The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-19 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

Extract of a letter, dated Wellington, Feb. 7, 1846 :
. "It seems extraordinary that Captain Grey has been
nearly three months in the colony without deigning fo an-
nounce his advent to us southerns. Either he is playing the
general officer at the Bay of Islands, or else he has been
indoctrinated by the Auckland people that this is only
a fishing village,' &c. We are now without official intelli-
gence and mail from Auckland since the Ist of November.
" The New Zealand debates have excited our neighbours
in Australia and Van Diemen's Land. A vessel arrived from
the latter, brings news tit the resignation, in a bthly, of all the
non-official members of council, and the c mmencement
of an agitation for representative legislation; and in New
&nut h Wales and Port Philip they have determined t•-) send
agents to Landon, like those of Canada and the \Vest Indies.
Van Diemen's Land seems going aux aboix in consequence
of Lord Stanley's system there, and I believe if we had
things better establishvd here we should have an extensive
immigration from it and its neighbours."
Nothing was known at the Cook's Straits settlement of
what Captain Grey's intentions were as no carrying on the
war Kith the natives at the Bay of Island-; indeed, the dis-
tance of the sea: of Govertuncry front tines. se, tlements is so
great a drawback that the settlers know nothing of what is
doing by the Government, excepting through the Sydney
newspapers.

SCAFFOLD A CCIDENT. --4 )11 W etlt.vsti- y , as seve• al
bricklayers were at work on a scaffold, repairing the top of a party-
wal of a public-house in High-street, Poplar, the ledger of the scat*
fold suddenly gave way, which cau.ed tile part upon which the men
(six 1,1 number) were standing, to fall, and the whole of them were
precipitai.ed telow. Ox i xamination it was found that one of tuhreme°,
named James salmon, aged thirty-six years, was seriously irki
._
He was removed to the London Hospital, where it was m theind
his ribs were fractured. tie ilea in a very dangerous state.s
other eve men were much bruised, but fortunately not toiu very
lout erstet.t. dents re-
on
If•t-• 141,..rp of pvpers awl private crarte:tr,
of Post-office
siding in Lancashire join in complaining of theet
erasL posted in Glas-
communication wtth the west of Scothind.de_.,,,d iiii Liverpool or
sow in the afternoon ot Monday ..re not deliver.
to
say.
at the same time
Manchester till Wednesday morning, that eau) is, it seems, that
that they are delivered in London.
h hour
they
are posted in Glasgow,
when the London mail
letters f r Lancashire, at whatever
remain In , -s then' along with the London letters,
Is dispatched This mail conveys then' along with the Londosl letters,
and arrives at Park&de and rrlflg
Harrington too late in the eveilln... of
and arrives at Parkside
letters to be delivered In Manchester and
i s noping to remove the evil, uni
he Post-office till e. even at eight.
adopted, The
ee
the following day, for theeu
morning
n been
bags, as to occa-
sionatter they leave Glasgow.
Liverpool until the sem, .
-tours sooner than at
unaccepted, but
:to:ncodnLedy
ttillieeirmpt,li,tl
no loss to the host-
received
tie 1
someGla sg Glasgow
monthss t e
at
age In
t an
no comp'
iaeenr
letters would have been tr y twenty
-tours
•unanswered.
—iit The offer remained not only
Sceloot. Fon THE INDIGENT BLIND —y ,
es ertiay after-
noon a se•ection of sacred music was performed by
eeted with this instP School.h ution, at the the pupils con-
fl
Fields. There were present, Colonel Clinton, house, St. George's
E. Wyndham, Esq., S. H. ferry,
the Bev. John Evans,
F.sq , and a large assembly of ladies.
who appeared to take a deep interest i
formances, which were extremelynthe proceedings. The per-
anthems and selections well conducted, con-isted of
from the
After the performances Messiah, Creation, Jephtha, &c.
the company .tr e ,e. cted the premises, and pur-
chased a large number .
of useful articles, which the pupils skilfully
Manufactured in their presence.
1 iIITCII PoruroEs.—ln isHition to the ext, niive Arri-
vals of fruit and other articles of general consumption, the produc-
tion of Holland, the quantities of potatoes brought over for the sup-
ply of our markets are also very large, and form a feature of
considerable interest and importance. The Ocean from Rotterdam
has brought 61 bees of potatoes, and the Batavier steam-ship from
the same port, 164 baskets of the same esteemed description of vege-
table. Like most of the articles supplied to us from this fruitful
country, the potatoes are spoken of as being of most excellent qua-
lity, and fully answering the expectations of the importers. These
are the largest importations of the article which have taken place
from the country mentioned. In addition to these supplies, the first-
named vessel brought thirteen ba,kets of cucumbers and five baskets
of melons, and the latter ship twelve baskets of cucumbers, the pro-
duce of Holland. Potatoes, and all other descriptions of vegetables,
Sc whatever kind, not being otherwise ettwalstrat9d are now tree of
pity urn iirrrtatitillAthiS C 011407!