, 1855-07-06
From the San Francisco Herald.
Later from the Sandwich Islands.

papers to May Path. They do not, how
ever, contain anything of Importance. We
SuLjoin the letter of our attentive cores
pondent
HoyoLULU. May "a, 1855.
The French schooner Rob Roy, from
Tahiti last, sails to-day, at noon, for your
port, and | embrace the opportunity to jot
you down few items, which may possibly
be Of interest TO some of your readers.
The Hawaiian Legislature is still in ses-
sion, but has fixed the ID proximo for its
adjournment. Among the most important
acts passed at this session, l may mention
the new Tariff bill, (Which becomes law
on the LIST Of May, 1856, the bill to re-
model the Department of Public Instruc-
ton, (abolishing its former sectional char
acter,) the bill to establish Hospitals for
the INDECENT sick among the natives, aud
the bill to permit the manufacture Of wine
from native grapes. This last is a great
advance on the old tee-total blue law sys-
TEN of legisating, which has been so long
an incubus hanging over the enterprise of
this people. A iper wine growing country,
naturally, never came from the hands OF
the Creator than these Islands. / have
frequently seen lunches Of grapes here,
raised with but very little culture, weighing
from four to FIVE pounds each. A gentle
man from Lower California is now on the
IslaRls, having brought with him large
number of grape slips, which he designs
planting MS soon as he can locate himself
| hear, also of quite number who con.
template going into the wine raising in diff
ferent parts Of the Islands, and l hope it
will not be long ere we shall be able to
offer in your market Hawaiian pure juice
Of the grape" Speed the time, say j,
when the villanous compounds now so free
y used. arc superseded by the "wine that
maketh the heart glad" ,..., ..,, ..,.
On the 9th, arrived the French frigatc
La Forte, Admiral Fournichon, from Cal
lao, and the English frigate Amphytri,e,
Capt. Fredericks, both from Callao Both
vessels sailed again for the northward, the
Amphytrite on the 18th, and the Forte on
the 18th. ...',
On the llth, arrived the obligado brig,
and on the 10th, the Eurydice, frigate, both
French, and after two or three days delay
for fresh provisions, they also took their
departure for the north, peFehance to be
food for Russian powder. g. - ra,- q
We have now in harbor only the q. S.
sloop Of war Decatur, Commander Stewart,
and the British storeslip Rattlesnake. ''
The British line Of battleship Monarch,
is said to DO looked for here shortly, also
en- route for the north, so there is likely to
be some hard knocks given and taken at
Petropaulowski this summer. Tho allies,
verynaturally, are anxious to retrieve the
losses of last year. W.
Yours, &c. HAWAII.
LATER FROM AUSTRALIA.
We have intelligence from Sydney, Aus
traIin, to March Sd, and from Hobart Town,
Tasmania, to Feb. 27th. 10y
Sir Charles Hotham, Governor in Tas-
mania seems to be in bad odor with por-
tion of the press. The following paragraph
from the Courier, Hobart Town, may pos
scss interest to our American readers sg
He has brought the administration of
the law into contempt, aud while it would
appear that in his own capacity he has
abused the prerogative Of the Crown in
granting pardons to rebels, (Americans),
whereas he insists on prosecuting the
Queens subjects for the same offence, he
has nevertheless given his sanction to an
infamous enactment Of the colonial Legis-
lature, nulli(ying the Queens prerogative
altogether, and declaring that no man who
has not held pardon for three years shall
be capable of landing>in Victoria-->-nay, If
they do So. they shall be subject 10 two
years. hard labor in irons upon the roads,
As soon as he gave this enactment his sane
ton, it was quite clear that the reins Of
authority had dropped from his hands, aud
since that date he has gone on from one
expcdient to another, until at last he has
earned the contempt aud opprobrium Of
every class. i-.- is laHliL--.1sa.i-~.
Other colonies have their complaints Of
the government, The following paragraph
PROCESSES to picture the condition Of New
Iceland: q 2 IG bs3.u .fruoa B.
The most recent intelligence from New
Zealand is of o character to create alarm
and anxiety in the minds of all interested
in the future of one of the most interesting,
the most beautiful, and the most important
Of British colonies. The sport of official
incapacity, and the victim Of imperial mis-
rulc-no possession of the British Crown
has been so favored by nature--so cruelty
abused by human government. From the
date of its earliest occupation down to the
present period, the history of New Zealand
has been perpetual and consistent success
sion of crimes and blunders-a record of
folly and iniquity almost without parallel
in the annals Of European colonization.
The latest aspect of New Zealand affairs
Os indicated by our Auckland correspond
ent, is such that second insurrection : Of
the natives may justly be apprchended.
RHODE IsLAND.-Providence, has just
elected Know-noshing Mayor, by s2l