The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 801, 17 December 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1853.

•• just and fear nut: Let all the ends thou aim's! at, be thy Country’* jo i.ou's. and Truth’s. 1 ’

By the arrivals on Thursday, and that of the Vixen yesterday evening, we have received a great number of journals from the neighbouring colonies. Onr Melbourne files come down to the 241h of last month and have especial importance as they contain copious summaries of English news to th e Bih of September, brought by the P. and 0 Company’s steamer Clmsan, which— after a passage rendered unusually tedious by unfavourable weather—arrived at Melbourne on the I Blh ult. It is slated that this was the Chinan's last trip, and that her place ai d that of the Shanghai will in future be occupied by vessels of heavier tonnage and greater power. We devote all the space we can command for the purpose, to extracts from this intelligence, chiefly selected from the compilations of the Argus. Our notices here must therefore be brief, and confined to a few of the leading topics Parliament had been prorogued, by Commission, .on Saturday the 20lh of August after one of the most protracted sessions on record. The “Speech,” read by the Lord Chancellor in the name of Her Majesty, will be found in another column. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales, had been in Dublin, where they remained fora week. We have no particulars of the visit, except ihit Her Majesty was received with the utmost enthusiasm, and that the influx of strangers was so great that “standing room could scarcely be obtained at any of the hotels.” The Koval visitors left Dublin for Balmoral on the 3rd of September. Onr fears that the sanguine anticipations of the probability of an amicable adjustment of the Kusso-Turkish question were at least premature, are fully borne out by the latest news. The statements—like all we have had on the subject—are in some points contradictory ; but there is no doubt as to the main s.m that the dispute was still unsettled, and mat the gloom of the prospect was rather deepening than passing away. It was understood that the Sultan refused to accept the Note drawn up by the four mediating Powers, unless it were greatly modified : and that be made his sending an ambassador to St. Petersburg!! conditional upon the withdrawal of the Russians from the Principalities. The feeling of the Turkish army and of the people at Constantinople seemed enthusiastically in favour of war. The Loudon correspondent of he Straits Times , under date September 8, slates that on the receipt of the latest information the Earl of Aberdeen--the only Minister remaining in London—instantly summoned his colleagues from the country and sent a messenger to Scotland to search for Lord John Russell, Meanwhile cholera was committing great ravages amongst the Russian troops. The camp at Chobham had been broken up. “During the two months of its existence no less than twenty-two regiments have bad an opportunity of showing their readiness for military operations, should war arise anywhere, and the result of theexaminalions has been highly satisfactory.” The English Funds had experienced some fluctuations, in consequence of the uncertainty of the issue of the Eastern question, and the admitted deficiency in the harvest. The Report of the Board of Trade and the Trade Circulars, however, represented business as brisk. But the prices of provisions were from 20 to 50 per cent, higher than last year, and strikes for an increase in wages continued. In France the scarcity of corn was very severely fe’t; but great dissatisfaction had notwithstanding been excited by an arbitrary decree of the Government ordering the bakers not to charge more than a certain price for bread, whatevet the price of flour might be. Many of the bakers’ shops had been closed in consequence of this, and numerous orders given by corn merchants for supplies from England and elsewhere, had been countermanded.

Cholera had appeared in Hamburgh, and there were of course, anxious apprehensions of its again visiting England, Heath had been busy amongst men of note. The names in the obituaries included those of the veterans—Sir Charles Napier, Lord irahomi, Sir Frederick Adam, and Sir George Cockburn ; of Mr. Bransby Cooper, the eminent surgeon; and of General Moniholnn, Napoleon’s companion hi exile at St. Helena.