New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, May 17, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 604, 17 May 1851, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, May 17, 1851.

The Sydney paper 6 rece i ve d by the Louis and Miriam do not contain any English news of particular interest, nor do they furnish us with much local information. ie sittings of the Legislative Council at Sydney were brought to a close on the 2nd

inst., when the House was the Governor in P erson, who indul e i ? confident anticipation of the success 86 !• Ul would attend their measures for the 1 ’ ral division of New South Wales an^p 0 ” Phillip preparatory to the introductid. °- ‘ those colonies of the New Constitution expressed his intention of not imuiedi dissolving the Council lest any circuit ° y might arise which would render it nece^ 3 or expedient to have recourse to their I vice or assistance before the requisite I rangements for the separation of the T I Provinces, and a general election under th° F New Constitution could be completed Ti? I next subject of public interest appears to I been the ti ial and conviction of Dr. Lan fo I libel. This reverend demagogue and agC I tor, having by a vote of the I cil been stigmatized for his conduct with *1 reference to certain transactions in s e ]]i no . K land, had published in the Press, j' under his control, an attack on Mr. Icely a | member of Council who, had voted against [ him, accusing him of fraudulent and disho. I nest conduct some six-and-twenty y ean I previously. A criminal information having I been filed against Dr. Lang, the charges he I had made against Mr. Icely were proved I to be without the slightest foundation, an d I the Doctor, having been found guilty on I both counts of the indictment, was sea. I tenced to be imprisoned in Parramatta Gaol I for four months and to pay a fine of one I hundred pounds. The annual meeting of I. the committee and subscribers to Saint An< | drew’s cathedral had been held under the presidency of the Bishop of Sydney, which I was attended by the Bishop Designate of | Lyttelton, who addressed the meeting in an eloquent speech, which appears to have produced a most favourable impression. A person of the name of Hayes had been executed at Maitland for the murder of a man named Cott. The body of the mardered man had been buried in a drain on the farm in the occupation of his murderer, and one of the circumstances which appears to have excited a considerable degree of inter- I est in connection with this case is the disco- i very of the body by means of a dream. Pre- ’ vious to his execution Hayes confessed to having murdered another man named Aherne ■ a few months before the commission of the crime for which he was executed.