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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 800, 14 December 1853, Page 2

The Marmora arrived in ourharbour on Monday night, but Iter-"passage having extended to twenty-one days, in consequence of a continuance of unfavourable winds, she brings Sydney papers Only seven-days later than those we had already received, — the 21 st Nov. Our anticipations of news from England up to September—so peculiarly an ()hjectofsoliciUidenow,consideringlheslateof European affairs at the last dates which have reached us—arc also disappointed, the P. and 0. Company's steamer Chusan, which was due at Sydney on the 15th nit., not having yet arrived. The English journals brought by the Vimitra, which have now come into our possession, arc of course older than some already in our hands. But the bulk of our English files is still wanting,— and now we are utterly unable* to conjecture whither, in the whirl of the Postal Wheel of Fortune, they may have -been ; driven'." « The Sydney commercial intelligence will be found in another column. There washot much general news. The Herald gives currency to a report that Sir Charles Fitzßoy is to remain for two years longer in Australia; but—like the old rumour of the Duke of Newcastle's being

about to go out to India as Governor-Ge-neral, which has been revived in connection with it, and many other rumours of the same kind—it u needs confirmation."

A dinner, on a very handsome scale was given to Capt. Matthews, of the Great Britain at the Exchange Hotel, on the 17th ult' Mr. Deas Thomson, the Colonial Secretary' was chairman, and Justices Therry and Dickenson were amongst the speakers to toasts. The company included the French and the American Consuls, and about one hundred of the leading merchants of the city.

The appointments for the Sydney Mint had l been mude. Captain Ward, of the Royal Engineers, is to be Director, at a salary of 1000/. per annum, and Mr. Watt, formally of the Commissariat Department, Superintendent of theßullion department, at a salarv of 700/. * Dr. Lang had arrived in Sydney. His admirers projected a public dinner to welcome him. The subscription far the " Lang Testimonial," however, showed little evidence of any practical eighusiasm in the Doctors favour, the whole Imount received up to the 18th ult being only 208/. There was intelligence from Melbourne to the 14th ult. The principal item was the adoption in the Legislative Council, by a majority of 26 over 17, of a resolution which was equivalent to a vote of censure on the Government, for having expended nearly a million of money without the previous concurrence of the Council. Mr. Alderman Hodgson had been elected Mayor of Melbourne by a majority of 10 to 7 over Mr. Smith, the late Mayor, who was a candidate for re-election. Dr. Baylie had been chosen Mayor of Geelong, buit the validity of his return was disputed. The Hong Kong mail to the 9th of Sept. had been received in Sydney. The health of the garrison had improved of late, but a number of desertions had taken place. Intelligence from Anioy to the Ist of Sept. represented the civil war as still in progress, with some vicissitudes, but, on the whole, with a continued average of success on the side of the" Rebels."

We copy from the Australian and New Zealand Gazette of July 23rd, the following paragraph on a subject of paramount interest: —

Ci Steam to New Zealand.—We understand that the vessels of the Australasian Pacific Company will call at Auckland on (heir outward voyage, and relurn from Sydney through Cook's Straits, calling at Wellington or Nelson."

are manifesting activity and energy, and are grappling with a variety of questions, npon the right settlement of which their future prosperity and welfare will depend, we shall not see Nelson, which had always been the most active and distinguished in demanding self-government, stand paraly/ed and afraid to wield the powers bestowed upon it."