The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-27 00:00:00

■ .- --- SPI JUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A vacancy has just occurred amongst the Irish As sistant Barristers, by the death of Mr. O'Grady, Chairman, of the county of Waterford ; and although the who' ie tenor of Lord Mulgrave's Government for bids us to doubt but that it will be filled up with due regard. to merit, still we cannot help availing ourselves of so good an occasion for expressing the opinions we have long entertained upon the immense importance of these appointments to the fate of Ireland, and the cha racter rind stability of the Administration. Subordi nate although the place of Assistant Barrister is, in point of rank and emolument, to the judicial offices in the sur,erior Courts, in almost every other point of view we consider it to be a post of even greater consequence. The jurisdiction of this officer, both civil and criminal, is c,f vast extent, and he exercises his powers over that class of society which calls more. - imperatively - tlnan any other for an able, steady, enlightened, and .dignified administration of the taws. He is the Judge of the people—of the poor. He represents the ma jesty of the law, and determines its character in the eyes of the mass of the population. Influencing the character of the lave ' he influences all that depends upon that charade- A —public tranquillity, social order, the progress of 'civilization. In the Courts of these functionaries the great bulk of the rights of the social mass are discussed and adjudicated upon. All that infinite - variety of disputes and controversies that spring up ou', of the_ commerce of life amongst seven millions of 3ople are referred, with scanty exceptions, to these locrAl tribunals: Their civil jurisdiction already ern, braces all questions of property under the value of twenty pounds, and it is in contemplation to extend it still more widely. As criminal Judges, the As rsistant Barristers are armed, by . a variety of statutes, with powers of the largest description over the liberty of the subject ; and finally, under the Reform Act, they preside over the registrations of voters in their respertive counties—an employment of itself alone demanding very considerable legal knowledge and experience, along with an unexceptionable charac ter for probity and independence. Surely this imper fect summary of their powers in itself demonstrates st he vital necessity of raising none to this all important office but men of tried professional skill arid undoubted respectability. The negligent, and we shall say profligate manner in which former Go vernments have disposed of these appointments has been productive of incalculable mischief in Ireland. Nothing can show more clearly how totally merit, in numerous cases, was overlooked in the choice of Assistant Barristers than the description of persons who, even under the present Administration, rumour informs us, arc amongst the candidates for the present vacency. Men aspire to preside in the Civil Bill Courts, who do not earn at the bar the weekly hire of their briefless bags ; some of them, moreover, persons of no weight in society, intellectual or moral. We hear of claimants of those dignities whose sole title seems to be their 'convicted incompetence at their profession, reinforced by their no less egre gious failure in the Senate. The very best of the class have no other desert than their assi duity at levee, their bad speeches at public din ners, or their worse speeches in Parliament. • No where, save in Ireland, would such men dream of higher legal exaltation than the Crier's box. In Ire . land, however, Queen Mab tickles these personages with silk gowns ; they dream of Chairmanships ; and not unfrequently, in the days gone by, have their agreeable "visions of judgment". been realised, to the infinite damage of the best interests of the public. Lord Mulrrave has, however, departed from the old ways ; and this class of speculators will meet, we are assured, with little encouragement under his Govern ment. - Certain individuals, upon whom we have our mind's eye, will find that they have imagined a vain thing in letting their aspirations soar to some of the most important offices at the disposal of Dublin Castle. Lord Mulgrave apprehends his position in Ireland ; lie knows the circumstances of the country whose affairs he directs, and he knows that the first of leer necessities is a clean-handed. able, and dignified dispensation of the laws. He understands his mission to the Irish people. He is acquainted with the springs of their disorders ; and he has' made tire aneans of healing them his study. He is aware, that amongst the various tusks imposed' upon _'aim by his . high office, there is none so 'pressing r,s to raise up the prostrate character of justice. He is aware that public order is incompatible with a prevalent disrespect for the public tribunals ; and that the way to make the Court venerated is to -place upon the Bench as much ability, as much inte grity, us much depth of legal learning, and as much ; general weight of reputation, as is to be found at the Bar. If a barrister., without professional experience or character, has claims upon the Irish Government, tua.on political or other grounds, he is not, therefore, to expect judicial station, or an appointment in which he must needs wound the public, in the place where public avounds are moat painful and most dangerous. The most valuable political services entitle no man, much less a legal ignoramus, to solicit the post of a Judge. There are places enough, both at horse and abroad, where such a person can do comparatively little mis chief ; and which are fully rich and honourable enough to discharge any obligation the Government can pos sibly be under to him ; and, if he solicits such a place as an Assistant Barristership, lie prefers a request of • surpassing impudence, and one which cannot be granted to him without a gross dereliction of public principle •on the part of the dispensers of law patronage. — Morning Chronicle. Who is Mr. N. Goldsmid.? We ask the question; s, because we wish to understand the force of a blow • which has fallen on Mr. O'Connell. Until we are informed upon this point, we can only pray that the Champion of Ireland is not crushed. But the fact must be known, however disastrods may be the effect of it. We hope the best, indeed ; but it is our'duty as journalists to state without disguise, that Mr. N. Goldsmid has declared to the world his resolution not to dine in company with Daniel O'Connell ! How the unhappy gentleman will bear this blow, remains to be seen ; but Mr. N. Goldsmid, who understands his own importance infinitely better than any one else can understand it, - evidently thinks it a settler ! Daniel O'Connell is now a marked man. In Daniel O'Connell the world will see the man with whom Mr. N. Gold smid will not dine. Here the barrier is raised against the great Agitator's ambition. Will he be dashed to pieces against it ? He has done great things ;he has great things in his power ; but he cannot dine in company with Mr. N. Goldsmid.Thus far and no farther may he go—thus far and no farther may he carry his triumphs. The first man of our time who has