The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
BISHOP WEARMOUTH RECTORY.
lldourir of gh bit wh• magi M bum of Ur. Houma% motion :
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M plumed he hose • semmilmion of latsu isto the glow.
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I••••• datineMions piensesed to Lila house from the
pestiasnees e 4 Mae, Woman& and bunderland ; and that the
W sommielemers In erected to Mks Into considersUon the imre
root 'MIMI Y tar gmast (on the authority of the patron of the
Maga Mbar Wane/oath) to hare been entered into Issevient
him-
self nod depose* hammbent, whereby the nubble income of the
Solige war ning aosee the sum at 2,0014 a-year, raereed m the in.
mime Was insfamilMst, Is to be paid over to trustee.: and to re-
pel ea We hot waded sppropelating that surplus to spiritual pm..
pose • lessral with the two perishes, and of giving legal Whet to
▪ sgempilles :"
Maw" A. inrdastle, J. A. O'Connor, F. Thontras, Col.
MYRA Id limit* AraL Osborne. B. Thempoon. Aid.
Id; IL Hwy, A. Pattimn, J. Thompson. 0.
Alsorporth, L. Itsphael. A. Walwaley, Mr J.
it. Kershaw, J. Bandana 0. Wawa, I .T.
C. Legato; J. IL Insetidaa, R. B. Wood, W. P.
Ode% H. Lockhart, W. Neal* J. A.
Dolma. 0. WOrrgor, J. Smith, J. B.
Delmet. mirgies, h. D. sower, B. IlarLinn.ll
=A. D. Yoleawurth,AW W. lime. J.
0. Mullin" J.B.lhrirklarA, Sir 0.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISIONS ON MR.
DISRAELI'S MOTION.
The following ie an enalpit of the divisioos on
Ns. Disraeli's mhos for a committee to devise a 'chime for
the transference of the land's share of local burdens to the
teat of the communi: y ; and Mr. Hume's amendment for the
relief in general of ail claws, by a reduction of the public
ezpendi.ure, and of farmers especially, by the repeal of the
duties on malt and h"ps :
Of the 70 who voted for the amendment two wen protee-
tini•is end 174 li..ernls voted against the =don who did
teatnein for the ainendieent.
01 the 240 who toted egennt the motion, 35 were Peelites
and three protsetimisu ; and of the 189 who toted for the
motion 16 were literals.
Of the 38 Peelin a and protectionists who voted against the
amino, four were Irish 'mintiers, and of the 16 liberals who
naiad for it seven were Irish members.
The two protectionists who toted for the amendment also
esti ter the motion.
ITheeticalate who road for the STINT draent and for the melon.
hews,
spa
Adler,
Pellitee and prsteetisaists who voted against the meths.
Pare, Lord Heald, J. :Coneys, Ws D.
WO. De. Reeler; 11. Palmer, M.
Cardwell, E. Havey, Lard A. Pad, Ws IL
Cholas* Um P. Hem, ar J. Peet, F.
Ckrti. He G. Reid, Mimi
dries. Hos. IL ff. C. Sudan, J.
tnir C. Sir F. Thedger, Sir P.
Ovum als of Reel ef Turner, O.J.
Demesalt, J. Wm. lien. C. Walter, J.
Salaam, W. E. Niaddasas. M. Wortley, J. 8.
Orealbark U. Hansa,lord Wpm, C. W.
Onham, 81.: J. =O. W. Yoga', fir J.
Ibllollld, 0.0. W.
Morals Monied for the motion.
Acsm Lewd Doane, Colonel Moats. 0. P.
Illeshall, Hajar Healheate, O. J. Nogattele P.
Ceylon R. a. liaises J. L.
Chohaele, Sir H. lisenassars, Major =an: H.
Damien, W. J. Moore, 0.13. Toilets, R. K.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAR. 22,
Wren the exception of Sicily, where the mutual
wrongs and aversion of prince and people preclude
the hopes of any accommoiation without an appeal
to arms, we entertain much incredulity respecting
those immediate hostilities which are threatened. In
Piedmont all the preliminaries of open war have
been carefully gone through, and to all ontward
pearance nothing can prevent the shook of hostile
armies. There surely, however, must be some
mistake, either as to the sincerity of CHARLES
AusEar's war enthusiasm, or as to the
slenderness of his hopes of victory. Though
capable of bold resolve, CHARLES ALBERT has played
bin game of prince and general with fair sagacity,
Though willing and ready to take advantage of events.
he has shown great persp,eac'ty in not running
directly counter ti them. And we
thatss sufficient
faith in his prudence to feel titherhe is not
seriousty bent oa opening the campaign, or that he
has some hopes and elements of success, concealed as
yet from our view by the caterers of news from North
'hey.
