AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume II, Issue 109, 22 January 1842, Page 2

AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR.

Saturday, January 22, 1842.

By the Fifeshire, which arrived at this port from London, on Thursday, we have received English newspapers and letters to the 30th September. The expected political changes had occurred — the "Whigs had resigned office, and Sir Robert Peel was Prime Minister.

The session of Parliament was opened on the 19th August — the speech from the throne being delivered by commission, as it was considered imprudent to subject the Queen to any unusual excitement or exertion. Mr. Shaw Lefevre was re-elected Speaker without opposition.

The address was moved in the House of Lords by Earl Spencer, and an amendment declaring want of confidence in Ministers by the Earl of Ripon, who took the lead in opposing his former friends and colleagues. Lord Melbourne professed to be " thunderstruck" at the amendment, though what else he could have expected, it is not easy to imagine. The amendment was carried by a majority of 72 — the numbers on the division being 168 to 96. . „

In the House of Commons, the address was moved by Mr. Mark Phillips, and an amendment similar to that carried in the Lords, by Mr. Stuart Wortley. After four nights debate, the amendment was carried by a majority of 91 — Tories 360, Liberals 269. The Ministers immediately resigned, and Sir Robert Peel was sent for by the Queen. Sir Robert lost no time in forming his administration ; and from the names in the following table, it would seem that he received carte blanche from her Majesty.

PEEL MINISTRY. CABINET. Duke of Wellington.

Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor. Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council. Duke of Buckingham, Privy Seal. Sir James Graham, Home Secretary. Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary. Lord Stanley, Colonial Secretary. The Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty.

Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control.

The Earl of Ripon, • President of the Board of Trade. Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary at War. Sir E. Knatchbull, Treasurer of the Navy and Pay master 1 of the Forces.

Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General.

Lord G. Somerset, Chancellor oftthe Duchy of Lancaster. ' , Earl of Lincoln, Woods and Forests. r Sir George Murray, Master. General of the Ordnance. W. E. Gladstone, Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. Hon. Sidney Herbert, Secretary to the Admiralty. ■

Sir G. Clerk, Sir T. Freemantle, Joint Secretaries of the Treasury.

Hon. W. Baring, J. Emerson Tennent, Secretaries of the Board of Control. Hon. C. M. Sutton, Home Under-Secretary. Lord Canning, Foreign Under-Secretary. G. W. Hope, Colonial Under-Secretary. Alexander Pringle, H. Baring, J. Young, J. Milnes Gaskell, Lords of the Treasury. Sir G. Cockburn. Admiral Sir W. Gage, Sir G. Seymour, Hon. Captain Gordon, Hon. H. L. Corry, Lords of the Admiralty. , J. R. Bonham, Storekeeper of the Ordnance. Captain Boldero, Clerk of the Ordnance. Colonel Jonathan Peel, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Sir F. Pollock, Attorney-General. Sir W. Follett, Solicitor-General. ""■

Dr. Nicholl, Judge Advocate. Sir C. Bagot, Governor-General of Canada. Sir W. Rae, Lord- Advocate of Scotland. D. M'Neill, Solicitor-General for Scotland. IRELAND. Earl De Grey, Lord Lieutenant. Sir E. Sugden, Lord Chancellor. Lord Eliot, Chief Secretary. :—: — Blackburue, Q.C., Attorney-General. Sergeant Jackson, Solicitor-General. aXIEEN'S HOUSEHOLD. Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain. Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward. Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. Earl of Rosslyn, Master of the Buckhounds. Marquis of Lothian, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard.

Lord Forester, Captain of the Gentlemen Pen. sioners. Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain. Earl Jermyn, Treasurer of the Household. Hon. D. Darner, Comptroller of the Household.

Lord Aboyne, Lord Rivers, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Byrou, Earl of Warwick, Viscount Sydney, Earl of Morton, Marquis of Ormond, Lords in Waiting.

Captain Meynell, Orinsby Gore, Esq., Grooms in Waiting.

Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes.