shown Daniel O'Connell what he could not do is .I . llr. N. Goldsmid. O'Connell, with all his power, cannot dine with Mr. N. Goldsmid. Can the same be said of any other man in the Christian world ? The brand is solitary as the brand of Cain. On the monument—(for a monument he will surely have) —of Mr. N. Gold smid will be inscribed, "He never dined with O'Connell." On O'Cpnnell's memory the ever lasting, stigma will be fixed, "He never dined with Mr. N. Goldsmid !" Unhappy man ! doomed, sternly doomed ! What has he now to live for ? Sentence of excommunication is passed on him— excommunication from Mr. N. Goldsmid—and this is a sentence which no Pope can remove. Where are now his gibes and his jeers, his attacks on the Peers ? His demolition of the Tory leaders have brought him to this wretched conclusion, that he cannot dine with Mr. N. Goldsmid. Miserable man I such is the fall from the height of power and ambition. What an addition is this to the examples of the vanity of hu man wishes ! yet, perhaps, O'Connell never had the vanity to wish to dine in company with Mr. N. Gold smid. But if he ever had such aspiring, and some say that his fancy feeds on mighty thoughts and vast triumphs—how crest-fallen will he be when this heavy news readies him! Here is a 'subject like that of the 10th satire of Juvenal for the moral Poet. What is the case of Hannibal after all his victo ries, a fugitive in Bithynia, and O'Connell expelled the society of Mr. N. Goldsmid But we are giving vent to the tide of reflections` which this stupendous fact suggests, instead of presenting the terms of the resolution thundered forth at a Leicester meeting. Thus spoke Mr. N. Goldsmid, after referring to the entertainment of Mr. O'Connell at Dublin Castle, ~ with that propriety of expression for which Tories are so remarkable, particularly when their zeal for decorum is at the highest : " I am, indeed, determined to adopt the suggestion thrown out in one of the most influential public Journals, and do declare, most solemnly, that should it ever be my misfortune to Meet Daniel O'Connell in private society, I will leave the room in which he may be, stating publicly that I do not choose to hold—even indirectly—intercourse with a man, whom I hold in such intense abhorrence." The trecenti conjuravimus of Caius Mucius to T'orsena, is quite eclipsed by this awful declaration of N. Goldsmid to Daniel O'Connell. We only fear chat Mr. O'Connell will spoil the sublimity of this great passage in modern history by simply answering, " Wait till you are asked." But the grandeur with which those crushing words were uttered, " I do declare most so lemnly," &c., must yet be conceived, and the subject would be fine for an historic painting. Hay don would do it justice —N. Goldsmid crushing O'Connell. Begging pardon for the meanness of the co4mparison, we remember something like this sense of destroying power more mercifully expressed in a favourite old comic picture. A jolly tar is in the act of presenting a check for 201. upon Coutts's bank ; the cashier is running his eye over the draft, and the sailor, with a look of pride in boundless wealth, softened with a good-humoured compassion, is saying, " Egad it's a lumper 1 but d—e don't be down-hearted ; I'll give you time." Mr. N. Goldsmid is the tar without the mercy. He breaks O'Connell at once with his check, whatever may be the amount of it. Of this personage, this Mr.N.Goldsmid, we know nothing but that his ora tory occupies more than a column of the Times, but ,from his language he must be inferred to be a very considerable person, for he talks of Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and Lord Palmerston, as " his associates," and says that he has already treated them mercifully ; nay, he does not give us to understand that he .would refuse to meet them in society : " I trust that, in speaking of my political opponents, I have never violated the rules of courtesy, although I do not consider my Lord Melbourne the wisest or most con sistent of Statesmen, my Lord John Russell the mos eloquent of speakers, Mr. Spring Rice the most .profound of financiers, or my Lord Palmerston the most dignified of diplomatists. I have not, I believe, forgotten that they.,are entitled to courtesy as gentlemen by birth and educatillh." Things have not yet come to such a pass that he would refuse to dine with those Ministers. This is a great man indeed ! The Tories must rejoice greatly at finding such a giant suddenly in their ranks. Where can he up to this hour have concealed his vast importance ?—Morning Chronicle. In' the number of the Edinburgh Review, just published, there is an article under the head of " The Last Session of Parliament," in which the occurrences and measures of that period are ably and minutely detailed, and certain deductions drawn from the whole of the proceedings, and from the state of parties as exhibited therein, which will excite as much the re gret, and it may be the indignation, of all zealous Reformers, as they will rejoice the hearts and make glad the tents of the patrons of corruption, and the abettors of abuses. The first portion of this article is devoted to a consideration of the causes which produced such a total failure in point of carrying the many salu tary measures which were proposed by his Majesty's Ministers ; which failure is attributed to the small and wavering majorities exhibited in different contests by the representatives of the people over their enemies, and the blame again of that failure transferred to the backs of the people, who are charged with having gone to sleep over their own rights—a charge, no doubt, founded in truth to a certain extent,, but easily traced, at the same time, to its main source, the insufficiency of the instrument placed in the bands of the people for accomplishing their wishes by the authors of the Re form Act itself.. The second to an absolution of the House of Lords from some charges which have, through iaadvertence, been unwittingly and wrongfully brought against them, and a defence of them - from throwing out or postponing others which the public anxiously desired to have passed, but which the noble author of the article—for its -parentage cannot be mistaken— deems to have been judiciously put aside to a more convenient season, because there were either many and conflicting opinions respecting them, or because there' did not exist before the close of the Session sufficient time for their consideration. From any charge on ,these two points we bold the author per fectly free. He has endeavoured to state facts upon some points with respect to which the public was but indifferently informed; and we perfectly agree with him that "It is never of any real use to conceal the truth on any question, and least of all on questions of a practical nature, where delu sion cannot long prevail, and where the worst conse quences must flow from acting in the dark ;" but it is one thing to lay down such an axiom for the regula tion of one's conduct, and quite another thing to abide" by it in practice—it is one thirig to profess a dete:- ;nination to adhere to the truth, and another to carry that adherence into effect free from sophistry and un fettered by prejudice. The noble author of the article has, in fact, furnished us with a splendid specimen of the way in which the best intention may become the prey of prejudice, and a perception of the mcst glar ing enormities in the consti;;ution of the Government be made the foundation for inductions the most con• trary that can be imagined to the premises laid down. What, for exa - taple, could have been expected from an author who admits " the Lords are not likely to pull in the same direction with the people of this country, and that some remedy must be sought for an evil which . bids fair to produce the worst of mischiefs to our Con stitution, if not to endanger its very existence?"