If we doubt of war actually breaking out in these
regions, hew mach more must we doubt its taking
place in Elfzernany or even on the Eyder. The King
of Paresis, it cannot fail to be remarked, has been
placed very much in the same pos:tion with CHARLES
ALBERT. Both aspire, with scarcely concealed ambi-
tion, to be the head of a new empire, under which the
different provinces of their respective countries are to
combine. Both seized the revolution as the ass-
umable :opportunity for placing eemselves at the
head of the national movement. CHARLES ALBERT
marched into L•imbardy, the King of PRUSSIA into
Schleswig,with few scruples, either of them, and math
precipitation, each thrusting his sword and sceptre
through the cobweb arrangements of the treaty of
Vienna, and thereby braving the old absolutist powers,
pcinciph e, and e ingresses. Both did so amidst the
acclamations of their people. A twelvemonth ago the
King of PRUSSIA was hailed as the future sovereign of
Germany, CHAIM Ammer es the King of Italy.
Both have suffered severe reverse,. Both have with-
drawn from the attitude and aims of conquest. Both
have with difficulty kept down their turbulent de-
and both have become suspected to the head-
long liberals. In Germny and in Italy there exists
a repabl:cen party awaiting to take advantage of the
faults,eff royalty, and proclaiming that moderation and
monarchy can disappoint sat make darn et the
IS
aspirants after LA unity and erewnoss, and that
democracy *One can attempt ant aceoniphsb the teak.

Italian demos-racy has, however, had full seer for
exertion, and bas made no sane use of its energies or
opportunities. German democracy has, se yet, not
been happier or wiser. And we must own that our
beet hopes for manyabliment boll of unity and
freedom in Geand in Italy, are based on a
aatioeal monarch becoming the champion of these
principles in both countries.
ALB
Tee war of CHARLES ERT'S territories and
resources, ewtyer, rendered such a task too weighty
for him. Greet eensisteuey, and parity, sad stmegth
of character, might have made up the &Limey, and
commanded the salience of all Italians. But un-
fortunately thee are flaws in his toyed reputation.
And the people of Italy have but too good reasons to
be distracted in their propensities to hero-worship.
The King of Pavane commands tar greater re-
sources, though he may have mire formidable
obs'ac'es to contend with. He has a large and
disciplined army ; he has all Germany, the
population of which is ready to fellow him if be hoist
the flag of German unity, freedom, and indepen-
dence. Austria will no coubt oppose, and Rillblft is
ready to support its opposition. Bath menace even
the extremity of war, should the King of Pitessie
o opt the imperial crown. But would they execute
each a menace ? We doubt it. For Austria would
he broken as a potsherd in such a etrog4le—extin-
cuished as much by Russian aid, as annihilated by the
determined hostilit of the entire German race.
FREDERICK the GREAT would certainly not have
hesitated in FREDERICK WILLIAM'S place. No; nor
Would CHARLES ALBERT hesitate in the King of
Paussis's place. The latter hu now before him the
ealisation of the dream, not merely of his own youth
and manhood, but of those of his dycasty since it C3Ol-
- its career. If he reject it, and should in con-
influence all the labours of Frankfort and of
the popular party fail, that party will direct
its energies into an altogether new channeL
And if it be an auti-princely. and anti-monarchic one,
the princely class and reigning families of Germany
are algae to blame. They it is who have stood in the
way of the reelimition of every idea of German unity,
greatness, or freedom. And Germano, who are bent
on all these, and are strong and determined enough to
conquer them, will achieve that ceequat, in despite
of these princes, nay, over these very princes, if they
be found so selfish, and pueilluimous, and anti-
national, as to thwart the best ideas and strongest
aspirations of the German race.
A few days, a few hours perhaps, will put us in
possession of some more certain intelligence. The
Frankfort Assembly will, nn doubt, elect the King of
Penult-, as indeed the only mode of accomplishirg
their great naional views. And our private intelli-
senor leads us to hope, that the King will accept,
alihousth upon conditions.
Should he not do so, there is an end of Frankfut. The
assembly may pot' er on, discuss a directory, or acme
new compromise in the shape of a form of govern-
ment, but in neith.r can it succeed. And in pity
to the central parliament the German prind.s will
infallibly strange it, and put it out of pain, ociroyiny
some mock German c institution in its place, to be-
foul the people with the show of unity and freedom,
whilst in realty it restores the old machinery and
men of the Diet, the MATTERNICHS and MUNCH /3EL-
LINGHAUSENS, to pretocolise German patience, and
place their old perukes by way of extinguisher on the
flame of German libotalism. Neal we *ay to what
catastrophe such counter-revolution loads?

