The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-12 00:00:00

that it is worthy of the peti of Harry Lorrequer. The broad
humour and exquisite descriptions with which this number
abounds justify us in prognosticating for Charles O'Malley
a prosperous career. The illustrations are exceedingly well
designed and executed.

Juvenile Historical Library for Youth, Schools, and
Families. Parts 111 and IV. Spain and Portugal. By
Aliso Corner. London : Dean and Munday.

This work is exceedingly well got up, and must be pro-
nounced remarkably cheap. Each part is illustrated by
splendid steel engravings. A map is also attached to the
former of the two parts. How these, and nearly two hun-
dred paggs of letter-press, can be afforded for two shillings,
is really surprising. Miss Corner's style is lucid and fami-
liar. We know of few historical publications better adapted
for schools and private families than the one before us. We
hope that it will obtain an extensive circulation.

Master Humphrey's Clock. By " Boz." Part I. London :
Chapman and Hall ; Liverpool, Wareing Webb.
This new work by " Boz" improves as it proceeds. Some
of the episodical tales are highly interesting. As a whole,
however, it is inferior to Pickwick.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX AND HIS MARRIAGE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
We gave in our last two articles—one from the Argus, the
other from the Britannia—in reference to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Sussex, and the children of his first mar-
riage. Subjoined we give an article, to which we attach
great importance, coming, as it does, from a most influential
and ably-conducted whig journal, one possessing the highest
circulation of any evening paper in London advocating that
line of politics—we mean 'the Sun. There are few occur-
rences, God knows, in these days, that make one connected
with the public press—connected as it is—proud of his asso-
ciation or connexion with that engine. The present occasion
forms a gratifying and au honourable exception ; for, when
we find a journalist separating himself from his party in the
assertion of truth and justice, we cannot but regard the man,
while we are constrained to report the motive. In such a
position stands the able and the honest editor of the Sun, and
he has reflected credit upon himself and the paper over which
he presides—for that be has, regardless of all associations
and consequences, had the moral courage to advocate the
cause of the injured and oppressed, in the persons of Augus-
tus of Este and his sister. It is a gratifying, it is a delight-
ful thing to find, that, in the dreary waste of politics, over
which we editors are doomed to traverse, we may sometimes
light upon a spot where, like the s►noking grounds of the
North American Indians, all differences are forgotten, and
all bitterness is eschewed—no matter what may have been
the occasion, or how long may have been the continuance of
former feud. Upon such a spot the Sun and the Mail now
find themselves placed in harmony and peace, labouring in
the same cause, that of truth—advocating the same measure,
that of JUSTICE.