—buts proposition either that the Reform Act be repealed, and the Commons and people of Englanclagain handed over, bound in chains, to the Aristocracy of England, so that there may be the harmony between them which was wont to exist; and that " order may reign in England," as it now " reigns at Warsaw"—or that the House of Lords be abolished—or, as a milder remedy, that it be reformed and re-constructed on the same liberal and solid basis as the House of Commons, leaving it to all the powers with. which it is at present invested, and merely depriving it of what is its bane and curse—mo rally, physically, and politically—its hereditary charac ter. But no : the end is admitted—its mischief is ad mitted—its imminent and threatening nature to " the very existence of the Constitution" is admitted ;—but still no plan—no proposed remedy—no means pointed out for uprooting the evil, and averting the danger but —what dost think, reader ?—the return, at the next election, of an overwhelming majority of Reformers I \Ve admit, in justice to the author of the article, that he glances at two or three plans for improving the constitution of the House of Lords, and that he dis misses them all, most moderate and inefficient as they seem to us, as worse than useless. We agree with him that an hereditary House, the Members of which should be chosen by election by and among the nobi lity, would avail nothing towards remedying the evil complained of, inasmuch as nearly three-fourths of the Peers are Tories, and nothing but a sense- of de cency—not very likely to actuate them—could in duce them to return other than the most violent and bigoted of their class ; nor does it require much foresight to perceive, that were the Crown to select Peers, as in France, among the nobility, the House, so elected, would be the mere creature or duplicate of the Crown, without a shadow of character or the slightest image of independence ; but why, we ask, not have them elected by the people of England, as we proposed in another article, and in the same man ner that the Commons are elected ? Oh I because, says our author,'the " Tipper House would be a mere duplicate of the Lower ;' but this is a gross mis take, or rather an egregious sophism easily disproved by the slightest reference to facts. Westminster, for example, returns two Members to the House of Corn mons ; but is Colonel Evans the duplicate of Sir Francis Burdett ? The same thing may be said of Lambeth—of the Towei Hamlets—of Middlesex— nay, almost of every borough, town, city, and county which send Representatives to Parliament. The same spirit----the same general principles may animate and actuate both the Representatives ; but in their prac tical application of them—in their adaptation of them to times and circumstances, there not only frequently is, but there is almost invariably a wide and striking difference, and upon this difference, fatal to the sophism of the Noble author, we ground the truth of our theory, and the hollowness of his not -proven assertion, that a House of Lords elected after the manner of the House THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1835. of Commons would be a mere duplicate of the latter. It would, we deny not, be its duplicate to a certain extent in spirit, in principle, and in feeling ; but then that is the object sought to be accomplished ; and why we should reject that which is the object sought for by all parties with so much just zeal and patriotic anxiety, simuly because the mode of obtaining it is straight-forward, and goes to the root of the evil; in stead of being circuitous and uncertain, we leave to the Noble Lord to inform us. Meantime, we take leave to inform the author that he is egregiously igno rant of the state of public feeling, and of the progress of political opinion, in imagining that the people of this country are to wait.for six or seven years, or any other indefinite space of time, until a reform of the House of Lords shall drop into their laps, like well .ripened fruit. They will do no such thing. They have already, in a reform of the House of Commons, got possession of all but the citadel ; and, knowing their power, as they do know it and feel it, that also, if not surrendered with a good grace and in good time, will be taken by storm, and its already tottering . towers and undermined foundation be given to the winds of Heaven, as a perpetual memorial of the fate cf unjust usurpation, and obstinate maintenance bf abused privi leges and unfounded rights.—Morning Advertiser, The sketches of our correspondent in the province of Ulster, besides the information which they afford as to the real state of the parts of the country which he is visiting, furnish the strongest corroboration which we could call for the frequent reference which we have made to the enormous and disproportionate rents drawn from that country by an absentee proprietary, and of the crying necessity which exists for some part of that rental being appropriated, as is the case in England, towards the wants and employment of a peasantry now starving amidst the plenty which the labours of such of them as can obtain employment produce. Nothing, indeed, can be more vicious and unnatural than the re ','ye state of the two countries in this respect. While -, ee l of the whole of the arable land in England do this time average more than 20s. an acre, and • . reduction of that is called for, an averag • ee times that amount is screwed out of a tenantry, who, to scrape it together on quarter day for the inexorable agent, are often actually obliged to refrain themselves from partaking of the produce of their own capital and industry. Nor is this all. The labourer, unable to subsist in his own country under a system which absorbs into one focus the means which might be otherwise dedicated to his employment, comes over to swell the ranks of pauperism here—to earn the money which the English labourer so much wants, and to be a burden upon that poor-rate in England, which the mock-philanthropists and sturdy mendicants of his own country deny him at home. It is very well, too, to talk of the payment of tithes being resisted in Ireland on the sole ground of religious objection ; but when we consider that the great bulk of the land of Ireland belongs to Protestant landlords, it is not very unrea sonable to' conjecture that the enormous rents may have something to do with it, and that there may be no great disposition or ability to pay the tithe proctor when the quarterly visit of the rent-taker sweeps away all there is. Looking at this subject in all its bearings (and we here glance but at a few of them), it must be admitted to be second to none in importance as regards both parts of the empire. The Irish landlord seems to stand between the countries as the lawyer in the fable is represented between two clients—while he devours the oyster, " a pearly shell" is all that the expectant litigants acquire. By the system to which we allude both Ireland and England are impoverished ; and though session after session of Parliament takes place, presenting the same melancholy state of things, scarcely a voice is raised to suggest or enforce the remedy. Thu time, however, is, we trust, fast approaching when this view of the matter can be no longer evaded ; and, for ourselves, we trust that we cannot better accelerate the justice so long, though hitherto ineffectually, called for, than by displaying in the language of truth the real state to which Ireland is reduced by the dissimilarity which exists in the laws which apply to different por tions of what is called a " United Kingdom."