Some of our mornieg contemporaries seem to be
frightened out of their propriety by the intelligence
just received from Canads. It has been taken fur
granted that the provincial ministry are bent, by a
solemn legislative art, on putting treason at a pre-
mium and loyalty at a discount; and on this assump-
tion, hastily made, the most violent denunciations
have been hurled against them. Questions have
already been put in parliament, and more are likely
to fellow on the subject; and we trust that Mr.
HAWES will, this evening, be ready to give
such an account cf the reel circumstances of
the cue as will convince everybody that very
monstrous conclusicns have been pi-civil ately formed
in certain quarters on very slender foundation,. F. r
hitherto the a hole matter teems to have teen greatly
misunderstood or grouly misrepresented. Tue irre-
spons.ble statements of a reckless and disappointed
faction have been taken as truths, and thy have
formed the sole basis of the noisy ou'cry which has
been raised. It shill be our endeavour to separate
truth from falsehood, and to put such a statement of
the on.. before our readers as will enable them to
form for themselves a cilm and diapaasi, nate judg-
ment upon it.
It will be recollected that the rebailion which
broke out in Canada in the winter of 1837 extended
to bath provinces. In Lower Canada the insurrec-
tionary movement looked very formidable for a t me.
but the bravery of the troops and the loyalty of the
British section of the population succeeded, in the
course of a few weeks, in effectually crushing it. In
Upper Canada the case was different. The insurrec-
tion there was confined to a particular section of a
particular county, and was suppressed, in the course of
a few days, by the loyal inhabitants of the
province, without the intervention of her Majesty'.
troops, who were still in the lower province, engaged
in repro sing the movement of the French Canadians.
But although the rebellion was thus promptly stilled,
tranquillity was not immediately restored. The hopes
of the disaffected were, for some time longer, stimu-
lated, and the peace e f the province disturbed, by
the piratical incursions of American sympathisers.
These, in a short time, were diecontinued es hopeless,
and loyalty triumphed over treason. But, in the
mesietime' Lower and Karsaws were executed as
traitors in Toronto, and VON Sauvrz and others hanged
as bandits in Kingston and Niagara. Several of the
Queen's subjects, taken in arms, were also tried. con-
victed, and transported, some to Bermuda and others
to Van Diemen's Land. In adaition to this, there

was considerable loss of property in the districts to
which the insurrectionary movement or its incidents
had extended—such as the Niagara frontier, Toronto,

Pronneff, fit. Beeteebe, and St. Denis.'
It is eery evident that, in etpolitical excite-
ment, like that alluded to, the innooent suffer with
the guilty. This is Issiticularly the ease in connexion
with property; and as in Canada the mass of the
people werethe destruction of property occa-
siemed by the rebellion fell mainly upon the well-
Masted subjects of the crown. Their claim to compen-
Mien for rebellion losses was obvious, and accordingly,
seme years ago, a measure was pared, giving such
wimps= Ides, so far as such losses incurred in Upper
amok were concerned. The Lower Canadians simi-
leetis;tutted have an noel claim upon the justice of
the islature, and it is for seeking to give effect to
tbat maim, that the province has been thrown by the
Sipplaition into a state of excitement; and an outcry
V been raised against the provincial cabinet and pm.-
Bement in this country. How far this excitement is
welt gionuded, or this outcry just, may be gathered
from the following simple statement of facts.
To render the facts more intelligible, it may be as
well first to advert to the pos,tion of parties. Those
' now forniing the opposition were the men whose ins:-
lent domination in Canada, until 1837, drove ene pro-
vince into rebellion_, and put the loyalty of the other to
theseverest tests. This party, until thee, had been the
meetant pet of the colonial department, being treated
by it as the sole connexionuit, whilst the liberals
were systematically treated and kept at arm's length
as a separatist faction •, the truth being, that ttere
was quite as much loyalty in the tanks of the one as
in those of the other, although such noisy profession
was not made of it. Things thus continued until the
rebellion in Lower Canada—which was in effect a war
of races and a section, though small, of the
Upper Canada rebels were driven in-o that course of
which the whole body of the liberals had long been
=deservedly suspected. The best commentary which
can be afforded of the conduct of both parties is that
Lord DURHAM'S first recommendation, on proceeding
to Canada, was to emcee that responsible govern-
ment to the colony, the denial of which was the
proximate cause of the rebellion in Upper Canada.
