The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, NOV. 12, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 791, 12 November 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, NOV. 12, 1853.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim's! at, he thy Country’s, Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

By the arrival of the Heather Bell, which anchored in our harbour on Thursday night, weare placed in possession of our own Sydney files to the 28lh ult., and by the kind attention of Captain Jones we have also the papers of the 29th, —the day on which the vessel sailed. The colonial intelligence, however, is not pressingly important, and must give place in our columns to-day to the superior claim of late English news, to which vve devote as much space as, at the time at which the papers reached us, we could render available. The Great Britain steam ship had arrived, bringing English intelligence to the 11th of August. The mails had, however, been forwarded by the sailing-vessel Yimiera , which left on the Sth There is therefore a considerable interval yet to be supplied, and, our own English files not having arrived, we arc dependent on the summaries and extracts of our Sydney contemporaries for such information as we have. These, however, are copious and interesting. The Queen bad been indisposed, but Her Majesty, as well as Prince Albert and the Royal Children, had been fully restored to health. The Court was at Osborne. The 29th of August had been officially announced for the Queen’s visit to Dublin. Her Majesty was to enter the city in stale, and would probably remain for about a week. Meanwhile, preparations were in progress on a magnificent scale for a grand Review of the Fleet, which was to lake place atSpilhead on the Hlh of August, and was expected to be “the greatest naval spectacle that had ever been formed on the British seas.” The Queen and Royal family, the members of both Houses of Parliament, the Lords of the Admiralty, and several distinguished foreign visitors were to be present. An interesting account of the intended arrangements, dated from Portsmouth on the day preceding that

factor the review, will be found in another column* On the momentous question of Peace or yy ar in Europe, we find very conflicting opinions in the latest news. There vvere strong hopes that the differences between Russia and Turkey might, after all, be amicably adjusted by the pacific intervention 0 f the Great European powers. Still, serious misgivings were entertained in well-informed quarters as to the sincerity of the Czar in his apparent willingness to listen to negotiations ; and Lord Clarendon, in the House of Lords, on the Slh of August declared that “the immediate and complete evacuation of the Danubian Provinces was a sine qua non of any agreement whatever.” The Economist (a journal of considerable authority) observed in its last issue, It is not #asy to say whether the prospect of a peace fal solution of the Eastern quarrel bccmies more or less encouraging.” As tee never entertained the slightest doubt that Sir George Grey, in conferring the great boon of cheap land on this colony, acted advisedly, and with a full knowledge that he was not exceeding his powers, the following (which we take from the Empire’s summary of news by the Great Britain) excites in us no feeling beyond a genera! gratification that it contains information which may be satisfactory to anv of our readers who may have been induced to attach the slightest weight to representations respecting His Excellency’s proceedings coming from the quarters from which statements to a contrary effect have been propagated ‘tin the House of Commons, August 5, Mr. Adderley asked whether her Majesty had delegated to the Governor of New Zealand such power respecting the sale of land as authorised his proclamation of 4th March, 1853, whereby the scale of land prices guaranteed by the 14(h and 15lh Victoria, chap. 86, was sot aside, and the powers given by the 15lh and J6(h Victoria, chap. 72 to the new Legislature, were anticipated by the Governor alone, and an unlimited extent of territory was set up to public auction at s’s per acre ? “Mr. Peel stated that no information had reached the Colonial Office of any proclamation having being issued by Sir George Grey as to the price of land. The act of last year conferred on the General Assembly of New Zealand the power of regulating the sale of lands, and till the General Assembly made other pro-

visions the Governor was (o regulate (he sale of land. Soon after that act passed, instructions were sent to Sir George Grey to issue such regulations as he might think requisite with reference to the sale of land. That, it might be presumed, was the authority for any proclamation issued by Sir George Grey.”

The Parliamentary Session was near its close. The Ministerial “fish dinner” which immediately precedes the termination was definitively fixed for the 14th of August, and it was expected that Parliament would be prorogued, by commission, on a day not later than the 22nd. The papers contain a variety of proceedings which we shall copy in future numbers. We observe that the Bill “for the better regulation of the Church in the Colonies, by extending self-government to the members of the Church,” had been postponed, “chiefly” (says the Spectator of August 6th) “in consequence of alarms raised at its supposed aggression on Colonial independence, but ostensibly on the score of ‘this late period of the Session.’” The Government of India Bill had worked its way amidst many storms ta a second reading in the House of Lords.

Tlie following shows that the project for establishing steam communication by the right route was going forward successfully A charter of incorporation had been granted to the Australasian Direct Steam Navigation Company, the prospectus of which was issued some months ago ; and the directors were accordingly devoting their attention to the effective carrying out of their useful project. It will be remembered that the route proposed to be adopted is that by the Isthmus of Panama, and an anticipation is expressed that by this route communication with our Australian colonies will be effected in 53 days. The proposed capital of the company is large, amounting to one million sterling, in 40,000 shares of23L each.

According to the Daily News, Major-Gene-ral Jackson was to be Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, vice Major-General Cathcart, whose time has expired ; and Major-General Stavely, from Bombay, was to succeed Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Armstrong, at Madras.

The weather in England bad been excessively wet, and the disastrous effects had been fell in almost every part of the Kingdom. In many places it was feared that the crops had been irreparably injured. Provisions had risen, and an agitation for an advance of wages was spreading through the country. The potato rot had again appeared in some parts of Ireland and England

The Irish Board of National Education had been broken up by differences which issued in the secession of Archbishop Whately, Baron Greene, and Sir F. Blackburnc. We shall, of course return in our next to the English news, and shall also glean the principal intelligence in the Colonial files which lie in heaps around us.