—Morn ing Herald. It would be difficult to offer a better illustration of the character of the present Administration than is presented to the British public in the boast of its re tainers, a beast which forms of necessity the staple material of their public eddresses, of the advantages which, they have procured for the country, and espe cially for their own party, by their Bill (for they have still the assurance to call it theirs) of Municipal Cor poration Reform. The single important Act of the session was undoubtedly that for the Reform of Municipal Corporations, and this is the sub ject upon which every Ministerial braggart must declaim, when he has the good fortune to collect around him a fit assemblage of gullible dupes, or he content to stare upon them in stupid and silent vacuity. The alternative would be painful to men who respected their auditors 'or themselves, but, f 0..- tunately for the Ministerial braggarts, they respect nei ther. This Municipal Corporation Bill may or may not turn out in practice to be a beneficial measure. But in either case it is not the measure of the Ad ministration ; and fleet they and their partisans should now claim merit, as they do, on account of it, is only a proof of the wretched state of penury in which they find themselves, when it becomes necessary for them to parade their pretensions to public gratitude and fa vour. If they had any single achievement of theirs to mention that would constitute a real claim to the ap plause of the nation for their legislative talent and success during the last session, there needs no ghost to tell us that Ministers and their advocates would never recur, as they perpetually do, to a measure which they accepted from the reforming and cor recting hands of their political opponents with manifest angd with thoi a sf vo it w mh e ep d reluctance and hesitation. important measure i s he d O'Connell iupon Adminis trationth the whole, one of the meanest and most disreputable transactions that ever stained the character of any body of men pretending to ca I themselves statesmen. In consequence of the amendments introduced by the House of Lords into' this Bill, amounting, in fact, to little less than its entire re-construction, what cla mour did we not hear about the defeat of the Munici pal Corporation Reform ? Were we not assured, clay after day, by the most confidential organs of the Ad ministration, that Ministers would disdain to rear the changeling that had been forced upon them? Did not the Prime Minister himself, in his place in the House of Lords, expressly and distinctly suggest this language to the Ministerial press ? Did he not pro ceed even further than this, and hold out a revolution ary menace to their Lordships, if they persisted in alterations which are now embodied in the Act of Parliament ? Have not the most able and power full supporters of Ministers, the supporters whom Ministers most unreservedly trust, cherish, con sult, and obey, filled the order-book of the House of Commons with notices of motion for next Session, threatening the independence and the existence even of the House of Lords, chiefly on account of the manner in which the Conser vatives in that Noble Assembly remodelled the Corporation Bill ? • Have not Mr. O'Connell, the 'mainspring, and other persons, auxiliary springs, of the Administration, been vituperating, with all their vast powers of vituperation, the Peerage of England, stimulated confessedly to these outpourings of coarse and ribald abuse by the Lords' Amendments of the Municipal Corporations Bill? Did not Lord John Russell apologize for its acceptance by the pretence that it was only an instalment, thus labouring to the extent of his puny faculties to render it unsatisfactory and unsuccessful ? All these questions must be an swered in the affirmative. What right, then, we ask, have the present Ministers of the Crown to claim the merit, •if merit there be, of the Municipal Corporation Bill ? Are they, in virtue of their character of Re volutionists, to be indulged in the privilege of blowing hot and cold at their pleasure ? Is a measure to be "productive of consequences which we shall all have , occasion to regret," as Lord Melbourne said to , the I' House of Lords ; is it to be an unsatisfactory instal i'ment, as Lord John Russell said to the House of dornmons ; is it to be an adequate cause forTreforming, revolutionizing, or abolishing the Upper House of Parliament, as Mr. O'Connell and other partisans of Ministers have said to the whole world ; and, in ad dition to all these things, is it to be a theme of glory _ - ._,~- to Ministers, the measure by which they are to sustain their popularity from one session to another, the mag nificent and,supreme result of their legislative labour for a whole session, the single monument of their efficacy—their solitary claim to national gratitude and support ? We venture to think that the people of England will not adopt these contradictory and irrecon cileable propositions. All the eloquence of Mr. O'Connell, with the no-eloquence of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell to boot, will be insufficient to convince them that the Municipal Corporation Bill, as re-constructed by the House of Lords, is a bad Bill, when the purpose is to discredit and overthrow that part of the Constitution, and a good one when the pur pose io to extol Mr. O'Connell and his subordinates in power, Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne. An attempt has been made, certainly without much suc cess, to palm this absurdity upon the people of Eng land. But we will take the character of that people altogether if they will satisfy themselves by the con temptuous rejection merely of this flagrant absurdity. The attempt is pregnant with inferences which a re flecting nation will not fail to draw. It is an attempt which could only have been made by Ministers dex terous and zealous in Revolutionary enterprises, reck less or unskilled in the business of Legislation. — Morning Post. MASSACRE OF TILE NATIVES IN NEW ZEALAND. (From the Hobart Town Courier, Dec. 12, 1834.) Towards the end of the month of August, an individual, named John Guard, made an affidavit before the Governor of New South Wales in Council, to the effect that the brig