The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

ATE EDITIONS OF "THE SUN" IN THE CITY. MR. JOSEPH THOMAS, of No. 1, FINCH LANE, CORN HILL, has made arrangements by which the Public and the Trade may be supplied with a THIRD EDITION of " THE SUis" every Even i ng at Half-past Seven o'Clock, and subsequent Editions when pub lished. The Third Edition of " The Sun" contains the Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament up to Seven o'Clock, and all other important information accessible to that hour. On TUESDAYS and FiIDAYS a full Abstract of the " Lon don Gazette"—Bankruptcies, Promotions in the Army and Navy, &e. will be found in this Ed i t ion, the importance of which will be appreciated by slerchants and Bankers for their Foreign Correspondence. Advertisements and Orders for " The Sue raceived by Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas has also been specially appointed CITY AGENT for the ";HORNING POST," every Edition of which may always be obtained at his Office as soon as published. 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NEW WORK, .‘ THE LOTTERY OF LIFE." IS NOW liIZADY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough- street, _ . —Amp THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, JUNE 3. The Terformances will c. mmence with a New Domestic Drama, entitled ONE FAUT'F. Prig cipal Characters by Miss Faucit (from the '1 heatre Royal, Covent-garden), Mr. Oxberry, Mr. F. Matthews. and Mr T. Vining. After which, the Musical Farce of THE AGREEABLE SUR- Lingo Mr. Harle ; Cowslip, Mrs. Humby. To which will j he added, 010 VA NN I IN LONDON—Don Gio vanni, Mrs. H. P. Gra tan ; Leporella, Mr. Harley. To conclude with the Ballet 01 TB E DA UirllTEa OF THE DA NUBE, in winch Mr. Gilbert and Miss BAllin will appear. Boxes, 4s. Pit, :'s.—Galley, Is. Doors ocn at half-past Six; cemmeace at Seven ; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Priva'e &xes to be had of Mr. Groga', at the Private Box-Mlle:,; and of .Messis. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Third Week of Muiat, and the grandest Novelties ever witnessal, Kith an nnmense outlay, and nnmbrrs without conception. THIS EVENING, JUNE 3. Will be presented a new Military and lequestrian Spectacle, en titled MURAT—THE PEASANT, GENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand iieviews of Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux. Atter which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. BATTI"S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Couriers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gym-astics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. Gorgeous Cavalcade, novel acts of Equitation, and unri valled Acrobatique Feats. To conclude with an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE tiImLET EYE. TRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS F.YENING, JUNE 3, IAST APPEARANCE OF MADEMOISELLE DEJAZET, The Pert trmances will commence with LES PREMIERE ARMES DE RICHELIEU.—Le Due de Richelieu, M..dlie. Dejazet. To conclude with LA FILLE DE DOMlNlQUE—Catherine Biancolellt, Madlle. Dejazet Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per. Ibrroances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications fo , Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se ruin's, 12, Regent.street; Mr. Sams's, St. James's-street; and at the Box-ottlee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respecttblly Informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, GRAND. EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou. rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in tmlaittions which render them more generally attractive. The MEN AGEitIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table.iu d'action, repre senting the Proce,sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Tha BAND includes some of the most elw fent Performers, con ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES DI USIC A LES selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the .GIRAN [MLA of ST. ANGELO, wi'h all the gorge3us Spectacles and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac elsonmations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC tDE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens arc open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Piomeliades Sius:cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Giratidola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, ai:d Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE INDIA SUN CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or- Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of The Sun." qb j e, _Sun. cate a free trade in all things, a free trade in cattle—lral we a free corn trade—would be practically of no im portance. The Whigs, therefore, by proposing to allow the importation of corn at a fixed duty, rendered the pro hibition to import Cattle unimportant ; while Sir R. PEEL has won the hearts of the free traders by a con cession that is nearly worthless in conjunction with the sliding scale. Their conduct on this occasion is an ex ample of that gullibility- against which we desire to guard them. At the head of a majority of 100, Sir IL PEEL has been compelled to yield ; and we beg the free traders will consider that fact, in order to prevent them throwing away their advantages. We read a great deal in public journals of the cor ruption of the people, and very little of the corruption of the Government. Because, the latter is constituted to take care of the former, and promote their moral im provement, it is assumed as beyond a doubt that it is superior to them. and always answers the intended pur pose. This is evidently a great mistake, and to expect the moral improvement of the people from our Government, is to look for a substance where there is not even a shadow. The decision of the Belfast election, huddled up yes terday like so many other Election Committees, has added to the number of instances already known of the Legislature springing from the vilest corruption. The election was at once declared void. The bribery was kept out of view by a resignation. In truth, proofs of that corruption have of late been so numerous that even Sir ROBERT PEEL, no purist, who has been familiar with scenes of corruption in the House of Commons all his life, cries out shame, and calls on the Members of both sides to skin over the foul ulcers if they cannot cure them. In all those instances—and the public has a thorough conviction that the cases in which corruption is practised and concealed are much more numerous than the detections—w'e find the co:nponent parts of the Legislature labouring assiduously to corrupt and debase the people. Does the Executive afford us a better example ? We will not imitate the bad taste of both Houses of Par liament, and speak of our amiable and high-minded QUEEN as constituting the Government, and responsible, therefore, for the many evils which the misery of the multitude brings holm to its door. Her example, as a woman and a Queen, as a wife and a mother, can only be beneficial to the community, while the example of the Government is the very reverse. Its whole career, latterly, has been tortuous duplicity. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S promises and his performances are no better than a most mischievous fraud. He broke up the late Ministry, and delayed that relief for which the people were pant ing, because he and his party, were opposed to the re laxation of our commercial restrictions, and he has in troduced a series of measures to carry out in a bungling manner the principles which, in opposition, he would not allow to be acted on. The one obvious difference between his measures and theirs is, that they really meant to benefit the public; while he proposes, by set ting one interest against another, to secure his own power. His example is one of gross deceit. He ob tained power on false pretexts, and ho uses it only to spread dissension and delusion through the land. Even the Morning Post cries out against him as a promise breaker, and those who placed him in office trust him no longer. With a corrupt Legislature, and deceitful Executive, how can we reasonably expect a moral people ? The salt which should preserve has lost its virtue. If they be not superior in morals to both the Legislative and Executive powers, and be unable to infuse a wholesome reform into both, there can be no hope of improvement either in the conduct of the Government or in their inn rality. In general, we are less disposed to advocate organic reform than measures of immediate utility ; but such measures having been obstinately refused, we are compelled, like others who are thoroughly disappointed by the conduct of the Government, to fall back on or ganic changes as the only means of preventing the Go vernment continuing to injure and corrupt society. Grievous disorders must ensue if the Government re main, as at present, more corrupt than the governed. THE LATE ATTACK on the QUEEN. Since the prisoner Francis has been in Newgate he has con ducted himself remarkably well. He appears very composed, and exhibits some appearance of being aware of the fearful position in %shish he is placed. Of course none of the officers or others connected with the gaol have had any conversation with him in reference to the offence with which he stands charged, but it may be relied on as a positive fact that the prisoner has on several occasions declared that there was no ball in the pistol when it was discharged. A turnkey is continually with him, to prevent all possibility of his making any attempt at self-destruction ; but his conduct or behaviour does not give the slightest ground for supposing that he would commit such an act were he so minded--he appears quite calm, submissive, and obedient, and that he should hays committed such a desperate act appears most extraordinary. The conduct of Cooper, the man charged with the murder of the constable a_ Highbury, proves a striking contrast to that of Francis. He has been so violent and brutal on various occasions that he has effectually alienated the kind feelings of all those with whom he has come in contact while in the prison from him. The prisoner up to yesterday persisted in declaring that the pistol had n.,thing in it but powder, and some circumstances would induce a belief that his assertion was correct, there being up to this time an entire absence of proof in any way that the weapon was loaded. The most diligent search has been made, but no trace of a ball has been discovered, and from the posi tion in which the pistol was proved to be fired, if it had been really loaded with ball, there is every reason to,believe that the bullet must have been discovered. LONDON: FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1842. The distressed people of England have reason to be grateful to Lord KINNAIRD for having brought their condition under the notice of the House of Lords last night in a vivid and striking manner. The Noble Lord proved by the conduct of the Ministers that they know of the great and general distress, and he complained of the inefficiency of their measures to relieve it. The people had asked for bread, he said, and their Lordships had offered them stones. Our population is in creasing, but the consumption of each individual is lessening. Thus the consumption of wheat had been less, last year, by 800,000 quarters than the year be fore, and it promised to be less this year. At the same time the poor-rates in Marylebone had increased from 44,5731., in 1836, to 76,3551. in 1841. Crime, too, is increasing. The Noble Lord quoted a variety of facts relative to the consumption of different places, and to diminished employment, to show that the condition of the people was deteriorating. All his observations had no other effect on the Duke of WELLINGTON than to make him impatient ; and lie told the Noble Lord to wait to see the effects of the measures introduced by the Ministers. We regard such policy as most erroneous. The people require to be convinced that they are cared for, as well as actually to receive relief ; and as their Lordships have no great deal of work on hand, and have heretofore readily inquired into the distress of the agriculturists, the least they could have done, we think, was to have granted the Committee, and insti tuted a searching inquiry into the condition of the people. If their Lordships are acquainted with that condition, it is a terrible reproach to them that they do not devise means to remedy it ; or, if they cannot, let them abdicate their legislative functions. If their Lord ships are not acquainted with the condition of the people, it is a scandal to them that they do not inquire into it. Either their Lordships are excessively ignorant, or powerless ; and in either case they can have no claim to the respect of the people, whose distress they cannot, or will not, relieve. As may naturally be supposed, the occurrence has created very great sensation throughout the country; and the I rovin cial Journals that have already appeared, express in strong terms abhorrence at the act, and at the same time testify to the congratulations of all upon the merciful interposition of Provi dence in behalf of our beloved Queen. At the meetirg of the East Surrey Agricultural Association, on Wednesday, at Croydon, Sir Edmund Antrebus, the Presi dent, on propo,ing the health of her Majesty, said he could not help alluding to the two atrocious attempts that had beets so recently made upon her life, and which he said, ap peared to have been only averted by the almost miraculous interposition of Providence. He added, that he knew that at all times this toast was received by the members with enthusiasm ; but he called upon them at the present junc ture to respond to it with increased energy, as a token of their abhorrence at the dastardly outrage that had been committed ; and, at the same time, to express their congratulation,—a feeling which he was quite sure was entertained by the whole country, at her Majesty's escape. The company hardly allowed the President to finish his address, before they commenced giving vent to their feelings by a volley of enthusia.tic cheers. The professional singe s then gave the National Anthem, and concluded with the fol lowing additional stanza, whi.:h was first composed at the period of the attack made by Hatfield, upon his late Majesty George the Third : " From every latent fcc, From the assassin's blow— God save the Queen. O'er her thine arm extend, For Britain's sake defend Our Sovereign, Queen, and Friend Whatever may be the merit of Sir R. PEEL'S commer eial•reforms, they are the offspring of necessity. Ile is no more now an enthusiastic free-trader, who sacrifice s his party to a theory, than he was a convert to Popery when he consented to bring Forward Catholic. Emancipa tion. He is a mere expediency politician—the chief of the red tapists—who would not, if he could have helped it, have risked his power by offending his supporters. The fact is, as he has stated, that population has out stripped the supplies of food which can at present be ob ta;ned from our own soil, and, to avoid some of the ut most severities of famine, he has been compelled to pro pose measures which he supposes will have that effect. His conduct, dictated by this palpable necessity, is the strongest proof we have yet seen of the growing ascen dancy of free-trade principles. All that intriguing poli ticians can do is to obey them, even while they deny their power. This fact is instinct with practical deductions. Al ready Sir R. PEEL has been o bliged to depend on his op ponents for the success of his propositions. He cannot, it is clear, long car r y on th e a d m i n i stration b y t h e aid of a party who mistrust him and hate his measures. In fact, both Tory and Whig Journals have already alluded to a Speedy dissolution of his administration. The principles which are now forcing him to act adversely from his friends will then be still more in the ascendant, and the pra qical question which the friends of free trade ought betimes to consider is, will they who are aided by a power superior to Sir ROBERT PEEL and his com bi ne d host of monopolists, help him, for his own purposes, to delay their certain victo r y ? If they be courageous and true men, with confidence in their own principles, let them leave expediency to him, and they will soon be able to dictate the course of the Government. We are afraid, however, that, they are not staunch. They havi already been bribed to support a worth less Tariff which carries an Income- tax with it. Th ey have been smitten with a fancied liberality ; and as the Whigs said nothing about cattle, they have adopted the conclusion that Sir R. PEEL is a better free trader than his oppo nents. But they proposed a measure as to corn, which made the concession as to cattle of minor importance. England possesses such immense advantages in rearing and fattening cattle, that with a free trade in corn she need no more fear a competition with foreign oxen than with foreign cottons and hardware. Though we adyo. God save the Queen." The whole company repeated the stanza with the greate;t enthusiasm, and at its conclusion the cheering was again re newed, and continued for some considerable time. Since the prisoner has been committed to Newgate, the ga^lers have continued their inquiries, but nothing further of any importance has transpired, and there does not appear the slightest ground for supposing that the prisoner had any ac complices. Some fresh witnes!cs have, however, been sub ' eenaed upon the trial, and among them are the keeper of the coffee-house which the prisoner frequented in Mortimer-street, and the person with whom he lodged in Titchfield-street. PORT TAIAIOT, GLAINIORGANSIIIRE. (From Correspondent. )—This port has been visited, during the last week or ten days, by a vast concourse of peo?le, whose curiosity has led them there to see the large Egyptian ship (1,000 tons) which has just left. She is called the Ashereen, and belongs to Mehemet Ali, PF.cha of Egypt, and is com manded by Captain Mahomet Saad, one of his Highness's naval officers, and a native of that country. Her crew con sisted principally of Egyptians, and her complement is made up of Maltese seamen ; the latter were taken nn board at that island. She is a large and warlike-looking corvette, and is pierced for eighteen guns. She brought to Falmouth a cargo of Egyptian corn, and after discharging it, under went considerable improvements s.hd repairs under th e able hands of Messrs. Fox and Co. ' of that port ; F ront thence she was con s i gne d by th e Pacha to the Zsevereor and Company of Copper Miners in England, to load a cargo rf their coal. She is rigged in English fashion, and hiss the character of being a very fast sailer. It Inty be Ktharlted that only one other Egyptian vessel ever ViMted the shores of Great Britain ; and Port Talbot may, therefore be in tly proud of the hcnour done her, the more so as her noble floating dock has not been opened, or the new channel completed for the re ception of such large vessels until within the last tsv'elor, months. It is estimated that at least 10,000 persons have visited the port to P:e her, many of whom travelled as far as twenty miles for this purpose. The first Egyptian vessel visited this e',eintry about twenty-three years ago, and came boun London with a present to our Government; in return, gln was ordered to be fiqed, at the Royal Dock-yard, at Dept ford, in every respect as an English frigate. There are four other vessels at this port, now loading real, for the Mediterra nean, and six hav e lately left for the same destination. The Ashereen sailed on Tuesday last, being in chsrge of one of the Port Talbot pilots. I n t h e present week the duty on coal shipped for foreign ports, by the Governor and Company of Copper Miners iu England, alone would have amounted to 28ti1. We sincerely hope Sir Robert Peel's treasure in regard to the export duties on coal will undergo a material revision before passing, so that this important and rising branch of trade, Box Tunnel pre_ Sun employs so large a population, may not be plaell i P jeopardy, or suffer injury by the imposition, and 72; mg the walls a the On Saturday, the 9th inst., the sented a most splendid though singular appea:ance caus e d v sun shining directly through it, to use the expression of !ner_ w it nesi , as though the whels tunnel ha I been gilt : " nls circumstance will ecceir again in the fall of the yeas k d ur ing the m on th of October). A t t h is time of the ;ear it appears about live in the morning ; i n t h e fall, of c.:.,arse, not so early.— Wiltshire Independent. A meting of the members of the Colonial Society was held yesterday in St. James's-square, for the purpos e of preparing a congratulatory address to the Queen on her provi. dential escape. Protestations of the heart-felt attachment of the colonies to the Sovereign of the parent kingdom were warmly made at the meeting. The address is to be presented by the Duke of Argyll, th e E ar l o f M oun t cas h e l, th e E ar l of arewood, Lord Clifford, Sir Duncan M•Dougall, and Sir Agustus D'Este. A Constantinople letter of the 9th inst., says:— " Tahir Pacha has made a proposal to the Council of Alinis ters to send a commissioner to Tunis, to watch the conduct of the Dey, but the Sultan opposed it, as being unwilling to do anything that might give offence to France. Risa Pacha, Illarshal of the Palace, who has alwa3s been an inveterate ene m y to the new system of reform, is so deeply affec'ed by p Vizier ulmonary phthisis, that his life is despaired of, and the Grand in is confined to his bedby the re-opening of an old wound his thigh, which, it is feared, will rend er amputation ne (teary." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, JUNE 3, 1842. a sufficient width the whole way for two carriages to pass. The distance may appear small, but the difficulties to be contended with were considerable. The road, which follows the beach li i 3 throughout its whole extent, built far above the influenc of (ei tide, and, consequently, walls of rough masonry were nee a • nary on the side nearest to the sea; while on the other side it has had to be cut out of the hills. Several protruding rocky points had also to be blasted ; tut the stability of the road, now once made, is a recompense for the trouble that was taken upon it. " 11. The Porirua road is fit, at present, only fur the passage of cattle and pack-horses ; but is of much importance as throwing open the rotate to Wanganui and Taranaki. Both these roads have been made at the exclusive expense of the Company, whose pecuniary interests however, though not consulted in the first instance, will doubtless be eventually promoted by every facility given to intercourse between the town and the country, and by the opening out of fresh agricul tural tracts to the enterprise of the settlers. ' " 12. It is scarcely necessary to dilate, at this day, on the easy access of Port Nicholson, and the security of Lambton Harbour; but as both the one and the other have been ques tioned by parties seeking to disparage the settlement, it may be satisfactory to you and to the public, to hear Mr. Heaphy's tes timony on the subject. 'As the accessibility of Port Nichol son (he observes), during the heavy contrary gales which sometimes prevail, has been questioned, I may here mention that the number of vessels that have beit in against strong gales, is 14, and 53 with slight winds. Out of this number, 47 were strangers, and 18 entered by night. Each time that I have entered Port Nicholson has been against con trary winds, and three out of the five, times have been by night. It is fortunate to be able to add, that since the forma tion of the Colony, no vessel has met with any serious acci dent, either while in the harbour, or when entering.' Of Lambtnn harbour he states :—' The anchorage is not only per fectly land-locked, but in the direction of the prevalent winds, its distance from the beach is so small, as to prevent any swell arising in a gale which would affect the shipping.' Four piers or jetties have been run out into the harbour to facilitate the landing of cargoes, alongside of one of which, vessels of 150 tons burden can discharge. " 13. The following table exhibits the number and tonnage of the vessels which have entered between the date of the Tory's arrival with the Company's first expedition, and the 7th of December last:— Number. Tonnage. Vessels from the Australian Colonies ....... 57 8,611 New Zealand coasters, and vessels from whaling grounds.. ............ Vessels from South America ...... ..... Vessels sent out by the Company with emigrants and stores Private vessels from India Ships of war ........ 149 13,877 3 1,000 41 15,002 8 2,454 4 2,000 Total ... 262 42,944 Your Directors doubt whether an equal number of ships and amount of tonnage, ever entered the port of an infant settle ment in the first two years cf its existence. " 14. The English population of Wellington and the neigh bouring villages is estimated as amounting to about 3,700 in November last. 01 these, 3,469 had emigrated from England in the Company's vessels, and the remainder - had come out in private vessels, or had arrived from the Australian colonies. 111 r. Heaphy states, that the number of those who have left the settlement is very trifling; and that the births have greatly exceeded the deaths. He calculates the number of the white population at this moment at about 4,600. As many as 200 of the natives are said to live so as to be completely domesticated in the families of *e English, to work for them, and to deserve to be reckoned among the civilized inhabitants of the place. The number of houses in Wellington alone—besides the adjacent villages—was estimated in Nov. last at 445, of which 195 were substantially built of brick or wood, at an aggregate cost of about 23,600!. Many of the dwellings and warehouses are stated to be excellent, and some of the former to possess much architectural beauty. Land suitable for building near the beach was letting at the close of last year, for short terms of years, for 10s. per lineal foot of street frontage, and that on the beach for 11. per foot water frontage. Commerce and trade were flourishing, as is, indeed, proved by the great number of vessels which have visited the port during the short period of its settlement, from the Austra lian Colonies and the whaling grounds, those of the latter description being, of course, excellent customers for provisions. The pecuniary dif f iculties of New South Wales had been the means of furnishing Wellington with a large supply of live stock at very low prices. Coal has been found at several points near the settlement. When Mr. Heaphy left Wellington there were twenty vessels in the harbour, several of which were owned by merchants of the place ; and one vessel of sixty tons burthen was on the stocks, and nearly ready for launching. From another authentic source, your Directors have learned that the receipts of the Custom.house in the first month after it was opened, amounted to 1,000/. Mr. Heaphy mentions that up to the time of his quitting the settlement, only one failure in business had taken place, and he believes that in that in instance the insolvent party paid 15s. in the pound. Several scientific men bad taken up their residence at Wellington, and the formation of a Horticultural Society shows the existence of a disposition to pursue objects of science as well as those of profit. There is no want of other indications that our country men, in undertaking the war upon the wilderness, have not forgotten, and are not inclined to neglect, the tastes and pur suits of civilized life. " 15. The facts recited (which have been selected from a mass of information) are enough to show that neither the elements of wealth and social comforts, nor the energy and patient industry which qualify men to at tain them, are wanting at Wellington. The success of the great experiment which it has been your honourable fortune to try, and the high merit of the colonists to carry out, on the beautiful but till now unreclaimed and unprofitable shores of New Zea land, is secure: the settlement has beyond all question, taken permanent root. Nevertheless, the quickuess and extent of the further growth of the community which you have founded, is dependent, in a great measure, upon aid from without. The colonistwand your Directors equally feel that it would conduce most essentially to the enhanced prosperity of the settlement, if means could be devised by which parties possessed of land,—to the improvement •of which, in proportion to its extent, they have already devoted considerable capital,— might be able to obtain loans upon the security of such pro perty at reasonable interest, and for longer periods than con sist A ith the rules and practice of ordinary banks. Land in a new colony, rapidly increasing in value, must afford the best security for such advances, if made in the first instance with a prudent regard to the fair market value of the pro perty charged. And where, as in such communities, profits are extremely high, and capable, for a considerable time at least, of being acquired without diminution of rate, from an extended capital, it must manifestly be the interest of the landowner to increase his means of production. Your Direc tors were assured of this, and of the great anxiety of the colonists that loans of the nature in question should be avail able to parties of undoubted substance and character, disFosed to engage, bona fide, in agricultural or other useful operations ; but yet they were unwilling that the Comp an y s h ou ld a t once take upon itself the direct instrumentality of a system of ad vance for considerable periods upon landed security. They preferred that the actual management of such a system should be in the hands of parties making it their primary business , and they have, therefore, endeavoured to arrange the matter, through the instrumentality of a Company whose general objects are well calculated to advance the prosperity of the colonies in which they are brought into action. A negotiation with that Company has been opened ; and your Directors regard the ob ject in view as one of so much importance, as to demand that the means of effecting it should be anxiously and unceasingly sought for. " 16. One other subject connected with Wellington requires notice in thin plate, Yet& Directors allude to the founding of a town at Wanganui, where the sections of die holders of the secondary series have been selected. The landowners in that &strict were anxious that the most eligible site in the block from which they had to make choice of their respective allot ments shotild be set apart by the Company for a town; and they tio ' licited that, in eotisideration of the. inferiority of the situation held by parties possessed of seetintiS lti Wellitigtcril l half an acre in the new town should be granted gratuitously ft/ each proprietor of a country section, with a consecutive right of choice, following the order in which they had taken up those silleldieilig: 13iit ylitir Directors did not think it reasonable, nor even for the interests of the parties Using tkit request, to accede to it specifically. They accordingly instructed yoitr principal agent to lay out a town of 500 acres into quarter. acre allotments ; and then to permit the holders of the secon dary cettletls to id* for the thoite of thes e t o w n l o t s , alter irleatteinl3rg* further, ti that ithaht the i. ati 'Z On behalf Of the Cd r tip an y I di- e s stl tictitliad fof file Company should be sold by public auction, after reasonable tiotiee its Wellington and the adjacent settlements- If by these means, other parties possessed of capital are brought to settle in the tottn, 'tier Directors ate persuaded that the parts of it which shall fall to the lot of the holders of the secondary sections will be more valuable than if they had been permitted to appro priate the whole ttl the tdwh, dr at least all the mo s t eligible site in it, to theinse veS. fit order to cottimeitairate their grateful sense of the great services which a noble member of their body has rendered to the, settlements of the Compa n y, your Dlfeettirit hive instructed Colonel Wakefield to give to the town founded as above sieseribed; the name of ' "'etre.' " IY. The length to whit)! this Report has already extended, and the imcbsaity Of adVettitig, befdrC they dose it, tO other subjects of great ihiporfahe.e, compel your Directdrs to no tice more bristly than they should otherwise desire to do, the deli - lent was filially state and tirospeets of New Plymouth. The site of that set chosen, ill Illarall 1841; at Taranake, between between Enid anti Eliatolti ; in a district iihith is stated to be Of etpinent fertility, generally level, acid tree froth Mintier; the plain§ beiiik I , bireted ;Pith the ittauriain ferns which attain to such all efiormOua Sias in that soil slid climate. The great, indeed the only Want, is that of a har bour, stieh ticeoftimododu tot shipping being `seldom Email in Nevr Zealand lh the itlitnediate *kinky of any con si 'erable quantity of level told; and the fivers aboresnattied having hah:., Whieh ket-ant shy hilt Small lidaiterl faint entering theta: Mit a wind bloWilig off sfibrE is iiiitHol le Vh iiiitrelitient; and to last but a short time,. the anchorage in the read-stead is good ; and your Directorshave sent out several sets of moor ings for ships,, in order t,o facilitate he landing of cirgoes. The coast, htlids out great IndlicetrielitS fof adtetitufea itt whaling ; and by the 1 teat accOUnts ; the Settlers Were about to forth a corntianf tot 84 a .tlittilbet ti t hats for *hat is t Called tile " s 'Bre fabfj , ,' Mit the ptiiiiati siobationi of the colonists of New Plymouth will be agricuttiiird, Wellington being indicaleclt catttre as the commer c ial entrepot for all the ;malice!) Am, of ,Cook's Strait. Inc sni'vel's ssre Wail y , elt . Sitiffsklillly: Ohl, tiMn git u tm e nt, were given '6w, bh t 'eltith NOVeinber ' Hd# it i.,as Rpte , bd that the subiirban sections whilld be re4d ' s.foi distribution abotit the middle ot Dbeeinl4r: T 4 tBtal giikllsh FolitiOtion at i\ r et)r Plolioititi i; litiii about B,d'o souls, of whom the Company hls sent out 735. . . Bthtehren4triaerlairmatiff(ajtrasnbofthe several settle yhtit Dikeetors conbe& t halm great ati 3 !! t 8 thh. the constitution o a Bishopric of the Chtiren knglatid In Ni,v Zealand ; and oil - the appointment of the ItU;: b6oilfe Aligilittis 414 1 .4 tl getii`rnin distinguished alike by zeal and energy and 1) 4 3 - Win* W thOt ?fficC. YiT Atc 1-14,t this tilediure efigthPY siig; geskW Strntifili tirOd bBv4nitielif 1)3 the Aiso- Of 15,17,in Which this Company' had ica Origin your Deetois hve always asserted the great importance of fyinishing the se ttlers with the means of religious instructs, n ittid to the,. flitiphtnientiil Pritteip/e,, that the Company will snow no pirila i 8 ft.fiYigt of int dnE religious deniimiiiatioti, but that the'ntimbers , and consequent 4tits 8f abh shall be the iiiedSti - e df the preport ion of iny thl)ie Fitrithiea Aidt„th6 intY make. In several, ititeibietis whi c h yh t ir Direetofs dati tiistitt Bclllth % the boilld s not fall . reengnise, With extreme iatistaettolit .t 6 ileWsi did the cattiest desire to promote the temporal a s w el t as llle !!piriiiial *Witte td the whole community inhabiting N ew Z ea land, without disiietthiti of race, colour, or creed, by which the Bishop appeared to be actuated in undertaking his arduous and responsible functions. The Bishop having expressed his readiness to cover wit) an equal sum any contribution which the Company or its friends might be disposed to make, with a view to secure to those of the inhabirants of Wellington and New Plymouth, who are in communion with the Church of England, the blessings of spi ritual instruction through the instrumentality of a fixed and per ' manent ministry, your Directors thought that they could not better evince the sincerity of the Company'sdesire to promote the religious and moral welfare, as well as the temporal advantage of the colonists who have connected themselves with it, than by securing to the settlements the benefit of double the sum bestowed. They gave to Wellirgton 2,000!., and to New Plymouth 5001. Your Directors desire to call public attention to a Committee which is on the point of being formed, with a view to raise additibnal subscriptions to these church finds; and tbey beg y!), to bear in mind, that the Bishop has pledged ' ')) • - • ,10 4 * . tj • „I, ,sl,, 4 n ) • * 4 • Arvit 7- N oho,- 3fr t , •• 4 , OrrieiCk' ligraitir !`l7„, ! 'AT 0 NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. The Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Company was held on Tuesday at the New Zealand House, Broad street-buildings. The chair was taken at one o'clock by Joseph Somes, Esq., the Governor of the Company. The following gentlemen were present at the meeting:— DIRECTOR s.—Mr. Mangles, M.P., Mr. Aglionby, M.P., Mr. Marjoribanks, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. W. King, Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Bart., Mr. C. Buller, M.P., Mr. R. J. Gowen. SHAREHOLDERS. — Mr. I. I. Bulkeley, Major Chase, Mr. Curling, Mr. Alexander Currie, Major Curphey, Mr. W. Dorset, Mr. Christopher Dowson, Mr. Thomas Frederick Everingham, and Mr. Jeremiah Filcher (Au ditors of the Company), Mr. W. G. Gover, Mr. John Heath, Mr. Halpen, Mr. Joseph Somes, jun., Mr. Cle ment Tabor, Mr. G. Trimmer, &c. &c. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the SECRETARY read the following REPORT. " It now devolves urn your Directors to follow up their third and fourth Reports,—severally laid before you on the 3d of May and 16;11 of November, IB4l,—by submitting as full a statement as this occasion will permit of the progress that has been made during the year that has elapsed since the first of those dates, in prosecuting the important objects for which this Company was originally associated, and was honoured at a sub sequent periot with a Royal Charter. During the whole of the term under review, general cirluvnstaneeshave been ex tremely unfavourable (as the mercantile communities of this city and of the Australian colonies are alike too well aware), for the development of the views of your Directors upon a scale proportioned to their intrinsic capacity of effecting pub lic lymeht. But they rejoice to be able to assure you, at the same time, that notwithstanding these obstacles, your colonial operations have been eminemtly prosperous ; and that the most sanguine of your body could scarcely have anticipated a larger mea-nre of success, than that which has crowned the united energy and perseverance of the adventurer's individuals who have undertaken, under your auspices, the honourable and useful enterprise of establishing British settlements upon the fertile shores of New Zealand. " 2. In their third Report, your Ditecters announced the departure from England, on the 27th of April, 1841, of the preliminary expedition, for the choice and survey of the site of Nelson. They have now to inform you, that (after some inef fectual negotiation with Governor Hobson, in the hope of ob taining his sanction for the establishment of the settlement in the neighbourhood of Banks' Peninsula) the site of Nelson has been selected at the head of Tasrr an's Gulf, on the northern coast of the Middle Island. Your Directors have every reason to feel swisfied that the choice of place has been exercised with judgment ; and if in some respects—particularly as regards an immense tract of plain country—the coast to the northward of Banks' Peninsula appeared to offer a more eligible location, the site actually selected, whilst it possesses the recommendation of open and level country to an extent quite commensurate with the present wants of the settlement, has advantages of position which do not belong to the place which seemed, in the first instance, more inviting. It is nearer to this country and to the Australi in colonies, and is easily accessible to vessels from both those quarters at all seasons; but its peculiar superiority consists in its vicinity to 'Wellington and New Plymouth, and in the facility with which, consequently, the colonists on their first arrival there will draw supplies of provisions and other bulky neces saries from the Company's older settlements. And even after such wants have ceased to be felt, great benefits must result to all the settlements from that constant intercourse which their relative positions will invite. It seems probable, from the different character of the country on two sides of Cook's Straits, _ . that the occupation of the colonists of the northern shore will be chiefly tillage of land, and that advantage will be taken of the open plains in the vicinity of Nelson, for the pasturage of sheep and cattle ; that, conseqnently, flax and corn will be the staples of the former, whilst the exports of the latter may, perhaps, more nearly resemble those of Australia. Natural circumstances will, therefore, tend to impose upon the settlers on each island, that mutual dependence which must conduce most essentially to their common benefit. " 3. From Captain Wakefield's reports upon Nelson Ha ven and the country in its vicinity, and from other sources of information, your Directors learn that it is an excellent port, affording easy access and the most complete shelter for any number of vessels, and - having three fathoms at low water within thirty feet of the beach.