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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-22 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY

CANADA

Attorney-General Baldwin has resigned in consequence
of his being deserted by the Upper Canada Members in
the vote to abolish the Court of Chancery. The question
of secularizing the clergy reserves is causing great excite-
ment. The Synods of the Free Church Congregational
Union, and the United Church, are favourable to the
measure. The Wesleyan Methodist Conference denounces
the existing system of distribution. Attorney-General
La Fontaine has announced that the French party intend
to oppose the secularization. This announcement, it is
feared, will lead to an agitation for a dissolution of the
union. In the estimates for 1851, Mr. Roebuck, M.P.,
figures for £5OO as agent in England for the Lower Canada
Assembly.

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND.
By the Lytlelicm Times, of Saturday, February 22, we
learn that the' colonists had appointed the following day
for special thanksgiving to Almighty Gud for His great
mercy in bringing the first body of the colonists of this
settlement in safety to their new country, and for the
blessing which has hitherto attended their undertaking.
An intelligent young colonist thus describes his first
impression of the country :—" I like the piaci, very much ;
it is very healthy. We live close to the sea, and a beauti-
ful place it is. We are surrounded with high hills on
every side, not merely
/200 feet above the level of the sea. When we can get a
chance we get up to the top of the hills, and then after a
descent the same height as this rise we get on the great
southern plain of New Zealand, and the country is really
beautiful in a picturesque point of view. As regards the
capabilities of the land, as it has only been in one
place, and that in one of the most fertile-looking, 1 could
not in justice tell you. It is as level as possible, looking
almost like the sea ; and on a very ten,.iis-

y day you can ok.
tinguish the tops of the ranges of mountains which belt
the plain all round, and which are covered with snow,
which I have seen. It is a beautiful picturesque country,

weanuering tnrough the plain, and winding in all
directions, which supply plenty of wild ducks, and eels,

we our Black

wall to eat them at, as an hotel is to be built where there
will be a ferry to cross the river. The weather is delight.-
ful—although we found it very warm on our first arrival,
after coming out of the extreme cold of 53 S. We have
not had above four rains since we have been here, now
nearly eight weeks, and then, six hours was the loneest,
the others only lasting about two hours at a time. The
sea in the harbour is quite calm, but with one wind—the
N.N.E., which is the prevailing wind though—and our
rainy quarter is the S.W. Last Sunday proved how much
the weather in New Zealand depends on the wind. On
Saturday, February 1, our first autumn month, it was
quite hot, but suddenly about twelve at night the wind
hauled round to the south-west, and began to blow a
regular gale. Now all day on Sunday it was bitter cold,
white ducKs being obliged to be changed for pilot cloth
trousers, and almost wanting a fire. This only happens
at great intervals, but you could have fancied it to be really
your England February, rather than our New Zealand first
autumn month. As to the climate being healthy there is
not the slightest doubt in the world about it. I was never
better in my life. lam getting awfully stout. We bathe
in the sea when we like, and when we do we always find
some oysters on the beach, which we open and eat then
and there without thinking of the luxuries of pepper and
vinegar. Last night—the night of the first grand ball in
New Zealand—another proof of the organ of go-a-headed-
ness being strongly developed in the heads of the Canter-
bury colonists—we had such a duster of a blow. When
we went to the ball at ten o'clock, it was a beautiful night,
so calm ; but when we came back it was blowing great
guns and small ammunition from the N.W. The dust
was quite smothering, and I do assure you we could
scarcely get along. As for the ladies, you should have
seen their white dresses, it was quite laughable. We had
not been in bed above an hour, when in come& two win-
dows out of three, and then M. and I had to turn out and
fasten blankets up to holes, but that soon went, and we
could do nought but go to bed, and bear it like colonists.
As for me ' I put my head under the pillow, to keep the
dust out of my mouth and eyes, and slept away like a top.'
In the morning my bed was just like a road, and everything
was just about two inches thick in dust. When I went to
the office, the occurrence had been equally funny, our
calico windows being blown out, a water-tub lying in the
road about 200 yards off, with a couple of carpets lying
not far off, and Mrs. V. harself having been blown down
the hill. Such is life in a new colony. This is only in
the pott, though, you must know, on the other side of the
mountains the wind is never very rough, but it eddies
round the hills, and then we poor Port Lytteltonians
catch it finely."

