New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, August 18, 1847.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 214, 18 August 1847, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, August 18, 1847.

Bt the London we have received Sydney papers to the end of July. The John Fleming, April Post Office packet, had arrived at Sydney, bringing English dates to the 2nd April. 1 We have maHle copious extracts of the latest news. The chief intelligence affecting New Zealand is a further notification by the British Government relating to the New Zealand Fencibles, and the probability of Mr. Enderby's scheme for colonizing the Auckland Islands (of which we published an outline from his pamphlet) being carried into execution. A memorial had been presented to Lord John Russell signed by the Archbishop of Dublin and other influential persons recommending systematic colonisation on a very large scale from Ireland, and the assistance of the State to promote it, and it was supposed that the project would engage the attention of the Government after the Easter recess. The news relating to New South Wales is important. Extensive changes were to be made in the convict system. Norfolk Island was to be forthwith abandoned. Criminals convicted in New South Wales are not to be transported to Van Diemen's Land, but were to be employed on public works. j It was also reported that extensive alterations will shortly be made in the Constituent Assembly of New South Wales, and that an Upper House of Assembly will be added.

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with Major Richmond and Mr. T. Fitzgerald, started early yesterday morning for the Wairarapa by the new road through the Hutt district. We are informed that the road is sufficiently advanced to allow of persons riding within a few miles of Wairarapa.

The London arrived in harbour on Monday from Cloudy Bay, which she left the previous morning. She sailed from Sydney Ist August with the remainder of the stock intended for Mr. Clifford's station at Cape Campbell, and landed 1,370 out of 1,700. The sheep arrived in excellent order. She also brought six cows and a bull. The sheep previously landed from the Mount Stuart Elphinslone and Dyson had been driven across the Wairau, and have by this time arrived at their destination. The London has brought the March and April mails.

The Band of the 65th Regiment will perform every Wednesday afternoon (weather permitting) at half- past two o'clock, on Thorndon Flat. We have no doubt that the inhabitants of Wellington will gladly avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded them of enjoying the enlivening strains of music, and that these weekly performances will become a source of general attraction.

Important if True. — The following paragraph is extracted from the Liverpool Albion, March 1, 1847:— - --• "Six hundred thousand pounds have been set apart by Government to make compensation to emigrants and others connected with New Zealand for the losses which have been sustained from a want of a prompt and efficient administration of the law."

We have seen the first number of a publication by the Aborigines Protection Society, entitled the-Co/onial Intelligencer, or Aborigine* Friend. ' Its contc nts relate chiefly to New Zealand. The principal paper in the number before us is a memorial or remonstrance by the society, in the Fitzroy style, to Lord., Grey on his Instructions accompanying the Charter, which requires a longer notice than we are at present able to bestow upon it. A quantity of clothing, flannel, and print, with books, slates* pencils, scizzors, needles, sewing cotton, &c. and a supply of drugs, were forwarded by the Louisa Campbell, through the care of a member of the Society of Friends in London, to Dr. Knox for the destitute natives about Wellington. These articles were all lost on the wreck of the vessel.

Wk observe by the Sydney papers that Mr. Holroyd, formerly of this place, had been lecturing at the School of Arts on the Pyramids of Egypt, and intended to deliver a lecture on the City of Jerusalem.