This principle was established under Lord STREW-
maes government, when the tories or Family
Oseepaet were prostrated, and a great party
farmed, the materials of which were drawn trout
both sides. This was known as the Govetnne-
Clece:ars party, which afterwards absorbed the
ultra-liberals within its mike. So that there are
now, as formerly, but two parties in Canada, the
liberals consisting, to a greatextent, of those who were
adherents of the family compactparty,untilafterthere-
bsilion. Tnere were excluded from power until some
time after Lord METCALFE'S snivel in the province,
when they assumed the government and retained it,
but without the confidence of the country, until 1848
when the general election went so completely against

• fib.

• Novi,,he

Were complied to mtge.
et I,.epese.
.1813, whits the tones were in power. and after
,tbis Rosser. lied been passed giving compensation for
•r banes lasses in Upper Canada, an address was
!instal reeessmeadisg the payment of similar losses in
the lower premise. In 1846, the taxies being still in
pews-, a commission was aminted to ascertain the
extent of these losses. Under this commission claims
were registered to the extent of 240,0001. Of these,
chaise to the extent of 60,0001. were classed as spe-
culative or anal." For the payment of the remain-
ing claims, amounting to 180,0001, the commission
recommended the Immediate appropriation of 100,000 L
All this was done by the tory government in order to
muse, in their perhamentary extremity, Lower Cana-
dian support. Failing in this, the matter proceeded
no furtlr r, and the report of the commission was
emoted upon anti: theists government quitted office.
M. LAFONTAINE, the Attorney-General for Lower
Canada, has now introduced • bill to redeem the
pledge then made by the governme. t to the Lower
Canadians; in other words, to indemnify those who
bad sufferd from the rebellion in Lower Canada, as
those in Upper Canada had alteady been indemnified.
Yet it is for this—that is to say, for seeking to carry
est their own proposal—that the tory party has
Baud the pruritus into its present state of exereme nt.
The whole of the sufferers in Lower Canada have been
indheelminately termed " French rebels,' and, as
auk the prejudices of the Upper Canadians have
been sedulously evoked against them. To pay the
rebel., it has been alleged that the province was to
be taxed to the extent of 180,0001., whereas all that
LAFONTAINE'S bill contemplates is to raise 90,0001. for
this paver instead of the 100,0001. proposed by the
tory commission of 1846. In answer to the charge that
they intend to compensate rebels, the ministry point
to tie bill, which is not only framed upon the model
of that giving oompeosatian to tie Upper Canada suffer-
ers, which nobody ever denounced as giving compen-
sation to rebels, but is actually drawn up in the very
words of that bill. Thus the tory party have, in order
to create an excitement, which might reinstate them in
flower, raised an outcry against a measure not only
framed in exact accordance with an unexceptionable
measure already passed, but a measure which they
themselves originated. It would be difficult, in the
diversified annals of Farty recklessness, to find a more
discreditable page than this. Notwithstanding the
excitement thus wantonly raised out of doors, the
lower house has signified its senae of the justice of the
measure by passing into committee upon it by a large
majority.
The liberal ministry in Canada are quite competent
to fight their own battle on the spot. But it is not
difficult to excite a prejudice against them here; and
our object in presenting these facts to our readers is
to warn them against being can ied away by noisy
clanr.ur and ill-grounded denunciation. The measure,
so hastily condemned, is not a measure to remunerate
rebels, but to compensate innocent sufferer. in Low or,
as innocent sufferers in Upper Canada have already
been compensated fir loans incurred during the
rebellion. The agitation in the province is
purely a party one, got up for patty pur-
poses of the most questionable kind. The cabinet
never contemplated compensation t i those who bad
been found guilty of treason, or who had confessed
their guilt. An amendment was moved in committee
depriving of such compensation all those who were
convicted or sent is Bermuda by Lord Dunnam, and
of these Dr. /inmost, on whose case much stress is
laid, was one. This amendment was seconded by Dr.
NErsote. It was not needed to deprive rebels of tbe
compensation it tended for innocent sufferers, the ob-
ject of its formal submission to the committee being to
remove effectually from the public mind any apple-
hees;on as to the real scope et the bill to which reck-
less misrepresentation might have given rise.
These being the maize fac's cf the case, we con-
Mealy leave our readers to judge of them. We
regret exceedingly the tone taken in reference to the
subject by the limes of yesterday: After properly
counselling its readers not to prejudge the matter
until the facts were before them, it launches cut into
a series of grave charges against the whole body of
the liberal party, calculated to produce in Canada the
worst possible effects. Bo it remembned that in-
dulging in such sweeping charges is but reverting to
the fatal polic of a former time, when the
provincial liberals were treated as organised traitor",
when treason was as far from their thoughts as it
was from those of their opponents. And when the
Times now speaks of the majosity of the Canaelisa
penile as traitors and rebel., does it forget that a
great proportion of the liberal party corstituting that
majority is composed of the tones of former days ?