The " case" of the children of the Duke's first marriage—
which it was our good fortune and privilege to bring fully and
fairly before the public for the first time—has, we know, pro-
duced an immense sensation in England—not only amongst
the nobility, who. are more immediately concerned in all
questions relating to the status and position of every member
of the Royal Family, but amongst the middle and lower or-
ders of society, who are, constitutionally, haters of tyranny,
and, by habit, lovers of fair play. Indeed we should say that
the time was come for Sir Augustus of Este to reassume his
distinctions and honours as a prince of the blood royal.. It
is true, a base and a profligate minister may combine with a
heartless and unnatural parent in refusing to recognise him
by that style and title to which his lawful birth in wedlock
unquestionably give him claims; but he will be sustained by
public opinion, and acknowledged for a " true prince" by the
unanimous voice of a free people.
The following is the article from the Sun :
" To the effect of the important documents relative to the
claims of Sir Augustus D'Este, which appears in another
part of the Sun, it may almost seem superfluous in us to at-
tempt to add weight by any observations of our own. Those
documents speak so plainly, tell the sad tale of the deeply
injured individual to whom they refer so forcibly, that, inde-
pendently of their legal character, they cannot fail to strike
the heart and awaken the sympathies of every person whose
heart is in the right place, and whose sympathies are not
dead to the calls of suffering merit.
" We have seen already that, in the opinion of two of the
ablest lawyers in England, Augustus of Este is the legitimate
son of the Duke of Sussex, and, consequently, a Prince of
the blood royal of England. The most eminent lawyer in
Ireland declared his most decided opinion that the marriage
of the royal Duke contracted at Rome in 1793, was perfectly
valid as regards Ireland, and that the son of that marriage is,
in virtue of his birth, a Prince of that kingdom, clothed with
all the rights and privileges of that character. We have to-
day the further evidence of two of the most celebrated jurists
of Germany, Kluber of Frankfort, and Zachariah of Heidel-
berg, that whether the marriage of his Royal Highness at
Rome, or that which was subsequently solemnised in Lon-
don, be adopted as the test of the legitimacy of Augustus of
Este, he is, to all intents and purposes, by the rules of Ger-
man law, and by the usages of the House of Hanover, an
undoubted Prince of that kingdom. We venture to assert
that there never was a case of this nature more strongly sup-
ported by law, by reason, and by justice.
" Of this truth the people of Great Britain are more and
more convinced every day, and their powerful influence will
soon be thrown into the scale of justice, should it be ren-
dered necessary by the continuance of injustice. One of the
noblest characteristics is that unconquerable love of fair play,
which prompts them, almost with the quickness of instinct,
to range themselves on the side of the injured. Let it but
be made to appear that innocence is in danger, that justice
has been withheld where it was due, or that oppression has
been exercised by the powerful over the weak and the de-
fenceless, and their sympathies are roused at once; they feel
the cause to be their own ; they enter into it with all their
heart and soul, and never rest satisfied, never relax their ex-
ertions, until they have averted the threatened evil, or re-
dressed the inflicted wrong. This is a Godlike quality, and
of it itself sufficient to stamp the Briton with a superiority
over the other tribes of mankind.

" It may also be remarked that the power of this generous
feeling, when it is manifested by the people generally, is all
but irresistible. Even in our own times we have seen it
triumph over the power of the Crown, wielded by neither a
weak nor a scrupulous hand. What was it but the sympathy
of the people that made George IV. quail and desist from his
purpose, when he had determined to sacrifice a Queen whom
he hated with an intensity proportionate to the injuries which
he had heaped upon her? And what was the consequence of
the persecution which he bad set or► foot and carried on
against her? Popular hatred of her persecutor. We do not
hold this out as a threat to the parties who have it in their
power to place the son of the Duke of Sussex in the position
which he ought to occupy. We merely state it to illustrate
the fact that there is no rank or station in life which can
either exempt the possessor from the performance of high
duties, or protect him from the consequences of neglecting
them. One of these consequences is the alienation of the
affections of the people."

From the London Correspondent of the Limerick Chronicle.
" The exposures now making relative to the marriage of
the Duke of Sussex with Lady Augusta Murray, and the
manner in which the subject has been taken up by the family,
excites much interest here. His liberal Royal Highness is
damaged in the course of the investigation, for the heart-
lessness he has displayed towards his children by that ill-
used and broken-hearted lady. Lord Melbourne is almost
universally condemned for advising his youthful Sovereign
to give precedence to Lady Cecilia Underwood above so
many distinguished ladies—ornaments of purity in the peer-
age of England. However, the friends of the Premier seek
to remove the responsibility from his shoulders by insisting
it was the act of the Queen herself, whom they represent to
be particularly attached to the Duchess of Inverness, from
the many evenings spent in her society at Kensington Palace.
They even go so far as to say that the intercourse was so
great that her Majesty, when a child, had the permission of
her royal mother to visit Lady Underwood unattended ! The
Duke of Sussex's popularity has unquestionably suffered in
this matter."

SOIL, CLIMATE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
OF NEW ZEALAND.