• It is described as ' consist. ing of a large basin of water, five or six miles in length, sheltered by a boulder-bank, or spit, the whole length north and south, and bounded on the other side by undulating hills or downs, with a wooded valley of some hundred acre 3 and gradually sloping land from it, covered mostly with flax, grass, and fern.' Capt. Wakefield states, that there is a very good site for a town, and an easy horse communication with the in terior • where the whole number of suburban land may be taken in a block, if desirable, and a good portion of it is fit for pas ture.' On the 7th November last, that officer reported that he had no misgivings as to agricultural success,' and that he was ' inclined to think, that the mass of country sections will be more valuable than the town, although there will be some of the town sections very valuable.' Ten days afterwards he wrote : 1 hare no reason to change my opinion with respect to the harbour or the district ; but, on the contrary, I feel daily more satisfied with the choice, and convinced that it will turn out a valuable acquisition to the Company, and to all those interested in the settlement.' From another letter from the same officer, your Directors learn that there are certainly 70,000 acres, in a block contiguous to the site of the town, of excellent land of all descriptions; the valleys full of fine timber, and the rising grounds excellent pasture.' The same letter adds—' I should not like to mislead any body, but I think that you may safely recommend your friends to come out here t they must do well between agriculture and stock.' There is an abundance of water. Besides two rivers, the ' Motuaka' and the Waimea,' —the latter of which must be of considerable size, as it is stated that vessels of 200 tons can enter it-..the country is in tersected by numerous streams, running from a mountain range, stretching thirty miles into the interior. The nature of the country will greatly facilitate the rapid progress of the surveys; the surveying staff is very efficient, and there seems to be good reason to expect that a very considerable proportion of the suburban land, and perhaps some of the rural land, will be laid out ready for selection in anticipation of the arrival of the first colonists. There is this additional advantage in Capt. Wakefield's words, that they can commence with stock at once.' The native inhabitants of the neighbouring country, who appear to be few in number, are so anxious that the English should settle amongst them, that at one place, in order to induce the party to settle there, they had built houses ready for their reception. "4. Since the date of the last Annual Report, 12 vessels, conveying 161 cabin passengers and 1,942 free emigrants, have been despatched to Nelson.t Four of these, the Lloyds, Mary Ann, Fifeshire, and Lord Auckland, sailed in September last, after your Directors and the principal friends of the enterprise had taken leave of the settlers at a public breakfast at Black well, in sight of the vessels in which they were about to em bark ; which his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and other distinguished guests honoured by their presence, and where the strongest feeling was manifested, both as to the great public value of the objects contemplated by the Company, and to the manlier in which they were pursued. The pre sent season has been opened by the despatch of two vessels, on the Ist and 25th instant respectively; a third follows on the 15th of next month, and a, fourth has been taken up to sail from the Clyde on the Ist of July. It has been deter mined to despatch others consecutively on the lst of each month, beginning with August. This does not, of course, in• elude the emigration to Wellington and New Plymouth, which will be noticed distinctly. Your Directors trust you will think that, in this respect, the plans of the Company have been vigorously carried out. "5. You were informed in the Third Report, that less than 400 of the allotments into which the preliminary lands of IS el son had been divided, remained to be disposed of in this coun try. The following statement shows the present position of your affairs in this particular : Nelson allotments, Purchased by the Company lOO Sent out for sale in the Colonies Set aside as Native Reserves Fold to the public in this country ...... 400 Remain for sale 1,100 S. Your Directors are not yet in possession of any in formation relating to the disposal of the allotments assigned for sale in the Australian Colonies; and in this respect they apprehend that the Company cannot expect that its ItiNrests should be unaffected by those mercantile and Monetary calami ties, under which every other party connected with those Set tlements is suffering so severely. But in one of his latest despatches, Colonel Wakefield stated that it was probable seve ral allotments would be disposed of at Wellington, as soon as it was known there that the site of Nelson had been dellnitiVely fixed. In relation to this subject your Directors may add, that they are endeavouring to establish a connection with our Eastern empire, in the persuasion, that many of the officers who annu ally retire from the Indian services, without those very l a rge means which are necessa r y t o a comfortable settlement with a large family in this country, would, from their character, habits, and resources, become most valuable and sttetessfhl colonists in New Zealand. " 7. Your Directors now proceed to lay before you the substance of the important and interesting information which they have lately received, in regard to the state and prospect of affairs at Wellington. They are happy to hate it in their power to assure you, that that settlement has adVaneed with extraordinary rapidity ; that every anticipation entertained of the excellence of the harbour, of the salubrity of the climate, and of the fertility of th e so il , has been realised; and that Colonel Wakefield's last despatches enlitikined has assur ance, that the community WO lit a More prolerous and healthy condition than At any previous period of its brief ex istent% • t ` e. Your Directors are happy to find thltt the rtiiiiri% )bur pm incipal agent are in entire arcerilltiieb WI:11 the abcidin6 re ceived from other Botlfctuk they 'll3 ntit itia'4ll tini , updue importance the high pribes for whibh Velstions Tgwil may liivt heen said sinele thh4, i2iiblirsislance may be rather an evid.ence ef nnWheleshlne speculation, than of the stable web htitql nt the community. Rut it appears from a body of con current testimony, that the r.tently attained security of their titles, and a practical conviction that the expense IR, clbaring the land has been greatly overrated', I and frl3llld ablin dantiy compensated hy the imtetAiikte ilettii•hS its eittiemb fertility had intinVed Initty Of the settlers to betake themselves Vigtrously to the cultivation of their country sections. "9. Colonel Wakefield reported in a letter, dated the 7th November last,—'The produce of the valley f thls Illitt Will this year be !work ) all etperted ttr 'Etinltirn'eil by ships visiting us, whilst the ttlllitltion of the town land and vicinity will supply the wants of the residents. Numerous arrivals are taking country land ; with a certainty of doiris tyell With it.' This statement is corroborated by the: ttpkieliplhe l eNiltd • vertisements in the New gedlithq Wiellingion Spec. lator, offering ready money rtif. eligible sections of ceuntry land. Your Directors dee informed by Mr. ficaphy; late their dialtiMan in the colony,§ (several of whose views have already been published,) that when he left Wellingyin in No. vember last, thirty-on e int li titleal eaiikati4a e 611rially engaged in clearing Anti bulliVatiliW, Ina in the valley of the Hutt, its gig ellititra and Ohio districts, in the Karori round the Larbottr, and a 411 t C e e n greattl y' e n t:e v. getic lt a m tte a n y wealth, that effe'ithal ptogtets Win be Made e2 t -P o o c tl e 'r i c e P '6l 3 ilt C h ii st anl it r. s Sli f r t i t n l ; matte growth still pY•eph, atlOn I'4 4. 1 4 ibis 'eciintii of the flax, Which .appeart gestiad be the staple ex potl of the ii IlbUltllril districts:of New Zealand ; and which, It is understood, is already supplied in considerable quOtlti6 to the Sydney market. In connection with this bi-aiiteh Of t leis subject, your Directors hate silicate piett‘tire iii in forming you that two associations of working him have been formed at Wellington, fur the pktribie bf aPpitift their combined savings to the purchase of land, to be even tually divided amongst the subscribers. "9. Roads, connecting the a g ricultural di str i cts w i t h t h e market a n d s hi pp i ng , arc much needed ; but this w a nt w ill doubtless be soon provided for, as a general tax on tin. cultivated land is contemplated by the GovernMent, for the supply of means to this end; and sour Directors have offered to advance funds, on loan, in aid' of this most im portant object, as soon as the settlers shall be quali fied, by the grant of a Municipal Charter from the Crown, to give corporate security for the same. In the mean while, the labourers for wham, during the stagnation of enterprise arising from the insecurity of titles, the ee n s o t fruKe harb o urtai it a ior r: l2 : ec d :; f ar r lal o : m yooni W ellington tthh e e rorvmtte, a r a l o lni n nd g e the wes tern htweberes fromte r n harbour sid e th Company's agent was obliged to provide, were employed o ‘i(7 f ifli P atei orirua.ll " 10. 31r. lleaphy describes the first-mentioned road as an ornament to the colony. It is nearly ail wiles in length, with himself, on behalf of the great societies of the Church of Eng land, that a • sum equal to any amount that may be thus raised, shall be applied to the exclusive benefit of the settlements above-named. From the funds subscribed by the colonists at Nelson, in the shape of an enhanced price of land, for purposes of religious minis tration, your Directors have appropriated 5,000/. (which they deem a fair proportion, in relation to the number of the mem bers of the Church of England engaged in that enterprise), to the endowment of an episcopal ministry in that settlement. This sum, also, the Bishop has undertaken to meet with an equivalent ; so that this portion of the Nelson fund has in effect been doubted by the mode of its application. " 19. The Ilishop having disp'ayed in his conferences with your Directors a great anxiety for the improvement of the aborigines, and that the scheme of Native Reserves, upon which the Company has proceeded, should be made conducive to that end, your Directors stated tohim that the Company was willing to advance a moderate sum on loan, on the security of those re serves, upon condition that the lands in question, and the ad• ministration of the money advanced for the benefit of the native population, should be placed by the Government in the hands of trustees, in whom, trona their high station in the colony and their ch:racter, your Directors and the public might feel confi dence. By these means it appeared that a double end might be secured, in the preservation and honest management of the ressrved lands, and in the simultaneous educa tion and social advancement of the aborigines. The Bishop cordially concurred in these views, and your Directors are now engaged in a correspondence with the Colonial Department upon the subject. They will not fail to use their best endeavours to ensure to the native inhabi tants of New Zealand, the greatest possible amount of benefit from the lands which have been set a••art fur their use and en joyinent, in the midst of the civilised community which has settled on their shores. " 20. Your Directors have not failed to give their atten tion, in the course of the year under review, to the important subject of steam navigation between your sett'ements. They beg to refer you, for an exposition of their present views ul•on this matter, to their despatch to Colonel Wakefield, of the 24th instant, printed in the Appendix. " 21. Your Directors have to report, that in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of Incorporation, the addi tional capital of 200,000/. was duly subscribed, and one moiety thereof, namely 100,0001., duly paid up, previous to the ex piration of twelve months from the date of the Charter. " 22. Your Directors lay before you the usual statements