The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4- COLOAIAL IN7ELLIG.ENCE.

NEW ZEALAND.
New Zealand papers to the 21st of September have
come to hand, according to which the excitement caused
by the late fearful massacre in the Wairon country, near
Cloudy-bay, had in a degree subsided. It appears that
no steps were to be taken against the natives till the will
of the Colonial Secretary, through the new governor,
Captain Fitzroy, was made known; and his arrival is
therefore most anxiously looked for. A committee of
public safety had been formed, and other plans of protec-
tion adopted to resist any incursion that might take
place ; but no alarm is expressed on the subject, and it
seems that the magistrate who accompanied the expedi-
tion to capture the offending chief, Rhangataita, is blamed
for some conduct or other, which is supposed to have oc-
casioned the unfortunate result of the journey. Of the
four missing persons alluded to in the previous accounts,
one had returned to his settlement, one was found dead
in the bush, and the other two remained absent. This
unfortunate massacre seems already to have prejudiced
the minds of the public, since the papers allude to the re-
fusal of emigrants to leave Hobart-town and Sydney, as
they had at first intended to do, for permanent location
in the Bay of !slands, after receiving the news of the
conflict ; and the hope is expressed that this affair will
not be allowed to influence settlers respecting the general
security of the colony.
The most interesting information received by this ar-
rival is the commencement of the export trade of the
colony, the Nelson, the vessel bringing these papers, be-
ing the first ship coming home with a full cargo of oil,
whalebone, and flax. The manufacture of the latter
article has been resumed by the natives, with the pros-
pect of getting a better price for their labour than previous
endeavours yielded ; and many hundreds of them were
employed in preparing it on the snores of Cook's Straits,
while as many thousands, it is said, may be employed,
should proper encouragement be afforded. The estimated
value of the flax is £2O per ton, and some small parcels
had sold at Hobart-town for £26 per ton. The whale
fishery had also been very successful, and five or six ves-
sels were expected to be despatched to England with its
produce. A complaint is made of the lack of supply of
proper casks to carry out the intended shipments. It is
hinted that this want may for the present be satisfied by
parties in England taking every opportunity of sending
goods, as far as possible " in first-rate London oil casks.'

BUENOS AYRES.—The last accounts from Monte Video
depict the situation of that unfortunate city in the most
gloomy colours ; and to add to the distress of the im-
poverished native families, that cruel despot Pachero y
Obes, afterithe failure of Vasquez's financial scheme, had
devised a plan for robbing them of the wrecks of their for-
tunes, by calling upon them for voluntary donations of
their jewels and plate. The manner in which Pachero y
Ohes got up the voluntary donation was quite dramatical.
When Vasquez reported the rebuff he had met with from
the merchants, the War Minister, as fruitful in expedi-
ents as Frutos himself, ordered his horse immediately to
be got ready in his best array ; then, mounting his charger
thus superbly accoutred, he galloped off to the lines, and,
ordering the troops to stand to their arms, be commenced
a spirit-stirring harangue, in which he dwelt most patheti-
cally upon the pecuniary distress under which the govern-
ment laboured ; and wound up by recommending to his
hearers that every one who had any article of silver in his
possession should make an oblation of it at the shrine of
liberty. And to show his own patriotic disinterestedness,
he forthwith stripped his steed of all its precious finery,
and surrendered it for the public use. After this display
he gracefully retired, leaving the troops thunderstruck.
The news from the army under the command of General
Urquira, announces the infliction of two severe blows on
the main body of the forces led by Riviera in person ;
whilst General Servando Gomez bad driven the remnants
of Fortunato Silva's division into the territory of Brazil,
where it was expected they would be disarmed by the Im-
perial authorities.

The late orange crop in Portugal is said to be one of the
finest that has been seen for a quarter of a century. They
are now sold in Lisbon market, of excellent quality, at
eight a penny.
The French Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland has deli-
vered a note to the president of the Federal Union, in
which he requests that no public honours may be accorded
to the Duke of Bordeaux, in case of his arrival in Swit-
zerland, because of late he has conducted himself as a real
pretender to the throne of France.

NEW ZEALAND THEATRICALS.—On the 31st of July
last the first stone of a theatre called the " Victoria" was
laid at Port Nicholson by Mr. Alderman Lyon, who made
rather an eloquent speech on the occasion, remarking that
the spot on which the theatre was to stand was but a de-
sert three years ago. By a playbill which is in London,
headed " Royal Victoria Theatre, Manners-street, Te
Aro," it appears that this theatre was opened for the se-
cond time on 3he 19th of September. This is quick work,
but probably the theatre is constructed of light materials.
The bill, however, states that it is lighted with gas.
DR. WOLFF'S MlSSlON.—Letters have been received
from Dr. Wolff, by the Committee of the Stoddart and
Conolly Fund, dated Erzeroum, in Armenia, December
18th and 19th. The Doctor was detained by a heavy fall
of snow, but expected to start on the 21st, to reach Ta-
breez on the 7th of January, and to arrive at Teheran
about the 20th. The Pasha of Erzeroum gives him let-
ters, provides guards, and pays his expenses to the fron-
tier. Dr. Wolff has received every assistance from Col.
Williams, the British Commissioner, and from Mr.
Brant, the Consul. Intelligence has also been received
from Constantinople, dated 2d instant, which states that
some people had arrived, who left Bokhara within three
months. Stoddart was alive, in high favour, and no pub-
lic execution of a Prank had been beard of.
A. statistical account of the number of vessels of all
nations that have entered the port of Alexandria during
the year 1843 has been furnished, from which we give the
following particulars :—Of British vessels, 204 arrived and
215 sailed ; of Austrian, 196 entered and 185 sailed ; of
Greek, 172 arrived and 175 sailed ; of Syrian vessels, the
numbers returned are, 112 arrived and 103 sailed ; of
French, 40 and 36; of Tuscan, 34 arrived and sailed; of
Sardininian, 27 arrived and sailed ; of vessels belonging
to the island of Samos, 12 arrived and 6 sailed ; of Rus-
sian, the numbers are 9 and 5 ; of lonian, the numbers in
both instances are 9 ' • of Prussian, 5 and 6 ; of American,
2 vessels arrived and 2 sailed ; of Neapolitan, 2 and 1 ; of
Norwegian, 2 and 1 ; of Danish, 1 arrived and 1 sailed ;
of Dutch, 1 and 2 ; of Wallachian, 1 vessel entered and 1
sailed. The total results are 829 vessels arrived and 905
sailed.