The soil, climate, and natural resources of New Zealand
may be best estimated from the rapidity of vegetation, the
vast number of rivers, and the robust and healthy appear-
ance of its native productions. All kinds of European vege-
tables, fruits, and grain, grow with astonishing rapidity.
Poultry of every description, and cattle of all kinds, fatten
and increase rapidly in numbers. The following facts, how-
ever, it is presumed, will afford satisfactory proofs of the
capabilities of the soil. The author, with his own hand,
stuck in peach cuttings in the month of June, the size of a
goose-quill, the growth of which has been so rapid as to bear
fruit in the space of eighteen months; he has also sown
wheat in the middle of September, and reaped an excellent
crop in the first week of January following. There are in
this country large tracts of the finest land, covered with the
rankest vegetation, and of every variety of rich soils. The
English grasses thrive well. The climate of New Zealand
is decidedly temperate ; neither exposed to scorching heats
in summer, nor to blighting frost in winter. It is very con-
genial to European constitutions ; those who go there sickly
are soon restored to health ; the.healthy become robust, and
the robust fat. North of the Thames snows are unknown,
and frosts are off the ground by nine o'clock in the morning.
The spring and autumn are delightfully temperate, but sub-
ject to showers from the W.S.W. The seasons are as fol-
low :—Spring commences in the middle of August, summer
in December, autumuiu March, and winter in July. Most
of the trees and shrubs are evergreens, and vegetation is
scarcely, if ever, suspended, except in the case of exotics.
The native grasses flourish throughout the year, and, when
the fern has been destroyed, furnish an abundant supply of
food for cattle ; and, perhaps, there is no country in the
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having to cross a stream or rivulet of pure fresh water; and
I am not aware that any one instance of a failure in the cul-
tivation of wheat has occurred since the attention of Euro-
peans and natives were turned to the cultivation of that ne-
cessary article of supply. •
The natural resources of New Zealand, which are imme-
diately available to foreigners, are her forests of timber and
her fields of flax, both of which articles are at present, and
will doubtless • become of still greater importance to the
British nation, and her rising and interesting Colonies of
Australia—of the former of these, there are considerable
that are of excellent quality not only for house-
building, but also for the constructionof
variety, some
vessels, masts, and.
spars for the navy.
The following short account of a few of the principal trees
will be found correct :
I.—The Kauri. (Damn)
ari Australis., or pinus Kauri )
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This tree is of large size, measuringd n
mirably from 85 to 90 feet
adapted for the
in height, and from its lightness isa
topmasts of the largest vessels,. _ and for every purpose of
house-building. Some spars of this species have been sold
in London as high as £2OO each.
Tanakaha (Podocarpus aspleuifolius.) This tree grows to
feet in circumference.
the height of 45 feet, and is from
8 to 9
It is used for all kinds of outside work, such as door posts
and floors for verandahs, and is much sought after.
Puriri. (Vitex litteralis.) This tree, from its excellentt
_
qualities, has been denominated the New Zealand oak. .1
grows from 15 to 30 feet without a branch, and varies from
12 to 20 feet in circumference.
Towai. (Genus podocarpus,) is a heavy, close grained
red wood, answering all the purposes of the New South
Wales cedar, but much more durable and heavy. It is front
20 to 30 feet in height.
Pohutukaua. (Calistomon ellipticus.) It receives an ex-
cellent polish, and is a handsome substitute for rose-wood.
It is from 16 to 18 feet in height, and from 4 to 5 feet in
diameter.
Hinau, (dicera dentata,) is from GO to 70 feet in height,
and about twenty feet in circumference. The bark of this
tree will dye an excellent black, or light brown, or puce
colour.
Rata. (Taxus Rata.) This is an excellent tree for ship
building, on account of the easiness with which knees may.
be cut cut from it. It is a close-grained red wood, and is
from 20. to 70 feet iu height, and from 18 inches to 7 feet in
circumference.
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The trade of New Zealand in timb one from its general.
adaptation to building purposes, must, at no dim its Period,
prove a considerable source of revenue to that country. ,