Marchioness Camden, Lady Lyttleton, Lady Portman, Lady Barham, Countess of Charlemont, Ladies of the Bedchamber. Lieut. -Col. C. J. Arbuthnot, Equerry. PRINCE ALBERT'S HOUSEHOLD. Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole.

Colonel Perceval, Sergeant-at-Arms. Lord C. Wellesley, Clerk Marshal.

Thus the Whigs have been sw.ept out. There has been no attempt at negotiation, or coalition with the routed party. The Court has again fallen into Tory hands, and we read of Sir Robert and Lady Peel and other Torylords and ladies visiting the Queen at Windsor, just as Melbourne, Lausdowne, and the rest were wont in their time. The change, as we learn from private letters, has been effected with " unexampled quietude."' There was some fuming and fretting in Whig papers, but the nation looked on with iminoveable apathy. Money bills were passing through the House of Commons, but no debateahle measure was to he brought forward before the next session. We must reserve till next week any remarks we may have to offer on the probable operation of the change of ministry on Colonial interests generally and those of New Zealand especially!

By reference to our shipping list, it will be seen, that several large vessels were* laid on for New Zealand, and the whole tenor of the intelligence by the Fifeshire is very favourable to the settlers in Cook's Straits. Mr. E. G. Wakefield had returned from Canada, and was working night and day in our behalf. (During his absence a certain degree of languor had prevailed in Broad-street Buildings.) The Directors had forwarded a copy of the petition for Governor Hobson's recall to the new Colonial Secretary, Lord Stanley ; and with it a very . energetic protest against his Excellency's crimping practices. We have, extracted two very powerful articles from the Colonial Gazette on the subject of " Hobson's choice " of Auckland for the seat of Government, and his hostility to Port Nicholson. It is not possible that Captain Crimp can long resist the strong influences now' directed against him; and indeed, a private correspondent who has the best means of information, writes to us that " Hobson is done for, and his precious 'choice' is held in derision in Downing-street."

The Directors of the New Zealand Company had resolved to advance a large sum of money to be expended, with Colonel Wakefield's sanction, in making roads and other internal improvements in Wellington and the adjacent districts, whenever the Corporation could guarantee repayment of the loan with moderate interest.

The Company gave a grand entertainment at Black wall on the 17th of September, on the occasion of the departure of the first emigrants for "Port Nelson." We shall give

some of the speeches next week, and, in the meantime, refer to the following list of distinguished persons present, as proof of the interest the undertaking inspires among men of the highest rank and influence in England.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Inverness, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Hon. Mis. Douglas, the Hon. Miss Petre, Mrs. Somes, the! Earl of Devon, Lord Cottenham, Viscount Sandon, M P., Lord Clements, M.P., Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., Viscount Ebrington, M.P., the Hon. Fredrick Dundaa, the Hon. Captain Drummond, Mr. P. Maxwell Stewart, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Aglionby, M.P.," Mr. ,Ross Mangles, M.P., Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr! Masterm'an, M.P., Mr. Gowen, Mr. G. F. - Young, and the Misses Young, the Rev. Dr. Hinds, Rev. Dr. Torlesse, Capt. Hine, J. W. Boulcott, Mrs. Boulcott, and Miss Boulcott, Mr. E. G.-Wakefield, Captain Sinclair' R.N., Sir Robert and Lady Harland, Sir John Poratt, M.D.> Mr. James Pcnnington, Mrs. Pennington, and Miss Pennington, Mr. T. Woolcombe,' Lieutenant Lean, R.N., her Majesty's Emigration Agent, Mr. Dudley Costello and Mrs. ' Costello, Mr. W. C. Young, Mr.' lT. S. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman, Mr! Jerdan, Mr. 'S. C. Brees, the Company's Principal Surveyor and Engineer at Wellington, and Mrs. Brees, &c.', &c. It appears that we are to have a new Principal Surveyor at Wellington.

Besides the Fifeshire, the following vessels had sailed, or were about to sail, for the Company's settlements, in.Cook's Straits: —

The Mary Anne, Brougham, New York Packet, Clifton, Lord Auckland, Indemnity, Timandra, LI .yds,' Martha Ridgway, and Two Sisters.