Thus to charge the whole liberal party as rebels is the
grossest injustice, whilst to denounce as a traitor
a mm like Mr. BLAKE is to elevate treason to the
dignity of a virtue.

COLONIAL.

EARTHQUAKES IN NEW
ZEALAND.

The middle and northern islands of the New
Zealand group—both sides of Cook's Strait—
have, as we stated yesterday, be-n visited with
a series of violent shocks of earthquake, ex-
tending over • wide range of country and through
a considerable number of days. Though devastating
to house and other property, they have providentially
been restrained from much destruction of life.
Only one family—Barrack.Sergeant Level and
his son and daughter, both children—arc
reported as sufferers. The intelligence was
brought to Sioespore by the Clara, which arrived
there with letters from New Zealand, and papers to the
16th of November, before the mail was despatched.
We subjoin such extracts from papers and informa-
tion gleaned flow other sources as our Singapore
correspondent has forwarded to us, deeming it best
en each occasions is present tte news to our readers
in the form it has reached us. It may, however,
facilitate the formation of an accurate estimate of the
range of the casualty and its efft ea, to give by way
of preface a general summary of the principal points.
At Wellington the first shock, and it appears to
have been a very severe one, was experienced about
11 a.m. on the morning of Monday, the 16th of Oct.
Three or four slight quiverings were subsequently
Mt in the course of the day. Two alight shocks were
bit at 4 and 71 a.m. on Tuesday. At Si p.m. •
slight shook was perceived; this was immediately
followed by a second, also slight; and then came a
third if anything more severe than the filet, of Mon-
day. Wednesday passed over with two or three
slight shocks. A few minutes before 6 cm. on
Thursday the 19th, a third severe shock occurred,
which lasted almost a minute. On Friday shocks.
bat not revere onei, were ft It at intervals. The
slight shocks still continued en Saturday. On
Sunday shocks continued to take place at intervals
of three or four hours. On Monday a few slight
vibrations were felt. On Tuesday, the 24th, a slight
tremble was perceived at 10 minutes to 2 p.m., and
in the spice of seven minutes and a half there were
three vibrations. Shocks continued to be felt
throughout the evening. Oa the west of Welling-
ton, all the shocks felt previous to the 23rd were
experierced at Wanganui, but with leas violence.
They had occurred at all the intervening places, be-
coming more violent as they approached Wellington.
The schooner Sarah Ann felt the first shock of the
eatthqoake, when off Taranaki, on the morning
of the 16th ; she also experienced the 'becks
of the 23rd, off Kapiti. At Nelson all the
shocks appear to have been felt, but with
lea violence than at Wellington; the severest at
Nelson was that of the 22nd. The earthquake did
much damage in Queen Charlotte's Sound and at
Cloudy Bay, but we have no particulars, nor any note
of the times at which the shocks cccurred. On the
east of Wellington. the shocks were felt severely in
the valley of the Wairarapa, but there is no note of
the times of their occurrence. The Clarcon her passage
(coin Auckland to Wellington expefenced a chock
whoa 60 milt a from the shore; and a second when
' working in at the heads of Pott Nicholson, on the
18th. The first shock (on the morning of Monday,
the 10th) was felt with great violence at Akaroa,
and lasted 3 or 4 minutes; brat, what is remarkable,
it is said not to have been felt at Purt Cooper, a few
Wise to the westward. The brig Bee, which arrived
at Wellington from Twofold Bay (N. S. Wales),
on the 23rd, does not appear to have felt any of the
shock,. Si far as our information goes the
earthquakes lasted nine-dayarand were felt at various
places, from the 73rd to the 73.. t. degree deed ,o„,ri-
liscle, and from ens 39th to t 44th degree of south
latitude. The heaviest an most continuous shocks
were experienced at Wellington, Queen Charlotte's

beady Eay,
the centre
r which they ,rite. , Thoeertbqt the
krs
Was y aid by stoney weether, with .heavy gates
(yeti .._ south and east, which lasted the greater part
of the nine day,. The volcano of Tongariro was not
hiatitlvity, nor were any others known to be so. Oa
the &mem of Tuesday, the 17th, a bright dame
was seen totem:lt op in the north-rut at Wellington,
and on board the Sarah Arm, then off Kapiti. At
Nelson the atmosphere is said to have been surcharged
with electricity.
These are the important general facts of this tee-
=sedate convulsion of nature which can be regarded
as ascertained. In the majority of eases the periods,
of the shocks are vaguely stated; and no great reli-
ancecan be placed on what is said of their compara-
tive violence. Bat Lieut.-Governor Eyre and several
gentlemen both at Wellington and Nelson are able
and intelligentobservers ; to we have reason to expect
accounts of the pheromone of scientifia value. It is
gratifying to learn that there has been so little loss of
life, and that the settlers are noway. disheartened.
