The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 741, 21 May 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1853.

Be just and fear nut: Let nil tne ends thuu aim st at, be thy Country’s, Thy Gnu’s, and Truth's.

By the Haven, which readied our harbour yesterday afternoon, we have Sy ney papers to the Cth iust. They bring no later English news than we had already received, and ihe filling-up files which we have so long wailed lor are still wanting, there being no further account of the steamer Adelaide, since we heard of her adventures as far as the Cape. Amongst the extracts in these papers we find a Prospectus of the “Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company,” by tbc Panama route, which we transfer to our columns. In the City Article of the Times, Jan. 15th, it is said, in a very encouraging reference to this Company,—“ The Board of Directors consists ol persons both of nautical and mercantile experience connected with the trade of Central America, Australia, and the East; and it is calculated that by this route, coaling at Otaheile or some other convenient station in the Pacific, the entire passage from England to Sydney may be regularly accomplished within fifty days.” The Empire quotes a letter from Hiatea, dated the Uth of March, from which it appears that Mr. To up Nicholas, to whom the selection had been entrusted had fixed upon Rialea, in preference to Tahiti, as a fit place for an entrepot for the steamers, it being less harrassed by the French restrictions on commerce.

The Times contained a semi-official announcement that an addition to Her Majesty’s family might he expected early in April. The Empire of th sth hist., quotes from the Times of Jan. loth, the following piece of intelligence, which, though brief, is full of significance to the Australian colonies:—

“ It is u rulers trod (hat despatches were sent out bv the steamer Adelaide, lo the Governor-

ouiicrat ol Aevv bourn miles, aau lue Governor of Victoria, authorising the Councils, in both these colonies, to form q, e selves into a Parliament of an Upper and Low House, it being at Ihe same time intimated, i|j!j so soon as this arrangement shall have W* brought into operation, the Crown will conced* to them the management of their own aCab including the entire receipts from the p U [/’ lands, so as to assimilate their position to of Canada. These despatches are said, likeivis! to have contained an assurance that Transport (ion shall positively cease within a short period which shall be named as soon as the necessarv plans for a different disposal of the convicts can be compK led,” 1

The Sydney papers state that the dps. patches here referred to, had been ivceivfa by the Harbinger , but that they would not be made public till the Meeting of Council which was approaching. The concessions of political privileges were, it is said, ar , ranged for by Sir John Pakinglon, in whose liberal plans the Duke of Newcastle, on bis accession to office, fully concurred.

The commercial news from Sydney ,> on . tinned of the same character as aUhel ast reports; —scanty arrivals as compared w|tb the demand, and prices necessarily very high