Harriet, belonging to him, had been wrecked on the western coast of New Zealand, so long ago as April last ; that all the cargo which he and his crew had succeeded in saving from the sea was seized upon by the native tribes, who, within a fortnight after the wreck, attacked him in consi derable numbers, slew several of his little party, took his wife and two children prisoners, and forced him to seek in flight for safety. That having effected, with ten of his men, a retreat, after a journey of some length, they fell in with another tribe, to whom they surrendered themselves prisoners, and were sent under an escort to Miitaroa, the pah belonging to the Na tiawa tribe, and whence Mr. Guard and three of the na tives, finally departed for Cloudy bay, he promising to pro cure ransom from Sydney for the remainder of the crew. From this statement it also appeared, that great barba rities had been exercised towards him and his crew by the natives—and in consequence a resolution was come to by the Sydney Government, to send an expedition to New Zealand for the purpose of effecting the rescue of all the captives—and a company of his Majesty's 50th Regiment having been ordered to embark far this purpose on board the colonial schooner Isabella, the co-operation of Captain Lambert, R.N., in his Majesty's ship under his command, was requested. A detachment of the 50th Regiment was received on board under Lieutenant Gunton—Capt. John son, Assistant Surgeon Stewart, and Ensign Wright, ac companying the Alligator in the colonial schooner. On the 31st of August bos.ll vessels sailed from Port Jackson, on the I I th of the following month arrived off Cape Egmont, and the next morning were landed two per sons who had been put on board to act, the one as an in terpreter, the other as a pilot. They were instructed to state the reason of our visit, to :remand the female and chil dren, and to promise that if given up peaceably, we should depart in peace, but at the same time to assure the natives that force was at hand sufficient to compel them to yield up their prisoners if needful. The same evening the Alligator came to an anchor off Waimate and Rangetuapeka, the paps of two contiguous and closely allied tribes, by one of whom, the Natirnanuhi people, Mrs. Guard and her infant were detained, while those of the other tribe, Taranaki, held in custody a second child. The attempt to negotiate the matter with these natives failed at this time, and both vessels proceeded to a harbour in the south island to which Captain Lambert gave the name of Gore, in compliment to the naval commander in-chief of India. While there, it was as carefully surveyed as the time would permit, by acting Lieutenant Moore, assisted by Mr. N. C. Phillips, second master .of the Alli gator. On the 17th, the interpreters were received on hoard, they had been unmolested by the natives, but took alarm the night of their landing, and fled from the pah— nor had their fears of personal danger allowed them to reach the two palls above-mentioned, so that on their re turn, it appeared as if the object of their landing had been but partially accomplished, all they had gained having been a promise on the part of the natives to bring down their prisoners, and restore them on payment of ransom, and in the expectation unjustifiably held out to them by one of the interpreters, of the ships trafficking with them afterwards. Standing off again from their coast, we ran for another harbour in the south island, hitherto unnoticed by naviga• tors, and to which the name of Port Hardy has been given in honour of the gallant Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, Lord Nelson's flag Captain at Trafalgar. Messrs. Moore and Philips surveyed this capacious and excellent harbour, charts have been made by those gentlemen, which it is oped may prove useful to those engaged in South Sea vogaging. . On the 21st, anchored under the lee of one of the Sugar loaf islands, off Miitaroa, demanded and received the male prisoners, eight in number, whose appearance was haggard and wild in the extreme, but their report of the treatment they had experienced from the Natiawa tribe, as favourable as it could be, they had shared with them portions of all they themselves possessed—had never injured nor so much as threatened them with injury. On the 28th, a party of seamen and marines with a few soldiers, landed near the Numa, a pah belonging to the Na tirnanuhi tribe, a number of when were ;gathered to witness the disembarkation, on the margin of the cliff under which the landing was effected. They were met by a chief, Oto hite, and one other companion, the former rubbed noses with J. Guard, in token of amity, and said he had come down to receive the promised payment for the women and her child, who were at the Numa in readiness to be given up. He was made a prisoner of immediately, put into a boat manned by some of the late crew of the Harriet, and ordered on board the Alligator, in charge of Guard. At tempting to make his escape, he was fired upon while in the water, having jumped overboard, and again captured, one of the balls having entered his leg. During the pas sage off, he was cut and wounded in a most shameful way by Mr. Guard and his men, whose only apology for such unwarranted and unwarrantable barbarity, is to be found in the recollection of the injuries they had themselves sus, tained on a former occasion. It is a cause of thankful ness, however, that in this act of cruelty neither military nor naval man had any part ; and the attentions and kind ness which Otohite received on board his Majesty's ship, from her Captain and others, appeared to have completely assured him that to his capture only they were consenting, and in no wise to the ill treatment he had experienced. The party then proceeded to the Numa, which they found empty of inhabitants, while the lighted fires in the native cowtas (kitchens), and the food in process of being cooked, indicated how inapprehensive the tribe in reality was of our intention being hostile when we first landed. Reports of natives being seen in the bush, and of those on the height having fired down upon the men in charge of the boats, and subsequently plundered them, reached the commanding officer at the same time, who proceeded to plant a piquet on the cliff for the protection of the latter ; Lieutenant Thomas, R.N. going in search of the natives— and in the afternoon a second party was sent out in charge of Mr. M'Murdo, mate of the Alligator, to pursue them in another direction—the former failed to track their flight, but the latter came up with them in a small wood, but so terrified were the New Zealanders that they fled precipi tately, dropping every thing on the way, by which their flight was encumbered. That night was spent in the Pah, the following day re port was m#de of several natives in sight, and the com manding officer, accompanied by an officer of the Alligator, as interpreter, and four of the sailors of that ship set off to communicate with them if practicable ; two of the party did communicate accordingly, but to no purpose, the natives alledged that they had seen their chief murdered, and would kill the woman as payment ; affecting to despise the force brought against them, they