The conflict of Mr. Eyre appears to have been must
praiseworthy. We subjoin the details as we have
received them.
(From the PireUing fon Independent, of Oct. 18.)
It is our painful duty to record a serious and afflicting
visits' ion Sine* our Last, the whole district of Port Nichol-
son (end in all probability the entire colony, if not the other
Wanda of the Pacific), so far as we have reesived intelligence
from, has been moved hither and thither by • terrible,
though grandly magnificent. operation of nature. On Friday
last the day was remarkably tine, though rather close and
sultry, bat towards night the weather changed, and early on
Saturday morning the wind came up from the southward
and eastward, blowing half a gale of wind, accompanied
by heavy rain. No change was perceptible during Sa-
turday and Buaday, but few anticipated the approach
of so fearful a storm (if we may be so allowed to term
lit) of earthquake. About half-put ens o'clock, •.oe ,
of Monday, a distant hollow rosy wee heard, the sound
I travelling. at a most rapid rate, and almost instants
neously, in the course of a few seconds of time, the whole
town was labouring from the most severe shock of an earth-
quake ever experienced by the white residents, or remem-
' bared by the Manries. The cone can never be described.
The crashing of houses, the fall of bricks, the hurrying to
and fro of women and children, and the incessant wave-like
motion of the earth, producing • chill at the heart and dread-
ful feeling of sickness, were more than sufficient to appal the
stoutest-minded in the place. The shocks continued, at in-
tervals, until half post seven o'clock, a.m. When daylight
broke the place presented a melancholy appearance. Most
of the large brick stores and dwellings, together with many
of the solid clay buildings, had received a severe shaking,
and chimneys were levelled to the roof in about twc-fifths of
the houses in town. The Wesleyan chapel, the gaol, and
other public buildings were seriously damaged, and the smash
of gleseware and other prop. rty was very great.
Mane men, women, and children had narrow and provi-
dential escapes, but up to this time we had to thank God for
preserving life and limb.
During Monday, three or four slight quiverings were ex-
pnienced, and owing to the threatening appearance of the
weather, fe ra were entertained of a recurrence of more din
unmet shocks. The weather cleared off in the evening, and
the stars made their appearance. But few slept during the
night, and at four o'clock and at half past seven o'clock in
the morning two light shocks took place.
Yesterday, business was at stand still. Though the
chops cpensd as usual, run felt anxious and concerned,
and this was increased when the wind once more set
in from the south-east. At half-put three o'elock a
slight shock passed through the earth, with a second
followed by one, if anything, more severe than that felt
on the previous morning. Every house in the town rocked
and quivered like • ship in • gale of wiud at sea, and seve-
ral buildings either fell in, or were so shook as to endanger
the inmates or those who paned beneath. Shocking to re-
late, Berraek-sergeant Lovel and two of his children, one a
girl of about four yeses of age, and the second a b-g of eight,
were buried beneath the falling bricks and rubbish which
fell from the wall surrounding Mr. Fitzkerbert's stores.
They were immediately dug out, but we grieve to state that
the little girl was quite dead, and the boy so injured that he
expired at 11 o'clock last night. The unfortunate father
received Never, injuries, large pieces of flesh being torn
from his thighs, bat, considering the awful nature of '
his affliction, he is doing better than could have been ex-
pected.
But few brick or clay houses misted the shock. The
Colonial Hospital was severely injured, so much so, that it
was deemed advisable to remove the patients to Government
House. The patients were removed from the military
hospital to the wooden barracks at Mount Cook, and the
pris men were taken from the gaol and placed in custoly of
the soldiery. On all aides, and fa all directions, ruined
stores and dwelling-homes prevented themselves to the ep
—and the earthquake has clearly demonstrated that wooden
buildings are shunt the only class of habitations which ran
be deemed sane spinet such dreadful shocks.
Tuesday night passed over, and daylight at length dawned
on Wellington. Two or three ahoeka occurred, but not
severe ones. Many walked about and did not trust them-
selves in any place of shelter, whilst numbers formed tents and
covering in the open air.
The weather has now changed, and the wind appears to
be setting in from the north. Prom the appearances in the
, it ie imagined that Tongarill, or some other volcano, is
in active operation ; if so, we may deem the great danger
passed. Throughout the whole of the dreadful sew we
have to be thankful to the Supreme Being that so few of we
fellow-natures have been numbered with the dud t mei
whilat on this subject we would notify that the Scotch shah
will be opened this evening for the purpsee of divine woesbip,
and in miler to offer up our gratitude for the preservation of
the community from destruction.

