The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNSEDAY, JUNE 8, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 746, 8 June 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNSEDAY, JUNE 8, 1853.

Be just and fear not: I.el all the ends thou ahn’st at, be thy Country’s, Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

By Uic Kirkwood , w hich reached our harbour yesterday, we have received a few Melbourne journals* the latest date being the 23rd ult. But we regret to slate that the file is not. complete, and that one of the papers wanting is that which might have given English news to the beginning of March, brought by the Hellespont— the second of the Cape route steamers —which had made the passage direct to Melbourne in 80 days. The Shanghae had also arrived from Singapore “ bringing the mails of the unfortunate Australian;” —for it appeal’s that the evil destiny which seems to mar all the attempts of the Australian Royal Mail Steam Company had still been at work; and the Steamer Australian had encountered disasters., after sailing from Plymouth in the last week of February, which had compelled her toputback, and which brought her mails into a state approaching to actual destruction, will be found described in a paragraph in our Shipping column. It now seems almost vain to conjecture where our New Zealand mails from England actually are, or in what condition, or what proportions. or what order of precedence, we are likelv to receive then. The Marmora 7 which is daily expected from Sydney, may, we trust, throw some light on the subject, and bring us at least the long looked for mails of the tardy and mismanaged Adelaide. The following paragraph on the state of trade in England is the only extract of any importance from the latest English papers which we have been able to find:— Trade of England. —A morning contemporary mentions that “ the intelligence from Manchester is unhappily, not of an encouraging nature. Notwithstanding the triumphant announcement for some time past of the prosperity of the manufacturing districts, it has been found necessary in that city, as we staled on the best authority, in our paper of Saturday— to put the factory operatives on short time, or, in other words, to employ them for only four days in the week instead of six; and the whole of Lancashire was expected forthwith to follow the example. Uulness of trade and the want of any active demand are alleged to be the reasons for taking this step. The public, therefore, has been led into a serious error, —that of attributing to w holseome business the prosperity which we now’ see to have been the temporary effect of speculative over-production/’ —Home News March 9. There is little colonial new’s of interest by this arrival, —which indeed only brings a few days’ later papers than those received by the Spencer.