The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 28, 1854. ARRIVAL OF THE WILLIAM DENNY. ENGLISH NEWS TO THE 4th OF AUGUST.

New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 28, 1854. ARRIVAL OF THE WILLIAM DENNY. ENGLISH NEWS TO THE 4th OF AUGUST.

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

The anticipations of very important intelligence i'rom the Seat of War which this heading is calculated to excite, are not destined to he realised on the present, occasion. The II ll’iaui Denny arrived in our harbour yesterday afternoon, with the English Mail brought by the Calcutta, which sailed 'nun Southampton on the 4th of August; but the papers ate all but bar en of really impoitant news relating to the War. Cronstadt had not been attacked, neither had any battle that could be considered decisive taken place, by sea or land. The Russians indeed were retreating from the Danube, and if was declared that ‘ Omar Pasha may be said to have cleared Lesser Wallachia without a battle:”—the A 1 ied Armies had achieved a victory at Guirgevo ■. —and Bomarsund, a fortress on the Island of Aland, had been captured. Some batteries on the Su'ina mouth of the Danube bad been taken, but in leading the attack, Captain Hyde Parker, of the Firebrand, had been shot through the heart. The latest report was that the AdIniralty had transmitted orders to the Black '■ea Fleet to attack Sebastopol,—a strict blockade of wliich had been maintained. Another expected effort of the allies was to take possession of the Crimea. But the momentous issues of the tremendous strife yet remained to be determined, and all that had hitherto occurred — much of human life as had been lost —did little more than demonstrate the magnitude of the War, and exc te gloomier apprehensions of the future that may await Europe. The insincerity of Austria was more strongly believed than ever. Some of the latest particulars will be found in onr extracts; and, though less stirring than had been looked for, will he read with deep interest. New Zealand aff.irs occupied no inconsiderable space in the Parliamentary reports. On the 14th of July, Lord Lyttelton had brought forward in the House of Lords the charges against Governor Sir G. Grey, which had previously been discussed in the House of Commons. The Duke erf Newcas le rep ied at much length, and in atone of generous warmth, vindicating the conductof Sir George, and expressing severe reprehension of attacks which Ids Grace described as fl so utterly at varance with Sir George Grey’s character, and so monstrously unjust to bis great merits.”

The withdrawal of the Bishop of New Zealand’s salary ol £6OO a-year from the estimates had also been discus cd in both Houses, —the subject having been brought forward in the House of Lords by the Bishop of London, and in the House of Commons by Sir John Pakinglon. The M« m' ers of the Government who replied, were ardent in their expressions of admiration of the Bishop’s character and services, but maintained firmly their ground, dial there should he no further vole for the Civil Service in New Zealand. The only concession they made was, that “ if the Legislature of the Colony did not provide for the Bishop’s salary,’’ the House should make good the salary for the two years 1853 and 1854, We have noticed more than one reference in the latest papers to Sir Henry Young as Governor of New Zealand,” and we are informed by passengers by the Wm. Denny that

Ills Excellency’s appointment to this Colony is generally regarded in Australia as a settled fact. A difficulty, however, had arisen at home with regard to his successor, which may probably cause delav in his leaving Adelaide, The Hon, F. C. Lawley (a son, we believe, of Lord Wen lock) lal been fixed on as Go vernor of South Australia; but his unfitness for such a post was brought under the consideration of Parliament ; it turned out that his connection with the Turf and with certain speculations in the Funds, had been such as were scarcely in keeping with the character a Governor should exhibit; and, in short, in the words of the Times, the case was “ a mere repetition of the case of Mr. Stouor,’’ and Mr. Lawley, who is a very young man, ‘‘must go to the bottom of the list, and work his way up again.” The general proceedings in Parliament bad not been important, and the prorogation was soon anticipated. Cholera had again appeared in various parts in England. The Bishop of Kilmore was dead ; and the Ven. M. G. Hevesford, Archdeacon of A'magh, had been appointed his successor. Amongst the other recent deaths were Lord Langford, General Sir Henry King, General Henry Monckton, Madame Sontag (the great vocalist), and Mrs. Caroline Southey, widow of the late Poet Laurcat;, and formerly equally well known as Caroline Bowles, 1 he “insurrection” in Spain had acquired the magnitude of a revolution, with baricades in Madrid, and the other accompaniments of such movements now-a-days. Queen Isabella had yielded to the popular demands, and E purtero was at the head of affairs, a .representative Cortes was to be established, and Queen Christina was to be, in effect banished. There was no mention of any appointment to the long vacant see of Sydney,—a circumstance at which, as the Herald of the 2Uth states, “the members of the Church of England in the Colony are justly grieved.”