The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'Clock.
The Southampton portion of the Overland Mail
from India was delivered in town this morning.
The papers from Sydney, received this morning to
the 3rd of June, do not record any intelligence of
general interest. Some excitement was anticipated
in the legislature on the discussion of a bill for con-
tinuing for one year the "Crown Lands Occupation
and Border Police Acts," which would expire on
the last day of June. ThLi proposed continuation
bill would again raise the long-debated question
of the right of the Crown to the absolute disposal of
the waste lands, and their proceeds on sale, without
reference to, or interference of, the colonial legislature.
The continuation was sought for one year only on the
plea that in the interior, the Bill before the imperial
Parliament may be disposed of and then the " whole
question may be the more effectively gone into by the
Legislature of the Colony." The validity of such a
plea is not admitted by the colonial press, which
assumes to speak for the Colonial legislature. It is
asserted that the bill would be thrown out, because
from the high tone which Sir George Gipps, the
Governor, has always maintained in respect of Crown
rights, and the ordinances referred to, little approach
to accommodation could be expected from the Colonial-
office or Parliament.
As the Governor, it was said, expected to be de-
feated, he was taking preparatory steps for the
" withdrawal of the border police,"- with a view to
intimidate the refractory legislature. This was
creating some alarm, and might, if carried into effect,
be attended with serious consequences to the safety of
border settlers. It is evident that the embodying of
two distinct measures in the one bill was meant to
imply the threat that both should be passed, or
neither.
The Sydney Herald contains a tabular exposition of
the financial results of the Governors's administration
from the year 1839, the first complete year of his govern-
ment, to the year 1815. On the Ist of January, 1839,
Sir George Gipps began with a balance on hand in
the treasury of 2135,358/. ; at the same date, 1842
(taking every other year), the balance was dosed
to 6,932/. ; in 1844, it was 7,6001. On the Ist of
January, 1846, the balance had accumulated to
122,552/. No inference, however, can be drawn,
favourable or unfavourable, from this exhibition
of figures, without other preceding finance tables,
with ample explanations about the expenditure, and
other circumstances growing out of the great indus-
trial and financial crisis under which the colony
laboured for some two years of the period.
From Port Phillip advices have come to hand by
this arrival to the 20th of May. The state of affairs
in this rising colony is thus summed up in a Maitland
paper, of the 30th : " There is no business whatever
before the Insolvent Court ; the markets are steady ;
trade brisk, and money plentiful. Wages are high ;
and, from the fact of two classes of artisans having
struck for wages, seem to have an upward tendency.
The shoemakers have followed the example of the
tailors in this respect."
These papers contain a short notice of the receipt
of intelligence from Wellington (New Zealand) to the
end of April. The only matter of interest adverted to
is, that the I.ieutenant-Governor had suspended, or
rather not proceeded with, the projected attack on the
natives at Porirue, as it was " doubtful whether the
murderers of Gillespie were really harboured there."
Martial law, it is stated, had' been proclaimed in
that part of the southren district south of
a line drawn from \Veinal, in Cork's Straits, to
Castle I'oint, on the east coast, excluding therefrom
the town of Wellington." Numbers of the natives
continued in a state of rebellion, but were not com-
mitting acts of violence. Captain Grey, the Lieut.-
Governor, had, however, it may be added, stationed a
force of 200 soldiers in the vicinity of the suspected
chief, liangihatea's, stronghold at Porirua.
The following is :rom the Australian of the 30th
of May :
RETURN OF GOVERNOR GREY TO AreKLANO.—The
Samuel Boddineton arrived from Auckland on Thunder,
whence she sailed on the 27th ultimo. His Excellency the
Governor had arrived from Wellington at Auckland on the
26th ultimo, in her Majesty's strainer Driver. Iler Majesty's
ship Castor arrived at Auckland two days afterwards. No
further demonstration of hostility on the part of the natives
had come under the notice of the govcrnment in the northern
districts. _ _ .

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Letters from Stuttgart announce the arrival there
on the 23d of the Grand Duchess Olga and her hus-
band the Prince Royal.
Letters from Constantinople inform us that Essaad
Pasha has been recalled from the government of
Erzeroum. and is succeeded by Ilahri Pasha, the com-
mander of the troops there. The disgraced governor
is to have the Pashalik of Sivas. It will be remem-
bered that Mr. Wellesley lately applied to the Porte
for the dismissal of Essaad Pasha.
_ .

The remonstrance against the .lontpensier
presented by the Marquis of Normanby to M. Guizot,
amounts, according to some accounts, to a very formal
protest. The interview between M. Guizot and the
British ambassador is said to have been of a very ani-
mated kind, and Lord Normanby is understood to
have expressed in energetic terms, the hostility of
Great Britain to the marriage of a French Prince with
the Infanta of Spain; not only as a controvension of
the treaty of Utrecht, but as a proceeding which
affects the interests of all Europe, by disturbing the
balance of power which now prevails. The document
presented by Lord Normanby is reported to have
wound up by observing, that the projected marriage
would seriously affect the relations subsisting between
Great Britain and France. _ _

A telegraphic despatch from Madrid of the 23rd
instant, announces that the vote of confidence for the
collection of the taxes had been passed by a majority
of 134 to 13, and that tranquility prevailed. The
Due de Montpensier was expected on the 4th of Oct.
The news of the Count de Nlontemolin's escape ap-
pears to have produced no sensation at Madrid.
There are accounts from Lisbon to the 20th inst.
The Miguelite movement in the northern provinces
has been put down. and the Guerillas dispersed. All
was again quiet; but some Cabralist papers assert
that the apparent calm was but a deceitful lull, the
precursor of a storm which is to shake the present
dynasty to its foundations. The elections for Depu-
ties to the Cortes commence ox the llth October.

The accounts received this morning report the com-
mission of further food outrages in the South and West
of Ireland, and as a general demonstration on the part
of the starving people had been arranged to take
place yesterday, the result was awaited with some
anxiety. In many districts the Roman Catholic
clergy had been endeavouring to induce the wretched
peasantry to avoid the miserable display. Their
exertions had, in most instances, been successful, bat
in many cases it was to be feared that the
people would persevere, and some distressing
occurrences were very naturally apprehended,
considering the extremities to which the country has
been reduced. It is confidently stated in some Irish
papers "that numbers of the peasantry are living on
green cabbage as their 0,117 food, and that many who
are unable to obtain even this vegetable arc trying
to subsist on wild herbs ca' the fields." In such a
direful emergency, the gov.7nment requires the
the zealous co-operation of all ei,Nisses in devising and
carrying out measures of relief; a;ld we are happy to
find the landlords showing a talk-table anxiety to
promote public works, though the taxation under the
Labour Rate Act must press heavily I,loon their re-
sources, and the amount raised will in many instances
be unprofitably expended.