Somebody in London was talking of sending a little craft, called- the Ospretj or Ostrich, or some such name, to- the Gulf of Shouraki, of all parts of creation ! ' The man must be crazy.

Mr. Bryan Edward I)"uppa was to have sailed in the Fifeshire, in which jt stern cabin had been • reserved for him ; but for some reason, not distinctly known to us, he did not make his appearance ' on the day of sailing, and perhaps he does not mean to come at all.

Married, — On Tuesday, the 14th Sept., by the Rev. John Bradford, Charles Winser, Esq., barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's-inn, to Eliza, fifth daughter of the late Samuel Partridge, Esq , of Meertown, Salop.

Births. — Jan. 14, Mrs. M'Gregor, of a daughter; same day, Mrs. Harcourt, of a daughter;' 17, Mrs^ F. C. Butler, of a son; same day, Mrs. Clark, of a daughter; 18, Mrs. Gibbs, of a daughter ; same day, Mrs. Brown, of a daughter; same day, Mrs. Synex, of a son; 19, Mrs. Harcourt, of a daughter; 20, Mrs. .Clarke, of a daughter ; at Welling-ton-terrace, on the 21st, the wife of Mr. George White Bennett, of a daughter ; same

day, Mrs. Green of a son.

The following are extracts from Sydney

papers : —

By the Falcon, from New Zealand, we have received Auckland Journals to the beginning of the present month. The greatest dissatisfaction was manifested at Auckland, regarding the manner in which the ;iffairs of Goverment were conducted. Captain (,fob_son is now nearly as unpopular at Auckland, i,s six months ago he was at Port Nicholson. The

new administration will do well to supplant His ' Excellency, as it is a matter of notoriety that he is totally incapable of performing ihe duties incumbent on his high and important office.— Sydney Gazette, Dec. 21. We have seen a letter from a mercantile house in London, confirmatory of the intelligence that Mr. John Marshall, of immigration notoriety, has failed for the sum of One house in Sydney, it is , stated, is a debtor to the amount of £65, 000 for goods sent out on consignment, &c. Mr. Marshall's* circular intimates his having henceforth ceased to have connection with the immigration trade. — Ibid. , ■ The fpllpwing vessels known as, Duke and Co.'s " whalers," now in the South Seas, on a whaling voyage, viz. : — The Nelson, Scamander, Pochlington, Caroline, and Avon,, are advertised for sale to morrow; December 22^rtbe.sale to commence at ten o'clock percisely. The best judges in the Colony pronounce them to. be. vessels of a firstrate description,' admirably adapted for the trade in which they are employed.. The Scamander had on board .when last heard, of from ■ 600 barrels of ""sperm oil. — Ibid. We understand that as.late.as August the 28th, jjthe Loan Company' 3 Scrip was not available in the Market, and even Bills of Exchange,"" drawn by Mr. Wright on the British and Colonial Bank, were by our last advices dishonoured, it is to be hoped that the parties, who-will suffer by these transactions,' will adopt such measures, as will, prevent others in falling into the same dilemma as they have. — Australian. ' , ' The resolutions adopting the reports' of the de~ < benture committee have, as we predicted, passed | the legislative council without alteration or amend- \ ment, and Sir ~ George Gipps has withdrawn his t Debenture Bill. ; In doing so his Excellency expressed his satisi faction that the council had enabled him to issue debentures for £160,000 ; which sum, from bis silence on the other recommendations of the committee, we presume his Excellency will exhaust before he trouble the Lords of the Treasury for the £40,000 they owe us. [The money advanced to Captain Hobson.] Nor do we blame him. My Lords would probably honour the bills with a bad grace, and the Governor, having other means now placed at his disposal by our facile senators, can hardly be expected to incur their Lordships' displeasure by such a step. The same remarks apply to the recommendation respecting the sale of restricted crown lands. Sir George will not, without necessity, fly in the face of the royal instructions. — chronicle. .-• , * 4