declared it to be the in tention of the Natirnanuhi people to come down the next day and fight. On returning to Captain Johnson, who, anticipating treachery, had not advanced near enough to speak to the natives himself, and making the above known to him, the order was given to return. On the way a party of soldiers .met them, brought forward by Mr. Tottenham, mate of the Alligator, the officer of the picquet, who seeing the num bers of natives in the neighbourhood, had deemed it expe dient to provide increased power of resistance, lest the ap proach of those New Zealanders should be for the purpose of attack. At noon the same day, the pah was set fire to and utterly razed to the ground. The party re-embarked, and in the evening the ships made sail for the other pahs. A detach ment had gone out, under the command of Lieut. Thomas, in the morning to search for some huts, where it was sup posed the female and child would have passed the night, but they could not be found. On the 30th negotiations were attempted for the boats, but in vain. On the Ist of October Otohite was sent in one of the boats and harangued his tribe, whose joy at see ing him was excessive. 114 rs. Guard and her child were brought down to the beach, a canoe was launched to con vey them through the surf, and Mr. M'Murdo in the first gig backed in to relieve them, and in a few minutes more, it was that gentleman's happiness to convey them to tl-13 Alligator. The chief was then landed highly satisfied with the treat ment he had experienced, and almost smothered under the marks of kindness which had been shown, being apparelled in a large blanket in addition to a suit of sailor's clothing, and it was confidently expected that his influence would be expected to secure the release of the remaining prisoner, for whom boat after boat was sent in, until at length, the child was brought out, held up to view, and a party of natives commenced their war dance on the top of the pah, after which they began to descend, when a stray musket-ball whizzed over the boat in which was the senior Lieutenant of the Alligator, who came on board immediately to report the fact, which being deemed an unequivocal demonstra tion of hostility, the order was given "beat to quarters!" —and a canonading was opened upon the Waimate and prolonged for nearly three hours, during which some of their canoes were destroyed, and much injury must have been done to the houses in the pah ; whether any loss of life was the consequence, could not be ascertained. On the 7th instant, Captain Lambert proposed to land the troops, &c., at a short distance from Waimate, under cover of the pinnace, and the following morning the sol diers of the 50th, and their officers, went on shore, pre ceded by a party of seamen under Mr. M'Murdo, with a six-pounder carronade, and some boxes of grape-shot and canister ; and the Royal Marines, under Lieutenan; Clarke, who gained the height unmolested, and with Lieu tenant Gunton, 50th Regiment, drew up the men in readi ness for further orders, the rest of the troops were shortly after assembled there also. Some natives were already there, who tried to dissuade our party from fighting—pro mising that the child should be brought, which, after a halt of more than an hour, took place. The chief was seen approaching with the youngster on his shoulders, and a small body guard, about half a dozen armed natives, a very considerable number being grouped in different places along the beach ; Mr. M'Murdo advanced to meet him, and relieve the prisoner, but found the boy tied to the chief's back, on which a seaman and another person went forward to separate him (the chief demanding the payment that had been promised him, and wanting to go off to the ship for it), in doing which they appeared to have alarmed him, arid he made a precipitate retreat, which he did not effect until the child had fallen from his back, but before this, it being feared, lest chief and captive should both escape, the order was given to fire, the natives ac companying him levelling their muskets at the same time. The effect was electrical, for almost every hand that held a musket on the beach below, or of the heights above, level led it and fired upon the wretched savages, several of whom fell, six dead, and others wounded. Mr. M'Murdo had thus the good fortune to complete the rescue of all the pri soners, having brought the men from the Miitaroa, the woman and child from Rangetuapeka, and now secured possession of the last captive. Such was the impetuosity of the troops, that consider able difficulty was experienced in putting a stop to their firing ; and when that was effected, as though the New Zealanders lay under a doom of destruction, a fire was open ed on their parts upon the detachments, who were then or dered to advance and fire. The natives continued an irre gular fire, and retreated at the same time, pursued by us, until coming to a deep ravine, it was considered by Captain Johnson to be impassable with the carronade, and the party halted, when Mr. M'Murdo came up and assured that offi cer, that with a few additional hands he would convey the gun across, at the same time entreating him to advance. The perseverance of this gentleman succeeded, and in less than half an hour the whole party, with arms and ammu nition, were on the opposite height, and with the gun ad vanced on the two palls, which were now close at hand. The carronade was planted in a position to rake both . pahs, one of which, however, appeared to be wholly evacuated, and the other nearly so. The intrepid chieftain of the latter, Wai-ari-ari, maintained the unequal conflict single handed ; at last an advance party under Lieutenant Gunton, having silenced a fire from the bush below the pah, at last Wai-ari-ari disappeared over the hill, firing his solitary musket to the last moment, until ,hid from our sight, and safe from our fire also. Both palls were immediately entered, and occupied tem porarily, until on the 11th the surf admitted of our return on ship board—before which, however, fire was set to both places, and they, like the Numa, were burned to the ground. In the Waimate pah there were upwards of 150 houses destroyed, to say nothing of the stock of provision in all, three places, consumed or removed. In reviewing the preceding narrative, the loss of life and destruction cf property will excite a natural regret, that the expedition was sent forth by the Sydney Government with an interpreter confessedly ignorant of the language, as a language, haying only that degree of acquaintance with it which served him to discharge his former office of a spirit seller and billiard-marker, on Korrarika beach. It may and will be made a political question, how far that government can be borne out in directiog a hostile ex- Pedition against the New Zealanders, altogether without re ference to the British Resident with that people, which thougli a people of demi-barbarians, have been, I conceive formally recognised by the King of England as an inde pendent nation, in the triple act of sending them a repre sentative—presenting them with a national flag—and, finally doing that flag, on its being first hoisted, the honour of a royal salute. Except to indicate the line of future duty, it is, perhaps