of receipts and payments, and of assets and liabilities. It could not reasonably be expected that the affairs of this Company should eisjoy an exclusive exemption from the operation of those depressing causes which have affected, during the last twelve months, every interest connected with the shipping, the com merce, the manufactures, and the general domestic industry of this country. The universal stagnation of enterprise, accompa nied by au unparalleled scarcity of money, has, of course, limited your sales of land in this country, whilst the still more cala mitous state of things throughout the Australian colonies has interfered with those local sales, from which, under more favourable circumstances, your Directors should have looked with confidence for a considerable accession to the income of the Company. On the other hand, they have laid before you ample proof, in the course of this report, that the Colonies which have been founded through your instrumentality arc eminently ffourishing ; and that the prospects of the settlers are as bright as they, or their best friends .in this country, could expect or desire. " 23. In conclusion, your Directors are happy to be able to report that although some important questions, having reference both to the policy of the Home Government, and to the con duct of the local Governor, remain to be finally adjusted, and it may be necessary to address you specially upon these ques tions on a future occasion, yet your Directors are willing to believe that her Majesty's Government is actuated by friendly sentiments towards the Company, which is recognised as having made great and successful exertions in promoting the settlement of New Zealand. And it is with great gratification that they can yid, that they have been recently assured by the Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department, that he has enjoined the Governor of New Zealand to give, on all occasions, the most favourable consideration to representations which the Company's agent may make to him on public matters ; and in the discharge of his legis:ative and adminis trative functions, to afford the amplest protection, encourage ment, and countenance to those who may settle upon the land of the Company. "24. In the course of the year, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Esq., Sir George Sinclair, Bart., Russell Ellice, Esq., and William Taylor Copeland, Esq. and Ald., M.P., have retired from the Direction of your affairs. Their places have been respectively filled by the following gentlemen, viz :—Charles Buller ' Esq., M.P., William King, Esq., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., and Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Hart. "25. The following Directors retire by rotation at the present meeting, viz :—Viscount Ingestre, M.P.,Sir W. Moleiworth, Bart.; A. Willis, Esq. ; John Ellerker oulcott, Esq. ; John William Buckle, Esq. ; and Henry Aglionby Aglionby, Esq., M. P. ; and being eligible, your Directors respectfully recom mend them for re-election. " 26. Your Directors also recommend that the Auditors of the Company, viz., Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Thomas Frederick Everingham, Esq., and William Curling, Esq., should be re elected for the year ensuing. " New Zealand House, 31st May, 1842." The following abstract shows the number 01 tonnage, and the number of passengers despat Zealand Company, up to the 31st of May, 18. ' ships, with their :hedby the New 12. Z Cabin P Passengers, Steerage Total Ist and ?d Passengers Passengers. .‘ Ton- Class. I • cA nage. 0- . •;* Male ' Fe- Male Fe. ' 'Total 1 . ' male. Male ' Fe" male male. —.— —.— — --- Wellington 29 14,023 321 145 2,057 1,779 2.371- I,t 24 1,302 Nelson 13 5,0(4 120 41 994 946 1,114 989 9,103 N. Plymouth 5 1,839 57 18 475 3(5 431 323 k 75.5 —;— Totals... 47 91,5231 493 204 1,423 19132 3,224,3,2 .617,10 The CHAIRMAN read the cash account. Mr. ALEXANDER CURRIE said he believed all the Proprietors would agree with him in approving of the Report which had been read of the affairs of the Company. It appeared to him from that Report, that notwithstand ing the unparalleled difficulties of the past year, the sale of lands had continued to progress.—(Hear, hear.) In a speech made by the Colonial Minister not long since, in the House of Commons, it was stated that the land sales in New South Wales and in South Australia had been entirely suspended. He mentioned that fact to show that they were greatly indebted to the management of the Directors during the past year.—(Hear, hear.) lie must state, however, his belief that still more might have been done by making the sections of land less in the Nelson settlement. There were at present eleven hundred allotments, at 3001., in that settle ment. He thought the sections might with advantage be diminished, and the land sold in smaller pro portions. Two hundred acres would require a capital of four or five thousand pounds to cultivate it in a proper manner, and that was more than men could be expected to advance. Having thrown out this suggestion he begged to move—" That the Report now read be adopted. That Viscount Ingestrie, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, Bart., John Ellerker oulcott, Esq., John William Buckle, Esq., Azthur Willis, Esq., and Henry Aglionby Aglionby, Esq., M.P., be re-elected Directors ; and that Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Thomas Frederick Everingham, Esq., and William Curling, Esq., be re-elected Auditors for the ensuing year." Mr. DonsET having seconded the resolution, it was put from the chair and carried unanimously. Mr. J. HEATH, after a speech in which he compli mented the Directors for the energy, talent, and perse verance which they had displayed in promoting the objects of the Company, proposed that a certain sum, not less than 1,600/. a-year, should in future be applied to remunerate the Directors for their services on behalf of the Company. Mr. CHRISTOPHER DOWSON seconded the resolution, which DIM carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said he wished to state, in reference to what had fallen from Mr. Currie, that the high price of the sales of lands in Nelson was to be brought under the consideration of the Board in a few weeks, and if any satisfactory alteration could be proposed, the Direc tom WUtlid have great pleasure in acceding to the rronosal. f YOUNG said, it ought to be stated that the clement was not originally dr a wn plan of the Nelson but by other parties, out by the New Zealand Coi,.." an Y' ompan . y.—( Hear.) a hose plan had been adopted g y the Le .sectiens. The plan proposed involved tile making b of their present size, as welt as the price of 30s. per h:_ re • The principle then adopted itatl, that all beyond I!. per.acre, should constitute a fund, to be tested in the Directors, for the purpose of being expended on certain objects, which were thought to be essential to the pro sperity ofthe colony. Amongst other objects contemplated were, the providing the means of spiritual instruction, the establishment ofa college, and the encouragement of steam navigation. These were objects for which specific sums were to be set aside. The price of land in that settlement, therefore, could not be regarded as a simple investment, as in the case of Wellington and New Plymouth. The Direeton had already considered whether it would be possible to lessen the sections without doing injustice to the regular settlers, and they had declined to inter fere. The subject, however, was to be again brought under consideration, :and he trusted that an arrange ment Ittittld be tnads which would ratify all parties. A vote of thanks iliaJ then given to the Chairmar, and the meeting separated. -'" The depth of water over the flats outride of Nelson Ha vett is 20 feet at hig'.. uater at spring tides, and 17 feet at high water at neap tides, f fltiSidPs thE vesdeis enumerated in the text, the Mandarin and other ships, tibt chartered ily the Company, have sailed for Nelson in the course of the Viet *ear l siith numerous cabin passel - 01g. I SonA: discouragement has resulted to the agricultural iitterbgt Of the settlethent from an incautious state ifthlit hid let,ter t+fittett by one of the principai colo nists, abet ptibllsliCti in ihe rteitspapers in this country', that the forest land could hot he eleared at a less cort than 40!. per acre. Experience has prOted that the clttal cost is between 10/. and 12/. per acre; and it is not otittell;thdt,the work will eventually be done much cheaper. !. 6 .4 hititif .if s9hat disk tie effected by energy and industry, Mr. ileaphy riletitillno the ett.e of two young Scotchmen own ing a section in the Karori valley, hating cleared about twenty sores of heavily timbered land and built themselves a house, in the space ask months, with no assistance but that of a native M otd to bring their provisions from the town. fT e tilkdget hereafter quoted from Mr. Heaphy, have been taken froth d itiinthilet butt in preparation for the press by that gentleman, and commutiitated by him to the Directors. H The greatest number of labourers employed by the Com patty at any time in the formation of roads, was about GO; a i;t4s Offal! proportion in an European population alone of 3,7b0 souif. • • The Operative Conservative Association, which once made Ouch a bustle jn Dudley, has gone out like an evil disposed candle, leaving a bad smell and an unsavory reputation behind it. The room where its meetings were formerly held hOit occupied by the Dudley Waterworks Company, and the sign, the totbics, the benches, and the other stage properties of the Association, hate been taken possession of by Mr. Coa, the landlord, for rent due to him Worcestershire Advertiser. At the Middle Temple Hall, a turtle, venison, and champagne dinner is announced to be given on Monday neat, the 6th June, to celebrate the happy escape of her Majesty from assassination. A person whose wife carries on the business of a stay-maker in the quartier des Quinze-Vingts, has just been arres'ed on a charge of inhuman treatment to a girl only twelve years of age who was an apprentice to his wife. It has been ascertained by the pike that this man was in the freqnent habit of stripping his victim and flogging her with a kind of knout, or with a whip, having an iron luy.)k at the end of it. The poor girl, whose bo4 was one sore, has become almost an idiot from the cruel treatment which she has expe- MAGAZINES. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. " Our Naval Chiefs of other Days" is continued with the usual spirit and interest. The history of these worthies is confined chiefly to Admirals during the reigns of Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth, in which the house of Howard greatly distinguished' it self. Two of that family reached the rank of Lord High Admiral ; Edward, the second son of the Earl of Surrey, held the title first, and at his death he was succeeded by his elder brother Thomas. Interesting details are afterwards given of another scion of that illustrious line, Lord Howard de Effingham, well known in English history for his Memorable victory over the Spanish Armada, and also of the gallant Sir Francis Drake, who appears to have been more dreaded and hated by the Spaniards and Portuguese than ever Nelson was by the French. The " Journal of an Excursion into the Interior of the Northern Island of New Zealand, by Captain Best," will be found inte resting. The following melancholy account of Capt. Symonds' death, who accompanied him, is furnished by the Editor of the Magazine : We deeply grieve to record the premature and melan choly fate Which, since the above was transmitted, has befallen the highly promising officer in whose company Capt. Best made the journey described in this narrative. Capt. William Cornwallis Symonds, of the 96th Regt., eldest son of the present Surveyor of the Navy, to whom our naval architecture is so deeply and practically in debted, after studying, with marked distinction, at the Senior Department of the Royal Military College, pro ceeded to New Zraland, his regiment being stationed in New South Wales, with the appointment of Deputy Surveyor-General, for which he was in every respect qualified. Of his assiduity and intelligence in the dis charge of very active duties in a region gifted by nature, but as yet imperfectly known, we have recently had proofs in a journal kept by Capt. Symonds ' with a pe rusal of which we were favoured ; and we have reason to know that his personal popularity was unbounded amongst the New Zealanders, whoin his manly and humane character materially tended to conciliate and civilize. It is unnecessary to add that he was justly re spected and beloved by the European residents. An act of noble solicitude for one of the latter occasioned his lamented death on the 23d of November last. The wife of a missionary at the settlement being ill, and no medi cal aid at hand, Capt. Symonds, with characteristic feel ing and energy, proceeded himself, at all risks, to a vessel at some distance, to procure the necessary assistance. The weather was rough, the sea mil high, and, on re turning from the ship, the boat swamped. Poor Symonds —remarkable for his athletic and handsome person— was an expert swimmer, and struck out manfully to gain the shore, some miles distant, with his companion, Mr. Adams, who, after a stout struggle, sank and rose no more. Symonds still persevered, and was long seen buffetting the waves with unsubdued vigour and presence of mind ; but when close to the shore he suddenly dis appeared,—a shark had pulled him down. The monster was taken, and a portion of the remains was found in its stomach. Thus miserably perished one of the finest young men in the British service. Capt. Symonds had, not long before, purchased his company, and paid the difference to come on full pay ; he has found an early grave in the public service, and in the immediate per formance of an act of humanity, at great personal hazard : it is a case for the favourable consideration of the proper authorities. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The subject of this month's " Portrait Gallery" is Mr. John Wilson Croker, of whose literary and po litical abilities the biographer speaks in terms of the most preposterous flattery. We are yet to learn what wonders in the way of literature the. Right Hon. Gentleman has achieved ; his edition of Bos well's Johnson is certainly a careful, intelligent, and entertaining work; but as for his Talaveras, and his Trafalgars, these poems are long since forgotten, and deservedly so, for there is scarcely a glimmering of fancy or feeling to be found in them. As a poli tician, he has evinced no more sagacity than that which is the almost inevitable result of long practice and experience ; as an orator, he never ranked above the second-rates in Parliament; and irt - his capacity of Reviewer has exhibited tact and sarcasm, but no powers of a higher character. The portrait of Mr. Croker, which accompanies the memoir, is a tolerably faithful likenesS, but somewhat too juvenile, for the ex-Secretary to the Admiralty is no chicken, in point of years. The editor's tale of ‘.‘ Jack Hinton, the Guardsman," is not equal to his " Charles O'Malley," but there are some animated passages in it, and the description of the steeple-chase is quite on a par with the best of Nimrod's sporting sketches in the " Quar terly Review." The " Water-Cure" is a happy expo sure of this humbug, which, as is generally the case, has made the fortune of its originator. Under the quaint title of " Stray Leaflets from the German Oak," we find one or two elegant translations from the German. We quote a fanciful poetic version from the original of Wilhelm Mueller : Hark l the faint bells of the Sunken City Peal once more their wonted evening-chime: From the Deep's abysses float a ditty, Wild and wondrous of the olden time. Temples, towers, and domes of many stories There lie buried in an ocean-grave, Undescried, save when their golden glories. Gleam, at sunset, through the lighted wave. And the mariner who hath seen them glisten, In whose ear those magic bells do sound, Night by night bides there to watch and listen, Though Death lurks behind each dark rock round. So the bells of Memory's Wonder-city Peal for me their old melodious chime: So my heart pours forth a changeful ditty, Sad and pleasant from the by-gone time. Domes, and towers, and castles, fancy-builded, There lie lost to Daylight's garish beams, There lie hidden, till unveiled and gilded, Glory-gilded, by my nightly dreams I ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. In an article on the subject of Affghanistan policy, the writer sensibly remarks that " retribution must not be the intent of our arms ; rather conciliation, security for the future, and forgiveness of the past. It will he well for the British Government if it can find a diplomatist who will carry out such intention. The people and their happiness must be his chief, his paramount object." The writer then makes a passing allusion to William the Conqueror's invasion of this country, observing " when William i nva d e d E ng l a nd, knowledge, social habits, true religion were imparted." This is any thing but in accordance with historical fact, for in the train of the Conqueror came, not " knowledge," but barbarous ignorance and brutality ; not " social habits," but discord, hatred, and haughty Norman exclusiveness and tyranny ; not " true re ligion," but mingled bigotry and infidelity, of the most ferocious, uncompromising character. Th e re maining articles in the Number call for no particular comments. They are all on mxtters connected with the East. THE SPORTSMAN. The embellishments of this periodical are, as usual, excellent. The "Fox and the Badger" by Armfield, are in the best style of engraving, and the " Adven tures of a Sp or ti ng G en tl eman ," an d " S port i ng w ru ,2 . rs," by Nimrod, will be found interesting. We; at the same time regret, that so few original articles are produced in work that is brought ou t as a a; sporting magazine. If tth:se monthly publications do not make a little start now and then, they will be distanced by our friend " Judee Qr " Craven," or others even of inferior rank. QUEEN'S MAGAZINE. The " Queen's Magazine" is one of the best of the cheap monthly periodicals, and the reader may lounge away a pleasant half-hour over its varied pages. In the Number before us there is a tale, entitled " Jane Shore," written with no mean talent; and some in telligent remarks on the subject of what is called " popular writing." THE MIRROR. We have here the May Part of this cheap and en tertaining little weekly miscellany, which contains several skilfully-executed wood-engravings, together with original articles, and amusing extracts from some of the most recent publications. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE, A weekly periodical, got up with tact and judg ment, under the superintendence of clergymen of the un ited. church of England and Ireland. The Num ber b e f ore is , ii. addition to other matters, contains an able emoty on " The sharpening Influence of Religious Intercourse." MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is some talent in the dramatic sketch of " Semele," which adheres to the old Greek legend with singular fidelity. The closing catastrophe is related with much emphasis. "Continental Literati" gi% es a brief biographical memoir of the celebrated French novelist, George Sand—alias Madame Dude vant-.-who is one of the new, shining lights of the modern Parisian school of philosophy. " She is, in our opinion," says the biographer, " the type of ge nius. Her faults are the extravagances or eccen tricities of genius--her excellencies are those of ge nius in its strength and beauty. She is full of faith, of enthusiasm, of noble aspirations. If her opinions be wrong, they are at least sincere. We also recog nisv in her passionate reception of every great idea the characteristic of genius." The remaining articles in the Number are of average merit. SPORTING MAGAZINE. The present Number of this veteran sporting peri odical contains two engravings, the best of which is that representing a regatta on the lake of Winander mere. This is finished off with great delicacy, espe cially as regards the varying lights and shadows on the noble expanse of water. Among the literary communications, we find a chapter of an able new novel by Mr. Mills, under the title of " The Stage- Coach, or the Road of Life." GREAT WESTERN MAGAZINE. This is an American publication, and the contributors are all Yankees. Some of their verse and prose is good, but, as a whole, the Magazine reads heavily, and the majority of the articles wear the appearance of having been written with great effort, invita Minerva. THE BRITISH MAGAZINE. Under a feeling that every great effort in painting, from Timanthes to Raphael, has been executed under the auspices of religion, the Reviewer for this Maga . - zinc, observing the paucity of sacred pictures in this year's exhibition at th e A ca d em y, cons iders that the present age . is but little destined to speak through the organ of painting to the future. Art, undoubtedly, rises highest, when it expresses the highest characteristics of our nature. A letter from the Rev. Mr. llook, the Vicar of Leeds, contradicts a late allegation made against him, that he ever poured wine, whether consecrated or unconsecrated, down a sink in his church, or stuffed the sacrament bread into a spout. In some comments upe.n 13ecketts " Wilful Maintenance of Wickedness in the Clergy," as alleged by William of Newbery, it is stated that more than one hundred murders were, in eight or nine years, committed by the : clergymen of the time. " The History of Pews contains a curious etymology—" Pew' which was unknown before the Reformation, is derived from the Dutch puye, and had originally two meanings, viz., the seat in the theatre next the orchestra or amphithe atre, and also, a heap of stones. In this latter sense there was a famous chapel at Westminster in the time of Edward 111., called " The Chapel of our Lady of the Pue," since huge heaps of stones had to be thrown into the marsh where it was built before the founda tion could he laid. BRITISH FRIEND OF INDIA MAGAZINE. Mr. Cotton, a resident Magistrate in Tanjore, and who has seen five-and-twenty years' service in South India, has, it appears, from a paper entitled " Kid napping of Children in Tanjore," detected no less than seven cases of children abducted from that locality, and sold at adjacent slave-marts for ten and eighteen shillings each. An interesting ac count notices the " Khurta, Bhoja Converts," or Worshippers of the Creators—a peculiar sect, who, subdivided into five sections, and amounting to an hundred thousand persons, spread between Hooghly and the Jelingha in India. They date their origin from a milkman, IA ho settled near Hooghly about the year 1795, and their faith appears to be a pure Deism. Various papers relating to Indian traffic and agency diversify the articles. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND • MONTHLY MAGAZINE. A scarcity of efficient hands, or a dearth of labour, whereby crops during years of plenty have been not unfrequently lost for want of labour to get them in, is assigned as the leading " Cause of the Embarrass ment in New South Wales," by a writer who treats on that subject. A paper on the infant settlement of Port Essington, in Australia, shows the traffic to be yearly growing into importance about Sydney ; in 1832 the tonnage of vessels which cleared that port for the great Eastern emporiums, was 4,700; in 1836 it had increased to no less than 14,950 tons. The use of a few ships to be employed expressly in conveying a dozen of beehives or two, and other comodities of the Indies to the small colonies of Australia is advanced as a thing to be desired; as also the introduction Of camels, of whose serviceability there is no doubt. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. Nothing was said or done yesterday that in any degree im' proves the prospects of those interested in the settlement oe the late Derby ; on the contrary, we find that the absentees are even more numerous, the unpaid balances much larger (we had been very liberal in our estimate), and the chances of obtaining payment more remote than had been calculated on. There ap pears to be little doubt that three or four parties from classic regions may be put down as " back" but as it is the wish of the sufferers that they thould have three days' grace in addition to that already extended, we abstain from exposing them by name until next week. The following bets were laid in the course of the afternoon : ASCOT CLIP. Even on Mr. Ramsay's Lanereost (laid to about 500/. ) 5 to 2 agst Mr. Orde's Beeswing (laid to about 100/. ) 5 to 1 agst Mr. Combe's The Nob 7 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Bokhara (300 to 50 laidonce) ST. LEGER. 2 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera 17 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Meteor (20 to I laid once) ENTRY FOR. THE QUEEN'S VASE AT ASCOT. Beeswing, Pannakeen, Bosphorus, Albion, Jack, St. Fran cis, Eringo, Adele filly, Yorkshire Lady, Eaglesfield, The Neb, Rosalind, Muley Hemet. NEWTON RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 25 added ; three yrs, Est 71b ; four, teat 41b; five, Bst 121 b ; six s end aged, 9st 21b. Mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.) Mr. Denham na. Gilbert, 4 yrs... ...( Whitehouse) I Mr. Harrison's Studley Royal, 4 yrs 6t04 on Studley Royal. Won easy. Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft, for three yrs old colts, Sst Sib : and fillies, Rst 41b. Mile and a quarter. (5 Subs.) Mr. Saur.ders' The ?Tim (allowed 31b) (Stagg) 1 Mr. Thompson's c by Shrigley, out of Fenella... 2 Mr. Holker's f Tariff (allowed 31b) 3 5 to 4 agst the Fenella colt, and 6 to 4 agst The Nun. Wont by a neck. Produce Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, II ft. Mile and quarter. (3 Subs.) Mr. Price's f Ernestine, Bst Ilb .......... . . walked over The Lord of the Manor's Cup of 100/., added to a Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two miles and a distance. (24 Subs., 9of whom declared.) Mr. Bower's h f Collins, 4 yrs, Est 61b (Copeland) Lord Eglinton's Bellona, aged, Bst 10lb The following also started but were not placed :--Mr. Painter's Ernest the First, 6 yrs, Bat 31b ; Mr. Jones's Por trait, 4 yrs. Bst llb ; Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Cerito, 4 yrs, 7st 71b; and Mr. Ogden's Brother to Harpurhey, 4 yrs, 6st ddb. Betting-2 to 1 agst Collins; sto 2 agst bellona; 3to 1 agst Portrait; and 6to 1 agst Brother to Harpurhey. Wee easily by a length. Plate of 60 Guineas for horses, &e., that never won 501. ; three yrs, 7st; four, Sst ; five and upwards, Bst bib; mares, &c., allowed 31b. Heats, two miles. Mr. Mostyn's b c Peter the Great, 4 yrs (Darling) 1 0 1 • Mr. G. Clark's Woldsman, 3 yrs Mr. Heywood'a m Whippey, 4 yrs Mr. Taylor's fby Colwrek, out of Game Lass, 3 yrs 0 2 dr (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWTON RACES.—THURSDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 Sovs. each, with 25 added. Mile and three-quarters. 3lr. Price's Valentine Mr. Legh nd ew Zealand The Golborne Stakes, of 20 Sovs. each, Golborne course. Lord Westminster's Maria Day Mr. Whitworth's Gipsey Queen The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. T Price's The Lily, Col. Anson's Game Cock, Mr. Worthington's Churton, Mr. Mostyrr's Colt, Mr. Dawson's Isabella, Mr. Bower's Xarithus Mr. Critchley's Delia, D lr. J. Williams' Viscount, Mr. Tallentire's Batwing. Won easy. ASCOT RACES. A meeting of the trustees of the grand stand, consisti gof the Earl of Rosslyn, Henry Seymour, Esq., Thomas Rawl Ward, Esq., and Mathias Gilbertson, Esq., with the secretary, Mr. 'I homes Hibburd, assembled on Wednesday last at the stand, on theheath, for thepurpose of making themecessarypee 'urinary arrangements for the ensuing week. The chair was taken by the Earl of Rosslyn. Some very considerable improvements have been effected is the vicinity of the grand stand since last year, by Mr. Hibbard , the clerk of the course. The rails which were in front of and between the grand stand and the course have been removed , leaving an open space between the enclosed lawn in front of the - stand and the course. This area will be kept entirely clear, the public not being permitted to remain at this spot in order that there may be no obstruction to the view of the spectatorss• from the lawn, who have paid for admission to the stand. Mr. Hall, the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street, will be ie attendance during the races, assisted by Mr. Burnaby, th e Chief Cie*. A very great improvement has been effected bit Mr. Hibburd in connexion with the room appropriated to the use of the sitting Magistrate, under the stand of the Jockey Club. Heretofore the pickpockets and other offenders appre hended on the course have been taken before the sitting Magi!' trate through the same entrance appropriated to the public, 19 consequence of their having been no other mode of ingress to the building. A separate entrance for the prisoners hasjest been constructed at the rear of the premises, in order that offenders may be introduced:to the Magistrate without jostling and annoying the general company. The whole of the other arrangements wil be conducted upon the same excellent plan as heretofore. • The following horses had arrived at Ascot up to yesterday morning The Marquis of Westminster's Satirist; William de Fortis' bus, and Auckland; the Duke cf Bedford's Envoy, th e mow of Grafton's Euterpe, Mr. Pbillimure's Fincbley, Solimewee and Rochester; Col. Peel's I'msnot-aware and Nicholas; MI. Ord's Beeswing. Besides these arrivals there are fourteen horses at Scott's stables on the heath, and ten at Death's. Every stable and box in the neighbourhood of Ascot ha" been engaged. Indeed a greater number of horses are es pccted than have been known to attend this meeting for man , seasons past. Although the course is in excellent order, yet some twelve hours' rain between now and Monday would very maeria" tend to its improvement. Six extra high stands have been erected, which are as want: that part can be permitted, from the want of additional room in ' part of the heath appropriated to them, in the immediate vi( 3 7 . airy of the grand stand. Several applications from other r atites have consequently been necessarily rejected. The Queen's stand is now beirg prepared for the reception of the Court and her Majesty's Royal and Illustrious visitors . by several workmen, upholsterers, and others, employed In t he Lord Chamberlain ' s department, under the superintendenc e q Mr. Saunders. The draperies of tine Queen's refre&hment a n retiring rooms, consisting of elegant blue and white chier s' ' s beautifully arranged in de form of a spacious marquee tastefully ornamented with Turkish festoons, have just n t , completed. The chairs, carpels, and other furniture, nal arrived, and the whole of the splendid fittings wil l be COP' pleted in the course of Monday. It is quite certain that her Majesty will honour the W es with her presence on Tuesday and Thursday. ROME, MAX 17.—Great sensation has been escit, ca here by the marriage of an accomplished young En g lish lauY* sister of Lord R., to a Veturino ; and the arrest of lady of rank, who, from a fondness for pieces of ancient kw. of marble, broke them out of places whore they were fixed, la our churches and museums.—Aqgemeine Zeitung, May 2°' .1- Two days ago the wife of an avotte was thr", down on the Boulevard St.. Denis, by a cabriolet , - and the hon.e and carriage both passed over her body. She Was for t o th n",l „° ment overcome by the fright, but, on recovering , it w alta that she had not received the slightest injury, and wa able Wilk home. The German Journal of Frankfort states fr°.7:Yl, Presburg that several extensive fires have taken place react':n., in Hungary. In the town of Modern 200 houses were were slimed on the 23d ult., and on the same day 10 hosslooe. burnt in the village of Grunau. On the 2d inst. IgY were destroyed by fire in the village of Weiner, V ial I V ER AN") • rs i Oils will at . 1 RI n " Maje e attemp', 111 AL 0 •.11)trie t 11) ; A h A It ic 4 4 10, 1 4 4 4 4k 1 , tv,LIA „`‘' b c te \ °ll 4 414