MAURITIUS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 127, 17 October 1846, Page 4

MAURITIUS.

(From the Hobart Town Courier, Sept. 19.) The members of the bar have petitioned her .Majesty the Queen, to postpone for ten years the execution of the order of Council of September, 1845, directing that all proceedißgs in the Law Courts should be conducted in English. The petition is based on the fact that the immediate enforcement of the order, under the present composition of the population, would create serious difficulties and embarrassments, and introduce much confusion and disorder. Great confidence is expressed, in this matter, in the liberal and enlightened colonial policy of Mr. Gladstone. Sir William Gomm, the Governor, has been appointed to the Colonelcy of the 18th regiment of infantry, vacant by the death of

Sir Robert Sale. Sir William entered the army in 1794, add has seen much active service, closed by the Peninsular war and the battle of Waterloo. (From the Laumceston Advertiser, Sept. 10.) Our papers are to the Bth July. They contain very little of public interest. We have been favoured by a mercantile gentleman with the following extract from a letter, dated Port Louis, 11th July, which will be interesting to our wheat growers : — " We hope you are on your way up with another cargo, as our stocks of wheat and flour are very low, in consequence of some large exportations for the Cape of Good Hope, where the Kaffirs have committed fearful depredations on the farmers — and good prices may be calculated on."