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answer as to the nature of the charge put
into the pistols. In his first declaration he said
that they were loaded with slugs, which he had
made himself, but he refused to say of what metal
they were made, adding, that, in all probability, they
would be found, when if shown to him he could rea•
dily recognise them, but until then it would he use-
less to enter into any further details. The prisoner
continues perfectly calm and composed. He enters
into conversation with his keepers, and appears to
look with impatience to the hour for his meals, which
he takes with a good appetite, and he sleeps well.

The heat had become almost intolerable in Paris.
On Tuesday the thermometer (Farenheit) marked
871 degrees; on Wednesday 95i.

" We have received from Pontanion," says the
Constitutionnel—

" Some information of rather a strange nature. We have
been told that three Englishmen, sentenced last year by the
first Cuuncil of War, sitting at Papieti (Otaheite), to ten years'
hard labour, and confined during six weeks in the bagne of
Brest, had been hastily removed from it on the 25th of July,
and conveyed to Pontanion. It was stated that they were
released in consequence of a letter written by one of thin
to his ambassador in Paris, who had been instructed by his
Government to expostulate upon the condemnation of his
countrymen by a French court-martial, sitting in a country
which England did not consider placed under the authority
of France. We are the more inclined to credit this supposi-
tion, as an order was lately received to take off the chains
and the convict dress which these men had brought with
them to Pontanion. This looks very like another Pritchard
affair."

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 83f. 60c. ; the Five per Cents., 122 f.
25c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,276 f. 25c. ; Rouen,
968 f. 75c. ex. div. ; Havre, 700 E; Great Northern, 710 E ;
Avignon, 5185 f. ; Vierzor, 6221. 50c.; Bordeaux, 567 f. 50c.;
Basle. 215 E ; Dieppe, 3951. ; Pal is and Strasburg, 490 E ;
Tours and Nantes, .500 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 4951. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 485 E ;
Spanish Actives, 341/s.
The following are the quotations for new lines
LYONS, AUG. 3.—Paris and Rouen, 970 f. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 868 f. 75c. ; Northern, 698 E 75c. ; Paris and Lyons,
503 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, AUGUST G.

Anglo-Belgian, 2;a—Boulogne and Amiens, 125 A Bot;leaux, Tou-
louse, and Cette (Mackenzie), —Ditto (Espelete). I!p—hutch
Rhenish, 61,4 —East Indian, % —Louvain a la Sambre, I%—Northern
of France Constituted, 13 tl —.Namur and Liege, 3'A —Orleans and
Bordeaux, B%—Paris and Lyons Censtituted,s% —Rouen and Havre,
27%—Sambre and Meuse, 414 —West Flanders, 3%.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Court are expected
to leave Buckingham Palace this afternoon, fur Osborne
House, Isle of Wight.
Summonses were issued yesterday from the Fore'gn-
office to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council. The
meeting will, it is expected, be held to-morrow after-
noon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.

NE W ZEALAND.
(From the Times.)

We have received New Zealand papers to the 15th
March inclusive. It appears from these that Governor
Grey had returned from the Bay of Islands, where he
had effectually subdued and brought to submission
Heke and Kawiti. The two rebel chiefs throw them•
selves wholly on the mercy of his Excellency, resigning
all their lands, leaving it entirely to him to dictate the

terms on which peace and order are to be re-established
at the northern part of the Island. It is said that
Governor Grey does not intend to deprive 'lan and
Kawiti of their lands, or to make them an appendage to

the British Crown. The chief Nene, who had been
received as a mediator in the matter returns forthwith

to the Bay of Islands, and the blockade is to be at once
removal, and the ports opened, and the customs re-
established.

The following extracts show the state of affairs in the
other parts of the colony :
(From the New Zealand Spectator cf Feb. 25.)
On Monday Mr. Sr. Hill, the police magistrate, went
over to the Hutt district, in obedience to the instruc-
tions of his Excellency, to put the settlers in possession
of the land, but they were immediately driven back by
the natives, and it was evident that an armed demon-
stration, and perhaps the employment of force, would
be absolutely necessary to compel these natives to sub=
mission. Accordingly a body of troops, amounting to
340 men, under the command of Lieu,enant-Colonel
Hulme, left Wellington at five o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and arrived at the Hutt bridge at eight o'clock,
where they remained while a message was sent to
Kaparetehau, the chief who has been acting under
the directions of Rangihaeata, intimating the Go-
vernor's desire to see him. His Excellency find-
ing any attempt to procure an interview with this chief
Fruitless, the troops were ordered to advance to the dis-
puted ground, and they crossed the Hutt by the ford
near Mr. Boulcott's barn, and encamped in a large
Maori potato-field, a short distance above Mr. Boulcott's
section. The Afaories immediately retired before the
troops, and their numbers were rapidly thinned by the
desertion of Taringa Kuri, and others who had no inten-
tion of offering any serious opposition, but who desired
to try if the Government were in earnest. Towards the
evening the natives retired to the hills, and left the troops
in possession of the Valley of the Hutt, so that it was
considered unnecessary to keep so large a force there,
and on Thursday morning a part of the troops re-
turned to Wellington, leaving about two hundred
men in possession of the disputed land. The na-
tives expelled from the Valley of the Hutt were a small
branch of the Ngatiawa tribe, called the Ngatitarna,
headed by Taringa Kuri, one of the parties to the deed
of sale to the New Zealand Company, a large party of
vagrants from Wanganui, under E. Maka, who had left
that place in consequence of adultery with another
chief's wife, and the Ngatirangatahi. These last came
originally from the upper part of the Wanganui river to
Porirua. The head men amongst them were Kaparetehau,
commonly called E Pare, E Moro, Te Kohera, Te Arihi,
Papa Ahuapa, Bore, Te Atuta, and Kakaherea. They
were all present at, and took part in, the sale of this
district to the New Zealand Company in 1839. They
were also at the Wairau massacre, where the two
first were amongst the most active and ferocious,
and where Atuta was killed. Kakaherea died at
Porirua in 1844, and the rest, immediately after
the Wairau massacre, usurped land on the banks
of the Hutt, under Rangihaeta's sanction, and
have continued ever since to molest and despoil the
settlers with impunity up to the time of their expulsion
by the troops on Wednesday last. That they had no
title to the land is confessed by Taringa Kuri, who, in
his evidence beore Mr. Spain's court, expressly admits
that these chiefs were all present at the original sale of
the land to Colonel Wakefield, that this was part of the
land, and that they sold it for fear of Rauparaha and
Watanui. The land has since been bought again by
Captain Fitzroy, with the Company's money, but it re-
mained for our present Governor to do justice to the
settlers by putting them in possession of the land, and
driving away the horde of robbers and murderers to
whose exactions they have been so long exposed. It
was left for Captain Grey to assure to the "distressed
settlers in Cook's Straits" protection to life and pro-
perty. _

