The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 770, 31 August 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1853.

lie jusl and fear not : Let all the ends tliou aim'st at, be thy Country's, Thy (Jon's, and Truth's.

The Melbourne journals which have reached us since our last issue, contain English news to the 17lh of May, brought by the ship Indian Queen. Parliament was not sitting at that date, having adjourned for the Whitsuntide recess; and we have very little of its proceedings during the interval from our previous tiles. One remarkable discussion in the House of Lords, however, is briefly reported, and will be found, as we have received it, in another column. Lord Grey, it appears,—out of office as well as in,--is the patron of Transportation. Our readers are already aware that, in his recently published two-volume eulogy on his own colonial policy, his Lordship maintained that Australia had no right to protest against the continued infliction of convictism, and we saw by a late report, that he had the boldness to affirm, in his place in Parliament, that " the real opinion of the people of Van Dicmcn's Land is not opposed to Transportation." In accordance with these views lie brought forward, on the 10th of May, the motion reported elsewhere, the effect of which, if carried, would be greatly to embarrass, if not wholly to prevent for the present, the execution of that (only too long postponed) act of justice, on which the Government have determined. Happily the noble proposition was rejected by a decisive majority. The Great Dublin Exhibition was opened on the 12th of May, under the most favourable circumstances, and with every prospect of a brilliant career. The interest connected with this occasion has induced us to copy at full length a report taken .from the j Liverpool Standard, although, in order to give it in its completeness we are obliged to postpone until our next some other articles. A number of the most immediately interesting items of English intelligence will, however, be. found in our other' columns, and we shall follow them up with such additional extracts as may seem worth quotation. The Foreign news is scanty, and scarcely demands any particular attention. The Empress of the French was regaining health, —but slowly; and it was gravely asserted that " the Emperor's health was suffering from his anxiety on her account." Great activity was displayed at Cherbourg in fitting out the Austerlitz screw steam battle ship, for the service of the "Empire of Peace." A considerable enlargement of Paris had been determined on The Austrian Embassy at Rome was about to be replaced on its original splendid footing.

. . . . Turkey was still in a troubled slate. It was said that Lord Stratford de Hedcliffe had parted from the Grand Vizier in anger, after an unsatisfactory interview A report prevailed that tUe Czar had sent'an envoy overland to China, authorized to offer to the Emperor of the Celestial Empire the aid of Russia in quelling the rebellion in his dominions.