ORIGINAL POETRY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 751, 13 October 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL POETRY.

TO CLAEINDA.

All my hopes perish one by one, But still I live, and still love on, And gaze upon thy lovely brow, And mark thy features' radiant glow, The kindling blushes of thy cheek, And eyes that eloquently speak, Condemn'd their power to feel and see, Although they are not fixed on me. I watch the sigh that heaves thy breast, When feeling cannot be suppress'd ; I mark when none beside is nigb., The tear drop tremble in thine eye, Or sudden blush its deepening red Upon thy bosom's snow o'erspread, But vain is all I hear or see — Tears, blushes, sighs, are not for me. I know thy soul, I know thy worth, Thou art my utmost wish on earth ; It is my only prayer to prove The priceless blessing of thy love. A higher or a happier lot I ask not for, I envy not; . May all life's pleasures light on thee, While care and sorrow dwell with me. J. T. W. October 9, 1852.

We are happy to learn that Mr. Hursthouse has received instructions from Messrs. Stenson and Co., (who are large iron manufacturers at Northampton) to ship per Joseph Fletcher, tea tons of the Taranaki iron sand, for further and more extensive experiments on that ore, the small samples heretofore sent home having, under the treatment of those gentlemen, yielded a steel by them considered fully equal to the best marks> of Swedish, at a comparatively small expense. Their ultimate intention is, if similar results be obtained, on a more extended scale, to form a company to work it in the colony. — Taranaki Herald.

LFrom the New Zealander.] By private communications received by the John Wesley, we have accounts of a serious disturbance in the Friendly Islands, which may be characterised as a civil war, or still more pro-

perly Ixrebettion of a portion of his people against the " benevolent and intelligent King George, whose unremitting exertions for the welfare of his subjects merited a very different return. For a considerable time there have been disaffected persons, inclined on all occasions to resist his authority 5 and it would seem that he treated them with an amount of clemency and forbearance which has only resulted in their collecting their strength until they have attained a position in which they think they can set him at defiance. They have occupied two fortresses — one at Bea, the other atHouma — both provided with arms and ammunition, and the former of which was deemed (for a Tonga fortification) remarkably strong.. After indulging for some time in threats to lake the reins of Government out of the hands of the Tuikanakabolu (the " Governor-General" or "Emperor"), they at length, on the 20th of February last, made aa attack on a number of women, who were only saved by the circumstance that one of them happened to be sister of the Chief of Bea, by whose influence the assailants, though very reluctantly, spared their lives. Meanwhile the rebels were reinforced by criminals flying from the punishment of their offences to the fortresses of the rebels, where they found ready shelter and welcome. Skirmishes subsequently took place in which the King lost several of his best and most valiant men ; in one battle ten were killed and thirteen wounded, Joel, the King's brother, and his son Josiah being amongst the wounded. The mode of suppressing the rebellion which George was pursuing when the John Wesley left, was to build a wall around the forts, so as to cut them, off from all supplies, and starve the rebels into submission, — a course which the humane King preferred, from his anxiety as far as possible to avoid the shedding of more blood. Nearly all the able bodied men of Habai and Vavou were collected at this work, and every hope was entertained that the scheme would issue successfully. The Wesleyan Mission had lost a long-tried and most valuable Missionary, the Rev. William Webb, who had been labouring in the Islands since 1840. He died at Habai of an inflammatory attack, after a very short illness. His widow and orphan children have arrived here in the John Wesley.