vain to complain, and might seem harsh to condemn ; but waiving complaint, and abstaining from censure, how much better it would have been had the expedition been ordered to the Bay of Islands—there to have taken on board the Resident, himself a complete linguist in the New Zealand tongue, and if deemed expedient, a Missionary, whose moral influence over the native mind en masse, is undoubted even by the most sceptical. With that functionary, to have proceeded to the places mentioned in the narrative, and only when negotiation failed between them and the natives to have resorted to that last, worst argument, in any contro versy between either individuals or nations. Of the manner in which the execution of the measure was accomplished, it may not become me to speak, but it will be obvious that Captain Lambert was in no wise hasty to make a descent in vengeance upon those unhappy savages. And the efficiency of his measures admits of no better proof than that the object entrusted to him was fully accomplished. It may be interesting to your readers to know also, in what way the recent attack upon the Resident's house .had been explained and compensated for. It proved to have been a case of simple burglary, committed by a petty thief with the sole object of enriching himself by the plunder of Mr. Bushby's house ; being discovered and resisted, he and his companions fired. For several months the affair was involved in obscurity, and no clue could be obtained to the party or his object. The day before the Alligator arrived in the Bay of Islands, the whole affair was brought to light. Many of the most influential chiefs readily consented to meet and deliberate on the business, and the result was, that three proposals should be sent to the Government of New South Wales for his approbation -Ist. The offender and his tribe are proposed to be ba nished from the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands. 2d. His patrimonial territory to be taken from him. 3d. That territory to become the property of the King of England. If the Government of New South Wales approve of this settlement of the affair, they, the Chiefs of New Zealand, undertake to carry that settlement into execution. MR. ST. JOHN'S NEW ORIENTAL ROMANCE. —" Nothing can surpass the brilliant fancy, the prodigal invention, the marvels, and the mysteries of Oriental ro mance. Mr. St. John's 'Tales of the Ramad'han' is the most elaborate, varied, and perfect, of all those European fictions written in accordance with the style of Arabian or Turkish lore ; and this is not surprising when, in addition to the known genius of the author, the fact of his being the only English novelist who has long resided in the countries wherein his scenes are laid are taken into account. Hence the truth and freshness of his allusions, the accuracy of his costume, the beauty of his local descriptions, and the per fect verisimilitude spread over all his stories."—Naval and Military Gazette. - - SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—III a drain lately made, just opposite the farm of Grassmillside, on the roan between Kilmarnock and Stewarton, were found on the afternoon of Tuesday last, the greater part of a woman's dress, consisting of a cotton gown, a spotted Indian silk napkin, a pair of black kidskin gloves, and a pair of black worsted stockings, the whole of which were torn to shreds. They seemed to have been perfectly new and little worn. The fashion of the gown was low bodied, full in the breast, and clasped in front ; its colour chocolate, with a small white spot and flower. The stockings are white in the toes, and welted and closed with red worsted. Along with these pieces of dress were found the fragments of a letter, also torn to pieces, on one of which was distinctly written the date of the letter, " Kilmarnock, 13th October, 1835," and on others the name " William" is twice written, and the expressions " person and affections," " dutiful wife," &c. &c. Nothing, however, has yet transpired to lead to a dis covery of the cause of so strange an occurrence. At the instance of the Magistrates of Kilmaurs, two miners were employed to ransack tue sewer, which is covered over about twenty falls, and they succeeded in obtaining some addi tional fragments of the gown, gloves, and stockings, but saw nothing else to excite a suspicion that bodily injury bad been sustained by any one. Some of the lieges in the neighbourhood, however, who visited the place are of opi nion from the appearance of the ground near to the mouth of the drain, that some violent struggling had taken place, which, of course, is conjectured to have taken place at the time when the clothes were torn and deposited in the drain. The affair has caused much stir and excitement in the neighbourhood. __--~1.. ,, ; .-- P _ ~~ POLICE BOWSTREET. Yesterday John Sheen, one of the most notoriouts and daring young thieves in St. Giles' s, was brou g ht befo re the Bench, charged with the following audacious street rob at b er . Y• Mrs. Young, the wife of a stock-broker, residinging No 2, Regent-street East , Regent-square, on that day ( y es ; terday), at twelve o'clock , was passing through Grea Queen-street, -Lincoln's Inn-fields, with her Tetley le, CO Tr taming a sovereign, a bunch of keys, and other proporty, o , l n her arm, when a man resembling the p risoner came staldel in front of her, and snatched it from her with gre at viiY lance, and made off up an alley. In about teaminutes after she saw her reticule in the poss6.ssion of Evans, a P cs ' liceman of the F division, and the prisoner in his custody' He had nothing to say in his defence, and was fully 01 ' milted for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A cab-driver was yesterday put to the bar befor lr; CHAMBERS, on suspicion of having been concerned iD following daring robbery : 3 About six o'clock on Monday morning the shop of 1 ,, 1 ,, J. Falcke, jeweller, No. 127, Wardour-street, was brc''T ea into, and a considerable quantity of valuable property : 4° ' therefrom. The robbery must have been effected in bra t day-light, and what renders it the more remarkable is, 13` . ; 6 . the thief must have begun and ended his operations Wit the view of numerous foot passengers , as Mr. Falcke's sb" is only a door or two from Oxford-street, and close by coach and cab stand, which is always occupied a t tha t hour. The robbery was apparently effected in great bas te ' t as several trinkets ;vere picked up in the streets by differeof individuals, all of which had been dropped by the thief ° thieves in their hurry to escape. From a communication made to Sergeant West,. C sion, he was induced to take the p ris o ner into custody, bu nothing whatever was found Gn him.—He was remanded' Q UEEN- S Q UARE. Yesterday a sturdy-looking vagrant , who gave his n a g ; Thomas Callaghan, was brought before Messrs. v , 11- ° and BURRELL, the sitting Magistrates , b y Strickland, 0.0 of the constables of St. John's, Westminste r, charged WI numberless acts of vagrancy and imposition. The constable was called off duty on the previouseeerd ing to take the prisoner into custody , he havin g atteuiPt t, self-destruction by getting outside the ballustrades of W es o ( minster Bridge. He (defendant) appeared in a statety intoxication at the time. Witness conveyed hint to . 