(From the New Zealand Spectator of the 21st February.)
We understand that his Excellency proceeds on Tues-
day next in her Majesty's steamer Driver to Wanganui,
for the purpose of settling with the natives of that
district all questions and disputes connected with the
land claims, and of putting the settlers in possession of
their land. The natives will have their reserves pointed
out to them, and after the necessary arrangements are
all completed, the compensation money will be for-
warded to Wanganui, for distribution among them.
His Excellency will then visit Nelson and New Ply-
mouth to settle all questions connected with the laud
claims in those districts, and will afterwards return to
Wellington. It is supposed his Excellency's visit to the
other settlements in Cook's Straits will occupy about
three weeks. We believe Mrs. Grey will not accom-
pany his Excellency.
(From the New Zealand Spectator of March 13.)

RANCITIAEATA.—Some persons who have just arrived
from the coast state that 200 armed natives, from Taupo,
have joined Rangihaeata, and the settlers at Manawatu
are very apprehensive that, in the event of an engage-
ment between the troops and the natives, this chief will
make reprisals, and endeavour to cut off the outsettlers.
On Thursday (three days only after the Governor's visit
to Porirua) news arrived that Rangihaeata threatened
to stop Mr. Skipwith's sheep, and to kill them if the
persons in charge of them attempted to drive them be-
yond Porirua. It is plain that very little reliance can be
placed in Rangihaeata's professions of peace ; he is
evidently temporizing and watching the course of events,
and waiting for some favourable opportunity of which he
may take advantage ; as long as he is permitted to re-
main at large, he will always be a source of annoyance
and trouble to the settlers.

The Ford Abbey estate, which our readers will
remember was sold by George Robins a few weeks since to
the Rev. Mr. Lawrence Gwynne, of Teignmouth, for 52,000
guineas, is, we perceive, most unexpectedly again in the
market. The advertisement explains the why and the
wherefore; at all events, it will afford an opportunity to the
Catholic body, who delayed arriving at a favourable conclu-
sion in time for the last auction, to repair the mischief they
then encountered. It is beyond all doubt the finest
monastery throughout England, and, with its splendid
demesne, was estimated the other day at 70,000 guineas, so
that the possiblity is, that at the approaching sale (which
must be a peremptory one) it will sell higher than to Mr.
Gwynne ; but we say" nuns verrons."
ALARMING FIRE AT POPLAR —On Thursday night,
about eight o'clock, some alarm was created at Poplar,
through the outbreak of a fire upon the premises belonging
to Sir Charles Price and Co., seed-crushers and oil mer-
chants, situate at Millwall. It commenced in the boiling
house, a detached building, but near the tar stores. The
boiling over of a copper of oil, it is presumed, was the cause.
The intelligence was promptly forwarded to the engine sta-
tions, and very speedily the several engines of the London
essablishment and the West of England Company arrived.
I'revious to their arrival near 150 gallons of oil and several
puncheons, together with some other articles of stock, were
in a blaze. By ten o'clock the firemen arid workmen hap-
pily succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but not before a
considerable quantity of the stock was destroyed. We un-
derstand that the property was insured in the Imperial and
West of England Insurance Companies.
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DESCENT OF THE NASSAU FIRE BALLOON.—Every
person acquainted with the enterprising exertions of Mr. C.
Green will be glad to hear that the whole of the party who
left
surrounded by fireworks, arrived safely at that favourite
place
of amusement Vauxhall-gardens
o'clock, having.;
a most agreeable passage ever three counties, with a
brilliant moonlight. half-past Wednesday
twelvenight,
BEAUMARIS REGATTA.—Sit R. W. Bulkeley, Bart.,
M.P., has consented to be President of this Regatta; and
Wednesday, the 26th inst., is fixed for the event.