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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 31, 10 May 1845, Page 3

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By the Star of China, which arrived yesterday, ' we have received files of the Sydney papers ,ta tha 19th April. There is no news of any iraportanee. New Zealand and its affairs attract considerable attention ; the latest dates from England were the 14th December. A Cape paper, received in Sydney, acknowledges the receipt of English news to the 14th December, but it does not contain extracts from papers later than those which have been received in Sydney. We take the following from tne summary of intelligence : — In Great Britain there is an universal admission of real prosperity. The necessaries of life are cheap, and trade and manufactures are again finding employment for all capable hands. There are still local exceptions ; certain kinds of arti--zans, such as the hand-loom weavers, and certain classes of people in the large towns, exhibit piteous scenes -of distress, which invite and ffiicl sympathy and relief; but these are of the poor that will always be found among ssocietaly — al- • ways a portion of the human race, and it can only be said that society is in its best state when such sufferers are fewest. J. K. Polk, Esq. has been elected President of the United States.

Parliament and the Colonies.—Parliament has been farther prorogued till the 4th of February 1845, then to meet for despatch of business. Already the note of preparation for the coming session begins to rise on the ear, and grow louder and louder. As,yet little has transpired whereon to base conjecture as to what colonial subjects will be brought before Parliament. An attempt will probably be J made to open up the sugar question. Mr. Scott will, in all likelihood, again bring the affairs of New South Wales before the House of Commons. A thorough discussion of the affairs of New Zealand cannot by any possibility be evaded. It could be desired that some independent member would draw attention to the frontier policy of the Cape of Good Hope. The settlement of Natal —the unsettled state of the currency in Mauritius —and the oppressions exercised in Madagascar upon British shipmasters and traders, combine to direct attention to the con-, nexions of these countries with each other and - Great Britain.

Australian Wheat. —Captain Bulley of Dartmouth, brought in the Cremona, frontf Sydney*, 3,600 bushels of Adelaide wheat. This whsat has been grown in South Australia, shipped from Adelaide to Sydney, transhipped thence to Qld England, and we are informed bore all these expenses with a fair profit to the importer.The wheat cost 3s. 9d. a bushel in Sydney, 30s. a quarter freight, the duty being ss. a quarter. It stood the voyage exceedingly well, and was perfectly free from weevel when landed. Tt averages 641b. per bushel, and Captain Bulley. gives it as his opinion, that in the event of the, duty being reduced it would become a staple article ot trade with this country. —Western Times. The French chambers are convoked for the 26th of. December, and on both sides the note of preparation begins to be sounded for the approaching parliamentary campaign.