ARMY

AND NAVY.
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WAR OFFICE, July 18.-4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards.—
Lieut. Michael M'Creagh to be Capt., by purchase, vice
Nicol's, who retires • Cornet James Robert Scott to be Lieut.,
by purchase, vice retires;
; Cornet Robert John Henry to
be Lieut., by purchase, vice Wynne William Rudyerd Williams,
who retires.

3d Light Dragoons.—Capt. Edward Fellowes, from half-pay
Unatt., to be Capt , vice William Howe Hadfield, who
exchanges. receiving the difference between full pay of Cavalry
and Infantry.

7th Light Dragoons.—Cornet Henry William Meredyth to be
Lieut., by purchase, vice Farrell, who retires ; Cornet Fre-
derick Coates, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet,
vice Meredyth.
11th Lignt Dragoons.—Serg.-Major Robert Richard Harrison

Dungate to be Cornet, (Riding Master,) by purchase, vice
promoted.

17tli Light Dragoons.—Lieut. William H. Kennedy Erskine
to.be Capt., by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires; Cornet
Sir William Gordon, Bart., to be Lieut., by purchase, vice
Erskine.

31st Regiment of Foot.—Staff Surg. of the Second Class
John Burton St. Croix Crosse to be Surg., vice Millingen, who
exchanges.

58th Foot.—Capt. Charles Lavallin Nugent to be Major, by
purchase, vice Arney, promoted to an Unatt. Lieut—Coloneicy;
Lieut. Isaac 'Rhodes Cooper to be Capt., by purchase, vice
Nugent; Ensign Frederick Palmer to be Lieut., by purchase,
vice Cooper.

96th t'Oot—Ensign Alfred John Ford to be Lieut., by purchase,
vice Rogers, who retires.

Royar Canadian Rifle Regiment.—Charles Thomas Castle,
gent., to be Ensign, by vurchase, vice Lane, promoted.
Unattached.—Major Charles Augustus Arney, from tne 53th
Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purcase.
Hospital Staff.—Surg. John Crespigny Millingen, from the
31st Foot, to be Staff-Sorg. of the Second Class, vice Crosse,
woo exchanges.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, July 17.—Royal Regiment of Artil-
lery.—Second Capt. Henry William Montresor to be Capt., vice
Turner, retired on full pay : First Lieut. Guy Rotton to be
Second Capt., vice Montresor; Second Lieut. Henry Hamilton
Conolly to be First Lieut., vice Rotton.

It is expected that the additional number of troops brought
into. London and its vicinity on the occasion of the Great
Exhibition will move to their respective quarters in the course
of the ensuing montli.—United Service Gazette.
THE 15TH REGIMENT IN CEYLON.—As a proof of the esti-
mation in which the 15th Regimen., was held by the inhabitants
of Kandy, both litirlpean and nptive, and in refutation of
statements which have been made in this country as to their
conduct in Ceylon, on the departure of the regiment from
Kandy in the early part of the present year, an address was
presented to Lieut.-Colonel Drought, bearing the signatures of
eighty of the most respectable Europeans, and thirty two
natives, expressive of their regret, and testifying to the high
character and estimable and honourable conduct of the whole
of the officers and privates forming the corps. The address
was accompanied by a piece of plate for the use of the mess, on
which was engraved an inscription conformable to the address.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—WOOLWICH, July , 18.—Rear-
Admiral William Willmott Henderson, C. 8., K.H., promoted
to the rank of Rear-Admiral on March 21, 1851, is appointed
Commander-in-Chief on the south-east coast of America
station, vice Rear-Admiral Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., whose
period of service has expired, having been appointed to that
command on Jane 21,1849. Surgeon William McK. Saunders,
M.D. (1850), to the Styx steam-sloop at Devonport. Chief
Engineer George G. Macauly to the FisFard flas ship at
Woolwich. Assistant-Surgeon George. William Lillies, M.D.
(1845), to the Styx. Assistant-Engineer John APKie to the
Victoria and Albert steam yacht. Masters' Assistants.—
William J. Linker and Adolphus D. Sutton to the risgard.