14 station-house.—The prisoner was then fined .ss. for bcl drunk. ON-GA RDE. Yesterday Joseph In .HATT gram, a shabby- N looking old 0 1 0 was brought before Mr. LAING, in the custody of Sergt Miller, of E division, charged with preaching in the or air, and collecting an immense crowd of persons. as Miller yesterday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, d , passing through Holborn, when he saw the prisoner Al t o ing in the middle of the road, with two large dishes 7,0 round his neck, with an inscription on each that " china could be purchased at a certain house in I - 10 1 °70• He was surrounded by between two and three hundro, to viduals, to whom he was preaching , and he representeu, y them that our Saviour was coming on earth , and thab had the spirit in him, and had been sent below a s 0 , Evangelist, to instruct and save sinners , through tlieisit fiuence of the Lord on High. 'Witness proceeded to bob, and requested him to desist, as he was blocking up aoa re structing the free passage, but he refused to do so, an sisted him violently, on which he brought him to this ° t he Mr. LAING asked the prisoner what he had to say :, so charge ? Prisoner (with affected) solemnity-- 1 Evangelist, sent upon earth to convert sinners. Our PP" is coming. edge I Mr. LAING—What have you to say for having eaug per obstruction? Prisoner—l can only say that lO s forming my duty as an Evangelist. Mr:LAING—Then you shall find bail. J or Prisoner—l do not want bail.—He was then lock,,r o S l James Goldsmith, Margaret Goldsmith, and O a ' si Goldsmith, the latter a fine girl 16 or 17 years o f age Bee the other prisoners from 40 to 50 years old, wer e eb' with creating a disturbance. At half-past five o'clock in the evening, the male Pr. l to $ was seen dragging the girl from Smithfield-bars 1 ... °1101 , public-house in St. John-street, from which he was Ord/ and he and the elder female then behaved so outrageso as to collect a mob, by which they would have been r° . ; t sti handled, had not the police of the G division int erfere"' moved the prisoners off to the station-house. The male prisoner, in reply to Mr. LAING, said that t j 3 o defendent Hannah is his daughter, and that just befs re aer was apprehended, he had met her in Smithfield, and_ h un o e standing she had left her situation at the publit c o o ; spoken of by the witnesses, he told her she must av t i j O, pan; him there that he might , satisfy himself of the t rli- $ 0 her statement, when she became exceedingly violent' he conveyed her to the place by force. wif e Mr. LAING—Is that woman by your side Yo ur a Defendant—Yes, and she is mother - in - law to Ilanm-1:00 Mr. LAING (to the girl)—Why do you refuse :bite home ? Girl—This woman whom I have been °tool call mother, is not married to my father, neither is ' o f relation to me. My mother is living, but she has bee rated from my father 13 years. ,01 Mr. LAING inquired of the male defenda nt the ntsi3oe' the girl. Defendant—She is 16 on the 21 s t of Os. cember. •aJf Mr. LAING (to the girl)—Tell me what objeet i : ° „„o o ,j have to go home with your father and your mother''s Girl—l say again she Is no relation to me,. She i ° woman. Four years ago last September she tooltt. see a gentleman, and she said she should get 51. by l p 14 1.1 Mr. LAING (astonished) —For what p u rpose , . 0 107 Girl—For him to have connection with me. ge my person, and since then I have not cared what b: pl osA rne. She now only wants me to go home to d ay , by prostituting me, but she shall not have her vOcootiL am to be a girl of the town, it shall be on my 00 1 tt s 11 ;, il° Mr. LAING, in disgust, turned to the man w t‘ i '. l 4 tening with perfect indifference, and said,—Haveif°loo thing to say in behalf of your wife ? Defendant--Aitear tell the truth, we are not married — we ha ve collo" , 13 years. jo Mr. LAING—She says she was married to p i ° e nington church. Defendant—As God's -. m y ' Plug' not married to her. The woman hung down her head, but said notbiliisl,ler Mr. LAING—A more shocking case of depravil 0;9- heard of. I hardly know which is the worst of Y ° hlf you to find bail. jo° therefore I shall require .500 The prisoners were conveyed to the New Pr fault of the required sureties. (ADvERTIsEmENT.)—PLATED HASH . out r ,li t y „ with strong silver edges and handles. A set of four tly,dies Dishes and Covers are offered for Ten Guineas. The 4 1 ' off the Coveys, so as to form eight Dishes when requirea•oileff T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmit h and le y ett i Cornhill, London. y ie N.B. A variety of Second-hand Silver Watches Ms from, all at Two Guineas each, warranted. eii , e DIED. nark, JP'' 0) On the 25th inst., in Kent-terrace, Regent's-r , t he pi. Esq., of Lloyd's, occasioned by a fall from his hors co °f the On the Ist inst., at Gibraltar, Charles CowleY , „f s Pst - sr, v , Regiment, youngest son of S. N. Cowley, Esq. 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( John Ha Samu e l ° No ma , T. ft Willi; J ohn Thomas a golicitoi t'einee )1 1,isivatral ortv o ic u h t ........ rle.ta 4 UrY Si Nv tlltind' Ip sWlch oodbr liadleigl t s leheit . raintr c C h h einuf v.7 °, llfor( s tratforx 'otton I lranel ~__ ,___ NPP , 1) :11, eleir NVI. V R 1 Al it ii th e d 0 Ap "'etre It t};, .......... INCI 01 -LV from, all at Two Guineas each, warrantee. 4 BIRTHS. tbe c Y • „ On the 23d inst., at Ram_ s , tate, at the house 01,„"' - ' lady of the Baron Louis de Noe, of a daughter. $0 1: k but a few minutes. arn eg ! On the 23d inst., in Ely-place Mrs. Henry ar On the 24th inst., Mrs. Frederick B IL vri Tyrrell, New "" of a son. On the 114ttt InsL., mrs. r /CU. IU. Aj • • ~ .7 of a son. MARRIED.WiII 1 0 4 On the 19th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Tier , Wetenhall, Esq., Captain 10 th Infantry , eldest son of r_ i ' er et/ tenhall, Esq., of St. Omer, to Emilia Georgians, dal* tain the Hon. John Rodney, R.N. , a nd his late wife, .m" Stratford. viefsl * On the 24th inst., at St. Mary's, Bat tersea, John Secretary to the Irish Poor Commission , Dublin, to i..7 e );st` daughter of John Charles Constable , Esq ., of Oak-h°us for; Surrey. GO rg On the 19th inst., at Newbury Ch u rch, Mr. este 0 ( Cheapside, to Charlotte Ann, eldest daughter of Job° aOll%, riner, Esq., of St. Mary's-hill, Newbury, Berks. wJ Pl' On the 22d inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, .N.,r• en , oe y Dovercourt, Essex, to Mary, eldest daughter of lu r ' shall, of the former place. d rci On the 24th inst., at St. James's, Mr. W. a co, 5 0 0 9 street, to Ellen, only daughter of Mr. Hardy, of 3 1 ,a n er icl%ger Lately, at the church of O'Brien's-bridge , Lir: o o Are Riely, to Judith Littleton. The bridegroom is 86 Y 0 0), the On the lady of his choie 84 years ! „ r oariA 19th inst. c , at Ashbourn, Mr. Samuel rif t , v' naston, to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, relict o f the late pi On lloy of Oeoat and Underood. 1° or the 19th inst., at w t Ashbourn, Mr. He nr y BroW naston, to Eliza Coxon, of Offcoat and Underwood' , lat° On the 19th inst., at Duffield, Mr. Robert Browo naston, to Miss Mary Derbyshire, late of Kniveton. -