the Mayor of Sydney had, in compliance wilh a numerously signed requisition, called a public meeting on the subject,

to be bold on the Bih inslant. It does not appear, however, that the Government have any power in the matter, the enactments complained of not being their Regulations Iml llic Act of the Legislative Council. Crime seemed to be greatly increasing in Sydney. Much painful interest was excited by Um murder of a fine young woman of the name of Mary Ann Dunn,aged only nineteen, and married a few months since, who in a heroic endeavour to resist the robbery of the house of her mistress—Mrs. Miles, of Bourke-slrcet, Woolloomoolloo received wounds of which she died in a few days.

The Coroner’s Jury had returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against a man named Brandon, who was in custody; and a subscription was in progress to erect a public testimonial in memory of Mrs. Dunn. The I2lh of Feb., the second anniversary

o,f the Gold Discovery, had been celebrated

by a Public Dinner, at which Mr. E. Dcas Thomson, the Colonial Secretary, presided, and the Governor-General was present. In proposing the health ofMr. Hargraves (who, however, was absent, owing to a severe attack of Influenza) the Colonial Secretary strongly asserted the right of that gentleman to be regarded as the first practical discoverer of gold in Australia, although the Rev. W, B. Clarke and Sir Roderick Murchison were entitled to the credit of having predicted that it would be found. Amongst the notabilia of the evening was a volunteered speech by the Governor-General after the health of the Chairman had been duly toasted, in which His Excellency declared that he (Mr. Thomson) was “the Prince of Colonial Secretaries, and the King of good fellows !” Flour in the Sydney markets was 23/. per ton for fine, and 20/. to 21/, for seconds. Bread Gd. the 21 bs. loaf. From Melbourne the most striking novelty is an account of the finding of other “monster nuggets” in the Canadian Gully, where the lump weighing 1541b5. had been discovered. Two masses of gold, weighing together upwards one hundred and seventyeight pounds had boon found in the same neighbourhood within two days, by a party of three! Chief Justice a’Bcckett had received the dignity of Knighthood. The Melbourne Commercial Intelligence, together with the Sydney Prices, will be found elsewhere, We have much material for future extract in these files. But we may hourly hope for the arrival of further —though it cannot be later —English news by the Cashmere,

which, as we now' learn, sailed from Graveson the B th of November , —not in October as we had previously heard. This information may help to allay any anxiety that might have been arising on’ account of her nonarrival.