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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARITIME MISCELLANEA. Privateer Steamers.—Tba • Perth Gazette’ (W w ern Australia) says, We hear that before C»pw* Downs brought the Norna into King George’s SaJJ? he went in with his boat and a well armed crew to > ' certain if all was safe, and finding it to be so, ge nt a rocket from on board the Larkins coal ship, which signal the Norna came into harbour, oowns gave as a reason for this precaution, that u had heard there was every season to suppose, tjjjf ‘ were four large privateer (Steamers fitted out in Am e * ca, and sailing under the Russian flag, on their way IT these seas. We cannot find in any of the pipers njf lished in the other colonies, which we have from Aik laide, Melbourne, and Sydney, up to the very the Norna’s sailing from each place, any statease” which gives information of tba sailing of these n n ' tears, and are inclined to believe the idea is ground upon some statements in the New York journals. to ik* effect that so early as the middle of February last, P- : * sian officers were actively employed in different* n,,!! of the Union, endeavouring to raise men aid p r^.u vessels as privateers. There can be no doubt th '• would succeed in their object, and it is also egmjjl beyond a doubt they would consider their most profif*. ’ hie and least dangerous cruising ground would be aloa» the Australian coast, where they would capture jj’ gold ships, and in such case a dash at King George’j Soui d, in order to procure a fresh supply of fuej, w o „m i be by no means improbable. Treason at Home. —Who is the Russian traitor amongst us now ? That there is one we know, f ro g the persevering attempts to make Sir Charles Nipi*, dash himself and bis fleet upon Cronstadt. ft is a l lSi , ning device. The Baltic is a curious sea, filled jr with fresh water—a labyrinth of small island otriiTi and shoals, the whole artificially rendered moret hazard, ous. Yarmouth Swin is a landlocked estuary, with traps and great guns, England is defended, not \ by any great army, like a continental state, nor by Rm. 1 siin fortifications, but by her encompassing seas and ner “ wooden bulwarks”—large ships which constant floating fortresses to protect our coasts. Those floating fortresses have been sent up the Baltic, and the stron». est entic raentsaie used to induce Sir Charles Napier to get the whole fleet stranded and smashed amidst thg shoals and rocks of Cronstadt, so that it may be destroyed. The tempters hold out the prospect of a vietory over the capital behink Cronstadt, as the lure for •jetting the sailor among the rocks, just as wreckers on] all coasts hold up a light to entice a ship on shore. Tbe rn*e is not a had one; for if once the Baltic fleet destroyed, the way would be open for Russia straight into Edinburgh, Newcastle, Belfa-r, or Liverpool, tt* do not believe, however, that Sir Charles Napier 1m yet accepted the mission.— Spectator.

Arrival or the Combined Fleets at the Sahe. wicn Islands. —A fleet consisting of seren (English and French) arrived at Honolulu on the July. The * Polynesian ’of the thus announce the event : Our little out-of-the-way torn thrown into quite a state of pleasant commotion« Monday last, the 17th instant, by the apnearan.e, cf Diamond Head, of a war steamer, which was comia; along under easy way, and seemed in no burry at tt 'o reach the harbour. All the look-outs were crowds with anxious gazers, and every body had an opisi® about her which every body expressed, and every badopposed. Sir Oracle thought, nay, was sure,ilia the American steam-frigate Susquehanna, Irom Jtpt, Another—equally good authority—shook his kj. most ominoui-lv, and evidently did not like to coats: himself to an opinion on the subject. But whiled.-, bate ran high, the public mind was diverted by t* appearance of a frigate off the point, and then aao'bs and another, until six vessels under sail, besides tis steamer, were all seen bearing down for the sochorjj —and a splendid sight it was. The British and Ff*K flags were commingled in the fleet in mosrViu cord, and all the vessels looked neat andf ‘ n-4odpn-r. ft ■■ pared for service as well as display, t'f tvo o’cbd they were all at anchor in a line off the harbour, ui turned out to be the British frigate Presfe flag-ship, the Ampbitrite, and steamer ’Virsp I tiie French frigate Forte, the Euridyce, l’Artbae| the brig Obiigado three English and (cur Freic | the Kngli-h carried 80 guns, and the French It This fine squadron is from Calls, via Nukuhiva.ote; the M rqutsas Llands, and was hot fouiteen day*i making the passage from the latter port. ' hey in course looking for the Russians, but the R ;sshnsr somewhere el.-e just now, and they must be hunted; I if possible, when warm work will of course take pk | At last accounts the people of Vancouver’s Island sal underjmuch anxiet, daily expecting a visit froaa . Roman vessels, against which they had no meut'**, deleoce. We understand that the French fnSitet* ceste, 52 guns. Captain Le Guitiiou de I’enarma daily expected to join the squadron, as also the Eofsrj frigate Pique of 40 guns. Captain Sir F. Micbote which arrived at Callao on the day the day that it % Fronoh squadron left. The‘Era’of July 27 adds— Tuesday the combined English and Freucb sqailrw 'S left this roacstead for parts unknown, though the sniou geneially prevailed that they would divide lb» selves in their passage north watd ; one p rt taking u North American coast, and the other the Tarury uSiber an coast, under their special observation. Tk can be no doubt, however> that some of them will a? the Frsnch whaler in the Ocholsk and and Arctic,u* convey them hither, so that in about two mentis* mas expect to see them here.”