The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1846.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 55, 20 June 1846, Page 2

The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1846.

Be just and fear not : j Let all the ends thou aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, and Truth's.

By the arrival of the Terror, from Sydney, has been received the English mail of the Ist January, and in our columns will be found copious extracts of the most interesting intelligence. The exciting topic in England, at the latter part of December, was the futile attempt of the Whigs, to resume power, by the political ruse of the letter of Lord John Russell to his London constituents, written at Edinburgh. His Lordship anticipating—" the pressure from without I'—of1 '— of the Anti-Corn Law League, avowed himself a proselyte to free trade in grain, astutely conceiving that the aristocratic Tories would never consent to such liberal system. But Sir Robert Peel was not to be so entrapped. In olden parlance — " the time was now arrived'* — when the wary Tory Premier decided to carry a measure — popular, just, and inevitable. To his political opponents, he would not concede the honor and popularity. In his cabinet were some dissentients ; but conscious of his parliamentary influence and of popular support, he dissolved his administration. Her Majesty the Queen accepted the resignation of the Ministers, and Lord John Russell attempted to form an Administration, but failed through the dogged obstinate objection of Earl Grey— better known to our readers as Lord Howick — to Lord Palmerston, as Foreign Secretary. In a most excellent letter from Mr. T. B. Macaulay— member for Edinburgh —to his constituents, he thus writes : " You will have, heard the termination of our attempt to form a Government. All our plans were frustrated by Lord Grey. 1 hope the public interests will not suffer. Sir Robert Peel must now undertake the settlement of the question. It is certain that he can settle it. It is by no means certain that we could have done so,'* &c. The entire letter from one of the most enlightened and educated of the Whigs, will have place in onr columns hereafter. The Ralph Hernal, so long expected, although she left the Downs, on the 6th December, put into Plymouth for Government stores, and it is very questionable whether she left that port before the month of January. Having so much cargo for Auckland, exclusive of such Government stores, it is most probable that this will be her first port in New Zealand, and her arrival may consequently be hourly expected. The 65th Regiment were under orders to embark for New Zealand, so soon as transports could be obtained. Major W. A. M'Cleverty, of the 48th Regt., had been appointed Deputy-Quartermaster-General in New Zealand. The Mails for England which were sent from here in February and March, 1845, via Sydney, were all lost on board the Mary, which left Sydney in May, and was wrecked in Bass* Straits.