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(From the Independent of 25th Oct.)
Wednesday, Oct. 18.—The independent was issued from
the press about 12 o'clock a.m. In the afternoon the wind
ones more at in from the southeast, and during the after-
noon and evening slight shocks were felt.
Thursday, Oct. 19. -During the night the wind blew
fresh and the clouds betokened heavy weather from the
southward. A few minutes after 5, a.m., a third severe
shock was experienced, which lasted about a minute, com-
pletely destroying the bui!diogs previously shakes. Megan.
W. B. Rhodes & Co.'s brick bonded store, the Wesleyan
church, and numerous dwellings of bad( and clay were
levelled with tit. ground, and many dwellings built of these
materials apparently lot previously injured were now seri-
ously damaged. Several families took refuge in the New
Episcop-I Church, and the wooden buildinks were flown to
as places of safety by those who had been driven from their
usual plats of abode. A proclamation was issue! by his ex-
cellency, the liene•governor, ordering Friday, Oct. 29, to be
observed as a general fast by the inhabitants of Port Nichol-
son. A company of soldiers and numerous civilians were
employed during the day removing the property from Capt.
Rhodes's bonded store, and it is with great pleasure we state
the military conducts() themselves exceedingly well, working
cheerfully and together, and that nearly the whole of the
buried property was removed and placed in safety.
Friday, Oct. 20.—The wind still continued from the same
quarter, though the day was clearer than the preceding one.
Prayers were offered up in the several churches by the mi-
nisters of the different denomination.. Shocks were felt at
intervals, but not severe ones. Mr. Lovel, after lingering to
this time, expired in the morning, bowed down by the weight
of his afflictions.
Saturday, Oct. 21—Was a remarkably fine day, but slight
shocks still continued. The remains of Barrack-Sergeant
Loved were consigned to the tomb_, hie two little ones having
been buried the day previous. Deoeased was buried with
military honours, the band of the 65th preceding the cor
to the tomb, and a large number of civilian. paid their last
tribute of respect by attending the remains to the grave.
Sunday, Oet. 22.—Fine dear day, with wind from the
north. Shocks took place at intervals of three or four hours.
Monday, Oct. 23.—Weather fine, with vend from the
same quarter. But few shocks were felt, end hopes were
entertained that the subsidence of the earthquake might be
considered as certain.
Tuesday, Oct, 24.—Monday night passed over quietly,
with only a few slight quivers being felt. The morning was
fine end beautiful, end business wu carried on as anal.
Men were employed taking down the shattered dwellings,
and activity prevailed in every direction. So far the inhabit-
ants were inclined to believe that the shocks were at an end;
but at 10 minutes to 2 &slight tremble took place, and at 5
minutes to 2 s second and third, the three, with the moil-
la•ion, occupying seven and a half minutes of time. Up to
this evening the shocks have continued with little interrup-
tion.
Proclamation.—Whereas it has pleased Almighty God
to visit this settlement with a great and grievous calamity,
and it is fitting that a public acknowledgment be made of
the Divine power, on whom all the operations of nature and
the security of his creatures depend, and that prayers and
supplications be offered up to Almighty God to
avert the recurrence of any similar visitationsnow, therefore, I, Edward John Eyre, lieutenant-go-
vernor of the province of New Munster, by and with On
advice of my executive council, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare that to-morrow, the 20th of October, shall be held as a
day of public fast, prey(r, and humiliation.
(Signed) E. Brim.
(From our Singapore correspondent.)
The !Int shock of the ss " s felt ---

ea quake west, . very severely at
Akaros, area it lasted for three or four minutes, bat was
not experiment at Port Cooper, although but a few saes
distant ; haws it is conjectured that the cause originated as
the south-west coast of the middle bland and was travelling
in a north-east direction towards the Curtis islands, lying
about 400 mass off the met closet.
Aa W the sheiks had bees felt rather severely in
the easy. hat dump bed been sustained. Tbe nttives
aft
to have boa dreedfully alarmed ; they forsook
the milfold took to the lash.
