NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, June 36, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 717, 16 June 1852, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, June 36, 1852.

The William Alfred, from Sydney June 2nd, arrived yesterday afternoon. From the files of Sydney papers received we are enabled to supply the intervening portions of English news between that received from Melbourne and previous] arrivals. The Queen's Speech, on tlyjj opening of Parliament, (which will be found in our present number) contains a direct reference to New Zealand and to the Constitution to be granted to the colony in the place of Lord Grey's suspended Constitution. In France Louis Napoleon appears to have created a very strong feeling against him by a decree confiscating all the private property of the Orleans family. His arbitrary and oppressive edicts "in the name of liberty and the Republic" seem to throw in the shade the acts of the Continental despots, and render them, by comparison mild and tolerant. It remains to be seen how long the French will servilely bear the galling yoke which has been imposed on them. Ths Sydney papers also contain late news from the Cape, which we must defer to our next number. A Ste,amer (screw propeller) of 1500 tons, the commencement of Steam Communication between England and . the, Australian Colonies, was expected to leave London 'for Sydney early in April.

♦ The Government Gazette of last Thursday contains a notice of the sale of a portion of the land reclaimed from the sea at Lamhton Quay, (by the works now in progress under the direction of Mr. Eoherts,)~by Auction, at the Treasury, Wellington, on the 21st July next. The following are the conditions of sale :—: — " Lands reclaimed from the sea at Lambton Quay — 120 feet Frontage to the Harbour — Upset Price, £6 per lineal foot. " The land will be sold at per lineal foot extending its whole depth, which measures a hundred feet backwards from the present line of Lambton Quay; find in successive lots of Twenty feet each, " The purchaser will be limited to a maximum of Twenty feet in one lot, but will have the option of taking any smaller number of feet of the lot offered for sale : the number of feet to be taken will be measured in each case from the northern extremity of the land to be put up for sale. x " Each succeeding lot will include any unsold portion of the previous lot. " Immediate payment in cash will be an indispensable condition of sale." There is also a notice of the appointment* of J. H.-Wodehouse, Esq., to be Clerk of the Executive Council vice J. Ormond, Esq., resigned ; and a Nptice of Xhe Annual Meeting, of Magistrates for the License of Slaughter •Houses for the Town and District of Welling--ton; on the 80th of June next; at 1£ o'clock. Amount of Notes- of, the Colonial Bank of Issue in circulation ori the S 9th May, 1852, toeing the close of the preceding four weeks — £5 and upwards £1,490 0' 0 . Under £h[ „... 8,052 0 0 .1 1 7 *~ "- % £9,542 0 0 The ' amount now invested in the British. Funds, by-the Colonial Bank of Issue, under the warrant of the Governor-in-Chief, is Five Thousand Pounds. The-Supplement to the Gazette contains a list of Fifty-one persons, whose claims to land in this settlement .under the N r ew Zealand Company have been reported on by the Commissioner, and who are declared duly entitled, .to Crown Grants. \ ''

We understand that the question of thedeten? tion of the «. Black Dog schooner will come- on for debate before his .Honor Mr. Justice Stephen, on 1 Thursday next, at 11 o'clock, in Court, when" from" the array of professional talent engaged in the cause an interesting de? bate may be expected.