The New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 304, 28 April 1849, Page 3

The New Zealander.

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 28. 1849.

We are compelled, by a press of advertisements, to let our usual leading matter stand over until our next. The length and the imi portance of the article precludes us from publishing it piecemeal, and the lateness of the hour at which the extra demand for our space was made, prevents the issue of a supplement «^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

We are without any arrival since our last ; although the telegraph, yesterday morning, very treacherously whetted our.expectant appetite. Indeed, we have become so sceptical of the Mount Victoria bunting, that when a sail shall actually be in sight from that doubtful promontory, we shall remain incredulous of the fact until we see her round the North Head with the flowing sheet. We would say of the Signal station, as Hamlet did of the buffoonery of the players, " Reform it altogether." From the Sydney Morning Herald, we give a continuation of the stirring Indian news, recently received. Mooltan ha 3 fallen, having j been carried y in a very gallant and successful manner. The particulars will be found in another column.

We have been favoured by Capt. Warren, of the " Sarah Berry," with a perusal of copies of the Wellington Independent of the 11th and 14th instant. The Legislative Council of the Southern Province is convened for the first proximo, and the notice of seven bills, to be brought under consideration, is' published, the titles of which are as follow :—: — 1. An Ordinance for taking a Census. 2. An Ordinance to prevent Entire Horses from being suffered ttf stray or run at large. 3. An Ordinance to regulate the sale of Bread, 4. An Ordinance for preventing the extension of the infectious diseases commonly called the Scab, as well as the Influenza or Catarrh in Sheep or Lambs. 5. An Ordinance to define the qualification of Medical Practitioners. 6. An Ordinance to increase the efficiency of the Constabulary Force. 7. An Ordinance to authorise the collection of a rate for making and repairing Roads and Streets, Ice. The Supreme Court opened by special commission on the 13th, and proceeded with the trial of Maroro, the murderer of Branks' family* "We have/ says the Independent, " the whole of the proceedings in type, but justice to all parties demands that we should omit the same until the termination of the trial." Indeed ! This is a piece of "justice," we, in our ignorance, deemed the peculiar, perquisite of a Court Martial ! We may, however, add, that Maroro was found guilty, sentenced to death, aud ordered for execution.

We were led in our last, by a paragraph in the London Daily News of the 14th December, into an inaccuracy respecting the decision relative to Steam Communication between England and Australia. A copy of the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, of the 16th of December, has since been placed in our hands, and by the following extract from the report of the Court of Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, it will be seen that the question, so important < to us of the southern world, was then unde- i £ided, but with little ultimate prospect, we 1 fear, of being arranged to our satisfaction. STEAM COMMUNICATION \TITH AUSTRALIA. The proprietors are, doubtless, »ware that the Lords Commissioner! of the Admiralty recently advertised for tenders for the employment of a monthly steam com* munication between Singapore and Sydney, either by full power pnddle»wheel steamers, or by sailing schooners with auxiliary screw propellers. For the latter mode of performing the service the directors have declined to make any tender, being couvinced that such means of executing it must prora insufficient in point of punctuality of arrival, and consequently of little or no benefit to the important colonies of Australia. Aware, however, of the strong and growing desire, of all parties connected with Australia to obtain an efficient steam communication with those colonies, in connection with the company's line with India and China, the directors felt it to be incumbent on them to facilitate that object to the utmost of their power. They have, therefore, offered, on behalf of the company, to undertake the proposed service by means of efficient

[ full-power paddle-wheel iteamers, on lower terms than it is possible for any other party to execute it for, ! with similar resiela, and to derive a fair renumeration from it; the director looking chiefly to the additional traffic it may bring into their already eitabliihed linei, rather than to receipti from the propoied lines per se. They hare furnished to the government estimate! of expenses and returns of traffic on which they have based their offer ; and, as they hare not felt warranted in estimating the latter at more than a compa rative moderate sum, they have made it a part of their propoial, that should the sum actually realised be in ex • ceis of their estimate, the public shall have the benefit of such excess, by deducting it from the cost of the mail service. lv making such a tender, the directors cannot but feel that to promote a public object, in which the in - terests of an important portion of the community are inrolved, they hare gone to the extreme of what their duty to the proprietary permits, And, whether her Majesty's government may or may not adopt their proposal, its reasonableness cannot fail to bo appreciated by all parties connected with Australia, while it* adoption or rejection will be of but trifling pecuniary importanc* to this company.

The Court Martial upon Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray, Staff Officer of Pensioners, has terminated, and the finding and sentence has been made known ; but, a portion of that sentence being, it is affirmed, at direct variance with the articles of war, we suspend further comment till our next.

Publican's Licenses.— We are reqwated by the Rey. Mr. Pinch*? to state, in reference to the memorial presented to the Maglitrate* against granting a license to the Panmure Inn, that his tignature wai not affixed to it on behalf of the Bishop, ai reported by vi, bat for the Rev. G. Ktiiling.