As lilies the sheets wee ism eldest than at Wellington,
the streetnet beim_ _experieneedlea the 22nd. Several build-
ings lad lam levelled with the posed, including the resi-
dents of the late 11. Thempee, Esq., at the month of the
Waimea. The Noise Bemeiner of Om 28 remark, : " At
an sublease of the elestrie stem of the atmosphere since the
oemsengsment of theeheeits. it bee been remsrked, in many
jadialr, that vegetation has made a progress truly won-
The above Is all that we can lad interestieg relative to
the MOM alamity that has visited New Zealand. The in-
halants of Wellington, where the eltwto appear to have
been meet violist, do not appear to be it tae least disheart-
ens:A.lh' visitation, or to wonder their ultimate proepects
nth than temporarily b ',Med. The Independent of
Oct 28 very properly calls the arAsetion of agents, of
abloom, and resident owners of land, to the
necessity of lowering the price of land, and reckon
the value of their property less. The Inhabitant. have

been so much distressed by the late catastrophe as to be no
longer able to pay 12s. per foot per annum, or to recover 1
their lases, unless leases are extended to 21 or 28 yeas., in
stead of 7 and 14 as at present. Throughout the trying ea-
latnity it is gratifying to observe the Wellington papers
speak in terms of the highest admiration of Lieutenant-
Governer Eyre, who, during **shocks, visited the shattered
dwellings. eueered the inmates, advised them to seek refuge I
in houses constructed of wood, and otherwise eadeavoured
to console them under their serious affliction.
The barque Salmon, of London Capt Mills, left Welling-
ton on the 26th of October, for Sney, with upwards of 60
' passengers, struck on a reef off the mouth of the Heads at
Wellington, and became • total wreck. The pilot (eines
Weltiered) ww is sharp of the venal, through whew nerli-
genes and want of energy in the hour of danger the vessel
was loot. The passengers were happily taken oat of the
vessel, and after some difficulty and danger landed in safety
In a small bay, a mile distant from the pilot station, bat
with few articles of clothing.
The Wellington Government Gazette, Nov. 7th, ate down
the quarterly revenue ending Sept. 30, at 18,666 L, and the
total expenditure at 13,3071., showing an increase in the re-
wire on the previous quarter. The Independent, Nov. 15,
notices the arrival at Nelson, Nov. 6, of the ship Bernicis
from England, with 140 emigrants for the different southern
settlement,. Among the passengers were the commissioners
appointed by the Church of England Association to deter-
mine the site of the new settlement of Canterbury. The
Otakou settlement Is stated by the New Zealand Spectator,
Nov. 11, to number 1,000 Inhabitants, the greater part of
whom had arrived there within the previous seven months
In lug' vessels chartered by the company the last
of which lauded 270 emigrants. The independent,
October 28, in its advertising columns, announces that
a new-paper was on the eve of publiesti^n at
Drinedier, Otakou, to be Issued semimonthly. The Welling-
ton Government Gazette, Nov. 9 h, contains Mr. McLean's
report on the adjustment of the Wanganui lend question.
Mr. McLeau's endeavours had been attended with the most
complete success; some 3f the chiefs exhibited a little dis-
like, bat ultimately they nearly all signed the relinquish-
ment, and took the sums of mosey allotted by government.
The district thus acquired comprises 14 miles of coast by 10
miles of inland, or 89,600 acres, of which 44,000 are esti-
mated to be productive. This latter is thus divided : chosen
by secti mists, 2.5,000 acres : allotted to natives, 2,700 acres ;
unsl!otted to natives,l,7oo acres; unappropriated by the New
Zealand Company, 15,000 acres. The natives throughout the
Wanganui district generally evinced a desire for the settle-
ment of more Europeans, as a means of securing the peace
and prosperity of their country.
From Auckland our accounts are down to the middle of
October las:. On September 19 the members of the church
of England had a meeting relative to the Christian warts of
the populatioe' when the chair wee taken by the Lord Bishop
of New ZsAancl. The bishop read a pastoral letter, having
for its object the collection of materials for the adjwitment ef
a systematic form of church government for the diocese of
New Zeeland. An institution called the " Advancement
' Society" had been established at Auckland, the objects of
which were to develop the resources and capabilities of the
colony. At the Oct her meeting samples were produced of
the orchilla weed of the country, manufactured flax, 4.e. Bee.
Mr. Nathan's new scoria house has been taken at a
rental of 1001. per annum as a residence for his
Escellency the Govemor•in Chief. Working parties of
her Majesty's 68th Li giment were employed in constructing
some public roads—a somewhat unusual service for troops of
the line. News fa m the Bay of Islands was satisfactory.
Some of the tribes in the interior were disturbed by intsstice
roils and petty quarrels, and a revival of the old custom of
" seeking payment" for former offences, which is much
regretted by the friends of the aborigines, as receding from
civilisation. Government agitation was still being culled on.
Large tracts of land were under crops of wheat, and the
, prospects were encouraging. The Auckland Southern Cross,
Oct. 23, states that the re :oubtnble Heki had sent a peremp-
tory order to Mr. White, the police.inspector of Monganui,
to quit that station as collector of customs. The settlers
generally do not apprehend any danger from Heki, but
incline to the opinion that the wily chief has need the thrett
• in order to draw forth some demonstration on the part of
government