The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

Chamber of Poro by Count Moutalembert. Among the
*meter" there ere twenty-seven of the cures of Pens.
BELOIUM.—The last Belgian census has brought
to light the singular fact tn at the population of }linden has
decreased in lam years. In 1846. the population of West
Flanders was counted at 642,000, a decrease of 22,000 on
the former year, and that of East Flanders was 791,000, or
15,000 len than in the former year. In the other provin-
cee,_polalion had increased during the same period.
ITALY.—NAPLES. The wish of excitement-seek-
ing staangen, for a grand outburst of Vesuvius, has been
deferred. The volcano has kept up a slow and regular erup-
tion. On the 24th ult., a large quantity of lava flowed from
the crater. The mountain has been a place of amusement
lately. In various places, where there is some curious phe-
nomenon, such as an occasional eruption, you may find par-
ties cooking eggs, or enjoying oranges and vino jamoso.—A
prohibition of the export of maize and dried fruits has
appeared.
EGYPT.—THE CHOLERA.—A private letter from
Alexandria, of the 29th Jan., announces that a courier had
arrived from Gedda, with the news that the cholera had dis-
appeared from the Ilidjas, and had taken a southerly direc-
tion, leaving Egypt. The viceroy intended leaving for Cairo.
Ibrahim Pacha is still at Farsoul.
MONTE VIDEO.--Several papers, additional to
those we have already received, per the William Peile, have
come to hand. El Comercio del Plata gives as authentic
a statement, to the effect that the Emperor of Brazil had
granted a passport to General Rivera, to proceed to Para-
guay, en the understanding that he was going in the charm-
; ter of a minister plenipotentiary. From the same paper we
learn that the proffered mediation of the United States be-
tween Paraguay and Buenos Ayres had been pre-
sented to the government at Assumption by Mews.
Graham and Brent. The reply of Governor Loan
was to the effect that although he deprecated ir-
ing the conduct of Roma rendered a war necessary. Till
the Buenos Ayrian troops were withdrawn from Uruguay,
and all obstructions of the free navigation of the Parana
removed, the government of Paraguay was resolved to act
up to the late declaration of their president. Lopez in
his reply took the opportunity of making several strictures
on the conduct of Mr. Brent, American charge d'araires
et Sues°. Ayres, whose seta he declared were, is his opi
nion without the sanction of his government.

COLONIAL.
NEW ZEALAND.

The letters and papers brought from Auckland by
the Cecilia, were delivered on Saturday. The dates
from Auckland are to the 18th, from Wellington to
tke 19th, of September.
AUCKLAND.—THE LeoisLsruree.—The session
of the Legislative Council was opened, on the sth of Oc-
tober, by Governor Gray. The rules cf Council were
read and adopted. Despatches from the Secretary
were then read and adopted. Despatches from the Secretary
of State for the Colonies were presented and read. The
following bills were presented : A bill to provide for the
establishment and maintenance of a police-force ; a bill to
confirm certain rules, forme, and tables of fees relating to
the supreme court; a bill for the naturalisation of certain
persons in the colony of New Zealand ; a bill to amend an
ordinance for appointing a board of trustees for the manage-
ment of property to be set apart for the education and
advancement of the native race. The council met
daily (Sunday the 1 lth excepted) till the 16th of
October, inclusive. By that time such of the mea-
sures above enumerated were well through commit-
tee. A Customs Duties Amendment Bill had been
introduced and read a second time. Bills to afford poor re-
lief, settle a standard of weights and measures, a prison bill,
rind bills foreeveral other purposes of lees moment, had been
brought in. Governor Gray and his council, in short, were
busy re-establishing the social order, shattered into frag-
meats by the eccentricities of ex-Governor Fitzroy. The mea-
sures of the local government were freely, but to all appear-
ance candidly, canvassed in council. Not so oat of doors,
where an organised agitation of the land sharks, lay and
clerical, was obviously maturing against then governor.
WELLINGTON.—PROORESS op HOSTILITIES.—

The natives of the W district, who had joined Ran-
gih►eata, left him on e 12th of September to return to
their own district. Rangiheesta himself was repented to
hare gees to Rangitiki with his follower on the 14th.
LINIAL PROCREDINDS AGAINST THE CAPTURED IN-
sußowrrt—The court-martial appointed to try the prisoners
taken in are, commenced its sittings at Paramatta: Point,
Porirna, on the 14th of Sept. The first prisoner tried was
Rankihaesta, one of the scouts captured at Pahatanui, by the
allied natives, on the let of August. Ile either is or affected
to be insane : he was allowed the benefit of the doubt, and

sentenced to imprisonment for life. On the 15th came on
the trial of • brother of Rangihaeata, whose native name is
Wareaitu, and his baptismal Martin Luther. lie pleaded
guilty to the charge of having been taken in arms against the
queen, having joined the rebels under Raugihaeata.
Witnesses were, nevertheless, examined. The natives
appeared perfectly to comprehend the proceedings of
the court. The evidence was conclusive: Wassaitu was
declared guilty and sentenced to be hanged. He admitted
the justice of his sentence, and wrote to his friends at Wan-
ganui to dissuade them from engaging against the govern-
ment. He said he was not afraid to die, but regretted
that he had not been shot or tomahawked instead of being
reserved to be hanged. He was executed on the morning
of the 17th on a gallows erected at the foot of a low send-
hill, about 300 yards from the stockade which encloses the
camp. Only about twenty Europeans and fifteen natives
were patent. The greater part of the natives of the Taupo-
pah (who had waited for their breakfasts) arrived before be
I was cat down. With the exception of a few old men they
' appeared to concur is the justice of his sentence, and the
proprimy of its haviag been carried into execution. The
prisoner walked with a firm step from the spot where his
handcuffs were taken off to the gibbet, and stood perfectly
firm while the rope was adjusting. The Rev. 11. Owilt
attended lira during his last moments.
The trials of the prisoners taken at Wainui were to com-
mence *lathe 18th of September.