The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

NEW ZKAILAND

Adviees have been received from New Zealand to the
Gth of December. According to there Governor Grey
had had some communications with the "rebel" chiefs-,
who aprear still inclined to resit-tour power. The friendly
chiefs were stroog in• their at-sat-fumes of good faith and
atrachm• nt to the EngliA. Toe tioops continued
rtationed at Kororarika. The weather had been vet),
ind,fferent, as at Auckland, and military operations were

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suspended for the present. It was understood that Captain
Grey was about to proceed in her Majesty's ship North
Star to o:uillit, for the purpose of an interview with
Pomare, who, although apparently disposed to assist our
troops, is also in communication with Heki and Kawiti.
The papers express the hope that Captain Grey will bring
the intriguing chief to understand that he must at once
make his choice of bring either a sincere friend or an
avowed foe. Honi lieki is said to be a! his " pall," at
Ikutang, sniffling from the effects of his late wound.
Kawiti was at Ruapekapeka, in his stronghold, with
about eight hundred men, and was represented to be in
his feelings more hostile than ever, declaring a determina-
tion never to yield to our sovereignty, according to the
terms of the treaty of the Waitangi, which he wholly re-
pudiates on behalf of himself and tribe. There had been
some de,ertion from the English camp. Three soldiers
of the 96th Regiment, and one of the 58th Regiment, had
absconded, not to the enemy, but to the bush Tarnaita
Waka had urged immediate hostilities against Kawiti,
and, as it was rumoured that Governor Grey had assented,
it was anticipated that the war bad been renewed with
more than previous determination. The Governor, it
his address to the friendly chiefs, stated that he had given
their opponents to the 2nd December, to decide whether
they would accept the terms proposed ; after which time
he should hold no communication whatever with them.
These accounts from the Bay of Islands only reach to the
rrid of November, and through other sources we know
nothing of what was done after that date.

The Prussian Slate Gazelle of the 16th inst. an-
nounct•s the death at Berlin on the preceding day of her
Royal Highness the Prince-s Mary Anne, wife of Prince
William of Prussia, horn Princess of Hesse.
STRIKE OF PLASTERERS IN FRANCE—The journey.
men plasterers at Anglers have struck for a rise of wages.
The workmen in several other trades at Nantes threaten
to strike for the same reason.
So low is the Portuguese Exchequer, that the Duke of
Wellington's good service pension of £2,000 a-year,
which has hitherto been regularly paid, cannot at present
be provided.
From a statement in the Brussels Gazette, it would ap-
pear that Mr. Asiley, brother of Lord Hastings, has been
murdered in Belgium, by two drunken men who enter-
tained an old grudge against him.
A horrible murder has been committed at Kingston,
Jamaica. Two brothers. Adam and Richard Nicholas,
quarrelled whilst gambling, and Adam in his passion
hugged his brother, at the same time inflicting a fatal
wound.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST RONGE.—The King of
Prussia has just issued orders to the President of :he pro-
vince of Silesia, to cease all proceedings commenced
against Mr. Runge, by the criminal courts at Breslaw,
owine to articles contrary to the Roman Catholic doc-
tr nes, in some of his pamphlets, in favour of the German
Catholics, of whom he is the founder. This toleration
has had a salutary effect on the public mind.
The Times states that Mr. Waghorn's project for con-
necting Singapore with Australia by means of steam com-
munication has created great interest. A complete chain
of iwercourse, if the plan were brought to hear would be
formed between the five portions of the globe, a r~rtular
communication with America on the one side, and India
on the other, being opened in Australia. A very slight
extension would bring into the sphere of action ►he large
East India Islands which are at present so little explored,
and which probably would offer a field for the greatest
development.
Several of the German journals continue to assert that
affairs are still in a very disturbed state in Silesia and
Austrian Gallicia. An engagement is said to have taken
°lace near Biala, on the frontiers of Silesia, between a body
of peasantry and a regiment of cavalry, in which 28 ot the
latter are stated to have been killed. Great alarm appears
to have been felt in many parts of Austrian Gallicia, owing
to a report that the insurgents would commit a general
massacre of the friends ot the Go 4ernment on Good Fri-
day. The day passed over, however, without any new
calamity.
The Paris papers of Monday state that the regicide Le-
comte arrived from Fontainbleau at ten o'clock in the
morning of that day, and was committed to the Concier-
eerie. The officer of gendarmes who accompanied him
was the bearer of papers said to he of importance. which
he delivered into the hands of the Prefect of Police.
There was every probability, hut as yet no certainty, that
the crime was the isolated act of Lecomte, and totally
unconnected with politics. Lecomte, on being questioned
as to his reasons for seeking to revenge his pretended in-
juries on the person of the king, replied that two months
previously he had addressed a letter to the king concerning
his pension. A letter, bearing the stamp ot the royal ca-
binet, was sent to him in answer, by the royal secretary.
This letter referred him to the intendant of the civil list.
Lecomte viewed this in the light of a rejection of his ap-
plication. His brooding character regarded this letter as a
personal proof of implacable severity. It was then be said
that he conceived the idea of killing the king. Lecomte
hoped to escape from the consequences of his crime. The
morning of the attempt he occupied himself by heaping
up faggots against the wall of the inclosure of Avon, at
the spot by which he hop d to escap-, when he heard the
sound of the King's carriage. According to his declara-
tion, he deemed the situation a bad one, and was on the
point of adjourning the execution of his plan, but the spi-
rit of revenge within him prevented hi o from doing so.
He ran to the spot where the cat riage was to pass, and
placed himself nu' of breath at the place he had prepared
with diabolical skill. lie intended. he said. to hit the
King in the head. Having fired his two shots, he jumped
down and slipped on a smock-frock, hut he had been seen
by Millet, sod was arrested. as we before stated.

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